Fifth Floor Common Room, Tuesday Evening.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally was very contemplative. So far the reaction to her new powers weren't the rousing 'hurrah' she'd kinda hoped for.

So here she was. Popping individual kernels of popcorn, because she could. Plus, it was really helping with that whole focus and control thing.

Gelmoore Gals and Vanessa Saturn were on tonight, so those were sort of acting as a background to her popping efforts.

[ooc: Ooooopen.]

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Okay, 'extreme WTF' just reached a new high. "Taking what slow?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Popping the popcorn," Cally said, not trying to raise alarm.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders narrowed his eyes a little bit. He hadn't crossed his arms over his chest yet, though. "Okay, since when could you do that? And for frak's sake, why?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally leaned over and sniffed at Anders. "You were smoking, weren't you?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

And now here came the crossed arms. "Yeah. So? You were just . . . doing something bizarre with popcorn!"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"My being a witch is totally more productive than killing myself slowly with cancer sticks," Cally said.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"What the frak? A witch? You? Since when?" asked Anders, completely ignoring the smoking PSA for now.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Since yesterday," Cally said.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Um, okay then." Anders took a moment to boggle over that, then burst out, "Yeah, well, if you want to do that, then I can damn well smoke if I want to!"

Not his most logical argument, that's for sure.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"That makes no sense," Cally said.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Neither does you wanting to be a witch all of a sudden," Anders told her. "What brought that on?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Okay, the whole wanting to be a witch was not sudden," Cally said.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Okay, but why?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Cause it's something special? And I want to be special?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders opened his mouth to say something, then changed his mind and shook his head instead. After a moment, he said, "Now I get why it used to be so annoying when I used to say stuff like that."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Wait... what's that supposed to mean?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"I never used to believe you when I said stuff like that, and you tried to convince me otherwise," Anders said evenly. "So why should you believe me now?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally blinked. "You think I'm special?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders just gave her a 'duh' look.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"But that's not, like, able to help people special," Cally said.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders scratched at his ear and shrugged. "I guess that kind of makes sense. But how is popping popcorn kernels one by one going to help people?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Oh, ummm, basically I have balls like Bel," Cally said. "This is just me doing really fine control stuff."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders coughed. A lot.

"Oh, thanks for the mental image I really, really, really didn't need," he spluttered.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Huh?" Pause. "Ewwwwww!" Cally reached over to try and smack Anders on the arm.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Actually, there were two very disturbing mental images going on here. One was much more normal than the other, shall we say, and was probably the one he was focusing on. Until he got smacked in the arm, anyway.

"What's so gross about it?"