It's winter.

[these_fish]

Characters: Sean and Alex. And Claire, after a bit. And if anyone MUST show up and is at the place, I guess...
Location: The X-babies apartment
Planet: If applicable
When: Week 46. Sometime.
What: Boys are failing at making hot chocolate. They need halp.
Rating: Should be fluffily G. Probably.

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[doomhoops]

[ Here's Alex, bundled up in his space sweater and the comfiest pair of space-lounge pants he can find and the thickest socks as well because, goddamn, metal floors are cold, standing with arms cross, glaring down at what he thinks is supposed to be a microwave like its some kind of puzzle he's supposed to be solving. Lips in a tight line, he runs a hand over his chin, looking very pensive and dignified, before uttering - ]

Nuh uh.

[ Whatever, they can do this, it's not like cooking takes rocket science, right? He grabs one of the mugs they've got filled with water, up-ends one of the Insta-Cocoa packets into it and... very cautiously set it into the silver box thing that he seriously hopes is meant to do what he thinks it's meant to do. Door close... Staring... ]

Can't be that hard, right?

[ And just gonna... push some random buttons he thinks are the right ones. Hopefully. We'll see. ]

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[Sean will eye his feet.] Ever heard of slippers? I know where the market is now, I can get you a pair of fluffy warm ones... [Only halfway teasing, though.]

[... and then Alex punches the buttons and the thing starts making loud alarm noises and Sean almost trips to get there, pushing buttons in turn to make the sound stop.

It's really loud, all right?]

[doomhoops]

[ He gives Sean the flattest of looks over his shoulder. ] ...I am not wearing slippers. [ Let alone fluffy ones. Do not even get him them, it will make him feel bad you spent money on them, so just don't.

AND THEN THERE ARE ALARMS EVERYWHERE, SHIT, THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR DISTRACTING HIM WHILE HE WAS TRYING TO DO SCIENCE, SEAN. Alex's hands go up and away from the machine in a defensive kind of 'I DIDN'T DO IT' manner, before his senses come to him and he starts to try and help Sean. ]

Shit, shit! How the hell do you turn this thing off? [ He shoves the box around, examining the sides of it while gritting his teeth through the explosion of noise ] Where's the damn plug?!

[these_fish]

[Sean would point out that slippers beat catching a cold and he knows about walking on cold floors, see, Cassidy keep, stone, cold, but. LOUD NOISES!]

With our luck? They're built-in or something. Integrated with the general circuitry. [No, Sean, STOP FLAILING and focus.] There isn't even a manual for those things!

[he focuses, biting his tongue, because screaming at the thing would mean they have to replace it, and that doesn't seem a good idea.]

This might be the power button? [He presses. And there's only a slight pause in the beeps. So Sean glares at it and presses and holds.

After a few seconds?

Silence.]

Oh. Whew...

[regeneracy]

[Claire's on her way through the kitchen to grab a soda, but the sight she's greeted with upon entering the area makes her take pause and stare.

And then stare some more.

Eventually, the corners of her mouth turn upward in an amused smirk and she tries her best to hold in laughter, but it escapes and she's left looking not at all ashamed of laughing at the fact they can't use a space microwave.

Of course, they're from the olden days so she couldn't blame them. Did they even have microwaves in the 60's?

Who knew.

After getting the laughter out of her system, she arches her eyebrows and looks back and forth between Sean and Alex.]

What are the two of you trying to do? I'm just guessing here, but I don't think Erik would appreciate it if you blew the apartment up.

[doomhoops]

[ Alex lets out a long sigh of relief when the kitchen finally goes silent and he's able to shoot Sean a 'Let's not do that again. Ever.' look before Claire piping up behind them nearly has him jumping out of his skin. Hey, loud noises and things possibly exploding, he's a little jumpy right now, okay?

But the comment just gets a roll of the eyes from him as he crosses his arms again, trying to look like nothing ridiculous and stupid just happened here. ]

Making a drink. [ He is not about to admit to hot chocolate. It's on the same level as fluffy slippers. ] If Erik didn't want his placed messed up he should've bothered explaining stuff before dumping us here.

[these_fish]

... provided Erik knows how to use things himself. And see? Nothing is exploding. I'm holding down the button, all is quiet.

[Beat.]

