Luke's, Thursday

[lovemykilt]

So, angry Friday dude (yes, Priestly knew his actual name, he was a consumate professional diner manager, here) decided to do Ethiopian last week. Priestly couldn't have one of his employees showing him up in the fancy funky foreign food department.

There was just one problem:

"What do you mean we're all out of snails?" Priestly stared open mouthed at his cook. "They were frozen, man, they can't have just gotten up and slithered out of here!"

The cook showed him the little slime trails leading out of the freezer. "Some kind of malfunction," he said. "They're escargone."

"I hate you," said Priestly. "Never use that pun ever again."

Today's specials
Confit de canard
Ratatouille
Gâteau de ménage

Luke's was open. And probably not teeming with undead snails.

Comments

Re: Talk to Priestly

[lovemykilt]

"I will not be climbing any buildings."

Re: Talk to Priestly

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

There was a hum over the air waves there, the same kind of we'll see hum that happened before that *one* time Dinah got Priestly to rappel off the dorms with her.

"Maybe that would calm Barbara down. Make her feel better. If I really stepped up my game? And took more classes? So I actually could take on some six-six guy like Creote and not wind up hurt... Plan! More of a plan."

Re: Talk to Priestly

[lovemykilt]

"Yeah, still not until you've actually healed. You remember that part, right? Where healing takes a lot of time and also possibly physical therapy?"

Re: Talk to Priestly

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Possibly," Dinah allowed, brain already busy with options. "Let me have my dreams, Priestly, or I'm gonna explode from frustration."

Re: Talk to Priestly

[lovemykilt]

"Yeah, and how much are you going to want to explode when the casts come off and you're still not ready to go leaping off buildings again yet?"

Re: Talk to Priestly

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"I'm trying not to think about that. I'm going to end up crying, aren't I?" Would calling in Raven or Karla be such a bad thing, really?

Re: Talk to Priestly

[lovemykilt]

"That kind of angry frustrated crying," Priestly said. "It's really going to suck, but you're going to end up fine."

Re: Talk to Priestly

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Wah," Dinah muttered, glum. "You'll come visit again soon, right?" Don't make her beg, dude.

Re: Talk to Priestly

[lovemykilt]

"You kidding? Rabid squirrels couldn't keep me away." He thought about that. "Okay, technically they probably could. Or at least delay me. But nothing less than bodily harm or contagious diseases."

Re: Talk to Priestly

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Okay. That's comforting. And if it's the freezer, text me from winter wonderland and I'll come save you. I think I get an exemption from couch time for you being cryogenically frozen."

Re: Talk to Priestly

[lovemykilt]

"How am I supposed to text you if I'm frozen?"

Re: Talk to Priestly

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"You don't think you'll get three seconds to text HALP FRZ to me?"

Re: Talk to Priestly

[lovemykilt]

"I think I'll be too busy thinking 'OH FUCK ITS COLD'. I still don't do cold well, you know."

Re: Talk to Priestly

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I know. California boy." Dinah grinned. "We're going to have to get you some real boots and a parka for winters in New Gotham, you realize."

Re: Talk to Priestly

[lovemykilt]

". . . I totally forgot about that. I'm screwed, aren't I."

Re: Talk to Priestly

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"You will be!" Dinah couldn't help her grin at that.

"I'll show you the best places to keep from freezing in gray rainy and snowy weather. Promise."

Re: Talk to Priestly

[lovemykilt]

"Can we hibernate? That always sounded like a sweet deal to me."

Re: Talk to Priestly

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"We can try, I guess." Dinah was amused by that mental image, and the snickers probably gave that away. "Note to self: find Priestly a nice warm burrow to curl up in for winter. And lots of blankets. And cocoa. And only leave for classes and crimefighting."

Re: Talk to Priestly

[lovemykilt]

"Why do people keep functioning in the winter? I'm pretty sure they didn't used to."

Priestly had never really excelled at history, no.

Re: Talk to Priestly

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Because snow is fun, and ice is cool." Dinah shook her head. "And neither of us are farmers, so. We can't just declare it vacation season. Sorry! I promise the cocoa Alfred makes mostly makes up for it."

Re: Talk to Priestly

[lovemykilt]

"How cold are we talking? Is it Canadian or something?"

Re: Talk to Priestly

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Noooooooo. We're not that far north. Think... Gah, you know the coldest it got in Fandom? Think that, but with it mostly coming in as rain. With the occasional stormy night straight out of Hitchcock."

Re: Talk to Priestly

[lovemykilt]

"Okay. Okay, I think I can do that."

Re: Talk to Priestly

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"...except when Mr. Freeze escapes, and then nobody goes outside and they cancel classes, so don't worry, 'kay?"

Someday she'd figure out when to quit talking.

"So, yeah, we need to get you an umbrella too."

Re: Talk to Priestly

[lovemykilt]

"You have a super villain named Mr. Freeze." Why did he think this was a good idea, again?