5th floor common room, Thursday morning

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River put a note up on the fridge:

Don't feed Berthold ice cream!
Berthold (the tentacled monster under the blanket) likes ice cream, but Miss Poppins has informed me that it's not a healthy diet for him. It gives him stomach pains and makes him eat our clothes. So if you have to feed him, please give him something with a high fibre content.

Thank you.

River and Buffy

Buffy hadn't actually seen the note, but she had objected to her clothes being eaten.

Berthold sat on the floor next to River, blanket pulled tightly around him. He sniffled.

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[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy was up early that day, and before heading for the bus to DC, he stopped into the 5th Floor Common Room just for the h__l of it.

"Morning."

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"Morning," River replied. Pointing at the thing on the floor, she added: "This is Berthold."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy looked down at the blanket. Ooookay. "Uh, hi Berthold."

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"He's a bit shy," River explained.

((ooc: Sorry for extreme SP))

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy nodded. "I see." Billy wasn't quite willing to rule out the possibility that the blanket really was sentient. This was Fandom after-all.

"Uh, Hi Berthold I'm Billy."

((ooc: not a problem I've been in and out of town for a while now.))

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

Berthold wiggled a tentacle. Perhaps this human could be made to ignore River and feed him ice cream.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Oh! Billy's eye widened at the sight of the tentacle. Okay, Berthold was under the blanket. Billy looked at the note. "Is Berthold Lactose Intolerant?"

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"Possibly. Or it's just that he's been eating too much ice cream." She looked at Berthold. "No ice cream for you."

Berthold sniffled.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy smiled slightly. "Maybe just as an occaisional snack." he said. "What if I made fruit juice popsicles?"

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"That might be better," River said.

Berthold wiggled happily.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy checked the freezer. "Hmm, only little ice-cube trays. Maybe one of the shops has something bigger."

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

Berthold wiggled even more.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy grinned inspite of the weirdness of a mostly unseen thing under a blanket wiggling. It was kinda cute.

"what do you think, fruit punch? Orange juice?"