TURKEY DAY AT THE PIE HOLE II

[onetouch]

WHO: Ned and Digby and you and you and you and all your closest friends
WHERE: The Pie Hole pie restaurant and bakeshop
WHEN: Thanksgiving Day, November 22 8am - November 23 1am (he'lll stick around for any stragglers tho)
WARNINGS: Shouldn't be any...
SUMMARY: Ned invites the whole City to the Pie Hole. He and Zatanna are cooking and baking everything (there are meat and meatless options), but feel free to bring a favorite from home!
FORMAT: quick/spam; make your own threads for your own people or table. on open threads estimate the time of arrival.
NO ONE IS EVER LATE!!!!!

[From the outside, the Pie Hole hasn't changed much, though the window is draped in elaborate snowflake-shaped lights, but inside is a whole other story. Zatanna has made quite a spectacle of the place, a huge banquet hall filled with long and short tables for enjoying your meal with any number of friends. And the decorations are outrageous. Ned's Christmas decorations, which were already over-the-top have all been magically enhanced and Thanksgivingsized like little crystalline pumpkin baubles and overspilling cornucopia on each buffet table, lined up in front of the kitchen. Ned is firmly putting his foot down this year: no one is to enter his kitchen but Zee or himself.

He'll be serving regular pie menu as well as breakfast (frittatas) until twelve noon at which point there will be an hour or two for people to arrive and mingle. The food will be out by 1:30-2 pm and dessert to be served at 3 pm. Ned just wants everyone to have a great day so come in and make yourself at home!! There are a few kegs as well if you all didn't listen and byob...]

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[gandere]

[ Wait, wasn't he telling her to do something? ]

Oh.


[ Reluctantly plopping down into the chair with a sheepish expression. ] Geez Archer, I can pull out my own chair, you know...

[swordedpast]

Rin--!

[ And he starts to reach out, in alarm, to cover her mouth--but he stops himself at the last moment. She'll only see a slight jerk of his shoulders and twitch of his hand, then a resigned sigh. ]

I could smash the table if I wanted, you know. But there's food on it and that'd be a waste.

[ And he sits down in the chair opposite Rin's. ]

It's a buffet, so we'll have to get our own food when we're ready. Can you handle that?

[gandere]

[ Scooting her chair closer to the table. ] You'd let me lean over the food of others?

Sheesh, I thought you'd at least offer to pick up the first plate for me as a proper gentleman would. If we stand side by side in the buffet line, I wonder what people might say about us? "That couple in the red, isn't that fellow a bit too old for her?" Mm, that sounds about right.

Then I'd have to kill you. [ Holding up a knife. ] Look, they even provided me with the murder weapon.

[swordedpast]

[ He just looks at the knife for a moment. ]

Wow. That's right, they let you have a knife. I'll have a word with them about that. Well, it's simple, really. We'll go to the buffet at different times. I'll go first, and I'll report back on what foods you can't have because they'll ruin your diet.

That's probably everything.

[gandere]

[ NOT FUNNY!!! ]

A-Archer!

[ Gently placing the knife down before the though of throwing it into his forehead fully cultivates. ]

Why did you bring me some place that would ruin my diet in the first place?

[swordedpast]

[ A pause. He looks away a bit. ]

...I thought you might need to relax, Rin. Have some pie, and not worry about such things as your diet.

Well, there's a lot of food here. I'm certain something will be acceptable.

[gandere]

Hmph... I suppose it would be alright this time, but only because I haven't been eating much the past few days.

[ Due to a case of Death and all. ] Pie would be nice... Do they have any with cherries?

[swordedpast]

You haven't. And you'll make me get you all-new clothes if you waste away enough, and I'll refuse, so you should fill up now.

This is a pie shop. Didn't you see? I'm sure they have cherry pie.

[gandere]

I could get a job modeling if that happens. [ She insists. ] Although I'd need enhancements in certain areas for this country. It'd be a hefty expense at first, but well worth it when I make way more than you ever will.

[ That may have all been said in jest, but it's hard to tell. ]

Yes, this is a pie shop and there is pie over there. Yet, I'm seeing a distinct lack of pie on my plate. I wonder why that is, Archer.

[ Was that the sound of a whip cracking? ]

[swordedpast]

...

[ He blinks once. Yes, he's just going to pretend she didn't say that. Because he can't start freaking out about it in public. He would never stop.

He'll just move on to the pie question. ]

Because I'm a slow and lazy Servant, it seems.

[ Smiling in what he means to be a condescending manner, he gets up. He means it to be condescending, but somehow there's a hint of something genuine in it. ]

[gandere]

Don't bring me a cold slice either.

