Third Floor Common Room - Monday Morning

[wantstocheer.livejournal.com]

Claire was in a great mood this morning. She felt like a huge weight was lifted from her shoulders thanks to her conversation with Dinah last night. Plus there was the whole normal hormones thing.

And maybe thinking about Jon a little.

She was awake far earlier than she needed to be, so she headed down to the common room and found what she needed to bake some cookies. She put the radio on and might even be singing along a little.


[open as common rooms are!]

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[glacial_queen]

Karla followed the scent of baking cookies. "Mmmmm..." she said, poking her head into the common room. "Kiss kiss. Those smell tasty. Up for grabs?"

When this place wasn't going out of its way to piss her off, she loved it.

[wantstocheer.livejournal.com]

"Of course they are," Claire said. "What's the point in baking if you're not going to share."

She pointed to a batch that was resting on a cooling rack. "Those ones should be cool enough by now."

[glacial_queen]

"Keeping them all to yourself," Karla said like it was obvious. "Of course, I'm miserable at baking, so the ones that are edible are so few and far between, that makes sense." She grabbed a cookie, glanced at Claire and snuck a second one.

What? Growing Dark-Jeweled witches need to eat!

"How're things?" she asked before taking a bite. Mmm...good cookies.

[wantstocheer.livejournal.com]

Claire grinned at Karla's lack of stealth in taking cookies, not like she cared how many cookies the other girl ate.

She finished moving the fresh batch to the cooling racks, checked the timer on the batch currently in the oven and helped herself to a cookie.

"Things are... actually really good," she said. "How about you? Did you make it through the sex pollen stuff okay?"

[glacial_queen]

Karla glanced up when she heard Leto's voice. "Morning Leto," she said, grinning impishly. "Have any good conversations about me lately?"

Honestly, she was thrilled that Dinah had talked to Leto about her, if it had kept Leto from doing something foolish. But she was in a playful mood this morning. She was also happy to notice that while Leto was still attractive, he was no longer quite as mesmerising as she'd found him Friday in the salle.


[Sorry! Just saw this]

[future_sandworm]

"Good morning, Karla." Leto smiled at her. He felt no embarrassment. Despite some tension, their training session had been mostly focused on knife fighting.

[Gah! Ok, I'll keep this post]

[glacial_queen]

"Conversations? You mean to imply that I talk about you with others?" he teased back and added with permission.

"Imply? Oh no, Leto, I was being mmch less subtle than that," she said. "Kiss kiss."

[future_sandworm]

"I thought I was the judge of the level of subtlety in this case, Karla." He laughed. "And this that an expression in your country, a promise of a kiss or a way to let someone know they are denied one?"

[awesomebigsis.livejournal.com]

Ellie was on her to seek some caffeine when the scent of cookies baking caught her attention, so she made a detour to the third floor common room. "Hey, Claire. Need any help with that?"

[wantstocheer.livejournal.com]

"Hi, Ellie," Claire said. "No, I think I've got it under control, but feel free to help yourself."

[awesomebigsis.livejournal.com]

"Excellent," Ellie said, reaching for a cookie. "I can never resist baked goods. They are definitely a weakness."

[wantstocheer.livejournal.com]

"How's everything going?" Claire asked. "Did you make it through the last week okay?"

[glacial_queen]

Karla nodded at the new girl, "Kiss kiss," she greeted, partially recognizing her from classes. "You're already proving yourself nicer than I. I didn't bother to offer to help. Considering my skills in this area, though, perhaps it was a kindness that I didn't."

[awesomebigsis.livejournal.com]

"I'm guessing you don't bake much?" Ellie said, grinning at the girl she also recognized from classes. "I'm Ellie, by the way. I don't think we've officially met."

[glacial_queen]

"Karla," she said, extending her hand. Seriously, that Etiquette lesson was getting the most use out of all of her classes thus far. "I don't bake much, cook much, or almost anything-in-the-kitchen much. There are usually fires when I try," she admitted cheerfully. "But I can brew a damn fine healing potion, so I'm not completely useless."

[future_sandworm]

There was a girl he hadn't spoken to, and Leto nodded to her. "Good morning."

[awesomebigsis.livejournal.com]

"Morning," Ellie cheerfully replied. "Are you new, too, or have you been here awhile?"

[future_sandworm]

I have been here since new year," he replied. "Leto Atreides. I don't believe we have met." He smiled at her.

[future_sandworm]

The sound of the radio and the singing, combined with the smell of something edible drew Leto to the common room. He was going to find something to eat for breakfast, but didn't mind company either.

Noticing Claire, he approached her. "Good morning! What are you making?"

[wantstocheer.livejournal.com]

"Hi, Leto!" Claire said, greeting her big sib with a grin. "Cookies. There's some chocolate chip there that are done and I have a batch of peanut butter that will be done soon."

Or now, as the timer beeped just as she said that. She grabbed an oven mitt and deftly removed the tray from the oven.

"How are you?" she asked, her cheeks tinged pink as she recalled what Jon had told her and what she had heard on the radio.

[future_sandworm]

"Fine, thank you."

He noticed the blush, and it surprised him. He hadn't met Claire during the past week, and he was blissfully unaware of the radio reports. That is, he wasn't thinking about them. "Is everything all right?" he asked, frowning.

[noboynextdoor.livejournal.com]

Jess had been planning on going out into town for food until the smell of cookies drew him into the common room. "Those smell good," he said as he peered inside, since flattery was a good start to getting free food. "I don't suppose you need anyone to taste test?"

[wantstocheer.livejournal.com]

Claire turned and stared. A lot.

Cause, holy crap, Peter hadn't been kidding when he said there was someone who looked like him here.

Give her a moment, she's in shock.

[noboynextdoor.livejournal.com]

It had been a while since anyone had looked at Jess like that, and he turned around to see if maybe he'd missed something behind him. "Or I can go and leave all the cookies in your care?" he said uncertainly.