Third Floor Common Room - Saturday afternoon

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Molly was glad to see that no one was using the kitchen on the third floor. She'd stopped by Dawn's room after a handwavey trip into town for supplies and it just seemed easier to use the kitchen on Dawn's floor since it was right here and available.

She set her bags with the ingredients for cookies on the counter and began looking for mixing bowls and cookie sheets. "I got enough so that we can make a double batch," she said to Dawn. "That way we don't have to worry about eating too many of the ones I'm making for Charlie to send to his friend. As long as we end up with about two dozen for him, all the rest are fair game." She grinned at Dawn over her shoulder.

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"What are your feelings on cookie dough?" Dawn asked, pulling some cookie sheets out of a cupboard and putting them on the counter. "And why does Charlie rate two dozen homemade Molly cookies?"

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"As long as some of it makes it to the oven, it's all good," Molly said with a laugh. She pulled out the bowls and other utensils she'd need and began to pull ingredients out of the bag.

"And Charlie gets cookies because..." she looked around for anyone near by and stepped closer to Dawn to speak quietly, "it's actually part of a cover story. We're working on getting Cam a really cool birthday present and Charlie mentioned that his friend liked cookies as code to let me know that things were going according to plan. Then I said I could make cookies for his friend." She stepped back and shrugged. "So, I'm just keeping up my end of the story."

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"So I'm helping do something covert?" Dawn gleed and bounced a little as she reached for the flour and a measuring cup. "And you have a date? With Jamie? Really? That's so cool!" She squeed. "Are you excited?"

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Molly giggled. "Yep. Covert cookies."

She pulled the recipe (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh/967527.html?thread=51449191#t51449191) from last Monday's class out of her pocket and set it on the counter and slid a mixing bowl over to Dawn. "I'm going to start on the butter, sugar, vanilla and eggs. Can you measure everything else out?"

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"Yeah, I helped make cookies a couple of times," Dawn looked the recipe over, then elbowed Molly, "and I notice that you didn't answer my questions. Too nosy?"

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Truth was, Molly was still trying to figure out how she felt about it. She went over to pre-heat the oven. "Jamie's nice," she finally said. "He makes me laugh."

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"That's good, unless you're laughing at him," Dawn measured out the flour and dumped it in a bowl. She coughed and waved the cloud out of the way. "I like him."

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Molly grinned as she started to cream the sugar and butter together. "I laugh at Jamie when he does something on purpose to make me laugh at him." She shook her head at the silliness of boys. "I like him too."

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"Sooooo," Dawn drawled, measuring out the sugar, "what were you doing when he asked you? Was it out of the blue, or did you just not tell me there was chemistry before? Where are you going? What are you going to wear?"

Okay, so she was very possibly dating vicariously through Molly now. The single life was tough.

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Molly shrugged. "We have two workshops together and we've ended up talking in Arts & Crafts the past couple weeks and I've talked to him a few other times. He just asked me out yesterday. I wasn't expecting it at all." She added the eggs to the bowl. "We're going to the Pizza Planet tonight and I haven't even thought about what I'm going to wear. It's not like I have a whole lot of choices."

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"Want to borrow something?" Dawn offered, measuring out the baking soda and salt. "A lot of it's Buffy's, but her taste tones down a lot between now and when I came from. For pizza, jeans or shorts and a nice top should do fine, though."

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"You'd really help me figure out what to wear?" Molly asked.

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"Yeah, sure," Dawn shrugged. Not that she'd ever needed to do it for Buffy, but she knew it was something girls did for each other. "You going with or without a hat?"

She added the cocoa and cream of tartar to the bowl and whisked them together. "Okay, dry parts are done."

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Molly snickered. "With hat," she said. "Jamie said he liked my hats so I asked if he wanted to borrow one. He said sure, if I'd let him take me out to dinner. So, I'll wear one and offer him a couple of choices to borrow."

She stopped mixing the wet ingredients. "Great. Now we put them together." She took the bowl from Dawn and added about a third of the dry ingredients to her own mixing bowl.

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Dawn giggled. "You need girlier hats to take as choices for him." She held the mixing bowl for Molly so her friend could add the dry ingredients in gradually.

"And you said I could take some, right? I don't think I'm allowed to make cookies without giving some to Sam and Dean, and probably Xander. That's the kind of rule that holds across dimensions, right?" She worried her lower lip.

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Molly giggled as well. "One of his choices will be the tiara Rory gave me for my birthday," she said and she added more dry ingredients and mixed them in.

"The original recipe makes 30 cookies, if I don't make them too big, and I doubled it so there should be plenty for you to take to share. I don't know about cross dimensional rules though. Jake and Jamie are the only people from the same world I am, possibly, and we didn't know each other before."

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"Nice," Dawn grinned. "I haven't met Jake yet, but it's nice that Jamie's from the same world as you, even if you didn't know each other. Like having Xander and Buffy and Willow here."

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"Hey," Bridge says, wandering in to the third floor common room almost as if he were drawn there. "What's up?"

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"Making cookies!" Dawn grinned at him. "Hopefully without mystical oops moments."

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"No mystical oops in my cookies," Molly said firmly. "I've triple checked the ingredients and some of these are getting sent off island. We definitely don't want the weirdness escaping to the mainland."

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"Yay cookies!" Bridge grins. "Especially the non-mystical-oops kind. Those're my favourite."

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Molly shrugged. "It's actually weird for me to be hanging around with other mutants. None of my friends back home are mutants and the big group of organized mutants were always trying to convince me to leave California and go to their school."

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"Yeah, mine too," Dawn nodded, then tipped her head. "Hey, do you think cookie vows need to be kept cross-dimensionally?"

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"Depends what kind of cookie vows..." Bridge says, looking thoughtful.

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"There's a mutant school?" Dawn snitched a bit of cookie dough. Just to check consistency, of course. "How come you didn't want to go?"