Fourth floor common room [evening]

[momslilassassin]

Ben--who had droids, but no pets--had not noticed anything amiss so far.

He'd decided that an entire day of hiding in his room was probably bordering on overdramatic, so he wandered down to the common room, flipped on the television and made popcorn.

Thank the Force for the "popcorn" button on the microwave.

He was now trying to follow the plotline of some movie about cheerleading.

[OOC: open post is open!]

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[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

Still in search of food that wasn't created in a laboratory, Yoda slowly padded into the common room. Spotting the teen, he muttered, "Ugh, another one."

[momslilassassin]

Ben blinked. "Another what?" he asked.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Kid with stupid hair," Yoda snorted, lowering himself into a chair. It took a while to get down there. No way he was going back upstairs anytime soon.

[momslilassassin]

"My hair isn't stupid!" Ben said, yanking at his stupid braid. "Aren't you really, really, really old to be a student?"

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac wandered in, pushing a reluctant Poe in front of her.

"I'm finding you real food, whether you like it or not," she told him firmly as she did so.

[momslilassassin]

"Popcorn is real food," Ben said, thinking she was addressing him.

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

Mac looked at him. "I think it's better than what he was about to eat," she remarked. Not much better, but better.

[momslilassassin]

"What was he about to eat?" Ben asked curiously.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Yes. Doesn't stop the kids from passing me around like a used baseball bat," Yoda bitched.

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"Whatever they put in commercial hamster food," she replied, wrinkling her nose.

"Nothing wrong with it!" Poe complained petulantly. "It's what I normally eat."

Mac seemed unmoved by this. "Yeah. Not now."

[momslilassassin]

There was really only one reply to that.

"Ew. You're all...old."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

The room was fine and all, but it was boring after a while. So Hunter wandered out to see what he could hunt up.

"That smells good," he observed, coming into the common room and seeing the boy eating something.

[momslilassassin]

"He normally eats hamster food?" Ben's forehead wrinkled. "That's really, really odd."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Share that with the idiot for me," Yoda replied. "You got snacks down here?"

[momslilassassin]

"It's just popcorn," Ben said, "but I'm willing to share. I'm Ben!"

[not-fangirl.livejournal.com]

Blissfully unaware of any animals being humans today, Temari was finishing off the candy she found in her shoes before. She paused in the doorway, looking in on the kid Ender seemed to be spending so much time with.

...maybe she was too much of an older sister.

"What are you watching?"

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, well, normally about this big," Mac replied, indicating a space a few inches long between her hands. "So eating hamster food is about the least weird thing here."

Poe remained sullenly resisitant. "I prefer 'individual'," he muttered.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Hunter," Hunter said. "I've seen popcorn before but I've never tried it. Is it as good as it smells?"

[momslilassassin]

"Movie about cheerleaders," Ben said. "They're very, very perky. I'm trying to figure out if there are narcotics involved."

[momslilassassin]

"Which idiot?" Ben asked, holding out his bowl of popcorn.

[momslilassassin]

"So he's gotten really...tall?" Ben tried, very confused.

[momslilassassin]

"I think so," Ben said, holding out the bowl. "Nice to meet you, Hunter."

[imac-kenzie.livejournal.com]

"Normally a lemming," Mac corrected with a wry smile.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

Yoda reached slowly to take a handful and groaned as he sat back. "Upstairs," he said with a full mouth. "With the hair. Least he can't float my ass in the air." Yoda was still not pleased with that, Luke.

[momslilassassin]

"Different species?" Ben guessed.