3rd Floor Common Room [Friday Night]

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Still leery of the energy emanating from the 2nd Floor Common Room, Bridge decides to move up a floor. He's sprawled on a couch, reading a book he'd bought from the Book Fair, with several other books spread out on the couch around him.

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[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker leaned her chin on her knuckles, studying him. "Yessss? I'm sure that was a relief?"

[soldtoarmenians]

"Oh, yeah," Xander answered perfectly honestly. "I was starting to get a little worried. Everybody in Fandom has turned human again, but forgive me if I'm a little paranoid. We've had people back home who didn't." He didn't add that one of them was living in a habitrail in Willow's room, since nobody was supposed to know that.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Yikes." Parker tilted her head. "Are they still sane? Well, maybe you can't tell... How long before something like that is permanent, do you think?"

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander winced. "Not sure - to any of it. I really... don't want to think about it being permanent. Which is why I'm glad I've got a full-size human-type boyfriend again."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Yay for Bridge as Bridge. Though he was really really cute as a ferret." She smiled, and cocked her head at his book. "I'll assume that's for your workshop. Of course."

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander lifts the dictionary, then grins. "Right, I'm teaching them all how to speak Tev'Leckian. For, um. Code. That's it."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker snickered. "Oh, I'm sure they'd believe it if you said so. From what I hear, they're all really enjoying your class."

[soldtoarmenians]

If Xander still looked surprised to hear that, it's only because he was - it was probably going to take him a while to get used that idea.

He snickered. "Well, possibly Jamie would be a little suspicious. I told him he had detention for throwing an extra pie at me when we were doing the comic relief topic."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"I'm glad you did't really give him Detention...." Parker groaned. "Detention. God. Can't believe I have Detention with Becky and Miho."

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander blinked. "You have detention with the hookers?"

He did know how to employ subtlety in his choice of nouns, but in this case it seemed like kind of a waste of effort.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Sex worker and enforcer. Miho's not a prostitute. She'd gut you for that mistake. And yes." Parker rubbed her temples. "For 'attempted employee theft.'"

[soldtoarmenians]

"So noted." Always alert to filing away methods of not getting gutted, it took Xander a second to process the other bit of Parker's statement. "Um, BUH? Wait, since when do you work for them?"

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker's hands dropped from her temples, and if looks could kill, hers would have drilled a 9mm hole in Xander's head.

"Stealing. Jarod. Away. From. Them."

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander stared at her for a second, then, despite the murderously forbidding look on her face, burst into giggles.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Not funny! Not funny at all!" Parker reached over and whapped Xander's arm, then folded her arms and glared again. "I try to get him to move out, and I get Detention for it? Where's the justice there?"

[soldtoarmenians]

"I'm not sure the nice sex-worker and enforcer ladies are entirely concerned with justice per se, Parker."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Scowling, Parker said, "If I weren't half-convinced the administration would frown on me dating a guy who works at a brothel, I would so be complaining about this detention to them." She sighed. "And he hasn't even moved out! If they think this is going to stop me trying to 'steal' him, they can think again!"

[soldtoarmenians]

Xander considered for a moment, then, not actually laughing himself, said, "Maybe they're just having fun with you? Okay, emphasis on the they there."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker growled under her breath. "They can get their ya-ya's from those who pay for them. Not from me, damnit."