Fourth Floor Common Room; Monday Evening.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

So it came to be that a deal had been struck. Turtle really wasn't sure if she understood it, but, apparently, there was some doubt in Marco about his animal shifting talent, something about a time limit, and so that put a big fat stopper in his usual plans to mess a little with the newbies or people who didn't know about his skill. So when Marco proposed that she helped him out by keeping an eye on the time and coming up with a grand old scheme on how to get his animal self out of the common room before the limit was up, she promptly charged him ten bucks for the favor, then dropped it down to just five when he gave her those stupid pouty, puppy dog eyes and reminded her that friends didn't charge friends for favors.

Like heck they didn't.

Either way, they worked it out and now Turtle Wexler was sitting in the fourth floor common room (easier access to Marco's room in case they had to cut things real close), on the couch, sipping a cup of hot cocoa while watching the evening economics report, but keeping a very close eye on the clock. She also had her wristwatch set to give her the alarm when they came close to five minutes left in the suspected time frame. The chimpanzee formerly known as Marco was swinging around, and there were a few bananas on the coffee table in front of her.

The chimp kept trying to take the remote from her, but she would have none of it.

"Monkeys don't get to pick what we watch," she told him firmly, and then sipped her cocoa again.

Monkeys probably wouldn't have so much a problem with it if Turtle watched anything interesting.


[[ totally open, of course! up a little early for spishness if needed; Marco and chimp!Marco were totally modded with permission! ]]

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[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

< Your TV taste sucks. > Marco complained bouncing a little on the couch next to Turtle.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Turtle said, giving Marco and his little mental assersion about her viewing interests a little look. "This is important stuff. And stop that. If a newbie comes in here when I'm talking to you, it'll ruin the whole thing. If you'll shut up, maybe I'll change it something more interesting. Like...CNN or something."

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco froze in his bouncing to stare at Turtle. < Sometimes, you really scare me. > With a shake of his head, he went to bounce on the table.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle blinked after the monkey a for a moment and then, confusion spread across her face, held up her hands in a shrug of futility.

"What?" she asked, befuddled and a little hurt. What was so scary about what she said? Honestly?

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

The chimp shook his head. < CNN is only fun when I'm being interviewed. >

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"And when they have the James Earl Jones promo," Turtle argued because she would say right then and there that she couldn't trust anyone who thought that wasn't fun, and she took in a deep breath, deepening her voice to imitated it, "This is CNN."

"Come on! Totally fun! But this is important stuff here. We can switch to something like cartoons at the next commercial, okay? Cartoons are fun, right?"

She had to ask, since, apparently, her sense of fun was a little skewed.

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

Wanderlust had gotten into Sora's blood for the first time in well... forever and he found himself in the door way to the 4th floor common room, stairing at the Chimp swinging it's self around.

"Are people turning into animals again?" He asked curiously as he walked in.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Nope," Turtle lied. "Just a random monkey."

A random monkey that was, excuse her, actually a chimp, that she gave a bit of a look to, because, hey, not a new kid, but Sora probably didn't know about the transformations.

This didn't seem to matter to the chimp right at this moment since the chimp mun was at work currently.

"Hi, Sorra; how've you been?"

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

He shrugged. "Okay, hiding in my room from the cold," he shivered slightly. "I'm from a tropical island, I'm not good with long periods of cold," Sora smiled and plopped on the arm of the couch.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle snorted slightly, shaking her head. "You guys and your tropical climates and your lack of resistance to the cold. This is nothing. I've been snowed in an apartment building for a month before."

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

"Ugh! Seriously!? Man that had to have stunk!" He shivered again just for good measure.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Oh, it wasn't so bad," Turtle shrugged. "Except that one of the people were were snowed in with was a bomber."

Yes, she gave that last word a little extra flavor to increase the drama of her story a little.

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"Oooh oooh oooh!" Marco said excitedly.

[heromaniac]

Momoko was a newbie. And she was also randomly exploring to see what the place was like. Hearing the sounds of the tv, she poked her head into the room. Seeing it was a lounge-y kind of room instead of a private one, she bounced in, making her way closer to the television and a seat.

"Cartoons? What's on?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Um, we can get to the cartoons just as soon as this report is done," Turtle said, with a slight nod, and a lot of attention on the screen, which was still locked onto her economics report. They were talking about a new paper products company. This was very important.

[heromaniac]

"Sorry, something in the show sounded familiar." She sat down in an open chair and looked over at the girl who had talked to her. If the girl was looking that intensely at the screen it must be interesting. Momoko turned back to the tv, hopefully, but "They're talking about paper?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Yup," Turtle nodded. "Very important business, the paper industry. I've got a lot of money invested in it, and if this new company they're talking about is going to do as well as they're predicted, my company might suffer a bit. I'll have to kick it up a notch."

[heromaniac]

Unsure if she should talk if it was that important, Momoko was quiet for a moment. But sadly, only a moment. Boredom did that to her.

"You have your own paper company? Aren't you a student here, too?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I don't own it," Turtle said, somewhat dismissively, like she was talking about the weather or what she had for lunch, "yet. But I do own a significant amount of the shares. And, yup, I'm a student here."

This finally managed to get Turtle to look toward the new girl and give her a bright, friendly smile. She offered out her hand, all very professional-like. "Turtle Wexler. Nice to meet you."

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

Sora looked at the girl curiously, tilting his head back and forth. "Are you one of the new students here?" He asked with a bright smile.

[heromaniac]

"YES!" Momoko bounced in her seat, glad for the chance to talk. "Nice to meet you! I'm Momoko and I just got here this weekend so I've only met a few people. And a robot, only he's alive and not really a robot cause he's an ALIEN, and I've already had one class and my roommate is a boy and..." She took a breath and calmed herself. "Sorry, but this place is awesome!"

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

Sora had to laugh. Newbies were always amusing, even when he was one! "It is a really awesome school! And it's nice to meet you too Momoko, I'm Sora!" He smiled and held out his hand.

[heromaniac]

Momoko took the hand he offered and shook it. "Hi Sora! I'm a sophomore here. Where I come from school is way different, so I am really excited." She tilted her head with a grin. "Although my friends back home say I'm naturally hyper."

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

"Really?" Sora grinned back brightly. "My friend Riku tells me I'm annoyingly hyper all the time!"

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"Oooh! Oooh! Oooh!" Marco said, jumping up and down.