5th floor common room, late Thursday morning

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Annette was cooking. Okay, Annette was trying to cook. This is something she has never been good at no matter how many times she gave it a go. She had pancakes cooking though they were very questionable considering their too lumpy form. She had bacon frying, and she was currently cracking eggs in a bowl. She didn't notice any eggshells that fell in either. If she was going to survive college one day, she had to learn to cook. Right?

Her cat, Angel, was curled around her feet, purring and playing with Annette's shoe laces. "Angel that stop, going me up trip and then what will breakfast happen to? Burn will no one it then enjoy."

Annette blinked, cocked her head, and continued with the cracking of eggs. "Either know it I don't."

[The common room it is open! ETA: Annette's *mess* has been taken care of by Liir, anyone coming in after him is going to just see nice, neat, leftover pancakes that he made. HEE!]

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He was on his way up to the roof when he saw Annette in the kitchen. He smiled at her, pleased to see someone else cooking, and gave her a wave.

Then he noticed the cat and wandered over.

"Good morning," he started, leaning against the counter.

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Annette grinned over at Liir. "Hi! Morning good you too to!" She shook her head and said one word. "Fandom."

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He shrugged. Whatever it was, he didn't really mind. She just sounded a bit like Chistery.

...it made him just a little homesick.

"That's all right. Don't worry about it. You look better, though. And cooking."

He pointed down.

"Is that your cat?"

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"Cooking I don't often good do. At all," she said, even as the bacon began to burn. "Learn trying to college before I go."

Annette smiled down at Angel who was now curiously reaching out a paw towards Liir's shoe. "Angel, yes."

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He leaned down, glad that Andrew was asleep in the pocket under his hand, and reached a hand to her.

"Hello, Angel," he said, sounding as if he was talking to another person, really. He didn't reach to pet her; he'd let her get his scent and approved of him before he did.

He turned his head to peer up at her.

"Another person with cooking problems? What seems to be giving you trouble?"

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Angel was sweet really. There was only really one certain person that she took exception to. She sniffed at Liir's hand, purring, and decided he was perfectly fine because she she tried to tip up his fingers with her little nose so she could be petted.

"Likes you," Annette said, grinning, then she turned her attention back to the pankcakes and bacon. "Oh! Trouble it gives me all messy and look now done I have burnt." She sighed and turned the eye off under the bacon. The pancakes were black on one side and not very appealing to the eye.

"Sucks this."

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He smiled, warm as the sun, and put his attention to petting the cat. He'd have used both hands, but one was going to stay over Andrewbunny in his pocket because he didn't want to chance on Angel's prey drive. Not over Andrew.

But he really did like the cat.

"Does she like tuna?" he asked, ridiculously. Then he looked up.

"Something wrong with breakfast? Perhaps turn down the heat a little? Or do you get distracted and let it burn?"

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Annette nodded distractedly at the tuna comment and went about throwing her mess in the trash can. The dishes she used, including the pans, went in the sink.

Sighing, she turned and leaned her back against the counter, looking down at Liir. "I know don't. I'm watching guess hot too much stove. Matter doesn't. Give up."

Stepping over to the pantry, she grabbed a box of pop tarts and asked over her shoulder. "Want one? Blueberry."

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He gave the cat one last scritch before standing up.

"No, and neither do you," he said with a touch of chiding. He held out the tuna bag for her.

"Could you give this to Angel as I get things cleaned up?" He smiled at her. "You wanted pancakes, you'll get pancakes."

And maybe he'd even show her how it was done.

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Annette gave him a look, but he was right, she really didn't want pop tarts.

She took the tuna with a grateful smile and sat down on the floor, out of the way from where Liir would be working. Annette just suddenly... her head tilted to the side and her ear began to tingle and itch and... "What the?"

...and then it was gone, that funny sensation and she rubbed her ear. "I don't know what that was but ew. Oh, I can talk right again!" Grinning, she looked up at Liir as Angel climbed up in her lap to be fed the tuna.

"I would love pancakes! But you don't have to cook for me, really."

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He was already working on the pans and the bowls in the sink.

"I'm here, I don't mind, and I can show you how you can do it on your own without burning it."

He said it, smiling, obviously not bothered. He didn't mind doing this sort of work. At least no one would be doing it by tick-tock that way.

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Annette let Angel finish the tuna and she asked, "Do you randomly carry with you a bag of tuna?"

She hopped up off the floor then and came to stand by him, looking rather sheepish. "I shouldn't be letting you clean up my mess though. Want me to take over?"

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"You can help," he said. "It goes faster when two people do it."

He scrubbed and soaped a dish before passing it to her for rinsing.

"And yes, I do. I like animals, for one, and for another a Firecat is assisting me with something and I like to bring him treats and meals and such if I can. One because I tend to it for those I consider my friends and another because it's a small way I can tell him thank you."

He gestured to his bag, but didn't pat it since he didn't want to get it wet.

"I keep a little something for most people in here. If I wasn't about to make you pancakes, I'd have offered one of the brownies."

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John stopped by the common room for some food before class. "Hey, looks like you have a little helper there," he said to Annette, noting Angel.

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"Hi, John," Annette said, smiling at him before she glanced down at Angel. "She thinks she's helping by being all pretty and purring against my leg."

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"And possibly hoping you'll drop something?" John asked. "Looks like quite the feast." It wasn't like he could do much better.

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"I'm not much of a cook and what you see now is left over from Liir helping me," she grinned sheepishly. "I burned everything before he showed up and sadly it all went in the trash can. Cooking is not exactly my thing."

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"If we could all cook, there'd be no Food Network to entertain us," John said, grinning back. "Did you guys have fun cooking?"

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"He showed me how to make pancakes," she beamed. "I think I will try on my own tomorrow. Apparently he knows his way around a kitchen which I'm very thankful for. And look, John, there is plenty left over if you'd like to help yourself?"

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"Thanks, Annette," John replied, grabbing a pancake. "This makes good to-go food for class."

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"Ah, of which I am class free today," she grinned.

"So, did you enjoy Mexico, John? You did go, right?"

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"I did," he nodded, munching pancake thoughtfully. "It was a really nice resort. Did you have a good time?"

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"I had a great time, thanks," she said. "It was a perfect break and just what I needed. And oh, wasn't it just gorgeous there? I could have stayed another week."

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"I was ready to stay forever. Beaches, sunshine, nothing even resembling Fandom weirdness - it was a great place."

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Annette sighed wistfully. "I'll go back, one day."