Luke's Diner - Wednesday, 3/25

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Johnny was a lazy ass today and as such, lounged in a booth and let the kitchen staff do all the work, including writing up today's menu. He was surprised because it was pretty awesome. When he got hungry, he'd totally make them fix him a plate. For now, he was contemplating burning his initials into the table top.

Today's Special
Chili Dogs
Fries
Cherry Pie

Luke's is open.


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[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah came in to wait for Merlin, completely determined to buy him a burger after a week as a bird and various inconveniences and annoyances. Not to mention, well, Leto.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Now in his own clothing and not anything of Arthur's, Merlin looked around the diner until he caught sight of Dinah.

"Dinah!" He greeted her with a smile.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Merlin!" Dinah waved to him and got up to give him a hug, if he wanted one. It'd been a week and she'd worried, okay? "Yay no feathers!"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin blinked, hugging her back in a bit of confusion. he had only been a bird, after all.

Completely normal.

"Very--yay."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"So you feel like yourself again, all the way?" Dinah asked, pulling away to sit back down with a grin. "You don't want to, oh, peck at things? Squawk?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"No, I can safely say I'd rather be able to speak normally," Merlin informed her with a nod.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Not even for being able to fly?" Dinah teased, then frowned. "Did you ever get the hang of that? I kept thinking you were going to crash into a wall." She grabbed a menu. "My treat. Whatever you want, really rare burger, or steak or whatever." She grinned. "No sushi here."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"At the end I did," Merlin replied with a grin. "I think I'd rather just have some vegetables or fruit."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah snickered. "Fruit salad, cool. How different was it from being a squirrel that one time? I'm starting to get worried I'll turn into something that eats weird food now."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"I could change back when I was a squirrel," Merlin replied. "And there hadn't been any odd cravings then."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Ugh," was Dinah's take on that, motioning to their server. "Bacon cheeseburger with fries and a Diet Coke for me, and a fruit salad for my friend, and maybe we'll have dessert? Ice cream should get the steak tartare taste out of your mouth."

After the server was gone, she debated with herself a second, then just blurted, "Leto told me he stuffed you in a cupboard. I hit him and then called him a bad prince for it."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin winced and just nodded. "Arthur already spoke to him about it. You didn't need to hit him."

Even if he would have liked to see that...

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"I really really did," Dinah said, then added, "Besides, he let me. It's Leto. He totally could have gotten out of the way if he'd wanted to. If I'd tried to take a second shot, I'm sure he would've dodged or hit back." She made a face, then asked, "Did you really mess up his notebooks on purpose? And were they, like, blank ones, or ones he'd written in?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"It had only been one!" Or two. "And I hadn't been very good at the talons." The first couple times.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Well, that was non-self-preservational. Honestly. I know you didn't have much attention span, though. So I'm guessing it seemed like a really good idea at the time?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"He kept complaining about me staying with Arthur as a bird."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Which kind of made her want to hug him again. "Did you plan on being a bird, like Reno did, for that class? I mean, that would've been a lot to ask Cal to take on, if you did, but if Arthur was good with it...."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Well, Arthur had been the one planning to use the scroll from class and we were arguing over at and then suddenly I had wings!"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah facepalmed. "Ohhhhh. That explains it." Because Arthur taking him on as a temporary roomie did make more sense if it had been Arthur who was meant to be transformed. "Leto didn't have to be such a, a jerk about it, then. Sheesh." She paused while the server brought their drinks, then said, "I'm glad Arthur already talked to him about it."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"I don't Leto and I will ever get on," Merlin replied, taking a sip of the water.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Is this because of the cupboard, or is there something else going on?" Dinah asked. "Or do you guys just get on each others' nerves?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"I think--" Many things. "The latter?"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Oh." Dinah gave him a rueful look. "Sorry? Especially since I guess you have to work around him all the time."

Their food arrived, and Dinah grabbed a fry and said, "Anyway, I'm glad you're bipedal and have thumbs again, so you can not get locked in small spaces," said with a small involuntary shudder, "and eat things like strawberries and melon and chocolate chip cookies..."

Which vaguely reminded her of something else. Hmm.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"I'm glad too," Merlin replied, promptly digging into the fruit salad. "And it's not that bad with Leto. We just--shouldn't talk to each other."

Ever.

Unless they wanted to get into a fight.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah took a huge bite of her burger, sighing happily as she chewed. Having the idea last night meant she'd been craving one since she woke up. After she swallowed, she said, "He was way, way out of line, and he doesn't get why. Which I don't understand, but..." She shook her head. "And he was bibbling that maybe I didn't really know you, like ripping up his notebooks makes you some kind of criminal. How dumb is that?"

Mmmmmmm. French fries. Sigh.