Second Floor Common Room, Monday Evening

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Due to Skrull invasions and cabin living, Tony was now three weeks behind on the best vampire detective show on syndicated TV, Darkest Night. And this Wednesday was the season finale.

So Tony picked up a box of goodies from J, GOB and settled in the second floor common room with pastries, popcorn and a bomb bottle of cola to catch up on the episodes he'd missed. Pastries for eating, popcorn for throwing at the screen. Given that the first episode he was watching featured a zombie invasion, he was going to need a lot of popcorn.

"Come on, are you serious? No zombie's that tough!"


[Open! About Darkest Night.]

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[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Hi Jack!" Dinah waved the popcorn bowl at him that she had re-appropriated from Tony. "C'mon and join the mockery and food."

[bitten_notshy]

"I'm excellent at food," Jack said, taking a handful of the popcorn. "I'm not sure if I can mock. I've only seen teevee in class."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Well, I don't know anything about Victorian acting or, well. Victorian-type plays? But you can at least mock the costumes," Dinah offered, taking another handful herself with a bright smile. "Some of them are pretty ridiculous. This is as low as low-budget gets."

A zombie with a very visible smear of make up that stopped at his neck wandered into the shot, then wandered out again, bumping into a light fixture. Maybe on purpose. Maybe not.

[bitten_notshy]

Jack snorted a laugh, then looked up at Dinah. "Do you think he was meant to hit the light fixture, there?"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"I think he couldn't see where he was going 'cause the lighting's so bad," Dinah said, laughing. "We had one night where we tried to count how many times someone in the background tripped over a cable on the floor, and lost track at six." She grinned. "Having fun this week?"

[bitten_notshy]

"I had a good trip home," Jack said, letting the talk about cables wash over him.

His conversation with Emmett was ... interesting. Nothing to share.

"Are you, Dinah?"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"I am!" Various people she had disagreements without totally aside. "A tour of town with friends yesterday, and um, ice cream with a new friend today." There might be some very studious studying of popcorn there. Nope, not blushing. Well, maybe. "And that's cool, a trip home. Did you go back to, um, New Amsterdam, or Baltimore? I can't remember if you said before."

[bitten_notshy]

"Baltimore," Jack said quickly. "We have a place on the harbor -- it's very nice."

He studied her studying the popcorn. "Would I have met your new friend?"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Let's see, you were at the Magic Reserves thing, where I met him--" Which she remembered now, after Tony mentioned it over ice cream with Merlin. "Sooo, tall guy, Zack? Tall, black hair, really blue eyes?" There might be a littttle bit of gushing on the eyes, there.

[bitten_notshy]

"I met him waiting for the shuttle," Jack said. He hadn't been impressed. "He likes killing things. I didn't notice his eyes."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"He's a soldier, yeah," Dinah agreed. And yay not noticing the eyes! More Zack for her! Well. Maybe. Don't get ahead of yourself, Lance. "We're in a lot of the same classes and other groups together. He's been really nice."

[bitten_notshy]

It would have been almost impossible for Jack not to notice the undercurrent in her tone there, and he gave her an amused, fluttery look. "I hope he keeps being nice, then."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah ducked her head, tucking a piece of hair behind her ear. "Uh-hunh." She cleared her throat, and asked, "So, what floor did you end up on?"

[bitten_notshy]

"Right here," Jack said, biting back his smile. "I'm in 222, with Esmerelda Weatherwax. Where are you?"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Up one floor, 312," Dinah said, recovering some of her composure. "I don't know Esmerelda. Pretty name, though. My roomie's Claire Butler, she's new too. My last roommate graduated a couple weeks ago."