Second Floor Common Room [Tuesday Early Afternoon]

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

The facts were these: Ned was baking a pie again. He'd almost tried to theme this particular pie with that of a volcano but the volcano was long gone and so was that idea. Ned didn't really want to simulate lava in a pie anyway.

He'd chosen a new recipe this time, something he'd never baked before and had set out to prep and cook in the common room.

He wouldn't call this a routine yet but it was relaxing. And it was nice to get out of his room and do something besides annoy himself with all his issues.

[Open common room is open. Work is boring. I am hungry.]

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[always-damp.livejournal.com]

Not remembering what floor he lived on, Toby thought people in common rooms could totally help him.

"You don't know where I live, do you?" He asked, sliding his hand over his shoulder, wondering if he should give up and just go tan on the beach.

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"Uh." Ned didn't even recognize the guy let alone know where he lived. "Should I?"

[always-damp.livejournal.com]

"I live with the lion-dude if that helps," Toby replied. "Are you like, cooking in the kitchen? That is so awesome."

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"Baking," Ned corrected though it was pretty much the same thing. "And I don't know any...lions. Lions? You have pet lion?"

[always-damp.livejournal.com]

"Dude, no." Toby shook his head, eyes wide. "I am not into Animal Culture. They assigned me the room. But I think he has some BDSM thing going with the nanny."

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"So, he's a lion but also a student?" Ned said, trying to wrap his mind around that. "And he likes his nanny? Did he bring the nanny with him?"

[always-damp.livejournal.com]

"Can I say yes once for all those questions?" Toby asked.

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"Sure," Ned said, blinking at the influx of new knowledge he was getting. "Have you tried calling him?"

[always-damp.livejournal.com]

"Good thinking," Toby smiled. "But I think I'm going to make a sandwich before I go trekking around the building any more. Want?"

[stucklikadope.livejournal.com]

Giselle glided into the room happily. Not that she usually did anything unhappily.

"Oh, hello!" she said, beaming at Ned.

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"Hello," Ned greeted, unable to not smile at the greeting. "How are you?"

[stucklikadope.livejournal.com]

"So very good!" Giselle said. "Isn't it a beautiful day? I love how we keep moving about. Did you see the beautiful birds outside?"

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"I haven't," he said, laughing quietly. "I don't...usually notice the birds."

Or much of anything but that was neither here nor there.

[stucklikadope.livejournal.com]

"Oh!" Giselle looked shocked and then sad. "But that's terrible. How sad! I could introduce you to them."

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"You know the birds personally?" Ned asked, almost amused but mostly serious because, well, this was Fandom.

[stucklikadope.livejournal.com]

"Well, they don't talk as much as they do at home," Giselle confided. "But you can tell what they like. They're very nice."

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"They talk to you?" Ned asked, stopping his prep work to kind of stare. "With, um, words?"

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

Kaylee was wandering the halls, and peeked into the second floor common room.

"...that smells really good. What is it?"

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"Apple praline pie," he said, smiling at her. "Hello."

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"Hi! What's a praline?" she asked curiously, wandering over.

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"It's a candy," he explained, scooting aside so she could see the pie. "It's made from nuts and sugar syrup."

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"You made a pie with candy?" she asked, almost bouncing.

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"Making but yeah," he said, shrugging a shoulder as he slowly filled the pie with it's filling. "It's the first time I've made this recipe."

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"I didn't know candy could go in pies," she said excitedly. "It's like puttin' two of the best things ever together in one spot! Like pretty dresses with pockets for tools or sex in a engine room or somethin'!"

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

Ned was nodding his agreement until that last one. At that last one, his nodding turning into a kind of shaking that made his hair fall into his face and his eyes go wide.

His hand slipped around inside the pie and he had to really focus on not spilling the pie filling onto the common room floor.

"Right, of course," he said, trying to recover quickly by smoothing out the pie with one hand. He contemplated just dunking his face into the pie to cover the blush. "Just like those...two things."