2nd Floor Common Room - Sunday Evening

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

Meg was bored. When Meg was bored she tended to get the urge to cook something. So now she was in the kitchen, making chocolate chip cookies. There was no telling how many cookies will actually end up in the oven since she kept eating the raw cookie dough. It was good, dammit.

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[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Isn't that weird," Turtle began to formulate a theory, tilting her head thoughtfully at her spoon, "how cookie dough is soooo good, and cookies are soooo good, and yet they are like two completely different things? You like both, both are very tasty, but still...different. Huh."

Apparently, Duchess Turtle was feeling very philosophical today.

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

Meg laughed. "That is crazy. I wonder if people always ate cookie dough by itself or if one brilliant person ate it raw one day and decided to tell the world how good it tastes."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle shook her head ruefully. "I wouldn't have told anyone, and then I would have tried to work it somehow into a clever marketing scheme; that guy could have made millions, but, if that's how it went down, look, we don't even know his name, just petered out into obscurity. Did it alllll wrong."

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

"Maybe he was more into philanthropy." Meg said. "Anonymous philanthropy."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle was looking mildly disturbed, and kind of uncomfortable all of a sudden. "Why would anyone want to be into that?"

Wasn't the point of philanthropy to let everyone know how generous you were?

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

"Someone genuinely interested in helping the world." Meg said, smirking. Turtle reminded her a lot of her friends in Neptune with the whole money thing. "Shocking, I know."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle gave Meg a very doubtful look. "Lots of people are genuinely interested in helping the world, sure," she said; she herself was one of them, really, but... "...but if they say they're not also interested in getting recognition for their work, they're liars."

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

Meg shrugged. "You never know. Some people like to stay out of the spotlight."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"How would those people even manage to make that much money?" Turtle was feeling direly confused, like Meg was proposing a nearly impossible vision of the world. "I mean, if you want to be successful, you have to be in the spotlight. That's how you get successful..."

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

"Money just isn't important to some people." Meg said. Her family had money and she could care less.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. That line. Turtle looked over at Meg with a cool expression for a moment before offering, "What did you use to get the things to make these cookies?"

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

"...it was just in the cupboards." Meg said. She knew where Turtle was going with this and couldn't resist messing with her a little.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"And how do you think it got in the cupboards?" Turtle asked, a little worriedly as she realized that, hey, this was Fandom, and it actually was entirely possible that cupboards would randomly generate cookie supplies.

But there was still no such thing as a free lunch! Something had to pay for that manifestation somehow.

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

"I have no idea, actually. Uh..." she said. She was thinking along the same lines as Turtle. "How do you think they got in there?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Curses!

"Um, well, the school probably supplies stuff like that for us. I mean, come on, they've got everything at this school. And, therefor, the school had to pay for it. Using money. Be as idealistic as you want, but money is still important. Unless maybe you fast forward to Hoshi's 22nd century, where apparently they don't have currency, but I still don't believe her on that."

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

"You're right. Money is important." Meg said. "Maybe I should have worded my sentence different. I should have said being rich isn't important to some people."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle nodded. "That's much better," she agreed. "I mean, actually, and this might surprise you a bit, but being rich isn't actually that important to me."

That was very easy to say when you were sitting on a secret twenty mil. "It's being successful that's important. However, being successful is just so much easier if you're rich, too."

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

"True." Meg said. "I hope to be successful. I'm not sure in what at the moment. But whatever it is I hope to be a success."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

A goal was a goal was a goal. Turtle smiled and nodded. "Then I hope it's a success, too! Unless you're in direct competition with me, Meg, in which case, no offence, thems just the bricks."

[goodgirlmeg.livejournal.com]

"Totally understandable." Meg said. "Feel free to crush me if I'm your competition."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Oh," Turtle's eyes were wide with certainty as she lifted her chin and bobbed her head a little. "Believe me. I will."