Fourth Floor Common Room: Saturday early evening

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana curled up on the couch in the common room with her Forensics homework and a soft throw. The TV was on quietly in the background. She was finding it hard to concentrate on anything and was absolutely interruptable.

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Hey Lana!" Isabel said as she came into the room. "Feel like watching a movie?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Isabel, hey. Yes, please - anything to distract me. I'm making myself crazy!" Lana rubbed a hand over her face, then put her Forensics books on the floor. "Got one in mind?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Mac is supposed to come up and join me. She's never seen either of the Toy Story movies. So we thought we'd do a double feature." Isabel said as she took a seat on the couch.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Sounds like fun," Lana said with a smile. "I could really use some fun mindless entertainment right about now."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"They're fun movies. I like the fact that they're really for kids, yet there's so many adult jokes in them," she grinned.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Definitely," Lana said with a smile. "Hey, I haven't really seen you much, How are things going?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I've been busy," Isabel admitted. "Between classes, Student Council, trying to hit the gym on a regular basis..." She shrugged, "Sometimes it seems like there's not enough hours in the day."

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac has her hands grasping each other securely behind her back as she enters the common room. "Hey, Isabel," She puts a smile on her face but stays a couple of feet away. "I'm all ready to be enlightened on the greatness of Toy Story."

She nods at the other girl, still keeping her hands out the way, "I'm Mac, I don't think we've met."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"I hear you there. Things can get pretty busy around here - and pretty crazy as well!"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Hey Mac! And it is greatness. And wittiness! Come on over and have a seat," Isabel said, patting a spot on the counch.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Hi, Mac. I'm Lana." She looked curiously at the other girl's stance, but didn't say anything. "I hope you don't mind if I watch with you guys."

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"Nice to meet you." She nods again, dropping into the couch, "that's fine with me, the more the merrier... just uh, you might want to keep your distance. I'm having a few minor issues today. I feel like I should be in solitary confinement or something, just in case."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Please, it's not like it's dangerous or anything. We'll be fine," Isabel said. And then stopped, because for some unknown reason, she was bouncing in her seat.

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac looked a little unsure, "We don't know that, okay so far its just been little things... but I would really rather avoid turning any of my classmates in tortillas just in case. Imagine trying to explain that one away." She shook her head, and watched Isabel bounce for a moment, "wow, you really do like this movie huh?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel tried very hard to concentrate on not bouncing. But it didn't really work. Even when she held on, she still kept moving. "Damnit, I think whatever weird thing is going on around here has gotten me to."

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac attempts to suppress a giggle, and fails miserably. "Oh, this just gets better. We have me transforming things into Mexican food, and you bouncing like a maniac. I feel better knowing it's not just me being hit with the crazy-magical things today."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana looked at them both in a mixture of disbelief and relief. "You guys, too?" she asked. "Oh thank God, it's not just me! Though my whole deal started yesterday morning."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Another victim?" Isabel asked. "What random and really weird power have you developed?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana looked slightly embarrassed and a bit frustrated. "I can identify things by taste. *Everything* I taste. I get this like *ping* in my head that tells me what it is. And then it breaks it down into, like, ingredients if it's food, and then chemical compounds."

She shakes her head. "Worst thing is, I discovered it kissing Shep. And I kind of freaked a bit."

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac gave her a horrified look. "That is really not what you want to know when you're kissing someone, ew."

She then added, "well, do you want to try one of my tortillas? I want to know if they actually have bits of whatever they were before in them."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, the whole *ping* 'This is Shep' bit was fine, but... yeah, not exactly conducive to the whole losing yourself in a kiss thing." She looked at Mac curiously. "Um.. sure... I'd be glad to try that out."

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac grinned, "Right, first I need something to change. You have anything around here that you don't mind eating? I would suggest not a text book, experience tells me they smell funky."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Um..." Lana looks around then reaches down and comes up with some paper, a pen and a pencil. "Any of these work?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Oh, an experiment. We can see if you can change more then just paper," Isabel said, still bouncing in her seat.

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"We can but try," Mac took the pencil, gripping it firmly and staring at it. Nothing.

"Uh, maybe it went away," she seems to brighten up considerably at the possibilty and prods at the pen and paper experimentally. Nothing.

"I got rid of it, yes!" Getting cocky she smiles. She goes to move in her excitement and her foot knocks a book on the floor, immediately there was a satisfying floop noise, and the forensics book, was replaced with a large mound of tortillas.