Fourth Floor Common Room [evening]

[notqueenyet.livejournal.com]

Having had a rather...eventful day (it wasn't every afternoon that a girl hatched a tiny girl with snakes for hair out of an egg, after all), Aravis was curled up comfortably on a couch in the fourth floor common room with a cup of tea.

Somehow the colder weather wasn't helping her mood, either.

Nor was the programming on the television. "I don't understand why we're supposed to care about any of these people," Aravis sighed, blowing onto the surface of her tea so that the steam would rise into her face, because in her opinion, that was far more interesting than Rumor Gal.

[LOOK AT ME WITH A MONDAY NIGHT OFF.]

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[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

Buffy was sort of on the lookout for something to do, which was why she was wandering upstairs... and immediately finding a seat when she saw what was on. "Ooooh. New?" she guessed.

[notqueenyet.livejournal.com]

"I suppose," Aravis said thoughtfully. "I don't think I'd know new from old, though."

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I've missed a few episodes, I'm not sure I would either," she admitted, pulling her legs up onto the armchair to curl up. "I gotta say, I much prefer your TV nowadays. It's so much soapier."

[notqueenyet.livejournal.com]

"This is not my TV," Aravis corrected, laughing. "You're from the past, though?"

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"1998. And okay, sure, it's the common room TV, but it's really all our TV," she said diplomatically.

[notqueenyet.livejournal.com]

"I more meant that we have no TV where I'm from at all," she replied. "So you're ten years out of time."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal tipped a wave of his hand of a wave toward his fellow library aid whose name he could only remember because it was ridiculous and he never imagined he'd ever meet another Buffy outside of private girls' school.

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"Rumor Gal fan?" Buffy asked, in lieu of hello.

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"Never even heard of it before today!" Cal announced proudly, lifting his bottle of Faygo in a toast.

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"What is with everyone?" she said, jaw slightly dropped. "I mean, I'm from ten years ago and I catch up with what's on TV and all the movies I've missed but haven't technically because they haven't yet."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal had to take a moment to make sure that last part made sense. It did (he thought), and so he shrugged. "I like reading?" he offered. "Does being the seventies help my case in this at all?"

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Kitty boxing was exhausting, and so while Amber took a nap in his room, Cal decided to give her some peace and quiet and went to crash for a bit in the common room instead. He dropped on the couch without any sort of ceremony after grabbing a Faygo from the fridge, and asked, "So what's on?"

[notqueenyet.livejournal.com]

"Something called Rumor Gal," Aravis said, with a slight measure of distaste. "I don't know that I like it."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

"You...don't know that you like it?" Cal asked, fixing a brief look of confusion toward Aravis before his eyes returned to the screen. His head tilted slightly.

[notqueenyet.livejournal.com]

"I've not watched enough to decide," she told him, shaking her head. "So far I don't think I do like it at all."

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Cal's lips moved as he went over that again in his head, and he concluded his thoughts on it with a grin. "But," he said, "you like it well enough to keep on watching."

[laidanegg.livejournal.com]

Dick, having nothing better to do than socialize and watch TV, walked up to the fourth floor for the purpose of socializing and watching TV. "Anything good on?" he asked.

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"Tell me you know what Rumor Gal is," Buffy said immediately.

[laidanegg.livejournal.com]

"Yes, I do," Dick said. "I've never watched it, but I know what it is."

Dick was totally lying. He watched it frequently. The girls were cute.

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"High five, big brother," she said happily, holding up her hand.

[laidanegg.livejournal.com]

Dick slapped Buffy five. "Do people here actually not know about popular teen dramas?"

[notqueenyet.livejournal.com]

"No," Aravis said easily. "But it's nearly entertaining."

[laidanegg.livejournal.com]

"Only 'nearly'?" Dick asked.

[notqueenyet.livejournal.com]

"If nothing better comes along, I'll consider it mildly amusing," she sighed.

[laidanegg.livejournal.com]

"Come on, it's a trashy teen soap. It has to more entertaining than that," Dick argued.