Third Floor Common Room, Sunday Morning

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn was wearing the same jeans and sweater she'd been wearing yesterday, not wanting to head back to her room and too tall to borrow Molly's. She was also freezing, which had led to her mixing up a very large pot of oatmeal. The fixings were in the cupboard if anyone wanted them, but she wasn't setting them out.

Instead, she was sitting with her bowl of healthy goodness (once you ignored the raisins and brown sugar she'd added to her own) and a very, very large mug of hot cocoa with mini marshmallows. She read through a large pile of books and scrolls she'd brought with her and that Giles had sent since May (not all of which were in English), trying to find anything that explained what was going on.

She made occasional notes on a pad as she worked.

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[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

She closed her eyes for a second, then gave him a shaky kind of smile.

"Just making sure you were you. Anders is calling himself Alec and yesterday he...well, nevermind about that. I'm just glad you are you."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I met him," Alec said, frowning slightly at the implication that Anders was possibly being mistaken for him. "What'd he do?"

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Nothing really. I mean he was nice and stuff." She looked at the collar of his shirt. "Was he cool to you?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"He was okay," Alec said, still frowning as he watched Annette, not quite sure whether to push her to tell him or not. "Definitely not as cool as me though."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Okay is better than nothing." She chewed her bottom lip and blurted out at his next few words. "His kiss was pretty cool."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec blinked. "Yeah?" He glanced at the other Alec, then back to Annette. "Are you all right with that?"

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

She glanced at the other Alec too, raising a brow. "Well, it was a nice kiss. And it's been a long time since I've been kissed. And it wasn't like Bel who asked me to have sex with him, so, I guess I was okay with it."

She met his eyes. "It went no further." Cause she was not a slut! Buh..

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec spread his hands. "Hey, not my business," he said, and managed to look only slightly wistful. "If someone pisses you off though, let me know."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I know, I was just saying..." She shuffled her foot back and forth in front of her.

"The guy with the lightning bolts last night was kind of frightening. And then there was boy wonder in his spandex who nearly gave me a heart attack. He stutters though so I guess I shouldn't talk bad about him."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Sounds like another weird weekend," Alec said, shaking his head. "Least this one's not my fault."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"There was a weird weekend that was your fault?" She asked, curious.

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"If you listen to some people, yeah," Alec said, making a face. "Alanna decided the troll invasion was my fault because I'd said I was bored right before it happened."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, geeze, totally coincidental." She nodded, trying to make him think she believed him. Because, uh, it was almost believeable. Anything here was.

"Troll invasion, eh? Must have really sucked."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Kinda," Alec admitted. "Besides the massive property damage, it was at least a change of pace."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"So they did relieve your boredom." She said, looking up at him. "And what about this weekend? Were you bored before Saturday morning?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"I guess so," he said. "But no, I don't remember saying it lately."