5th Floor Common Room - Friday after lunch

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi trudged up to the common room after the Stu Co meeting.

She's tired, she's cold, and really really hungry. It's very frustrating to be able to take a bite of something and then it falls through your face.

It's also a little gross.

Okay, a lot gross.

She really doesn't want to try again but she's so hungry... So she focuses on opening the pantry door. Which she succeeds at. However, she doesn't note until it's too late how dark it is in there. Not until that darkness reaches out and wraps around her wrist.

Pippi cries out in surprise and alarm, waving her hand in a futile attempt to shake the shadow off.

"No! Get off! Get off!"

She stumbles back as the shadow slides out of the pantry to embrace her. Shivering and flailing she at fist bumps into, then falls through, the kitchen table. Finally, she just relents, curling up on the floor until the shadow has had it's fill and slips away.

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[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

Hearing the noise, River hurried to the common room, and saw a transparent Pippi curled up on the floor. She looked so very weak and tired and un-Pippi-like that River felt like crying.

Kneeling beside her, River reached out her hand. "Pippi?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

River's hand, if she's trying to touch the shivering girl curled up under the table, passes right through with no resistance at all.

Pippi doesn't move other then shivering. But she does let out a little whimper in response.

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"Pippi? The shadows got you?" Transparent people were harder to mind read, but the pain was clear enough. River let out a small noise. She couldn't think of anything to do but gently stroke where Pippi's hair was visible, even if she couldn't feel it.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi nodded and a small "Uh huh." came out.

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"Want me to do anything?" she asked, still stroking Pippi's hair, or rather the air where it should be.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I..." Pippi started to push herself up but her hand pushed through the floor.

She jerks her hand back and slowly sits up.

"... dunno." she finished. "I'm cold."

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

With a quick nod, River got up and left, returning with a small candle. "Want me to light this and place it inside of you?" she offered.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Despite the fear and cold Pippi is distracted by what a clever idea that is.

"...I. Will that work?"

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"No idea, but it might. Don't know unless you try," River said.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"That is very true." She said carefully standing up.

Pippi is now standing in the middle of the kitchen table, bisected by it at the waist.

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River lit the candle and placed it on the table. "Stand here?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi moved so that the candle was inside her torso.

"Oooh, that... that is better." Pippi said rubbing her eyes. "Thanks."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy waved to River when he entered. He didn't have the energy to be bothered by her mind reading thing.

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River waved back and smiled a little. Billy was making Ami happy and River really appreciated that.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy couldn't stay holed up in his room anymore. He wasn't sure why he went up to the common room, but up he went anyway. Maybe he hoped there'd be some kind of saftey in numbers?

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi is now standing bisected by the kitchen table, there's a lit candle sitting on the table inside her torso.

"...Hey."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy blinked. "Is that working?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi rubbed her arms and shrugged.

"It helps."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy walked through the couch, mostly to show that she wasn't alone. "The cold hasn't bothered me all that much." he said.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I don't like it."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Honestly?" Billy said, passing his hand through the table's surface. "This bothers me more."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I'm. Used to it. Kinda."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy couldn't quite understand that. "How?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I didn't always. Have full control of my strength." she said looking down at the candle.

"kinda an opposite problem, but the end result is still 'don't touch nothing or nobody'."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy winced. "Oh, I'm sorry."

"How, how many times have...have you seen them?"