Second Floor Hallways [afternoon]

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Wearing his lightball gloves, and with several other pairs (along with a pair of mittens!) shoved into his jacket pockets, Bridge knocks on Anders' door.

edited to clarify time and place, yay!

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders, who's just returned from a successful if fortuitous operation to rescue his stolen pants (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhighdorms/281914.html?thread=10390330#t10390330), jumps up to go open the door.

"Bridge! Hey, dude! What's up?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"I need distraction. Lightball is a good distraction. Wanna play?" he throws some lightball gloves at Anders.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Crap!"

A small, fuzzy ball came zooming down the hallway. As he got closer, Vladdie slowed down to sniff the two boys, remembering them as OMGBESTFRIENDS. He yips happily, and lands between them.

From down the hall, a very aggravated-looking Rory slows and sighs. "Hi. He...um. He got away from me again. Sorry."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders catches the gloves and puts them on; he practically starts bouncing because Bridge is rubbing off on him, OMGdirty at the idea. "Lightball? Totally. Cally's off in the common room doing fiddly mechanical stuff, which I think she'd probably love you to help her with, but I'm bored, man. Let's go."

Shutting the door behind him, he asks, "So where to? Right here in the hall?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Hey Vladdie!" Bridge grins at the puppy. "Anders and I are gonna play lightball!"

When Rory arrives a few moments later, Bridge tosses a pair of lightball gloves at her "We're playing lightball. Wanna join?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory catches the gloves and gives Bridge a weird look. "Um, okay. What's lightball, and why do I need gloves?"

Vladdie, for his part, looks delighted at the word, "ball."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders waves a gloved hand at Rory. "Hey, Rory! You're all upright and stuff! Awesome!"

He grins and reaches down to pat Vladdie on the head. "Hey, little guy. How ya been?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Of course here in the hall! Hallways are the best place for lightball!" Bridge says with a grin.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory smiles. "Yeah, got out on Wednesday. Good to see you y'know, without having to look up." She glances up at him. "I mean, more than usual."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders laughs as he adjusts his lightball gloves. "Really glad you're all mobile and stuff, so soon. Was kinda worried you'd be stuck in bed for a while longer yet. How's Logan doing?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"He's fine. Healing, but otherwise good," Rory grins. "Oh, and Bridge," she adds, laying a hand on Bridge's arm conspiratorially, "I made my first batch of waffles last night. Didn't get to eat them, but...they went to good use."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge snickers a little. "That's awesome!"

He then gets down to the serious business of explaining lightball. "Basically, there's a little ball of light-" he switches his gloves on, and the ball appears, hovering a few inches above his outstretched palm, "-and the objective is to catch it with your right glove. Once the game starts, it'll start to move around on it's own, bouncing off walls, and, well, people and stuff."

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John decides to head down to Bridge's room to see if he'd had any leads on the missing clothing.

Seeing Bridge and Anders in the hallway, doing...something was expected. Seeing Rory was not.

Uh oh.

"Uh, hi," John mumbles, addressing them all and keeping his eyes anywhere but looking at Rory. "Whatcha all doing?"

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[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Hi, John," Rory says quietly, her voice gentle. "How are you?"

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Fine, fine," he tells her. "You? Doing okay still?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory nods, smiling hesitantly. "Hey, I'm...um. I'm sorry for how I reacted in the clinic."

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"No, no," John replies. "You had every right to be mad. I shouldn't have lied. And I know it was bad timing and an awkward situation. I'm sorry for that."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory offers a glove-clad hand. "Friends?"

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Okay," John says and breathes a mental sigh of immense relief omg. "Thanks, Rory

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Uh, guys?" asks Anders, a touch impatiently. "We gonna play?"

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"We're not getting naked while playing, are we?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Oh, frak no. Do you know what I had to go through to get my pants back today?" Anders pauses. "Well, okay, so it was kind of easy all things considered, but no, no, no, there will be no more naked games playing anywhere outside of my room."

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"You got your pants back? How'd you get your pants back? I want my pants back!"

John finally looks around at what Rory, Anders, and Bridge are all wearing. "What are we playing, anyway?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge just shakes his head and snickers at Anders.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Naked?" Rory asks curiously. "Why would we play naked?"