Are you being served? [OPEN]

[love_hurricane]

Character: Sanji and OPEN
Location: Amazingly the kitchen
Time: Whenever you like, come on, he's the cook
Content: Sanji finally has a moment of peace and quiet on his hands, COME BOTHER HIM
Format: Starting in prose, but whatever works!
Warnings: Typical derpage and/or raeg flailing. Depends on who you are :Db

Comments

Hopefully, this cook is more trustworthy than the last one he met...

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As this young man had taken it upon himself to wander about his new surroundings (after classes had ended), he eventually found himself feeling a peckish, and so he decided something to eat would suit him well. Making his way to the kitchen he considered what would be best to eat at that moment.

After he heard a response to his wrapping against the door, the young man poked his head through the door, looking about to make sure no other pranks awaited him. The pranks from earlier had certainly left his patience at a bit of a low point. Seeing nothing treacherous awaiting him, he walked through the door and let it close on it's own. Suddenly, he spied a man working about the room.

"Hey..." Jim had never been the best with introductions, "I was just gonna grab an apple or something, you don't hafta get up."

More trustworthy, yes, more violent? Also yes :|

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Looking up at the kid with the floppy brown hair and the perfected awkward-teenager pose, Sanji waved a hand in a suitably uninterested greeting.

"As it pleases you. 'Fruit bowl's over there." He nodded his head towards the surface in question.

Removing a piece of lint from his suit jacket lapel he added; "New, aren't you?"

If someone apps John Silver in this game I will be amazed.

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"Thanks," muttered the youth as he walked over to the bowl, hearing the well-dressed man's question, he nodded at first; grabbing a red apple that happened to catch his eye.

"Yeah, got here a few days ago. Still trying not to get lost around here."

He began to wash the apple under the running water of the sink, glancing over at the person before him, "You work here? Or uh... are you a student?"

It would be glorious though. He'd have to meet Franky \o/

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Oh, good start there, Jim-lad.

Seething slightly at the question (although he couldn't deny he wasn't much older than some of the students here, the cook was more than a little tired of the observation that he was young for his position), Sanji couldn't quite suppress a twitch of his eyebrow as he replied curtly; "Staff."

Somehow pivoting the chair around on one of its four legs by pushing off from the table, he sat to observe the new-comer with disapproving curiosity.

"So, you got a name?" From the way he asked it might have been so that he could write it down in a list-of-people-to-kick-through-windows-later, but that was beside the point.

They'd switch out parts to see what works better. Also, Jim still doesn't know how to pick a fight

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Who knew a question asked so innocently would cause such troubles? Jim wasn't oblivious to the bristling of the person he had just met, (he looked young enough to be a student after all.) He finished washing the apple in his hand, then hopped up to sit on the counter next to him, his shoulders slouching down a bit.

Hearing the rather displeased response of the cook, he rolled his eyes when he wasn't looking; Great, another would-be pretty boy with the disposition of an agitated bear. "Jim," spoke the young man, just before he took a bite into the apple, wiping some of it away with the back of his hand.

Jim's defense mechanisms kicking in, he couldn't help but egg this preening duck on, "Guess they must have you working pretty hard today, huh?"

FFF cyborg swapsies 8D Also no, no he does not. :|

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Sanji might not have caught the eye-roll, but he might as well have, as he got the increasing sensation that he was being faced with a role-model for anarchic and stubborn teenagers worldwide. The fact that he'd pretty much been one himself not too long ago was entirely beside the point.

Re-aligning the cuff of his sleeve beneath his suit absently he replied in a nonchalant enough way; "Mm, 'could say that." Although there was the strong implication that it was somewhat more than that, but that it didn't bother him, because he was capable and cool and collected, and Jim obviously wasn't.

Implied, mind. Not said.

Flicking his gaze back up at the boy called Jim, the cook nodded at the apple lightly. "You sure that's all you want? I don't mind whipping something up for you."

Toughest part of this thread? Thinking of good comebacks...

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The young man stayed slouching on the counter, chewing the apple as his eye narrowed only slightly at the cook's response, then returned to their original nonchalance as he looked back to him. With two people having such similar attitudes towards the world, it would be no wonder to Jim why they seemed to have taken such a dislike towards each other right off the bat. Unfortunately, it wasn't a thought would cross his mind at this juncture.

Taking another bite, Jim chewed a bit before he spoke, his mouth still somewhat filled with apple, "Naw, you don't hafta bother..." he looked away from the cook and gazed out a nearby window, "Unless yer the type that likes to please people..."

But isn't it FUN 8D god I wish we had a Zoro...

