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The roof, Monday mid-morning

After the early morning wake-up call from Pip and Jamie and what was possibly the fastest shower on record, Nadia headed for the roof with her guitar, Pip, and Furrball in tow.

She didn't trust Furrball alone with Pip, and the cat seemed intent on following Pip wherever he ended up. It was going to be interesting until they could figure out how to get Pip changed back.

She settled down by the edge of the roof and started playing something a little bluesy on the guitar. Every now and then, Pip would look up from his breakfast of stale bread bits and honk at her, and she would adjust her fingers on the frets.

Whether or not Pip was actually correcting her, she had no idea. But she was much more self-conscious about her playing with him around, even in gosling form.

[ooc: open for interaction with the girl and her gosling and cat.]

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Walter had stopped by Nadia's room to see how Pip was doing, but both she and Jamie were gone. Given Pip's company, somehow the roof seemed like a logical next place to look.

"Good morning."

Nadia looked up from her guitar and grinned. "Morning."

Pip honked.

"Still a goose, I see." Walter shook his head in wonder at Fandom's vagaries.

Sitting down next to Nadia, he asked, "How is the goose-sitting coming along? He's not getting fresh with you, is he?"

"Well, he tried to follow me to the shower this morning, but considering the fact that Furrball has yet to leave him alone, that might have been a matter of survival." Nadia shrugged. "I think he confused the hell out of Jamie, though."

The gosling may have smirked. It was hard to tell.

Walter gave Pip a dirty look upon hearing about the shower. Dirty looks just don't work on something covered in down, though, so he settled for snickering at the confounding of the roommate. "Confusing Jamie has to be fun."

"Oh, definitely. I felt bad, though, he offered to feed the animals while I was in the bathroom. Of course, Pip didn't seem to like that idea."

Walter eyed Pip again, but the mercenary had apparently figured out the innocent gosling look already.

"So he followed you there?" It was a damned good thing Walter still owed Pip in a big way, too.

"I let him swim around in one of the sinks." Nadia grinned. "It was pretty damned cute, actually."

"We need pictures." Walter started grinning. "And video. For posterity."

Pip honked at Walter and Walter grinned innocently back. "Don't you want something to show the people back home?"

Honk!

"Did that sound like a yes to you, Nadia?"

Nadia was not above being evil, especially to a goose that seemed to think he owned her, currently. "I think maybe it was."

"I think so, too. I'll have to be sure to get my camera, and we should speak to Pippi. She's taking that documentary class, perhaps she'd like to do something like 'A Day in the Life of a Transformed Fandom Student.'"

Ogle his girlfriend? Take that.

"Sounds good to me--OW!" Nadia glared down at Pip, who'd just bitten her ankle.

She ought to have known better than to wear sandals around a mercenary gosling. Pip's honk was probably informing her of just that.

Walter snickered at both of them.

"He certainly has his feathers ruffled." He stuck his tongue out at Pip and sat down next to Nadia. "At least he didn't turn into something with teeth."

"Gooses have teeth. Very small teeth in their beaks." Nadia rubbed her ankle and glared at Pip. "Trust me. I know this." She scooped the gosling up so she could glare at him at eyelevel.

Pip blinked cheerfully back, then hopped up onto her head.

Nadia sighed.

"You have a head goose," Walter observed. "You might want to go to the clinic about that."

~~Not until I get more organs.~~

Nadia stuck her tongue out at Walter. "You're funny." That joke was much better when she used it on Jamie and his head gnomes.

~~"The honking..." just isn't as chilling as "The cooing..."~~

How fortunate that Walter was unaware that he was being derivative.

"I make myself laugh, that's the important part." If it weren't for Pip sitting on her head, that would have been a good time to kiss her.

Damn gosling.

Considering the fact that Pip had been rather gung-ho about about the two of them getting together, Nadia thought he probably wouldn't mind if she kissed Walter now.

