Fourth Floor Common Room [evening]

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Sookie had been struck by the slightest bout of homesickness earlier, which, as it had her first night in Fandom, drove her to go to the store and return to her common room kitchen with armfuls of supplies to make banana pudding.

She was fairly satisfied with her first batch, which was set aside in a two-quart dish and from which she was sampling while she carefully whisked over a double boiler. She had no idea who was going to eat all this, but it was like a rule -- you couldn't make just a little of this stuff.

She was pretty sure she could find someone to eat it. It wasn't like people around here hated sweets or anything (though she imagined that'd be an awful life.) In the meantime, she stirred, pausing to turn the television onto some old sitcom, just for background noise.

[omg I don't even like bananas and I want to make that, now. totes open. come eat pudding.]

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"Better than the Twizzlers I was gonna have," he said, glancing to make sure Angela was still in the room before turning back at the food. "Nutritious huh?"

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"...it has bananas," she offered. "Those are good for you!"

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"I meant my Twizzlers," he joked. "I know bananas are good for me. Angela's made smoothies with them before."

Of course, he'd dumped his on her head but details.

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"Twizzlers are low in fat, I think," she offered, but she was giggling. She looked around for the fuzzy thing, and with a questioning point, she asked, "That'd be Angela, then?"

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"Yeah," he said and waved at the critter. "Cute, right? I miss her being human shaped. It's lonely and quiet in our room."

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"Awwww. 'Least she's somethin' you can cuddle?" Sookie offered. "It'd be worse if she was a fishie or somethin'."

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"She's got claws," he pointed out. "She's dug those into me when I've tried to cuddle a few times."

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She winced sympathetically. "Not on purpose, I hope!"

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"Well, I dunno!" he said and laughed. "She can't really tell me one way or the other. Maybe it's the bells I attached to her legs the other day that pissed her off."

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She tilted her head. "...so you could hear her coming? Or just for fun?"

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"Just for fun," he said and laughed. "Because I thought it might be cute."

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"I don't blame her for bein' pi -- ticked off!" Sookie remarked, giggling. "Poor thing doesn't have thumbs to get 'em off!"

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"Her fault for turning into a thing!" Hannibal still didn't really know what she was. "She's lucky I haven't put her in a sweater."

Yet.

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"What is she?" Sookie wondered, peering at the cute thing. "Like a kinda ginger raccoon or somethin'."

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"I..." Hannibal winced. "...dunno."

Great admittance there.

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Sookie giggled. "Maybe she can tell you when she changes back?"

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"Maybe!" Hannibal said, shrugging. "I won't really care by then. I'll be glad she's human shaped and that I'm able to enjoy her again."

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"I'm sure she won't object, either," she added. "I haven't been an animal yet but I bet it's not so much fun after the first day or so."

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"Especially if there's no one around to really spoil you," he said. "Because she's been getting spoiled. I take her pretty much everywhere."

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"What's she eat?" she wondered. "I don't know what...little red racooons eat."

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"I give her human food." He had no idea either. "If she changes back, it should cancel it out, right?"

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"I suppose so," she said, shrugging. "I'm not the critter expert."

She cut a small disc of banana and flicked it over Angela's way, nonetheless. Bananas should be fine, no matter what.

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Angela scrambled towards the food and ate it quickly. "Don't flick the pudding at me because I'll have to flick back."

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"I'm not wasting pudding, are you kidding?" Sookie said with a grin. "This stuff's too good."

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"Feel free to dish me up a lot, then," he said. "Or, I mean, I can. I just didn't wanna wrestle in while you were cooking."