3rd Floor Common Room, Thursday afternoon

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

Buffy had survived her last finals as a senior.

More importantly, she'd gone a whole year without getting kicked out of school.

This would be why she was making brownies (the regular kind, thank you) in the common room kitchen, with the TV on for background noise. This was something to be celebrated.


[Open, entertain me plz.]

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[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Brownies were always something worth celebrating with. And good enough to draw people in for hopeful freebies.

"Hey!"

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Teddy," Buffy greeted him, resisting the urge to check to see how the brownies were doing again. "Going to help me with celebratory brownies?"

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"I wouldn't object to that," Teddy ventured, closing his eyes as he smelled the air. He was going to missed baked goods.

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

Buffy had to smile. "You're not going to go into a chocolate coma on me at all, are you?"

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Well...

"Only if you let me eat the entire thing!"

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"Which I can't do. See, the chocolate centers of my brain would revolt and put me into an anti-chocolate coma, and we can't have that." She just made that up right now.

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy wasn't about to laugh at that. Really now. "Is that a technical term for it?"

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"Yes. Studies have been done. I practically live in the library, you know, I know things." All lies.

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Any known cure?"

[gameknowsgame.livejournal.com]

Blair smelled chocolate. She peered into the common room. "We have a cook?"

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"We have ridiculously easy instructions, so it's almost the same thing as being a cook, if you squint really hard," Buffy countered.

[gameknowsgame.livejournal.com]

"That involves me doing work," Blair said. She liked to avoid that.

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"You know they have the kind now where you just break the dough apart and stick it in the oven?" She was curious if that was work, too. "They're making huge leaps and bounds in the department of 'But I don't wanna' these days."

[gameknowsgame.livejournal.com]

"I prefer to go out or hire others to cook for me," Blair said. She tilted her head thoughtfully. "I wonder if brownies will be the new cupcakes?"

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"What happened to the old cupcakes?" she asked, wondering how she felt out of the baked good loop.

[gameknowsgame.livejournal.com]

"So last year," Blair said. She sat down on one of the couches. "I mean you can find cupcake shops in Baltimore for God's sake."

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

And with that sentence, Buffy decided that even Cordelia would think this girl needed to lighten up some. "Then better get the brownies in while you can. Don't want to be eating those when petit fours come into fashion. The scandal!"

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

Zayne was done with his finals, didn't have to go back to Taris for another review for weeks, and lived near the common room so he was able to smell the brownies. And so he wandered in the direction of the food.

"Is somebody cooking?" he asked.

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"Baking," Buffy corrected. "Like cooking, but way more fattening and therefore better."

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"Not for somebody who's watching their weight," Zayne pointed out.

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

Buffy weighed like ninety-five pounds. "Still better, they just miss out. And they can live a little with one brownie anyway."

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"Good point," Zayne said. "Fortunately, I'm not watching anything. Can I have more than one?"

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"Why not. Might as well get them while they're still fashionable. Though between you and me, I can't imagine a time when pure baked chocolate isn't good."

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"I guess it wouldn't be good for lactose intolerant people," Zayne theorized as he took a brownie. "Fortunately, I'm not that either."

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, they have enough problems anyway," she nodded. "How is this all making me hungrier?"