2nd Floor Common Room (midafternoon through evening)

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Rory was curled up on the couch, her legs tucked up beside her. She had just gotten back from Christmas shopping, and in front of her were an array of brightly-wrapped gifts.

She flipped through the channels on the TV, finally settling on A Christmas Story.

[ooc: Yes, she has presents. She has lots of presents. If I told you you're getting one from Ror? She has it with her right now unless it's one of the live ones, which are both in her room. Even if I didn't already tell you you're getting one, you might be. And in any case, she'll give you candy. So stop by! I is bored!]

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"Oooh, you'd be our lead vocalist?" John makes an exaggerated thinking face. "And then you and Anakin could get together and be like Yoko and John! The First Couple of Rock Music!"

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Rory pretty much wanted to die. She stared at the ground, wondering if maybe a hole would open up and swallow her. It would be a Christmas miracle!

"Ew, don't compare me to Yoko!" she said, laughing probably a bit too loudly. "And, um, that's a ridiculous. Me and Anakin? Ha! That's completely...um....ridiculous! And redundant, apparently."

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"Yeah, you're totally not Yoko," John tells her. "Your hair's much better then Yoko's and you can probably sing better then her too. But, c'mon, you could travel with me and Anakin in our cramped tour bus! Sparks might fly and then I'd totally sell the rights to the movie to Touchstone and make a mint."

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Rory snorted. "John, you heard me sing at the pageant. We don't want me ever, ever doing that again. And...sparks? Me and Anakin?" She laughed loudly and fairly unconvincingly again. "Oh, that is so silly. And no one would want to watch that movie, anyway."

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"Oh, don't be silly," John says and bangs his tambourine against his hip. "I can see it now...A young girl from a small town comes face to face with her destiny. And her destiny is wearing brown burlap robes with an intensity that just oozes from the screen," John says in his best movie theatre voice, "Be sure not to miss...The Force of Destiny Is Pale!"

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Rory stared, her eyes wide, and then burst into completely genuine giggles.

"My destiny? And I'm not that pale!" she said when she was coherent again. "And people would be stupid enough to be into a movie like that, too. Not that anything like that would ever play out in real life. Like, it'd have to be totally fictional, you know."

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John laughs again. "Oh, people would so go to see it! I mean, we could get someone cute like...John Cusack to play Anakin. He could be bumbly and sweet but intense when he wanted to be. And then you could be played by...uh, Julia Roberts because her hair's the same color as yours." John nods excitedly. "And there could be oxycontin drug addictions added for the dramatic effect and...and MAGIC!"

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"Oh, but neither of us knows magic," Rory snickered. "I mean, Anakin does his Jedi stuff, but that's not magic. So we'd, what, just suddenly learn? And I'd, of course, be so good at it. Because I'm awesome. Naturally." She preened a bit and batted her lashes.

She made a face. "And neither of us is so stupid as to do Oxy all randomly. I mean, that's kind of pushing the drama over into an attention-whorey level." She grinned. "People'd still pay money to see it, though, I bet."

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"Right," John says seriously. "I agree about that Oxy. Also, you should totally have William Shatner in your movie so you can have that slow talk kind of thing. You know, the kind where if you typed there'd be a ton of ellipses!"

John continues laughing and finally says, "So can I sign you up for our band?"

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"If you like banshees, sure," Rory laughed. "And ellipses are weird. And ridiculous. Like, I have a kind of issue with speech when I'm nervous? But I can't stand those people who...always...talk...like...this."

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"Yeah, see, someone would start talking to me like that and I would just get so bored and fall asleep," John says and mock yawns and stretches. "And, in the band's movie, we'd keep the making out to a minimum. Because doing that all the time? Not cool. I don't wanna be known as the softcore porn band!"

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Rory blushed furiously. "Yeah, I agree. Gratuitous PDA? Not cool. Also? Really, really stupid pet names are a 'no.' I hate people who constantly call their boyfriend or girlfriend 'honey' or 'baby' or something equally cliche."

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"For real," John agrees. "If someone is calling me baby, I'd better be twelves years old with a rattle in my hand. Also, in the movie, we'd have to make sure to avoid someone doing something to us without consent. You know...like transferring things to us without our knowledge. I want this movie to be totally agreed upon by all parties."

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"Oh, totally," Rory agreed, nodding. "And if any of us mention anyone in any context, we probably should get written consent from them to use their name. Even if it's not in the film, but we're just talking on set and no one would even know."

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"Yes, consent is a must. Totally, one hundred percent consent. We don't wanna upset anyone." John nods again. "Also, maybe we could have a magical priestess who teaches you how to do magic? And a tattoo! Every cool, rock star girl needs a cool tattoo!"

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"I only want a tattoo if it can protect me from something. Not everything, because that would be too - " she made a face " - bleh. But maybe like a tattoo that protects me from something completely random, like people who talk entirely too much about their sex lives, or something? An anti-TMI tattoo?"

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"Ugh, yes. I hate people who want to inform me of their sexual escapades." John makes a face. "Hey, and maybe we could do a short part on your character's life in school. And, oooh, we could make it scandalous and have you involved with a teacher and auditing the teacher's classes and possibly making out in the classroom? C'mon, that would totally attact viewers!"

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"Which teacher, though? Like maybe the hot math teacher?" Rory mused. "He's the only one, because that's kinda gross, otherwise. And it would be totally inappropriate to date one of my teachers. Talk about a bias. Plus, it would have to be a teacher with some kind of hidden room in their classroom, since ew, cameras."

She tapped her chin thoughtfully. "But that's ridiculous - the idea of having some random little closet or whatever for students to use in a class?"

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"I dunno," John says, tapping his chin, "maybe it could be used when class got too hard for people to handle. But, honestly, in a schoo, the circulum should stay within limits for students of that age group. Because when people aren't supposed to uncomfortable in class. Oooh, and more scandal? We could have some really sensitive topic come up in class one day and have the auditing girlfriend character go a bit ballistic and off her Oxy meds!"

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"Yeah!" Rory said enthusiastically. "And then they can both be really confused by why everyone is upset by the sensitive topic! Ooh! And maybe there can be several people in there who have experience with that topic, and they can be totally ignored in a very insensitive way. Then it would make sense for them to go like, incredibly emo and self-centered and possibly crazy, I think."

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"But," John says, pointing a finger in the air, "we would also have to, before this class started, establish the fact that the dating teacher and student would be happy for some reason like, oh I don't know, a new marriage and that would bleed over into the sensitive subject so it would look like teacher and student were happy about the sensitive subject!"

John nods again. "This movie is gonna have it all!"

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"Yes! Completely in spite of the marriage being, like, illegal and everything. Who needs technicalities? It's not like it's supposed to be realistic or anything!" Rory nodded enthusiastically. "And then when people are upset, they can be all defensive and sad. Ooh! And there can be a giant scandal where they try to contact the friends of anyone who speaks out against them!"

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"Our movie must be full of scandal. People wanna see the nitty gritty." John makes his thinking face again. "And what if we did up the student character to look really...rough? I don't know if that's the word but what if she looked really rough sometimes and wore really short t-shirts to show off her non existent abs?"

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"Yes! And she could like, smoke and swear gratuitously. And even though she's like, supposed to be all tough and wants to be a player and all, she'd be in this scary, crazy, completely codependent relationship like five minutes in!" Rory agreed.

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"You're a genius, Rory," John says honestly. "But, you know, we'd have to have a super villain too. Someone with...reptiles as a part of their body?"