5th floor Common Room - Monday Monday morning.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

It's Monday morning.

Everybody is back in the dorms.

You realize...

This calls for pancakes.

Lots, and lots, of pancakes.

Maybe a few eggs and a rasher of bacon five yards long. (Okay... Maybe no that much bacon.

There's definitely coffee.

[ooc: open]

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Mf," Anders replied, too zonked to question or protest. As his brain was pretty much mush at the moment, he was essentially a life-sized posable doll.

But a life-sized posable doll whose hands would not cave under the weight of food. The mere smell of coffee has astounding powers of revival.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

It's entirely too bad Pippi didn't realize just how malleable Anders was at the moment, because she could have probably had quite a lot of fun with him not dirty! ...Mostly

She moved the arm with the coffee closer to his face.

"You gotta do the rest. You're a big boy."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

And just like magic, or perhaps an unwritten law of physics, the coffee mug gravitated toward Anders's mouth as if pulled by a tractor beam. He gulped down the entire thing, lack of sugar be damned, and blinked as the caffeine kicked in.

"Hey, Pippi. Thanks."

Look! Actual words!

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"You're welcome." she said. "How was your trip?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Long," Anders admitted after scarfing down a piece of bacon, "and kind of embarrassing. I so got my ass kicked on the court."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Oh no! But you haven't been able to practice. We don't have pyramid teams here yet. Surely they understand that?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Sorta, yeah. I could've stayed and played in a summer training camp, but I turned it down." Anders just about swallowed half a pancake in one bite.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Why'd ya turn it down?" she asked refilling his coffee cup.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Well," he said, shrugging, "They wanted me to buckle down and get all extra-serious and everything about it. I felt like they were trying to push me too fast, and that's not the kind of pressure I want. I'm seventeen years old, for frak's sake. I want to enjoy that for a little while longer."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi grins.

"You are very wise." she said.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"You're the second person who's said something like that to me in three days," Anders said, laughing. "I might start believing it soon."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"How many more people need to tell you before you actually start?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"I never got a definite count," Anders said. Then, considering, he added, "I guess we could set that number at zero."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi nodded.

"Excellent." she said. "So. We gotta whip you back into shape huh?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"That is pretty much about how it's looking, yeah." Anders polished off the last of his pancakes and contemplated a second helping. Hey, Chapman hadn't said anything about laying off the pancakes, right? He could totally run it off later, too.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Well, we'd better get some teams sorted out when classes start again." Pippi said. "'Cause basketball season will be over huh?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"I think so, yeah." Anders took a gulp of coffee to stave off the yawn he felt coming on. He yawned anyway and sputtered a little bit on his coffee. "Maybe we can come up with some new moves that nobody'll expect, even."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes, I think we could probably come up with something. That will get you on the Caprica Galaxy Trotters."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"That might give me a bit of an edge. But can I dribble a Pyramid ball out the window of a bus at 60MPH?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"That's the idea ya." Pippi said. Is it fair to other Pyramid players that Anders will be training with a bunch of crazy super human people to hone his reflexes to a razer sharp edge?

Hello? Pirate.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"I would have no problem with that," Anders declared.

Did he really have any misgivings about any unfair advantages this sort of practice might give him?

Not particularly, no.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Excellent."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"I'm hoping that's the end result, yep."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"So, how does Pyramid work?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Well," Anders said, "take basketball and rugby, mash them up together, and stick the mixture on a triangular court and you've pretty much got it. Or the basic idea anyway."