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.

[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?"

[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?"

[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]

"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."

[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.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

And, in Chad's mind, Prince Oscar Pedro absolutely was.

The kitten meowed back between his purrs, mostly likely wanting to express that he really was ashamed that he had to meet someone new dressed like this. Clueless to the effect of Prince Oscar Pedro's meows, Chad pet him again before moving to the fridge to find something to drink. "Cool."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke wandered over to the kitchenette as well, starting the fixings for hot chocolate.

Artoo immediately flipped the channel to Discovery.

"Did you stay here for the break?"

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad nodded, grabbing his usual can of vegetable juice and some milk for the cat, who was remaining very expertly balanced on his owner's broad shoulders while he bent over to do this. "Yup," he said. "Always do. Too expensive to go home."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke nodded. "Other side of the planet, right?" he tried to remember. "We went up to my father's girlfriend's place. It's strange to see my dad, you know, smile."

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"If I went to Japan, yeah, other side," Chad said. "Could go to Mexico, too, which is on the same side, but still kinda far." He frowned a little as he poured some milk into a saucer; Prince Oscar Pedro promptly departed from his shoulders onto the counter, but waited patiently once there. "More....people," who were still alive, "in Japan, though. Where's your father's girlfriend's place?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Connecticut," Luke said, heating up milk. "Lots of snow."

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad...never really was good at the geography of America once you got out of the southwest, so he, after a moment to think about it, realized that he really didn't know where that was, and shrugged. "Yeah," he said. "Not as much snow as I thought around here. Not as much as last year, if I remember right. We got lots where I was last in Japan, but not as much where I grew up...."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Neither sounded more interesting to Robin than the other. "Maybe you could flip a coin?"

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"My home planet has two suns," Luke said with a grin. "I'd never even heard of snow until I came here."

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"Two suns? That must have been hot," Chad said, because, if he wasn't going to be the one stating the obvious, who would? Really?

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Artoo blew a raspberry and started on a long rant about he wouldn't trust anything to chance around a Jedi who would probably cheat.

Luke rolled his eyes. "Artoo doesn't want to."

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Really, really hot," Luke said, nodding. "And my uncle tried to make a living pulling water from the sky. It...wasn't the easiest job in the world."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin was out of ideas. Usually at home when there was a fight over the remote mom or dad would settle it by sending the kids outside to play.

"Oh." he scratched his head. "Uhm, is there another food show on after the motorcycle show?"

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"Sounds like it," Chad said, giving light pats to Prince Oscar Pedro's back that Prince Oscar Pedro couldn't feel through the bulky pea-green sweater. "Did you do well at it?"

[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]

Oh, like Luke was going to be rational about this.

"Maybe," he said sulkily.

[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Luke laughed. "Not even a little bit. I'd never wanted to do anything else so badly in my life."