15027/This is how mooching starts!

This is how mooching starts!
Date of Scene:	03 May 2023
Location:	Kitchen - Xavier's School
Synopsis:	Tabitha gets caught raiding the fridge by Vanessa, discuss similar backgrounds and maybe employment opportunities for Tabitha. Kit's magic adding to the smells of good foods being cooked!
Cast of Characters:	Boom-Boom, Copycat, Kit Killovarras

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Boom-Boom has posed:
By now some folks had noticed a yellow and black Mitsubishi Delica from the early nineties and the occasional sighting of a pink motorcycle near by. Unluckily, it's owner seemed to be having a bunch of bad luck in locating faculty in charge while they all seem to be of on X-Men missions.

Which leaves Tabitha Smith, Boom-Boom to those that know her in the past waiting for a while. And needing food. The young woman clearly moving like she'd been drinking earlier in the evening, dressed in dark blue jeans and a pink tank top, spiky leather belt, collar and wrist cuffs accessorising and matching while red Chucks and some raybans with red tinted lenses atop her head finish off the color coordination. Mostly, a few differences in tone in some pieces. Colour matching is a pain.

The blonde has a pot of macaroni and cheese, no doubt leftovers from when the students were last being served dinner. How she heated it up? Well she is a mutant with plasma kinetic powers. The pot held in a bare hand while a wooden spoon does the stirring.

And occasional eating.

Copycat has posed:
It's the middle of the night, well it's midnight at least, and like Tabitha, she's poping down to the kitchen. She frowns when she spots the lights and hears the sounds. She peeks in " Hey, no powers.. wait, you don't look like a student," She says cocking her head as she pulls her shawl closer.


Right away. Her skin starts to shift from the light blue and white hair she normally sports. Even her red eyes start to shift to a normal appearance as she frowns.

She doesn't recognize the girl but that doesn't mean anything because she's rather new herself. "Here let me make you something.. reheated mac and cheese the kids made for my class is terrible " .

Boom-Boom has posed:
The blonde looks up and fopr a moment it's hard to not be wowed by what she sees. Tabitha herself looking maybe old enough she could teach. But also probably still gets carded at a bar. "No powers? Sounds familiar." she states and chuckles. Something she had been told a lot when she was a student here many years ago.

"You don't have to do the hiding your unshifted form thing. If there's any place a person can relax it damn well better be here." she reassures though she does smile when the new apperance is finished shifting into being.

The offer of something other than mac and cheese gets a look down at the pot steaming in her hands then at the shapeshifter. "You don't have to really. I've been homeless. This is like Hawt Cuisine!" she gives the kids some props as she sets the pot down on a cutting board and not directing on a bench.

"I'm Tabitha, but everyone usually calls me Boom-Boom." she offers in introduction.

Copycat has posed:
Copycat Blinks and looks down " Sorry, habit, I'm still me. This is just me before my powers turned on "She mutters under her breath " for the second time. "

She walks forward and grins " This much is nothing I should practice anyways " . She smirks " I've been homeless too, and I know your okay with the crap food but good food is still better " .

She moves over, Taking out a loaf of baked bread.. She puts that down, grabbing a few veggies from the fridge.. She looks over, "Bacon or roast beef? " She asks "My name is Vanessa, the Kids call me CopyCat ".

Boom-Boom has posed:
A nod is given to Vanessa with a smile. "Hey, both yous look great!" she points out encouragingly. "But whichever you is you relaxed. I clearly ain't freaking out." Boomie had had girlfriends that cound't turn their more anthropomorphic forms off.

She does slide the pot of macaronie aside. But not too far as Vanessa goes for the bread and then the fridge.

"I might have had my sense of good food skewed by experience." she adds and chuckles. She might still take the pot with her later on.

"Since there are also vegetables. I'd say roast beef. But if anyone asks, bacon is just strips of roast carrot. Like slice lengthways, then in all that roating grease it gets cooked. If it was in like vegetable oil of something then it might even pass as vegan bacon. Which feels so wrong sometimes Vanessa." she jokes.

