2nd Floor Common Room, Monday Night

[bitten_notshy]

After the disaster that was his encounter with Emma, Jack did what he had wanted to do to start with. He went home to Sebastien at first light on Sunday.

Thirty-six hours later, he was back in Fandom, well-scrubbed, missing a bit of blood, and considerably more philosophic about the whole thing. He hummed to himself absently as he flipped through channels on the television. It almost all seemed idiotic, but he supposed that was a part of this time.

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[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Alex wasn't sure if he'd been to his floor's common room yet but, upon seeing someone in there, he decided to have a go at it. Why not? Better than staring at the walls.

He gave the other guy a nod as he slipped in, glancing at the television as he moved. His social skills were expanding by leaps and bonds. Really.

[bitten_notshy]

A font of chatter, this one was. Jack raised his eyebrows in greeting and passed the remote over anyhow. "If you can make it play something that won't make my brain melt and pour out my ears, you'll improve my night considerably."

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

Valentine tilted her head a little at the guy, fairly certain she'd talked to him once or twice back in the Ancient Times of the Cabins.

"...Alex, right?" she guessed.

[not-jaded-yet.livejournal.com]

Jennifer came into the common room and plopped down on a couch. She was a little sweaty, as she'd gone out for a run. She'd noticed she'd been getting a little pudge from not working out as much as she had when she was in dance training, and... well, no time like the present to keep good habits.

She waved at the boy she didn't know. "Hi," she said.

[bitten_notshy]

"Hi," Jack said, eying the sweat. "Was something chasing you?"

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

Drifting had been working well for Valentine, and, as she came into the second floor common room, laptop tucked under her arm (as if it needed saying), she could easily feel that the trend was keeping up.

"Hey." She gave a general wave, taking a seat.

[bitten_notshy]

"Hello," Jack said, with a smile that was, in part, grateful he hadn't run into Valentine the week before because it was nice to have one female friend he hadn't complicated things with. "//How's the German?//"

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Yep. Still trying to avoid that whole being alone and thinking thing, and the lure of voices and tv drew her in. Interesting crowd too, and she almost hesitated at the door before deciding on going in.

"Anything good on?" she asked, finding a chair to sprawl across. Graceful. Trained fighter, that one.

[bitten_notshy]

Rose got a hesitant smile, since Jack knew he was fine with what had happened between them but wasn't sure she would be. "Not that I can tell," he said, offering her the remote. "Prove me wrong, Rose."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"You act like you own the place," Alex observed easily.

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

The hunt last night had been good; good enough that both Firekeeper and Blind Seer felt no need to return to the preserve tonight. Instead, the pair of wolves was just going to be lazy and hang out in a common room.

"Hello, all," Firekeeper greeted as she and Blind Seer found a spot on one of the couches.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Hey Blysse," Rose said, giving them a wave. "Blind Seer. What's up?"

[bitten_notshy]

"Hello," Jack returned. "Blysse and Blind Seer, right? How have you been?"

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

It had seemed a while since she'd talked to Blysse, but Valentine did remember the girl a little, so she waved and gave her a small smile. "How's it going?"

[wantstodirect]

"Hey!" Tony grinned when he saw Jack in the common room. "Anything interesting on?" he asked, nodding at the TV.

[bitten_notshy]

"Rose found an action movie," Jack said, turning to grin back up at Tony. "Someone seems to be trying to pound someone else into jelly. It's fascinating."

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

Noticing the channel surfing when she came in, Buffy nodded knowingly and said, "Welcome to rerun season."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"What's up with that?" Rose agreed. "It's not like people stop watching tv in the summer."

[bitten_notshy]

"I don't think I know what a rerun is yet," Jack told the girl he hadn't met yet, glancing up with a slight smile. "Do you want to see if you can find something better?"

[yakkoyaks.livejournal.com]

Yakko bounced his way into the common room on a pogo stick. "So, what's on TV?" he asked while the pogo stick went boing.

[bitten_notshy]

"Horseless carriages chasing each other around and running into things," Jack said, looking confused.

.... there was a rabbit-thing wearing pants and bouncing on a pogo stick. A little bewilderment was par for the course.

[a-demosthenes.livejournal.com]

"Nice pogo stick," Valentine said.

It was something she felt needed to be made note of.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Oh. He wasn't an apparition that just showed up in Etiquette.

"Action movie," she said. She had to admit the pogo stick was cool.

[oops-mbad.livejournal.com]

Diana had spent some time strategically avoiding confrontation with some specific people - in other words, hiding in her room. Except she was now hungry and out of potato chips. So girl and cat where in the common room. "There's no food."

[bitten_notshy]

"Nothing at all?" Jack almost looked alarmed at that.