Fourth Floor Common Room; Saturday Evening.

[by137.livejournal.com]

This is A.J.

A.J. had impending Wake-Up-Way-Too-Early-Time on Monday, so he was trying to get as much sleep in as he could today. Which is why he had just woken up and was shuffling into the common room for 'breakfast,' very unaware of anything strange or anachronistic going on at the moment.

Mmmm, cereal. Mmmmm, ignorance. Hey, cartoons. Sweet.


[[ common room, yo. feel free to make him cry over what he's been missing Two teenage boys + Dinosaurs = so gone. room is empty, unless anyone wants to finish A.J.'s cereal. ]]

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[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

Troy dashed into the common room and right past A.J. "Dude! There are dinosaurs!"

It's entirely possible that he'd spent the entire day running around between various windows, looking out at dinosaurs from different parts of the building. You totally wouldn't get him to admit that he was a little afraid to go outside, though."

[by137.livejournal.com]

A.J. blinked at his very excitable roommate. He was used to the excitable part. The dinosaur part threw him off a little. "Really?" he asked, and then wiped away the smallest dribble of milk from his chin. "What channel?"

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

"Channel? What?" Troy blinked. "Oh! No! Outside! On the island! Dinosaurs!" He pointed vaguely, waving his arm in the direction of the window. "Come look!"

[by137.livejournal.com]

"Troy?" A.J. gave his roommate a worried look. "Do you remember what I was saying earlier? About caffeine and sugar?" Still, though, he set aside his bowl and went to the window.

"What are you talking abou..."

Blink.

"...Whoa."

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. Seriously." Troy just stared for a moment. "Seriously, dinosaurs. And I thought Fandom couldn't get any cooler after the music thing!"

[by137.livejournal.com]

"Those can't be real, can they?" A.J. asked, still blinking a few times. He poked the window, as if expecting it to shimmer or something like it was one of those screens in a sci-fi flick. "Animatronics, or something, right?"

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

"Zombies," Troy said, simply. "Music, following us around. I'll believe anything now."

[by137.livejournal.com]

"....Good point," A.J. said, blinking. "Have they been here all day?"

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

Troy nodded. "Yeah! There was an announcement this morning, I guess they showed up last night? Or something. And I guess they're pretty dangerous?"

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

After A.J. and Troy left, Charlie returned from fleeing Groovy Tunes and going to the Clinic. She hadn't run into Peter or Isabel on her way back through the Park, and was starting to get worried. Hopefully they were back here already?

She set the kittens free as soon as she was in her own Common Room, and curled up on one of the sofas, trying not to poke at the band-aids on her arm.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

After checking out the area around the dorms earlier, Dean had finally retreated back inside and headed up to his floor. Out of habit he glanced in the Common Room as he passed and saw Charlie sitting there.

"Charlie? You okay?"

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

Just to make her day complete. The morning's hangover was a distant memory, but not the reason for it.

"Hi, Dean." Charlie tried to smile, but didn't quite make it. "I'm okay. Mostly." Mopsy climbed up on the sofa and hid behind her. "Interesting day. Saber-toothed tiger at work. Then I set off the sprinklers. And left the door unlocked." She bit her lip. "I'm counting on Miss Valentine being okay with that, you know, under the circumstances."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Huh. I didn't know they liked music," Dean said, flopping down beside her.

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"He spit out The Best of Yanni. So, at least he has good taste?" Charlie joked a little, fishing the kitten out from behind her. If Dean could be blase', she could be blase'. No big. Cool. "And I think he just wanted kitten snacks," she added, holding up Mopsy. "But no nibbling on you guys, right? Right."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Now that's just rude," Dean said, reaching over to scratch behind the ears of one of the kittens. "I mean, these little guys are distant relatives of Smiley. You don't eat your relatives."

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

Charlie gave a shaky but genuinely amused laugh. "Yes! Almost like cannibalism. Not to mention, they're tiny. Really small. More like oyster crackers than even cookies or maybe brownies. What self-respecting carnivore would try to chomp something this miniscule?" She leaned her head one the back of the couch, fingers stroking Mopsy's fur. "So what have you been up to? Kicking dinosaur ass, taking names?"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, pretty much," Dean said, stretching and leaning back on the sofa. "Though not so much with the taking names unless 'Grrrr, rrrrar' is the prehistoric equivalent of Johnny."

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"Cool." And she hadn't expect anything less. "So, how long do these things last? Are we stuck in here until they're all gone? Because I could probably grill some dinosaurs out there, but I'm kind of wondering where they came from, and if this is just what we're doing from now on when we want to go to the store?"

[grenfelzer.livejournal.com]

Carmela had slept in and then spent most of the afternoon on the phone with Nita. But now she's bored and since Charlie's not back from work yet, there's no one in her room to talk to, so she wanders in to the common room. And hey, there's the roomie.

"Are those the kittens from the store?" she asks as she flops down on the couch.

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"Yup. Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, this is Carmela, my roomie." Charlie paused. "Um, can they stay in our room tonight, maybe? I think they would have been eaten if I left them in the store."

[grenfelzer.livejournal.com]

"Eateeeeeewhoa what the *hell* happened to you?" Carmela asks wide-eyed as she turns toward Charlie.

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"Tiger. Prehistoric. It showed up at the shop and tried to eat the kittens and it destroyed part of the front counter and a lots of the rest and then I set the place on fire and it's been a really long day," Charlie said all in a rush. "Also? There's dinosaurs in the park."

[grenfelzer.livejournal.com]

"I hate when that happens," Carmela says sympathetically. "And considering my brother's line of work it happens more often than I'd like," she dangles her hand off the edge of the couch in an attempt to coax a kitten to her. "But you're in one piece and the kittens are okay and that's what counts and do you want some ice, maybe?"

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

Cottontail came over and started batting at her fingers, sniffing away and hoping for food.

"Ice would be awesome," Charlie admitted. "I got shots for all this stuff, but it still stings. And do you ever get used to this? I mean, when does it not make you shake any more? Because I nearly freaked out in the middle of the store, and maybe I should have left the kittens, but I just couldn't, and now I'm feeling really stupid."

[grenfelzer.livejournal.com]

Carmela scoops up Cottontail as she stands up and heads towards the kitchen. She knows exactly when it stopped making *her* shake- when she was face to face with a certain Power and blew him (or one physical manifestation, at least) to bits. "Everyone reacts differently," she says as she rummages through the freezer with one hand. "And maybe you nearly freaked out, but you *didn't*, you managed to get yourself out of a very scary situation, and also? I totally would've taken the kittens too, if it were me, so don't feel stupid," she wanders back to the couch and hands Charlie the ice pack.