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Fourth Floor Common Room; Tuesday Afternoon.

Setsuna was hungover. She was cranky. She had been a crow already today and couldn't stand being in her room because there was far too much Jude-ness in there, since, on top of being hungover, cranky, and post-crow, she was also suddenly single. She needed hot tea and a corner of the couch to curl up in and mope in, pronto. So that's what she did. Sitting quietly, cuddled up around her mug, staring disenchantedly at the blank television screen.

She was hoping she put off enough of an aura of emo and hate to ward off too much happiness from trying to enter the room.

[[ open, as common rooms are. I disappear in a bit for a class, but I'll be back after that ]]

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Cally was wandering up the stairs, coming from her class. She stopped to see what was up in the common room on the floor below hers, since she heard the TV.

"Hey," she said, sitting down near Setsuna. "You're... Setsuna, right?"

Setsuna took a long sip of tea before nodding...carefully nodding. "Uh-huh. Ummm..." She searched Cally's face; she knew she recognized it a little, but definately could not find the name right now, not with everything else in her head. "I...I'm sorry, what was your name again? I...I'm so bad at remembering sometimes..."

"S'okay," Cally said. "I'm Cally. I don't think we've ever formally met before."

Setsuna nodded again, repeating the name in her head and trying to force it through everythign to embed it in a little spot of memory. "Not formally, no, but I do recognize you. Nice to meet you, formally, then, Cally." She tried a small, little smile.

"Nice to meet you, too," Cally said, with a much broader smile. "You, uhhh, lose the remote?"

"Mmm, nope," Setsuna said, reaching to grab it, only to discover it wasn't beside her as she thought. She blinked. "Um, maybe..." She dived her hand in between the couch cushions. Yep. There it was. Once retrieving it from the depths, the passed it over to Cally. "Here you go. Go ahead, watch whatever. I'm just...sittin', really. I don't mind."

So long as it wasn't too loud....

"Oookay?" Cally bit her lip. "You got somethin' on your mind?"

Setsuna rather wished she hadn't let out that big, huge sigh, but it couldn't be helped. "You could say that, yeah..."

"You prolly don't want to talk about it, I'm guessin'?" Cally said.

Setsuna's shoulders hunched over her cup of tea a little more as she looked into it. "Not...not particularly, no...."

"You, ummm, want a hug?" Cally said.

Setsuna took a moment to consider this. Hugs were nice. Really, really, really nice. But she also had tea. Tea was as good as a hug.

...Okay, not in case. Even if hugs from near strangers were kind of awakard. Still, there was something about Cally that struck her as familiar, more than just a passing, I've-seen-you-around way. She lowered her drawn-up legs, her tightly-gripped tea up. "Well, I mean, if you're offering, sure."

"I'm not normally in the mode of askin' if I'm not offering," Cally said. She opened up her arms. "You wanna come over here, or should I come to you?"

Setsuna smiled a little; my, how the hugging of two near-strangers was so awkward. "Meet halfway, I guess," she said, setting her teacup down carefully, then opening her arms and moving in for the hug.

Cally met Setsuna and tried to give her the best hug possible, cause she really seemed she needed it. "It'll all be fine. Whatever it is."

Hugs were nice; Setsuna hoped Cally didn't mind that she lingered on it, returning the hug tightly, just glad to have someone close for a moment or two. "T...thank you."

Cally didn't mind at all. "You're totally welcome," she said. "I kinda designated myself hug-girl awhile ago."

Setsuna smiled lightly again as she settled back in her nice little curling corner. "I think that was a wise move," she said. "You're very good at them. Or, so it would seem, from that hug."

"Aww, thanks," Cally said, smiling. "You feelin' any better?"

Setsuna nodded a little. "Surprisingly, yeah, I am. Thanks..." Hugs and smiles were amazing things, even if the feeling would only be temporary....

"Well good," Cally said. "You need another one, don't hesitate to ask." She smiled. "Things can't be so bad, right?"

Another nod, with a soft, thoughtful smile. "No, not that bad...Just..." She paused, biting her lip a moment as if thinking. "Different. Will just take some getting used to..."

And then she realized that she probably didn't make much sense, considering Cally had no idea what she was upset about. She shook her head, blushing a little. "Sorry. I'm just kind of babbling a little now..."

"Babble away," Cally said. "If it'll make you feel better. I'm more concerned about you, right now. Don't like to see anyone this down, you know?"

Setsuna waved a dismissive hand. "Ahh, no, I'm not really one who likes to talk about her problems. I'd much rather talk about other things, you know?"

She looked at Cally for a moment. Why did she seem so familiar? Maybe it was just something about her demenour, the way she carried herself. Then again, there was...

"You're the other girl in my health and fitness class, right?"

That had to be it...but, at the same time, it didn't quite seem to cover it, although she was sure that Cally was in that class with her.

"Yeah," Cally said, nodding. "Kinda funny we haven't gotten the chance to talk before, actually."

"Heh, yeah, 'specially being the only girls," Setsuna smiled a little. "But it isn't exactly a talk-type class, either."