Copycat has posed:
Copycat Chuckles, " I used to live on the street I get it ' She smiles "I mean, the idea of good food in the places I worked, what that the wings weren't totally burnt " She sighs as she starts to slice bread but she throws roast beef into pan and Cuts the veggies..After a moment, she will add some sauce and then lay some cheese down. But in another pan, she's got the bread in it before moving the beed and cheese .. She's making fancy GRill cheese for ya! Complete with veggies on the side.

She thinks for a moment, " That's some interesting way to make vegan bacon. I'll have to try that we have a few kids that don't eat meat here " . She thinks, " Thanks for the suggestions.. So are you a former student? " She asks, looking over " I'm not like most of the teachers who used to be students here though it's a step up from hooking in Bronks" .

Boom-Boom has posed:
The smell of all that frying andf reheating does hit the nose way nicer than left over mac and cheese. "I know right. The amount of time I spent watching food courts on the off hand chance that someone might leave a tray behind with more than a left over tater tot. It can be an... effort to not starve." They've likely both done a lot to survive.

The assembly of the sandwich and the veggies on the side gets a big wide smile. She does at least hop down from her stool to go and find a fork. Sure she might be fine with heat, but melty cheese on vegetables can be very oily.

"I used to go here when I was a kid. They took me in off the streets when I was like fourteen. But I may have kind of ended up back there. I don't even remember if I graduated or not." she says and chuckles at her own expense. The woman leaning into that draw to rummage for that perfect fork before standing upright with the chosen weapon in hand over head like someone is playing the item get sound from the Zelda games.

Copycat has posed:
Copycat Laughs " Huzzah the master fork is found," she says, getting into it with a smirk as she slides over the mix of veggies, cheese and goodness for the girl . A Fancy but very hits-the-spot grilled cheese. She also goes and gets some Orange juice to give to her and puts it down. She cocks her head " You know they can help you get your GED or good enough diploma. " She smirks " But I'm just the home ec teacher with a Ged.. myself ".

She sits down gracefully a bit as she brushes her own hair and laughs at herself a bit " I do have a masters in bartending.. bar fights.. hooking and stripping oh and stabbing nasty johns" .

She looks to boom boom " So what do you do other than eat mac and cheese and be a former street rat like myself " .

Boom-Boom has posed:
"The fork of hunger's bane!" Tabby beams and does a victorious little hip bouncing strut back to the stool and the plate in front of her. The stool climbed back up and the blonde takes a long enjoyabkle whiff of teh food before she starts eating. The vegeatble first because they are vegetables and those are not always easy to get hold of.

"I've never actually hooked for cash. Bedhopped a plenty which usually started as private dances. Lots of fights, lots of bruises. Maaaaaaaaybe a body here and there." she explains of her own situations. "Damn it makes a good argument for a girl turning gay sometimes."

"Other than the street rat. Umm, mostly kind of thiefy stuff. A few con jobs there, some light haxxors, nothing Kitty Pryde level of expert but I know my way around a network. Less than legal type stuff. Pretty certain none of it's followed me back here." she explains and hmmms between mouthfulls. At least she remembered to not talk and chew at the same time.

"I think, don't quote me. Think everyone gets shit like that biting our shapely asses if we jinx it!"

Kit Killovarras has posed:
Suddenly, a few items levitate out of their proper places of their own accord, a wok, some oil, various veggies from the fridge which opened on it's own and a small black velvet bag from a high cupboard, assembling themselves on the counter in a rather tidy arrangement. The floating objects seem to herald the entrance of a massive creature in a pair of jeans and that's about it. He looks like he may have just woken up.

Shortly after entering the kitchen, the aardwolf stops and glances to the two others, tilting his head for a moment before he just gives a toothy grin and muses, "Oh, sorry I didn't think anyone would be in here at this hour." Then he walks over to the objects he'd assembled for the sake of making his breakfast.

Copycat has posed:
Copycat Grins at the hunger bane comment and seems to enjoy that, to be sure! As for the street stuff, she shrugs, " Pay was easy and hard to beat, Your right on making you go gay, but since I can turn into a guy or girl, I tend to keep my taste fluid ".

