Fifth floor common room, Tuesday Evening

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip lay on the couch, hat over his face, snoozing.

He looked like he was enjoying a nice break from his homocidal psycho street cat.

He could probably be woken and even interuppted for something interesting enough.


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[nadiathesaint]

How about a visit from his paranoid psycho street friend?

Nadia had spent the afternoon and evening wandering about the dorms warning people and watching out for Sloane, instead of taking a nap at Cafe Fina like she was supposed to be doing.

She just hadn't wanted to wake up Walter, since he needed to sleep. And Alfred and Pippi might have made her stay. But she had to keep moving.

She spotted Pip out of the corner of her eye and spun.

Uh oh. She ran into the common room to make sure he wasn't dead. This involved her putting her hand around his throat to check his pulse. . . . though in retrospect, putting her hand around the neck of a mercenary MIGHT not have been the best idea, ever.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

There have been better ideas.

Pip reacted as he had been trained to do. A half-second of thought and he pushed up and tried to break free of the hold and reach for a knife that wasn't there.

When he realized it wasn't, he immediately started to try and pull the attacker's arms into a lock.

[nadiathesaint]

Considering that Nadia was just trying to make sure Pip wasn't dead, she was ill prepared to stop him from doing that. Her mallet hit the floor with a thunk as she had been just about to pull it out of her belt during the half-second before she was suddenly yanked around. She brutally insulted Pip's parentage in Spanish before trying to kick him in the shin.

At least he seemed to be okay. . . .

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi chooses this point to walk in and isn't quite sure what to make of what she sees.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"OW! Merde du infierno in... what the hell are you doing, Nadia?"

[nadiathesaint]

"Trying to make sure you weren't dead!" Nadia tried to jerk out of his grip, but that didn't so much work. "Ow, let me go!"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Why would he be dead?"

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip released her. "What she said."

[chasingangela]

There's no real reason for Angela to be on the fifth floor, but she's there anyhow, possibly checking to see if any leftovers from baking are still sitting around.

She glanced at Nadia and Pip. "Hi, is there food up here?"

[nadiathesaint]

"Yeah, but you might not want to trust it."

[chasingangela]

Angela blinked at that. "Did Sam Carter bake again, or something?"

She peered into the fridge. "Nothing looks that weird, other than that blue thing that's been there all year. I think it's, like, sentient now."

[nadiathesaint]

"Who knows who might have come in and done something to it?"

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"We should really do something about that," Pip mused. "Otherwise it will start demanding a room or something."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I think it's happy where it is."

[chasingangela]

Angela shut the fridge -- scrunching her nose at the blue thing as she did so-- and looked at them each in turn.

"Nadia, have you been eating paranoid-os or something? And I just hope they don't assign it to one of the new kids as a roomie. or ask one of the new kids to live in the fridge. Unless they really want to."

[nadiathesaint]

"I'm not paranoid!"

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Which... honestly wouldn't suprise me," Pip said. "I've been here too long."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

After several (http://courtincalamity.livejournal.com/3010.html?thread=17858#t17858) other (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhighdorms/764170.html?thread=54745610#t54745610) stops (http://kitty--fetish.livejournal.com/21129.html?thread=487049#t487049), Walter made it up to the fifth floor and checked the common room for Nadia.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia was, in fact, there. And rubbing her arms still from the armlock from Pip, the mallet on the floor.

"Oh, there you are."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter scowled, now that he could stop worrying. "There I am?"

[nadiathesaint]

"I had to keep moving and my mun was bored at work. I told you that."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Totally understandable. "No. Keeping moving keeps exposing you over and over again as you move from place to place."

[nadiathesaint]

"I was careful. And it makes me harder to find."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Or it means he just has to wait in likely places until you come to him," Walter said, folding his arms across his chest.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

While Nadia is being chastised by talking to Walter, Pippi gently pokes Pip in the side.

"Hey."