Second Floor Common Room [Tuesday Afternoon]

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The facts were these: Young Ned had found his way into the common room again after getting bored of his room. He'd come with the intention of baking and, yes, there was something cooking in the oven (but he wasn't going to just reveal his pie choice today).

There was something different about today. Today, Ned had the hiccups. Now, as a boy at Longburrow, he'd been made to just wait them out.

Now, without that supervision, he could try to get rid of them. So, he'd looked up some hiccup cures and was currently attempting to stand on his hand and recite the alphabet in the middle of the common room.

It wasn't working.

Yet.

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[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

Kaylee blushed, and before she thought about it too much, moved up on her toes to press a quick kiss to his cheek.

"Ain't no such thing as a monkey screwdriver," she noted softly. "Thanks."

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"Darn, I thought maybe I guessed right," he said, blushing a little and looking sheepishly amused.

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"I should teach you some of that stuff," she said, grinning.

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"Oh god, that's dangerous," he laughed. "I'd break something so badly even you couldn't fix it."

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"Not possible," she said cockily.

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"Isn't anything possible if I put my mind to it?" Ned asked. "I'm terrible with tools."

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"If you broke somethin' that bad, I'd build you a new one," she assured him.

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"It might take you awhile," he said quietly, looking away. "When I break things, I break them irreparably."

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"Fixed your clock," she pointed out softly.

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"My clock wasn't broken irreparably," he said, shrugging.

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"You don't know that. Maybe I'm just that good," she said, arching a brow.

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"I'm sure you are but I think my clock was repairable," Ned said. "I just couldn't do it."

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"Nope. It had clockitis," she assured him.

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"It had what?" Ned asked, frowning. "Chocolates?"

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"Clockitis," she corrected, very seriously. "Totally fatal for clocks. I'm just that good."

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"I think you're making that up," Ned laughed.

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"Is this the face of someone who'd lie?" Kaylee made a very, very pathetic face.

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"I bet you can make that face whenever you want to just to convince someone to agree with you," Ned said.

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"...well, yes, but I can be really sad-lookin' when I want to really have the right effect," she said thoughtfully.

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"I'm sure you can," he said, shrugging a shoulder. "I still think clock whatever is fake."

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Kaylee sighed heavily. "You'll never really know."

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"I don't need to know," he reminded her. "If it's broken, I can just bring it to you and you can fix it."

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"True. It won't break again, though," she told him, beaming.

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"Unless I throw it out a window," he said, keeping a straight face.

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Kaylee looked horrified. "Why?"