[ Rin calls out after him without so much a care in the world other than having a warm slice of pie. At least her mood is significantly better as a result. ]

[swordedpast]

[ He returns after a few minutes with two plates: one with a warm slice of cherry pie with just a dab of whipped cream on it, and the other piled with turkey. He sets the former down by Rin's place, and the latter in the middle of the table, so he can start portioning it out between the two of them...

There's something a bit strange about his turkey selection, though.

It seems he's been subconsciously dwelling on Rin's earlier comment.

All of the pieces of turkey seem to be from the breast... ]

[gandere]

[ Despite all the trouble he went to fetch her a slice of pie, she'll move the smaller plate to the side in favor of turkey. A young girl who's lived all alone and she still favors eating dinner before dessert. At least she has manners in some areas still. ]

You're familiar with turkey? [ She can't help but ask judging by his selection. ] Or did you just gather the pieces that appealed to you visually?

[swordedpast]

Don't ask foolish questions, Rin.

[ He sits back down across from her. ]

Why would turkey appeal to me visually? That's a poor method to select food by.

I picked what I thought would taste best, of course.

[ He seems quite unaware of what he did. ]

[gandere]

It's just interesting that you chose all the same kind of meat.

[ Rin says simply. For now she won't tease him. It'll be so much better when he discovers his error later on. ]

Does that mean you've had this before in your previous life?

[swordedpast]

[ He blinks down at the meat. After a moment, comprehension dawns--along with acute embarrassment.

...

Moving on. While hoping his blush isn't very visible. (Fortunately, it isn't. Much.) ]

It's fowl. That's not an uncommon type of food and I can make judgments in your best interest based on that.

[gandere]

Huh, so your selection was based on me and not what would taste best?

[ This is way too much fun for her. She'll have him squirming in place yet! ] I see, Archer. Yes, I see.

[swordedpast]

[ Oh. Oh dear. Maybe he can figure out a way to stop digging this hole... ]

There's no reason it can't be both. You would probably pitch a fit if your food didn't taste good, so naturally I prioritized quality and your best interest at the same time.

[gandere]

So you were thinking of me still!

[ Not in the best of light, but hey. Recognition regardless. ]

[swordedpast]

[ He stares blankly at her. For all that he understands her so well, he just doesn't get this girl sometimes. Why should it matter whether he was thinking of her? ]

It's because you've been doing a poor job of thinking of yourself lately. I can't trust you not to busy yourself with sulking and pass out from hunger.

[ He hesitates a moment. He has a bad feeling about what he's going to ask next, but still-- ]

If you're going to shut yourself up like that, you could at least learn to use the network.

[ He has to try. Even if it means confronting the subject of what happened the last time she tried to use the network. ]

[gandere]

[ ... ] Did you forget what happened last time I did already, Archer?

[ Much like a frightened animal backed into a corner, Rin lashes out with an attack that startles even herself. Honestly, if she was going to eat anything today, it ought to be her foot. ]

I see no point in it. Why can't I just have a regular landline instead?

[swordedpast]

[ He refuses to let himself flinch at that. If his eyes darken for a moment...well, it's only a moment, and then it's gone, and he's giving her a hard, unimpressed stare.

She needs to learn to use the network, so that she finds more people to rely on here than him. ]

Because it's said to be the year 2012, and you are an imPort.

You've said yourself you aren't normal, after all. That you're special. Here...that means using that device.

[gandere]

[ In actuality, she's already begun to watch some of the calls that come in. It's interesting, she wants to say, how Archer doesn't want to destroy this city now that she's returned to it. ]

I don't need a device to determine whether or not I'm special, Archer. A hero might need it if their eyes aren't that great--[ Taking a slight shot at him again. ]--but for a teenager girl who rather stay at home and tend to your cat while you're away...

Mm, that sounds right. I have no use for it right now, so there's no point in wasting time playing with it.

[swordedpast]

[ He has no idea. For now, he's still stuck on imagining her as too helpless and lost in her angst to reach out to the network on her own. ]

It's fortunate that my eyes are in exceptional shape, then. I use the device because it's useful.

Well.

I suppose it's true you have no use for it.

[ A beat. ]

The magic required to make your fonts and images attractive is no doubt beyond your reach.

[gandere]

[ Raising a brow at this... ] Magic is required to use this device?

[ HOLY SHIT, SUDDENLY SHE HAS AN INTEREST IN THIS. ]

Not that it would be too difficult of a task for me. If magic is required to make it look attractive, then my natural skill and beauty will certainly shine through.

[ Peering over the table towards him. ] Not that I need a lecture on it, just a refresher, but what is this 'fonts'?