Walter, on the other hand, was all butlery and English and probably wouldn't want to kiss while a gosling was watching.

Damned English.

"Do you have any plans for today other than Pip-sitting? I need to get Pup out for a while, he's restless."

"Not really. I suspect making sure Furrball doesn't decide that Pip is lunch will be interesting enough."

Indeed, Furrball was eyeing the gosling, his tail twitching back and forth.

Annoyed with Pip for head-sitting and girlfriend-ogling though he was, Walter very definitely didn't want Furrball to eat his friend.

"Right then." He gave Pip another useless dirty look and leaned over to give Nadia a quick kiss. "If you need any help with him, let me know."

Nadia grinned and kissed back just as quickly. "I will. Have fun with Pup."

Pip was probably doing that gosling version of a smirk again.

Walter stuck his tongue out at Pip and got up to leave.

Weird school with weird friends and weird goings on.

He loved this place.

Nadia picked up her guitar again and started strumming.

"Honk."

"No."

"HONK."

"No!"

"Honk!"

"But I don't wanna play heavy metal!"

It would be an interesting day. She just hoped Pip didn't change back while he was sitting on her head.

After snagging breakfast from Piper's workshop, Veronica went searching for Nadia. She didn't find her in her room and looked in the next most sensible place, the roof.

"Hey," she greeted, raising an eyebrow at what appeared to be Nadia's new pet.

"Hi Veronica," said Nadia.

"Honk," said Pip.

"Did you hear the radio last night?"

"No, I didn't. I was out with Archie and didn't take the time to download it yet, why?" Veronica asked, bending down to stroke one finger over the little bird's head.

Nadia grinned as Pip ruffled his feathers happily. "That's Pip. He randomly turned into a baby goose last night."

Veronica's eyes grew wide, but she held out her hand to see if Pip would climb on it.

"Aw," she cooed. "I didn't notice the wee!tiny eyepatch! How adorable."

Pip puffed up his weetiny gosling chest and honked indignantly . . . while possibly using his position to ogle Veronica.

Nadia giggled. "You were dating Logan one of the times he became a bunny, right? How long can we expect this to last?"

"Yeah, you can kick my ass once you're human again," Veronica said. "But you are seriously adorable now." She didn't notice the ogling, lucky for Pip.

She nodded to Nadia. "Yeah, both times it wore off in a few days. I'd recommend keeping some of Pip's clothes nearby because he'll need them when he changes back."

Nadia nodded. She hadn't thought of that. "We might not want to tell Walter that. He's already mad at Pip for trying to follow me to the shower this morning."

Veronica gave the gosling an amused look. "I feel like that shouldn't surprise me," she said with a shake of her head.

"And I think Walter might be more upset if you end up with a bed full of naked Pip."

Nadia nodded. "Most likely, yes."

Pip didn't seem to have much of an opinion on the topic.

"And I wouldn't recommend dressing him up in anything cutesy," Veronica added. "Logan was a little upset about Barbossa's eyepatch last time."

Nadia smirked. "But Pip's already wearing an eyepatch." She shrugged. "Besides, I'm not dating him. And he'd totally understand the need to prank an unsuspecting victi--OW!"

Pip had bitten her on the ankle again.

"Cut that out!"

Veronica wasn't laughing. Really, she wasn't. Because that would be mean.

"Have you guys worked out some sort of communication?" she asked. "When Logan was a bunny, he would twitch his right ear for yes and his left ear for no. It wasn't as good as talking, but it did help."

"I say something, and he honks at me." Nadia said. "I'm only guessing what the honks mean, but it kind of works, sometimes,"

"Maybe you should try a one honk for yes, two honks for no type thing," Veronica suggested.

Nadia looked at Pip. "What do you think, one for yes, two for no?"

Pip honked three times. And smirked.

"He might still be mad at me for the sink thing."

Veronica chuckled. "I suppose it's easier to get them to cooperate when you can threaten to withhold sex," she said.

"Probably."

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