Owner Pose
Charlie Gage     Music is playing in the Clocktower.

    It is POP, Hits 1, Bubblegum. It is Billboard Song of the Summer.

    Charlie is dancing and singing along with the female pop icon as she cooks in the kitchen. There is a blue box of mac and cheese cracked open. Water bubbling away. A ripped bag of shredded cheese nearby ready to go. Also hot dogs.

    Pure comfort food and where Charlie turns when she is feeling homesick for the meals she had back home. Though to be fair the cheese is way higher quality now.

    o/~ glitter in my eyes .... mmm mmmmm you want me baby... milkyway... moonlight.. starlight...... o/~ odds are she isn't really even listening fully to what she is singing.
Barbara Gordon The lift doors open up, and Barbara steps in to the loft penthouse apartment. In denim jeans, and a black tshirt with a leather jacket of black on also, she is undoing her hair from a bun it was in, carrying her motorcycle helmet at her side. "Hey, Charlie." Babs says over the sound of the music while approaching the kitchen area. Her bike helmet is set down on the counter before she starts to shrug the jacket off. She is now taking in the sight and sounds of the singing.

A grin shows on her lips and she softly shakes her head.

"Am I interrupting anything?" She asks loud enough to be heard over the tunes. "Should I go down to one of the lower levels while you party in here?" She asks, casting her eyes around their shared home.
Charlie Gage     When the voice registers Charlie nearly wipes out, caught in the act of eating junk food and belting out pop music.

    While this may not be the first time, it would be embarassing if one experienced shame. Jury is still out at how much shame she actually can feel really. Still the junk food part is the critical bit.

    Thankfully despite wearing slippery socks she manages to catch herself when she spins around and doesn't spin out entirely. "Heeeey" then she coughs "Computer, Music Off!" which drops it all to silence.

    "Welcome home" she smiles sheepish "And uh.. no.. though" she glances at the stove. "If you want mac and cheese and hot dogs I definitely will have enough for two..." sheepish look back to Babs. "I had to heal from a run in and ... felt like a dufus.... so..." she just sort of flail gestures at the stove.
Zatanna Zatara Zatanna does not possess a magic meter tracking her would-be apprentices. Plus, Charlie is a veritable will-o-the-wisp. Though homo magi blood will out and a strong hunch whisks the magician into the Watch Tower just behind Babs. The raven-haired beauty is fresh from a spring shopping trip to Tokyo and sports a long skirt, slit past the knee revealing fishnet stockings in modish combat boots and a roomy jacket, all in her preferred black.
Zatanna Zatara Zatanna Zatara says, "Yes, what would we be interrupting?" She gives Charlie a sidelong look that would make Jewish mothers everywhere squeal in sympathy and recognition. (Why don't you ever call me?)"
Barbara Gordon Barbara is continuing to let her red hair down, pushing it around over her shoulders as she just listens to the younger woman turn off the music all surprised-like. A grin remains on Babs' face as she slips on to one of the stools at the counter then just exhales heavily. She looks back over her shoulder to see Zatanna arriving, who gets a warm smile from Babs. "Hey." She tells the Magician before looking back to Charlie.

"Mmmh. Serve me up a dish then. A bit of Charlie home cooked dining sounds mighty fine right now." Babs indicates as she reaches for a couple of napkins out of the holder on the counter island.

"So I set Carrie up with a job here last night. She's going to be one of the new Oracles on-duty." Babs then tells eeeveryone within earshot.
Charlie Gage     Ahhhh guilt. That sidelong look is wounding. Charlie gets wider eyed as she looks back to Zee. "Hey Zee..." she eyes the noodles and then is saved "Ack!" as she scoops the pot off the stove and rushes to drain it all. Can't let it boil over or make the noodles too soft right.

    She sets about to mixing in all the cheese and hot dog chunks and everything. Stepping away to let it really melt and merge as she gets a couple of bowls down and then looks to Zee "you want to some mac and cheese with hot dogs?" she is ... very unsure. I mean she has had the tea and biscuits at Zee's often enough to know this is .... slumming it.

    While she waits for the answer she dishes up two bowls though. "Carrie will be around more??" she grins over at Babs "Awesome!" yeah she is all cool with this. She has always been cool with the odd girl Robin. Probably because she is an odd one out too. "I've wanted to corner her to train together more anyhow."

    Random access "Has anyone else run into a guy who dresses like a flying bug and has a flame thrower.. I was ... uh surprised at how many flamable devices he has ... and how much our armor still transmits heat.... even with the flame retardant layer..."
Zatanna Zatara Slumming it, in Zee's estimation is spending time with people she finds boring or forgettable. Her smile wavers only slightly as she asks herself just how far to twist the knife of quilt into Charlie.

"You cooked? Of course, I love mac and cheese. Plus hot dogs!" She only overdoes it a little bit.
Barbara Gordon Being that Babs is a giant Fallout nerd, she's reaching for a couple of Cherry-Nuka Cola bottles from the chilling rack on the counter. So when their bowls of Mac n Cheese arrive, she's offering one of the cola bottles to Zatanna also.

A grin shows over to Charlie. "I'm glad you're excited about it, I think she needs some more direction. It's pretty easy for us to remember just how many of us there are these days. We gotta be there to support one another." Babs says as she twists her bottle open, then reaches for the fork.

"God, its been ages since I had this." She says before taking in a mouthful of the cheesey hot doggy treat.
Charlie Gage     Charlie is a smidge skeptical about Zee being totally onboard with Mac and Cheese and Hot Dogs, but she snags a third bowl and fork and serves it up. She heads over to the table with three bowls with forks sticking up balanced carefully setting them down and then settling in herself.

    She starts to devour hungrily, she did say she had to heal from a run in earlier, probably with the fire bug, which explains why she shamelessly loaded up her bowl with about twice what she dished up for Babs and Zee.

    She always eats like she burnt a million calories after recovering from a serious injury. She looks okay though now.

    She stops to drink the nuka cola "Carrie is great, and yeah team work makes the dream work.. or something like that...." she trails off unsure. Corny. "Oh Zee.. I nailed that enchantment spell I was working on I think.. I'd like to come by and show off my homework?"
Zatanna Zatara "Let me know in advance. I'm not always at Shadowcrest these days." Zee keeps her reasons for being absent so often from home. When she had left the servants were airing the smell of brimstone from the library, the vestiges of the latest demon invasion attempt.

Taking the offered bowl and coke, she settles herself into the corner of the sofa and tucks into the mac n'cheese.
Barbara Gordon Barbara samples the food, and is quick to swallow it, then give Charlie a nodding of apprisal. "Very good. Just like I remember." She says with a warm smile chasing her words.

Her bottle of Nuka Cherry is picked up then, and she sweeps herself over to the sofa too, quick to sit down and tell the AI controller what to queue up for the television.

"How about a comedy tonight? I'm feeling a bit more upbeat, and a little less 'horror movie' I think." She mutters before forking at the bowl again, then offering Zatanna a smile too.

"Beats some stuffy restaurant, yeah?"
Zatanna Zatara The magician dramatically waves her fork in agreement, "Oh, god, yes. Rom-com or super power comedy, Babs? Your pick."

After another forkful, "Charlie will have to give our cook the recipe so we can fix her some when she comes to show me her new enchantments."