Third floor common room, Saturday around noon

[lovemykilt]

Malcolm had spent the morning wandering around, boggling. Harken had never looked like this before! They must have remodeled the whole dorm! Of course, that meant he kept getting lost -- Malcolm wasn't that great at finding his way around on a good day. But there were all these new people around! It was his duty as a long-standing Harken student to meet them, right?

He just wished he could find Jake or Zoe or even Mr. Felcher. They'd know what was going on. . . .

He finally settled into one of the large common rooms and sat perched on the couch. Maybe someone would come by who could tell him what was going on.

[ooc: open! I have to run to work in a few hours and am greedy and want to get some play in. *grumbles at stupid work scheduling me all weekend*]

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[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

At some point, a girl had to obey the call of her stomach. Rubbing her eyes still in a bit of a daze from wandering around the dorms in an apathetic shuffle, Calliope found a room with someone in it and a kitchenette, and maybe food too.

"Um, hi," she said. "Is there food in that fridge? Food for eating?"

[lovemykilt]

"Well what else would food be for?" Malcolm joked, feeling terribly witty. "But I don't know. I haven't checked. Maybe there isn't?"

[not-a-mused.livejournal.com]

Calliope just looked at the boy for a moment; he looked like a total prep, and that made her almost grunt a little in distaste.

"I guess I'll check, then," she said, shuffling over to it as her stomach let out another little gurgle.

[withoutverona]

Somehow, Luke had found his way out of the dorm room and down two flights of stairs. For a group home, this was pretty big; he wondered if they'd shipped him off to some kind of school instead.

The Seavers could have at least left a note.

He nodded a greeting to the other boy on his way to the fridge. "Hey," he said. "D'you know if all this food is for us?"

He was already taking out some sandwich fixings, ready to run if the answer was no.

[lovemykilt]

"Do you think it might not be?" Malcolm asked, suddenly worried. "I don't want to get in trouble!"

[withoutverona]

"You can blame it on me and I can pull the poor starving kid act," Luke decided. He was already assembling a bologna-and-American sandwich or five. "I'm Luke. You been here long?"

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

Male. Cute. Kinda young. Lo blew a bubble and popped it again. "What kinda food are you looking for?"

[withoutverona]

"I can make eggs, pancakes, sandwiches ..." Luke trailed off cheerfully. "I was thinking good ol' bologna and American. What do you want?"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Tom had got his stuff together and ventured out of the room he had woke up in. He still didn't know where he was, but one floor down he finally found other people.

And stared. Because the other person kinda looked like a younger version of himself.

[lovemykilt]

"Hi!" Malcolm said cheerfully, not yet noticing that they were kinda like very different ages of the same person. "I'm Malcolm! Are you a new teacher?"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Teacher?" Tom repeated, still staring. "No. I'm... I'm Tom. Hanniger. I don't- I'm not- I don't really know what's going on here, but... No, I'm pretty sure I'm not a teacher."

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

Lo gave the newcomer her very best grin. "Good of you to join us," she said. "I'm dreadfully bored."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Tom looked the girl up and down. "That's nice," he said. He reminded her unpleasantly of some of the people he used to know back home.

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

Peyton hesitated in the doorway of the common room. "Can anyone here tell me where I am?"

[lovemykilt]

"Oh yes, ma'am! You're at Harken Academy!"

No, no she wasn't.

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

"The..." Peyton stared at him for a minute, her whole body drooping. Maybe she hadn't run away. Maybe Dan had sent her here to get her away from Lucas, to control her even more until she agreed to do as he said.

"Some sort of boarding school then?"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"That seems to be the big question on the menu," Tom said, feeling strangely more at ease knowing that he wasn't the only one with no idea where they were.

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

Peyton looked from him to the other boy who looked like a version of him. "I guess so. I'm not sure how I got here at all. Is... that your brother?"

[withoutverona]

"At a school," Luke ventured.

He was helpful.

"I just got here myself."

[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

"School?" Peyton said. "Like some sort of finishing school or something?"

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

There were lots of people in here. Some of them had to be interesting. Lo flounced in as if she owned the place and flopped down on the couch. "I'm bored," she announced. "Is there anything fun to do here?"

[lovemykilt]

"We could play monopoly!" Malcolm had no idea if they had monopoly anywhere in the vicinity.

[finding-x-dream.livejournal.com]

Agnes wandered into the room with the kitchen for some tea. It was nice to be around so many youngsters. She found the teabags quite easily enough -- fascinating things, really -- and filled a mug with water, but was stymied when it came to the microwave. "Does anyone," she asked politely, "know how to operate this cooking box?"

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"What are you doing here?" Lo asked, rudely. "You're not a student. You're too old."

This had to be boarding school. So what was the old crone doing here?

[lovemykilt]

"Are you somebody's mom?" Malcolm asked politely.