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“I don’t care that it’s 2:00 am, we need pie.”
“Sir, are you even sure if the fantasy costco is open this late?” Angus asked, watching as Taako threw on a jacket. He seemed to hesitate a moment, looking at the coat rack and back to Angus before tossing the cloak of the manta ray at him. He hadn’t brought a coat when he came to the reclaimer’s dorm for his and Taako’s magic lessons, some seven hours ago now. He wrapped the cloak around his shoulders before quickly following Taako out of the dorm.
“Look me in the eyes and tell me you believe Garfield is capable of physically sleeping,” Taako said, and yeah okay, Angus supposed he had a point there.
“Alright, but this can wait until tomorrow, you don’t have to make a whole pie tonight sir, it’s fine,” Angus tried to insist, but Taako was shaking his head as he stalked across the quad towards the large rectangular fantasy costco building.
“You’ve never had pie before Agnes! Not a single kind, how does that even happen?!” Taako complained loudly, and Angus flinched some, glancing around to see if anyone was up to be bothered. Hopefully they were far enough away from the dorms now that they wouldn’t wake anyone up.
“Well, my grandpa couldn’t eat a lot of sweets and when I was out solving crimes I never really thought to just go out and get a pie,” he tried to explain, but it didn’t seem like Taako actually cared about the why here.
“Whatever, we’re rectifying this crime tonight,” Taako said, making his way into the fantasy costco and doing a beeline towards the grocery section. Angus trotted along after him, and there was a refrigerator section with a whole bunch of pies, but Taako walked right past it.
“Um, I thought we were here to get pies?” he asked, but Taako didn’t even seem phased.
“I am not about to let your first pie experience be that pre-made garbage. We’re doing home made,” Taako said, and Angus was a bit flabbergasted at that.
“How long does it take to make a pie from scratch?” he asked, and Taako shrugged, not seeming bothered.
“Eh, the longest part is waiting for it to cool and junk. We probably won’t really be able to eat them until the morning, but that’s even more reason to make them tonight,” Taako said. Angus didn’t argue, following him around the store while he gathered up ingredients. He was definitely getting more than just for one pie, unless he wanted to make some sort of strange, apple pumpkin chocolate key lime abomination.
By the time they got back to the kitchen with all of the ingredients set out it was edging towards three am. Angus was used to staying up late, and it wasn’t too hard to fight off the fatigue tugging at him by listening to Taako explaining all the steps that went into making the pies. Still, their magic lesson had taken a lot out of him and ended up running late, and then they’d gotten distracted because Angus had started to explain how major illusion had been used in one of his Caleb Cleveland novels, and that had somehow led to them talking about food, which led to Taako finding out he’d never had pie, which led to this.
He tried to stay up, but he was pretty sure he ended up falling asleep somewhere between making the key lime pie and the chocolate cream pie.
When he woke up someone had moved him from where he’d been sitting at the counter to the couch and set him up with a pillow and blanket. It was a bit later than he normally slept in, but he guessed considering how late they’d stayed up it was understandable.
“Morning, about time you woke up pumpkin,” Taako said, and then there was a plate being shoved into his hands. Angus blinked down sleepily at the pie, putting his glasses back on after a moment.
“Are you calling me pumpkin, or the pie?” he asked, Taako rolling his eyes heavily at that. It was a pumpkin pie in his hands though, so he couldn’t really blame him.
“Please god, I have to deal with enough puns from those two chucklefucks, I don’t need them from you too. Just eat the goddamn pie,” Taako said.
“Is it okay to have pie for breakfast?” he asked, and Taako was groaning in annoyance now.
“You’ve gone long enough without pie to earn this privilege, just do it there are three other pies you need to try,” Taako said, and right, Angus had nearly forgotten about that. He kind of considered drawing it out even longer to bother Taako some more but he gave in, eating a forkful of the pie.
“This is really good sir!” he said, quickly taking another bite.
“Hell yeah it is. Now slow down, like I said there are three more pies,” Taako told him, and Angus was starting to get the feeling that this might’ve been too many pies.
“Sir, I don’t think I can eat that many, especially not first thing in the morning,” he said, but Taako just shrugged.
“You can try all of them, that’s all that matters,” Taako said, and Angus guessed he could do that.
“Um, thanks for making these for me sir, you really didn’t have to,” he said, and Taako just waved a hand dismissively before going back over to the kitchen and cutting another slice.
“Eh, don’t mention it. Food’s important.”