Fifth Floor common room, Monday night

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka had collected all of the underwear that was left lying around when he got back from work, and taped it all to the wall.

He taped signs all around the dorm reading

CLAIM YOUR UNDERWEAR: $1 each
5th floor common room

and was sitting on the couch, watching TV, holding a cash box, next to a larger CLAIM YOUR UNDERWEAR sign, eating popcorn.

Yes, he'd washed his hands first before making the popcorn.

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[raspberryturk]

"Tell you what," Reno said as he sauntered into the fifth floor common room, "you gimmie back my underwear free of charge, and I won't go about rearrangin' the structure of the bones in your skull, yoto."

He figured that this would be a fair trade, really. And his were the easy underwear to point out. His would be the ones with the cactaurs and moogles all over them.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka raised an eyebrow, trying to calculate just how far he could push this for maximum entertainment and minimum bodily harm.

"Fair enough," he said, pulling his new camera out of his pocket. "No charge."

[raspberryturk]

Reno eyed the camera as he scrounged about for his boxers.

Oh, yes. The camera.

"Got any good shots on that thing yet?"

What Sokka had managed to capture of his time as a headless plastic toy would determine entirely how painful Reno's next threat would have to sound.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Underwear thieves get you too?" Dōjima asked as she dug around in a cupboard to try and find a baggie or something to stick her reclaimed unmentionables in. Ha. Bingo. "I hate this school so much sometimes."

[raspberryturk]

"Looks like it," Reno agreed, holding up his underpants by way of demonstration. "At least mine ain't generic. Don't think I'd ever wear underwear again if I found out that I was claimin' someone else's underpants, yoto."

[the_merriest]

Aha! Reno, who had been holed up with paperwork! Rikku hurried over to him and started talking in a very, very low voice.

"I, uh, I need your help? Please?"

[raspberryturk]

Aha! A damsel in distress!

Or, rather, Rikku. With a problem.

"Yo, Rikku! What's up?" He held out his arms for a hug, underwear in his hands and all. He really was such a hug-slut.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

Dōjima had gotten tired of trying to keep a Romeo-shrew in the room, so she let him run his wee little hamster-ball self down to the common room, trailing behind him lazily.

Until she saw Sokka's redecoration. One (http://www.cafepress.com/buy/je+ne+regrette+rien/-/pv_design_prod/p_1116673.154514785/pNo_154514785/id_21049127/fpt_/opt_/c_666/pg_) in particular. Then she moved rather quickly.

"Sokka!" she shrieked, ripping it off the wall. "How could you? I thought we agreed, no using our lockpicking skills on each other!"

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka backed away quickly. "No, no, no! I didn't! It wasn't me! They were just lying around the dorm!"

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"Bullshit," she said, putting her hands on her hips. "Who else can get in my stuff? Jen? Are you telling me my roommate left my underwear laying around? My roommate? Try another one, dead-man."

[the_merriest]

"Dojima!" Rikku waved. "Is Romeo still a rat-thing? Your kitty is very sweet, by the way."

She was. Way smarter than Petey. Which wasn't hard. So were bricks.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

"What do you think?" she asked, pointing to the far wall where a Romeo-shrew was trying to run his hamster ball into the wall over and over again. "When's he supposed to turn back, again? I'm afraid he's going to give himself brain damage."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Okay, this? Was kind of amusing. Cal had gone up out of a vague curiosity. His underwear, it had seemed, hadn't suffered the fate of everyone else's. He stood near the door, tilted his head thoughtfully at the pile before commenting, "Those pink frilly ones. Those would be mine."

He figured it was a joke that wouldn't backtrack too badly; even when he was a girl, he didn't have frilly underwear. And it also turned into that whole if you joke about it enough, no one will believe it sort of thing. Or something.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka raised an eyebrow and turned the camera on him. "One dollar," he announced. "And just for the record, say that again, a little louder this time."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

That earned the camera a nice shot of Cal's middle finger. "Don't you feel bad," he deadpanned, "exploiting people's private artifacts like this?"

Forget the fact that he'd come up here just to witness the exploitation.

[dojima-hime.livejournal.com]

Dōjima looked up from her spot on the floor at the boy she didn't know. "Huh. You'd strike me more as a green or red person," she deadpanned. "Pink doesn't really suit your coloring."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Despite his attempts to be completely deadpan about the whole thing, the joke catching a girl's attention made Cal blush a bit more than he would have liked to let on. He attempted to cover it with just a little smirk. "You think?" he asked, head tilting thoughtfully. Eyes on anything but the girl. "But pink is so..." his nose wrinkled, "pretty."

[the_merriest]

"Very creative," Rikku nodded. "I approve. Not everyone can pull off frilly and pink."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal lifted his hand and shrugged. "What can I say? I'm intrepid."

And secretly hoping she was just saying that, because he was going to have to work a little harder if she honestly thought he could pull it off. Yes, he understood from almost a year in that culture that he complete pretty boy bait, but that didn't mean he had to propegate it any more if he didn't have to.

...After joking about pink frilly underwear, anyway.

[iseewhatyoumean.livejournal.com]

Cassandra walked into the common room and paused to slowly examine the arrayed undergarments. She didn't notice Sokka or his sign.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Missing anything?" Sokka asked.

[the_merriest]

Rikku stared at the sign and then turned to glare at Sokka.

"And how many people have just beaten the crap out of you instead of paying?" she asked.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka bit his lip and made an elaborate show of counting on his fingers. "Uh... None of them. Of course, no one's paid yet, either." He looked over at the wall. "Any of them yours?"

[futureclone]

Alex was very confused. "But you can't do that," he protested. "That's extortion!"

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"No, not really," Sokka replied. "I'm just providing a valuable underthings-retrieval service to the community."

He pointed at one pair of panties covered in leaves and twigs. "I mean, that one was way up in a tree outside. I think I deserve something for all the trouble I went through to retrieve it."