2nd Floor Common Room - Sunday night

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Her room was always big, but it seemed even larger and emptier now that Elizabeth was the only one in it.

So, with a blanket thrown around her shoulders and a box of chocolates in her hand, she headed to the common room and curled up in the corner of the sofa and started flicking through the channels.

Ooh, Insomnious on Lake Union. She loved this movie.

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Elizabeth grinned, leaning out to take a cupcake. "Ooh, thanks, Anders," she said. "I've not been too bad. How about you?"

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"Pretty good," he answered. "Totally behind at meeting all the new kids because I've been sort of . . . well, uh, got a little project I've been working on."

His ears might have turned fairly red at that.

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Elizabeth glanced across at him, noticing the red ears. "Oh? Spill?" she asked curiously, breaking a bit of the cupcake off and eating it.

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Anders squirmed a little lower into the armchair cushions. "Just thought I'd try my hand at writing lately, 's all. Nothing brilliant, but it's fun for me."

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"Writing's nothing to be ashamed about," Elizabeth said, still picking apart the cupcake. "Have you signed up for the writing workshop?"

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"There's a writing workshop?" he asked. Suddenly he was having a furious mental debate over the wisdom of this, given his subject material of late. "I totally didn't even notice!"

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Elizabeth nodded. "Yeah. Chloe's running it on Tuesday mornings."

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"Huh." Anders retrieved a red-iced cupcake from the tray for himself and started peeling the paper back. "It's definitely something to think about, yeah. It could be . . . interesting."

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Elizabeth nodded, licking icing from her fingers. "Yeah, that's what I thought, so I signed up for it."

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"You're in it? Maybe I will sign up for it then," Anders said around a mouthful of cupcake. "Mmph. Sorry."

He swallowed, then went on, "And maybe I'll actually talk to you in class this time around. Or . . . workshop. Whatever."

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Elizabeth just snickered slightly. "No worries. Three brother's; can cope with talking with mouthfuls."

She nodded. "Yeah. I tend to, um, be a little focused in classes. But summer workshops won't count towards my GPA, so I'll try to relax more."

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"And thank the Lords of Kobol for that little bit of pressure we don't have to deal with," Anders said, feelingly. "What other ones did you sign up for?"

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"Leadership, the one at the beach and photography," Elizabeth said. "How about you?"

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"So far? I signed up for Admiral Harrington's workshop -- I think that's the leadership one -- and Piper's cooking and baking one."

He grinned wryly. "Carter's in that one with me. It should be interesting."

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Elizabeth nodded. "Yeah, that's the leadership one." She snickered. "Apparently she's only blown up one turkey. Anything else was lies."

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"A turkey?" Anders asked, incredulous. "That's kinda impressive."

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"Well, you know Sam," Elizabeth said seriously. "Can't do anything half way!"

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"Yeah, talk about doing cooking catastrophes in style . . ." Anders laughed. "I can see why she gave me a spatula and a fire extinguisher for Christmas."

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"Take the fire extinguisher with you to all workshops," Elizabeth nodded, grinning.

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"Maybe I should get a utility belt made up for it, just for that class," Anders mused. "Well, and the spatula, and maybe my mixer."

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Elizabeth giggled. "That could be interesting," she said. "One thing I learnt from my mom about cooking? Make sure you've got all your bowls and ingredients out ready to start with. So I'm thinking she might have liked the idea of a utility belt."

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He grinned. "I've been learning that one the hard way. I swear, I helped Angela and Parker make cupcakes that weekend when everybody was five, and they were better about being prepared than I am."

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Elizabeth snickered. "Oh, yeah. You didn't shrink like the rest of us. I don't know whether to be envious or not..."

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"Neither am I," he told her. "Sure made me rethink the idea of having kids, for one. It was kind of fun, but it's really hard to look at people the same way when I sit there and think, 'Wow, I remember the time you tried to climb my leg.'"

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"I fingerpainted Dr. Jackson's walls," Elizabeth confessed.