Second Floor Common Room: Monday Afternoon

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After "Awesome" class Layla found herself in the common room sitting cross legged on the counter roasting a marshmallow on a stick with the marshmallow in question inserted into a very hot toaster oven.

And in between making and eating "indoor s'mores" Layla would spend her time writing down random haikus in her Hello Kitty journal as she thought about the events of the last week.

True, she could have gone to the campground and lit a fire but this was so much less work.

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[puppy_fair]

Point!

"Kitty!"

That was totally a greeting, too! Or, at least it was in Zack's horribly sleep-starved brain at the moment.

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She nodded quickly, glad to see him up and about and doing well.

"You can pet her if you come over and say hello."

[puppy_fair]

Zack and his apple were totally incoming, now, yes, for smiles and petting and awwww, kitten.

"Is she a student, or an actual kitty?"

Totally a valid question, around here!

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Nyx looked at her master for a moment before sniffing at the new person.

"Actual kitten. Tara and I went to the pet store last week and got them. Kind of got lost in the shuffle of suck."

[puppy_fair]

Don't mind Zack, he was leaning over and cooing at the kitten, now, silly faces and all.

"Does she have a name, yet? She's cuuuute. Hi, kitty."

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The kitty padded closer to Zack to see the funny faces and made a little 'mrrr' of confusion before batting playfully at his nose. Fiona couldn't help the little grin on her face.

"Nyx. Her name is Nyx."

[puppy_fair]

Kitty! Kitty batting at his nose!

Zack so needed this. A lot.

"Well, hi there, Nyx! Good to meet you!" And now he was waving the fingers of his free hand at her for her to bat at them. Get'em! Get'em, kitty! "Fiona's lucky to have such a pretty kitty, yes she is!"

Abandon all braincells, ye who enter here.

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To be fair, that had very little to do with Zack and everything to do with a well-known and proven law of the universe (http://i27.tinypic.com/296niut.jpg). Fiona could get pretty darn incoherent herself when Nyx was doing something cute. The whole 'sleeping on her shoulder' or 'batting her curls while she was trying to read' thing just about killed her the first time, after all.

Nyx, oblivious to the power of her cuteness, tried to get at his fingers but they kept moving. This was obviously a very wily beast she was chasing.

[puppy_fair]

And that wily beast was going to continue to be wily until one of the two of them passed out on the floor, or until Fiona decided it was time to take the kitty back home. Whichever came first.

"What a sucky first week to be someone's kitty, though. Must have been lonely, huh? Huh, Nyx?" Fingerwiggle! If he had a ball, he'd totally be rolling it around the floor for her to chase, yes.

Ssh, balls could still totally be amusing, even if he wasn't insane.

"Must be nice to have all these people around again." He grinned up at Fiona. "And not be worrying anymore?"

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"She got lots of attention, actually," Fiona said with a little smile, since she'd clung to the kitten as a bit of an emotional lifeline during the week when everything had gone insane.

"But it's much better now that she can play with lots of people, yes."

The kitten tried to pounce on one of his hands.

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"More people means that you don't have to worry about you getting tired out before she does," Zack decided, and it came hand-in-hand with a giggle as he let her catch his fingers. "I'd get myself a puppy or something, but I don't have the time to take care of a pet, myself."

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"Well, you can always come and play with Nyx," she offered as the kitten jumped and tried to get his hands again.