Second Floor Common Room, Wednesday Evening

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No power meant no TV and no Darkest Night tonight, which was a shame, since this week's episode had a whole lot of Lee Nicholas. Tony was in the common room anyway, looking for entertainment. The candles had enough light to read by, but he wasn't that bored yet.

He ended up looking in the kitchen cabinets for snack food. Popcorn sounded good, but he was pretty sure if he tried to pop it over the fire, the paper bag would just burn up.

Marshmallows! There was a bag of them on one of the lower shelves. Tony found a long knife to use as a stick and settled down by the fire to roast marshmallows. He was bundled in his winter coat and scarf. Sure, he was Canadian and used to the cold but that didn't mean he liked it.


[Open! With marshmallows!]

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[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin stared. "Like a charm?"

What? He wasn't blind to the talk of women back home.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"More like a potion?" Dinah put a hand to her face, unable to believe she was having this conversation. And with Merlin, at that. "And, um. Prevent..." She rolled her eyes. "Diseases. That's, uh. WhatmyclassonHealthisabout."

Merlin could be forgiven for totally missing that last part.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin just stared some more and sipped his cider as he tried to piece together what she said. "...science?"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah nodded hard, not looking at him, then cleared her throat. "So, you know, if you, I mean, not you, but someone doesn't have to worry about... stuff, like babies. Then people get more--" She shrugged, affecting nonchalance. Then she sighed, and muttered under her breath, "Not that some of us would personally know."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin just kinda looked stricken and confused as what to say next. "...I wouldn't really know either."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

And that would be a pillow in front of Dinah's face. To hide the infrared.

"Can we talk about something else? Anything else?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Snow?" Merlin suggested very quickly. "It's very---snowy?"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"I love the snow!" Dinah said enthusiastically. "Very clean. White. Cold. Fluffy!" She took a breath. "Yay snow."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin looked down, still trying not to smile. He offered his cider silently as not to start laughing out loud.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah accepted it just as silently and very solemnly, and sipped it without looking at him. Not at all. Nope. No need to burst into hysterical giggling.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

At all! Really.

Okay, Merlin couldn't take it anymore, he burst out laughing, covering his mouth with both hands to stifle it.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Oh, good, make her splutter cider on herself.

"Merlin!" Dinah got her breath back after a minute, and kicked his foot, still snickering. "God!"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"I didn't do anything!" Merlin protested, both hands up in surrender.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"You laughed! And made me laugh!" Dinah took a couple breaths, got the giggles under control mostly, and said, "So, yeah. Have the rest of that conversation with Tony. Or Leto. Anyone but me!"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"I'll ask someone else," Merlin promised. "And I won't laugh around you again, I swear it."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Until the next time." Dinah picked up a pillow and whapped him on the side with it, but not too hard.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was just unladylike!

Giving her an affronted look, he grabbed a pillow of his own and thwapped her right back.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Oh it is on, Merlin!" Whap! Whappity whap whap! And another whap. "En guarde!"

Camile refused to have anything to do with this, and stalked over to the nearest person to shelter her from the insanity.