3rd Floor Common Room, Friday Morning

[rebelseekspizza]

There'd been a pizza delivery guy with an enormous stack of pizzas at the front door to the dorms that morning. He'd gone into some thing about how they always kept overserving and overdelivering and he was taking the pizzas back because they couldn't afford to keep doing that, blah blah blah.

Dante had knocked the huge damn pile out of Pizza Guy's hands like it weighed nothing, caught it in the other hand, and slammed the door shut in the guy's face so fast he couldn't even blink. He might have been bad at stealing, but he was pretty good at taking things. Especially if things were pizza. Of which there was now a lot, but he was a teenage boy with a supernatural metabolism; he was pretty sure he could make it work. He flopped down on the sofa on the third floor common room, open pizza box in hand (and perfectly balanced even as he went flopping). The rest, he'd put down on the table. He was planning to get to them. All of them, if he could get away with it.

Anyone who might've also wanted a slice better hurry up-- and rule out the option of sitting anywhere near this sofa, as Dante had stretched out all over it, his boots dangling over one of the arms. Mmm. Pizza. Small pleasures would get him through Loss class yet.

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[giveherahand]

Mara poked her head into the common room. "I didn't know pizza was a breakfast food."

[rebelseekspizza]

"And that's why we're at school," Dante said, taking a firm bite from a slice. "To learn."

[giveherahand]

Mara shrugged. "So what's on breakfast pizza?" she asked, opening up one of the boxes.

[rebelseekspizza]

"Mostly the same thing that goes on regular pizza," Dante said, eyeballing the way she was coming at one of his pizzas (and trying to decide whether she was pretty enough to let her). "Just with more egg."

[giveherahand]

Mara wrinkled her nose. "I'm not sure egg belongs on pizza," she said. "Does it taste all right?"

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante gave it an idle shrug and decided, y'know what, she was pretty enough for one slice. But only if she went for it herself. He wasn't going to encourage her. "I've had a lot worse," he said, "It's hard to get pizza wrong, if you ask me."

With the decision re: her prettiness also came a smirk.

[not_every_mage]

"Oooh, breakfast," Anders said, dropping his lanky frame onto a chair within pizza-grabbing distance. "Are you sharing?"

He assumed Dante was, but he kind of had a thing about not annoying anybody who had that much access to him while he was asleep.

[not_every_mage]

"Anything you eat in the morning is a breakfast food," Anders informed her. "What else would you call it?"

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante's head flopped back over one arm of the sofa and he shot Anders a long, scrutinizing look. Pizza was a vital resource and he was not inclined to share it lightly.

On the other hand, roommate. Might pay to stay on his good side, especially if people were going to keep showing up in the room and taking their pants off while Dante wasn't sure of Anders' schedule.

On the other other hand, pizza.

"I'll share that box," he said, pointing at the box with the pizza he was most sure might have olives on it.

[not_every_mage]

And Anders had his own pantsless plans for the room, so staying on each other's good side worked for the best all around.

He scrutinized the box. "It has olives," he pointed out, in a tone of mild disappointment, but took a piece anyhow. Free pizza was free pizza.

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante shrugged. "Can't win them all," he said. "Did you know that mass food deliveries are apparently a thing around here?" He took another bite of his slice. "Somebody out there must be prank-calling up a storm."

[not_every_mage]

"What, where you lived before didn't frequently have enough food delivered to feed a small army?" Anders joked. "And here I thought it was ordinary."

In a more sober tone, he added, "Honestly, I'm surprised the restaurants haven't stopped delivering to the dorms. They must lose a fortune on us."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Maybe it's free advertising," Dante said. Not that he gave a shit as long as it meant free pizza. "'Spread this food far and wide to the new kids'."

[giveherahand]

Mara smirked back. "Have you tried it with fruit on it? That seemed a little wrong to me."

[giveherahand]

"Dinner in the morning?" Mara tried.

[rebelseekspizza]

"Yeah, okay," Dante said, after a pause. "Maybe there are some things that aren't supposed to go on pizza."

He gave his slice a squint. Was that an olive?

"But the egg's fine," he said.

[not_every_mage]

"Maybe, but if that were it they'd stop eventually," Anders mused, not particularly interested either. "As long as it means I can go a year without paying for anything but cookies, I don't care."

He picked some pepperoni off his pizza and popped it in his mouth, looking Dante over as he did. "How are you settling in, by the way?"

[giveherahand]

Mara picked up a slice, giving it a dubious look before taking a bite.

"'snot bad," she said. "It's probably better after an evening of two much lum ale, though."

