Who: Jean-Paul (NORTHSTAR), OPEN
Where: Erik and Jean-Paul's flat
When: Nighttime, the day before the briefing.
What: Potluck!
Rating: PG-13 because the Alpha kids tend to be potty mouths.

Given the choice, Jean-Paul didn't suffer crappy food for long. Painful as that highly nutritional gruel at base was for all of them, he would dare say it was ten times worse for him. He had to eat ten times more, so it was simple math. But never mind their sordid past - he is making up for it now by calling upon his cooking skills to spare his stomach and those of the rest of his housemates. For the past few hours, while also watching Law and Order reruns over his shoulder, he's been preparing chicken vegetable stirfry, lasagna, sweet potatoes and spinach cheese casserole.

And though surely the smell of food is enough to bring the others over, sticky notes if not direct invites were passed around, and, now that it's near serving time, the front door left unlocked. In the other room Lenny Briscoe says something punny, and Jean-Paul pulls the lasagna out of the oven.