Second floor common room, Thursday night

[gobrookeyourself]

It was summer, it was a week without classes, and they were still in Antarctica. Yes, Brooke was still pouting. Not only that, but when she plopped herself in the common room with a blanket and popcorn to veg out, she found the Travel Channel was showing a whole lot of beach programming.

"Sure," she grumbled. "Rub salt in the wound, why don'tcha."


[Open as CR's tend to be.]

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[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

Ned wandered down the hall to hopefully spend a quiet night not in his room. Instead, he found someone in the common room and she was talking to the television.

"It doesn't talk back." She might not know that.

[gobrookeyourself]

"Yeah, but it makes me feel better," she said, grabbing another handful of popcorn. It wasn't like she needed to be in bikini shape anyway.

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"Talking to an inanimate object makes you feel better?" Ned asked.

[futureclone]

Alex wandered down from the fourth floor in search of people to practice socializing with. "Can't this stupid island go somewhere warm?" he whined whined.

[gobrookeyourself]

"When the inanimate object sucks, it does," she explained, thinking this made perfect sense. "Since kicking it might make the school mad at me enough to pay for repairs."

[gobrookeyourself]

"It was somewhere warm, and now it's decided to suck," Brooke whined whined back. "Maybe I should have tried to take a vacation. Ooh, maybe back to Mexico..."

[futureclone]

"Mexico!" Alex said. "Why can't the island go there?"

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"So...you're aiming to get in trouble?" Ned asked slowly.

[gobrookeyourself]

"We went over spring break," she said. "Though that was sort of a trip, and not island-moving. Do islands get PMS, maybe?"

[gobrookeyourself]

"No, that's why I'm not kicking it," she said. Though now she knew someone could break her out, yay. "Maybe I'll throw a scrunchie instead."

[laidanegg.livejournal.com]

"Trying to think warm thoughts?" Dick asked, walking into the common room and glancing at the TV.

[futureclone]

"Only if they're girl islands, I guess," Alex mused. "Or maybe that's what happens to a volcanic island right before an eruption." He blinked. "Oh, no, this place is getting to me."

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"Is it just televisions you have something against or...all things?" Ned asked curiously.

[gobrookeyourself]

"The Travel Channel taunting me about the weather," she said, not getting why anyone wouldn't immediately jump to that conclusion.

[gobrookeyourself]

"I'm so sorry to hear that," she said sympathetically. "I hear that happens."

[gobrookeyourself]

"Thinking I need to take pictures from the window and send an angry Email to the Travel Channel about their timing," Brooke said.

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"There's a Travel Channel?" Ned asked, frowning at the television.

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"Person I room with," Ned said, nodding at Dick. "Good to see you're not a rock anymore."

[laidanegg.livejournal.com]

"Send them a rabid penguin from me, too," Dick suggested.

[laidanegg.livejournal.com]

"Hey Ned," Dick said. "I never thanked you for making sure I was safe that weekend. I appreciate it."

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"Oh, no problem," Ned said, resisting the urge to scuff his feet. "I almost took you with me but didn't want you falling out on the way or something. And closets protected you better than I ever could."

[futureclone]

"Islands used to stay put in the future," Alex said petulantly.

[gobrookeyourself]

"Yeah," Brooke said. "Where have you been? Besides not in front of the TV?"

[gobrookeyourself]

"Another future-dweller, huh?" So sad she didn't even question anymore. "How many miles do they walk uphill in snow nowadays?"

[gobrookeyourself]

"I think you might have to work on that one yourself," she said immediately. "But I'll have the clinic on speed dial for you."

[laidanegg.livejournal.com]

"Doctor Frederic Wertham disagrees about closets. No, it was definitely a good call. I doubt I could've helped much, being a rock and all."

"Unless somebody needed something to throw."

[laidanegg.livejournal.com]

"You know, I think I'll just pay somebody twenty bucks to do it for me," Dick said. "But keep your phone handy, just in case."

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"Uh. Boarding school," he answered, shrugging. "We didn't have a television."

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"I ran into a Sphinx," Ned said, thinking about it. "I think she would've eaten you if I'd had thrown you. And then I'd have felt terrible."

[gobrookeyourself]

"Did they hate you?" she asked immediately. That was just wrong.

[laidanegg.livejournal.com]

"The key is to not throw your roommate at the sphinx's mouth," Dick said. "If we're ever in that situation, aim for the leg."

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"Well." Ned thought they did but he wasn't going to share that. "Um. Maybe it was just hidden or something. I just never watched it."

[gobrookeyourself]

"And you didn't just devour it when you got here?" she said. "I would have had to at least catch up on my soaps."

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"Her leg was pretty big," Ned said, frowning in thought. "Wouldn't that just make her angry?"

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"I really didn't miss it much," Ned admitted. "I never watched a lot of television. It was...kind of boring when I was younger."

[laidanegg.livejournal.com]

"Not if you hit her in just the right place," Dick said. "Hit anyone right and they'll go down."

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

Huh. He'd never thought of it that way.

"Next time," Ned decided. "You didn't trip over anything in the closet, right? I mean, when you got big again."

[gobrookeyourself]

"Please tell me it at least helped your social life," she said, though she managed to juggle both. Not everyone could.

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"I...don't have one of those either," Ned admitted, now feeling kind of stupid.

[laidanegg.livejournal.com]

"Well, I fell over, but I got out okay," Dick said. "No bruises or anything."

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"Oh, good." Not that Ned had hoped otherwise but he'd never woken up in a closet before. "I'm glad I didn't put you in a drawer."

[gobrookeyourself]

"Well, fix that," she said simply.

[futureclone]

Alex peered out the window vaguely Antarctica-ward. "Here, or anywhere else on the planet?" he asked pointedly.

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

"Why?" Ned asked.