First Floor Rec Room - Tuesday Afternoon (After Classes)

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

After yesterday's mostly successful attempt at working the computer, Edmund had agreed to meet 'Nothingtosee' in the rec room after classes. He supposed they could have just traded names and seen each other in the halls, but that would make things far too easy.

While he waited, he sat down at the piano. No, he couldn't play, but it was something to tinker with to pass the time.

[OOC: For one, but open as rec rooms are. Just SP from me while I'm at work.]

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[grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com]

Molly tried to be casual as she approached, and not seeing anyone else around, made a beeline for the piano. Without looking at the boy, who had to be the person she was meeting, she leaned against the side of the piano facing the wall and said quietly, "The Eagle Walks At Midnight."

If he wasn't who she was meeting, she was going to feel really dumb in a couple of seconds.

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

Edmund had been focusing on the keys to stop himself from looking up every few seconds. He grinned, "and doesn't get home until sunrise. I was trying to think of a good response, but that was all-" He'd managed to stand up by this point and finally saw who he'd been speaking to. "I know you." They'd been in Magical Creatures class last semester.

[grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com]

She grinned as she tried to remember where she'd met him--going to class wasn't her strong point. "Nice response. And I guess you do. Hi."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"Hello," he replied. "Care of Magical Creatures, is that right? Or do you have a double?" It was a valid question in Fandom.

[grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com]

"Nope, no double. At least not as far as I know," she replied, nodding, "and yes, I was theoretically in Care of Magical Creatures. I'm Molly."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"I'm Edmund." He bowed slightly. Some habits were hard to break when he was caught off-guard. "Theoretically in Care of Magical Creatures?"

[grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com]

The bow was a nice touch, she decided. "Showing up to every class wasn't really my thing."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"Weren't you bored? There doesn't seem to be much to do here other than classes."

[grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com]

"Not so much. I read a lot, or watch television or movies, chat online with my friends at home--stuff like that," she shrugged. "It wasn't that I didn't like the classes though. They were usually pretty interesting."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"You just had trouble finding the rooms?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.

[grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com]

"I don't like doing what my parents want me to do," she admitted.

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"So you're a normal person then," he deadpanned.

[grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com]

"That's the rumor, anyway."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"If you like the classes, why don't you go anyway? Your parents aren't here to tell you what to do, are they? They wouldn't know what you did."

[grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com]

She shrugged again purely out of habit, but Molly did take the time to consider Edmund's question before answering, "I guess I never really thought about it--I mean, it's like I got so caught up in rebelling and annoying them that I never really thought doing what I wanted to because I liked it."

"Whoa, sorry, getting kind of broody there," she apologized.

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"You're talking to the leader of the brooding brigade," he assured her. "Do you think your parents would disapprove of you coming to meet someone whose name you didn't know after having only spoken to them on the computer?"

[grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com]

"Oh, absolutely. It's utterly unsafe," she beamed at him. "You brood a lot, too, huh? Any particular reason?"

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"I'm very good at it," he said plainly. "It takes practice to be good at something."

[grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com]

"What else are you good at?" She asked, then realized how that might sound, "Er, what do you like to do, when you're not brooding or helping to run a country?"

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

Edmund stalled as if he'd never been asked that before. "Er, well, I read and I practice my sword work and I've been exploring the island, mostly the Preserve. That's it really. I'm not very good at having nothing to do. What do you do other than not going to classes?"

[grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com]

"Sword work?" That definitely caught her attention. "Are you good? And I guess mostly the stuff I told you already. Oh, and sometimes I try to see if I can turn myself invisible, but that doesn't really work."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"I'm a fair hand," Edmund replied modestly, but he was more interested in the invisible comment. "How do you try to turn yourself invisible?"

[grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com]

She couldn't help the blush that rose to her cheeks. "So far, it involves staring at myself in the mirror and trying to think invisible thoughts."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"Doesn't even work a little?"

[grasshopper-mol.livejournal.com]

"Just the one time, when I was being attacked by an evil unicorn, but I don't know how it happened."