4th Floor Common Room: Wednesday Night

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana had gotten sandwich fixings, chips, brownies, and some drinks in town earlier in preparation for tonight. She'd made a couple of sandwiches for Han and left them in his room with a note saying she and Kiki would be hanging out in the common room watching movies if he felt well enough to join them and a voice mail for Shep saying the same.

She figured Kiki would come by once she'd rested some after classes. In the meantime, she popped in one of her favorite movies, "Honestly, Crazily, Intensely" and curled up on the couch to watch.


[OOC: Anyone's welcome to stop by and grab some food or hang out and watch movies with them.]

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[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

Allie's bored and wanders down to the common room.

"Hi Lana!"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Hi Allie! Hey, Kiki and I were planning on hanging out and doing a sandwich and movie night. I've got plenty of food if you want to join us. And a sappy movie already going." She smiled at Allie.

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

"Sure, if you guys don't mind me crashing," she says with a smile.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"I certainly don't and I can't imagine Kiki would," Lana said with another smile. "So, grab some food and pull up a couch. Have you seen this movie before? It's the one where her dead lover comes back as a ghost to help her move on? I thought it was fairly apt for Fandom."

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

Allie goes over to make herself a sandwich.

"No, I don't think I have," she says. "But you're right about it being appropriate around here. How are your classes going this term?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"So far so good. I'm really enjoying them. Forensics is fascinating. I wasn't sure I'd like it, but I really do. And Medieval History and US History - both very interesting and the teachers are great (and nice to look at). Sociology of the Paranormal... I like it, but some of it hits a little close to home sometimes." Lana looks thoughtful for a moment.

"How about you?"

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

"I like my classes so far. I'm taking Chemistry, which has always been my favorite science class, Arthurian Traditions, Advanced Speech and Sociology of Sex Cultures, which is definitely interesting."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, Shep's in Sex Cultures too and I know he really seems to enjoy it." Lana smiles at the thought of just how much he's enjoyed some of it.

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

"He's the one that found the missing section of that book Dr. Grissom gave us, right?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana rolls her eyes, "Yes, that would be my Shep. Leave it to him!" She giggles. "It is pretty funny in a way. I hear he went to a lot of trouble to find it."

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

Allie chuckles. "Was it that good?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"I only peeked at a little of it in the bookstore. Things have been pretty crazy around here, so I'm not even sure if Shep knows that I know he has it. I figure once things settle down some I'll get him to show it to me." She blushes and giggles a little.

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

Allie blushes and giggles, too. "So things are still going well with you two then?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, really well," Lana replies. "Kind of in the 'so well, that I keep waiting for the other shoe to fall' category of well. I keep waiting to screw it up somehow."

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

"I can't imagine you screwing anything up," Allie reassures her.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana laughs. "I know at least two guys here who would completely disagree with you. But thanks. And yeah, lately I seem to be the only one who doubts my abilities to do things. It's kind of nice to have so much support."

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

"I'm glad to be able to offer it. I think we always tend to think the worst of ourselves."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"You're probably right. I just... well, sometimes I feel so useless! Like this weekend with the snow monsters. I'm hiding in my room knowing Shep and Han and everyone are out there trying to keep the school safe and I'm totally unable to do anything. And then Han's nearly killed..."

She shakes her head. "It was just a bad week in general. Well, there were some really fun moments, but a lot of others that really made me think about stuff."

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

"I spent the whole time hiding in my dorm room, too," Allie admits. "But I figured I was doing everyone a favor by not getting in the way."

She looks at Lana sympathetically. "Anything you want to talk about?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, that's what Shep said. If he knew I was safe it would be one less thing for him to worry about." Lana sighed.

"Well, there was the whole thing with slapping CJ. And then Michael and Ben left... They'd kind of adopted me - taken me in - and it felt really good to have a kind of family. And then they moved to Belgium. It kind of threw me back into my whole 'everybody leaves me or dies' funk. And I've been feeling all paranoid about Shep, you know? I just care about him so much and if he were to disappear..." Lana shakes her head. "I don't think I could handle it."

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

"Wow that really does sound like a rough week," Allie said, patting Lana's shoulder. "You know if you ever need to talk, I'm almost always in my room."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Thanks," Lana said with a rueful smile. "I may take you up on that sometime. It's funny, it's not the crazy Fandom stuff that gets to me, it's the every day ordinary angsty stuff."

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

"Isn't that what high school is supposed to be about?" Allie asked with a smile.

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

Kiki comes in, wearing dark flannel pants and an oversized sweater. She'd gone back to her room and taken a nap in the afternoon, so she's feeling a little more rested.

"Hey, Lana, Allie," she smiles, curling up on one of the couches.

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

"Hi Kiki," Allie greets her with a grin.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Kiki! You're looking a lot better than you did this morning," Lana says looking relieved. "There's all sorts of sandwich fixings and snacks, help yourself. Or I can make you something if you want."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana laughs, "Yes, I suppose it is. So how are you doing on the whole angst-factor thing?"

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

"Sounds fantastic," Kiki answers, digging into the bag of bread and spreading it with mustard. "I ended up skipping Anthropology and going back to bed. I felt pretty bad after Magical Theory."

She settles back with her sandwich and some lemonade. "I mentioned this to Sakura, so she might come up, just to let you know."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"I'm glad you were smart enough to go get some rest, then," Lana said approvingly. "And as for Sakura... the more the merrier!"


[OOC: Mun must go to bed. Have fun, guys!]