Fifth floor common room, Thursday afternoon (after workshops)

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia lay stretched out on the floor of the common room, an episode of some show about ghost hunters playing on the TV behind her. She was pretty damned sore from over doing it again in the gym yesterday, so figured that today would be the perfect day to get back to work on her adventure story, which she hadn't worked on in far too long.

When last we left our heros, they'd just jumped into the water after the lovely siren maiden Phillipa. . . .

And now she got to get to the really good part.

[ooc: open. work is about as slow as it has ever been. Adventure story is on a linked, back-dated post to spare the comm from the melodrama. The link is nonexplicit and work safe, just not terribly well written. ;D]

Comments

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter blinked several times. "You teased Pip orally but not in a dirty way?"

[nadiathesaint]

"Yes?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

More blinking and then, epiphany. "Verbally! You teased Pip with words."

He snickered a little before saying, "Teasing him orally is more like something you would learn in Sex Ed, but I'd rather you not do with him. Pippi would be pissed."

[nadiathesaint]

"Verbally. Right. Verbal. Like verb, which is a kind of word." Nadia shrugged. "Oral is the ears, then, right?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter snickered again and shook his head. "I think that's aural," he exaggerated the pronunciation difference. "Which sounds almost the same. Oral's with your mouth. It's just that if you talk about orally teasing Pip in Sex Ed, it sounds like something you'd learn how to do in Sex Ed."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia nodded slowly, blinking, as she processed this information and made a few mnemonics to remember it. Then the look of thoughtful confusion cleared up for a moment as realization of something dawned and her face went blank.

"Ah."

Pippi would totally have killed her.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Yes." Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending, Walter had decided the best response to this little mixup was to continue snickering and attempt to slide Nadia's laptop out of the way so he could slide into her lap instead.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia was . . . well, she was still staring somewhat blankly into space, until that laptop started sliding.

Then she reached out sharply to shut the laptop and hide any incriminating evidence that might be on it. "No reading!"

Wait, what was Walter. . . . Ohhhhhh.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Must be something good if you're that protective," Walter said and kept sliding off the arm of the couch. "Plans for world domination by the women? You're not planning on filling Fandom's water supply with sex change potion, are you?"

[nadiathesaint]

"It's bad. It's very bad. And I don't have a sex change potion. And didn't we agree that conquering the world would actually suck?"

She was remarkably eloquent for the fact that a good half her brain was occupied going "boyonlapboyonlapboyonlapyay!"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"It would. Power behind the throne is the only way to go. Fewer poisonings and assassinations attempts and bothersome supermarket openings."

And being the sitter, rather than the sittee was an interesting change of pace. One that brought his smiling face rather close to Nadia's.

[nadiathesaint]

boyonlapboyonlapboyonlapboyonlap, sang Nadia's brain.

"Uh-huh. You're on my lap."

Closer to Nadia's big, doofy grin.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Should I move?"

Such a cute, big, doofy grin.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia narrowed her eyes playfully. "Don't you dare."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Or what?" Walter smirked and wiggled as though threatening to finish his slide right on off of her lap.

[nadiathesaint]

". . . or I'll scuff your shoes," Nadia retorted, though her grip around his waist would probably prevent any neccessity of such a deed.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"That's a low blow." He even glanced down at his shoes reflexively. "Are you taking fighting lessons from Joxer?"

[nadiathesaint]

"Why on Earth would I do that? And, yes, it's a very low blow. Below the knees, even."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"He's a brilliant teacher for what not to do," Walter said then groaned. "You aren't allowed plays on words after you told me you orally teased Pip."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia stuck her tongue out at him. It should be noted that her face was not terribly far away from his when she did so.

"I can play with words however I want to. It's not my fault that the English language is dumb."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter closed that not terribly far distance to rub his nose against hers. "Even when your word play results in your telling me you're committing very interesting acts on Pippi's could-be boyfriend?"

[nadiathesaint]

"I said not dirty,"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Yes, you did."

[nadiathesaint]

"It was your brain that came up with the dirty."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"It was what you said and that you did it in sex ed class."