Fifth Floor Common Room - Friday Evening

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Lois? Totally not about hanging around some volcano. She was, however, all about kung-fu movies and she happened to stumble across a channel full of them. She popped some popcorn and grabbed a soda out of the fridge and settled down on the couch for an evening full of ass kicking. The movie that was on now had some weird plot about elephant theft. Animal stealing and ass kicking. It doesn't get much better than that.

[Open! Not gonna lie, I love this movie]

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"What's so important about the elephant?" Ned asked as he wandered into the common room. "Special elephant?"

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"The main dude's family comes from a long line of elephant protectors. They're sacred or something," Lois said, shrugging. "Anyways, this guy's favorite baby elephant was stolen by an Chinese gang who are based in Australia. So that's why they're in Sydney instead of Bangkok or whatever."

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"Complicated movie," Ned said, nodding at the television. "I wouldn't have taken you for an...elephant fan."

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"Oh, I'm not. I mean, they're cute in a giant smelly sort of way but I'm by no means an elephant fangirl," she said. Lois offered the bowl of popcorn to Ned. "I'm more of a kung-fu movie fan."

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"Ah." Ned took a seat, calculating the distance, and took a small handful of the popcorn. "I'm...neither, really. I prefer dogs and...glaring."

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"Are you especially good at glaring?" she asked.

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"Not even a little," he said, shaking his head. "I don't tend to get angry."

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Lois shook her head. "Your good traits are just adding up. It's not fair."

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Ned tried to hide his latest blush behind his hand. It didn't much work. "I can try to...acquire some bad traits?"

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"I couldn't possibly ask you to do that," she teased. "I'll just have to work on getting some good traits of my own. It'll be nice having goals."

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"You have good traits," Ned said quickly. "You have a lot of them."

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"I don't know, my traits tend to get me into trouble," she joked. "That's never a good sign."

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"Really?" Ned shook his head, not really believing that. "What traits do that?"

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"Uh, let's see...well, I do tend to get angry easily. That's gotten me into trouble a lot. And apparently I don't know when to shut up," she said. "Oh, and my dad says I don't have focus. Is lack of focus a trait? He seems to act like it is."

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Ned considered what she'd said for a moment. "You could turn those into good traits though. Angry easily...you're very invested in things. You don't know when to shut up...you're outgoing. And lack of focus...ambition."

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Lois laughed. "I should be writing these down and using them for when my dad calls next."

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"You can take credit for them," Ned offered. "All yours, free of charge."

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"And there you go, being nice again," she teased.

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"I could be...not nice, if you prefer," Ned said, nodding. "I mean, my glares tend to end up with me looking away, arguments go nowhere because I see no point in argument, and why be mean when I could be nice? I like nice."

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"You're good at nice. I like you nice," Lois said. "I'm just not used to nice. But I like it. The nice is nice."

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"Then, I'll keep being nice," Ned said. "Unless I'm asleep. When I'm asleep, I'm just...asleep. Or cold. Or hot. Or just tired. But not nice. So, we'll just have to not meet when I'm sleeping."

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"I think I can manage that," Lois said. "But then again if I did see you when you were sleeping I'd probably just end up waking you up and then you'd be nice again."

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"Well." Well, Ned really couldn't argue with that. "I think I'd be sleepily confused at first."

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"That's a completely valid reaction," she said. "I wouldn't blame you if you were downright grumpy with me for waking you up."

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"Why would you wake me up anyway?" Ned wondered.