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]

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

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

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

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"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.

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

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

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"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."

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"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.

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

Kaylee looked horrified. "Why?"

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"I could get mad at it one day," he said, shrugging a shoulder.

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

Kaylee frowned deeply. "But it's just a machine. It ain't done nothin' to you."

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Ned's eyes went a little wide. "I was just kidding. I don't tend to throw things of mine. I don't have much so throwing the things I do have would just be bad. I'm not going to throw the clock unless a demon or that sphinx shows up in my room and tries to eat me."

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

Kaylee now had new things to worry about. "What's a sphinx?"

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"Oh." Well, yes, he'd forgotten about that. "It's a...cute dog?"

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"Awwww!"

Yeah. Kaylee believed him.

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"Very aww," he agreed. "We made friends and um, he...drank punch with me."

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"Dogs drink punch?" she asked, tilting her head.

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"This one did?" he tried.

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"Did he talk too?" she asked, because if he was drinking punch it was totally possible.

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"It...talked," Ned said. "Sorta."

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"How?" she asked. "Did it make friends with Digby?"

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"How did it talk?" Ned asked. "With it's mouth."

[weefeetbigboots.livejournal.com]

"I mean how did it sorta talk," she clarified. "You said 'sorta.'"