Third Floor Common Room, Wednesday Afternoon

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Toby was really very depressed about Kevin being a complete tool and breaking up with him. Again. He didn't feel like doing much of anything after waking up at 1pm all sticky with rum, so he'd showered and drug his pillows out to the common room to watch some daytime drama.

"Oh Colt, you should know better than that," he said, eyes glued to the program. "She's a tramp! Go for Travis, at least he's hot!"

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[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"There we go," Lee said, smiling. "How long have you been here?"

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Two years at the end of summer," Teddy said, surprising himself with how long it'd been.

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"Longer than me," Lee said though wow, a year was a long time. "I just passed a year. It's gone by fast."

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I know. It feels like yesterday I first showed up here," Teddy said with a grin. "But then the next weird thing happens and I remember how many it's been."

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"Doesn't surprise you anymore?" Lee asked. "Or it does but you get over it quicker?"

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Well they're still surprising, Teddy admitted. "But I guys it's more of a 'Huh, that today?' kind of thing?"

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," Lee said and laughed. "I took a shower in rum yesterday."

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy blinked. "How does that work? I mean, wouldn't it just make you dirtier?"

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"I didn't know it was rum," Lee admitted. "I came back from class and just hopped in. I didn't realize till five seconds later that it wasn't water."

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Oh man, that had to suck." And no, that wasn't Teddy laughing. He had something stuck in his throat. And was trying to get it out.

By laughing.

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"Shut up," Lee groused. "It was a mistake that could've happened to anyone!"

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"I never said it couldn't," Teddy said, trying to appease him.

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"I had to wash it off with bottled water," Lee said and made a face. "Bad bad day."

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"You could've drunk your sorrows away..."

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"Getting drunk was not on my mind," he said and shook his head. "I wanted to get clean."

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Well, the ocean was still not rum, right? You coulda gone swimming."

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"I was kind of covered in rum and in a towel," Lee said. "Running through the halls would've gotten me stared at."

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy just raised an eyebrow. "Around here?"

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

Lee thought about it.

"Yeah, probably not my best train of thought," he said. "Damn it. I could've done that instead of water bottles."

Though, the water bottles had been nice.

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Teddy went to give him a reassuring pat. "Next time the water turns into something weird, you'll know."

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"Live and learn," Lee said, shrugging. "At least it was just rum and not like...something more gross."

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Now that you said that, we're gonna have, like, tomato juice in the pipes," Teddy informed him.

He was a veteran of the island. He knew these things.

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"Just because I said it?" Lee asked. "You think I'm that powerful?"

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"No, I think this place is just that mean sometimes."

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"All right, so...if that happens, I apologize in advance and you can't come and hunt me down," he decided.