She lifts an eyebrow when she spots the floating items. She snaps without thinking, " Hey, no powers outside of powers class," getting that mom voice and everything down before she spots Kit and sighs ' You know were not supposed to use our powers like that " . She shakes her head, but she lets him get onto what he was doing. She herself in her pj's with a wrap around herself. Though right now, she seems to be sporting normal skin and looks not like her blue self.

Boom-Boom has posed:
The floating foods get a giggle as Tabitha tracks where it's going and spies who is doing it. "Beats some of the drugs or the few magic spells that can help someone self actualise. Image inducers still need binding and other things to pass on a gender swap. Ouch!" Tabitha admits some powers are handy. "And if things get crappy with the law you can amscray like way easier!" she adds, tactical advantages and social engineering.

The other new person to Tabby's perspective gets a smile,

Kit gets a greeting and a smile "Hi! I'm Tabitha, but everyone calls me Boom-Boom. This is still the unsupervised power use can be messy? Like so used to that from way back when. But then my messy is kind of more rebuild the school messy. I've gotten way better at bombs and plasma since I left the first time." she states and she wolfs down vegetables covered in melted cheese next to a grilled roastbeef and cheese sandwich. Most of the five main food groups all on the sam eplate in front of the twenty something blonde.

Kit Killovarras has posed:
"Actually, if you want to get technical," the aardwolf says as he approaches his produce, wiggling his fingers over a few items and leaving these strange, glowing violet lines in the air above them. "I'm not using any of the power that stems from my mutation to do this." Then there's a little smile and an amused, "And asking a Magi not to use their magic is like telling someone not to catch something when you throw it at them." He taps a claw against the counter and the violet lights descend suddenly, slicing the veggies cleanly without damaging the counter beneath them. "Plus, the Headmistress cleared me to use that aspect of what I am about three months after I came here."

The wok levitates to a stove and the burner beneath it switches on and the aardwolf opens the velvet bag and picks a few termites out of it's contents before popping them into his maw, then he gives a glance to Copycat and tilts his head ever so slightly, "You're the home economics teacher, yeah?"

Tabitha gets a glance and a warm smile as he explains, "Yeah, the majority of my magic is something I can easily control. The more 'wild' aspect of it only comes out when my life is in danger, or at least that's what it seems like." Then it finally registers in his head of what she'd said. "rebuild the -- Sheesh, yeah no I'm not anywhere near capable of something like that. Worst I could do is leave scratches in a wall." he adds with a little laugh and a shrug, "probably partially why I've been allowed to use them so often. Either way, pleasure to meet you Tabitha, I'm Kit."

Copycat has posed:
Copycat Smiles and nods her head " ahh if you got permission, than ok " she smiles " I was just given the no using powers out of powers class rule " she shrugs " Personally, I think it depends on the powers, Like you my powers seem to get better the more I used them so I do " .

She smiles at the blond girl. She's not much older than her anyways. She points though, " There's sesame oil in that cupboard over there that might add a nice flavor for your insects ". She tries to he helpful and clearly doesn't have an issue with what he's eating. She nods to his question " yeah, I teach cooking since my other skills arn't something you wanna teach kids " .

She rubs her head " I suppose ina world with super powers magic being real makes sense.. then again, my ex-boyfriend could survive having his head chopped off " .

Boom-Boom has posed:
Kit gets a smile as she finally gets through the vegetables that Vanessa heated up for her. "So yeah, like practice is important, no matter how you got the powers. Or skills." she states and makes a start on the toated sandwich.

"But at some point yeah, finding mundane uses for your powers. Lot of us pyros kinda start on things like making popcorn. Just grab one of those ones that come with a foil covered fry pan, give it some oomph, pop pop pop!" she explains.

The pot of mac and cheese she had just reheated getting a point of her finger. "Cheese is the real challenge. Too much heat and molten cheddar can make a volcano seem like a snow covered mountain. Like when you microwave it!" she states and sounds like she's had experience. Or at least melted other people's tongues.

"I dunno if teaching is my calling. But maybe I can hopefull contribute something. Work like the student side IT stuff. Then berate kids for like trying to get around all the content filters on their devices." she states and giggles.

