The Dorm Roof, Saturday Evening

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally hums happily as she carries more than a couple buckets of paint up to the roof. She manages to shout "Party on the roof!" a few times while doing so, so more than a few folks might hear about it.

She's set out lots of paint, brushes, a boombox blasting some tunes, and some cans of soda. It's time to give the Viper a non-regulation paint job. Possibly with go-faster stripes or cool flames.

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi was sitting on her windowsill when she heard somebody shout "Party on the roof".

Curious she slides out onto the ledge and shimmies up the drain pipe.

Slowly her eyes, and braids, peek up over the edge of the roof.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally is wearing her pink-paint splattered clothes from her earlier artistic efforts involving Lee and John's doors. She smiles when she sees Pippi peeking her head up.

"Hi Pippi! You want to help? I'm painting my ship."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Hi!" she says as she clamored up onto the roof.

"I wondered who this thing belonged to! Do you have a design in mind?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Not military grey," Cally says with a nod. "Otherwise, I just want everyone who wants to pitch in to, like, have fun with it. I've taped over the bits that shouldn't get painted, so, just have at it."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi gave the Viper an appraising look.

"Flames." she said finally.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Flames sounds good," Cally nods. "What color, do you think?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"... Red." she replied with a nod.

"Red makes things go faster."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"I think I've got red in here somewhere," Cally says. She looks through the buckets carefully. "A-ha!" she exclaims, picking up one bucket and popping it open. "Here we go."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Great!" she said grabbing a brush. "...Did you want to paint it all over some other color first?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Hmmm." Cally scratches her chin and thinks. "Yeah, that sounds good. I'm thinking... Orange."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Oh! Orange has red in it! Make go faster!" She said as she looked through the collection of paint for orange.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally points at the biggest bucket. "That's the one," she says, picking up a big brush. "This thing'll be the fastest Mark Three ever."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Huzzah!" said Pippi picking up a can of orange and spinning it in her hands to mix the paint up before they opened it.

"Where'd you get this thing?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

When Anders shows up a couple of hours later in his old grubby jeans and a worn white t-shirt (only his second grubbiest outfit by virtue of the first one being rendered useless by his junkyard adventure) he has a dozen bags of chips, more soda, and a couple of pizzas.

"Did I miss all the fun?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally totally flings some orange paint in Anders' direction when he shows up.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders sighs indulgently. "Nice to see you too, coach."

He blinks down at his shirt, and runs his fingers through his hair, and yep, they come away orange. "Should've known."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Love you too, champ," Cally says and goes back to painting.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders snags a piece of pizza with his non-painted hand and heads over to wave it in front of Cally's mouth. "Eat," he says. "Before it gets cold. Got it just the way you like it and everything."

He grins at the Viper. "So do I get to help, or is this just gonna be a thing where I watch and cheer you on?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally leans forward and takes a big bite of pizza and starts to chew. "You can join. Assuming you know how to use a brush."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Yes, I use it to scratch my ass," Anders says, completely deadpan. He leans over and kisses Cally on the cheek, then waves the pizza slice at her again. "Of course I know how to use a brush, goofball."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"You'd look funny with an orange butt," Cally says before taking another bite.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders nods and takes a bite of the pizza himself before grabbing a brush with his free, already-paint-covered hand and getting to work. "And not in a good way, I'm thinking."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, it'd be weird," Cally nods and goes back to painting. "So let's not do that."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Let's not. It'd be a total pain in the ass. Literally." Anders finishes off the pizza slice, wipes his greasy fingers on his jeans, and ruffles Cally's hair, frowning when that hand comes away with paint on it. "Okay, are you planning on painting yourself to match?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Not really," Cally says. "It just sorta happened."