5th Floor Common Room, Tuesday Afternoon

[rocketbitch.livejournal.com]

James had commandeered a corner of the common room and was partaking in what be firmly believed to be a noble purpose. There was a silly hat that absolutely needed to be made. He had all of his necessary supplies handy - a glue stick, a stapler, some duct tape, a hat that was leftover from one of his various on-duty disguises, and an armload of random stuff to be stuck onto it.

He was hard at work, trying to staple an empty pudding cup onto the front of the hat, humming to himself all the while.

Fortunately, the hat wasn't on his head at the time.

{OOC: Open for all of your commonly roomness necessities. Also, now finally in the proper community, yay! *facepalm*}

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[pitifulcatdemon.livejournal.com]

Shiro came stumbling into the common room. He was yawning loudly and rubbing the back of his neck. His cap sat perched backwards on his head, and as always, his tail was hidden from view.

He'd been curious to where his roommate had been.

And....he was hungry.

[rocketbitch.livejournal.com]

James blinked up at Shiro as he duct-taped a screwdriver firmly to the side of the pudding cup.

"Oh, it's you!"

[pitifulcatdemon.livejournal.com]

Shiro glanced over at James. So this was were the purple haired spaz had gotten to.

He paused staring at the amalgamation James had in front of him, "What...are you doing?"

[rocketbitch.livejournal.com]

James proudly held the mutant headgear aloft for Shiro to see.

"I'm making a silly hat, so that when I leave this, the coolest room in the universe, people won't be blinded by my coolness. Now that you're in here, you should really consider making one, too."

[pitifulcatdemon.livejournal.com]

Shiro sort of stared at James in confusion.

"You're doing....what?"

[rocketbitch.livejournal.com]

"I happen to have it on good authority (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhighdorms/574464.html?thread=31435776#t31435776) that, because this is the coolest place in the universe, the only way to keep the residual coolness from blinding people is to wear something silly. Because I don't wear silly clothes as a general rule the dresses are COOL, dammit!, it was suggested that I try a silly hat. So, I'm making a silly hat."

[pitifulcatdemon.livejournal.com]

It sounded to Shiro as if someone was taking advantage of his roommate's naive nature. Now, for some strange reason, this annoyed the cat demon

"Who told you that?" he demanded.

[rocketbitch.livejournal.com]

James cleared his throat and did his best to imitate Pip's French accent.

"Pip Bernadette," he stated, then lapsed away from the accent. "He informed me that the forces of coolness don't converge in the second floor common room, after all. And that Millie the idolatrous cow wasn't actually the third coolest place in the world."

He glued a button onto the end of the screwdriver.

"It's the eighth."

[pitifulcatdemon.livejournal.com]

After hearing the name, Shiro realized that he didn't know enough of the other students for that to mean anything to him. He sighed. He;d have to watch out for this Pip person who spoke funny.

Not that humans didn't speak funny as it was....

"The forces of coolness?" Shiro repeated skepticlly. "so they converege in here and all the other floors? And that hat is supposed to do what again?"

[rocketbitch.livejournal.com]

"No, they don't converge on the other floors. Just here, in this, the fifth-floor common room!" James was holding a fist aloft now and yelling excitedly. "Of all the common rooms in the school, this is the one that the forces of coolness have chosen! And in order to save people from being blinded by coolness, it must be counteracted by something dorky!"

He took a break from his monologuing to staple a banana peel to another part of the hat.

[pitifulcatdemon.livejournal.com]

Shiro watched James with a cross between pity and amusment. He had to admit, it was a little flattering to think that his common room was where the "forces of coolnes" gathered. By proxy, that made him cool.

However, the hat...that was just stupid. He may not have been form earth, and his human knowledge was limited to two highschool girls, but he was fairly sure that you weren't supposed to offset your coolness.

"Uh...James?"

[rocketbitch.livejournal.com]

James glanced up, pausing in his reach for a broken egg cup.

"Yes, Shiro?"

[pitifulcatdemon.livejournal.com]

"Does it make much sense for you to hide your coolness?" Shiro asked carefully, "I mean, why would you want to?" His ear twitched under his cap.

[rocketbitch.livejournal.com]

James pondered this for a moment before his mouth fell open and he dropped his monstrous hat-creation to the floor.

"You're right, Shiro! How could I have been so absent-minded?"

He started ripping the assortment of randomness from the hat.

"If my coolness blinds people, then I can get away with my brilliant schemes far more easily!"

[pitifulcatdemon.livejournal.com]

Shiro rolled his eyes. Oh how could he be so absent minded indeed?

"Brilliant schemes." Shiro nodded, "riight." his ear flicked, "you know, speaking of schemes..."

[rocketbitch.livejournal.com]

James looked up at Shiro from his hat-mangling.

"You've thought of something?"

[pitifulcatdemon.livejournal.com]

Shiro shook his head, "you're the criminal mastermind."

[rocketbitch.livejournal.com]

"I am? Oh! I am!" James grinned. "And... you're waiting for me to scheme a genius scheme... right?"

This was exciting. He had never been the mastermind before! That was generally Jessie's job in the past!

[pitifulcatdemon.livejournal.com]

"Uh....right." Shiro nodded. He folded his arms looking down at his roommate, "so, genius, got anything?"

[rocketbitch.livejournal.com]

"Of course I do! Do not question the mental processes of a member of Team Rocket!"

James was getting back into the old swing of things, striking poses again.

"I have a master plan!"

[pitifulcatdemon.livejournal.com]

Shiro was doing his best to not succumb to the urge to bapf James over the head in mid pose.

"Anytime you wanna make me privy to it, purple boy, I'm ready when you are."

[rocketbitch.livejournal.com]

"The master plan is..." He paused and waved a rose about for dramatic effect. "We do bad things!"

He paused, looking Shiro up and down.

"But we can't do bad things with you dressed like that. It simply will not do!"

[pitifulcatdemon.livejournal.com]

Where did the rose come from?

"Thats you're master plan??" He demanded, "I could have come up with that! And whats wrong with the way I dress? I look normal in this....don't I?"

[rocketbitch.livejournal.com]

James was impressed. If Shiro had the capacity to come up with the same plan, then it must have meant that Shiro was a mastermind as well!

And if Shiro was a mastermind, then Team Rocket could benefit from his l33t skills!

"A mastermind should never look normal! Just like my coolness, you should refuse to blend in! Show off your true colours, let the world know that you're something more!"

James resisted from breaking into a motto. After all, he still needed someone to recite it with.

And then he had a brainwave.

"Shiro... do you want to do bad things with me?"

[pitifulcatdemon.livejournal.com]

"Duhh." Shiro echoed the term he'd heard Lika use so often before whenever he'd stated something painfully obvious, "I thought thats the whole purpose behind you thinking up some genius master plan."

[rocketbitch.livejournal.com]

James smacked a fist into his open palm and grinned widely.

"Excellent!"

And with that, he reached out to grab Shiro's wrist.

"Then come with me!"

[pitifulcatdemon.livejournal.com]

Shiro blinked as James grabbed his wrist.

"Uhm...ok...." he paused, "Where are we going?"

[rocketbitch.livejournal.com]

"We're going to do bad things in our room!"

And with that, James dragged Shiro off to their dorm room. (http://rocketbitch.livejournal.com/1857.html)

[pitifulcatdemon.livejournal.com]

((My aunt is on the phone...and therefore making my connection sucktastic >_< I may be a bit before I'm around again))

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