01<@Ardweden> [Day: Saturday, September 25. Time: 2:15 pm.] 01<@Ardweden> [Hank and Susanna are, unsurprisingly, the first ones at the Bagel Bunch! It's a counter service deli, with bagels, breakfast bagel sandwiches, lunch bagel sandwiches, and dessert bagels. Also a few things that are not bagels, but those are other pastries, soups, chips, pickles, and the like.] 01<@Ardweden> [It's a nice, casual place with plenty of seating and delicious smells. The lunch crowd - what of it there is on a Sunday - has already left.] 01<@Ardweden> [Start!] 06* Hank cases the joint. He doesn't make the Panera comparison. "Whaddya think?" 01<@Ardweden> [Susanna grins at Hank. "I think I want a bagel." So saying, she totally heads to the counter to get meat on a bagel.] 06* Hank follows, in order to also get a bagel. It need not have meat on it. Actually that's kind of weird. Who puts meat on a bagel? 01<@Ardweden> [Susanna does! She TOTALLY gets meat on a bagel. And cheese. And a pickle. And then she gets another pickle on the side - one of those big ones. And a Coke. Susanna's got it all.] 06* Hank settles BLT on a tomato and OJ on the side. Bacon's not a meat, right? 01<@Ardweden> [Not at all! Susanna sits down and takes a big bite of bagel sandwich. "Oh man," she says with her mouth full. "This ain't nothin' like bagels at home."] 06* Hank sits down across from Susanna. "I dunno, the chili ones were pretty good." He bites into a bagel. Yum. 01<@Ardweden> [Susanna lets out an unladylike snort and starts laughing. "Yeah," she says around the bagel.] 06* Hank takes another bite. "This ain't bad, though." 06* Sydney arrives with Natalie in tow. She spots Hank and Susanna and waves. 06* Hank waves back. 01<@Ardweden> [Hank recognizes Natalie from Sydney's dream! He never noticed her around school before. She's got shorter hair, though, and isn't wearing glasses. Also, she looks way grumpier.] 01<@Ardweden> [She glances his and Susanna's way and does not wave, instead walking up to the counter with Intent to Order.] 06* Sydney walks over to where Hank and Susanna are sitting. "Hi, Hank! Hi, Susanna. This..." She then notices that Natalie has gone up to order. "...err, that's my sister, Natalie. Who's apparently very hungry. I'm gonna go put in an order, too. Back in a minute!" She walks over to the counter as well. 01<@Ardweden> ["Hi!" Susanna manages before Sydney vanishes in a Sydney- shaped cloud.] 06* Hank blinks a few times as Sydney delivers an abrupt expose and leaves. He glances at Susanna. 01<@Ardweden> [Susanna shrugs at Hank.] 01<@Ardweden> [Regardless, everyone gets their bagels or things on bagels and settles down to eat! Natalie, for her part, got coffee (with a lot of cream and sugar on it) with her breakfast bagel sandwich.] 06* Hank eats bagels. Yes, probably more than one by now. He was hungry, ok? 06* Sydney has turkey and swiss with honey mustard on her bagel. Yum! 01<@Ardweden> [Susanna's halfway through her own bagel sandwich when she asks "Is that good?" re: Sydney and her own.] 01<@Ardweden> [Before Sydney can answer, she gets the familiar beep and/or vibrate that indicates at text message.] 06* Javy texts Sydney! "Hey. One of the workers made it in. I'm free now. Are we still meeting up?" 06* Tyler walks into the Deli, his hair spiked as high as he can get it, a sickly dark yellow tipped with a clashingly bright pastal neon purple today. He's wearing a new oxblood leather jacket, and his same obnoxious hot topicish clothes. He looks around frowning a little bit then sees Sydney. "Hey Sydney, I made it!" He moves straight for her table, ignoring Hank existing. 06* Sydney looks at Susanna. "Sorry, one second." She checks her text and looks at Hank. "Oh, Javy's free. I'll let him know were we are." 06* Hank takes the opportunity to talk to Syd..... ney's sister. "So you're Natalie, huh? I'm Hank. Nice ter meet ya." He nods to Sydney. "Aight." 06* Hank can hold multiple conversations at once like that. He's talented. 01<@Ardweden> [Natalie grunts, and then Tyler comes in and she does a double take followed by a look to Sydney that clearly says, 'Who's this guy?'] 06* Sydney has so many people talking to her! Agh! First she looks at Susanna. "Help yourself to a bit if you'd like." Then she starts to text Javy back, but is interrupted by Tyler. 