"Do you live on this floor, Cally? I think I've almost got everyone on this one, finally, but I wouldn't be surprised if I've missed yet another."

"Nope, I'm a floor up, actually," Cally said. "508 is where me and my lemming hide out."

Setsuna breathed a small sigh of relief. Good. She wasn't as much of a social pariah as it would be were Cally another unknown from the same floor.

"Lemming? As in, actual lemming, or is this a pet name for someone?"

One could never be too sure; always good to check.

"Actual lemming," Cally said. "His name's Poe. I got him from home."

Setsuna opened her mouth to comment on the cuteness of that, when she realized that she wasn't quite sure she actually knew what a lemming looked like, so her mouth snapped shut and her head tilted thoughtfully.

"Well, that's certainly different than a dog or a cat," she decided after a moment with a smile. "And where's home? If you don't mind me asking, and trying to cover the general get-to-know-you questions that we probably should have covered ages ago."

"Oh, ummm, Oasis, actually. Which is on Caprica. Which is, erm, another planet," Cally said. "But I'm human, don't worry."

Setsuna's head tilted with the first place, then a little bit more with the broader description, and then gave a knowing nod when Cally explained that it was another planet. She was thinking maybe it was somewhere she hadn't heard about before.

Cally's disclaimer, however, stopped her a moment. "I see; not that it would matter all that much if you weren't, right?" Said the not-quite-so-human half-demon with a nervous little laugh.

"Oh, no, not at all," Cally said. "Just some folks start wondering if I have special alien powers since I'm from another planet. Which I sadly don't."

Setsuna drew her legs up, wrapping her arms around them and setting her chin on her knees, head tilted slightly as she forged on with the questions that nicely distracted her from other things. "Do you wish you did, sometimes, then? And, if you don't have any special alien powers, is there anything more normal-person...ish that you're really good at?"

"Well, who doesn't?" Cally said. "Pippi's super strong, Walter's super fast, Phoebe, Piper, Agnes, and Willow are all witches, Nadia's a superspy, Bel's a teleporting demon, Jamie and Z can duplicate themselves..." Cally sighed. "I can fix broken stuff. Woo-hoo." She pouted a little.

Setsuna winced a little, especially at her strange urge to correct Cally to include half in there about Bel. But that was just bitterness. And she boggled a little that, apparantly, she and Cally knew all the same people, but didn't know each other. Was that where the familiarness came from?

"But fixing broken things is pretty important, too," she said, hoping she sounded supportive, worried that she'd inadvertantly stuck her foot in her mouth again. "I have a friend back home who's a real genius at stuff like that; without her, my robot friend couldn't survive because she'd have no one to fix her, and, without my robot friend, my vampire friend...well, kind-of friend, wouldn't have someone to help protect her, so..."

Setsuna blinked a little, thinking that, if this were anywhere else other than Fandom, she'd probably sound insane a little. But Cally herself had just given off a list of oddities, too, which just made Setsuna smirk a little. God bless Fandom High. Heh.

"Yeah, but I don't have a robot friend to fix," Cally said. "I mean, the best I got is that I built a still. And compared to Bridge, I'm just an amateur. And he can read minds, too!"

Hmmm, Setsuna seemed to have worked herself into a corner here. She took a thoughtful moment.

"Um, well, but can Bridge give such effective, emo-dispelling hugs?"

Cally bit her lip. "Sorry," she said, realizing what she'd been doing. "I kinda have a... thing about powers, sometimes."

Her head tilted again. "Thing? You mean, because it seems like most everyone around you here has them, but you don't?"

"Yeah," Cally said. "And even the folks who don't have powers have, like, training and stuff. Guess it's a... inferiority complex or something."

Setsuna smiled a little, hopefully encouragingly, getting a little bubbly herself as she went into a schpiel she gave quite a lot. "Not everyone. In fact, Jude, my boyfr---"

She stopped very abruptly, sudden burst of cheerfulness dropping away quickly. She gulped. Shit.

She forged on, albiet uneasily. "Um, err, I...I mean, my...my..e--" Say it, Setsuna......But she couldn't. "Um, well, there's Jude; he doesn't have any super powers or training, or anything like that, although he's pretty good on a skateboard and makes a mean pancake, and...and he...he's one of the best people I've met here..."

Like, the most most amazing person ever...

Ugh. Setsuna failed at this diversion game, absolutely and completely...Her eyes dropped away.

Cally shuffled over to Setsuna and tried to give her another hug. "Oh boy. Now I think I have an idea why you're so sad."

Setsuna easily accepted it, considering she felt like she was about to cry again now. She even sniffed a little. "Yeah....I tried to not think about it. Had it goin' pretty good for a while, there, too..."

"I'm not gonna try and tell you anything encouragin'," Cally said. "But I want you to know that it'll all be fine, eventually. But it is gonna prolly hurt for awhile."

Setsuna sucked in a deep breath, steeling herself against the rush of depression heading straight for her, and gave a firm nod. "Yeah, I know...." She tried to smile through it. "Thanks, Cally..."

[[and i poof for work. ]]

"No problem," Cally said. "S'what new friends are for."

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