First Floor Lobby

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

The Tick sits in the lobby. In front of him? A couple new books from Major K!laus, the ACME catalog for his class's project, a stack of 14 evaluations (which was weird, since only 8 people had shown up to class this week, including Rory, Jaye, and Lockheed), and a notepad.

He wasn't paying attention to any of that, though. Somebody had left a nickel on the table. A shiny nickel.

It was really rather distracting.

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[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

Coming in from outside, breathing out as he passes into the warmth of the dorm lobby, Krycek noticed the Tick staring at something. He blinked and wandered closer, wondering what was quite so interesting, as well as meaning to thank the professor for the endorsement for the journalism campaign.

There was something shiny, he could see as he came up to the table. A nickel. He blinked again. "...Sir?"

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

Tick heard someone say something, finally breaking his concentration on the shiny nickel. "Huh? Oh, hello, student!"

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

Krycek nodded slowly, looking from the nickel to Tick's face slowly. "Yes. Um. Alex Krycek, sir. I wanted to thank you for doing the endorsement for my group's journalism campaign."

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

"Ah, you were teamed with Logan and Xander, then? You're welcome! How did it turn out?"

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

"Logan, Xander, myself and D'anna Biers, sir," he said, nodding. "It's going very well - the endorsement should run on the radio tonight, in fact." Krycek glanced at the nickel, then back at the Tick. "...I'm sorry, did I interrupt anything, sir?"

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

"I'll definitely be listening to the radio tonight, then!" Tick smiled. "Interrupt? Egads, no, chum! You know how it goes. A million things to do, and then something shiny catches your eye and distracts you for a while. Nothing important at all."

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

"Right. Yeah, all the time." Krycek seemed a little bewildered. Chum? People used that word? He cast around for something to change the topic and picked up one of the books from the table. "Rubix Cube? I haven't seen one in ages."


[ooc: Sorry Krycek's not particularly fun, but I couldn't pass up interacting with the Tick at least a little... *g*]

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

"Yes, the Rubick's Cube was my most recent foe! It appeared out of nowhere last Friday and then refused to be put down until Tuesday morning. I think that book may be a clue as to how I received the cube in the first place." Tick seemed to ponder for a moment. "It would have been nice to get that book before today, to be honest."

[OOC: I'm amazed at how often I've been getting that, actually. People just drop in to talk to Tick when I'm least expecting it. :) I'm cool with it, though. The more people Tick interacts with, the more people he gets to call "chum."]

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

[OOC: I'm tired and about to pass out, so I'm cutting this off now. Nice talking to you. :)]

"Egads, look at the time! I'd better get going. Have a good night, Alex!"

Tick grabbed his stuff and walked off to his room. He didn't notice that he had left the ACME catalog. And neither did Krycek, right? Winkwink, nudgenudge.

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

[ooc: Sorry, life intruded for a bit. Deleted the other comment to keep things clean. *g* Oooh, catalog!]

Krycek blinked and handed Tick back his Rubick's Cube book as he hustled out. "'Night, sir. Pleasure meeting you."

Bemused, he turned to go up the stairs, then realized that the professor had left his catalog behind. Lifting it off the table, he thumbed through it curiously as he went up the stairs. He'd return it tomorrow, if it wasn't interesting enough to keep.

[fh-anonymous.livejournal.com]

Several sets of small eyes, low down in the vent, watch Krycek climb the stairs. There are some dark mutterings, followed by a mad scrambling as several small bodies try to turn around in the tight space. Noises in the walls can be heard moving up to the second floor.

[janet_fraiser]

OOC: Why do I always see these too late to participate! *pouts muchly*

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

[OOC: What time zone are you in? I'll try to skew it towards you next time. :)]

[janet_fraiser]

((OOC: Central, actually. But if you could just hold an office hour during the day some time, I can drop off my excuse for missing Criminal Justice on Thursday. Written out by the real librarian, even! ))

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

[OOC: I should have daytime hours on Monday, or you can just hand it in tomorrow during the open class thing. Uncle George is going to like The Tick, I just know it!]