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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[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

After the memorial service, Sam went back to the dorms and changed into her snuggliest, fluffiest flannel pajamas and baby white seal slippers. She shuffled to Room 239/240 and knocked on the door, hoping to find Janet, who hadn't been at the service.

The room having been empty, she was roaming around the second floor when she heard the noise and went to investigate.

"What're we making?"

[janet_fraiser]

Janet gave Sam an amused look. "We?" she asked. "Please, God, don't help. Chocolate chip cookies. Want to measure out the sugar?" Janet shoved the recipe over at her. "I'm making a double batch."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam stuck her tongue out at Janet. "I only burned down the kitchen that one time. The fireman said that could have happened to anybody."

She double checked the recipe and doubled the amount for the sugar, then measured carefully. "Where's the bowl?"

[janet_fraiser]

Janet laughed. "You're right, it could have happened to anybody. Did they ever ask about why the waffle maker caught on fire?"

Janet pointed to a bowl to her left. "There. Now the brown sugar. Doubled again."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

His hair still wet, Cameron entered the common room. "Yo," he said, at least tried to as he ended up yawning through it.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Thankfully, they did not." Sam tried to wrap herself in her slightly tattered dignity, but that was tough to do in flannel jammies and seal slippers.

"Aye, aye, capitan," Sam said, as she dumped the sugar into the bowl (and wiped the spilled excess off the counter into her hand). She then began dutifully measuring out the brown sugar, pressing it down into the measuring cup.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Hi, Cameron," Sam waved with the hand holding the measuring cup, spraying brown sugar everywhere.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"I'm thinking I've come too soon," Cameron said with a grin.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"I'm just here as manual labor," Sam said, grinning, as she scooped up the sugar and threw it out. "Janet doesn't let me do the tricky stuff."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"I can see why," Cameron pulled up a chair and sat down beside the table.

[janet_fraiser]

Janet winced.

Oh, well. She'd known Sam would be around. She'd brought extra.

[janet_fraiser]

"Hey, Cam," said Janet. "How's it going?"

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"I could tell you, but I'd have to kill you." Cameron saidwith a wry smile.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam stuck her tongue out at Cameron. "Just for that, you get to figure out how to tell when an egg has reached partially beaten."

[janet_fraiser]

Janet just shook her head wordlessly and started unwrapping the sticks of butter. She'd set them out a bit earlier, so they were room temperature and soft enough for baking with.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"See? I'm cleaning it up, Janet."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

*Cally enters the common area, unsurprisingly attached to Anders at the hand, smiling*

Hey, what's going on? We could smell something interesting all the way down in 201. *grin*

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"I mean, how was I supposed to know waffle batter was flammable, anyway? It's not like they put a warning on the recipe."

Sam pouted. There should really be a warning about that kind of thing. And the four fire extinguishers she'd gotten the day after that from her best friends hadn't helped matters.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders, with a serious case of sleep-messy hair, waves at Cameron with his free hand as he and Cally enter the room (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhighdorms/245314.html?thread=9112130#t9112130).

"Hey, Mitchell."

[janet_fraiser]

"Hey, Cally!" said Janet. "I'm baking cookies, Cam's keeping me company, and Sam is getting in the way. Come on in."

[janet_fraiser]

"You're not touching the eggs!"

Janet looked slightly panicked.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Yo, man." Cameron nodded and tried to ignore the hair.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Janet." Anders smiles sleepily. "Sam's getting in the way, huh? Sounds like fun. Offer to help, but me with the cooking is scary."

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John saunters into the common room. "Is there food in here? I could smell it cooking down the hall."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam made a face at Janet. "You're the one who said I could help. And you knew what you were getting into."