But I don't think the water's heating. For hot chocolate, I mean.

[regeneracy]

You're trying to make hot chocolate?

[That gets her to stop laughing, and she looks all interested and curious now.]

I could help. You know, if either of you don't mind a girl showing you up at cocoa making.

[Oh yes, Alex, you are getting an amused and almost smug look right now. You might have made her spill her cocoa when the two of you first met, but she now knows that you secretly like the stuff.]

[doomhoops]

[ Oh, he sees that look, Claire. He sees it and he scowls at it. ]

Whatever, it was Sean's idea.

[ It was both of their's idea, he's just a butthead. And with that he goes to go hop his butt up on one of the counters and wash his hands clean of this whole debacle. But not before quirking an eyebrow at Sean and swinging a foot to tap him on the leg. ]

You seriously gonna stand there all day and hold it, man?

[these_fish]

What if it starts again if I let it go?

[Beat.]

Er. Claire? What did we do wrong? It started beeping all... alarm-y and everything...

[He's not even going to object to being called the sole initiator. Claire has been reasonably nice - and she caught them not managing things very well already, no use hiding it - better make the most of it instead!]

[regeneracy]

[She reaches over to grab Sean's hand, and gently moves it down and off of the buttons. She gives his hand a soft pat before turning off the microwave entirely, and glances over at Alex, all serious business.]

There should be a kettle on the third cabinet to your right. Find it.

[She looks back to Sean, smiling a bit more warmly.]

I always boil a big batch of water on the stove to make my hot chocolate. That's probably easier to do for three people, anyway. And I don't think you really did anything wrong, except -

[She shrugs, unsure how in the world they managed to make the thing beep like that.]

I'll show you how to use it once we're done, don't worry.

[doomhoops]

[ He gives a quiet, amused snort and Sean getting the 'there there dear, it won't hurt you' treatment, not meaning it to be loud enough to be noticable by either of them. He blinks at the command for a second. Oh... he's still involved in this? Uuhhhh...

He glances back, opens one of the cabinets near his head and goes digging around, emerging a second later with a kettle held out to Claire. ]

This?

[ He watches, trying not to look too interested, but taking note of the process. He probably should say thanks but... well... he'll leave that to Sean too. ]

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[Claire gets a smile, anyway. What, it's better than I'd rather make out with the fish! Her hand is gone too quickly for him to try and squeeze it back, but still.]

Thanks. [He quickly obliges, if quietly, and tries not to roll his eyes a bit at Alex. Instead, he'll step over to the blond - but only after taking out more of the instant cocoa sachets. Two more - a new one for Alex, and one for Claire.]

[regeneracy]

[She nods in approval at more cocoa packets, before going over to the pantry to dig around and find some of her secret stash of deliciousness. She pulls out an entire container of powdered chocolate, and cradles it under an arm as she goes over to retrieve the kettle from Alex.

It's as she's filling it up with water and going to place it on the stove that she realizes something, and smiles fondly, ducking her head.]

This is the first time in the past couple of months that I've made anything from scratch. So much has happened that I was too upset to even bother trying. It's kind of nice to find some kind of motivation to make something myself. Even if it's only hot chocolate.

So...thanks. Both of you.

[doomhoops]

[ When Sean meanders over Alex gives him a dorky kind of side elbow with a snickering looks like 'haha, you got told'. He blinks as the homemade batch of chocolate powder comes out, a little surprised by it. They'd just planned on having the cheap stuff and that was that. It had been... a really long time since Alex had any kind of homemade cocoa. Or cocoa at all really, but he does get kind of pinged for it.

The admission reminds him of the talks they had before - Claire freaking out in her apartment and all the shit about Sylar. How there was absolutely nothing he could do about it. His jaw clinches a bit, looking down for a second. But it's not really the time for his guilt complex to come slapping him in the face, because she's actually happy now. He cracks an attempt at a smile that really ends up more like a smirk. ]

For jacking up the microwave? Yeah, no problem.

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Whoooaa... [Murmured. with wonder.] We really should go around this place... exploring.

[And then he blinks, at the warmth in Claire's tone, the sincerity of the thanks. The shuffling from Alex, which gets the blond a curious look, but then he picks up.]

Oh yeah! We are very good at getting things out of commission.