Third floor common room [late Saturday afternoon]

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke, bored like a thing who had been cooped up on a train from Connecticut for most of the day, was in the common room watching television.

He wanted to watch Alton Brown.

Artoo wanted to watch Orange County Choppers.

"Artoo, stop changing the channel!"

...Things were going to get ugly in a minute.

The Fear You Won't Fall - Joshua Radin

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[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Fandom seemed still mostly deserted, so Robin was pleased to find people in the common room. "Hi Luke! Hi Artoo!"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke was trying to wrestle the remote out of Artoo's little handgrip. "Hi, Robin," he said. "Give it back Artoo."

Artoo? Not giving it back.

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Wow it was like being back home again, only instead of a bunch of frogs fighting over the remote, it was a human and a droid. He didn't know who to side with.

"Who wants to watch what?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"He wants to watch some motorcycle show," Luke said, "but they're all reruns."

Artoo blew an electronic raspberry.

"I want to watch the food shows."

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad, also relatively bored and having only gotten up...a little bit ago, drifted into the common room for some food, a naked kitten in a slightly overlarge pea-green sweater perched on his shoulder and meowing constantly in Chad's ear. Prince Oscar Pedro was mostly telling Chad about how he really didn't think the sweater was necessary. Chad, however, thought he was telling him a story about fish.

He glanced over toward the budding argument between Luke and the robot thing. "Hey," he said, lifting his chin, not wanting to interrupt, but not wanting to be rude, either, by not saying hi.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Hi, Chad!" Luke chirped, deciding to Be a Better Person and ignore Artoo.

Artoo didn't care.

"Hi, Chad's...sweater-wearing friend?"

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"This is Prince Oscar Pedro Neko-kun," Chad said, once he got over the shock of realizing that Luke hadn't met him when he realized that, well, he hadn't met Luke's robot thing, either, unless he forgot. He reached over and skritched the kitty's ears; it did not cease the meowing, but it did start up an uncontrollable purr. "The Third. Who's your robot...thing...friend?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"That's Artoo," Luke said, grinning. "He's a pain." He nodded his head. "It's a pleasure to meet you, your highness."

Galaxy far, far away. For all Luke knew, Prince Oscar Pedro was royalty.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka looked Chad up and down critically.

He felt stronger after spending a week fighting monsters. But was he stronger enough to take Chad down? Only time, and football practice, would tell.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad was slow at times, yes, but nearly anyone could tell when they were being looked at like that. Especially someone like Chad, who was used to that sort of look constantly from the day he'd moved back to Japan. He turned, giving Sokka the conditioned response, of squared shoulders, a lifted eyebrow, and a grunt of inquiry.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeeah. Chad probably could still kick his ass. A LOT.

Sokka smiled and waved, trying for all the world to look like he didn't know why Chad was looking at him like that. "Hey."

[the_merriest]

There was an orange blur in the doorway, and then there was a girl standing there, posing dramatically before bursting into song.

"Iiiiiiiiiii spent all! week! Kiiiiiiiiiiiiilling monsters!
And steeeeeeeeealing their stuff! (All their stuff!)
Weeeeeee kicked some major ass and then took some names!
(Lots of names!)
We went the whole way through and weeeeeeee fought Omega!
And we won! ('Cause we rule!)
Heeeeeeee was really old and powerful but we kick more ass! (Way more ass!)
So Iiiiiiii am back and I have looooooots of bombs and noooooooooow!
I need hugs! LOTS! OF! HUGS!"

She posed yet again, and then noticed her friend. "LUKE! HI HI HI! I'M BACK! GUESS WHAT I DID!"

Because .... that would be difficult.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Hmmm," Luke said, grinning. "Did you kill monsters?"

[the_merriest]

There was a very exuberant wriggly sort of booty dance that followed that comment. The hyperness could not be contained.

"I did! Lots of 'em! Really, really powerful ones that were like hundreds of years old and I totally thought Sokka was gonna be toast but he did way better than I thought he would and besides we had Yunie there and they had so much stuff! Shining Gems and Farplane Shadows and oh! oh! How was Connet-i-something and LUKE! I'M BACK!"

And now, she was jumping up and down. See above in re: hyperness, and the failed containment thereof.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke couldn't help it. He burst out laughing at her.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka grinned over at Rikku and held out a hand. "Orangey! High-five me!"

[the_merriest]

"Ponytail! You'd better believe it!" She high-fived him and then did another boogey dance. "We kicked some ass!"

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Chick-chicky-boom, chick-chicky-boom, chick-chicky-BAM!"

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"OW! Ow! Stop it! Ow!"

Sokka walked into the room with Momo Jr. on his shoulder. The chinchilla had reared up, dug its foreclaws into his ear, and was gnawing on his wolftail like there was no tomorrow. "I left you food! I left you EXTRA food! There's still PLENTY OF FOOD in your cage!!! If you hadn't gone to the bathroom in your food, you WOULDN'T BE HUNGRY NOW!!!"

He waved sheepishly at the room. "Hi, everybody. Sorry; rodent problems."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke grinned. "Hi, Sokka."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka waved. "Apparently, he gets all edgy when I've been gone a while. I'll have to remember not to do that."

He gestured at Artoo. "How's your pet doing?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"He's hijacked the television," Luke said, rolling his eyes.

[multiplez]

Z had just had a nap, and due to this and the fact that it was vacation and she'd decided this meant she could dress however she liked, was currently wearing the unfortunate pajamas of the future. She shuffled into the common room and grinned at her roommate. "Are you oppressing Artoo again?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"I am," Luke said, nodding. "Because a week on his own means that he got way too used to his own way."

[multiplez]

"But I've still been around," Z pointed out. Granted, she let Artoo get away with figurative murder, but still.