Baking Night (2nd Floor Dorms)

[janet_fraiser]

Janet wasn't going to the memorial bonfire. It wasn't that she didn't care, it was just-- She short-circuited that train of thought and grabbed a bag of supplies from the corner of her closet. There was another bag in the fridge, and she grabbed her cartoon slippers before heading to the common area kitchen that Lee usually used to make toast.

She emptied the supplies for chocolate chip cookies onto the table--carefully, in the case of the carton of eggs--and started measuring out flour.

And if this was what she and Cassie did on the bad days back in Colorado, no one else needed to know that.


OOC: Open to anyone!

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders yelps and tries to duck out of the way, but ends up with flour on his shirt anyway. "Cool. If nothing else we could team up and see how many spectacular disasters we can create."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam laughed and moved forward to brush of Anders' shirt, but then remembered that her hand was covered in flour and handed him a paper towel. "I think that sounds like a great idea! Maybe I'm just bad at cooking because I've never had anyone teach me about it."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Thanks," he laughs, taking the paper towel and brushing off the flour as best he can. "Yeah, same here. Nobody ever taught me, but if you watch someone who knows what they're doing it always looks so easy. And then you try it, and you're surprised when it's not."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"You don't have to tell me," Sam answered, rolling her eyes. "I mean, I'm good at math and following directions...you'd think I'd be good at cooking too, right? Well, you'd be wrong."

She offered him the open bag of chocolate chips. "Help yourself."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

His eyes light up, and he digs into the bag and takes a handful to share with Cally. "Hey, thanks. I'm not good at math or following directions -- unless it's playbook strategy -- and I suck at it too. Maybe it's a natural talent or something."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"I think it's bad kitchen karma, actually," Sam replied, thoughtfully, as if imparting great wisdom. "I think I was really mean to Julia Child in a previous life and it's come back to get me."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

He tilts his head to the side a bit. "Who's Julia Child?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Oh, sorry. I forgot, Anders. She's a famous television chef--one of the first. She used to make food on television as part of a television show and make it look really, really easy and yummy. She just died a little while ago, actually."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Ah, gotcha. Yeah, we've got a few of those back home." He scratches his nose thoughtfully. "Not sure I ever watched any of them or anything, so I can't have insulted them . . ."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Maybe you don't have bad kitchen karma, then," Sam conceded.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Maybe not. Maybe just really lousy cooking skills."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"So you'll take the class, and you'll learn, and then you'll be able to make romantic and schmoopy dinners for Cally."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Carter, I like how you think. I am definitely gonna have to do that."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Thanks," Sam grinned, "You can have romantic dinners. I think I'll settle for one where I don't send people to the infirmary hospital."

[janet_fraiser]

Janet eyed the bag of chips. Her hands were covered in cookie dough right now, so she couldn't eat any of them. Damn.

"If I don't make fun of that statement, will you feed me chocolate chips?" asked Janet. She held up a batter covered hand. "I can't snag any on my own."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Yes, I will feed you chocolate chips since you're being so nice to me and not mentioning that one time off-world."

She took out a few chips and deposited them in Janet's mouth like she was feeding a baby bird.

[janet_fraiser]

"Making cookies makes up for a lot of teasing, right? That time off-world will live in my memory forever, though."

Janet grinned at Sam and let the chocolate start melting on her tongue.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"It does. Plus, we've got more people here, so it's more fun." She eyed the throng. "Do you think we should have made a triple batch? Tell me about it. Even Daniel still harasses me about it."

[janet_fraiser]

"It's nice that there are more people here," said Janet. Then she looked at the size of the crowd. "Maybe. We're definitely going to have to make sure we set aside some cookies for ourselves first, though."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Well, sure. We're doing all the work." She snitched a fingerful of cookie dough and ate it off her index finger. Yum. "And for Daniel and Jack, if we don't want to be hearing about this until the end of time. Oh, and Liz and Charlie, too. I wonder if Aeryn's ever had a chocolate chip cookie? We should save her a couple, too."

"We just know too many people, Janet."