"Some things man is not meant to know... Untill they are at least twentyone!"

Kit Killovarras has posed:
There's another little laugh from the aardwolf as the oil pours itself into the wok and in go the veggies! "Yeah, then again the down side to being what I am can come out randomly too.. Like when I dropped the entire school into a multi-planar realm and summoned several inter-dimensional versions of myself last year while I was asleep." Yeah, that was apparently him.

The veggies get a quick toss, the extremely hot surface of the wok cooking them through in no time and about half way through? about a handful's worth of the termites go into the wok, getting tossed in with the cooking veg. Well, at very least he knows what he's doing.

Copycat gets a glance and a little grin when she mentions magic being real making sense, giving a little nod before he muses, "You should meet my father. He's a magi of the School of the Champion.. Dude's got demons from all but the second and ninth hells running around in his head, giving him power in exchange for letting them ride around in him."

The explanation of a pyro's power gets a little nod, "Never really thought of it that way. Can you heat things on a molecular level or is it just surface-to-surface?" Curious aardwolf is curious now it seems. He wont touch the last comment she made, but that might also be because they're on campus and around a teacher?

Copycat has posed:
Thinks for a moment " You could help in the Av Club or the It department. "She taps her chin, thinking, " You could also be an activities teacher, you know, one who helps run clubs for the kids after class activities. You don't have to teach, just help keep em in line " . She grins "If you wanna work on your skills, I'm sure Jean and Scott would be happy to let you keep working here.. just gotta talk to them " .

Blinks " Demons that doesn't sound safe at all , and nuclear cheese is never good cause you can't taste anything but pain and fire".

Boom-Boom has posed:
Demonic incursions at the school gets a chuckle. "Kit, if you haven't already, you should totally try and meet a lovely young Russian lady named Illyana Rasputina. She's probably going to have some stories about that kind of thing. The school's had some experience there." she points out. "Not their first rodeo. Just gotta get back on the goat and ride it like hell!" she encourages with a chuckle.

"I'll have to catch Scott and or Jean to see if they'll have me, then see what I can do. In the mean time I've got my van parked by the boat house. It's cosy and the lake shore is always nice to wake up to. And my bike can get me around in a more stylish manner." she states and moves her hands like she's revving the throttle on some handlebars.

Kit Killovarras has posed:
"We'll have to go riding some time then," Kit says with a toothy grin at the mention of a motorcycle. "And yeah, I figured it wouldn't be the first time something like that's happened, but at the same time, it's still an issue. Then again, so far it's the only major issue that's happened with my magic here."

The mention of Illyana gets a little wince as the seseme oil levitates from it's cupboard, drizzling itself into the wok before the food is given a last little toss and removes itself from the heat and plates itself. "I've met Illyana already.. Didn't go well in the least." he admits with a sigh. "Long story short, I don't take well to being talked down to the way she did and I /really/ don't take to being told I'm not allowed to study because it's too dangerous." Never tell a bookworm they aren't allowed to read a book they want to read.

Copycat get a smile and a little grin, "I mean, it's safe enough if you know the basic rules of etiquette for handling demonic beings. I've known the seven inside my father since I was a baby and they seem alright. A little weird, but generally they're good company so long as you don't try to piss them off." The aardwolf gives a little shrug before he adds, "I mean, I've had an audience with Lucifer himself and he didn't seem all that bad, at least not as bad as the stories claim."

Copycat has posed:
Copycat Laughs " Your better off than I was for a while. The best I could hope for was a john dropping me off near my job " She smirks and shrugs " your pretty high end if you got two cars," she chuckles " But I'm sure they will have you after all, were here to help everybody out. Even us street rats " .

She looks to kit ' You should be allowed to study, but some stuff shouldn't be looked into. Even normal science has those rules and if fantasy books are to be believed, not every book should b read not every magic should be studied.. "She taps her chin again "I'm not sure about demons. All I know is popular culture and religion thing saying demons are bad, so " She shrugs. She wraps her stuff around her " But I'm getting tired i need some sleep you guys, have a good night " .