Second Floor Common Room, Wednesday Evening

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For the Darkest Night finale episode, Tony handwavily picked up a couple of pizzas and several pints of ice cream. He filled up a plate for himself with a little of each. Mmm, pepperoni and chocolate. Wasn't too bad, actually.

Tonight's season finale episode featured a number of flashbacks from Raymond Dark's life. From the previews, it looked like most of them involved waterfalls, children in white clothing and butterflies. Very existential. Tony hoped they could fit some shirtless Lee in there somewhere. Maybe under the waterfall.

[Open! Last non-rerun DN post until fall.]

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Tahiri grinned and pulled the bag the rest of the way to her with the Force. What? She was impatient. "What, no long lost relatives yet?"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Not yet, but I'm suspicious about ghostly apparition #2," Dinah told her, grinning as the bag was yanked the rest of the way. "She looks a little too much like Raymond Dark for me to think it's a coincidence."

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri helped herself to a handful of popcorn and peered at the TV screen. "What are the odds she's evil, do you think?"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Fairly good, they step up the cellos and drums whenever she drifts significantly through," Dinah said, taking a slurp of her drink with a grin. "God, I love this show. How's your week going, by the way?"

[weetuskenraider]

"Great. I have a dinner date with Ben sometime this week, classes are good, it's been quiet," she added with an emphasis Dinah couldn't miss. "Some girl tried to sneak up on me in the Reserves meeting and got all weird about it because I could sense her."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Which one?" Dinah wondered, and then teased, "Yaaaay, dinner. Dinner where? Moobyland, or Cafe Fina?"

[weetuskenraider]

"Some new girl. I didn't get her name." Tahiri shrugged. "I'd say taller than me but that doesn't narrow things down much."

She grinned like a goof. "I don't know. But he did promise I wouldn't have to wear shoes."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Yaaay! Maybe a picnic? That's so astral." Dinah grinned at her, and popped another bite of pizza in her mouth, chewed, then swallowed. "We've got a lot of new people in the Reserves. Think we'll be ready if anything attacks any time soon?"

[weetuskenraider]

"Most of us should be. She should, if she gets over complaining that it's not fair how she couldn't sneak up on me." Tahiri, still grinning, levitated a popcorn kernel into the air and snapped at it like a hungry rancor. "She's halfway decent with a staff."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Staff-- Gabrielle, I bet." Dinah snickered at Tahiri's pirahna impression, and imitated her, levitating a piece herself, and sticking out her tongue to catch it. "She's been on the road adventuring for a year or so."

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"Right. Remind me never to do that if it makes you that weird," Tahiri decided. She scowled mildly. "It's like watching a taller but younger and non-Force-sensitive version of me."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"I was thinking it was like looking at a shorter and younger and talkier version of me," Dinah said in extreme amusement. "Right, not telling her either reaction. Anyway, she'll settle in, she's from three thousand of our years ago. Sort of." She paused. "Sort of really not."

[weetuskenraider]

"I'm not asking," Tahiri said lightly. "I have enough trouble keeping my own world's timelines straight, thanks."

She kind of feared what would happen if Dinah and Gabrielle ever managed to ingest a large amount of sugar at the same time.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Or Dinah and Gabrielle and Zack. With Pixie Stix. Seismic disruptions to the Causeway!

"I can't keep yours straight, but you keep splitting it and twisting it back on itself," Dinah said, TK'ing popcorn at Tahiri's hair.

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri flicked her fingers and batted the popcorn right back at Dinah. This could go on for a while, couldn't it?

"It's not my fault that happens!"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Ping-pong popcorn?

"Oh, you say that, but how do I know? I can't sense your Force," Dinah pointed out, catching one of the flying pieces and putting it in her mouth. "You could be hiding out with a big cable-splitter and some clamps somewhere, diverting timelines right, left, and sideways."

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Tahiri thought of something she'd discussed with Ben a few days ago, and that conversation on the beach with Jen even longer ago, and her expression dimmed slightly. "I wouldn't do that."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah swallowed a bite of popcorn, blinking at Tahiri. "I don't think anyone can do that. Not really." She paused, thinking of Jen. "Okay, with a lot of technology..." She shook her head, looking at Tahiri. "No. You wouldn't." Not even to get Anakin back, though...?

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri thought she could guess at the unspoken question. "I know more than I should about the future already, and I don't want to mess up my present trying to fix my past, you know?"

A half dozen new pieces of popcorn levitated themselves into the air near Tahiri's left hand and flew at Dinah from three different directions. "But why ruin a perfectly cheesy TV program talking about this stuff?"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. I know." Dinah relaxed for a second, reassured, then had to duck the popcorn, giggling, and trying to bat it back at Tahiri. "Oh oh wait, wait Shirtless Lee! Look!"

And TK another handful at Tahiri!

[weetuskenraider]

"What is it with you people and shirtless boys, anyway?" That distraction tactic so didn't work, and pity anyone in the vicinity, because it was about to start raining popcorn in a highly localized downpour of puffed grains. Tahiri was not above Force-upending the entire bag at Dinah. "Francine just tried to explain that, and I still don't get it."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"They're all ripply and muscley and, I don't know," Dinah said, pausing to blink salt off an eyelash, then cover her head, snickering. "Touchable, or something!" More popcorn TK'd in retaliation. "What, does everyone go shirtless back at the Jedi homeworld?"

[weetuskenraider]

"What? No!" Tahiri made a few popcorn kernels bounce up off the floor at Dinah for that, partly to cover up for the fact that she was a brilliant shade of red. "I'm just . . . not into . . . looking at just anybody that way."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah grinned, flailing out one arm along with a wave of TK. "I forgot. You have your own personal guy to touch. Or at least kiss. Other guys need not apply.

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri groaned and buried her face in the carpet.

Ew.

She popped her head right back up again and stuck her tongue out at Dinah. "Exactly. I mean, I don't get drooling over just anybody."

This made her sound so lame, didn't it?