2nd Floor Common Room [Friday Evening]

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

After an adventure in painting, a freshly-showered Bridge is sitting in the Common Room, idly flipping through channels.

He's totally welcome to any sort of distraction, otherwise his thoughts might get emo-y. And that's bad.

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[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

An also freshly-showered Rory wandered in, her hair falling in wet curls and her expression back to one of unfocused anxiety.

She flopped on the couch. "What are we watching, Rufus?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"No idea, Barnaby." Bridge says. "Couldn't just sit still in my room, though. Need to be around people. It's a thing."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory nodded.

"I did my homework already, or I'd be doing that. So yay people."

She glanced at the TV. "Oh, infomercials."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge flips the channel to a cartoon something. He has no idea what any of these shows are, so he asks, "this any good?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Uh huh," Rory said absently.

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander had his laptop under his arm when he came in and dropped down onto the other end of the couch from Rory. "Hey," he said quietly as he opened it up.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Hey Xander," Bridge says, with a little wave.

[soldtoarmenians]

Tappity tap tap, then Xander looked up. "People good. Roomie's gone. Too quiet."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Hate quiet," Bridge agrees.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Hi," Rory said with a wave. "The ink finally came off?"

[soldtoarmenians]

He smiled. "I think the fish probably took half a layer of skin with them, but yeah, finally came off."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Woe," Rory said half-heartedly. "I was covered in pink paint earlier."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker came in from the roof, after listening to Nadia play the guitar (http://nadiathesaint.livejournal.com/16747.html?nc=24) and noticed people in the Common Room. For a second, she just stood in the doorway, at a loss, then she said, "Hey. It's okay now."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory stared.

And then whispered, "What?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"...Yeah?" Bridge looks at Parker, pleadingly. "For real?"

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander looked over. "With Angel?"

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker nodded, then grinned, then started to giggle a little giddily. "Yes. For real. He's going to be all right." She looked close to tears, if you looked hard.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory promptly burst into tears.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders slinks in from his room next door, where he's been trying to avoid all the tension and weird vibe-age, because he can't take it any longer.

"Hey, guys. What's the update?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Hey, dude. Angel's gonna be okay," Bridge says, his eyes still closed and head leaning back on the couch.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"It worked?" Anders asks as he leans against the doorframe. "Whatever you guys did, it ended up working?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, looks like." Bridge says, cracking one eye open.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory just scrambled over and gave Anders a tight hug.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders blinked and hugged Rory back just as tightly. "Well, hi."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"He's going to be okay," she said happily, pulling back a little before running over to the couch and practically falling into Xander's lap (but not on top of his laptop omg) in her effort to hug him.