Stairwell, Tuesday evening

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Sokka had just left the lobby and started climbing the stairs to the fifth floor. After climbing a few flights, he began to realize something was VERY wrong -- none of the landings had doors on them. After a few more flights without any doors, he got scared and raced back down the stairs to the door he had come in through. Which wasn't there. In fact, there wasn't any bottom to the stairs whatsoever -- they seemed to go up and down into infinity.

Sokka leaned out over the railing and looked down and saw, at the very edge of his vision, a tiny figure leaning out over the railing and looking down. He waved his arm, and so did the distant figure.

Sokka sighed, and stood there peering at the back of his own head for a good long time. "I guess it does look like a ponytail," he mumbled to himself, and then he started climbing the stairs again, because, really, what else could you do?


At one point he thought he saw a door -- labeled "1.618th Floor" -- out of the corner of his eye, but when he turned, it was gone. Sometimes, Fandom weirdness was fun, but sometimes, it really wasn't.


[[OOC: Sokka's a victim of the bendy reality. Post is open for anyone else who wants to come get trapped on the stairs for the evening.]]

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[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

After Sokka had been climbing for a while, there came the sound of a door opening from a few flight down. Then the sound of someone starting to run up the stairs.

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Sokka turned around and started running down the stairs. "DON'T LET THAT DOOR SHUT!!!" he yelled.

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SLAM went the door as if in punctuation to Sokka's order.

The footsteps stopped. "What? Why?" Molly called up.

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Sokka moaned sadly. But kept running down the stairs.

"Is the door still there?" he called down. "I've been trapped in here for fifteen minutes!"

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Molly was still confused and was still staring up the stairs as Sokka made his way down to where she was. "Why wouldn't the door be there?"

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"BECAUSE NONE OF THE REST OF THEM ARE!!!" Sokka changed gears again, and was nearly in hysterics. "THERE ARE NO DOORS IN THIS STAIRWAY, AND IT GOES ON FOREVER!"

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly finally turned around and looked at the complete absence of door where she had come in. "Oh. Oops!" She gave Sokka a sheepish grin.

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Sokka sighed, sat down on the steps, and hung his head in his hands. He didn't sob. Not just yet.

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Not exactly sure what to do, Molly went up to Sokka and patted him on the shoulder. "There aren't any doors at all?"

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Sokka looked up at her. "I thought I saw one, about five minutes ago, but I was wrong." He sighed. "Do me a favor? Lean out over the railing and look down. Tell me if you can see the bottom."

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly went over to the edge and did as he requested. Looking down, she only saw more stairs until, way down, she saw someone else leaning over the rail. "Hey! There's someone else down there! Hello!" she called.

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Sokka sighed. "It's you. I think the stairs really do go on forever, and back around again."

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly waved an arm. The figure below her waved an arm. "Huh. Weird." She stood up again and went and sat down next to Sokka. "I guess we just have to wait until the building lets us out then."

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"Which... Probably won't be until tomorrow." Sokka sighed.

"So... How have you been?"

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"I've been good!" Molly said. "I almost never have homework so this semester has been really easy. How about you?"

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"I got turned into a chicken last week. And then abducted by the guy in red pajamas. Other than that, life's been good. I've got my chinchilla, still got plenty of chocolate bar left, Mr. Moist is paying me money... Yeah, things are pretty good."

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

"You have a chinchilla!? How cool! What's it's name?"

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"Momo Jr.," Sokka answered. "He came from the punch bowl at the Valentine's Day dance. And before you ask -- because everybody does -- Momo is my best friend's lemur, and I miss him."

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"Your best friend has a lemur! Wow!" Molly said. "I have a friend who has a telepathic dinosaur. Her name is Old Lace."

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"A telepathic what?"

Unfortunately, Sokka's world hasn't invented archaeology.

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"A dinosaur," she repeated. "A big giant lizard? They don't live on Earth now, but they used to a long time ago."

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"And your friend -- who ISN'T at Fandom? -- has a telepathic one????"

Sokka scratched his head.

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly nodded. "She's really cool. Sometimes, she lets me ride around on her back."

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Oooh, yeah. It's one-up-ing time!

"Awesome! Aang's also got a giant sky bison. He's huge and shaggy and flies around with all of my friends and our stuff on his back."

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Molly just looked at Sokka for a moment. "I can just ask Katara about it later you know. She'll tell me if you're lying."

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Sokka folded his arms and grinned in triumph. "His name is Appa, and he's..." He trailed off, and looked glum all of a sudden. "And he was missing when I left. I hope Aang's found him by now..." He sighed again. "Let's talk about something else."

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly frowned. "I'm sorry," she said sympathetically. She searched her brain for another topic. "So, do you think you'll be staying here for the summer?"

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"I... guess?" Sokka shrugged. "The spirits were all" -- he started wiggling his fingers -- "'Your destiny lies elsewhere... Stop trying to save the world and go to schooool instead. You're a loooooooser.'" He shrugged again. "I'm hoping they'll give me some sort of sign when I'm supposed to go back."

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...And just then the stairwell shimmered and reality reasserted itself.

"SCORE!" Sokka shouted, and dashed down the stairs to the nearest door, which opened out onto a normal-looking dorm floor. "After you," he said to Molly, holding the door open for her.

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly hopped up and did her best at a brief curtsy to Sokka. "Thank you," she said and walked through the door. "It was lovely being stuck in the stairwell with you."