Waffle House- Friday evening

[thatwaslucky]

Rey was leaving the warehouse, taking the long way back home, when she saw the golden glow of the Waffle House sign. There it was, in all its calorific, artery-clogging glory. A beacon.

She did get out her phone to send some people a text just saying It's back! She assumed they'd know what she meant.


[WE DESERVE IT. Open if you think you got a text, wander by, feel it calling to you...]

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[drumsticksandd20s]

Steph was a West Coast girl through and through, so Waffle House was really not something she'd ever experienced until, well... now. Her road trip out here hadn't let her cross paths with any of them, but she'd heard stories so when she happened to notice that the one here was back she kind of had to check it out.

"Damn," she said, looking around the place and shaking off a brief flashback to the Two Whales back in Arcadia Bay. "I can feel my blood vessels hardening already."

Not that it stopped her from taking a seat at the counter.

[thatwaslucky]

"It's worth it," Rey said from where she was sitting either the menu.

[drumsticksandd20s]

"Oh, I'm not leaving before I eat my weight in hash browns," Steph assured her. "Any recommendations?"

[thatwaslucky]

"I always have a hard time deciding because I like it all, but I was thinking a hash brown bowl until I saw the peanut butter chip waffle," Rey said.

[stykera]

"Hello, Steph!"

[drumsticksandd20s]

"Hey, Stark." Steph gave him a jaunty salute with her menu. "Good night for dubious diner food all around, huh?"

[stykera]

"I like the hashbrowns," Stark said.

And his favorite person was here, and other people he was quite fond of. This was definitely the place to be tonight.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Oooooh!" said Summer, with more glee than anyone should have for wandering into a Waffle House. "I keep missing this place!"

Seriously, the Waffle House's timing was usually terrible, as far as she was concerned.

[thatwaslucky]

"Not this time!" Rey told her, grinning. "I'm glad you made it."

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Me, too!" said Summer, grinning back as she easily fell into a seat next to Rey. "I cannot wait to be wholly underwhelmed by pancakes and regret every single bite of questionable sausage and bacon somehow both under- and over-cooked in the morning!"

And there was a good chance she was going to be eating a lot of it, because someone came prepared by pre-gaming. Ahem.

[thatwaslucky]

"Either you've been to one of these elsewhere or it's reputation is very good," Rey noted.

[drumsticksandd20s]

"You too?" Steph asked, waving her menu at Summer.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Oh, hey, Steph!" Summer met that waved menu with a big grin. "But, yeah! I don't know, the timing just always seems way off for me, but not this time! Nice try, Waffle House, my other plans for this weekend were conveniently vaguely defined, so you can just suck it!"

There was a generally rude gesture to the building as a whole before she brightly turned back to Steph and ask, "So how've you been? It's good to see you!"

[drumsticksandd20s]

"Good. Busy," Steph said in the tone of someone who'd become a business owner on a whim and was still continuously surprised by the consequences. "Apparently always blowing my perception checks to spot this place, but that might just be that all the games I run are scheduled during peak Waffle House hours? Planning trips to a diner that manifests whenever it chooses to isn't a life skill people tend to pick up."

But it was possible summer workshop material!

She contemplated a couple of menu options, humming to herself.

"Go us, both lucking out on it this time, right?"

[stykera]

Stark, who had possibly come in with her but didn't want to assume, took a deep breath of greasy air and sighed contentedly.

"I'm glad it's here again. And you can have hashbrowns." Or waffles. Or both.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Or pancakes! Because Summer was a contrarian who stuck to a bit like a tumor!

There was a faint smirk on her face and a lift of her eyebrow at Stark's little Waffle House Moment of Zen.

"You know you can have hashbrowns pretty much anywhere else, too, right?" she checked.

[stykera]

"I can't go to the diner," Stark pointed out. "So where else would I get them?"

Maybe somewhere when you kept traveling, you weirdo?

[stykera]

"Hashbrowns!"

Look, Stark was sometimes a simple man who just wanted some fried potatoes.

[thatwaslucky]

"They're back!" Rey greeted him.

[stykera]

"I missed them," Stark said.

If he ever got on good terms with Ignis again maybe he could eat some gourmet hashbrowns... but that didn't seem likely.

"How are you, Rey?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Well right now I'm deciding whether I can get a third thing if I'm taking half home," she said.

[carbsliftthespirit]

Even if Raiden had not gotten a text, he could have found his way here by sense of smell alone. "Aw, heck yeah!"

He loved you, disappearing and reappearing Waffle House. Why did you always have to leave him?

[thatwaslucky]

"You seem happy," Rey teased.

[carbsliftthespirit]

"The Waffle House came back!" Why wouldn't he be happy?

Hash browns, his one true love. Except for pizza, of course. And whoever that guy had been that he vaguely remembered from that one weekend when everybody was from the future.

[thatwaslucky]

"How fast do you think you'll know what you're getting?" Rey asked.

He might know immediately! He might need very serious debate time.