4th Floor Common Room - Saturday Evening

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At the picnic yesterday, Rose had discovered a major, major flaw in Zayne's planning skills.

Namely he didn't know the problems that would obviously occur if you went through SHARK INFESTED WATERS in a little boat.

Obviously there needed to be a showing of Teeth Jaws to correct this issue. 

And that was what Rose was here to do.  She'd found a copy of the movie and was making popcorn (the old-fashioned way cause the microwave was evil).  Sure, she'd been promised snacks, but someone who had never watched Teeth might not know about the importance of popcorn.


[This was NEVER in the wrong place!  *whistles*]

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She grinned back. "See, we're going to get along fine. How's your second day treating you?"

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"Not too bad," Elle said. "Someone made pancakes this morning in one of the common rooms."

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"People cook around here all the time," Rose said. "You can pretty much eat in the Common Rooms without ever having to go to the cafeteria. And then when we go out to the cabins, there's always campfires and marshmallows and stuff."

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"Ooh, campfires." Elle couldn't deny finding them interesting. She'd just have to be careful not to spark around them.

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"Hopefully you have better luck with them than me," Rose said lightly. "I can't light one to save my life. Luckily there's a lot of guys around who can't wait to elp."

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"Well... I can probably light one if need be," Elle said quietly. "I did burn a house down when I was little."

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"From the lightning stuff?" she asked curiously but not judgmentally.

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"Yeah," Elle said with a faint nod. "I was six, so my ability was just starting to manifest. I'd done little things before -- shocking people when they patted my head, mean case of static cling, stuff like that -- but that was the first big thing."

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"Crappy," she said succinctly. She wasn't going to ask if everyone was okay. She didn't really want to know. "At home, their magic doesn't develop until they're teenagers. Probably makes it a little easier to deal with. You had teachers and stuff since?"

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"Sort of." Elle started twisting a lock of hair around one finger. "The people my dad works for, mostly."

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Rose reached to toss some of the pieces of chocolate at Elle. "You know, there's a lot of people with crazy powers here," she said. "Like we talked about yesterday. If you had more stuff you wanted to learn, there's probably someone who knows enough to teach you."

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"My roommate offered to help me," Elle said, catching the chocolate. "So... it's a start."

And Jean really wasn't that bad, she'd decided. Even if Jean did have the ability to reduce her to the scared six-year-old she'd been when she burned her grandmother's house down.

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"Who's your roommate?" Rose asked. She made a face. "Not that I'd know her if she's new too."

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"Yeah, she's new, too. Her name's Jean Grey." Elle wasn't sure what else to say because hi, she wasn't stupid enough to blow Jean's secret. Well, not completely. "I'm not sure how exactly she can help me with my ability, but it was nice of her to offer."

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"From what I heard Master Skywalker knows stuff like Layla Miller like that too," Rose offered. "He taught Flight for the first part of the summer."

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"I don't think I have him this session," Elle said. "I'll have to talk to him sometime, I think."

Maybe.

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If she did, she did. If she didn't, no harm done. That Rose knew of.

"Ooh, are you taking Flight?" she asked. "I took that last session." SHe made a face at herself for being so excited about a stupid class. "It was really cool though. He had us flying spaceships and stuff in the sims."