Caritas- Tuesday

[throughaphase]

Someone had delivered a lot of pizzas to the bar. Tino didn't do it, Kitty definitely did it do it, but they'd insisted on delivering them and not taking them back.

SPECIALS
TAKE SOME PIZZA

She'd just be chowing down on a slice of cheese until someone showed up.


[Open, no OCD! I'm not allowed pizza for two weeks so I tortured myself, apparently.]

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[died8yearsago]

"Any special occasion?" asked Rosa, settling in at her usual spot as she took in the specials sign. She didn't expect for there to actually be one, but it was as good a conversation starter as any.

[throughaphase]

"The occasion is pizza showed up," Kitty said, gesturing with a slice. "I'm not looking a gift pizza in the mouth."

Or several gift pizzas.

[died8yearsago]

"And I guess if you're going for it," Rosa noted, "there's not too much to worry about."

Kitty, she trusted (almost) entirely.

Tino, not so much.

Like.

At all.

Not even for pizza.

But Rosa would, almost always, look every gift pizza in the mouth.

[throughaphase]

"This isn't like the Tino cupcakes. I'm actually taking leftovers home for my family. At least, the members that can chew," Kitty said, gesturing for her to take her pick.

[died8yearsago]

Rosa looked the options over for a moment before making a selection. "And I guess a beer, too," she said, since you could not go wrong with that combination. "Think there'll be a lot leftover? I wouldn't mind not having to cook for the rest of the week."

[throughaphase]

"Take a whole one of you want. There's too much and people are never around on break week," Kitty pointed out, still not putting down her pizza as she went to get the beer.

[died8yearsago]

"I'll definitely take the quiet, too."

Remember? Remember when the quiet used to drive you crazy, Rosa?

Ahhh, the good ol' days.

[throughaphase]

"Enjoy it while you can, before the next crop of new people shows up," Kitty pointed out. "You've got a whole two weeks to embrace the boredom."

[died8yearsago]

"That's half a month," Rosa noted, with a dreamy sort of optimism, even a faint, relieved smile, that really showed just how far along she'd come.

Of course, there was a flip side to that experience, the side that knew that the idea of half a month passing by around here without something weird or annoying happening was unheard of, but optimism, Kitty. Rosa was embracing optimism here, or at least trying to, so she wasn't going to ruin things by pointing that out, she was just going to eat her pizza and pretend it was going to be a nice, normal, quiet two weeks, or so help her, someone was getting punched.

JUST LET HER HAVE THIS MOMENT, OKAY.

[throughaphase]

Kitty, being great, just smiled a little and set the beer down in front of her.

[died8yearsago]

Rosa had pizza, a beer, and a quiet moment.

Kitty wasn't just great; she was the best.

It almost seemed like a shame to ruin it, but since she'd skipped out on last week, Rosa kind of missed a little of their dumb idle banter, so, after a few bites, a swig to wash it down, she ventured ahead with hopefully safe and bullshit small talk with one of the few people with which that was actually tolerable. Even enjoyable.

"You teaching again this summer?"

[throughaphase]

"Not unless something really jumps out at me to teach. I usually take summers off," Kitty said with a shrug. "Do you have another class coming up?"

[died8yearsago]

"Good," Rosa said. "You should take a break. Enjoy it, and some time with the kid."

Because, yeah, teaching one class a week was really digging into that and everything.

"I'm locked in, though. Some weird thing in my contract out here, I don't care enough to fight it, especially since they don't really seem to care about too many teaching standards here anyway. But maybe. We'll have to see if this time around, it's actually the class I submitted and not something completely different like this last semester."

Seriously, if they messed it up again, that moose was going to have it coming. Rosa had never punched a moose before, but Rosa would be more than happy to check that box on her to-do list.

[throughaphase]

It was kind of a miracle that the moose had so far gone unpunched.

"What class are you trying to teach?" Kitty wondered.

[died8yearsago]

Rosa thought about chasing the smirk that showed up on her face away, but...nah.

Her head tilted a little, though, not really sure how far cultural references still got you when it came to the whole multiverse thig. "You ever watch that show," she ventured, "in the '80s and '90s? Lots of spandex, so you should aprreciate it. American Gladiators?"

[throughaphase]

Kitty was exactly the sort of person that would have appreciated American Gladiators.

"Oh, they have to let you," Kitty grinned. "Have to."

[died8yearsago]

Rosa was not surprised.

"Right?" she said, glad to know she could have Kitty in her corner on this one. "I just...really need to be able to make kids hit each other with giant foam Q-Tips."

[throughaphase]

She wanted to do this at the mansion.

"Right into water, right?" Kitty checked.

[died8yearsago]

"Or lava," Rosa mused, "if I can get the Danger Shop to cooperate."

So...yeah. Definitely right into the water.

[throughaphase]

"If you don't get this, I'll hold the moose down for you," Kitty promised.

[died8yearsago]

"You're a real good friend, Kitty," Rosa said, lifting her beer in a toast before finishing it off, "you know that?"

No one had ever offered to hold down a moose for her before.

Felt nice.