fandomhigh | Cupcake War Crimes, Take 2, Thursday [8/11]

Things looked normal in the Home Ec classroom this week. Hopefully even your TA was fully recovered from her bout of greyness. None of this week’s cupcakes were grey either, though you wouldn’t be able to tell that yet since they were all still covered.

"I hope everyone is well," Stark said, looking over the students after they arrived. "Recovered from last week. Everything that happened. And if there’s anything we can help with," yes, he was volunteering Anders for support services too, "please, let us." If nothing else, you know these two will offer baked goods.

Anders gave Stark a surprised look for just a second, but he was all right with being volunteered, he supposed. "And I’m just gonna throw this out there so you know before trying it yourselves in a situation. If you’re gonna use old stale cupcakes as a weapon, aim carefully, and be ready to run if they decide your ammo’s tasty." He cleared his throat and uncovered a large tray of chocolate-based cupcakes. "These are -- tasty in theory, but maybe the idea that chocolate makes everything better ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. What do you guys think?"

To be fair, the dark chocolate cupcake with the caramel cumin buttercream frosting looked pretty good, and the maple syrup cupcake with brown sugar smoked bacon . . . well, bacon did make everything better, right? On the other hand, there was that chocolate cupcake coated in potato chips, and the one with the jalapeno on top. It was really a mixed bag -- or plate, more accurately.

"Chocolate or bacon," Anders went on, snagging one of the maple syrup and bacon cupcakes for himself. "That’s your discussion for the day, and there’s plenty of both in with the ingredients when you get to baking."

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"Are they?" Sam shrugged carelessly. "I dunno, I'm a vegetarian and I've figured out how to make that lifestyle unhealthy. It's all relative. Healthy things can be unhealthy and unhealthy things can be healthy. Labels are too confining."

She thought about that for a moment as she poured batter. "I don't think I could be a vegetarian." Certainly the coyote part of her wasn't about to switch. "But yeah, sure anything can be unhealthy. Now, I'm not sure you could make say, deep fried twinkies healthy, but..."

"No, some things aren't gonna be healthy no matter how hard you try," Sam agreed, tossing some Cheerios onto the top of his cupcake to see how they looked. "If you wanna be healthy with deep fried Twinkies, you just don't eat it."

"They've never actually appealed to me," Mercy admitted. "Brownies now - oh... Next time I should try a brownie cupcake!"

Brownie cupcake?" Sam asked, deciding he could be dubious this time. "Why combine two good things into one? Two's always better than one when it comes to sweets. You can rot your teeth outta your head faster too."

"Why not? You can always eat two brownie cupcakes if you're in that much of a hurry." She was already thinking about how to go about it - maybe some whoopie pie type filling for frosting - or a filling itself. These could be good!

"Didn't know you were suck a baker," Sam remarked idly. "Probably better suited for an actual bakery and not this class where people put Cheerios on their cupcakes."

"It's not like I signed up for it," Mercy said. "But since I'm here, might as well make the most of it, right?"

"Guess so." He was still a slacker at heart. "I'm sure the teachers are glad for one person that can manage to cook without burning something or accidentally poisoning them."

"Maybe," she said. "Or they just think I'm pretty boring."

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