12678/Spies, lies and pizza pies.

Spies, lies and pizza pies.
Date of Scene:	04 September 2022
Location:	Angelo's Pizza
Synopsis:	Laura Kinney hired Bunny to deliver a totally innocent book to a totally normal location. Using a map that isn't designed to be eaten. It's a perfectly normal day in the life of a professional courier!
Cast of Characters:	Laura Kinney, Bunny Macleod

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Laura Kinney has posed:
It's rare for Laura Kinney to involve anyone else in her personal affairs. But sometimes you just can't be in two places at once (and her multitude of clones don't count!). And that means involving outside help. People who won't be monitored by any Three-letter agencies. Not that she wants anything illegal done.

It's just for security reasons Laura likes to do things a certain way. And that way involves book codes and secret messages drops.

Which is why the mysterious mutant is in a New York pizza place with a totally bland book, a bodice ripping romance novel you can find in any airport bookstore, hiring a young delivery girl.

By Kinney standards it's basically a normal day.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    Macleod Messenger Services - for the days you can't clone yourself. That could very well be a tagline with the #Memes that #MacMesServ uses on #SocialMedia with a clone movie like MultiPlicity or Attack of the Clones as the background image.

    Angelo's Pizza is a place that the young Macleod is familiar enough with as she skates in, wearing bright, sky-blue leggings with rainbow colored skates, a brilliant pink tutu skirt, a T-shirt that definitely does not say Macleod Mess and accidentally had the rest of it not print, and her bright pink curls are pulled up into a ponytail, wearing a neon pink and yellow helmet with a unicorn horn, happy upside-down U shaped eyes with long lashes and some wings on them, and a pair of aviators, because they're totally the part that make the teenager nondescript.

    She comes in, looks around, and with subtle movements she roller-skates backwards to Laura's table, looking anywhere by Laura herself.

    "I hear there's a storm in Spain today." she states nonchalantly.

Laura Kinney has posed:
"That shouldn't be a problem unless you keep an alpaca there," Laura says solemnly. Sniffing the air. "I trust that you are... the courier?" She glances at the empty seat, then at Bunny, before nodding at the pizza on the table infront of her. "Help yourself to a slice."

She taps the book. It remains a truely awful romance novel.

"I need this delivering to a park bench. Instructions are on the pie." Sure enough Laura has used a (store supplied) bottle of hot sauce to draw a remarkably good map of a local park in sauce..

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    Bunny gives a nod, and she rolls back a couple more inches, and then helps herself to a slice of pizza and seats herself across from the client.

    "Was it the sunglasses that gave it away?" she asks Laura, giving a bright grin as she settles, and she draws the book over to her. It was, indeed, a truly awful romance novel.

    The novel disappears into her bag with one hand as she folds a slice of pizza and takes a bite as she looks over the map of the park. practically her back yard.

    "I can have it there in fifteen minutes once I leave that door. Anythin' else? You need a text and a pic when it's delivered?"

Laura Kinney has posed:
Laura Kinney shakes her head. "No pictures," she says after a moments consideration. "Or texts. I'll trust that it reaches the destination. I prefer not to do things electronically. It's an eccentric quirk."

Or given the pizza topping maps. A sign she needs a therapist. Perhaps both.

"As for what gave you away. You didn't go to queue at the counter and have the means for rapid delivery of a message." Plus she smells of parcels. But it's hard to explain the family nose.

The pizza is just a plain ole cheese with the hot sauce plus just a little garlic butter on top. Nothing fancy but pleasing in it's simplicity.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    Bunny gives a nod, eating the map. Excellent way to make sure the evidence doesn't make it to the wrong hands. Who could stomach the possibilities? Taking a pizza the credit?! Surely no one would... something something... pie...?

    Crumbs.

    Bunny gives a nod to Laura, and she finishes the cheese. Hot sauce. HOT SAUCE.

    She blinks a moment, and even though it's the normal hotness of Frank's Red Hot, the MOST popular buffalo/hot sauce in the Eastern US, she reaches for her water bottle and attempts to casually open it, and ends up half-emptying the thing.

    "High urgency?"

