The roof, Wednesday, mid-day

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia had a fair amount of time between classes on Wednesdays, so she'd headed up to the roof, despite the downpour. Two days until that day, and Nadia knew there were people here who knew, which meant that she was spending her time worrying that they might try to celebrate.

She didn't like celebrating it, since that only served to remind her that she had very little clue at all where she actually came from or when she was born. Of course, worrying about celebrating it lead to her being reminded constantly of those things, so it was something of a moot point, anyway. . . .

She decided that the only thing to do was to go up to the roof in a big plastic poncho and jump around in puddles by Bel's garden.

She was entirely interruptable.

[ooc: and so is the mun, who is booooooooooored. Open for any others who want to play in the rain puddles before it actually turns into a flood]</small

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[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

Dick preferred sunshine but there was something nice about jumping in puddles. So he made his way onto the roof to play. He didn't bother with the umbrella and poncho.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia was stomping around in circles and getting her jeans very wet, when she noticed she had company. She recognized him from class. "Oh, hey, *snerk* Dick, right?"

Yeah, sometimes she's twelve.

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

Dick jumped in a particulary big puddle before answering. "Yeah, I am. And you're the TA in my spy class."

His hair was now soaking wet and he had to slick it back to avoid looking like a sheep dog.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia's poncho seemed to be more and more just decorative as she splashed through more puddles. "Yep. Nadia Santos, espionage expert extraordinare."

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

"Wow, espionage expert extraordinare? The most I can say for myself is average surfer." he said. He looked over the edge of of the building. "You think it'll rain so much I'll get a chance to break out my surfboard?"

[nadiathesaint]

"Could be. I haven't done much surfing, so you probably win on that. I'm pretty good at SCUBA, though. . . ."

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

"If it keeps raining like this those skills might come in handy." said Dick. He jumped in another puddle, getting his pants soaking wet. "When I have a cold this time next week I'm going to regret doing this."

[nadiathesaint]

"Next week is for next week." Nadia shrugged. "Right now is for having fun."

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

"Excellent point. Colds be damned." And as if to emphasize his point he jumped in the biggest puddle he could find, splashing not only his pants but his shirt too.

[nadiathesaint]

And Nadia as well, actually, who gave a small shriek and giggled. She got a short running start and aimed for a puddle near him to splash him back.

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

"Hey!" he shouted. He ran and jumped in a puddle near Nadia, letting his weight do most of the work. "Take that!"

[nadiathesaint]

No fair! He outweighed her. "You want to take me on?!" she shouted happily. She backed up and ran at a puddle, skidding through it to create a wave at him instead of just splashing. "Ha!"

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

It was bad luck at that moment that Dick had his mouth open. "Ugh, roof water. You're going to have to pay for that."

He did a running jump in the puddle nearest to Nadia.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia slipped as she tried to dodge and ended up on her butt in a large puddle. She was laughing too hard to retort properly, so she started kicking her feet in the water, sending up small splashes at Dick's ankles.

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

"Gah! Cold socks!" he said, stepping back.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia pumped her fists in the air. "Victory!"

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

"No fair, there's nothing worse than wet socks." he said. He held out his hand to help Nadia up.

[nadiathesaint]

"I'm pretty sure they got wet when you were jumping around," Nadia pointed out, accepting said hand.

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

"Yeah but now I can feel the squishyness down to my toes." he said, pulling her up. "People are going to be able to hear me squish back to my room real easy."

[nadiathesaint]

"You should learn to be more ninja-y, then. Ninjas can move quietly, no matter what."

[surferboy-09er.livejournal.com]

"I've tried the ninja thing before but I've found I don't have the ability to move quickly without noise." he said. "And I also have got the bad habit of not looking where I'm going. I've tripped over many a potted plant in my day."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia nodded in mock seriousness. "Probably best to stick to surfing, then."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Before heading off to work and whatever bizarre surprises it held, Walter headed to the roof to check the weather (because a window's not good enough) and have a cigarette.

What he lacked in big plastic poncho, he made up for in big black umbrella.

"Hey you. So rain is okay even if snow isn't?"

[nadiathesaint]

"I have yet to ever be attacked and required stitches from rain." Nadia splashed a few more times then went over to stand with him under his umbrella. "I suppose I should refrain from getting you too wet."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"I'll give you that," Walter said, tilting the umbrella to better cover them both. "And I don't know how Lumiere would feel about my squelching into work."

Although really, his new boss was a talking candelabra... could he throw stones? No, he couldn't - he didn't have hands.

[nadiathesaint]

"I have a feeling that, somehow, Alfred would know. And he'd be Very Disappointed."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"I wouldn't be surprised if Alfred still has a live video feed from the restaurant. Even he must have been Very Surprised by the new staff there."

[nadiathesaint]

"Well, he is only human, after all. Mostly. Something is bound to surprise him eventually."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Unless he's a robot again."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia laughed. "Well, there is that."