Fifth Floor Common Room, Saturday Morning

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

It would probably be better, all things considered, if Jeff never ever talked to Jack ever again.

As it was, he was standing (well, hanging over the back of the couch) in the common room, watching television, wearing shorts and a naked cat (on his shoulder, not anywhere dirty), and not really much else.

He was watching nature documentaries again. He may have been explaining a few mildly obscene things to Prince Oscar Pedro in the process.

[ Open. Chad's cat modded with permission. I'll be around for the next hour, should anyone actually be up, then pick up any potential dangly pings when I get home, which will probably be right about when everybody gets up ]

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[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack had woken early, and - not wanting to wake up Cedric - had gone wandering through the dorms. Which would be why he was sticking his head in the door of the fifth floor common room. "Well, I'll be damned," he muttered, then, louder and after a good long look, "Good morning, Jeff."

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

Jeff stood up straight (taking great care not to drop Prince Oscar Pedro) and grinned. "Hi!" he said. He seemed altogether more upbeat than usual.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack grinned and wandered closer. "You seem chipper this morning. And a lot more naked than I'm used to seeing you." He really didn't sound at all displeased about this. "Same goes for your cat."

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

"This nudity thing really works," Jeff said, sunnily. "I had a bit of cognitive-dissonantic whiplash about it earlier, but then Chad let me borrow Prince Oscar Pedro. He's really got his stuff together, nudity-wise." The cat wobbled on his shoulder.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"See? You should always trust your TA. I'm glad you're enjoying it." He eyed the cat, giving him a little finger wave, then grinned again. "I think I'm the odd one out here. Mind if I join you?"

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

"Be my guest," Jeff said. He really was in an unusually comfortable mood. "I don't understand why people don't do this all the time."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack laughed and stripped out of his shirt, tossing it over the back of the couch, his pants soon following. Purely by chance he was actually wearing boxers this morning, which were now all he was wearing. "Jeff, you're a man after my own heart," he said happily, pleased to have found such an unlikely kindred spirit, and went to clap him on the back. "I have never understood people's insistence on clothes."

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

Jeff grinned. Then glanced down at the couch. "My mother always told me to be wary of nudity," he said, "She seemed convinced there was a danger of snagging." He paused, "She didn't seem too alarmed, though. 'Go on,' she'd say, 'I always wanted a daughter.'"

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

One eyebrow raised, Jack gave that some thought. "Snagging can be a problem. I mean, there's some situations when you want to be wearing pants, at least, but you don't need to be wary, just careful." Jack already didn't like Jeff's mother, and he'd never even met her. "Personally, I like you the way you are, snaggable bits and all."

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

"Well, to be honest, she said that about a lot of things," Jeff allowed, as per usually entirely oblivious to any compliments made by his own gender, "Like lying and kissing women. Although she was a little more proactive about that last one. I think she's keeping the police alert just in case."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack blinked. Jeff actually had the ability to throw him, something that almost never happened. "She's going to call the police if you kiss women?" he asked, totally incredulous.

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

Jeff did have some real skills in that area. You could ask anyone. "I think she's got an arrangement," he said, slightly bummed now, "And a miniature guillotine, although I'm starting to consider she may have been making that one up."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"What's she going to use the guill--No, never mind. I don't think I want to know." He could feel his legs wanting to cross. "Okay. Your mother? Sounds like a scary woman, but," he turned to lean back against the couch, so he could look at Jeff, "here's the thing. She's not here."

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

"She sent me a dog," Jeff said. "I'm fairly certain it's meant to spy on me. I managed to trade it for Oscar Pedro here," he grinned at the cat, which mewed in his general direction, "But it's going to be back tomorrow. And she phones. Every Friday. I can't escape, the phones are everywhere now. I used to think they might take over the world, but they already have, haven't they?"

[ am off now, be back in a few hours ]

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Can the dog use the phone?" Jack wasn't prepared to dismiss the possibility out of hand; he'd seen weirder things. "And I don't think they've taken it over quite yet. At least not this part of it."

[byeee!]

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

Katara had wandered upstairs looking for hot chocolate. Nearly naked men and her roommate's naked cat were not expected. Turning a bright shade of red, she tried not to look.

"What are you doing to Oscar?"

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

Katara was still blushing when she noticed mostly naked Jack in the room too. "...did I miss a poster saying that this was naked day?"

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette had stumbled out of bed, threw on her robe, and headed down the hall to the common room. Pop Tarts and orange juice. She was starving.

Rubbing her eyes she shuffled in and noticed Chad's cat first on her way to the kitchen. "Hey Prince Oscar Pedro..." shuffle shuffle - then she noticed Jeff and looked back. She rubbed her eyes again.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"The posters!" Jack slapped one hand dramatically against his forehead and turned to grin at her. "I knew I forgot something! Hey, Katara."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"What, no hello for me?" Jack pouted in Annette's direction and made a Very Sad face. "I'm crushed."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Her hands dropped from her eyes and she looked, blinking. "Good morning, Jack...who is shirtless but it's so early?" And since she hasn't seen Jack yet since he's been back, she went right on over to give him a hug, grinning wide.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack was happy to receive hugs, especially when he was shirtless, and-- "Pantsless, too," he said as he hugged her. Though the boxers probably diluted the pantslessness somewhat. "I was showing solidarity with Jeff and the cat. How are you doing?"

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

She eyed him doubtfully. "Hi Jack. Did you forget the glitter too?"

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"I gave the glitter serious consideration, but since I wasn't looking for boykissy, I decided to leave it off today," he explained, quite solemnly for someone who was still grinning. "Don't I get a hug?"

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette hadn't noticed the pantless until she pulled back and looked down. "Oh. Boxers. Nice." It was all she could think of to say and she was too hungry to think about blushing. She did stare though and she answered while she was studying those boxers. "What happened to Jeff's dog? And I'm doing really pretty good and stuff...just hungry right now. How have you been?"