4th Floor Common Room: Saturday Morning (all morning)

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Claire woke early by default, even after a long party, but she was thoughtful enough to quit her room as soon as she did, leaving the roomie to sleep.

Still in pyjamas and a big fluffy dressing gown, she curled up on the couch with cereal and chocolate milk, and switched the TV on to AMSF

It was the recent one with the really bad theme tune,but Claire wasn't that fussy.

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"Well, that's what they are," Claire explained. "Only they make less sense."

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"Much less sense," he agreed, chuckling as some particularly improbable scene played across the screen. With an effort he tore his attention away and smiled at her. "Are you well this morning, Claire?"

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"Mmmm, tired," Claire offered. "I was up way too late."

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"At the gathering on the roof?" he guessed as he made his way into the kitchen to continue his quest for tea.

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"Mmm hmmm," Claire confirmed.

"You should have been there. It was fun."

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The quest for tea was easily fulfilled, what with the tea pot and the tea and the kettle, which he filled and plugged in.

"I prefer less people," he admitted, looking a touch uncomfortable. "And dancing and I are not well acquainted, not even when someone else is in my body. Would you care for tea?"

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"Oh, thanks," Claire said, accepting the offer of tea.

"When someone else is in your body?" That reuired further explanation.

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Slightly pink, he got out a second mug. "Yes, and glory, it was odd! They warned me about Fandom Weirdness, but I never expected to wake up in another person's body, or for them to wake up in mine, but that is what happened."

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"OK, that's just weird," Claire remarked with a frown. "What happened?"

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"I do not know how it happened, but my mind was in another student, Jack Harkness', body. I went to sleep as myself, and I woke up as him."

The kettle was boiling, and he was going to blame his sudden flush on the steam, and not on that memory. "Fandom Weirdness, so everyone said, and it wore off by the next day."

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"That's crazy," Claire decided, frowning TVwards to avoid looking at Karal's flush. "Everyone just dismissed it?"

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"Not dismissed it," he said thoughtfully as he spooned tea into the pot and slowly poured water over it. "It was more as if it was simply an accepted part of life here. Like a cold! Unpleasant, but not something to be concerned about unless it goes on for too long a time."

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"Yeah, but people know what causes a cold," Claire argued, and added, "OK, I don't. But body switching?"

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"I guess it is simply what you are used to. I was very unhappy when it happened, but Jack was not in the least concerned." Far from it, actually, but Karal didn't want to go back down the blushing path. "And I did not take any harm from it."

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"Guess so," Claire admitted, reluctantly. "I'd be unhappy."

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"I would not want to have it happen again. It was more than a little disconcerting, and his body was taller. I kept tripping." With a small smile, Karal poured two mugs of tea, and offered one to Claire. "But even with all Jack's experience, he still could not make my body into a good dancer."

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"Thanks."

Claire grinned and took the cup in both hands, blowing on it gently.

"There are worse things he could do with your body then try and get it to dance."

She was trying to be postive.

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The blush came back and he settled into a chair, concentrating deeply on his tea. "He wanted to," he said in a strangled voice. "But I made him promise he would not."

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Claire snorted into her tea, and then looked guilty for having done so. Still, her voice was strangled with repressed giggles.

"I'm sorry."

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Karal waved it away, laughing a little himself. "No, it is funny, I know."

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"Probably wasn't at the time?"

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"It was as far from funny as one can get," he admitted, taking a sip of tea.

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Claire sipped her own tea, sobering as she thought about it some more. Then decided a subject change was in order.

"How're you and Molly?"

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And that made him smile widely and duck his head. "We are good."

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Claire smirked, a lot more kindly this time.

"Got to meet her at Cheer camp. I like her."