Luke's, Monday

[vdistinctive]

"Hey boss," the cook greeted when Eliot came in. "Just so's ya know, there's a --"

"No," Eliot said, walking right past him towards the office.

"Okay, but --"

"Nope." Something crashed behind him, but Eliot didn't turn to look. "Don't want to know."

"Oh geez," the busboy breathed. "How did it get so big?"

"Close the freezer!" the dishwasher shouted. "Close the goddamn freezer already!"

"But --" the cook tried again. Eliot smacked a specials list into his chest and walked past again, this time headed for the dining room.

"It's going to be a normal week, dammit," he said.

"Technically, though, for around here --"

"Normal!"

Today's specials
Triple chocolate beef & bean chili
Baked potato with brussels sprouts and bacon
Orange soda cake

Luke's was open.

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[vdistinctive]

Don't ask about the noises coming from the kitchen.

Talk to Eliot

[vdistinctive]

He is going to sit here with his nice normal book and his nice normal coffee today, dammit.

Re: Talk to Eliot

[whoisalicewhite.livejournal.com]

Parker appeared the way she usually did: suddenly and way closer than expected.

"We have to give a Final tomorrow." She still looked a little drawn from the weekend events, but mostly okay. "And it should be fun for them. I'm thinking crocodiles."

Re: Talk to Eliot

[vdistinctive]

Eliot marked his page and set his book aside. "Don't recall crocodiles bein' that fun," he said.

Because of course he'd had to deal with crocodiles before.

Re: Talk to Eliot

[whoisalicewhite.livejournal.com]

"Swinging over them? Watching them snap? That is totally fun." Parker picked up his coffee, and started to drink from it, then stopped herself. "We could use alligators instead?"

Re: Talk to Eliot

[vdistinctive]

Eliot grabbed the coffee pot and a spare mug and brought them back over to the table. "Obstacle course could be fun. Like that, uh. Ninja warrior thing."

Which he'd managed to see. Despite not owning a television.

Re: Talk to Eliot

[whoisalicewhite.livejournal.com]

Parker gave him a side-eye at that mention, but said, "With really good treats at the end."

CAKE, ELIOT. CAKE. CHOCOLATE CAKE. SHOULD NOT BE A LIE.

Re: Talk to Eliot

[vdistinctive]

"With treats," Eliot agreed. "I'm thinkin' Kathy at least will want a letter grade too, though."

Re: Talk to Eliot

[whoisalicewhite.livejournal.com]

"That girl." Parker shook her head sadly. "That girl is wound too tight and her parents sound..."

Yeah.

Re: Talk to Eliot

[vdistinctive]

Eliot sighed. "Yeah. Was tryin' to remind her to have fun over the summer, at least, but she was still all about classes and gettin' ahead."

And had some excellent points about why, but that didn't mean Eliot wasn't going to worry.

Re: Talk to Eliot

[whoisalicewhite.livejournal.com]

"So this should be extra-fun. And hard. She'll like it if she gets to beat something with speed. And Edward will like it if there's jumping off high things." Parker looked speculative. "Kaylin will want to fight something. Trolls?"

Re: Talk to Eliot

[vdistinctive]

"We kinda done them. Maybe robots. And that Edward kid will want somethin' to climb all over." Or fall off of into a pile of hay. Either one.

Re: Talk to Eliot

[whoisalicewhite.livejournal.com]

"Robot Aliens!" She'd appreciate that, after the conversation they'd had about Eliot. "Hmmmmmmmm.... And they can hack the aliens if they want to. Get them to help. Maybe one of those steampunk airships."

RE: Talk to Eliot

[geniuswithasmartphone]

Hardison strolled in, eyes a little tired, but otherwise fine. His shirt clung damply to his chest; he'd forgotten a towel before heading into the shower again.

"What's goin' on with the freezer?" he asked. "The staff's huddled around it with spears. Eliot, why does your staff have spears?"

Re: Talk to Eliot

[vdistinctive]

"Dunno," Eliot said, sipping his coffee. "We're havin' a normal day, out here."

He didn't want to know about the spears, Hardison. And he was reasonably certain neither did you.

Re: Talk to Eliot

[whoisalicewhite.livejournal.com]

Parker snickered at Hardison's question. She might have been eavesdropping on the staff earlier.

"I could loan them my taser. But that wouldn't be as fun."

RE: Re: Talk to Eliot

[geniuswithasmartphone]

Hardison pressed a kiss to Parker's head then settled down in the booth with designs on stealing Eliot's coffee if he could. Mostly because it was always fun to antagonize Eliot.

"Them our brussels sprouts on the menu?" he asked, meaning did you put her taser back? "You can't just go into our kitchen an' steal our food, man. Boundaries!"

Re: Talk to Eliot

[vdistinctive]

There was little more entertaining than watching Eliot swear impotently, it was true.

"If they didn't get cooked, they were gonna go bad," Eliot said, meaning yes, dammit, what am I, an idiot? "Like you two have any room to talk about 'boundaries'."

Re: Talk to Eliot

[whoisalicewhite.livejournal.com]

"Chocolate chili." Parker looked way too pleased about that. "For meeeee." Yes, you made it just for her, Eliot. Don't lie. "What boundaries? I haven't broken into your place since you were crazy."

Maybe it was time to do that again.

RE: Re: Talk to Eliot

[geniuswithasmartphone]

Served him right for all the times he wound up Hardison for the same reason.

"See? Look at all that boundary-respectin' we're doing," he said, slowly easing Eliot's mug back towards himself. "I haven't..." Hardison tried to think of things he would normally do, but hadn't recently. "Stolen anything out of your fridge. Not that I'd do that anyway. Cause that would be very wrong."

Re: Talk to Eliot

[vdistinctive]

"That's because you're still freakin' out about the bear traps," Eliot said, picking up his mug to take another sip. "Or maybe you two were too busy workin' on Plan E."

Re: Talk to Eliot

[whoisalicewhite.livejournal.com]

"We already talked about that." Parker was not sure why he kept bringing that up. "I promised to talk to you. And ... oh. Hardison's here." More talking! "Time to figure stuff out."

Right, what was it they were figuring out, exactly?

RE: Re: Talk to Eliot

[geniuswithasmartphone]

Dammit, Eliot! Now he'd lost all that progress with the mug--Oh. Plan E. Hardison decided to stop messing around with Eliot's coffee if that topic was going to be on the table.

"Well, we saw last weekend there weren't anymore bear traps in your place. Which, y'know, good job, way not to have bear traps around the children, gold star." Reluctantly, he gestured to one of kitchen staff to bring him a coffee since Eliot's was now a no-go. The busboy made a face, reluctantly surrendering his spear to the cook before going to the coffeepot.

There was a loud BANG! against the freezer door causing everyone in the kitchen to jump. And Hardison, too, let's be real.

"So, talking?" he said, trying not to think about what the hell was in that freezer. "Talking's a thing. That we can do."

Re: Talk to Eliot

[vdistinctive]

"Talking," Eliot confirmed, smirking faintly when Hardison ordered his own coffee. "What on earth made you think tryin' to con me into a threeway was a good idea?"

He maybe hadn't worked out that it had been a 'con you into a relationship' thing, just yet.

OOC

[vdistinctive]

I have absolutely no idea what is going on in that freezer.