Mooby Land, Thursday

[whenshewasnice]

The regular Mooby Land staff were a bit confused. A random girl had just shown up sort-of-but-not-really apologetic about being late, insisted she worked here because "come on, I wasn't that late, you can't fire me for that!", put on a white cap none of them remembered seeing at the restaurant before, and scrawled the name of a cheese on her nametag before slapping it on.

Then she'd played guitar in the backroom for a moment (because that totally made sense) before taking her place at the counter, awaiting customers with a slightly non-welcoming look on her face.

Yeah, so, the regular staff were just eyeing her from a safe distance right now, and wondering whether just letting her be would somehow affect their wages for the day. (No, they didn't care about any health code violations. They worked at Mooby Land, for God's sake.) For the moment, they were leaning towards just working with her until the weirdness affecting her wore off.

Natalie -- well, Cheese Name Girl, really, was eyeing them back. Oddly, she felt like there was someone missing here...

[ooc: Open to ALL the people, from my partner in gremlin crime to any and all randoms who want to drop by! Natalie thinks she's more or less Brie Larson in this music video, so she's liable to drop people's foods and still serve them to you if you're mean.]

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[lockestheway]

"Heyyyy," Peter drawled as he walked into the building, his hat sitting on his head at a jaunty angle.

He took his cigarette out of his mouth and made a big production of tossing it onto the floor and stamping it out. He threw the befuddled staff a look that read I know I'm late and I don't care. "So what's cooking?"

He should be, clearly. He just didn't get paid enough to care.

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie wrinkled her nose at the cigarette, because she was wholesome like that. Then she looked over at the random server who she'd designated the manager. "See, if he can get away with that, then my mild tardiness shouldn't count for anything!"

The 'manager' said nothing, as he was kind of stuck on "uh, why does there have to be another one?".

[lockestheway]

Peter rolled his eyes. "Chill, chill," he said, sauntering towards the counter. "No reason to get all worked up."

[whenshewasnice]

"They were on my case for not showing up on time," Natalie replied, defensively. Not that it was even remotely true. "I'm just sticking up for myself. Not that I intend on hanging around here forever, anyway."

[lockestheway]

"Oh, right," Peter said, grinning. "We're all going to get out of this town, right?"

Pfft. That sounded like so much effort.

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie frowned at him. "Hey, don't mock it," she admonished. "I saw audition posters on my way. I think I'm gonna do that. They could make me a star."

She wasn't even sure what the auditions were for.

[dollpocalypse]

It took Topher a while to manage to form actual words in between the hysterical laughter.

"What -- what -- Peter!?"

This was the best. The best ever.

[lockestheway]

Peter didn't look too impressed behind his definitely-not-in-the-regulations cigarette. "What do you want?" he asked.

He was the picture of disinterest.

[dollpocalypse]

Oh, but he wanted SO MUCH out of this.

There was more cackling, and then finally, "Cheese fries?" A beat. "Oh! And a picture. Are you smoking?"

[lockestheway]

Look at him running to get those cheese fries! Except not.

"I dunno," Peter said. "Am I?"

Seriously disinterested.

[necroslacker]

Really, the only reason that Sam was even in Mooby Land was to get a milkshake. The smell of grease and meat hit him as soon as he walked in and he was immediately transported back to Seattle and Plumpy's.

His thoughts of a milkshake were quickly forgotten when he saw Natalie behind the counter. He blinked and even squinted to see if what he was seeing was true.

Yep, it was Natalie. Huh. He didn't know she'd gotten a job here.

[whenshewasnice]

Oh her God, cute boy alert! Natalie straightened up and readjusted her hat so it was as cute as it could possibly be, then smiled at him.

"Hi!" she chirped. "Welcome to All American Burger!" That was so not the name of this place. "Can I take your order?"

[necroslacker]

"Hi," Sam said, walking towards the counter and...kind of boggling at that tone of voice. He'd been expecting mildness or even disdain but not chipperness.

"You work here?" he asked, leaning against the counter. "I didn't know that."

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie laughed. Flirtily. "Of course I work here." Off to the side, one of the regular servers shook his head, unseen by her. She just gestured at herself. "I thought the uniform would give it away."

Yeah, the uniform with the cheese nametag.

[necroslacker]

Sam was wondering if this was some prank Natalie was playing on him because now she was laughing and flirting and wow.

"It does, yeah," he agreed, glancing at the nametag. "I just wouldn't have guessed it. Find out new things everyday, I guess."

This was really new, though. "You're in a good mood."

[dollpocalypse]

Topher just wanted fries. Really. But he was getting so much more than fries.

Like bursting out laughing as soon as he saw what was going on here. There was that.

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie raised an eyebrow at that entrance. Come on, there was nothing funny here.

Not, at least, if you weren't aware of there being two people present who would be refusing to leave their rooms tomorrow.

"Can we help you?" she asked, in a vague effort to be a good employee.

[dollpocalypse]

"You're Kate 3!" he announced finally, once he could talk again. "Is that Peter or a new Peter? Do you sit on cakes? Could you actually put on a hairnet?"

He had a lot of questions.

[whenshewasnice]

"... Huh?" Yeah, none of that made any sense at all. "I don't know what you're talking about."

[dollpocalypse]

"You're the third person on this island with that face," Topher shared helpfully. "Just so you know."

[momslilassassin]

Ben believed in balance, which was why he balanced his insane workout regime by, well, eating crap.

Which was why he was in Moobyland for burgers and shakes...and to see Peter behind the counter.

The hell?

"You work here?"

[lockestheway]

"Officially," Peter said, taking a looong puff off his cigarette. "What do you want?"

[momslilassassin]

Peter smoked? Huh.

"The usual," he declared, leaning against the counter.

[lockestheway]

"What do you want," Peter repeated, bringing up his cell phone so he could get back to his Angry Birds game.

Hey, if Ben wanted to waste his time...

[momslilassassin]

"Four cheesesburgers, double ketchup, no onions," Ben said, "two large fries and a chocolate shake."

He wondered if he should get something for Ender too...