Second Floor Common Room - Early Saturday Afternoon

[yourwhiteknight.livejournal.com]

Harvey had a problem. He was hungry. You think that problem would be easy enough to solve by making food but he couldn't decide what he wanted. It was still early enough for breakfast and yet it could be considered lunch time too. He wanted eggs but he could also go for a sandwich. You would think he could just pick something and get on with it but for some reason he couldn't. He always sucked at making stupid little decisions like that.

So now he had a grilled cheese and scrambled eggs going on the stove at the same time. He figured he was hungry enough to eat both and if he wasn't, well, he figured someone else would want some. He sat himself up on the kitchen counter next to the stove, rolling his father's coin across his knuckles and waited for his food to finish cooking.

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[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"Something smells good," Lee said, having gotten bored enough to wander down one floor. That plus food was good enough to make him stay.

[yourwhiteknight.livejournal.com]

"It's either the grilled cheese or the scrambled eggs," Harvey said, nodding towards the frying pans on the stove. "Or it could be both. I've never had the two put together but it doesn't seem like a totally gross idea."

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"Grilled cheese and scrambled eggs?" Lee repeated, sniffing the air some more. "Whatever it is, it smells really frakking good. New chef slash student?"

[yourwhiteknight.livejournal.com]

"Just a new student. Grilled cheese and eggs are about as far as my culinary skills go," he said. Harvey stopped rolling the coin across his fingers in order to offer his hand to Lee. "Harvey Dent."

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"Lee Adama," he said, taking the offered hand. "Nice to meet you. I can do grilled ham and cheese and french fries sometimes. If I'm having a good day. Other than that, I'm really good with the phone and ordering pizza."

[yourwhiteknight.livejournal.com]

"French fries? Fancy stuff," Harvey joked. "I'm prefer to let others do the cooking for me too. I've already got the numbers for the Chinese place and the pizza place in town written down. I'm trying to put off actually learning how to cook for as long as possible."

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"Cooking's overrated," he said and waved a hand. "Better things to do. How's the school treating you so far?"

[yourwhiteknight.livejournal.com]

"Uh, pretty good. The alcoholic skunks were new. Luckily I've had plenty of warnings about the weird stuff and wasn't nearly as alarmed as I should have been when one spent the morning throwing up in my bathroom," he said, leaning over to turn off the stove top since the food at least smelled done. "Have you been here for a while?"

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"Over year now," he said, making a face at the mention of drunk skunks. "I think the island likes alcohol. Few weeks back, all the water turned to alcohol. I took a shower in rum."

[yourwhiteknight.livejournal.com]

"Maybe the island thinks that we'll be able to cope with the weird stuff better if we were drunk," Harvey suggested. "Though I'll admit rum showers might not be the best way to go about it."

Harvey slipped off the counter and gestured toward the food. "You want some? I wasn't planning on eating it all. I just couldn't pick one thing I wanted to eat."

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"If you're offering, I'm taking," he said, nodding. Free food, always good. "And yeah, the rum shower wasn't fun. I had to waste all my bottled water just to get some of it off me. I apparently smelled like an old drunken pirate."

[yourwhiteknight.livejournal.com]

"Hmm, eau de pirate. Probably not the most popular scent," Harvey said, grabbing a couple of plates from the cupboard. He placed a sandwich and a helping of eggs on a plate and handed it to Lee. "You have my apologies if it tastes awful."

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"I didn't have to cook it," he said, taking the plate with a nod. "Means I'll appreciate despite the taste. Thanks, Harvey. You a local? Um, planetary wise, I mean."

[yourwhiteknight.livejournal.com]

"I'm from earth, if that's what you mean. New Jersey, if you want to get more specific," he said. "I understand that's not the case for everybody here. The being from earth thing, I mean."

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"It's not, that's why I asked," he said easily. "Just making sure you knew that before telling you I'm one of those not from this planet. I'm from a place called Caprica. Part of the Twelve Colonies."

[yourwhiteknight.livejournal.com]

"Really? That's uh--really?" Harvey looked amazed by that. "You don't really look like somebody from another planet."

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"I look like you," Lee said and laughed. "And, as far as I know, I am like you in all the ways that count. I'm a human from another planet. We speak English and have jobs and stuff."

[yourwhiteknight.livejournal.com]

"Wow, the TV shows have got it really wrong," Harvey said, chucking. "Sorry. I was just kind of expecting green skin and, like, tails and stuff."

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"Pretty wrong," he said. "Well, pretty wrong if compared to where I'm from. I mean, there could be green skin and tailed aliens out there somewhere. Just not in the Colonies. Unless there's a secret they're not letting me in on."

[yourwhiteknight.livejournal.com]

"What do you know. Learn something new every day," Harvey said, grinning. "Actually, I learned two new things today. I also learned scrambled eggs and grilled cheese isn't a bad combination. And it can be used for breakfast and lunch."

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"Grilled cheese is good everyday," Lee decided, taking a biting. "It's like pizza that way. Your roommate sane and normal?"

[yourwhiteknight.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, very sane and normal. She's great. Funny, beautiful," Harvey said. Those were two great traits in a roommate. "Her name is Brooke Davis. You know her?"

[stupid-toasters.livejournal.com]

"Oooh, a girl roommate," he said and mock swooned. "No, I don't think we've met yet. I lived alone so I didn't get the benefits of a female roommate. I bet that's fun."

[yourwhiteknight.livejournal.com]

"It's a new situation for me too," Harvey admitted. "It's not as awkward as you think it would be, surprisingly. She was cool with the whole thing from the start. Kind of, ah, enthusiastic about it, actually."

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Since common rooms equaled food, Teddy found himself wandering on down to the one that had good smells coming out of it.

Oh. And to meet the new people. That too. Really.

"Hey!"