Third Floor Common Room; Monday Morning [09/14].

[howareyanow]

There was a whole new step that had been developed, recently, in Wayne's process for gettin' up and makin' breakfast to start the day. It started with him actually waking up, gettin' ready (a process that didn't take too long at all), checking radio, checking his hawkey fights, and then heading to the common room, and (this was the new part) doing a swift but thorough look around the place to check fer anything...funny. Because if there was anything funny, he wanted to make sure he got wind of it before getting into his cooking, even if the funny didn't even directly relate to the cooking itself.

Like today, there was definitely a gremlin hanging out over behind the TV, which was generally good to know, because if he hadn't done that sweep, then he could have come right out and surprised someone at an inopportune moment, and now he could at least give people the warning.

Other'n that, though, everything seemed normal, the food was all as it should be, the equipment was all right...Well, it seemed all the usual plates had been replaced with small plastic kiddy plates with cartoon characters and dividers in 'em, but if that and the gremlin were the worst of what he was getting today, Wayne wasn't going to complain!

...not too much, anywhey!

[[ open breakfast is open! ]]

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[sparkinyou]

"Hi Wayne!" Miles said cheerfully as he entered the common room, carrying a bag under one warm. "How are you today?"

[howareyanow]

And that was so close but just off enough that it actually managed to pull a grumbling sort of growl out of Wayne's chest as he fluttered a few squints at a spot on the wall behind the stove and murmured back, "Good n'you?"

[sparkinyou]

"Good. Hey, I got you something to thank you for the breakfasts you made for me so far," he said putting the bag in front of Wayne. "It's a roast beef sandwich, a bag of chips, a dill pickle and an apple. I figured since you make breakfast all the time I could at least make you a lunch in return."

[howareyanow]

Wayne's furrowed brow regarded the bag with the sort of appreciative conflict that went with being rewarded for something you didn't feel needed rewarding for a moment, before looking over to give Miles a nod.

"Didn't have to do that," he said, "but it's appreciated. Fix you up a plate? Also, mind the gremlin behind the TV."

[sparkinyou]

"Well you didn't have to make me-"

And then the last part of what Wayne said sunk in.

"Wait. Gremlins are real?"

He looked over at the TV and then slowly move around the counter to have some space between himself and said gremlin.

"Sure!" he said with his voice cracking a bit. "Breakfast. Sounds good."

[legionqueen]

"Good morning Wayne!" Jules announced cheerfully as she flopped down on the couch, Cam hopping up beside her. Sorry, anyone else who wanted that prime couch spot. You'd have to share with both Jules and the mountain cat.

[howareyanow]

"We've yet to have an actual bite during breakfast," Wayne assured Miles as he filled up a plate with the old bit-of-everything special. "I think they jus' like showin' up to remind everyone they're there and appear menacin'."

Then the plate was being passed over. "Juice in the fridge," he added as reminded, "coffee in the pot, jus' help yerself."

[howareyanow]

"Jules." A nod. "Camden." Another nod, maybe with a bit of disapproval fee animals on the couch, as if he wouldn't have let Gus to the exact same thing, were he there. "How are ya now?"

[sparkinyou]

"Thanks Wayne," Miles said taking the plate and grabbing a glass a juice. "It looks great as usual."

He then took a spot that was as still close to the conversation as possible and yet still a distance from that gremlin.

"I don't suppose you have any advice for a newbie still getting used to this place."

[legionqueen]

Also, Cam was like, basically people.

"Oh, pretty well," she nodded. "Saturday was fun, even with-" she shook her head, still not entirely sure what had been up with Julius. "And you?"

[sparkinyou]

Miles shifted his position in the room now so that the mountain lion was now in between himself and the gremlin near the TV.

Because at least Jules seemed to have control of Cam. That gremlin looked sketchy.

"Hi," Miles said waving at Jules and then pointing at the TV where the gremlin was. "Don't mind me. I'm just trying to keep away from that thing."

