5th floor common room - Saturday noon

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy and Bertie had gone to the common room for ice cream in the morning, and they were still there. Buffy was watching tv and boggling at Bertie. Bertie was eating more ice cream. It was amazing how much ice cream he could eat, really.


ooc: open like an open thing!

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[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

Ice cream tasted just as well when in human form. Bertie was actually quite full up by now, but as it was ice cream, it wasn't just about being hungry. Then suddenly he thought about something. "Buffy? Where does ice cream come from?"

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

"The shop," Buffy said, distracted. She'd just flipped onto a talkshow and was trying to figure out why the two women were trying to scratch each others' eyes out. "Probably Turtle's shop."

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"Where's that?" Bertie asked. His bowl was now empty again. "Can we go there? Who is Turtle?"

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

"It's in town," Buffy explained. "It's, um..." She pointed vaguely at the wall facing the right direction. "You know, that way. Turtle is my friend. I don't think you've met her yet. Unless you've been sneaking around." Buffy eyed him with sudden suspicion.

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"I don't sneak around!" Bertie replied quickly, sounding defensive, then added: "Can we go there?"

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

The suspicion turned to surprise. "You want to go into town? Where there's lots of people?"

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

Hm. He hadn't thought about that. On the other hand, there was ice cream. "We could go very early in the morning and I could hide under my blanket," Bertie suggested.

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

"We could do that," Buffy agreed, smiling at him. "And if it's not open we can go to the ice cream place. There probably won't be many people there if we go early. At the shop you can buy lots of ice cream and bring it home, but at the ice cream place you can only buy some and you eat it there," she added.

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

Frowning, Bertie asked: "What's the point of going to a place and eat it there when you can buy more and take it home with you? Is it better?"

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

"I don't know if it's better exactly, but there's sometimes more flavours and it's, like, more social." Buffy shrugged. "It's fun."

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

The idea of more flavours attracted Bertie's attention. "Fun. We can go there, then?" His eyes were full of enthusiasm.

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy giggled. "Totally. But you can't have all the flavours! I'm not rich, you know!"

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"You're not?" Berthold looked a little disappointed.

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Buffy shook her head firmly. "Really, really not. And I don't think River is either."

Wow, she hoped Bertie would turn back to normal before River came back.

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

Berthold looked even more disappointed. "No? Can't you rob someone?"

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

"Where did you learn about robbing people?"

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"River said she was going to help robbing a bank," Berthold said, scraping the last of the ice cream out of the bowl.

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

"Oh. Well, I'm not going to do that. You'll just have to ask River for a part of her haul when she comes back." Buffy nodded firmly. Her mom would kill her if she robbed a bank.

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"But we can get some ice cream," Bertold replied, sounding hopeful.

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

"Definitely," Buffy grinned again, and nodded.