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[notalfredjones]

Characters: Matthew Williams
Location: Kitchen
Time: Early Morning (6 am - whenever) Feel free to set a thread whenever. He'll be cooking right up to class starting.
Content: When Matt is upset, Matt cooks. Alot. Quite alot.
Warnings: Emotional cooking. Overuse of maple. Holding your syrup hostage.

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[queenwitha_j]

Holly J had been up for a few hours by now. Light sleep, lots to do, she kept busy. She had spent the morning working out before breakfast. While it was not her destination to get breakfast just yet, as she walked past the kitchen she heard noise. While was on her way to do homework, curiosity got the best of her.

She made her way to the kitchen, once she got to the door she felt the urge to yawn. She had gotten a little over 2 hours of sleep so she shouldn't be tired. And investigating early morning noise (and as she got closer, smell) was hardly dull. Also nobody else had yawned. So this was a bit of a mystery.

"Matt?" Well, that explained her urge to yawn, which was followed now by her giving in and yawning, "What on Earth are you doing?"

[notalfredjones]

Matthew blinked and looked up at her. He smiled slightly.

"Cooking."

His stock explanation and not very helpful, he knew, but he was growing slightly tired of explaining. Who knew so many people were up this early?

[queenwitha_j]

Holly J rolled her eyes at that obvious response, "Why are you cooking all this stuff?" Lots of students had weird hobbies... while this wasn't weird she was surprised anyone was up this early. Especially to do something like cooking. Why cook when only a handful of people would be awake.

Holly J's stomach growled, loudly. It was a sad byproduct of being near Matt. However if she were to eat her full right now, she'll feel stuffed for the entire day. She yawned as she headed over to the fridge to grab a soda, to at least keep her mind off eating too much, "And isn't it early to be up?" She yawned again, her powers off being a challenge to staying awake on what is now only one quarter the usual amount of needed sleep, "Unless you planned to eat all this stuff yourself."

She did eye some pancakes as she spoke, but she really shouldn't.

[notalfredjones]

Matthew eyed her as her stomach growled and then eyed her soda. He shoved a cup of tea at her and some of those pancakes. With strawberries instead of syrup if that would make her feel better.

"I wanted to cook. So I did. I didn't really think about it."

[queenwitha_j]

Holly J eyed the plate a few moments, if she ate some now she wouldn't need to eat later. It would rearrange her schedule a little. However she still needed to keep tabs on how much. So she took her time eating, even if it was evident she was very hungry.

While she decided Matt's cooking was... odd, he did know what he was doing. So if he wanted to replace the main cooking staff, fine by her. So she let the weirdness of his timing slide. "So you just wanted to cook, for no reason, enough food to feed an army. Good thing there are like a billion people here..."

[notalfredjones]

Matthew didn't bother to glance up once she started eating. She was eating and that was enough for him. It was silly to go hungry in the middle of this food.

"Yes. When I did it at home, Papa and Uncle just got mad at me." He started making more waffle batter. They could never have too many waffles, right? The other stack notwithstanding.

[queenwitha_j]

Holly J eyed the tea, then put her soda down and switched. The soda was easier to travel with, so she could have that later on, between classes or something. She sighed, and decided to cut to the chase. There wasn't any point in stepping lightly around the issue, "So the cooking is a stress thing?"

She was very... refined, when it came to her pancakes. Delicately cutting them into bites, she was careful. She knew in her mind that she didn't have to worry too much about cutting the plate in half or something with the dull eating utensils at hand. However she had plenty of nightmares where she would do similar to trust her control perfectly. So she tried to make her slow movements look intentional. 'Like a delicate flower' and other cliches about beautiful refined women.

Even if her words were hardly so refined.

[notalfredjones]

Matthew didn't bother to hide the facts. She seemed as if she wouldn't care either way. He just smiled faintly and nodded.

"Yeah it is. Do you want anything else?"

[queenwitha_j]

Holly J yawned again, "I'm fine, if I eat much more than this I won't be eating all day. Unless I spend it with you." He seemed like a nice guy, but he messed with her too much. It was very problematic. Especially when right now she was so tired

[notalfredjones]

"Well it's up to you. I'm not going to force you to eat." Matt ignored the fact that he had pressed the food upon her almost immediately.

Matthew blinked at her. Had she offered to talk to him about it? Or was it a general 'you should talk about it' sort of thing. He erred on the side of caution. He liked her well enough but he wasn't sure about her. She was so hard to read. He wasn't sure how to take anything she said.

"I might at some point. Perhaps."

[queenwitha_j]

"Hello, you nullify my powers," Holly J responded, taking another bite of pancakes, rolling her eyes at how he forgot his powers mess with her powers, "I only need to eat so much when I'm around you. Moment I'm away from you I'll feel like an overstuffed teddy bear

[notalfredjones]

Matthew sighed. He had forgot. How could he forget? He winced and murmured, "Sorry, It slips with my mind when someone's powers aren't obvious." He was generally better about it, but other things had his mind racing.

"It's easier." He said automatically, without putting much thought into the reply. Just raw honesty, "Than dealing it. It stops the stress for a while and I'm usually much better afterward." He offered, half a reassurance to her and half to himself.

"Thank you for the offer." He spoke softly, conscious of not wanting to hurt her feelings. "I just...don't feel like talking about it to anyone. Even if Al will make me."

[queenwitha_j]

She didn't figure anything she could say about his forgetting her powers would help. So she let it go. She wasn't going to tell him its alright to just forget how your powers screw with people, but she wasn't going to just rub his nose in it.

"There's only so long you can hide from your issues in here. Curfew is eleven," The fact that she regularly ignored her curfew didn't seem to apply right now. She sighed, rolled her eyes, and tried to be a little less judgmental for a moment, "I mean if it helps, keep doing it. But if there's more to help, do that too."

She smiled and headed off to finish her morning. Let him get back to his cooking. Although she hoped he found someone to confide in.