[legionqueen]

Well, as much as one could control a mountain cat with a mind and personality of her own, anyway.

"That's wise," Jules nodded. "I've heard they like to bite." She'd never had experience with it herself. Maybe it was the naturalist in her at work, or... maybe it was the very large predator animal who was her constant companion. Or something else entirely! Who knew.

[sparkinyou]

"Which I'm going to try and avoid as much as possible," Miles said with a nod. "Doesn't this island have like an exterminator or something that takes care of those things?"

[legionqueen]

Oh, well, now you're getting a frown, Miles.

"They're intelligent creatures," she pointed out. "Or at least," she amended, "They're capable of reason to some degree. And from everything I've read, they were here first. Exterminating them hardly seems fair."

[sparkinyou]

"Oh."

Miles immediately felt ashamed.

"I guess I never thought of it that way before. I just figured something like them being the dorms was unsafe but-"

He sighed.

"Sorry. I still don't understand how everything works here."

[howareyanow]

Despite mounds of evidence to the contrary and his ability to go along with things much better these days, Wanye still didn't feel like he was used to it, and it had been well over a year now, fuck.

So he wasn't really sure how to answer a question like that.

"You just...do, I s'pose...."

He didn't feel like that was very good, though, so he reconsidered and asked, "What're you having trouble with in particular?"

[howareyanow]

There was a bit of a disconsolate grumble, at the mention of Saturday, which would've been fine if it weren't for that something funny happening to him, but thank goodness it cleared itself up before he went and did something he'd regret regarding it!

Still, his answer was a steady and solid, "Oh, not so bad!" before leading into the typical, "Fix you up a plate? and the not as typical, "Mind the gremlin behind the TV."

[sparkinyou]

"I don't know, man," Miles admitted. "This place just freaks me out. Science class made everyone fly last week. I'm in a class on how to be a super-hero when I got nothing to be a super-hero with. And then there's that."

Miles pointed his fork at the gremlin.

"I just don't feel like I belong yet. You know?"

[snowdroplace]

There was a… decided moment's hesitation at the entrance before Elli steeled herself and came in with a smile.

"Good morning!" she said breezily.

Even though, truly, it had been better before she'd spotted the gremlin and the mountain lion and she'd been forced to remember that this was her life now.

[howareyanow]

"Elli!" Wayne greeted her in just the brusquely cheerful way you'd just about expect. "How are ya now?"

[howareyanow]

Wayne turned his head to follow the fork, despite knowing exactly what Miles was pointing at. And then looked back.

"That might not be a bad thing, there, super chief."

Granted, he felt his own ability to have somehow managed to fit in here was a bit...conflicting.

[sparkinyou]

“Maybe,” Miles replied. He sighed. “I guess I’ll figure it out sooner or later. Or maybe I’ll just start making lunch for anyone who is new here just to feel normal.”

He’s just kidding, Wayne.

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"How are ya now?" Shuri asked, grinning, as she came in, then blinked at the gremlin. "New friend?"

They weren't getting breakfast now, too, right?

[howareyanow]

Well, if they were going to be chewing on something, Wayne would much rather it be pancakes over people!

"Hard no!" said Wayne, with a firm look at the gremlin to let it know he didn't care.of that hurt its feelings. Then his attention shifted back to Shuri. "I think he just showed il to look menacing and remind us that he's here, as he's wont to do. On occasion."

At least, he just sort of assumed that this was same gremlin he'd seen in the common room before. But, determined to ignore it, he got to the important stuff.

"Fix you up a plate?"

[howareyanow]

Like Wayne could be expected to just know that! He squinted a bit suspiciously at Miles now, wondering if he'd have to start worrying about defending his breakfast territory again...

"Well," he said, attending importantly to another pancake with his shoulders a little bit more squared, "lunch isn't exactly the most important meal of the day, but it's still pretty important, I think people might appreciate that 'round here..."

There were even six whole other days of the week one could do it in!