Fifth Floor Common Room, Thursday afternoon

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter was apparently making a point of enjoying 21st century conveniences, between the microwave popcorn and Wonka soda, the laptop open on the arm of the couch, and his advanced channel surfing skills.

Pup had found yet another superball under something (those things were as bad as beach sand) and was prancing around the common room with it, occasionally dropping it in order to have a reason to yap and chase after it.

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[nadiathesaint]

Thanks to her little bout of nightmares that morning, Nadia had mostly been sticking to herself, making notes on the dreams and working out if they meant anything, when she wasn't in class.

That? Gets old. Especially when one has a boyfriend that one hasn't seen in a week who's finally back.

"There you are," She leaned against the door frame with a grin. "Pippi and I were starting to talk about going to 1945 to get you."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"She mentioned something like that," Walter said, closing the laptop and turning to face her. "I think you two would have caused all sorts of havoc in '45."

[nadiathesaint]

"I was pretty sure I wouldn't fit in, yeah." Nadia headed over to sit down next to him. "It wasn't too awful, was it?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Arthur didn't have me put up against a wall and shot," Walter said, smiling faintly and leaning over to give her a kiss.

[nadiathesaint]

Mmmm, lips. Nadia smiled against his. "Well, he must have done something," she commented when the kiss was done. "Sofia was an excellent lecturer, but I'm pretty sure even she couldn't have managed to keep it up an entire week."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter's stomach had apparently decided to take up a form of yoga involving quite a bit of stretching and curling in on itself.

"He didn't. There was a lot of stuff that hadn't gotten properly taken care of in my absence that I wanted to get sorted out."

[nadiathesaint]

Okay, something had definitely changed on that statement. "Everything's okay now, though, right?"

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Dude. Did you know that my grandfather knew your boss?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"What?" That was hardly the greeting Walter had expected.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"No, seriously. I went back home over the weekend. They knew each other. Arthur hired him to take care of stuff in places he... didn't precisely have jurisdiction in."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"That's...." Walter stopped, pulled a face, and nodded. "Not too suprising when I think about it."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip nodded in reply. "Yeah, it really isn't. Although it does mean that we're from the same... something or other. World? Time? I dunno."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Or not. We could just be from one that's very similar. We can't be from the same time, after all," Walter pointed out. "I did just get back from 1945."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip nodded. "My granddad wouldn't say if he met you or not, though."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi sat quitely and waited for Pip to finish talking to Walter before trying to catch his eye.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter joined her after and held out his arms to offer a hug. "I'm sorry."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Sorry for... because you're leaving?" she asked, a little confused.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Uh oh. Had Pip not talked to Pippi yet?

"Yes. And for the timing. And for how Nadia's probably going to be for a while."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"... I didn't tell you last night did I?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Tell me...?" He let it hang in case it was something other than Pip's leaving.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip grinned at Pippi. "Bonjour, Me-pi."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi couldn't help but grin back when he called her that.

"Hi." she said walking up to him and reaching up to pull him down into a kiss.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip kissed her, trying to push his despair out of his mind.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

When they're done she looks at him for a bit.

"I got something I gotta tell you."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi was in a mood for pancakes.