Second Floor Common Room - Sunday Afternoon

[pyramid-is-life.livejournal.com]

Kara settles down for a lazy Sunday in the second floor common room to watch the Olympics.

Her Quick Quotes Quill from Professor Skeeter floats nearby over a notebook, ready to begin writing.

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Because Earth sports still confuse him, Anders heads over to the common room with a bag of blueberry muffins to see if there's anybody else to watch with.

"Hey, Thrace. Have a muffin. You gonna be confused by some of this stuff with me?"

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"Thanks," Kara says, taking a muffin. "What do they call it? Hockey?"

Her Quick Quotes Quill starts scribbling away.

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"Yeah," says Anders, already paying attention to the screen. "Kawalsky was trying to get me to play last semester, when they had that team, but I didn't wanna --" He winces as a couple of players go crashing into the boards. "Yeah, that."

He fishes out a muffin for himself and starts nibbling the entire top off around the paper. "Think I like the women's hockey better for some reason. But, like, how come they split them up into separate teams? That's kind of dumb."

[pyramid-is-life.livejournal.com]

"The men of the 13th Colony must be deficient in some way," laughs Kara.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders snickers. "That explain why they get all freaky about it when I tell them our sports teams are all mixed and women? Now, the women's snowboarding, on the other hand . . ." He shakes his muffin at her. "That snowboard cross thing they were doing? I swear they were going at it way harder than the guys. That was kinda hot."

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"I don't wanna know, Samuel," says Kara. "I like the.. what is it.. on the sled. The skeleton! That looks fun."

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"Is that the face-up, feet-first one, or the face-down, head-first one? That looks fun, but I don't think I wanna die by being sliced to pieces in an ice chute." Anders shakes his head. "Seriously, Thrace, the snowboarders. The snowboarders. Don't even tell me you didn't appreciate that."

[pyramid-is-life.livejournal.com]

Kara grins at his insistance. "They had great pants," she says, "and the skeleton is head first."

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"Oh, okay." Anders nods. "Skeleton makes more sense to me than luge does, then, 'cause I totally don't get how you can even see what you're doing, going feet-first."

He breaks off a chunk of muffin and pops it into his mouth, waggling his eyebrows goofily at her. "The pants were awesome. The snowboarders were hot. Seriously."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

In the hunt for Red October a rogue boyfriend, Cally pokes her head into the second floor common room.

"There you are," she says to Anders. Then she waves to Kara. "Hi. I'm me now, just so ya know."

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"Yup. Here I am. Hi ." Anders shakes the bag of muffins and gives Cally a bright smile. "Blueberry muffin, coach?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Toss one here," Cally says, holding up her hands. She settles down near both Anders and Kara, sitting cross-legged on the floor. "Hi."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Hey, gorgeous." Anders smiles and tosses a muffin carefully into Cally's hands.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally catches the muffin and takes a big bite out of the top.

"Thanks," she says. "Tasty."

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"We're such exciting conversationalists today," Anders notes, scooting over to sit next to her. "Sorry. Olympics are on. There's people crashing into each other on ice with sticks and stuff. It's cool."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"So... it's like Pyramid on Ice with weapons?" Cally raises an eyebrow.

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"Well, you can't actually hit people with the sticks or you get in trouble, I think. You can't actually tackle people, either. And there's two goals, and it's all . . . rectangular and stuff." He shrugs and leans over to kiss Cally on the cheek. "Still, it's pretty fun."

[pyramid-is-life.livejournal.com]

"I know," Kara says, giving her a smile.

Her Quick Quotes Quill scribbles away. Veruca Cally, the poor confused child, seems unsure if she was actually herself, while searching for her cheating boyfriend, Samuel Anders.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Hey, hey," Cally says, having sat down on the floor nearby. "Sorry about that whole... thing I did."

[pyramid-is-life.livejournal.com]

Kara shrugs and says, "Don't worry about it.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally shrugs. "Okie-doke. But the offer to make out still stands."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders totally chokes on a piece of muffin, which is a convenient excuse for turning horribly red.

[pyramid-is-life.livejournal.com]

Kara just pats her on the head.

As Veruca's identity crisis reaches breaking point, she offers her body in return for self-recognition to even our esteemed reporter, Kara Thrace.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally grins and looks up at Kara. "I'll take that as a not now," she says. "So, haven't really gotten the chance to chat with you in, like, forever. You doin' okay?"

[pyramid-is-life.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, not bad," Kara replies.

When a physical connection is rejected by our esteemed reporter, the poor, confused child tries to forge an emotional bond. Veruca attempts anything to save herself from the pit of black despair.