Fourth floor common room, Sunday, late morning

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

New term, new students, seemed like a good time to try and get back in the habit of his cooking brunch for all comers. Also, seemed like a good potential way to meet some more of the newbies.

So here he was, cooking up bacon and eggs and pancakes, while listening to Back in Black on his portable stereo which he'd brought out. There may have been some singing along too.

[open as cr's are wont to be. free food to all comers]

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[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana was on her way back to her room to soak in a hot bath and try to get rid of some of the aches and pains from her training, when she smelled the food. After a brief debate with herself she'd headed up the extra set of stairs figuring a meal she didn't have to cook herself was worth a delay on the bubble bath.

She smiled when she saw Dean there. "Should have known it was you," she said with a smile.

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Like Teddy could ignore the smell of real food. Or not follow it to the common room to see if he could steal some before all the newbies showed up and ate all of it.

And paused.

"Dean, or are you a newbie that just happens to look like Dean, just to mess with all of us again?"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Was it the food or the music that gave me away?" Dean asked with a grin.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean chuckled. "The one and only original," he said.

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy grinned. "It never hurts to check around here."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Yes," she said with a smile.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"I'm so predictable," Dean observed.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"This is true. How 'bout you? Had any doubles show up?"

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"None that I know of," Teddy replied slowly. "But then, i wasn't exactly social at the picnic."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Predictable isn't always bad," Lana said with a smile. "And I'm sure there's lots of ways in which you would be surprising to me."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean grinned. "Oh I'm just full of surprises.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"You probably would have heard by now if there was one," Dean observed. "I mean I did run into Alec at our newbie picnic, but even if I hadn't all the people mistaking me for him would've clued me in."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

She laughed. "Oh, I just bet you are!"

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy laughed. "Yeah, people are good about pointing out the weirdness to the newbies."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"You want some food?"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Freaking the newbies is practically a sport here."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Please, yes," she said. "I've just done twice as much of a workout as I'd planned and I'm still sore from Friday."

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Next time we should all take bets on how well some of them take the news about this place," Teddy replied with a snort of amusement. "A betting pool at the picnic."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"What was Friday?" Dean asked as he dished her up a plate of food. "I mean, newbies, yeah, but..."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Most newbies take it better than you'd might predict," Dean pointed out. "After they get over thinking we're crazy or joking."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Oh, sorry, right. I'm... learning how to fight," she said, torn between pride and embarrassment over it. "So I maybe don't always have to depend on someone else to rescue me. Had a lesson on Friday."

She blushed and ducked her head. "I might have a few surprises of my own."

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"We need people who try to run away. Everyone takes it so well."

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

On returning from town, Michael had to pass the common room on his way back to the fifth floor. The music and the food smells were impossible to miss, so he stuck his head into the room.

"Hey."

[minnesota-teen.livejournal.com]

Amber woke up hoping there were donuts or something she could eat for breakfast in the common room. The smell of bacon and eggs made her feet pad faster down the hallway, however, and she walked in with no shyness whatsoever.

"Hi!" she said to the guy who was cooking.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"That's cool, Lana, really," Dean told her. "Never hurts to know that kind of thing."