Second Floor Common Room, Tuesday Evening

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam hadn't had enough room in her own dorm room to read the swoop bike schematics from Anakin properly, so now they were spread out on the common room floor. She was taking notes and adding her own annotations to the plans, in the hopes that she'd know what she was doing when it came time to help Cameron.

There was a radio playing oldies on in the background, and Sam occasionally sang (badly) a lyric or two. Besides, the work helped her keep her mind off where she'd gotten them, and the fact that she wouldn't be able to ask Anakin for help when she got stuck.

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[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie came in with her notebook and took a seat on one of the couches, watching Sam with amazement. "Hullo. WHat are you doing?"

She began to write down, in Arabic, so no one could understand it:
Special Collections
mummies
curses
acrobatic tiny bunnies
Sapphists
free love in the 51st Century
Siletti's Syndrome
aspirin = sex madness

...trying to keep track of all the new things she'd learned.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean wandered down to see if there was anything happening anywhere and came across Sam.

"My Dad puts the stuff he's researching up on the wall" he offered dryly.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Hi Evie," Dean greeted her, sitting down near her. "How's it going?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Oh, so that's what that does...yeah, that makes...oh, huh?" Sam blinked as she looked up and saw the new student. "Swoop bike. Hi."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"My walls are already full," Sam said, completely serious, "so I needed space. Hey, Dean. Slumming down here on the second floor?"

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Swoop bike," Evie repeated, writing down the closest equivalent she could come up with in Arabic. "Hullo. I'm Evie. That looks enormously complicated."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Some people have free food radar.

Bridge? Has the uncanny ability to tell when someone is working on an interesting project. At least, that's one explanation for why he shows up in the common room and immediately goes to look over the schematics Sam's spread out.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Gotta walk on the wild side every now and then," Dean replied, grinning. "So what's all this? Is it something you can explain in words less than five syllables?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"No, it's really not so bad. It's just an engine system that I've never seen before, so there may be a need to adapt it to a different fuel source, unless I can find something on this planet that's comparable," Sam frowned and made some more notes. "Nice to meet you, Evie. I'm Sam."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Um..." Sam looked the plans over. "Anakin gave me some translated schematics for a swoop bike before he...yeah. Since I'm helping Cam with his, I thought I should look them over."

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

It still sounded a bit complicated to Evie, but very interesting. The last bit caught her attention more, though. "Would you by any chance be dating a boy named Jack?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Bridge!" Sam was thrilled to see someone who could appreciate what they were looking at. "Anakin gave me swoop bike plans. Want to help me adapt an old Harley Davidson to them sometime?"

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. American boy. Reminding herself that it wasn't his fault if he was diseased, she said, "It goes quite well, thank you. I went to the medical seminar this morning, and explored a bit of the dorms, meeting a few of my neighbors, along the way. And you?"

Shirtless =/= naked here, although I don't know how....

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

That stopped Sam, who still wasn't used to hearing it. It took her a few seconds to shift gears. "Yes, I am."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"I'm good." He grinned. "Found out my Dad's going to be teaching here this semester so he's going to be around."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Sam!" Bridge looks up from where he's pulled a notebook out of his pocket and is scribbling something down. His first instinct had been to make notes on the schematics themselves, but he realised before his pen hit the paper that that might be somewhat rude. "Um, yes?"

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie smiled happily at her, as thrilled as if she'd met a movie star. "Oh, how lovely. He took me to tea yesterday, and mentioned your name. He's quite funny, isn't he?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Funny's definitely one way to describe him," Sam said, smiling indulgently.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"You mean like Alec's bike?" Dean asked, looking interested.

[stykera]

Stark had spent most of the morning in the 3rd floor common room, because they'd had the free food of the day. Now he thought he'd see what was going on in the CR down the hall. Who knew he was up for that much socializing in one day? I certainly didn't

"Hello," he called out, waving to the occupants of the room.

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Oh, that's lovely!" Evie bounced a little on the couch, diseases forgotten, then asked, "What will he be teaching? Are you going to take his courses?"

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Well, yes. Deliberately silly, too. If you don't mind my saying so," Evie added hastily. "I find it charming, really. Although he wouldn't let me have espresso. As if I'd be effected by a little bit of coffee."

[soldtoarmenians]

Bridge has schematics-dar; Xander has Bridge-dar.

Or possibly he just followed, since it's hard to drop off someone's radar when they're staring at your ass.

"Hey, Sam," Xander said, coming up to look over Bridge's shoulder at the schematics.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Cool. I got permission for us to use the Danger Shop. Er, us meaning Cam and I, but if I'm working on my own bike, you're more than welcome to help," Sam leaned over and pointed with her pencil to one of the parts. "Even in English I can't figure out what that one's for, and I'm not sure we have one. Think we could rig one from found objects?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Xander," Sam waved from where she was kneeling over the blueprints. "Are you stealing my partner?"