Fourth Floor Common Room [evening]

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

Sookie had been struck by the slightest bout of homesickness earlier, which, as it had her first night in Fandom, drove her to go to the store and return to her common room kitchen with armfuls of supplies to make banana pudding.

She was fairly satisfied with her first batch, which was set aside in a two-quart dish and from which she was sampling while she carefully whisked over a double boiler. She had no idea who was going to eat all this, but it was like a rule -- you couldn't make just a little of this stuff.

She was pretty sure she could find someone to eat it. It wasn't like people around here hated sweets or anything (though she imagined that'd be an awful life.) In the meantime, she stirred, pausing to turn the television onto some old sitcom, just for background noise.

[omg I don't even like bananas and I want to make that, now. totes open. come eat pudding.]

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[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

Angela scrambled towards the food and ate it quickly. "Don't flick the pudding at me because I'll have to flick back."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"I'm not wasting pudding, are you kidding?" Sookie said with a grin. "This stuff's too good."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Feel free to dish me up a lot, then," he said. "Or, I mean, I can. I just didn't wanna wrestle in while you were cooking."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Go for it. I can't leave this," she said, nodding to the double boiler. "It'll curdle and ewww."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Thanks," he said and did so, getting a bowl and some pudding. "Where'd you learn to cook? One of those cooking shows that seem to run nonstop?"

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Ha, no, but Gran loves Julia Child and has her on alllll the time," Sookie admitted. "Nope, my grandmother raised me and if I wanted to be in the kitchen with her, I had to lend a hand. So I've just been doin' this stuff since I was seven."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Huh." He nodded. "If I was in the kitchen with a parent, they'd throw a spoon at you and tell me to get out because I was doing more harm than good. And I liked to eat things before dinner."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"That's how my mama was," she offered. "But Gran let me help, and then I'd still get to eat before dinner, 'cause I'd be making it. And you gotta sample what you're making. For the greater good."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Greater good?" He had no idea. "Why?"

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"To make sure it doesn't need more salt or something!" she said, grinning. "It's altruistic, see?"

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Ah." Well, of course, now it made more sense. "I thought you were like the taster in case it was poisoned or something."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Well, yeah, but I know it's not poisoned," she agreed. "So really it's just so I can eat while cooking."