5th floor Common room, Friday afternoon

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

Preparing for the camping trip later this evening, River was examining her food supplies in the kitchen. There was fruit, she had some cookies and pie left from Wednesday's baking and she made sure to bring enough water. Having packed all this in a bag, River sat down on the couch and watched the weather forecast.

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[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

After a nice and comforting session of headdooring in his room after class this morning, Jeff finally decided it was safe to leave the room. Without any real destination in mind, however, and no intention of touching the stairs, the common room was pretty much the only place he could end up in.

He stared at the television for a while.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette walked in and sat down on the couch next to River but not like next next. And she stared at the TV. At the weather forcast.

"Hmm."

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River looked up at him, smiling. "Does the weather interest you?"

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

Smiling at Annette, River said: "Going camping tonight."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette looked at River and smiled, "Lucky."

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"Scouting class assignment," she explained, then handed Annette the remote to the TV. "I know what weather to expect now."

[by137.livejournal.com]

A.J. had to let more things dry before he could paint anything more, so he went looking around the dorms for people.

"Hey, look!" he announced his success as he came into this common room. "People!"

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

Jeff was startled out of his revery like a deer. "Uh," he said, "I'm very fond of clouds."

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"Numbers increased when you arrived," River said, smiling at A.J.

[by137.livejournal.com]

"Oooh," A.J. grinned back at River. "Glad I could help." He flopped down on the couch with a comfortable sigh. "How've you been, River?"

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River nodded solemnly. As she could read minds this statement was probably understandable to her. "I'm going camping," she said.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"That sounds like fun. Dick should be going then because I believe he is in Scouting," she said, wondering why he never told her. Oh well.

Taking the control, Annette started flipping through the channels and stopped at the Food Network Channel. "I think I'm addicted."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette looked over at A.J. and smiled, waving at him.

[by137.livejournal.com]

A.J. grinned and waved back. "Miss Annette," he greeted. "Thankfully soundtrackless, I see."

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

"Best mind the clouds, then," Jeff said. "You wouldn't want to be attacked by a rabid one." Rabid clouds?

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Wonderfully soundtrackless," she said with a grin. "How's it going today?"

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"Most people are dependent on food for their survival," River noted happily.

[by137.livejournal.com]

"Good," A.J. nodded. "Lazy. Boring. Quiet."

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"Good," River said, avoiding an elaborate and more truthful description. "Painting much?"

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Chuckling, she nodded, "Yeah, can you imagine if there was like, suddenly no more?"

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

"Clouds are peaceful in my experience, unless you travel through them," River commented. "try not to fight them, Jeff."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"It's how my day has been. Perfectly...normal."

[by137.livejournal.com]

Grinning, A.J. lifted up his hand to show her; it was still smudged with a little bit of white and brown paint. "Of course," he said. "In fact, you should come by my room sometime, maybe help a bit. Contribute your handprint to the wall I want to get everyone's eventually."

[by137.livejournal.com]

"What do you think the odds of it staying that way will be?" A.J. asked with a playfully worried furrow of his eyebrows.

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

"Okay," Jeff said, meekly, nodding his head.