01 // Open

[sacred_flamer]

Characters: Luke fon Fabre and *YOU*!
Setting: Cafeteria
Format: Whichever
Summary: That first meal is always the hardest...

Like so many people, Luke woke up confused as all hell, not to mentioned panicked at not being on the road to Akzeriuth anymore. The notes left for him made no sense, other than the fact that he was kidnapped -- AGAIN! -- and had no way back home. Once he stopped grumbling about that long enough, another grumble issued from somewhere: his stomach.

So, naturally, he made his way to the cafeteria. Naturally, he plopped himself down, expecting to be fed like a king.

...naturally, he was disappointed.

"What the hell is this?!" he demanded as soon as the oatmeal was set down before him. He took up a spoonful, tilting it, and watching it plop sickly back into the bowl. Said bowl got pushed away from him really fast at that. "No way am I eating that! Bring me some real food! Now! Right now!"

Clearly, help needs to be provided here... but will you help the brat, or the poor person he's yelling at?

Comments

[midgarhorizon]

When Reno heard the kid yell for someone to get him something else, he just laughed, walking by with his own tray in hand.

From the sound of it this kid didn't need a warning about what would happen if they didn't eat the oatmeal. First timers acting up like that were always fun to watch, especially when they started feeling the pleasant sensations involved. It did get rather messy at times.

[sacred_flamer]

Reno, you're a jerk. A serious jerk. Luke's head jerked toward the sound of the laughing, eyes narrowing at the other redhead.

"You think this is funny?!"

[midgarhorizon]

Reno settled on a table nearby, plopping down into the chair he had selected. Turning around, he flashed a grin at Luke.

"Yep."

[sacred_flamer]

...Welp. Luke wasn't exactly expecting him to just... be that blunt. He fumbled awkwardly, trying to find a good response.

"W-well you shouldn't!"

Brilliant.

Things like this is why Reno went to the Evil League Meeting

[midgarhorizon]

Pulling an innocent look, Reno popped a fork in his mouth and let it hang there for a moment. "Why not? You're a first timer, aren't ya?"

FFFFFF

[sacred_flamer]

Luke gave a massive pout, glaring at Reno (and his plate of real food), before poking around at his oatmeal.

"You got a problem with that?"

[midgarhorizon]

The grin was back. Reno shrugged and popped another fork of food into his mouth.

"Not at all, slick. Just wondering what's wrong with your oatmeal there."

[sacred_flamer]

"It's disgusting, of course!" Luke snapped, a bit of envy sneaking into his expression. "I wouldn't eat anything that makes noises like this!"

[midgarhorizon]

Oh, Reno's grin just got an iota larger there. "Yeah? That's too bad." Looking down at his plate, which contained some stuff he had cobbled together from the kitchen. "You wouldn't want to have part of this sandwich, would ya?"

[sacred_flamer]

Luke's face brightened at that... but darkened almost immediately, suspicious.

"...you'd let me have it?"

[midgarhorizon]

"Yeah, sure." His face relaxed into something a bit more pleasant, even sympathetic. "Made it myself, so it shouldn't be too bad. Got to be better than that, right?" Leaning over, he offered the sandwich half to Luke. It wasn't a bad looking sandwich at that, and it was ham. Besides, Reno was eating the other half, wasn't he?

[sacred_flamer]

Luke blinked, hesitantly taking it. He wasn't... quite sure what that stuff was... almost looked like rappig meat. He half hoped it wasn't; disregarding the fact that he hated rappig meat, who would want to eat one anyway?

His stomach was winning the war, however, and he took a big bite out the the sandwich half. It was great on his tongue, but not so great once it reached his stomach. Luke doubled over, feeling bile rising up in his throat almost immediately. He barely managed to keep it in long enough to shove his way over to a garbage can to throw up.

[midgarhorizon]

And again, there was laughing. Reno had known what was going to happen!

"Hey, slick, you all right?"

[sacred_flamer]

Luke glared up from the trash bin he managed to stumble toward, giving Reno the most withered glare ever. Seriously, he was glaring so hard, Reno's grandchildren would feel the almighty power of his glare.

"Y-you... you... JERK!"

[midgarhorizon]

Unintimidated, he just snickered again. "Maybe you shoulda eaten the oatmeal after all, huh?"

[sacred_flamer]

Luke practically flailed, coming within inches of picking up the trash and flinging it at Reno.

"YOU PLANNED THAT, YOU BIG FAT JERK!!!"

[midgarhorizon]

"Hey, all I did was offer ya a sandwich." Reno put on a neutral face, hiding the smirk. "You know, because I was feelin' sorry for ya. If I were you, I'd eat the oatmeal first. It helps with that."

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Luke grumbled as he made his way back to his oatmeal, sitting back in his seat with a flop. He folded his arms, pouting, though he didn't touch it yet.

"How the hell is eating this slop supposed to help?"

[midgarhorizon]

"Damned if I know. I just know you're going to be heaving every time until you do."

He might have had his own experience with that when he first got here, stubborn as he was.

[sacred_flamer]

Luke made a face at that, pouting down at his oatmeal again. Hesitantly, making the most grossed out face in the world, he took a (small) spoonful and shoved it in his mouth before he could think twice. When he swallowed, though, he looked more like he just swallowed a frog.

"O-oh... d-dammit... that's nasty..."

[midgarhorizon]

Shaking his head, Reno turned back to his own food. "It's only as bad as ya make it, kid."

[sacred_flamer]

"No, it's really that bad..." Luke whimpered, before forcing down another mouthful. Oh god, oh god, oh dear sweet god.

kjlkjji sob Luke I'm so sorry

[midgarhorizon]

"Yeah? All right." Reno logic concluded Luke's statement meant if it things weren't as bad (or good) as someone made them, then it couldn't be made into anything either way, it just was. So what he was about to do wouldn't have any affect, right?

He leaned over, his eyes full of mischief. "You know what they do to it when they're cookin' it?" The evil bastard paused here, just long enough for a small dramatic moment to build. "They use chocobo urine to boil the oats."

Reno was really, really terrible. But hey, if the guy was determined to make the worst of it, who was he to correct him?

EVIL. FREAKING EVIL!

[sacred_flamer]

Luke turned so white so fast it was disturbing.

"U-u-urine? From a..."

He paused.

"...what's a chocobo?"

[midgarhorizon]

Reno hadn't laughed like that in the entire time he had been in the tower, and probably some time before that, too.

He was just cracking up, maybe in more ways than one. Needless to say, he couldn't answer Luke at all.