Fifth Floor Common Room [lateish evening]

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Despite putting herself to bed fairly early, Sookie found she couldn't sleep. So she'd wandered out to the common room in her jammies, made herself some tea, and turned on the television.

Unfortunately for her, this was possibly not the best choice she could have made, in light of what was on the television. She'd managed to catch a cable run of Dusk, and had now set aside the book she'd brought out in lieu of staring in horror-slash-amazement at the screen.

"...if this is what vampires are like at home, I'm not sure it's really necessary I ever meet one. Wow."

[I'm bored while waiting for new canon.]

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[longislandiceme]

On the way back to the dorms from Zack's party, Bobby ducked into J,GOB to pick up a bag of cookies. He then made his way (okay, okay, bounced, he'd had a lot of ice cream) up to the fifth floor to see if Sookie was around. He sort of owed her an apology for the disaster in the sixth floor kitchen the other night- hence the cookies.

What amazing luck, then, that he should find her in the common room!

"Sookie!" he greeted cheerfully, flopping down on the couch. "Hi what's up I brought cookies!"

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"And how many of 'em have you had already?" she asked goodnaturedly, smiling at him.

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"Only two," Bobby admitted sheepishly. They hadn't actually been for him after all. But they were good! Because they weren't made by him. "I didn't make them," he added. Because that was important.

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"But you were doing so good!" she encouraged.

Oh, Sookie.

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"...Did you ever actually TRY the cookies we made?" Bobby asked pointedly.

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"Yes, I did," she said firmly.

One bite of one. And then she'd put them in the cupboard in the hopes that someone would do something else with them and she would never have to eat another one.

"They were...really peanut buttery."

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"And by 'really peanut buttery' you mean 'really kinda gross'," Bobby said with a sigh. "Good thing I already know what I'm gonna be when I grow up, 'cause if I had dreams of opening a bakery they'd be crushed right about now."

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"You just need practice," she replied simply, reaching for a cookie. "And are you plannin' to be a professional food-bringer? Because you're good at that."

[longislandiceme]

"Nothing so exciting," Bobby made a face. "Accountant, actually." Just what every teenage boy wants to be. Really.

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"...are you real good with numbers?" she asked curiously. "I didn't know that!"

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"Math's, like, the one subject I'm good at, yeah," Bobby admitted with a shrug. "It doesn't come up too often in conversation though... except now."

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"That's kinda cool!" she enthused. "I'm not good at math at all. I mean, I can do arithmetic in my head and stuff but beyond that I'm a little hopeless. It's a concentration thing."

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Oh, like Bobby's concentration was all that great! "You're pretty good at concentrating when you're cooking stuff. Unlike me," he said ruefully.

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She smiled at him. "Yeah, but that's just 'cause I've been doing it 'cause I was little. You'll get better as you practice. I can't do math 'cause it's like having thirty different people whisperin' in my ears whenever I try in class, 'cause I can't concentrate on two different things."

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"Oh," Bobby wrinkled his nose at that thought. And found himself wondering again if the telepathy stuff would ever happen to Jean- the one back home. "I didn't even think of that. That would totally make it harder."

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"But," she added, "you can just do any hard math I come across. And I'll do any, say, work with measurin' cups that you need."

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"It's a deal," he grinned at her. "With our powers combined we are totally a force to be reckoned with."

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"Ah, yes. It's the rare breed who can do math and level off cups!" Sookie agreed dramatically.

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"Exactly! Our skills will be in high demand because of that. We'd need an awesome team name, though. That's like, pivotal."

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"Well." She thought for a moment. "I've never been on a team. What would make a good name?"

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"Well, we have to tie it in to like, something that's unique about us," Bobby said wisely. "I mean, the Fantastic Four are so named because, well, there's four of them. And the Avengers... avenge stuff, I guess?" he wasn't exactly clear on that.

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"...so it has to be like, math and cooking?" she asked, raising an eyebrow.

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"Yup," Bobby nodded. "Like X-Men are X-Men 'cause of the X-gene thing." Even if they weren't actually an all-male team anymore thanks to Jean. Shh.

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"Something with pie and pi?" she wondered. "Pie like the food and pi like the number, I mean."

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"Ooh," Bobby said, because that was kind of clever. He thought about this for a good two minutes before giving up with a sigh.

"Yeah, I've got nothing. Except a craving for pie," he admitted. Yes, after an evening of ice cream and now cookies. "Maybe being without a codename is like, part of our thing. 'Who was that masked duo?' and all."

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"We could wear aprons instead of capes!" she said happily. "And carry compasses and protractors and calculators!"

[longislandiceme]

"And measuring cups and spoons!"

[likes-chicken.livejournal.com]

"Hi Sookie," Hurley said, popping into the common room.

"...the heck is on TV?"

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"I'm not really sure yet," she admitted, kind of staring at the screen. "But it's not very good, and there're vampires."

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"Those are vampires?" Hurley said. "Weird."

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"Well, those're probably actors pretending to be vampires," she amended. "And they don't really look like any that I've ever seen!"

All...one of them. And he kind of did look like these.

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"I always preferred, like... sci-fi stuff," Hurley said. "Don't like blood too much, so... vampire stuff is out."

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"I haven't seen any blood yet," she told him reassuringly. "It's all kinda just bad, bad dialogue. Which, to be honest, is usually kind of my thing. I love a good sappy romance novel."

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"Ohhh man," Hurley said. "Total girl movie, huh?"

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"I didn't know movies were gendered," she said, smiling lightly.

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"...well, kinda?" Hurley said. "I just figure there's certain stuff girls and boys like more than each other, right?"

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"No, you're right, I'm just teasin'," she assured him. "Though this is so girly I'm not sure I'd want to count it with the stuff I usually read and watch."

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"We can put it in its own category," Hurley said. "...we'll call it... other."

He pulled a face. He was trying to be clever and had failed.

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"Uncategorized!" Sookie decided. "Or, really, we can just file it right there under 'bad.'"

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"Or suck," Hurley said. He laughed, thinking that was funny.