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."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia flopped rather ungracefully to the floor. "Because he's around here, somewhere, and I don't know what he might be doing but it's not like you regularly take naps in the common room!"

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"I have a homocidal cat in my room," Pip responded. "And who's around here?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi can't really think of anything to say to that.

"I don't think Pip is up on the latest news. And can I assume that you've seen no sign of him as of yet?"

[nadiathesaint]

"I should have malleted that cat when I had the chance," Nadia muttered, rubbing her arms. "My father. And no, I haven't seen him yet."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Your father? I thought you were an orphan?"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia rubbed the side of her neck. "So did I. Then awhile ago, during that . . . dentist . . . thing, he showed up. And now he's back and he wants to see me and I don't know what he's going to do, or who he might hurt."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Wait, why would he hurt anyone?

[nadiathesaint]

"Because he's insane! That's just what he does!"

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"I think I'm missing an important part of this," Pip responded.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"He's a bad man." Pippi explained.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia pressed her palms to her eyes and let out a frustrated breath. ". . . and he's here."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip popped his neck. "So, how bad is he then?"

[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]

"You know those dreams I've been having for awhile?"

She had every reason to belive that Pip would know which ones she was talking about.

"The reason I have those is because he tricked me, tied me down, and drugged me. Walter ended up finding me wandering around town after he left. And then I--"

No. She wasn't going to tell them that.

"He's former CIA and currently freelance. Every government in the world has a file on him."

[nadiathesaint]

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

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi knew what happened after that.

She reached over and gave her friend's shoulder a squeeze.

[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."