Baxter Building; Johnny's Apt. NYC - Thursday early evening

[fantastic_torch]

With Savannah having had things to do for the day, this left Johnny to his own devilish (yes, devilish) devices. Which almost always involved The Thing. Or Ben as he liked to be called. Ahem. Whatever. The day had been gloriously filled with the totally awesome of awesome pranks. One after another, and the stupid rock fell for each and evey one.

Wasn't Johnny's fault the big boulder lacked proper functioning brains.

But as the last came to an end. Johnny figured he better quit while he was ahead so he locked (double locked) the front door to his and Savannah's place. He wasn't worried. Not a bit. Locked doors just meant privacy.

Settling on the sofa with a six pack, he became totally engrossed in ESPN while waiting on his girl to get her butt back home.

[OOC: Open for his girl, phone calls, texts, whatever, yo!]

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[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

And that? Would be Eve randomly calling Johnny, as she tended to handwavily do.

What? He was a lot more interesting than her homework or actually, y'know, doing her job at work.

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Yo, future mom-in-law," he said by way of greeting. "What's up?"

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

"I'm bored, homework's evil, and I don't feel like bossing my employees around." She was totally hiding in the back office at work. "So I figured I'd bother you for a while."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Annnnd," he replied, lips quirking, "you think I can alleviate your boredom?" Slight pause. "I am kind of awesome like that aren't I?"

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

"When my other options are a six-page paper or potentially firing a moron, yes. Yes, you are that awesome."

She gave him grief a lot. It was how they worked.

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

He slouched further on the sofa and took a long pull off his beer. "Huh." He was smart like that. "Want me to come kick some moron ass for you?"

'Cause he's not gotten to do that lately.

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

"I don't think so. Not yet, anyway," Eve replied, propping her feet up on the desk. "But if that becomes necessary, you are so the first person I'm calling."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Excellent," he said, eyes on the big screen. "So what's been going on over that way? Come on, sweetheart, give me something exciting. I've... kind of had a boring day myself."

Ben's shouts beyond the doorway meant nothing. Nothing.

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

Eve could vaguely hear Ben's shouting.

"Yes, it sounds so dreadfully boring," she said dryly. "Uh, let's see... I don't know about exciting, but apparently Sean's mother showed up for Parents Weekend a few weeks ago and was a royal bitch to him and Annja."

Hey, family gossip was about the best she could do in the way of exciting.

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Gossip was good. He could work with gossip.

"That sucks," he replied, finishing off his first beer as picture frames rattled against the wall. Ben had a mean fist. Johnny grinned.

"Sean do something to piss her off or is she just a bitch in general?"

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

"Bitch in general," Eve replied. "Always has been, ever since I was with Kris. So she gets points for being consistent, but loses them for being a complete bitch to Sean in the first place."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"So what'd he do about it?" he asked, curious about Sean's nature towards his own mom. Johnny could guess, but then he'd be... well, guessing.

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

"In that quiet way of his, pretty much told her to pound sand," Eve said, and there was no mistaking the proud tone in her voice. Sean wasn't hers, but he was still family.

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Awesome," he responded, picturing the resolute look on Sean's face. "Tell him when you see him next to get his lazy ass over here. I miss him."

JOHNNY!

Yeah, that was Ben yelling outside his door.

"And you too for that matter," he practically whispered, muting the t.v.

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

"You got it," Eve said, not bothering to hide her laughter. "Hey, Fandom's got Homecoming this weekend, I think it is. I can't remember, I have the attention span of an amoeba right now, damn work. But yeah. Homecoming. We should all get together at some point."

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

Was that Johnny's phone ringing? From a certain shy ninja?

Yes, yes it was! Ring phone, ring!

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Yo," he responded to the call. Rather lazily too.

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"Good evening, Johnny," she said, smiling at the sound of his voice. "Gu-Guess who?"

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Grinning, he was pleasantly surprised to hear from Hinata. "My favorite little ninja whom I haven't heard from in forever?"

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

She flushed--both at the implied reprimand and the idea of being a 'favourite little ninja' for anyone.

"My apologies," she replied softly. "I did not mean to be so remiss in contacting you."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Pfft," he chuckled, picturing her cute little red-cheeked face. "We're busy people right? You with school and whatever oddities Fandom tosses you. And me with..." there was a slight, thinky pause "...well, catching bad guys, saving lies..." pranking Ben.

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"You're being careful, aren't you?" she asked, because that was something she had to ask.

Or she'd worry!

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Sweetheart, my middle name is careful," he said, all about the not making the girls worry. 'Course he was reckless and wild and everything but careful, but the wee lie was worth the telling.

"So what's been up over that way? Staying out of trouble?" he teased.

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

Absolutely worth telling as she sighed in relief.

"Me?" Hinata laughed softly. "I have been so good that Fandom's latest bit of weird completely missed me."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Laughing, he said, "That's not hard to believe, depending on the weird."

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"Nearly everyone switched genders again," she sharing, giggling. "But not for only one day. It was two days this time."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Ah, yeah, glad to have missed that," he said, because... well, he was pretty hot as a girl... but no. Just no. "Did you get pictures and laugh your ass off the entire two days?"

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

"I mostly felt bad for everyone," she admitted, a bit sheepishly. "We... weren't on Fandom when the change happened. We were at a ski resort."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

And that would be the beep beep sound of an incoming text message.

About to expire of boredom in class. Entertain me.

[likethestore.livejournal.com]

And hey, another text message!

Cheerleading captain stuff is haaaaard. Tell Savannah she was mean to me for this!

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

It was probably lucky for Johnny and their doorway that Savannah got home from her errands right about then. She saw the way Ben was and she was pretty sure it had something to do with her fiance.

"Ben!" She said with a cheerful grin as she hugged him. "What's new?"