Fourth Floor Common Room [Monday Evening]

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

Since there was nothing to do in his room and he was hungry, Hannibal decided to try and kill two birds with one stone. He ordered a pizza and took it down to the common room.

Once there, the television went on, the pizza box went open and, while he was still bored, he was bored with pizza.

And a bad movie.

Hopefully he wouldn't get anything on his shirt. That just sucked.

[Open open, yes yes.]

Comments

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He was on his way up to the roof when he smelled the pizza and couldn't help but duck in to see if it was from some manner of cooking or if someone had been cooking or if they'd just ordered.

Oh.

He gave the boy a smile and was about to move on when he realized he didn't recognize him.

"Hello."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Heya," Hannibal said, waving with one piece of pizza. "I didn't bother you with the smell, did I? I can close up the box, if I need to."

[always-damp.livejournal.com]

It wasn't Toby's floor, but there was a hot guy an pizza. He had like, a sixth sense for that sort of thing. It came with the lack of shirt and body hair.

"Mmm...hi!" he greeted Hannibal with a very interested smile and little wave.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He shook his head.

"No. I was just curious to see if someone was cooking. After all," he said with a faint smile, "I like oregano as much as the next man."

...yes, he's a cooking dork.

"I just didn't recognize you."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Hey there," Hannibal greeted, not even blinking at the shirtlessness. He'd been shirtless the other day. "Smell get you too?"

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Hannibal King," he said, wiping his hand on a napkin and extending it. "And no, no cooking for me. I took on the heavy task of picking up a phone and pushing some buttons. Strenuous, I tell you."

[always-damp.livejournal.com]

"Right, the smell," Toby said dumbly. "Good pizza?"

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

There were, really, some scents that were completely inescapable.

"I smell pizza," Cal remarked, ducking his head into the common room after following his nose from his room to this point.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Can't complain," Hannibal said, nodding at the box. "Help yourself, man. I ain't gonna eat it all."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Yes, you do," Hannibal said, smiling up at the new arrival before gesturing with a piece of pizza to the opened box. "Help yourself. I can't eat it all. It'll go to my hips or something."

[always-damp.livejournal.com]

"Thanks." Toby took a seat and helped himself to a slice. "So what do I owe you?" He hoped for something interesting.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Owe me?" Hannibal repeated. "Like as in payment?"

[always-damp.livejournal.com]

"Exactly," Toby said with a little wink. "But fair warning, I don't have any money."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He took the hand with his own, giving a faint friendly squeeze before leaning back.

"I enjoy cooking," he said with a brief chuckle. "I don't really consider it strenuous. I'm well aware, though, that others don't share my opinion."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

Hannibal took another bite of his piece before he said, "You could owe me a favor?"

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"I just can't cook," he explained, shrugging. "Never learned, never needed to. It was tv dinners and takeout for me. Meals of a champion. Or something."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal couldn't help smirking at a response like that, drifting in thanks to the pizza's gravitational pull. "Oh, great," he commented, "and now I'll just get massive thunder thighs."

You know, said the guy who'd slip through a crack in the floorboards if it weren't for the bulk of his shoulders.

[always-damp.livejournal.com]

"I give really good favors," Toby said. It was almost sad how desperate he was getting for various forms of sex.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Oh yeah?" Hannibal nodded at that, making a note to keep Toby in mind. "Got a specialty?"

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

Hannibal made a note of giving Cal an exaggerated once over before nodding heavily.

"Yeah, I think you're right," he said sadly. "What will the model shows say about you?"

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"What's the viewing theme tonight, then?" she asked, taking her usual cushion on the floor.

[intraspective]

"Hi, you!" Ino chirped, wandering in.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"There's a girl and a guy and there's a serial something or other but the effects are really bad," Hannibal filled in, having half been paying attention.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Ino!" Hannibal greeted brightly. "Come in and share some pizza. If I eat it, it'll all go to my ass and that's bad."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"It was cook or starve," he said with a shrug in reply. He considered the broom at his hip for a moment before putting his hand on the couch.

"May I?"

Two people today. He really was in a very good mood.