Laura Kinney has posed:
It's not really hot hot sauce. At least by Kinney standards. It may as well be tap water to her! Still, adds a little variety to the dish it sorely needed! A lot of garlic might add a kick but garlic breath with an enhanced sense of smell? Not a smart move.

Besides it's occasionally amusing when people have a low spice tolerance.

She is at least nice enough to pretend she didn't see Bunny struggling with the heat. "By Wednesday at the latest. Any later and my friend will be heading out of town."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    Bunny does not have a high spice tolerance, although unaffected by White Girl Spicy Levels of 'mayo' being spicy.

    "Wednesday? /Wednesday/? I ain't waiting so long for that!" she protests, and then she sits back "Unless it has to wait for Wednesday, in which case I'll make a *special* exception. Only 'cause you're feedin' me too."

Laura Kinney has posed:
Laura Kinney shakes her head. "No it can be delivered today if you want," she confirms. "I honestly don't mind which day it gets there providing it's before the deadline."

In the interests of compassion she takes one of the slices with the most hot sauce on. Once it's clear Bunny has had time to memorize the map. It's a large enough pie her eating a slice or too won't detract from the size of the free meal.

"And if anyone ever asks you about the deliver..." There's a pause. "Tell them everything. No trying to play it tough." Besides she switched the cover from the trashy romance novel with a very similar trashy romance novel. So even if the book was to be compromised.. Well it'd be useless for cracking the code!

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "I'm a delivery girl. I just tell them I'm doin' my job. As long as there's like, no bad stuff in the book like... I dunno, kidnapping mutant kids, exploding evil science labs, makin' people feel invisible, then whatevs, I'm down to deliver." Bunny gives a smile back to Laura, her mirrored shades hiding her eyes.

    ". . . this... this isn't going to result in a science lab exploding, is it?"

Laura Kinney has posed:
Laura Kinney tilts her head and shrugs. "It's just a bad romance novel," she says solemnly. "You're free to read it to be sure if you want. You can even check for secret messages written in invisible ink." A pause. "Just as long as you don't damage the pages. Then I'll be claiming for a full refund plus additional costs."

There really isn't anything exciting in there. Unless Bunny loves awful romance novels. Then she's in for a treat.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Oh good. Last time that happened, I broke my ankle when that ninja lady kicked me off to the side and that pig guy was actually really nice about almost chainsawing me to death." Bunny replies, sounding relieved.

Laura Kinney has posed:
Laura Kinney blinks a few times. As if that was a totally normal response.

"Ninjas are always causing problems," she agrees. "Try to avoid anyone who thinks it's appropriate to wear martial arts robes outside of a gym."

Not that working in New York will allow Bunny to work without running into more than her fair share of weird people.

Probably Laura included....

"If any injury does occur I'll compensate you for the medical bills."

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    "Oh nah there wasn't any medical bills I..." she pauses, suddenly cutting off. She looks puzzled, and then opens her mouth again, and then she closes it. She works her lips a moment.

    "I got better, but I can't really... recall how." she replies, and as if it were a totally normal occurance she shrugs it off.

    She goes to stand, grabbing for another slice of map pizza.

    "I'll get it to the location in about fifteen ta twenty then if you're all god and have no more questions or instructions for me!"

Laura Kinney has posed:
Laura Kinney takes a second slice herself. The map by now basically just a bunch of random squiggles of hot sauce. Which probably makes doing the job in a day or two a bad plan. Given the instructions are mostly gone.

"Payment has already been arranged," she confirms. Which Bunny can check by phoning back to the office. "Feel free to take a slice for the road."

She nods to Bunny as if to conclude the business. But it's as much about checking no-one has been watching from outside as anything else. Still she seems satisfied. Both that her courier knows what she's doing and that no-one is lurking outside with nefarious plans.

Bunny Macleod has posed:
    Bunny gives a salute as she 'hops' up, nearly skating into the counter by accident, but catching herself simply with a toe-brake, and gives a smile to Laura.

    "Well then, I'm on the clock, aren't I? Thank you for using our Messenger Service of Secretive Names, miss!" she grins, and skates towards the front of the pizza shop to make her exit, carrying the book securely in her bag.