06* Sydney does not flail, even if it is tempting. "Hi, Tyler. Texting Javy." She frantically types into her cell phone "@Bagel Bnch comeon out." 06* Hank notices Tyler too, and glances at Sydney in much the same way. 06* Tyler puts on a smile for the whole table. "Hey, Hank." 01<@Ardweden> [Thus, Susanna's got a small piece of Sydney's bagel sandwich in her mouth when Tyler comes crashing through. She chews and swallows, trying to make sense of what just happened.] 06* Sydney stashes her cell phone. "Okay. Uh." She points at Natalie. "My sister, Natalie." She points at Hank. "My friend, Hank." She points at Susanna. "His sister, Susanna." Finally, she points at Tyler. "My friend, Tyler." And that last bit seems totally sincere. 06* Hank abruptly finishes his bagel in one big bite, and stands up. "Hey, Tyler. We were just leaving. C'mon Suz." 01<@Ardweden> [Natalie gives a little wave. Look, it's the friendliest thing she's done since she got there!] 01<@Ardweden> ["What?" Susanna asks, even as she starts to stand up. "Why? I was thinkin' 'bout gettin' another bagel." She smiles at Tyler - it's a very pretty smile. "Like yer jacket."] But Javy's coming, and I thought we were going to hang out and talk about... stuff. 06* Tyler suddenly goes bright red. "Tha..thanks I just got it." He looks down and then away from Susanna. "What's good? I haven't been here." 06* Hank shakes his head. "Maybe another time." He holds out his had to Susanna. "Let's go." 01<@Ardweden> [Susanna stood up, but she doesn't take Hank's hand. "Why?" she asks him again, still confused.] 06* Sydney sighs. "C'mon, Hank, just stay a little longer? Please?" Sorry Syd. I got a sudden headache for some reason. No idea why. 06* Tyler shrugs. "no reason for her to go. I can drive her back when she's ready to go. What did you have, Susanna? It sounded like it was good." 06* Sydney pulls out her purse. "I have Tylenol!" 01<@Ardweden> [Susanna was just grabbing her coat, but at their words she looks at Tyler, then at Hank.] 01<@Ardweden> ["Um," she says to Tyler, "I got the roast beef one. And a pickle, but I'm kinda a pickle fiend."] 01<@Ardweden> [Natalie, meanwhile, has buried herself in her food. Not literally.] 06* Tyler smiles at Susanna. "Well, if you have to go you have to go, but hopefully I'll see you here when I get back with a roast beef and a pickle." With that he goes to order. 06* Sydney waves a bottle of Tylenol at Hank. 06* Hank glances at Susanna. Then at Tyler. Then at Sydney. "You, of all people.... You should've known better." Then he stomps towards Tyler and grabs him by the shoulder, spinning him around to face Hank. "Listen up, asshole. You are NOT getting into a car with my sister, ever! You so much as talk to her again and I'll beat you to a fucking pulp." Who's being an asshole here, Hank? 01<@Ardweden> [Susanna's still standing, mouth hanging a bit open while she stares at Tyler and Hank. She looks like she's in shock.] 06* Tyler looks right back into Hanks eyes, he then looked away from Hank. "Fuck off. I was trying to give her a choice unlike you. You're fucking controlling her actions. For your information, maybe I wanted the one person around that recognized my D&G jacket okay? Maybe I believe girls have wills of their own and don't need to follow a man’s lead like you. Hell, maybe I thought it would be nice to talk about Sydney and My's date with folks and get some ideas about it." 06* Hank snarls. "Susanna's free to make her own choices. Except when it comes to you!" And he promptly decks Tyler. 01<@Ardweden> [Right when Hank punches Tyler in the face, Javy walks in the door.] 06* Sydney yells. "Stop it!" 06* Tyler goes down, his lip bleeding, just glaring at Hank right now and then moves to uppercut Hank right in the nads. 06* Javy stops in the door, and just stares, eyes wide. 01<@Ardweden> [Susanna runs over, right past Javy. "What are you *doing*!" she yells, trying to pull Hank away from Tyler.] 01<@Ardweden> [Incidentally, there's nobody behind the counter right now. The guy had told Sydney that he'd be right back if they needed anything.] 06* Sydney jumps up and tries to pull Tyler back. 06* Hank goes down, I guess. 