[Kon only chose the diner because it was on the way home from work. He's been trying not to just fly because it's not like he can stash a superhero costume at work without risk of it being found, so he commutes, although this entails just walking the whole way home.]
[(It's not like he gets tired easily so it saves on bus fare.)]
[He stops at the diner just to maybe get something warm to drink and because the smell of pie got him just a little homesick. It's cheap at least. He doesn't make much note of the green kid other than to make sure nobody around him is giving him the side eye too much. Some places in the city aren't the most friendly to metas. But no, he seems okay.]
[He looks a little like Lagoon Boy.]
[The thing about "What’s New Pussycat" playing over and over is that the second time it plays your immediate thought is not "hey's it's playing again" it's "wow this is a really long song." But by iteration four (or maybe two iterations if it's just really, really long?) the guy next to him is clenching his teeth.]
[By the fifth iteration, people groan at the start of the song and Kon has to fight very hard to keep a grin off his face so they don't think he did it. He looks around and sees...okay, green guy. Who hasn't ordered anything but a drink - as in perhaps spent a lot of his change on lots of "What's new Pussycat"s? and is just there watching everyone.]
[He takes his coffee and pie over to the booth next to Leo's, sitting behind him so their seats are back to back. (He can't just sit with him or he'll be seen as a collaborator, and he's not taking any heat for the original part of the prank by going over to the jukebox.)]
[Very discreetly, with a sweep of his arm that seems like he's just moving into his booth with his pie, some more change is slipped on top of Leo's table.]
[Kon goes back to eating his pie and pretends to read something on his phone, quietly talking to Leo like they're two Soviet-era spies passing along state secrets.]
If I were you, I'd throw in a 'It's Not Unusual,' somewhere in the middle. It'd get their guards down for some more 'What's New Pussycat's. Then I'd cap it all off with an entirely different song that makes them think they're in the clear because it's not Tom Jones, but it's just a different bad song by a different singer. Like MacArthur Park.
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[(It's not like he gets tired easily so it saves on bus fare.)]
[He stops at the diner just to maybe get something warm to drink and because the smell of pie got him just a little homesick. It's cheap at least. He doesn't make much note of the green kid other than to make sure nobody around him is giving him the side eye too much. Some places in the city aren't the most friendly to metas. But no, he seems okay.]
[He looks a little like Lagoon Boy.]
[The thing about "What’s New Pussycat" playing over and over is that the second time it plays your immediate thought is not "hey's it's playing again" it's "wow this is a really long song." But by iteration four (or maybe two iterations if it's just really, really long?) the guy next to him is clenching his teeth.]
[By the fifth iteration, people groan at the start of the song and Kon has to fight very hard to keep a grin off his face so they don't think he did it. He looks around and sees...okay, green guy. Who hasn't ordered anything but a drink - as in perhaps spent a lot of his change on lots of "What's new Pussycat"s? and is just there watching everyone.]
[He takes his coffee and pie over to the booth next to Leo's, sitting behind him so their seats are back to back. (He can't just sit with him or he'll be seen as a collaborator, and he's not taking any heat for the original part of the prank by going over to the jukebox.)]
[Very discreetly, with a sweep of his arm that seems like he's just moving into his booth with his pie, some more change is slipped on top of Leo's table.]
[Kon goes back to eating his pie and pretends to read something on his phone, quietly talking to Leo like they're two Soviet-era spies passing along state secrets.]
If I were you, I'd throw in a 'It's Not Unusual,' somewhere in the middle. It'd get their guards down for some more 'What's New Pussycat's. Then I'd cap it all off with an entirely different song that makes them think they're in the clear because it's not Tom Jones, but it's just a different bad song by a different singer. Like MacArthur Park.
[He shrugs.]
But that's just me.