5th floor Common Room: Monday Morning (before classes)

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi is still wearing her hair in the style Nadia showed her last night. She's also wearing purple robe that's a little to big for her.

And she's making waffles.

Where'd she get the waffle iron?

*shrug*

[[ooc: open for interaction. Though she hopes who knows who he is will show up.]]

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[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

A summons to breakfast from Pippi. He's mildly surprised by the waffles. Somehow he'd been expecting pancakes, but he's not complaining.

"'Morning." He took in the new hairstyle and shook his head at the purple robe. "I like the hair, but the robe doesn't quite go with it."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Good morning." she said holding out a plate with some waffles out to him and smiling. "Thanks. The hair is Nadia's... The robe belonged to my mom."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"You stole Nadia's hair? She's going to want it back, you know." He took the waffles and sniffed. "They smell delicious. Thanks."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Silly butler.

"She is?" Pippi said with mock surprise. "Well, she's going to have to arm wrestle me for it then. And you're welcome."

She motions to the table where there are a number of syrups, sweet butter, and preserves.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"I suppose I should find her a hat if she's going to have to arm wrestle you." He spread some butter on his waffles and added a generous amount of boysenberry syrup. "She wouldn't look quite in its new red color anyway."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi grinned and followed suit with her own waffles.

He seemed to be in a good mood... She really didn't want to take that away.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter concentrated on his breakfast for a few minutes before looking up from his food. Pippi was making him food and didn't seem mad at him. Unless this was just some Pippi way of softening him up before she told him what an ass he had been.

"So... you said we needed to chat?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Start with the good stuff first?

Relatively good stuff anyway.

"I'm not mad at you." she said putting a hand on his arm. "I was just worried about you, last week."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter hadn't been expecting that. He stopped with his fork halfway to his mouth and set it back down on his plate.

"Did Nadia say something to you? I mean, thanks; I'm glad you aren't mad at me."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi nodded.

"Did you really think I was mad?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"I thought it was possible."

He shrugged uncomfortably and refrained from stabbinating his waffle. "It seemed like every time we tried to talk after that night, that there was something else we weren't talking about. I couldn't think of anything else it could be."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi did stabbinate her waffles.

"I just didn't know... I still don't know what to say about... I'm glad Alfred stopped you."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Now Walter stabbinated his waffle. He might have been stabbinating a Nazi waffle in spirit.

"He probably had a point." Right. Walter wasn't being the picture of good grace about that admission.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I have to tell you something." she said, "And it's going to make you very unhappy."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

This? Coming from Pippi?

Could anyone really blame him if he glanced around to see if things were breaking down the walls to come eat them?

"So you soften me up with waffles first? Let's hear it."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi puts her clipping of Phoebe's article from the paper on the table. (http://community.livejournal.com/fhightimes/16830.html?style=mine#cutid1)

"Did you read this?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter looked at the clipping and nodded. "Yes... why would this make me very unhappy?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I was there, when Phoebe met him." she said. "He said that he'd been made from us... Or some of us who were there and some other people who weren't. Phoebe seemed to know who for some reason. We asked him who but he never got to answer."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter nodded and remained silent, waiting for the other shoe to drop.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Because when he was about to answer, that really tall blonde guy showed up." she shook her head. "I don't remember what happened next but I think we got into a fight and the tall blonde guy killed the man. Because suddenly I was laying in a pile of rubble and the man was not only dead but burning."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

That really tall blond guy could apply to any number of people. Walter shook his head.

But "this weekend," monsters, really tall blond guys, and things that were going to make him really unhappy added up to some math he wasn't going to be studying from Broots.

"They did it? Killed the man who looked like a monster?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, because he didn't agree with what they were all about and wasn't going to do what they wanted. Phoebe said that somebody had been going around taking samples from people to make this man. I don't know how she knew, she just seemed to realise it out of the blue. She named a bunch of people off. Her, Bel, me..." she looked at him.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"And...?" If he didn't say it himself, maybe it wasn't what he was thinking.

Because that would make him very angry, which was a flavor of unhappy, right?

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"... You." There, she said it. May as well rip the band-aid off in one motion.

"And Victor, and Al... among others."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter stabbinated his Nazi waffle.

And the plate under it.

Messy.

Wordlessly, he picked up his broken plate and threw it in the garbage bin with enough force to break it into much smaller fragments.

"I think I need to get to class."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I'm sorry."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter patted her shoulder and headed for the door. "Not your fault."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi decided to not correct Walter that what she was sorry about was that she was still glad Alfred had stopped him that night.

"See you in class."

She sighed, that went about as well as it could have.

She started to clean up so she could go get dressed.