Second Floor Common Room [afternoon]

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory was trying to watch TV. She really was.

But now there were not only gnats flying around her, and something she could feel in her hair that was making her itch, but there were huge...gross, really painful zit-like things all over her skin. Because of this, Rory had flipped up the hood of her sweatshirt and drawn her knees up to her chest, trying not to disturb the spots.

Not to mention the frogs hopping around, and the dead fish in the aquarium that she'd passed on her way up from the lobby. And the fact that every few minutes, Rory heard a loud rumbling somewhere outside, and shuddered.

[Everything except the frogs? completely in Rory's head. You can't see the gnats, boils, or lice, and you can't hear the thunder, and the lights should be perfectly fine for you. Frogs are fair game. Open to all. :) Come talk to the crazy girl yay!]

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John doesn't have any workshops today so he stops into the common room when he sees Rory in there.

"Hey there, LC." He frowns. "Or are those secret? Should I not use the codenames now?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"We can use codenames," Rory said, gingerly poking at one of the icky things on her nose. "Hi DP. Do you see a bunch of bugs flying around?"

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Bugs?" John looks around the room, behind things and under the furniture. "Looks bug free. Did you see a bug before I came in here?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

After finally convincing Cameron to leave the flight simulator, Anakin came into the common room.

His mouth pressed into a thin line as he saw how Rory was sitting.

"Hasn't gotten any better?" he asked, taking a seat nearby.

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"There are a bunch of bugs flying around me and apparently only I can see them," she sighed. "Also, I have apparently developed a really gross skin condition."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Worse," she answered shortly, jumping a little at the thunder only she could hear and wincing at the jolts of pain from every stretched bit of skin.

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John peers at her.

"You look your regular pretty self to me," he says, smiling. "No bugs or cooties."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Let me guess - you don't hear the storm, either?" she asked, because that'd just be her luck.

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"There's no storm outside," he says, frowning now. "You're not sleepwalking and sleeptalking, are you?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Want me to get George?" he asked, desparate for something vaguely useful to do.

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"No, apparently I'm going insane," Rory replied. "Okay, do you see the frogs?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory actually smiled at him, then winced because smiling hurt.

"If you want," she said quietly. She would have shrugged, but ow.

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"No, I don-" He stops talking when he does see a frog hop past the common room door. "Okay, I just did. You're not insane. I know insane. You feeling okay? Fever? Flu? Necrotizing fasciitis?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Be right back," he promised, heading out the door again.

He returned with the stuffed Ewok, which he handed to Rory. "Now you have something to hold onto," he said. The "because I can't in public" he left unsaid.

He sat down next to her and pretended to be watching television as well.

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Rory gingerly held George.

"Do I look gross to you?" she asked Anakin. "And, um, that's not a baited question," she added very quietly.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"...no. I think it's the book, like how everyone's been having nightmares," Rory said, frowning. "I just don't know why I'm hallucinating."

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Oh." John turns serious. "Can I do anything?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory glanced at him. "There is a grasshopper on your head," she sighed.

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"You look just as you always do," he assured her, peeking under her hood.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"There are...things on my skin," she told him. "And they hurt like hell. It's all getting worse."

She paused. "And you have a grashopper climbing up your braid."

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Is there?" John's get a very familiar feeling while talking to Rory. "Shall I name it? How about...Percy? Good name for a grasshopper?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin bit his lip. "I'm sorry," he said quietly. "I don't like to see you hurting."

Especially when there's nothing I can do, a very frustrated part of his brain added.

He flicked at his braid. "Better?"

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"There are four more in your lap," she replied. "They're kind of everywhere. And do you hear the storm? Because it's starting to get worse."

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"I wouldn't name it. It's probably going to leave," she told him. "Besides, there are a whole bunch more of them coming in."

[can_be_more]

Aeryn hasn't been in the common room in a while, and seeing people she actually hasn't argued with this week, she can probably stay for a little while.