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?"

[rebelseekspizza]

"Laying Low," Dante said, shrugging idly, an amused look on his face.

He collapsed on the sofa, taking up as much space as possible. "So far I've found out laying 'high' is more fun than 'low', go figure."

[thewrathofkaan]

"Yeah," Roscoe agreed. "Sublety's overrated. Just one more example of the school system not teaching us the important stuff."

You know, like how to make a splash and cause as much chaos as possible.

[rebelseekspizza]

Many people would argue Dante did not need more help doing that.

In fact, one of those people would probably be his Laying Low teacher.

"Like how to not have healthy relationships and just sleep around instead?" he offered, taking a bite of his pizza. "We need a Hooking Up class."

[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]

"That is a genius idea," Roscoe declared, pointing the tip of his pizza slice in Dante's direction. "You should suggest that to the administration. Except - then we'd have to hear one of the teachers actually talk about hooking up and that might be hard to stomach."

Well, maybe it depended on the teacher. "Actually, Constantine's hot," he mused, tilting his head thoughtfully.

[crimson_sister]

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

[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!]

[rebelseekspizza]

"Eh," Dante said. "Still a teacher, though. And probably doesn't let anyone bang in the library."

The hotness of people was inversely proportional to how high their Authority Figure Levels were.

[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]

"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?"

[crimson_sister]

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

[thewrathofkaan]

"That is pretty unforgivable," Roscoe admitted. "Guess we'll have to keep Hooking Up class extracurricular."

He did not look bummed out about that.

[rebelseekspizza]

"So more of a Hooking Up club?" Dante said merrily, because god knew there'd never been a pun he'd passed up on. "I could live with that."

[thewrathofkaan]

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

[thewrathofkaan]

"Dibs on being president," Roscoe said immediately, with a grin. "That's just the kind of leadership opportunity I need to not get into college."

[rebelseekspizza]

"So if I'm veep, does that mean I have to work under you?" Dante asked, taking another bite of pizza, as he mulled over this really important question.

[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]

"Only sometimes. I don't know about you, but I'm versatile," Roscoe said, his eyes twinkling mischeviously. "As a leader, of course."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Up, down, straight ahead, not so straight ahead," Dante said, stretching his legs out over the arm of the sofa. "Yeah, I think I got most of my angles handled."