[Friday Afternoon: Fourth floor Common Room]

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Claire had acquired a knight. She hadn't meant to, but she'd been sitting on the couch watching TV and he had ventured into her hair, apparently deciding it looked like a likely place to find a Grail.

Now she was trying to untangle a tiny panicking horse from of her ponytail while its rider kept trying to cut her fingers off. It was annoying.

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"Name?" Claire asked. "Jenny?"

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"Jennifer," Jenny explained. "It's the modern form of Guinevere." At the last word, the weetiny knight thrust his weetiny sword into the air in a weetiny salute. "Also, I was wearing my tiara," Jenny admitted.

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"Oh," Claire said, nodding. "Well, if you're going to wear it all the time you're going to have to face the consequences."

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"True," Jenny sighed. "Power, responsibility, all that noise. What've you been up to, roomie?"

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Claire shrugged.

"Class. Reading. Trying to figure out if I know anyone to set Peter up with. What about you?"

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Jenny made a face. "Trying to convince Midnighter and Apollo they don't really need to come for Parents' Weekend, mostly. It's not working. I think they think it's funny. It's hard to tell sometimes with Midnighter."

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Claire shook her head, sighing.

"Sometimes people have funny ideas about what's funny."

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"Yeah, well, Midnighter thinks severed heads are funny. And Roseanne. There's no accounting for taste.

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Claire grimaced.

"How can he watch that?"

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Jenny shrugged. "He's a strange man. Who's Peter, that he needs set up?"

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"Petrelli?" Claire said, the question to see if Jenny knew him. "He's just split up with his girlfriend, and... there are other issues, so I'm going to try and distract him."

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"Oh, yeah, he's in that Invasions class. He tried to copy my powers the other day. Didn't work for him," Jenny shrugged.

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"Yeah, he's in Invasions," Claire said, and her upperlip curled slightly, thinking of that last class.

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"What?" Jenny asked. "Invasions bad? Because that girl troll took more juice than I thought she would, to be honest, but..."

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"It's just the troll thing," Claire said. "I wasn't all that amused with the whole sex slave thing."

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"Eh," said Jenny. "They clearly didn't succeed."

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"Not the point," Claire says.

"Everyone was just treating it like it was funny. And I don't find it all that amusing."

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Actually, Jenny thought it was kind of funny. "Why?" she asked la roommate.

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"Forcing people into sex?" Claire stated bluntly.

"It's rape."

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"Actually, I don't recall Professor Winchester saying the trolls were going to force anyone to do anything. They kidnapped people with the intention of having sex with them, which is bad enough, true, but. Yes. Anyway, their plan sucked."

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"It was kind of implied by the word 'slave'."

Claire shrugged.

"It doesn't matter, I guess. Everyone else found it funny."

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Jenny shrugged. "Sometimes unappropriate things are funny. That's life."