Thumpthumpthump. "Hallooo?" Yi sticks her face right up to the peep hole and stares into it, thinking she might see anything through it. Momentary grin to Anneka and she's watching again.

Anneka giggles muffledly, behind Yi, and looks about the hallway outside the apartment. Now and then she rocks back on her heels. Her skateboard is tucked under a skinny arm.

"Sec!" the voice floats muffled through the door, and then the familiar sound of the locks flicking back, the door opening, and there's the Bernie, same outfit and form as the day before, but quite definitely healing. Now, most of the worst burns are down to scabs or new, extra pink skin; most of the lesser burns are completely gone. It bodes well. She's wearing the new glasses, too, and greets the pair promptly with a wide and apparently painless or barely painful grin. "Hey! Welcome back..."

Yi wiggles her free hand with a limp 'Hi' wave, and shifts the pizza boxes in hand. "Isn't it nice to have room service?" she laughs and almost bounces in. "You're looking ... maaah-velous daaahleeng." See Yi. See Yi on a new moon phase.

Anneka's smile grows quick as the cub springs to attention, eyes bright and curly hair framing her face in a mane as she gives Bernie a quick looking-over. A healing Bernie is apparently a very good thing, for she beams even more and bounces in after Yi. "Hi! You look great, Bernie!"

"Zhank you, dahhhhhhlinks," Bernie replies in cheerful faux-Gabor fashion, closing the door behind the pair, "...good thing too, since I'm auditionin' for Miss 'merica t'marra, y'know." Yeah, right. Even on her best day that'd be a hell of a long shot. "Oooh, pizza! Yum. What kind?" And that would be one of the many reasons why.

Yi looks down at the three boxes in arms and blinks back up. "Well I didn't know what kind you liked, and Anneka wasn't sure, so..." she looks over at Anneka. "So we just got everykind." She smiles widely, amidst distinct smell of cheese, veggie, and meat lovers.

Anneka returns a solemn nod to Yi. "It was a verra diff'cult choice." She grins as she leans her skateboard up against the couch and wriggles free of her coat, which she folds up nearby. There's a muffled clunk from something or other in one of her pockets, possibly even a crowbar.

Bernie grins, heading toward the dining table, where there's actually room for pizzas, "...lovely. I'm not picky, so hey, all good.... whatcha been up to?"

Anneka stretches out into a yawn on the way to the table, the sort that'd curl her tongue were she lupine. "Mf. Been explorin', and pickin' up a buncha cans, too. I have a buncha quarters."

Yi slips the boxes down side by side and opens each one up. The scent of warm pies floats up with the steam and Yi breathes it in with a whiff. "Catching bugs," she replies. "Did I mention butterflies are sneaky?"

Anneka glances off towards the kitchen, then to Bernie. She grins. "I can get drinks 'n stuff." Then she blinks. "Butterflies?"

"Oddly 'nough," Bernie replies, "'sneaky' isn't a word I ever associated with butterflies... an' quarters are good. Handy for, y'know, machinesa all types. Laundry, video games, candy, gumballs, drinks, an' yeah, speakin' of those, please do. I'm thinkin' Coke assumin' there's any left..."

Yi nods. "They're vicious. The moment you think you have them caught, they fly.. Zoom! Straight at your face and beat their wings right at your eyeballs. Maybe they think they can lash out those antennas and poke your eyes out before escaping to freedom." The Canto-ragabash nods solemnly, like this is the truth. "I wouldn't want to be in their position either... being caught to later be eaten by a bat is not exactly a fate I'd prefer. Oh.. uhm, Coke? Or Orange juice, if there's not enough."

Anneka's shoes clomp about a bit as she wanders into the kitchen, trailing a loose lace behind her. "I think I've got--" A cabinet opens and the cub removes three glasses before nudging it shut. "--Hm. Four quarters are a dollar, and--" Her voice gets muffled as she pops the 'fridge open. "--and ten dimes are--" She straightens up and looks back over her shoulder at Yi, then goes back to pouring drinks. "Ten dollars, I think. I've never had butterflies in /my/ eye b'fore."

Bernie grins at Yi. "...maybe y'oughta not go with an insectivore; find yourself a fruitbat.... whatcha feedin' a bat for, anyhow?" She opens the boxes, admiring the pizza inside. "...mmm. An' ten bucks, not bad, Rockefeller..."

Anneka tromps back out with three cokes, sans ice cubes, clasped together in her hands, her brow furrowed as she watches them. The stray lace jumps and trails behind her shoes.

"It took a /lot/ of cans," Anneka says, grinning at Bernie.

Yi looks impressed by Anneka, gratefully accepting a coke. "I don't know.. I have not heard of fruitbats in such cold weather. Soulcatcher did say that I should catch some bugs as offering. So..." Yi shrugs, and gives the Coke in her hand a 'look'. It pops softly and air fizzles out in a whoosh. "I was wondering if it might be a vampire bat too."

