Third Floor Common Room, Thursday Evening

[vanillajello]

Kate had slept late, and then spent most of the day reading and talking to her mother on the phone. It had been that sort of a day. But now she had finally wandered in to the common room in search of company, and was microwaving a pizza and drinking cranberry juice.

Listening to the radio the past few days had left her feeling slightly on edge, which meant that when her cellphone suddenly buzzed in her pocket to inform of a text message, it was no surprise that it actually made her jump. Unfortunately, it also made her spill the juice over the floor and down the front of her hoodie.

”Great. Just awesome,” she muttered, looking down at her clothes. There was no way she could pass the big red stain as a part of the print. And the hoodie had just been washed! Awesome, only not.

She sighed and put the glass down, before getting some paper and starting to clean up the juice from the floor.

[Ooopen, as common rooms are! Come freak out randomly over stains that vaguely resemble blood! Had to do a little coincidence echo of something from yesterday in the BDE.]

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[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Jack was wandering around a bit. If anyone asked, he'd claim he was looking for food, as normal, but he was looking for company. He didn't want to be alone.

He waved at the inhabitant...and stopped dead in his tracks when he saw the stain, mouth open.

[vanillajello]

Kate had just about finished cleaning the floor when he arrived. Still crouching, she tilted her head upwards to see who it was.

...Well that was just rude. Not like a little bit of juice deserves that kind of an expression. "What?" she asked, sounding mildly annoyed.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Are you okay?" he asked, checking for signs of wounds. "Do you need to go to the clinic?"

She looked okay. Maybe it was someone else's blood.

[vanillajello]

She looked up at him like he was maybe slightly a bit nuts. "What? No."

She got up. "Why the hell would I need to go the clinic?"

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

With everything going on, everyone's a little bit nuts. Jack does, however, willingly wear that hairstyle.

"Because of the blood?" he stated, pointing at her hoodie. In his very untactful way, of course.

[vanillajello]

No, the hairstyle didn't much help his cause.

"Blood? What blood?"

She looked down to where he was pointing. There was a pause before she looked up again. "...That's cranberry juice," she stated, slowly.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"It is? It is." He let out a breath that he didn't know he'd been holding. "Sorry, it looked like something else in the light," he said.

Sure. Blame lighting for that.


[What are your feelings on Jack taking a vamp!nap in front of her?]

[vanillajello]

Kate gave her another 'you're weird' look, but it was accompanied by a little smile.

"It's okay. I was startled by my phone and I spilled some."

[Oh, I'm all up for freaking her out! Nap away! :D]

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Right. Sorry. It's just..." He paused, and took a deep breath. "I--"

Jack slumped over, feeling very sleepy (http://community.livejournal.com/fh_wishverse/3255.html?thread=1132727#t1132727)

[Thanks!]

[vanillajello]

Kate blinked. Several times. "Oh crap," was what came out of her mouth when she was done processing the situation.

She kneeled next to him, unsure whether she should try to wake him up.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Oh, crap, indeed. Jack was out for some time, and didn't immediately spring awake. "Blood," he mumbled.

[vanillajello]

"I think we covered that bit already," she said, her voice only slightly louder than a whisper. Hearing about stuff like this on the radio was very worrying. Having it happen in front of you was definitely a whole lot worse.

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"So much blood," he mumbled again, swimming towards consciousness. He opened his eyes and looked around, frantically, piercingly, feeling the need to hunt...and feeling that need die down. "What the hell's going on here?" he asked, feeling nauseous.

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin had had no trouble sleeping, or passing out, or having strange dreams.

He was however recovering from a recent existential crisis.

"Do you need any help?"

[vanillajello]

"No thanks, I'm almost done," Kate answered before looking up.

And when she looked up, she didn't scream or jump or anything like that. Instead, she grinned. "Oh, hi. You must be the one my sibling wanted to use as proof of Fandom's weirdness." Which was an odd sort of greeting.

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin giggled. It was hard not to like a greeting like that. "Unless there's other talking frogs around, that's me. I'm Robin, pleased to meet you."

[vanillajello]

"I'm Kate," she smiled. "And it's nice to finally meet you too."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Who's your sibling? And that reminds me, I need to call Yuffie."

[vanillajello]

"Francine. Best big sister ever," she smiled. "I'm guessing Yuffie's your sibling?"

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Oh Francine's nice. Yup I'm Yuffie's 'big brother'." The irony of him being called a big brother when he was smaller than anyone else in the school somewhat amused him.

[vanillajello]

"Francine is really nice," Kate agreed. "I don't think I've met Yuffie yet."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"I haven't seen her in a few days. That's why I need to call her, to see how she's doing. When we first met she thought I was a human who'd been turned into a frog."

[vanillajello]

"That's still a better reaction than what I would have given you on my first day here."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"It's a much better reaction than some people are giving me." Robin agreed. "I don't quite understand how I'm stranger than some of the other things that happen around here. Or other students at the school."

[vanillajello]

"This place takes time," she said with a shrug. "Some people find it harder to accept things as they come. I would too, but turning into a cat made me believe... So, you've been getting bad reactions?"

She paused. And remembered what she had heard on the radio. And grimaced. "...Oh. Right. I remember."