Fifth Floor Common Room, Saturday Morning

[thewrathofkaan]

It was really a shame that no one had ever taught Roscoe to cook. He had been raised to believe that take-out was the most practical and delicious choice, so at fifteen, he now found that anything more complicated than a sandwich was out of his depth.

To his credit, he tried. Today his experiment du jour was simply an attempt at scrambled eggs. And twenty minutes and lots of dirty dishes later, he was sitting on the couch eating cold pizza he had found in the fridge. So... you could pretty much guess how that had gone.

Pizza was better anyway.

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[rebelseekspizza]

Dante had been packing up - for some very broad definition of 'packing' - for his trip back to Limbo City, but he was hungry. And hey, there'd been more pizza left upstairs on the fifth floor, right?

He poked his head into the common room, grinned as he spotted Roscoe, and called, "Tell me that's not the last one."

[thewrathofkaan]

"More in the fridge," Roscoe said, grinning. "But we're out of plates."

Because they were all in the sink. Don't ask how he had used up that many plates making eggs.

[rebelseekspizza]

"Who needs plates for pizza?" Dante asked, because really now. Mind you, he was already going straight for the fridge. "...Did you guys have a floor party, or something?"

[thewrathofkaan]

Roscoe had not thought that much about the origin of the pizza. He shrugged. "Full disclosure, I slept all day yesterday," he said with a grin. "I'm loving this 'only having classes two days a week' thing."

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante had actually been talking about the plates, since the pizza had been there yesterday, but hey. "It's chill, right?" he said, pulling a whole pizza out of the fridge. "Somebody finally figured out the perfect life-school balance."

Pizza acquired, he wandered back towards the sitting area. "What'd you get slapped with, besides Lecter and Starsmore?"

[thewrathofkaan]

Or that! "'Working the Long Con' and 'Building Healthy Relationships,'" Roscoe said around a bite of pizza. "That last one was so not my idea. I'm so over healthy relationships."

Which he said kind of sarcastically, but it was partly true. "How about you?"

[crimson_sister]

Oh no. Well, at least she could ignore him. Lucille did her best to pretend Dante wasn't even there.

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante also did his best to pretend Lucille wasn't there...

... on some plane of 'pretending' that involved him flashing her his middle finger the moment she walked in.

[crimson_sister]

Lucille saw that, Dante, and it made her ignore you even more.

[crimson_sister]

It wasn't often Lucille felt she wanted to endure the company of people who weren't her friends, but she was bored and looked in the common rooms for someone to talk to. Perhaps some of the new students were worth the effort.

She found a boy eating something that didn't look particularly tasty, and while she didn't have high hopes she greeted him a little coldly.

"Good morning."

[SP?]

[thewrathofkaan]

"Morning!" Roscoe said brightly. He was happy with his pizza, okay. "There's still a few slices left, but you might have to eat over a napkin," he warned.

[SP!]

[crimson_sister]

"No thank you, I have already had breakfast." If Roscoe was at all perceptive to sarcasm he could probably pick it up there.

"I take it you are one of the new students?"

[thewrathofkaan]

"Yup. Fandom High baby over here," Roscoe said. He noticed the sarcasm, but persisted in being cheerful. "How long have you been around?"

[crimson_sister]

Would he turn out to be like Ringo?

"I arrived in January," Lucille replied. She considered leaving the common room, but perhaps even a conversation with a cheerful boy would be a remedy for boredom.

"What kind of world are you from?" she asked.

[thewrathofkaan]

It was so weird that people asked that question here. "A normal one. Wait, probably everyone says their world is normal. Uh, it's 2016 Los Angeles. We have, you know, humans and science and all that. No magical powers."

So... 'normal.'

"What about you?"

[soniaroadsqueen]

Fortunately for Lucille, Ringo was her friend. Right? RIGHT?

"Hi, Lucille!" Ringo exclaimed with a grin. She'd just come back to the common room after a post-AT-run shower, and her hair was still damp.

[crimson_sister]

Lucille wasn't entirely sure about that, Ringo.

"Hello, Ringo." Lucille didn't look as cheerful as Ringo. "I assume you have been out doing exercise." Because she was wet.

[soniaroadsqueen]

Why? Was Ringo not friendly enough? She could work on that!

She grinned. "Yeah. The day was just too pretty not to go out, you know?"

[crimson_sister]

Ringo was excessively friendly, which was annoying and suspect.

"I suppose it is."

[soniaroadsqueen]

"What do you do on days like this?" Ringo asked curiously. Days like this were too good to waste on not having fun, right?

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo didn't get up early every Saturday for an AT run, but the weather had gotten so nice that she had this morning. Which meant that about the time that Roscoe sat down with his pizza, Ringo was coming back up to the fifth floor.

She was kind of sweaty and gross, and planning to take a shower, but she paused in the common room and sniffed at the air. "Smells kind of like eggs in here?" She looked around. "Was someone cooking?"

(She'd only recently learned to make scrambled eggs herself, so she recognized that smell.)

[thewrathofkaan]

"Someone tried," Roscoe admitted, poking his head up from his spot on the couch. Then he held up his slice of pizza as evidence as he added, "It went great."

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo giggled. "You made leftover pizza, huh?"

She glanced over at the pile of dirty plates. "Looks like you worked pretty hard on it."

[thewrathofkaan]

"Well, you know, every leftover pizza slice has a journey," Roscoe shared in a dramatic tone of voice. "This journey involved me trying to make eggs and giving up. There may be a chance that the journey will end with me cleaning up my mess. That's TBD."

He grinned. "How's your life going?"

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Eggs, huh?" She grinned. "I learned how to make those a couple of weeks ago."

"Anyway, things are going pretty great! The weather outside is beautiful today."