01<@Ardweden> [Hank goes down, and holy fuck did that hurt. He did *not* see that coming. While he's lying there in kind of a haze, he can hear Sydney getting up, and he can see Susanna moving around him to help Tyler up. "Are you okay?" she asks him.] 06* Javy snaps out of it enough to go to Hank's side and kneel there. "What. What is... what is going on?" he asks plaintively. 06* Tyler groans slowly getting up with help. "Yeah.. I'll be fine. I hope." 01<@Ardweden> [Susanna moves some of Tyler's hair aside and gingerly checks his forehead. "C'mon," she says, helping him to a chair at the table. "Y'need ice?"] 01<@Ardweden> [At the table, Natalie's just... staring. She has no idea what to do or say. People get into *fights*?] 06* Tyler nods. "Yeah, I'll need ice. Thanks." He tries to smile at Susanna. 06* Sydney shuts her eyes and pinches the bridge of her nose. "Why the hell did you do *that*?" she yells to no one in particular. Or possibly everyone. 01<@Ardweden> [Susanna is definitely not the one being yelled at, and she rushes off find the counter guy (who's probably out back) and get ice!] 06* Javy looks from Hank to Sydney to Tyler and back to Sydney, just confused. We all have to work *together*, dammit! How can we do that if people just attack each other? 06* Hank eventually gets back to his feet and leaves. He doesn't even say anything. Or pick up Susanna. He just goes. 06* Tyler will wait for Susanna to come back with ice, patiently, he offers an apologetic smile to Javy and Sydney, though he doubts they will take it. 06* Javy looks at Syd. "But what happened? It..." He looks towards the door, and presses up from his kneeling, to at least see where Hank is going. 01<@Ardweden> [Javy sees Hank in the parking lot, walking to his bike.] 06* Sydney slumps back into her chair. "Well... Hank doesn't take kindly to unexpected Tyler, I guess... I was hoping that we could all just talk... with our sisters here and all... that didn't work. At all." 01<@Ardweden> ["What's with him?" Natalie finally asks, as it's the obvious question.] Hank and Tyler don't exactly get along, but I wasn't expecting public violence. Or running away. I... I should. Um. Ask. Someone should. Hank, I mean. I... I'll be back. I was hoping for... uh... civilness? 06* Javy goes out the door into the parking lot, too! Be careful, Javy. 06* Javy looks back over his shoulder. "I... I'm just, asking." 01<@Ardweden> [Javy leaves just as Susanna comes in from the back with the sole employee there, having totally jump the counter. She's holding two bags of ice wrapped in towels. "Thanks," she says to him, "And I'm sorry about... uh..." she looks around. "Where's Hank?"] He just walked outside. Javy went to talk to him. I'm sorry, Susanna. Hank and Tyler don't always get along, but I was hoping he'd be willing to... y'know... at least hang out and talk and stuff. 01<@Ardweden> ["You ain't kiddin'." She walks over and hands Tyler one of the makeshift ice packs, sitting next to him. She looks at the boy with the sharp coat. "Why's he hate you so much?"] 06* Tyler puts the ice pack on his face and sighs. "Started off on a bad foot. I don't know, I was trying to be good for Sydney and... I'm sorry Sydney. This is why I didn't promise." 06* Sydney sighs. "I'm sorry, too. I didn't think Hank would react this way." 06* Tyler shrugs a little and looks over at Nat and back at Sydney. "I'm really sorry. He's pound the crap out of me before, I should have let him do it again." No, you should never *let* someone pound the crap out of you. But you shouldn't be pounding the crap out of people in the first place. 01<@Ardweden> ["*He* didn't throw the first punch!" Susanna says in Tyler's defense. She folds her arms and frowns. "My brother's a total moron sometimes. All trigger happy an'..." She trails off. "I'm sorry he did that," she says to Tyler, finally.] 06* Tyler blushes a bit more. "Thanks. He's not that bad. Really..." He glances down a bit. "I mean you're his sister, he has to have a good heart right?" 01<@Ardweden> [Susanna laughs, but she doesn't match Tyler's blush. "Nice. Can totally see why Sydney's taken with ya."] 06* Sydney blinks. "Wait, what?" I know it's cliche, but we're just friends. Really! 01<@Ardweden> [End!]