2nd Floor Common Room - Tuesday Evening

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

After Alpha Beta Gremlin, D wasn't really in the mood to go back to her room. She'd spent enough time in there over the weekend.

Also? She had an inexplicably large amount of cupcakes that she'd just picked up from J.GOB and there was no way she could eat them all herself.

So she set them out on the counter in the common room, took one for herself and went to see what was playing on the TV.

She found the remote and began flipping channels before taking a bite of a rather tasty cupcake, "Happy birthday to me."

[OOC: Free cupcakes! Open! Not a party, just a girl hanging out in the common room with cupcakes.]

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[ihatedenmark.livejournal.com]

Hamlet wandered down to the second floor common room in the evening. It might have been a force of habit. It might have been an inner Cupcake Sensor beeping like mad. It might have been a total coincidence.

In any case, he entered the room to see D'anna watching TV, and the counters covered with baked treats.

"It looks as though you bought J,GOB out of cupcakes. Are expecting someone?" he asked.

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

"Hiya, Darkest Cheerleader! How's it going?" D greeted with a smile. "No, not really. Someone once told me that people eat a lot of cake here on their birthdays so I bought a lot of cake. Only this kind doesn't need sliced!"

[ihatedenmark.livejournal.com]

"About the same as usual," he said, raising at eyebrow at the nickname and grabbing a seat on the couch.

"That tends to be the usual custom on these parts of Earth, although it's often a bit less than this. And a Happy Birthday to you! How old are you turning this year?"

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

"Thank you! Eighteen." D said before taking another bite of her cupcake. "What's the standard amount for cake?"

That last might have sounded a bit more like 'waffs da sandard amof fa cake?' cause, ya know, eating cupcake and talking weren't the smarts combination ever.

[ihatedenmark.livejournal.com]

Hamlet reached over to grab a cupcake. Luckily for D, he was able to interpret her mysterious cupcake language.

"Usually, it's a slice or two of regular cake. I've no idea how many cupcakes that would work out to be, however." He pulled off the paper cover on the bottom of his baked treat. "You should have told me earlier that it was your birthday; I haven't gotten you a present yet."

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

"Hmmm, maybe two cupcakes per slice?" D suggested as she wiped some icing from her cheek. "Awe, thanks Hamlet. I'm just not really big on self advertisement, ya know?"

[ihatedenmark.livejournal.com]

"That would probably be about right. Any more than that in a single sitting, and you'll start to get a stomach ache."

Hamlet smiled a bit at D. "Still, you should at least do something to mark a special day like a birthday."

[robotboyfetish.livejournal.com]

Cassie came into the common room, since it was her floor and everything.

"Hi," she said, before sitting near D'anna.

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

"Hiya, Cassie." D greeted. "How's it going?"

[robotboyfetish.livejournal.com]

Cassie smiled a little. "Things are alright," she said. "Which is a definite improvement, in the big scheme."

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

"Good." Said D then raised an eyebrow. "Were they bad in the big scheme?"

[robotboyfetish.livejournal.com]

"Been a lot of crap back home, lately," Cassie said. "Really nasty stuff I shouldn't share because it's a general downer, you know?"

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

D half smirked. "I know how that goes. I'm glad to hear things are looking up for you."

[fates_jaye]

Jaye wanders down to the common room, more bored than anything. "Entertain me," she demands. She's polite like that.

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Jaye." D greeted. "Have a cupcake."

[fates_jaye]

"That'll do it!" she says, taking one. "Is it just a cupcake day?"

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

"I had no idea how easily entertained you were." D winked and giggled. Yes, she knew, it was just fun to say. "Nah, it's my birthday, but wasn't in the mood to make a big deal out of it, so, cupcakes for all!"

[fates_jaye]

"Oh, happy birthday," she says. "I shall have a cupcake in your honor. So you're not doing anything big for it?"

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

"Thanks!" D said. "Nah, I mean, it would be a little weird to make a big fuss about myself, ya know?"

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

Krycek came through the common room after a bit of a walk on his own. He stopped when he saw D'anna. And cupcakes. "Oh my god."

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

"Alex!" D left her spot on the couch, threw her arms around him and kissed him. "No gods, just me."

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

He hugged her back, speechless a moment until he pulled back to look at her. "It's your birthday," he said, blinking. "I can't... Oh my god, I forgot."

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

"It is," D said as she looked back at him only the tiniest bit disappointed but smiling broadly, "but you're here, in one piece, that's all I need."

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

Krycek smiled back. "Thanks for the food," he said. "And Happy Birthday, you."

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

"You're welcome, and thank you." D nodded toward the counter. "Come have a cupcake? I know you don't like sweets, but we could split one or something?"