Fourth floor common room, Saturday morning

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude was looking not at all sulky that some of his best and most tasty creations had been commercialised. He was also certainly not looking sulky because a certain someone who could get the same reaction out of Setsuna that he did was here. In fact, Jude didn't look sulky at all.

Not. At. All.

He was just here, in the common room, indulging in his weekly ritual of cartoon-watching, and working on his pancakebab technique. He was going for interesting shapes as well as more traditional blobs. He found squiggles worked quite well but gave him the irresistable urge to yell "Snakes onna stick!"

[[Open! Breakfast food onna stick for all!]]

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[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow was lured by the scent of pancakes which her mun was craving liek woah. "Morning, Jude! Any hope those are for sharing?"

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"These are totally for sharing, bra!" Jude greeted her cheerfully, waving a squiggly pancake onna stick at her with one hand as he flipped another with his other.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Oo - on a stick!" Willow said, appreciatively. "Thank you. How do we handle the syrup situation? My gut tells me dipping, but you're the expert."

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude ceremoniously handed over the stick and pointed towards a bowl of syrup already on hand for such an eventuality.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow went to make with dipping and nibbling not dirty OMG and gave a happy sigh. "Delicious! I shall happily eat more of these. You know, so I'm not being all rude and shunning your food. I'm a good friend like that." She grinned at him.

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude chuckled. "Yeah, 'cause you're totally just doing it because of the friendship thing and not because you just want pancakes."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Precisely," Willow grinned. "So are there any parents in your weekend?"

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude groaned. "No, but there's a crazy ex-military rent-a-cop who thinks I'm a total deliquent my parents sent instead."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Oh no!" Willow said. "Is there anything we can do to convince him you're not? I could sign somethng swearing you're not at all delinquent-like."

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude chuckled sadly. "Gonna take more than that. I kinda got a rep back home for doing everything I can to get on this guy's nerves. Besides, he doesn't take any kid's word. We're all just 'maggots'." His eyes narrowed and took on a steely Christopher Walken ring to it as he did his best Ron impersonation.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Is his last name Snyder?" Willow asked.

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"Could be. I don't actually know." Jude looked around before confiding, "We think it's something embarrassingly German."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Ahhh," Willow said, with a knowing nod. "He sounded a little like the principal at my old high school. I wondered if maybe there was a relation."

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude shuddered theatrically. "There can't be more Rons. That would just be wrong."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Any hope you can avoid him this weekend?" Willow asked. She also helped herself to another pancake, because she was a good friend like that.

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"Nah, he's got like," Jude paused for a finger-wiggle, "Skills." He pulled a vaguely heart-shaped pancake out of the frying pan by its stick and added it to the stack. "What should I try next?" he mused.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Dinosaurs?" Willow suggested. She grinned. "It's a shame there's no shape that suggests vampire, because then the sticks would be extra funny."

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"Hmm . . ." Jude's eyes narrowed and his tongue poked out the side of his mouth in concentration as he poured the batter. A roundish blob, then two elongated blobs to either side to which he quickly added rounded points. "It's a bat?"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Ooo," Willow said, giving Jude a round of applause. "Nicely creative."

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude grinned. "Thanks." He laid the stick across the body and poured a little more batter over it to bake the stick in. "What about? Parental types about?"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow shook her head. "Mom and Dad are off at conferences. Usually they're happy if I don't give them a reason to have to talk to my teachers or the principal, you know?"

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I guess." A strange expression flashed across Jude's usually mellow features as he set to flipping the batpancake with his batspatula. "'Suna's best friend and her dad are here."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Hee "Are you going to get a chance to meet them?" Willow asked.

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"Met 'em yesterday. Konoka seems nice. Totally reminds me of one of my friends from home." Jude looked wistful. "Just kinda wishing I had her all to myself all weekend like usual, y'know?"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"I so get that," Willow said. "I was all ready for some private - very private - time with me and Peter when his brother showed up. Not that Edmund isn't nice and all, but it did throw off the original plans."