[not_every_mage]

Anders wrinkled his nose. "But then you have to have dinner twice that day," he said. "Unless you call dinner breakfast at night, but that would be silly."

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante snickered. "Aren't most things?" he said. He had no idea what lum was, but he could kinda work it out from the context.

While throwing Mara a wink, because of course.

[rebelseekspizza]

Nothing had attacked him in like two weeks, he had a roof over his head, and there was food. Not a bad run so far.

"The classes are fucked up," Dante said, "But everything else is just fine. Free food, hot people. Could be worse."

[giveherahand]

Mara blushed. "Well, maybe," she admitted, smiling. "I'm Mara."

[giveherahand]

"If you're having dinner for breakfast, I think your schedule is probably pretty messed up anyway," Mara said. "You're probably having dry cereal or icing for second dinner."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Dante," Dante said, grinning right back at her. "How long have you been here, Mara?"

[not_every_mage]

"It could always be worse," Anders agreed, smirking to show he agreed about the hot people. "The classes depend on which ones you're taking. Did you end up in the pony's class?"

[not_every_mage]

"Icing?" Anders blinked at her. "As in, what you put on cakes?"

He didn't know it could be eaten on its own, was the thing. It was a whole new world.

[rebelseekspizza]

"Oh, I'm not going anywhere near that thing," Dante said. Mm. The cheese on this pizza was great. "Monster class, art class, loss class this afternoon. They're all weird."

[not_every_mage]

"They say she's nice," said Anders, as if he didn't believe it himself. "I have speech, drama and Bob's class. Drama and speech don't seem that weird."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Yeah, but they sound boring," Dante said thoughtfully.

He looked to Anders, his head still hanging off the arm of the couch. "Speaking of boring and not boring... it's been a while since I last had a roommate." And the last one had technically been a cellmate. "We need to settle on house rules or something?"

[not_every_mage]

"Depends on how often you're planning to have days like Tuesday," said Anders, who had stopped by long enough to notice the guests and promptly found a better place to be. "But even there, my boyfriend has a single so I can always go bother him. All I really care about is that you at least tolerate my cat. I'd rather you didn't paint over Rapunzel's murals but it is your room too, so --" he shrugged.


"What did you have in mind?"

[rebelseekspizza]

Wasn't like he cared about the murals, so... Dante shrugged. "I dunno," he said, "What's the cliché? Putting a sock on the knob when you're getting busy?"

Heh. Knob.

[not_every_mage]

"I think that's what I've heard," Anders nodded. "I can do that if you can."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Works for me."

That vitally important issue worked out, Dante sat up, because shoving a pizza slice in his mouth when he was technically upside down... didn't seem like a smart idea.

"And the cat's fine," he added, "Just as long as it doesn't eat anything of mine." Like the pizza. Don't think he wouldn't hoard all the leftovers.

[not_every_mage]

"What if it chews on something?" Anders wondered, more out of curiosity than because he thought Lachlan actually would. "He wouldn't mean to, but he is only a cat."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Depends on what," Dante said, considering an ill-advised cat dentata pun that he blissfully didn't wind up making.

[giveherahand]

"Since last year," Mara said. "You get used to it."

[rebelseekspizza]

"So people keep telling me," Dante said. He shrugged one shoulder idly. "Doesn't sound like much of a review."

[giveherahand]

Mara nodded. "It comes in cans!" she said. "You can eat it with a spoon, normally in front of a television watching something of no intellectual value."

She'd learned this was Very Culturally Important on this planet.

[giveherahand]

"It isn't," Mara said. "My last roommate could set himself on fire on purpose. No one does that at home."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Sounds like a combustible situation." Boy, that was lame even for your st-- okay, no, your standards were pretty low, carry on. "But you seem to have come out scorching."

Sigh.

[giveherahand]

Mara burst out laughing. "Does that really work for you?"

[rebelseekspizza]

"Puns are the highest form of wit," Dante said, smirking. "Right?"

And when he made them, he was usually really only trying to entertain himself. Whether anyone else thought they were funny was secondary.

Besides, she'd laughed.

[giveherahand]

"Not that I've ever noticed," Mara teased back.

[not_every_mage]

The pun possibility had sailed right over Anders' head. He would have been mad at himself if he realized the missed opportunity.

"You shoes," Anders decided arbitrarily. "Or some leftover pizza."

[not_every_mage]

"... I have Friday night plans now," Anders decided. "And I wonder how I missed hearing about this."

[rebelseekspizza]

"That's crossing a line," Dante decided. He looked at his boots. "I like these boots. They're stompy."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Well, now you know," Dante said. "Worse would've been 'want to come back to my room and I'll make you forget all about your roommate'."

Dante.