Third Floor Common Room, Tuesday morning

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter was cooking breakfast and making a list. So far he had a remarkable array of eggs cooked in different styles, a loaf's worth of toast, far too many sausages, and a few boxes of cereal sitting out next to a gallon of milk.

You'd think he was cooking for more than himself. While he worked, a small black puppy scampered at his feet apparently trying to stab a paper ball with a pencil held in his teeth.

The list was for Mary Poppins, who had somehow thought that he'd volunteered as her Teacher's Assistant.

Walter Dornez - Hellpuppy
Rory Gilmore - Vampire puppy
Nadia Santos - Blue cat that disobeys the laws of physics
Alphonse Elric - Kitten (just a plain, normal, cute kitten... who knew?)
Veruca Cally - Lemming
Pip Bernadette - Psychotic cat
Ranma - Puppy
Alanna - Talking, intelligent, snarky cat
Pippi Longstocking - Spider Squirrel monkey
Pippi Longstocking - Horse
Blair Sandburg - Two goldfish
Angela Chase - Cat
River Tam - Berthold??
Belthazor and Phoebe Halliwell - Two cats
Samuel Anders - Goldfish
Bridge Carson - Robot dog

He knew there had to be more than that. He'd keep working on it.

[ooc: Help Walter with his list? Help me with the list. The food's for anyone.]

Comments

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Maybe you had spiders on the brain." she grinned.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"I think that might tickle," Walter said and crossed out spider to write squirrel. He also added some other names that people had shared with him while he was chatting around the common room.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi laughed at the idea of tickling brain spiders.

"I don't remember seeing class assignments." Pippi said. "You're getting homework already?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter put a hand on the top of her head and made a tickly spider. "Sort of. She told me that I'd volunteered to be her TA for the class. I met her because Pup decided to go running into her office yesterday."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi did likewise, but with more hair mussing.

"Maybe she saw your shiny shoes and decided you were a must-have."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Not that the hair mussing would be overly obvious. "Shiny shoes are a good addition to any occasion." Well, almost any.

"I want to see if she decides to measure you, too. You are taking the class, right?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I signed up for it. I'm not sure how popular it will be." Pippi said. Then she tilted her head.

"Measure me? I thought it was talking to animals, not sewing... Though I do like sewing."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter shrugged. "The first thing she did when she met us was measure Pup and me with a special tape measure."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Special how?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"It measured something else. Personality or character or something? It seemed to measure me and Pup fairly accurately."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Oh yeah? What did it say?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"That I'm six feet tall," Walter said, blithely not answering the whole question and grinning at her.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"...Wow... That is special. Special like the olympics." Pippi said in a flat voice.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter stuck out his tongue at her. "It said that Pup was 'demonically sweet and adorably homicidal.'"

He grinned. "As for mine, 'Outwardly, fastidious and well mannered. Inwardly... Total menace.'"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"A very insiteful measuring tape I'd say." Pippi stuck her tongue out back at him.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, we'll see what it says about you." Although he was more interested in what it would say about Schrodinger.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure it'll say something like 'worlds strongest girl' or 'makes great pancakes' or 'is very charitable for hanging out with Walter'."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter snorted and bumped her with a shoulder. "You know you like me because I never say 'but we'll get in trouble....'"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I didn't know you *could* say that!"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"You learn something new every day."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"You'll make an exemplary TA."