The Streets of Fandom, After Shenanakins, Wednesday
Poor Stark had not actually eaten any of the donuts offered today. He’d been busy realizing that he did, in fact, taste like chocolate cake and that Faye tasted of alcoholic coffee and then he’d been focused on not having a donut explode all over him. Now he actually wanted some donuts and it only seemed reasonable to order some. He deserved donuts after putting up with Anakin’s nonsense, didn’t he?
He looked up the menu, decided there were several flavors worth trying that might go well with coffee and/or chocolate, and placed an order for a dozen. He was certain he’d be sharing those donuts.
So Stark was expecting a donut delivery in the near future. Once he got back to his apartment. He was not expecting any sort of holes to appear on the ground. He certainly wasn’t expecting a hole to start following him home immediately after ordering donuts. A hole following him and growing steadily larger as it swallowed up any loose objects in its path was unthinkable. And yet there a hole was, darting around and disappearing rocks, sticks, a trash can outside a business, and anything else it could find on the ground until it was large enough to swallow a person.
Or maybe more than one person.
Poor Alexis, still in her "just here to bang" shirt, had just wanted to go clean up somewhere. She couldn't be seen with donut all over her for any longer than necessary, so she'd gone to find a bathroom and maybe reapply some makeup, and stepped outside to see…
"What's with the hole?" she asked, with not nearly enough concern.
“What?” Stark turned to look. “Oh. That’s...I don’t know. That’s not good. It’s moving.” He was going to walk a little faster now. Or maybe a lot faster. It was not going to help.
"Oh, that's, um, straight up following us," she realized, like apparently she was going to head his way, and maybe try to be faster than him? Like how in the zombie apocalypse the trick was having slower friends.
(She figured. She hadn't been in a zombie apocalypse yet.)
“It is,” Stark agreed, glancing back over his shoulder nervously. “And it’s eating things. Or disappearing them. Both?” And it was about to start eating and/or disappearing two unfortunate pedestrians. Starting with the one Alexis had just passed. Oops.
Alexis looked back just in time to say, "Nope! I don't love that for me!" and started running faster. There were reasons she did so much cardio!
But the hole did love that for Alexis and it was bigger now, having swallowed a chocolate-flavored alien. It was only a matter of time.
Maybe she should have stopped looking back to see where it was. Because it was that one thing that slowed her down just enough for the hole to catch up and swallow her too.
This was a valuable lesson that she would learn for future kidnappings.
[Stark and the lovely![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lovethatjourney have been holed! Not dirty.]
He looked up the menu, decided there were several flavors worth trying that might go well with coffee and/or chocolate, and placed an order for a dozen. He was certain he’d be sharing those donuts.
So Stark was expecting a donut delivery in the near future. Once he got back to his apartment. He was not expecting any sort of holes to appear on the ground. He certainly wasn’t expecting a hole to start following him home immediately after ordering donuts. A hole following him and growing steadily larger as it swallowed up any loose objects in its path was unthinkable. And yet there a hole was, darting around and disappearing rocks, sticks, a trash can outside a business, and anything else it could find on the ground until it was large enough to swallow a person.
Or maybe more than one person.
Poor Alexis, still in her "just here to bang" shirt, had just wanted to go clean up somewhere. She couldn't be seen with donut all over her for any longer than necessary, so she'd gone to find a bathroom and maybe reapply some makeup, and stepped outside to see…
"What's with the hole?" she asked, with not nearly enough concern.
“What?” Stark turned to look. “Oh. That’s...I don’t know. That’s not good. It’s moving.” He was going to walk a little faster now. Or maybe a lot faster. It was not going to help.
"Oh, that's, um, straight up following us," she realized, like apparently she was going to head his way, and maybe try to be faster than him? Like how in the zombie apocalypse the trick was having slower friends.
(She figured. She hadn't been in a zombie apocalypse yet.)
“It is,” Stark agreed, glancing back over his shoulder nervously. “And it’s eating things. Or disappearing them. Both?” And it was about to start eating and/or disappearing two unfortunate pedestrians. Starting with the one Alexis had just passed. Oops.
Alexis looked back just in time to say, "Nope! I don't love that for me!" and started running faster. There were reasons she did so much cardio!
But the hole did love that for Alexis and it was bigger now, having swallowed a chocolate-flavored alien. It was only a matter of time.
Maybe she should have stopped looking back to see where it was. Because it was that one thing that slowed her down just enough for the hole to catch up and swallow her too.
This was a valuable lesson that she would learn for future kidnappings.
[Stark and the lovely
lovethatjourney have been holed! Not dirty.]