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4th Floor Common Room - Tuesday Evening

Since Linguistics has been wrapped up for the term, Shep is back in the dorms fairly early.

He comes into the Common room to upload the two new Sims packs he's gotten from his Secret Santa and to see who might be around to pester.

He's bored. And a bored Shep is a very, very dangerous thing.

The well armed tree is still in the corner. Looking very, very pathetic.

[come on in and keep Shep from deciding to find other ways of entertaining himself.]

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Lana peeks in, hoping he'll be there, and smiles when she sees he is. "Hey. I stopped by your room, but clearly you weren't there. Glad I found you."

I'm hiding in plain sight - seems I pissed off Carter in shop class today. Also by trying to hide in plain sight... so maybe... you know, this isn't a strategy I should be sticking with today.

*Shep shakes his head, trying to clear it*

What's up?

"Do I need an excuse to come find you?" she asked teasingly.

"Honestly, I just wanted to see you. And... I saw Han today in Biology. He's pretty broken up." She crossed the room and sat next to him on the couch. "I guess I'm a little worried about him."

You don't *need* an excuse, but when someone says "I'm glad I ran into you," there's generally a reason for wanting to do so.

I heard a little through the grapevine... that wasn't... we didn't have anything to do with that, did we?

"Oh. You know... I didn't even think...Well, I mean, I did think..." She flushes. "No, I don't think it has anything to do with that. I think it's something that happened before. I just... He looked so upset and I knew there was nothing I could do. I hate that."

She looked at him with a rueful grin, "I know this will come as a great shock to you, but I like to fix things."

"So, what did you do to upset Carter in Shop?"

I'll try and talk to Han later. Or buy him a drink or something. And you? Fix things? Nooo....

*smiles*

What I did to Carter... I made a pretty ring with lights on it. She had a stroke.

She smiles back at him. "Brat. You didn't *have* to agree with me."

She wrinkles her nose at his comment about the "pretty ring", "Somehow I'm sure there's more to it than that. Don't worry, though, I'm not asking."

She sees the Sims packages. "Hey, what have you got there?"

Shep rolls his eyes over the whole to-do in Shop. "I swear no one would have looked at it twice if she hadn't called attention to the whole thing."

He tosses her the boxes. "I got new Sims packs from my Secret Santa. Oh, get this, Professor Cregg asked if I was going to use the Sims as little 'example people' in my speech final. I found that far too funny."

"Well, I guess she had her reasons. Whatever they were."

She looks at the boxes. "Oh, these look like fun. Never played them myself. And Professor Cregg wants you to sue them for your speech final? How cool!" She makes a mock sad face. "Still no Secret Santa gift for me." She sighs. "It was probably one of those people who've disappeared suddenly in the past week."

She hesitated, "And I wanted to say I'm sorry Maia and I got on the radio the other day. I should have figured someone would overhear, but I honestly didn't think about it at the time."

He realizes he's getting worked up over the shop thing again, but only half-assedly tries to control it. "My major glitch wasn't that she was annoyed by what I did, but that she expects me to be responding to some information that I don't have. Which is a little annoying as you might guess."

"Sue them? Huh?" Thinks. "I have no idea what I said that made you say that, but no... I have to make a demo with them. Sims as a Microcosm for Speech Class. But now I want a little lawyer Sim to watch the one getting served have a fit."

Shep thinks about the Secret Santa thing. He's about to bounce on someone's head if something doesn't change soon. But he doesn't say anything because Lana'll just say 'it's okay'. But clearly it's not if she's bringing it up.

"You and Maia were on the radio? I don't always hear the radio... so... What? Did I piss her off too?"

Now he's in a funk. He knows Lana wasn't within a lightyear of what happened in shop, but he's in a crappy mood over it and can't seem to get over it.

"Hey... I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bring it all back up again. And I'm almost positive you knew I meant "use" and not "sue". So, I get a little tongue-tied around you sometimes." She smiles at him, then gets more serious and looks a little anxious.

"Maia and I... well... she was asking about you, about... *us* and it got picked up on the radio. Barbossa said something about there now apparently *being* a 'Lana 'n Shep' and I just, well... I didn't know how you'd feel about that. And I'm sorry."

Oh... Sorry. ~~the mun is dyslexic and stupid and assumed it was her bad typing and didn't go back to check~~ No... I'm only half-here.... Shop has me more than pissed. The whole thing about all the other people I'm supposedly here 'with' knowing stuff and not telling me... it's pissing me off but good.

As for the the other... well, as long neither of us is dead there is a Lana and a Shep... and there are way worse things people could think of me than thinking there's a "Lana and Shep." *He smiles at her and tugs her hair gently*

~~It's all right. This Mun didn't realize she'd mistyped till I read the response ;)~~

"I wish there was something I could do about that. It's got to be hard." She gives him a little smile. "Want me to go beat them up for you?"

