[2nd Floor Common Room, Thursday Morning]

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec had apparently decided to take Hades' announcement to heart today, as he sat in the common room kitchen with a giant pot on the stove and many weetiny penguins running around. The stove was on, the water coming to a boil, and Alec was hungry.

[OOC: ...someone come tell him the penguins are not for eating?]

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[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

After class, Dawn stopped into the second floor common room, since the third seemed to be out of pop tarts. "Hey, Alec. What're you making?" Maybe she could mooch.

At her feet were some small penguins that seemed to be forming themselves into a chorus of some kind.

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Penguins," Alec said distractedly, watching the water as it bubbled a little, heating up. "I'm thinking if you get enough of them, you can make them like pasta or beans."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn stared at him in horror. There may have also been squeaking. "You can't eat the penguins!" And now there was flailing. "They're cute, and wee, and...and and penguiny! Penguins are not for eating! Can't you have a bagel or something?"

[fates_jaye]

Jaye had been going to head downstairs, but she's been fighting on the stairwell with a weetiny penguin that insists on clinging to her shoe. She'd rather not knock it off and squish it, because ew, so she finally stops at the next landing and wanders into a common room just to complain, "There's a penguin on my foot."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Give it to me," Alec said, waving her over. "I need a few more or they're not going to be worth cooking."

[fates_jaye]

She stares at him. It's almost surprising that some things still make her go, "Wait, what?"

[proudsidekick.livejournal.com]

Layla was doing her best to not squish any of the penguins as she came downstairs, and peeked into the common room to see if anyone was inside. "Hi!" she said to Alec. "Oooh, are you cooking something for the penguins?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Layla! I am cooking penguins," Alec said, apparently still not at all deterred from his plan. "I think maybe with a sauce of some kind."

[proudsidekick.livejournal.com]

Layla stared and pulled the weetiny penguin she was holding closer to herself. "What?! You can't eat penguins!"

[iftheseshadows.livejournal.com]

Neil came down the stairs from the third floor.

"Hey, any penguins down here? We've got a nice pool for them to play with up on three and... oh! You have a pool down here too...wait...why is your pool steaming?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Because it's a pot of boiling water," Alec said, arching an eyebrow.

[iftheseshadows.livejournal.com]

"For?" Neil asked, with no little trepidation in his tone.

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

Katara had run out of pots for the penguin playground upstairs. So she ran down to the second floor common room to look for more. She stopped stark still as she took in the pot, bowl of penguins, and boiling water.

Braid flying, she whirled around, pounded upstairs, and came back shortly with her sign. She thrust it in front of Alec.

PENGUINS! (NOT FOR EATING)

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec blinked at the sign, then looked at Katara in confusion. "...Why not?"

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly wandered into the common room pulling several of her scarves along the floor. Riding on each scarf were several wee!tiny penguins.

Seeing Alec at the stove with a pot of boiling water and only tiny penguins around him, she gave him a suspicious look. "What are you doing?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"I'm going to cook penguins," Alec said, looking stubborn. "They may be cute, but they're made of meat and meat is for eating."

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

D had followed the sounds of minor commotion to the common room, only to find that Alec was seemingly at the center of things.

She scooped up some penguins from the counter on the far side of the stove to get them out of the way, then she hopped up and took a seat.

"Watching water boil is right up there with watching paint dry and grass grow, isn't it?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"As soon as it's boiling, there will be penguins in it," Alec said with determination. "So I think it'll be more interesting then."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"What are you DOING??? You can't boil penguins!!!" Sokka shouted, following Katara down the stairs.


"Well, these aren't really penguins, but the principle's the same. Sauté, man. Sauté."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"But I don't know how to sauté," Alec said, frowning. "I know how to boil. Sort of. And why aren't they penguins?"

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka held the penguin over his head. "WHO WANTS SOME???" he asked the room. (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhighdorms/1034738.html?thread=85373170#t85373170)

[the_merriest]

Rikku put her fists up. "You so much as scare that penguin and I'm gonna kick your sorry butt."

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

"No! You can't eat the penguins! They're too small!" Katara said frowning.

[the_merriest]

Rikku heard the chaos and poked her head in. "Whoa. Boiling? What!?"

She glared at Alec. "Don't you dare!"

The weetiny penguin hiding in her leg-pouch peeped its agreement.

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Why not?" Alec frowned; everyone was really big on him not having any penguins when they already had their own. It was really unfair.