Habit telling Vin theyre going to have bonding time and spending the whole day trying to get him to play games or something with him. Requested by a anon on tumblr
"Vinny guess what!?" Habit yipped bouncing into Vinny's bedroom while he pulled on his shirt.
"What?" Vinny asked without looking at Habit, pulling on his shirt. He was not actually interested. Not that he didn't care, whatever it was it was probably bad for him, so he cared, but he wasn't enthusiastic.
"We're bonding today!" Habit enthused. "I got a whole bunch of board games! I can't understand those video game things."
"Why do you want to bond?" Vinny asked staring at Habit suspiciously.
"Come onnnn Vinny we've been living together for months isn't it time we get to know each other better!?" Habit insisted. "Most of the board games have four players so I invited Firebrand over later. I could bring Patrick too, or Noah if you'd rather spend some more time with him."
"Or we can just not." Vinny suggested passively, pushing his glasses up his nose.
"Nope this is happening." Habit said bouncing up off the edge of Vinny's bed where he had settled. "I have cupcakes in the oven."
"Fine." Vinny sighed, tiredly rubbing his forehead. "I don't care who you bring then."
"Okay Patrick it is." Habit said striding out of the room. He paused and stuck his head back through the door. "The cupcakes will be out of the oven and cool in about a half an hour. Want to help me decorate them? You know you do, that never stops being fun."
"Sure." Vinny agreed shrugging. He did like decorating cupcakes, Habit was right, that never stopped being fun.
Vinny followed Habit downstairs since there was nothing else to do. Habit puttered about the kitchen singing nonsense syllables. Now and then it resolved into words, but Vinny didn't pay attention opting to make himself scrambled eggs for breakfast instead. The smell of baking filled the room and Vinny found himself looking forward to the cupcakes. Habit was good at baking, no doubt these would be good.
A timer dinged and Habit shooed him out of the way, slipping on a pair of oven mitts, and taking the cupcakes out. Over the last few months Vinny had gotten used to the sight of Habit in a striped apron and oven mitts. At first he had thought it was ridiculous, but he could understand that Habit loved cooking.
Habit was good at what he called 'delayed gratification'. He would rather have nice homemade cupcakes that took a longer to make than bad store bought ones. Vinny finished eating his breakfast and then helped Habit do the dishes from the baking. He suspected if he didn't help now, he would end up doing it by himself later.
"Okay dokey let's start making up the icing!" Habit hummed happily. "What do you think? Regular icing? Chocolate? Butter cream?"
"I think just regular." Vinny commented. He didn't like butter cream very much, it was too rich for him.
"Half and half butter cream and regular." Habit suggested. "I like butter cream."
"That works." Vinny said and Habit handed him a bag of icing sugar.
"You do the regular 'cause it's easier. I'll do the butter cream." Vinny nodded and started mixing the icing, doing his best not to make it too watery. He wondered if Habit would want to do colours. Probably. That was part of the fun about decorating.
With that in mind Vinny divided the icing into smaller bowls. After a minute Habit carried over a few more small bowls of butter cream icing. He nodded in approval when he saw that Vinny had already divided his up.
"Time to get creative!" Habit laughed, grabbing a box of food colouring before he pulled out the green and threw it across the room laughing heartily.
"Green is not a creative colour!" Habit laughed and Vinny rolled his eyes.
"Okay Habit." He said in an overly patient voice. Habit grinned at him and they started to mix colours. Habit had pulled out a box of sprinkles and one of edible silver balls. Habit loved sprinkles.
Habit kept humming as they started decorating cupcake. Vinny recognized a couple of the songs but didn't join it.
"Look I made a bunny!" Habit exclaimed holding up a cupcake to show Vinny a white rabbit design surrounded by purple icing.
"That's really good Habit." Vinny complimented and Habit beamed proudly. He was like a weird, violent, five year old sometimes. Sometimes it was cute.
"I've had a lot of practice." Habit laughed using a single prong on a fork to give the rabbit a little purple eye.
About an hour later Habit left briefly and brought Patrick back with him. Patrick was looking a little rumpled, but better than Noah had the last time Vinny saw him. Patrick seemed to be better than most of them at keeping himself under control while on the run.
Firebrand showed up on his own soon afterwards. Just appearing at the dining room table after Vinny blinked. Vinny hardly jumped, he was used to people jumping in and out of reality in seconds.
"Okay what should we play first?" Habit asked. "Ooo we should play Uno!"
"Isn't that a kids game?" Patrick asked leaning across the table and snatching a cupcake with too many sprinkles that Habit had decorated.
"Yep!" Habit agreed grinning at Patrick.
"Let's do it!" Firebrand agreed, his thin smile widening.
"Okay." Patrick sighed sitting back in his chair and taking a bite of the cupcake. He and Vinny shared an exasperated look. How come Habit and Firebrand were immortal and it was the humans who were the mature ones?
Habit shuffled and dealt. Vinny took his cards and looked at them, fairly evenly dispersed with colours. Could have been more pick up cards, but that was fine. He looked up and could tell by the smirk Patrick wasn't even trying to hide where the pick up cards were. Thank goodness it was Habit next to Patrick in the rotation.
Vinny went first, the colour was blue, he put down a five. Firebrand next, then Patrick. As Vinny had expected, Patrick put down two pick-up-two cards and laughed when Habit squawked in protest. Vinny couldn't help but laugh too, but he stopped when Habit put down another pick-two-card making Vinny pick up six.
"Fine." Vinny sighed and picked up the cards. He wished he had the last pick up card, but he didn't so instead he put down three sixes. As Habit and Patrick started arguing and Firebrand laughing at them Vinny smiled. This was looking like it might be a fun day off after all.