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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[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?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally stared.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders stared back. "It's perfectly normal! I just don't want to think about it!"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally blinked.

And stared.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Okay, seriously . . . it's not that weird, is it? I mean, you even figured it out yourself last week!"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Oh, you're just... okay. Ummm, no, that's fine. Go ahead and think of Bel's... yeah. Go right ahead."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Gah!" Anders buried his face in his hands, but his ears were probably pretty obviously red. "No, I don't need to think about that . . . any more than I already am."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally shook her head, but was really glad the conversation was now off her new powers.

"It'll all work out okay in the end."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Hope so," Anders muttered, "or I'm just gonna go and camp out in the middle of the duck pond until it warms up in spring."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Right," Cally said, not sure what to make of that statement.