Third floor commoon room, Monday night

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Peter was bored. He had a deck of cards. He decided that he was going to build a house of cards in the common room.

It wasn't going so well. He couldn't get above the first level of the house without collapsing portions of it. Maybe he could do the cheat with cutting notches. Or using glue...

"I wasn't meant to be in construction, that's obvious," he muttered to himself.

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[smartestone]

Hermione comes out to the common room with a book some book, any book and frowns a little when she goes to take a seat. "That looks... interesting."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Hermione," Peter said. "Thanks. It'll look better once it's not a bungalow."

[smartestone]

"What were you aiming for?" she wonders, setting her book in her lap.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Well, eventually it'll hopefully be five levels," Peter said. "But as it turns out, I don't quite have the technique for getting the cards on the second level set yet. Give me some time or some glue and I'll get it, though."

[smartestone]

"I think glue would be cheating," Hermione tells him.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I agree," Peter said. "But I'm just doing this for fun, so I can cheat if I want."

"Which isn't to say that I will, but I can. That's the important thing."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Tyler wandered out to the common room and kind of stared at the house of cards. "Building something, Parker?" he asked mildly.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Trying to build a house for no real reason," Peter said. "I call it Habitat for Insanity from Boredom, but that's a little wordy."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

"Little bit," Tyler agreed. "So the superpowers don't help with that?"

He sat down and watched Peter for another minute. "That was one strange weekend."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"If only I had telekinesis," Peter said, shaking his head sadly. "Then this would be simple. Oh well."

"Strange weekend? You, too? Who did you think you were?"

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Tyler shuddered. "Mental powers are freaky, though. You're better off without them."

"I thought I was Z Delgado. You know, she's from where Bridge is, kind of Hispanic-looking, can duplicate like Jamie? I have no idea why her."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory poked her head in and looked thoughtfully at what Peter was doing. "I know a guy back home who does that for fun. He's pretty good, too. But the sacrifice is that he's really weird, too."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Rory," Peter said, looking up. "I'm pretty weird, but I'm not very good at this. I'm trying to decide if that tradeoff is worth it at the moment."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Hi, and you're not weird like him. That takes effort," she assured him. "I personally don't have the patience to even try. I'd breathe or something and it'd topple over."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"You could always rent some SCUBA equipment, which would solve the breathing problem, but that would be pretty weird," Peter said, getting another wall up. "On the other hand, that weirdness should help you with the construction if anything I've assumed is true."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Possibly." Rory sat on the couch, watching. "See, by now, I'd have used tape and just hoped no one noticed."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Tyler nodded to Rory. "Hey. Sounds like he's really bored."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Hi," Rory said with a wave. "He's not so much bored as he's just kind of bizarre. The guy also befriends old ladies to inherit their estates."

[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Tyler blinked. "Like Rex Ruthor in that new Really Strong Guy Who Can Fly movie?" he asked. "Because that was his one plot that actually made sense."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory laughed. "I'm not sure he's quite at the 'criminal mastermind' level, but he's got a decent jewelry collection because of this little habit. My mom's engagement ring came from him, actually. He's a very strange man."

[swerval_zero]

"Please be you," Zero said as she entered the common room and made a beeline for Peter. "I'm me again, so I assume, but...please be you."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I'm me," Peter said, standing up and walking over to hug Zero. It probably would have been good timing for a joke, but it didn't really feel like a joking moment. "So you weren't yourself, either?"

[swerval_zero]

"No, I was you," Zero mumbled into Peter's shoulder.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Really?" Peter asked, letting a small laugh escape. "Um. So... did you have fun?" What else could he ask?

[swerval_zero]

"I had the flu an' I thought I was supposed to have superpowers. I was actually kinda miserable."