Something tight within her relaxes as he tugs on her hair and smiles at her. "Okay then." She moves in closer and rests her head on his shoulder with a little sigh. "I don't think I've kissed you all day."

Shep shrugs. "Welcome to my life. You'd be amazed at the number of times I'm told that I needed to do things this way and not the way I did them... after the fact. This is the part where I don't piss and moan about always being the new kid and never quite fitting in."

He puts his arms around Lana, settling her against his shoulder. "I don't think you have... and in the mood I'm in, I'd be surprised if you wanted to."

"I'd never really been the new kid till I got here," Lana said quietly. "But I can imagine it's got to be pretty miserable. I was about ready to cut and run. But then, I don't think I'm as tough as you are."

She snuggled in closer to him, nuzzling his neck a little. "How bad would you think I was if I said I pretty much always want to?"

"Is there anything I can do to cheer you up? Play Sims with you? Make up silly answers to Jeopardy questions? Blush and stutter a bit?"

"I don't know... you could do it if you had to. When you have to... you just do it... there aren't a lot of choices. Besides I've seen you adapt to things around here. You'd manage just fine."

He smiles at her attempts to cheer him up. But he's so infrequently in a bad mood that he's not sure what the best thing to tell her is. He wonders if this is what people mean by "not fit for company" and maybe he should just go back to his room.

"You're very sweet. I'm just being a bastard. And the thing of it is, what will get me in more trouble is talking about it, so I'm just screwed.

She smiles at him, though he probably can't see it with her head resting on his shoulder. "Then we won't talk about it. We can turn on the TV, watch some silly distracting thing, and just sit here. I'm perfectly content with that as long as I can be here with you like this."

That'd be nice. I'm sorry I'm such an ass today. It's not like I don't know I'm being an ass, I'm just rather at a loss for what to do about it. But a little banal t.v. sounds good. Then I'm gonna have to get home and start getting my stuff together for my Linguistics final.

Not to mention figure out if I need to redo today's shop project since Carter's the T.A.

[ooc: need to do a bit with Wes tonight too.]

"I think I've known you long enough to know that you're not usually like this. And it's okay. It's been a tough day for you."

She pulls back and looks at him, "I couldn't do anything to help Han, but maybe I can at least make your day not so crummy. So, we can... be snuggly... till you have to go and maybe we'll both feel better."

[OOC: Sure, let me know when she needs to go or she can doze while Wes comes in and chats or whatever. I'm flexible.]

"Thanks. It is nice to just have someone be here with me. No matter how obnoxious I am. Hey did I tell you that Professor Cregg actually requested that I take her 301 class next term? Someone loves me."

He pokes Lana in the ribs, just so she'd know he was playing.

Lana laughed and elbowed him back. "Oh, *someone* does do they? A real *live* person or one of your Sims?" She stretched up and kissed him on the cheek.

"And don't worry. I'm sure there'll be a time when I'm in a miserable mood and you can sit with me then. How's that sound?"

"Sounds fair." He snuggles her in and then reaches over and drops the remote in her lap. "Here, let's see if anything interesting is on."

She flips through channels. "Oh there's that SUV show. Don't think I'm in the mood for anything heavy though." She keeps flipping through until she settles on a sitcom.

"This okay? I'm not picky. I mostly want an excuse to be right where I am now." She grins up at him.

"You should come with a label: Warning, may cause diabetes."

He kisses the top of her head. "But this is fine."

"You are *such* a brat. I'd hit you, but I'm too comfortable where I am."

She settles in, half-watching the show and half-dozing a bit.

Shep just smirks and settles in to watch the t.v. Not that it was any big surprise, but Lana was able to make him feel better.

She could feel him start to relax, his heartrate and breathing slow down, and she smiled against his chest. She could feel herself relaxing as well. His warmth and the... scent... of him always made her feel safe and secure.

She closed her eyes, just to rest them for a moment, but before she knew it she'd fallen sound asleep in his arms.

Shep sits and watches the tube through that program and the next. But as he feels his own eyes slipping shut, he taps Lana on the shoulder. "Hey... Sleeping Beauty. I think they issue beds around here."

Lana stirs and smiles up at him sleepily. "They do, huh? Not as nice without you there, though." She blushes as she realizes what she just said.

"Okay, I'd better head up to my room now." She shifts so she can give him a real kiss, then gets up.

Shep kisses her back. "I'll walk you upstairs."

They make their way up to the West Attic in companionable silence. When they reach her door, Shep kisses her goodnight and she responds, still warm and drowsy with sleep, then whispers good night and disappears into her room.

[OOC: Shep godmodded with permission.]

((ooc: Sorry, Wes was ~~at the middle school holiday concert~~ out on a long angsty walk. Slow-play here (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhighdorms/316976.html?mode=reply)?))

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