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Equally unlikely to realize (less still admit) that his own mindset was somewhat akin to Jim's way of thinking, Sanji's hackles raised incrementally at the provoking remark.

"If they deserve it, sure. You, however, seem dedicated in the opposite specialization."

He leaned his jaw against his knuckles in a contemplative way.

"Tell me; does it take very many years to learn to be so obnoxious, or does it come naturally to you?"

Would the school be able to afford the damages from their fighting?

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"Well that's the weird thing about it," Jim replied, "Whenever someone decides to get angry over a harmless mistake, I can't help but notice that I get annoyed at their shortsightedness."

"Seems to come easily enough, though," The young boy's brow furrowed, "Thought of applying it as an extra mutant power of mine," his eyes not leaving his opponent.

Hm, touche.

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"You don't say." Grinning levelly back at the boy's scowl, the corner of Sanji's smile might have been a too little pulled back to be convincingly unlike a snarl, but they both knew the game they were playing so it hardly mattered.

"I guess you must get angry at yourself an awful lot if that's that case... you must have some other reason you managed get in other than being insufferable though."

Oddly enough, thinking of comebacks in a sort of Zoro sense is making this somewhat easier!

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At this point, the young boy's temper began to wear quite thin. His lip began to curl in a snarl as he imagined different ways to wipe the cook's smirk off his face.

"First off, I got no reason to be angry with myself," His tone became noticeably angrier, "The problem I have is with people like you. Some strutting peacock who thinks himself as some kinda gift to the world. Taking any kind of remark, made by MISTAKE, and taking it like some kinda great insult. I thought I might be rid of people like you when I left home to come here.. but I guess not."

Hey, whatever works is good by me!

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Sanji spread his fingers in a mock-innocent gesture as he leaned back on his chair easily; "Hey, it's not like I was putting words in your mouth- if you say stuff that comes around to bite you in the ass it's entirely your own fault."

He crossed a leg over his knee, his toe bouncing up and down to some amused but still distinctly aggressive rhythm.

"Ha~aah? 'It never occur to you that the fact you keep finding people who react the way I do is because you behave the way you do?"

Amen, buddy! Though I'd say Sanji has more experience trash talking than Jim does.

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He had had quite enough, Jim's temper had begun to flare a great deal. Fighting to keep from yelling, he took a few deep breaths to try and gather himself. He didn't like this person one bit.

"What have I done to deserve any of the treatment you're giving me?!" his tone revealing just how angry he had become, as he hopped off of the counter and took a step or two towards the curly brow-ed cook "All I did was mistake YOU for a student here! YOU'RE the one who decided to take it as some kinda grievous offense!"

More like being British you have to pass an exam in snark :I

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Woah, and hello anger management issues.

The aforementioned curly-bow arched in mild surprise, but Sanji didn't budge an inch, simply waving a dismissive hand.

"Jeez, don't flatter yourself, if you think that's what I took it as then you could call hitting my with a paper doily grievous bodily harm- take a sedative already." The amused smile had been replaced by an unimpressed warning look; this kid was way in over his head if he thought he was going to try intimidating the stubborn chef.

"You got quite a lip on you, just mind your manners before I hafta beat some into you."

I wish I could get some good classes in that... I need to learn more wit.

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The young man had begun to realize just how well he had been played at that point. In his usual attempts to "test the waters" as it were, the cook had already sized him up rather effortlessly; very much outsmarting Jim at his own game.

The boy's fierce look began to wan, and replace itself with a rather confused look. He looked on at the cook, who hadn't even budged, let alone reacted aside from a rather intimidating look he shot him.

The best the youth could do at this point was stammer a bit and bring a hand through his hair as he attempted to process what had happened.

Finally, he could only help but nod his head, a slight chuckle even attempted to build in his throat, as he eventually returned the cook's order.

"Sure," he leaned against the counter again, but didn't hop up to sit upon it, "Yer a stickler for manners too, huh?"

His tone was no longer confrontational, as he punctuated his sentence with another crunch from biting into the apple.

Hey, you got plenty of that already! Don't be greedy :P

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Too? Not that he was one for prying into other people's pasts (and god help anyone who tried to pry into his), but Sanji felt a fleeting surge of curiosity about the statement. Still, no need to rush these things, the kid seemed the kind to act hasty if he wasn't kept in check anyway...

"In a zoo like this you've got to keep a firm hand about some things to make sure it doesn't get too insane; I'm the chef, this is the kitchen. Everything that goes on in here and the dining room does so according to my rules."

The rather stern and lecturing tone broke off after this along with a smirk; "Not that I like following them myself on the whole, but etiquette and consideration for others is a different matter."