2nd Floor Common Room, Sunday Morning

[sonofdragons.livejournal.com]

Tannim settled in on the couch with a bowl of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs and the remote. As he flipped through the channels, he grumbled about the lack of Sunday morning cartoons.

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[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Morning!" Turtle bounced in, going for a bowl of Frosted Flakes.

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Tannim waved at her. "You have way too much energy for the morning," he said.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"I can't help it!" Turtle looked about ready to twirl dangerously, but she was pouring milk, and that would be messy. "I just made partner!"

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"Partner?" Tannim asked.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle gave a very bouncing attempt at a firm, professional nod. "Yup. Partner. I submitted my proposal for a new cash register at work yesterday, and Jane was so impressed that she made me a partner in the business. Turtle and Canary. Has a good ring to it, doesn't it?"

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"Wow, that's great!" Tannim said. "Congratulations!"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Thank you!" The swell of pride overtook her again as she straightened her shoulders.

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"We should celebrate," Tannim decided.

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"Ooh!" Turtle initially liked the idea, but then grew to like it even more by the second and added a few bounces. "Oooh, ooh, yes, we should! What could we do to celebrate?"

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"It's your success," Tannim said. "What do you want to do?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Ummm..." Turtle bit her lip as she thought a bit. "I want....a party. With cake. Double chocolate cake, and ice cream. And a big banner that says, 'Turtle Wexler Pwns Joo All.'"

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"Cake and ice cream wouldn't be hard," Tannim said. "The banner might be a little more work."

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Turtle frowned at him with a very skeptical look. "How hard can it be to make a banner?"

He was talking to a fourteen year old who just made partner, here.

[00-nova-00.livejournal.com]

It was morning, and Nova happened to be on the second floor. He wandered into the common room to find interesting things to do.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle smiled softly and gave the strange hooded kid a friendly, but tentative, wave.

[00-nova-00.livejournal.com]

Nova remembered this girl, and how he had offended her with his staring. He tried to recall her name when his plushy came to mind.

"Turtle..." he said. He returned a small wave of his own.

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She nodded, with a small smile. "That's right, I'm Turtle. Your name's Nova, right? We have writing and science together; that helped me remember, I think."

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Nova nodded, trying not to think about his first writing assignment.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Hmm, not one for conversation, was he? Turtle rubbed her nose a little as she thought of what to say. "What did you write about? Mine was about tea, and explosions."

[00-nova-00.livejournal.com]

Hearing that question surprised him. He wasn't sure how to answer that. He recalled Yuki's reaction and the phrase 'dictionary vomit' and his face sunk behind the shadows of his hood.

"I wrote...what I liked," he said. He hoped that Yuki would make it clearer what he wanted in a paper next time.

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"That's good," Turtle nodded with a small smile. "Wouldn't be much point if you wrote what you hated, right?"

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Nova supposed that she had a point, unless writing what you hated was the assignment.

He agreed with a nod.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Seemed to have reached another dead end. She rolled a little on her toes as she tried to think of something else. "Um, well, how about our science teacher? She's a little different, isn't she?"

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Nova considered the cheery science teacher and companion lizard. He didn't recall anything particularly odd about her other than her fondness of science.

"I guess," he replied not committing to any opinion.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Okay, this was just getting frustrating. He wasn't 'slow' like Chris Theodoraskis was. Nova was just being difficult.

"Why don't you talk much?" Turtle asked, annoyance tinging the edge of her voice. "I'm trying to be all friendly and nice and you're just being mean and unresponsive."