4th Floor Common Room - Monday Evening

[mauledbyabear.livejournal.com]

Surprise surprise, Emmett was bored. He had been watching a lot of Food Network lately (a LOT of it) and decided that, hey, as long he was living among humans, the least he could do was use them as guinea pigs for testing out his culinary skills.

So here he was in the kitchen making peanut butter brownies. They looked good on TV and the Italian chick with giant knockers seemed very enthusiastic about them.

He had no idea how they were going to come out. He followed the directions right and it didn't smell awful so maybe they were good. Possibly?

[Open common room is open]

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[momslilassassin]

Ben had "potential free food" radar. "Hello," he said, poking his head into the common room. "Smells good in here."

[mauledbyabear.livejournal.com]

"It does?" Emmett asked, his grin getting wider. Yes! He was totally an awesome cook! "Seriously? Awesome!"

"...I, uh, never really done this baking thing before."

[momslilassassin]

"Me either," Ben said cheerfully. "We have machines that do that for us at home."

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Emmett didn't want to say why he never baked before because the answer was either gonna be "I drink blood" or "Back in my day womenfolk did the cooking".

Yeah.

"Machines, huh?" he asked. "Did they bake brownies that look as awesome as these?"

[momslilassassin]

Ben gave the brownies an appraising look, then weighed the truth against the possibility of getting one if he didn't lie.

"No," he decided.

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"Good answer. I got the recipe off of Food Network. And they say TV never teaches you anything," he said, smirking. He pushed the tray of brownies towards Ben. "You can have as many as you want, dude. I made 'em for you guys."

[momslilassassin]

"Brownies are a totally nutritious dinner if I have them with milk, right?" Ben checked. "Thank you!"

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"It's totally good for you. There's calcium in chocolate," he said. Sure there was. He grinned. "And you're welcome. Thanks for being my guinea pig."

[momslilassassin]

"Sure thing," Ben said, taking a bite. "If I die, make sure you give me a better story than 'death by brownie', okay?"

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac wandered in, mug in hand, and made her way directly to the coffee. Caffeine, pretty.

Not that she didn't peer at what Emmett might be doing as she did that.

"What are you making?" she asked after a moment.

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"Oh, I'll give your brownie-related death an awesome backstory," Emmett promised. "I'll say you valiantly ate them to protect me or something."

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"Brownies!" he said excitedly. He was allowed to be excited, they apparently hadn't turned out too bad. "With peanut butter. Want some?"

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was some brownie excitement.

"Uh, sure," Mac replied after a moment. "Sounds good." She filled her mug, before turning back to him. "... They don't have any weird extra ingredients in, right?" Best to check when there was that level of enthusiasm.

[momslilassassin]

"That was very brave of me," Ben decided with a grin. "Are you allergic to chocolate? Or just tried cooking so you could addict people to your brownies and rule Fandom with an iron fist?"

It's possible Ben had thought too much about this.

[momslilassassin]

Ben waved a brownie at her. "Hi! Did you have fun on the cruise?"

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"Nah, I'm just a health food type of guy," Emmett said. He paused. "But the last part isn't a bad idea..."

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"What, like pot?" he asked. Emmett shook his head. "No, just regular brownies. Um...sorry?"

[momslilassassin]

"Make sure you remember who gave you the idea and be merciful," Ben teased.

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"The only drug I do is caffeine," Mac assured him quickly. "I just know what people do around here sometimes."

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac offered him a smile and a wave in return with the hand not gripping her coffee mug.

"It was great," she replied with a nod. "Kind of sucks to be back here."

[momslilassassin]

"Yeah, the cold is getting really tiresome," Ben agreed, "but being back in class is nice."

Ben was weird.

[mauledbyabear.livejournal.com]

"I will be a very kind and merciful leader," he promised. "I'm Emmett, by the way."

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Emmett smirked. "Yeah, I don't blame you for asking. But I assure you there's just regular brownie stuff in it."

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"I only actually have class one day a week," Mac admitted, stirring at the coffee in her mug. "I... picked a really weird timetable for my last semester."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

It was Monday night, and so that meant Cal was en route to find a TV, pausing a moment at the door of the common room on his floor when he realized that someone was already in there, watching something, and doing something, too.

At least the doing something appeared to be food.

And it was a repeat tonight.

Cal considered this carefully a moment before shrugging, deciding why not, and wandering in. "What'cha making?"