First Floor Lobby - Wednesday Morning

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Chris woke up and realized that he was cold. And it was dark. Very dark.

He sighed, realizing the power was out. He tucked an extra blanket around Summer and left her a note that he'd be in the lobby.

Then he orbed out to the mainland and returned with several big containers of coffee and assorted pastries from an Einstein Brothers.

Anyone wandering past would smell the coffee and notice the faint glow of orbs he had magicked up to light the room.



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[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad had definitely noticed the scent of the coffee in the air as he was passing through that morning, and was very grateful for it, because he hadn't gotten to have any yet, and that could be a very bad thing. He grunted, noting its presence, and then grunted again, in question toward Chris as to regard of its share-ability.

Which he assumed was good, but he'd hate to assume and then take someone else's coffee.

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Living with Wyatt meant that Chris was well versed in grunts.

"Help yourself," he said. "I brought plenty."

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad gave another grunt, nodding, and lifted a thumb in appreciation before doing just that.

He was probably going to hang out by the containers for a bit. This might take several cups before he reached a cognitive, communicative level, here.

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

"I hope they get the power back on today," Chris remarked. Because he understood the importance of coffee.

And heat. That was important too.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad grunted in agreement. "Lots of snow still," he added, which wasn't bad considering where he was in the gaining vocalization processes.

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," Chris said. "Days like this are when I miss living in California."

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

The next grunt took on an amused, agreeing tone. "S'pretty, though," he added, which was a definite improvement. Pretty had two whole syllables!

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I guess," Chris agreed. "Rather have heat, though."

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

And that was when a horrible thought struck Chad and almost made him drop his cup.

"...Dios, my cat is going to freeze to death."

Which wasn't true. Prince Oscar Pedro was already planning on stealing as much heat from Galliano and Camilla as possible. They had more than enough warm fur to spare between the two of them.

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Chris considered that. "He has fur, right? He should be okay."

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"...clearly, you haven't met my cat. He's a Sphinx. Hairless breed."

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Chris winced. "Oh. Yeah, um... you might wanna get him one of those little cat sweaters or something then."

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"I used to have a bunch for him," Chad grunted, "but they all disappeared."

No, Chad; Prince Oscar Pedro very pointedly destroyed them. There was a big difference.

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

"I could take you somewhere to get one," Chris offered.

He hated the thought of a poor, helpless cat freezing in this weather.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"Nah, that's okay," Chad waved a hand. "I can get one if he needs one. I'll just make sure he's got a blanket and sticks around the other cats. They're good and furry, and I'm sure they'll share heat."

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

"Oh, you've got more than one cat?" Chris asked.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"I've just got one cat," Chad explained. "Teddy's got a cat. And Dinah's got a cat, too. So they're always hanging out because we're always hanging out."

Pause.

"And-or living together."

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

"My roommate has a bunny," Chris said.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

There was a pause.

"....Awwwww."

Yeah, that just about summed up Chad's thoughts on cute floppy little bunnies. Summed it up because inside he was just melting at the idea.

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Which was pretty amusing to see, actually.

Chris smiled. "Yeah, her name is Pancakes. She's pretty cute."

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"Why Pancakes?"

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

"When we first got her, before we named her, she got into our pancakes," Chris said. "We figured she must like them."

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

As if Chad needed anything more to internally be melting all over the place.

"That's really cute."

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, definitely," Chris agreed. "Of course, we sort of wrongly assumed Pancakes was a boy until Summer accidentally turned her human."

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"...Probably hard to tell with rabbits," Chad noted. And then his head tilted slightly.

"Was that really weird for you, too? Having your pet be human?"

It still creeped Chad out.

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

"Oh, definitely," Chris agreed. "Though having my girlfriend do magic was equally weird."

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"Why would that be weird?"

Chad had been here way too long.

And, besides, before that, one of his best friends had barrettes that turned into fairies, so your girlfriend doing magic didn't seem that off. Especially to someone who got superpowers when he had sex with his boyfriend.