4th Floor Common Room, afternoon into evening

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

The last time Isabel cooked dinner on this scale it was because she didn't want to think about everything that had been going wrong. This time? She's happy. And while it's not goulash, hopefully the gods of good times would appreciate a huge meal of paella and assorted tapas food shared with friends.

The CD was glowing on the counter as she stirred and chopped and Isabel could be found singing quietly and occasionally dancing along with the music.

Ever since this old world began
A woman found out if she shook it she could shake up a man
And so I'm gonna shake and shimmy the best that I can today
'Cause you can't stop the motion of the ocean or the sun in the sky
You can wonder if you wanna but I never ask why
And if you try to hold me down I'm gonna spit in your eye and say
You can stop the beat

[Open to all. Come eat!]

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[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack had come up to the fourth floor looking for Cedric, but the smells and sounds coming out of the common room had drawn him in. "Izzy! Cooking I see - want a hand?" He walked over and gave her a one armed hug, pointing down at the CD. "I guess that means you don't have to worry about the batteries running down."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Hands are good," Isabel grinned, leaning into the hug briefly. "I've made the filling, but would you stuff those cherry tomatoes (http://www.ericweisstein.com/fun/wine/tapas.html#11) for me please? And yes, I never need a battery or a player even, it's convienient."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"And my hands are very good, or so I've been told." He grinned at her and reached for the tomatoes and a knife. "Consider them stuffed. And I feel the urge to quote Jaye and ask 'Dirty?'. Laughing he shook his head. "Very convenient. What else can you do that I don't know about?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I'm just going to have to take your word for it," she said as she elbowed him lightly in the ribs. "My response would be 'Not Dirty OMG!' Only you Jack," Isabel laughed, "could add subtext to the simple act of making an appetizer."

"As for what I can do," she shrugged. "It's mostly molecular manipulation or telekinetic stuff, or whatever random power the writers felt like giving me that week."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"What can I say, I've got talent." He grinned again and flipped the knife in the air, catching it by the handle, then started carefully slicing the tops off the cherry tomatoes. "It's impressive. I have to admit, if I wasn't me, I'd start feeling a little outclassed around this place."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel rolled her eyes at the knife flip. "Be careful, unlike Max, I can't heal people. And if you cut yourself and bled all over the food I'd have to kill you." She grinned good naturedly, "Trust me Jack, you have no reason to feel outclassed."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Why thank you, Izzy." Jack leaned over and kissed her cheek. "What would I do without you? And I'm not going to cut myself. I learned a few tricks to make my cooking more impressive to anyone watching - you know, in case they weren't already impressed - and I haven't hurt myself yet." Frowning, he added, "Who's Max?"

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

After work, Tim returned to the Dorms and smelled food. Soon, he found the source. "Hey, is this a private affair?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"You are just..." her voice trailed off and she shook her head before moving over and starting to make the crostini (http://www.ericweisstein.com/fun/wine/tapas.html#4). "Max is my brother," Isabel explained. "And at one time he was the king on our planet."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Why, hello there cute person I haven't met yet." Jack smiled slowly at him. "I'm Jack, Jack Harkness. And it can be any sort of affair you'd like - public, private, somewhere in between."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Not private, but you have to work for it," Isabel said. She pushed a head of lettuce over. "Can you tear lettuce?"

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack kept slicing the tops off the tomatoes while he considered what she'd said. "I'm not at all surprised you're related to royalty, you're beautiful, gracious," he said slowly. "But what does that mean - will he be king if you go back?" He stopped slicing and looked up at her. "Are you going back?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I don't know. He was killed, we were all killed," Isabel explained, concentrating with extra focus on what she was doing. "Our mother somehow created these bodies for us and sent us to Earth so that we could learn to use our powers and eventually return and save the planet. But things went to hell when the crash happened, so it's pretty much been Max, Michael and I trying to survive." She laughed ironically, "Michael is like a second brother to me. We found out last year that in that past life, he was my betrothed husband. Needless to say, there's not going to be a wedding this time around."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

*blink* Huh.

"Hi, I'm Tim Desmond."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Oh boy can I ever." Tim grinned, and got to work. "Take that lettuce," he muttered.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Good job," she said, pushing over a cutting board, knife and assorted vegetables. "You're in charge of the salad."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Something smells good," Dean observed as he stuck his head into the common room on the way by, drawn by the smells and the music.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel waved with the spoon she was using to stir the paella. " I'm pretending we're in Spain for the evening. Do you like seafood?"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"What I've had of it, yeah." He came closer. "Anything I can do to help?"

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"I'll try not to bleed in it." Tim said, transferring the lettuce into a bowl and starting on the veggies. "What kind of dressing?"

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim waved. he'd run into the guy a handfull of times, but never really quite met him.

[demonbelthazor]

"Free food" worked better than any summoning spell to lure Belthazor out into the open. He wandered into the fourth floor common room. "Hey," he said to Isabel. "What's cooking?"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean nodded back. "You were the guy with the flip flops at the luau," he remembered.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn was drawn into the common room by good smells and fun music, her stomach already rumbling. "Izzy! I'm so sorry I missed goulash night. Can I grovel and help to make up for it?"

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"That's me. tim Desmond. Pleased to meet you."