4th floor Common Room, Wed evening

[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

Wednesday night was Project Runway night. Peter wouldn't miss it for the world.

Currently there was a mini-marathon of previous episodes. Since Peter had seen them already, he kept himself occupied making notes in the journal Sam had gotten for him.

Well, that was the idea. Occasionally his writing would turn into random doodles without Peter noticing it.

[open like a common room... 'cause it's a common room. :D]

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[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean wandered out to the common room. "So what's this?" he asked, settling on the couch and looking at the tv.

[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

"Methadone for the writer's strike," Peter said. "Known as a mini-marathon of Project Runway. Which is pretty good. They'll have a new episode on soon."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean continued to watch the tv with a dubious expression and his head tilted. "I think this might be giving flashbacks to Ares' class."

[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

"Little bit," Peter admitted. "Though there's no Tootie, so already we are way ahead of the game. Plus there's Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum. 'nuff said."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"As long as there's no one making me dress up in tights," Dean said, settling back against the cushions.

[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

"Not on my watch," Peter said. "Though you may get to see people try to make clothes out of candy. That was last week, though they'll rerun that episode before the new one."

Peter's hand kept moving absently as he talked to Dean, his pen continuing to make marks on the page.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Okay, that could be an interesting outfit. You could snack on it if you're ever trapped in a cave or something."

[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

"Made of Twizzlers," Peter said. He frowned at the stick figures on his page, then turned to a blank one so he could try to sketch the swirls of the outfit from the previous week's challenge. "Shirt skirt, kind of a corset top. Looked... way better than my non-existant art skills are making it out to be."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"I doubt I could do much better," Dean said. "What were you drawing before?"

[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

"Huh?" Peter flipped back to look. "Uh, nothing. Just doodles. Guess my mind keeps wandering."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean chuckled. "Sammy does that too. Must be a geek thing," he teased.

[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

Peter looked horrified. "Oh god. I'm becoming a geek??"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean coughed. "Hate to break it to you, Peter, but there's no 'becoming' about it."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Hey!" Isabel smiled. "What's up? Come to join us in our Top Model withdrawals?"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"You're not going to get me to admit to Top Model withdrawal," Dean said with a grin.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Of course not. You probably watch some manly show like MythBusters or something," she laughed. "Or Dirty Jobs."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Damn right," Dean said, then grinned. "So Michael made me breakfast this morning."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"He did?" Isabel was glad to hear that. "He fed me to. So I'm happy. I thought he'd be mad for days. He seems like he's settling in nicely."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, he's starting to let go of the bristling self defense," Dean agreed. "Can I ask you some stuff?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Good. That's a big step." And one her Michael hadn't taken until he was older.

"You can ask, I'll try to answer," she nodded. The trick would be answering questions without saying too much. Isabel was fairly certain there were some things Michael wouldn't want to be common knowledge.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Were you raised together in the same household?" Dean asked.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"No. We got separated when we first came out of the pods," Isabel said quietly. "Max and I stayed together so when we were found, they assumed, rightly so, that we were brother and sister. We got lucky and were adopted. Michael...wasn't."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean nodded. "He said some stuff about his foster dad..."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," she nodded, her voice tight. "Hank."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Michael said he was a drunk?"