"I bet," Bernie replies, "they're... what, five cents d'posit now, right? So ten bucks, that's two hun'red cans. 's a lotta cans." She eyes the pizzas thoughtfully, pondering plates, then shrugs and takes the whole box, plopping onto the couch with it on her lap, and pickign out a slice to munch.

Anneka eeps, quietly and dashes back to the kitchen, returning a moment later with three plates. "Oops." She sets them down at the table, before stretching her arms out and wiggling them. "My arms are gonna fall right off. It took th'whole week to get 'em all." She grins and flops down near Bernie with a slice of pizza and her coke.

Yi nods with appreciation to for the plate, and picks out a slice of veggie before chomping down on the helpless edible triangle. "Where'd you keep them all? I hope you didn't raid Rotem's can stash. He seems to be collecting them for some reason," she speaks after swallowing.

"It'd be weird stashin' 'em where I found 'em," Anneka mumbles, as she chomps at her pizza. "Mf-- I found some at Harbor Park, an' near it, an' a bunch just around." She tilts her head slightly. "An' I found this guy wantin' to know why I wasn't in school, but I couldn't trade him for a nickel." She makes a face.

Bernie grins, swallowing her bite of pizza before she speaks. Manners, y'know. "Wha'd y'tell him?" she asks, before washing the bite down with Coke.

Yi looks a little blank. "What does that mean?" she asks right before she pauses to bite her pizza slice again.

Anneka wolfs down a few more bites of pizza, before leaning back against the couch. "Well, I was skatin' 'round near the park on Thursday, and this guy drove up an' said that kids were s'posed to be in school. So I said I was on vacation, an' that I wasn't goin' t'school here, which is kina true, 'cept I don't go to school /anywhere/, an' then he was like, 'you should get in th'car with me', an' I was like, 'uh-huh, right'." She makes a face. "Skateboards can go places cars can't," she says, after a moment.

Yi nods solemnly and takes another bite of pizza, swallowing before saying anything. "A police car?" she queries simply, ending the question with a sip of Coke.

Anneka shakes her head. "It was justa white car with a spotter on it, an' lotsa people have those. Sometimes cops, sometimes not." She takes a few more bites from her pizza, then starts gnawing on the crust. "An' I wouldn't go with neither, anyway, so-- zoom."

Bernie nods. "Prolly a good plan. Be a pain in th' ass t' getcha back, 'f they took ya, I s'pect...." She munches more, thoughtfully.

"Quick like an otter, and as slippery as one too," Yi comments with a grin around her crust of her veggie slice.

Anneka curls up a bit, pulling her legs up, and props her dish on her knees. She grins at Yi, then looks down at her pizza with a certain amount of thoughtful regard. "'s like Bernie said, it'd be a real pain t'get back, 'n /bad news/ too, 'cause they might try t'send me back t'Tacoma or somethin'. Then I'd hafa go t'foster parents or somethin'."

Bernie ponders, brow furrowing. "Makes me wonder 'f we oughtn't talk t' onea those kin lawyers we got lyin' 'round an' see what we could do 'bout gettin' someone set up as her legal guardian or something," she remarks, toward Yi. Then, to the cub, "...not t' talk 'boutcha like you aren't here. But, y'know, seems like it'd maybe be not such a bad idea."

Yi shrugs, unsure. "I'd be willing, but even I'm not safe from the law. The INS would ship be back in a second if I was caught." She looks over at Anneka, "Which, we won't be. Because we're just like that." A grin, wry to the core.

Anneka blinks at Bernie, twice. "That'd be cool." She reaches up and rubs the bridge of her freckled nose. "Well, I'm fourteen, so I'm not a little kid but that's four years of people askin' questions, 'specially since I'm pretty small, too." She furrows her brow. "An' I dunno what'd happen-- My dad's still-- my dad. He's sick 'n all, but--" She shrugs. "An my mom had folks 'n Vancouver, but w'never see them, really."

Anneka grins at Yi. "Yup."

Bernie grins. "Well, seein' as I'm sixteen, I don't think I'm inna position t' volunteer. But Kaz maybe could... we'd hafta as a lawyer what all th' ramifications'd be. An' Yi, maybe you c'n talk t' th' kin Matt did? She was offerin' t' get him fake papers an' shit, 'til she knew he could do it legally." She sighs, making a move to scratch her arms and stopping herself just in time. "...I think I'm gonna take a shower. You guys c'n feel free t' stay while I do that, though..."

Anneka grins at Bernie. "'kay." She looks over at the pizza. There is, after all, still a lot left.

Yi nods slowly, and closes up the covers over the pizza boxes to keep them somewhat warm. Looking over at Anneka, she grins again before the cub moves to doze a little on the couch. "I'll save some for you and Matt. Promise," she chuckles at Bernie.

Bernie giggles, and nods. "Thanks," she replies, picking up the bottle of aloe and disappearing into the bathroom with it, "...see y'all in a few!" The door closes, and soon, all that hints of her is the sound of running water and the steam coming from the edges of the door.