Dorm Hallways - Monday after lunch

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette was crawling up and down the dorm hallways, very slowly, and pouting and mumbling to herself as she went.

"Stupid magnifying glass doesn't work." She banged it on the floor a couple times and continued on.

She sniffed and pushed her hair back out of her face. "Stupid fish throwing fishman!"

Her knees were getting sore so she hurried back to her room and put on her kneepads, then resumed her search in the halls. On her hands and knees. She was also tired of holding the magnifying glass so she strapped it onto her forehead so the glass hung at a mild slant over her left eye.

"If I don't find it, I'm going to hunt down that stinky fish thing and shoot him in his internal gonads. Yes I am."

Shuffle. Shuffle.

"Dammit."

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[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

You come across some weird sights in the hallways in this place. This one, is actually something Shawn hasn't come across yet.

He stopped in his tracks, watching Annette curiously. "Lose something?" he asked.

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Looking for something?" Alec asked, looking over her shoulder at the ground.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette looked up after a second, one blue eye huge and bugged out through the lense of the magnifying glass.

"Hi, Shawn. And yes. It's tiny. And it's not being very cooperative."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

She recognized that voice and she craned her head around to peer up at Alec, one blue eye huge behind the lense of her magnifying class.

Annette sniffed, "Yes, dangit. And it's litte and important and expensive."

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"Is it something that can listen to you telling it to be cooperative?" Shawn said, a sort of backwards check to see if they were actually looking for something that was alive. Around here, it really is better to check.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

She frowned, "No. But it does sparkle so that can sort of be a yes too, I think?" She blinked up at him. "It's a little diamond stud. Like this -" She tilted her head back and turned to show him the earring in her ear.

"I lost the matching one yesterday afternoon."

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"How'd you manage to lose it?" Shawn asked, crouching down beside her and running his hands over the carpet. That seemed a reasonable way to check for small objects.

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

He smiled at Annette, leaning back slightly as the giant eye turned on him - vaguely creepy-looking. "Need help finding it? What'd you lose?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Loose something?"

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"When that stupid fish man hit me in the face with a fish. I ran out of my room so quickly, my hair caught on I don't know what, and the next thing I knew was that my earring had been ripped from my ear." Of course, Annette didn't find out until after she came back. But still, she thought the hallway the best place to be looking.

"You're going to help me, Shawn? That is so sweet. Want to borrow my magnifying glass?"

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"You would help me? That's great, Alec. The matching one to this," She turned her head and showed him the little diamond earring that was in her ear.

"You know, I have another magnifying glass in my room. Could probably dig up some more kneepads too." She offered helpfully.

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"Hi, Pippi" Annette looked up, one big blue eye bugging out behind her magnifying glass.

"My earring dangit. My tiny little diamond earring that that ugly fish man thing made me loose."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Is there gold in this earring?"

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"White gold. Does that help?"

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

Shawn looked at her and shook his head. "You seem to be working the magnifying glass angle pretty well," he said with a quick grin. "I can work well enough this way."

"My entire room smells of fish now," Shawn grumbled as he patted the carpet. "Shouldn't have opened the window. Next time the whole place floods I'm sealing up my room, possibly with Ed inside so long as it keeps the fishy smell out."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"I'm good," he said, getting on his knees and lowering himself down to look across the carpet, eyes narrowed. "Thanks though." Alec glanced at her and then back to the sideways view. "So how'd you lose it?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi gave a whistle and Mr. Neilson jumped onto her shoulder, seemingly out of nowhere.

"Did you loose both of them?"

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Your too, ugh, that's terrible. I have this fishy smell in my closet and it's so gross. I've had to take all my clothes out and everything. Stupid fish."

She continued to search the carpet and thought of something, she cast Shawn a sideways glance, "I don't, um, smell like fish do I?"

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"A fish hit me in the face," she said, hunkering back over to peer down at the carpet. "Stupid fish. I opened my window and got smacked in the face with one. Then another flew into my closet. That fish man thing was too chicken to fish me though." She snorted and looked pleased with herself over that.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey, Annette remembered Mr. Neilson! She wiggled her fingers at the monkey.

"Just one, it looks like this," she turned her head and showed Pippi the little diamond stud in her ear.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Mr. Neilson wiggled his fingers back.

Both he and Pippi peered at the earring.

"Okay, what were you doing when you lost it?"

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"...getting hit by a fish?" She replied, brows raised.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Sooooo, you were by a window?"

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

Shawn leaned over taking a delicate sniff. Well, delicate for a guy, anyway. "You do not smell of fish," he confirmed cheerfully.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Then I ran back and a fish flew into my closet. I grabbed by raincoat and headed out - my hair caught on something, I was jerked, and I lost my earring." Yes, that has to be how it happened. Annette was sure of it!