Second Floor Common Room

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Rory toddled out to the common room with LWB III, Holly, and several other dolls and stuffed toys with her. She also had a soft pink blankie.

She plopped onto the floor approximately a foot from the television, and began to watch Itchy and Scratchy, intermittently giggling around her thumb, which was firmly lodged in her mouth.


[ooc: So, Rory was bitten by a gremlin earlier. She now thinks she's about three or four years old. She still looks like she's seventeen, though, in spite of the icon. Also, she'll recognize people, but only if you're someone she knows pretty well. And don't expect her to process a whole lot. Rory was a very precocious toddler, but there's a limit, really.]

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"Lava monsters," Aeryn repeats. "Well, a helmet can help you with that. Is it... a real monster or a... pretend one?"

She can't believe she's asking this sort of thing.

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Rory glared. "Real," she said indignantly. "Look out, there's one behind you!"

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Aeryn knows there's not a monster behind her, so she doesn't play along, exactly. She does turn around, but as she has no imagination, she just nods and says, "Um. Is it hiding?"

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"It's stuck to your back," Rory said solemnly.

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Of course it is. "Can you get it off of me?" she asks. "You have the helmet."

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"Get off of Aeryn!" Rory said authoritatively. She brandished Little Wooden Boy as well. "There. It went bye bye."

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"Thank you," Aeryn says seriously. "You did a very good job of protecting me, Rory."

She is so glad John isn't here.

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Rory smiled and clapped her hands gleefully. "I could make you a helmet if you want."

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Aeryn pauses again. "Um. Me?"

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"Yes. So you can be safe," Rory said seriously.

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The girl who's seen battle both on the ground and in space, who was on the front lines against zombies, helped beat Hathor!Janet and who days ago survived O'Malley and a surprisingly vicious duck attack, is now left considering a folder helmet to save her from a pretend lava monster and is left saying, "Um."

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Rory frowned. "I don't have anymore folders, though."

She picked up a piece of paper and folded it in half clumsily (though she poked the tip of her tongue out in concentration, so she really was trying to be careful.)

She drew a purple happy face, and a big pink X through a scary face. Additionally, she wrote, "NO LAVA MONZERS" in green.

She offered it to Aeryn. "There."

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Aeryn takes her new helmet. "Thank you. Very much. Now I'm safe from..." deep breath "lava monsters."

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"But only if you put it on," Rory pointed out. She stared expectantly.

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Aeryn looks around to make sure no one else is there, and seems to kind of fold into herself in order to put the new folder helmet on her own head. "Happy?" she asks tightly wanting to take it off now omg.

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Jaye's totally in time to take a picture.

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"Yes," Rory nodded. Gently, though, so that her own helmet wouldn't fall off. "Now the lava monsters think you look icky and have cooties, like a boy."

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Aeryn stares at her from underneath her helmet. "I do not look icky," she says. "I don't even know what a 'cootie' is."

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"Cooties are dangerous. Boys have them. You can get them by touching a boy or even talking to one!"

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"I must be infested with them by now," Aeryn says without thinking.

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Rory scowled. "Well, you get the worstest cooties if you let a boy kiss you. But that's so gross, so I don' think anyone has Worst Cooties."

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Aeryn thinks she probably has the worstestest of cooties, but she's not saying that to someone who thinks she's three. Because there were certain things she hadn't known at that age and Aeryn is not frelling explaining it to her.

"Well, I'll be sure to go to the clinic later and... have myself tested," she says. "I'm going to go back to my room now. Will you be okay here?"

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Rory nodded solemnly. "Doctors are scary, but this is important. And uh huh. I'll color."

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Aeryn finally takes the folder helmet off her head. "Watch out for the lava monsters," she says, hurrying from the room.