Mission - Pancakes / Backdated to the morning of April 3rd

[oncedevil]

Who: Tony and anyone awake at Willow Ridge after the Kidnapping Incident
What: Demon be hungry, so that means pancakes for all.
Where: Willow Ridge kitchen
When: Morning of April 3rd, after Nathan's rescue
Warnings: Possibly some recollections of violence, but otherwise only pancakes. Maybe eggs. We'll see.

Dressed in jeans and a light T-shit, one could almost forget just the night before he'd been barely able to walk under his own power and bleeding all over himself. Quite the change, though watching closely it was still evident Tony was a little tender and sore. Moving stiff and careful while he cooked.

As it turned out, healing was hungry business. Fortunately Willow Ridge was equipped with a well enough stocked kitchen, and Tony with a little skill instilled by Hajime. Despite his best efforts, he still couldn't really use chopsticks with any kind of efficiency. Fortunately pancakes only required a spatula.

Stacks of them, in fact. The first attempts, under-cooked or over had already been eaten, but now he was on a roll. Why not ask him why he's cooked so much, or join in to help devour the abundance? Surely, he figured, the others would wake soon and they'd be hungry as well. Though likely Tony was far over-estimating their hunger by comparing it to his own.

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[chalicejoker]

Hajime freezes in place. "You wouldn't."

It's a bluff, right? He's not doing anything, just existing...and being slightly annoying through existing...

[ursoreckless]

"C'mon yourself, man. Would you like to watch someone with no lips eat when your stomach is still in recovery mode from a good time during the night?"

Don't wake up the vampire. He gets cranky when his nice quiet dozing time is being all disturbed by bugmen and reporters. Shou raised the paper towels again and nodded at Tony.

"Make the call. Make my day."

[lovesickkiller]

This is getting to be thoroughly entertaining. Misa decides she likes being backed up by the monster squad. Not that she would qualify any part of last night as a 'good time,' but she appreciates the sentiment.

"Are you saying he doesn't always look like this? He's choosing to do it? On purpose??"

[oncedevil]

Tony just stares Hajime dead in the eye and pulls his phone out of his back pocket, as if daring him to call his bluff. You think he won't, Hajime? You know full well Tony is not above playing dirty.

"Try me."

[chalicejoker]

"What, just because I have no lips like this? That's speciesist." Hajime gives an indignant huff and crosses his arms. He tries to look as innocent as an innocent bug can look when Misa seems surprised that he's choosing to look like a bug.

And then Tony brings out the phone, and he holds his hands up in a gesture of surrender. "Alright, alright..." He gets up from the table and walks into another room. "Doesn't mean I'm going to do it in front of everyone...that's indecent." More like he doesn't want to explain exactly why turning back into a human involves using a playing card. That the bug is actually his true form now.

A few moments later, a put-out looking normal human being will come walking back into the room...though he's not entirely normal-looking. He's embarrassed, and since his blood's green, the resulting blush is actually greenish. "There. Happy?"

[ursoreckless]

Shou claps a little and does his best leer as well. Good job, Hajime, good job, even if your skin is sort of green thanks to the blood and stuff.

"There. That's better. See, Misa? He's not that buggy now, just a little green."

[lovesickkiller]

Misa stares at Hajime for a few seconds, then runs over to check the room he just emerged from, half expecting to find a giant bug hiding in there.

"No way! That's really you, bugman?" She looks him up and down disbelievingly. There is definitely a green tinge to his cheeks, but otherwise he looks totally normal. She pokes at his face experimentally. It feels like a normal human face. "Why would you be a bug when you have a face like this?!"

[chalicejoker]

He's still kind of embarrassed about this. "Yeah, it's me." He's also not expecting to have his face poked, and it's making him flush a little more green. There's a little bit of awkward ducking away from the poking, because he's not at all used to having strange women poke at his face like this. Why is she poking at his face? Does he have something on his face? Does...does she think he has a nice face? Strange woman poking at his face possibly saying it's a nice face, what do, what do? "It's...it's complicated."

[oncedevil]

Satisfied, Tony tucks away his phone, and tries not to giggle too much at poor Hajime's complete embarrassment. Breakfast and a show? What a good day. He settles into leaning against Shou, finally getting full after his third stack of pancakes.

"Y'know, Misa. He's single."

Don't mind the devilish troll grin.

[ursoreckless]

"Very, very single. The whole Bugman's lady was a joke played to the media because we were trying to distract stuff from other stuff going on," Shou added. He suddenly also had a Tony leaning against him, so he was going to snuggle right back, yawning and trying not to make a big show of it too.

"He's single and he's a great cook. We think the bug thing is like a defense thing because he's so much awkward."

[lovesickkiller]

Now it's Misa's turn to blush, a decidedly pink one.

"I-I didn't mean it like that!" she insists, giving Hajime some space. Now she really wishes she had gotten dressed before coming out here; somehow having an unexpected cute boy as a guest makes her feel a lot more exposed without pants on than the unexpected bugman did. She tugs at the hem of her overlarge T-shirt and runs her fingers through her tangled hair self-consciously.

"Well, you shouldn't show up like a bug all the time just to scare people!"

[chalicejoker]

Wait, are they trying to fix him up? There's a little inarticulate sputtering at that, but he does not actually manage any words, for he is just that awkward. And...and...does she not have any pants on?!? The sudden space is very very welcome, and he is quite likely sitting there at maximum greenness. "Sometimes I just...like to let the bug thing out." At least he sounds appropriately embarrassed about that.

[oncedevil]

Tony dissolves into not so quiet giggles behind his arm, tucked up against Shou where he tries to hide and pretend that he totally didn't start this just to see how green Hajime would get. And with Misa turning bright red, it's gotten awfully festive in here suddenly.

"He's really sweet when he remembers how to words. And you know, not too bad on the eyes."

Tony gives a lecherous grin that would make Shou proud, and his one-eyed wink to make it all the worse. The trolling game is in full swing now.

[ursoreckless]

"Oh, he is pretty good looking, and he cooks," Shou added, turning a little to give Tony a squeeze to make sure he doesn't feel left out. "I mean, who wouldn't like having a guy that can cook around the house. It's nice."

Sorry, Hajime, but you definitely should know better around Shou. He was the king of trolls when he wasn't slowly being embarrassed. Besides, he was getting a little payback from when he was in Japan and getting frantic text messages from Tony and Hajime.

[lovesickkiller]

"Stop trying to set us up!!" Misa all but hisses. Just because he's cute doesn't mean she's going to date a bug! Especially after all the trouble he's put her through with that form!

An embarrassed glance at Hajime reveals that his face is well and truly green now, in a way that can't be healthy. "Are you going to be sick...?"

[chalicejoker]

Hajime is almost glad for the question Misa asks him. Because it's a great way to change the subject beyond awkward stammering and passing out...even if he sounds a little embarrassed. "My blood's green. Kind of happens sometimes when I get, uh, flushed."

Okay, so calling attention to the fact that he's blushing is not helping at all.

[oncedevil]

Oh he doesn't feel left out, he feels highly amused. Though the gesture is appreciated and he shoots a fond smile Shou's way. Trolling Hajime is one of his favorite games.

At Misa's outburst he just cracks up laughing, leaning against Shou while he cackles like a madman. Poor green Hajime, poor exasperated Misa.