like a big pizza pie (open)

[tradecraftdude]

who. Marco and you!
what. Delivery boy shenanigans.
where. Zeta District.
when. Right now!
warnings. How questionable can a 13-year-old get? (Don't answer that.)

[ Moving people's food around the district for them beats hauling rubble, though Marco could do without the cheesy delivery boy uniform. However, he approaches this delivery business with all the highly directed tunnel-vision of someone who has played lots of video games and knows how to scoot all over the map in the most efficient manner. Having to fake smiles and suck up for tips wasn't the worst thing, either. ]

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[airraid]

Blackmail .. making you eat some of the pizza that I didn't order but am paying for anyway because I'm trying to help you out.

[he's just going to tap his chin a little in thought.]

How about together?

[this is a hell of a lot more fun than it has any right to be.]

[tradecraftdude]

Look, Nicholson, just because I might have twisted your arm into this doesn't make it right that you're twisting mine. I'm just a kid, man, I've got my whole life ahead of me!

[ He pulls out a slice speckled with soggy broccoli and little fleshy chunks of mushrooms and offers the box to Joker. ]

On three?

[airraid]

You're just a kid on Omega, you mean. And kids are never kids very long around here.

[totally ignoring the nicholson comment. even if he has a vague idea of who you're talking about because he's been known to go through old earth archives when he has nothing better to do and he might just be a huge fan of his portrayal of the joker.

no joke intended. really.

but he does take his own piece out of the box, noting how the mushroom juices have soaked into the crust and ugh this looks like the most disgusting thing he's ever seen in his life.] Okay. One, two ..

[he can't believe he's doing this.]

Three.

[tradecraftdude]

[ The smell floods Marco's nose as he brings the slice up to his face, and he pinches his nose shut with his free hand. ]

I'll keeb by yootful idosets as log as I cad, tanks.

[ Marco opens wide aaaaaaaaand pauses with the slice right between his teeth, squinting at Joker out of the corner of his eye and hesitating, waiting to see if his comrade-in-suffering was actually going to go through with biting down. ]

[airraid]

[the fact that the kid has to hold his nose to take that first bite has him thinking goddamn why did i agree to this but he's never gone back on his word before, and he isn't about to start now.

which means he doesn't say anything until he's already taken his own bite, making an absolutely horrible face as his teeth dig into a piece of squishy broccoli.

ugh, this is so gross.] Shorry, bu' I don'think there's ahnything innoshent 'bou'you.

[tradecraftdude]

[ The moment he sees Joker suffering through that slice, Marco pulls the unbitten one out of his mouth and quietly sets it back in the box. ]

Don't be so quick to judge, man. Whatever happened to believing in the sanctity of children?

[ Except for how he's only talking to distract Joker from the fact that he never actually took a bite. ]

[airraid]

[oh, you little shit.

you think he doesn't see that? you think he doesn't? well you'd better start learning how to distract a little better, son, because this is going to be joker reaching over to practically jerk the box open and look inside.

and what does he see? an unbitten piece of pizza, that's what.] Never said I didn't believe in it. I said there's nothing innocent about you, personally. You really think you were gonna get away with that?

[at least he'd taken the time to swallow before he'd started talking, else he'd be spitting bits of mushroom and broccoli all over the place.] Try again.

[tradecraftdude]

[ Oops. ]

Well, gee, look at the time, I've really gotta get back to work now, great meeting you, Jack, hope you enjoy the rest of your pizza!

[ And this is going to be Marco bolting for the door as soon as Joker grabs the box! ]

[airraid]

[oh.

you.

had better be glad he can't you run jackass.

this .. unfortunately, is going to be joker standing there, looking forlornly at the pizza box in his hand and staring at the brat running away from his door.

that had clearly gotten away with his little stunt.

oh he is going to kill you.

.. once he figures out how to do so without shattering a couple of bones in the process.]

.. Cheater!