"A smooth movement catches his eye as he looks over to the entrance. Magnus Burnsides enters, resident heart throb badboy, if the rumours are to believed that is.

Magnus' arms make a sweeping gesture as he empathically conveys something to the person beside him, face beaming brightly down to his companion all the while.

Taako scowls to himself. He seems to take up the entire room as he enters. Honestly, it should be illegal to be that built."

Inspired by the tumblr prompt:
"You're a rebel by accident cause you get really animated when you talk and hit people in the face leading to fights. Now you just roll with it. I know the truth though."

Chapter 1: Resident Heart Throb Badboy

The canteen chatter is loud and unforgiving as Taako waltzes in, hard lines and sharp corners emphisise that this is not generally a welcoming place. Can't let it show that it gets to him though.

He scans the tables as he makes his way over to the food queue, picking up a tray absentmindedly as he does. Students flicker by his line of sight and he cranes his head but no, Lup doesn't reveal herself. What is he kidding, he would have known if she was in the room already. He smirks to himself as the he reaches the head of the queue, she's not exactly subtle.

The smirk dies a quick death and horror quickly rises in its place as his eyes land on the monstrosity before him. The gods have forsaken the poor residents of this faculty today. What lies before him could not be given the label "food" or even edible. He edges closer to the tray with morbid curiosity and scrutinises the grey misshapen lumps that populate the gruel. Okay, yep, theory confirmed. The lumps moved and Taako is so out of here.

Not even going to entertain the thought of eating that, He moves past the clearly still animated grey glop and grabs some fruit from the bowl next to the cashier. That was definitely the last straw, he is making his own lunch from now on even if he has to get up at ass o'clock in the morning before class to do so.

He glides over to his usual seat next to the open windows and drops his fruit laden tray to the table with a clatter, his annoyance at the "lunch" options still grating at him. What kind of masochistic lunch faculty do they have that they are able to serve that to living beings?

Now that he thinks about it, that atrocity against culinary arts reminds him of the morally ambiguous creations of Garfield in his chemistry labs. He can almost hear the pitch he would use to try and sell it as a healing elixir of some kind.

"No pain, no gain! If it looks and tastes bad you know it'll be good for you!" His sly grin travelling unsettlingly far up his face.

"Trust me, I'm Garfield! Would I lie to you?" A shiver runs down his back just thinking about. Yeah, let's not delve to far down that mind path, he might get lost.

He shakes his head to get rid of the echo of Garfield's voice in his brain. He'd rather not have him occupy any of his thoughts if not totally necessary.

Leaning back into his seat he grabs an apple from his tray and looks up, absentmindedly glancing around the room. Lup should be out of her class soon. He can commiserate about the food with her when she gets here. Just the thought of doing that makes him feel a bit lighter. Nothing like a good complain to get the spirits high again.

A smooth movement catches his eye as he looks over to the entrance. Magnus Burnsides enters, resident heart throb badboy, if the rumours are to believed that is.

Magnus' arms make a sweeping gesture as he empathically conveys something to the person beside him, face beaming brightly down to his companion all the while.

Taako scowls to himself. He seems to take up the entire room as he enters. Honestly, it should be illegal to be that built.

Though saying that, he doesn't look like the type of person who would start fights for the hell of it. Taako leans on his other hand as he looks at him closer. Between the grin and the over exuberant arms, Magnus looks the embodiment of cheerfulness and the opposite of confrontational, even with the muscles on muscles.

He mentally shrugs to himself, maybe the rumours aren't true. He couldn't see how this man could start a fight for no reason. But, then again he hardly knows the guy.

Taako lazily follows his progress as Magnus and his companion make their way to the end of the food line. He wonders how Magnus would react to the glop they pass as food.

They're not even at the head of the queue when a hulking guy unwittingly walks right into the path of Magnus' expressive arms. Taako's eyes widen just as he comprehends what is about to happen.

WHACK!

Well, that looked like it hurt.

The guy is just lying on the ground where he fell, his face rapidly reddening as he realises what happened. Oh no, he does not look like a happy camper.

The canteen falls silent, holding its unified breath to see how this unfolds. Taako doesn't think that anyone else saw what actually happened, like the fact that it was a total accident. Man, Magnus is unlucky.

Magnus looks back at the person that just fell down to the ground, his eyebrows scrunching up in confusion. He clearly has no idea what just happened. The big lug probably didn't even feel it. Wow.

Despite his confusion, Magnus leans down and offers a hand to the guy on the floor.

"Sorry there fella, I think I may have knocked you down." A rueful smile climbs his face as he speaks. He definitely seems sincere.

Taako continues eating his apple tension slowly leaking out of his frame, it was clearly an accident and the dude apologised, why is everyone so tense?

A slap echoes around the room and his focus whips back to the now altercation taking place.

The guy just slapped Magnus' hand away from him? Rude, he was just helping you up pal. The dude stands up and whoa he's actually pretty tall and angry, okay this is not looking great. He looks like he should have steam coming out of his ears.

"WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?!" He yells at Magnus. His hands are balled into tremoring fists at his side.

Magnus' arms raise in the universal sign of 'Hey dude, chill out.', and then he proceeds to try and defuse the situation. "Hey man, it was an accident, no harm meant…"

Bruce Banner's alter ego interrupts and loudly shouts over him, "Accident? ACCIDENT?! YOU WERE CLEARLY HAVING A GO AT ME." He glares down at Magnus and is clearly gearing for a fight.

Taako can see the resignation enter Mangus' eyes as his figure sags almost imperceptibly, and he braces himself for whatever Rage-man throws at him. Meanwhile chatter is starting to gain volume again as these guys get ready to duke it out. Things look like they are about to get hairy, time to vamoose.

Taako stands up sharply, looks down at his tray of fruit, and hastily shoves it all into his backpack. It's not like Lup would have eaten the slop either. He'll text her to meet him somewhere that does not have the potential for body harm.

He slides his way through the crowd surrounding the scuffle and reaches the door. As he reaches the threshold he glances back into the fray but can't see anything through the throng of people cheering and booing in a rising chorus. Animals, the lot of them. He can't make out who is winning the 'fight' but he turns and leaves anyway.

His bet is on Magnus, and Taako doesn't lose his bets.