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Roof [Saturday, Early Evening]

For kind of a slow week, tonight could actually be quite interesting, if she decided to make it that way.

Halloween had never really been a big thing for her. That was England for you. Anyway, Effy was pretty much guaranteed to be dressed up in black as it was. What she was wearing? Not a costume in the slightest.

For now, she was leaning back against the edge of the roof, smoking and considering where to spend the best part of her night. Had to be something decent going on out there. Something that wasn't begging for candy like a five year-old. Maybe on the mainland... Well, she'd work on that in a minute.

[[Effy is (as usual) antisocial, but the roof is totally open!]]

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After spending most of the day asleep, Alex found himself up on the roof for a smoke (as per usual) before doing anything else. He hadn't had one of those since getting back and he was feeling a little deprived.

Seeing that he wasn't alone (the roof was never typically empty), he even initiated a greeting by saying, "No one's gonna give you candy up here."

"Aw, dashing my hopes." Like she cared so much about that sort of thing.

Took a moment for her to drag her gaze away from the middle-distance she'd been focusing on as she thought and actually on to Alex. "Didn't bring any for me?"

"Makes you think I have any?" he asked, shaking his head and leaning against the door he'd just come through. "I look like a regular trick or treater?"

"No," she had to admit, even when she looked a bit closer and noticed his cheek. "But they aren't the ones give out the sweets, are they?"

"Guess not," he said, conceding that point. "Still, I'd have to be a trick or treater to actually get candy. No candy. No sharing. Make it up to you another time."

"Mmm." At some point, she was sure he probably would. Effy did pause holding her cigarette in her mouth to dig her hand into her jacket pocket to produce a packet of her own to offer his way.

Look who was prepared. With gummy pumpkins. Shut up, just because she wasn't going to beg for candy, didn't mean she didn't have some on her.

"You're trying to bum candy off me and you've had some the entire time?" he asked, pushing away from the door and wandering closer to her. "Wasn't aware you were the type to carry candy around with you, giving it out to the less fortunate."

"Didn't actually ask for any," Effy pointed out. She also didn't just go around giving it out to just anyone.

... Just anyone hadn't asked yet, but if they did, she probably wouldn't.

"And I carry it around when it's going cheap." Like it was right around this time of year. Why the fuck not when stores were trying to get rid of it so badly.

"Right, I didn't ask for any," he said, smiling thinly and sticking his hands in his pockets. It was easier to match her in difficulty when he was in the mood he was in. So, instead of asking, he just leaned against the edge of the roof.

"Good time of the year to get candy," he said conversationally. "Lump all the holidays together and make candy a focus. Can't get away from it."

Effy rolled her eyes and pulled the packet back in to snag one herself. Obviously misunderstood her offer and she couldn't really be bothered to explain.

"One I like you don't even do over here." Guy Faulkes needed no candy to keep her interest, she got to play with bonfires.

Misunderstood or not, he could still be difficult because it was better than admitting he had misunderstood. Saved him some face.

"You pay attention to where you are?" Alex asked, looking around. "Not like this fucking island is strict on American holidays. You wanna celebrate something, celebrate it. America doesn't have holiday police, you know."

"Maybe I will." She could cover toffee apples and burning effigies. "Only involves setting fire to shit."

"And we both know how much you enjoy that," he replied, smirking briefly before turning around so he could lean elbows on the edge and look down. "Enjoying you candy filled night on the roof?"

Effy shrugged casually, and flicked some ash off the roof. "Bout the same as any other," she answered. "Hoping I can improve on that."

She looked him over again briefly before she added a, "You?"

"Oh yeah, having a blast," he said, all false cheer before straightening up some. "You gonna put on a cute costume, go into town and try and swindle some more candy? Go hold hands with a girlfriend and skip along with your basket of sweets?"

Yeah, he knew that wouldn't be happening but psh, like he wouldn't tease her. It was natural.

"Already got the candy, after all," he said and waggled his eyebrows. "What a badass you are."

"Make me sound like something out of a fairytale." It was the skipping along with a basket of sweets that did that, she imagined.

"And no thanks. I'll leave all that to you."

"Please, I've got better things to do with my time," he said even if he had no plans for the evening. He figured tossing a ball against his dorm room wall would be more exciting than that. "No time for candy or shrieking idiots tonight. Maybe next year."

Maybe not.

"Busy night planned?" Since Alex apparently didn't have time for a candy-filled holiday, she assumed he must have something.

Or he was just cranky. Both were about equally likely.

Cranky was probably winning out right now. Cranky because he was sore and cranky because that was a default state.

"You could say that." Yeah, he had nothing. He was just hopeful the lie was good enough to be believed. He didn't know why he was lying other than...the pissy mood he'd been in for a few days. "If it goes well, at least, right?"

"Don't even know, do you?" Just an annoying assumption based on how vague he was being. She did that same sort of thing herself, and knew the tactic well.

"Because you're so much better?" he shot back, gesturing to the fact that she was currently on the roof doing exactly nothing. "Didn't you make some vague allusion to improving your night yet here you are, smoking on the roof like so many other nights. What plans do you have? Smoke a cigarette and then go to sleep?"

"Smoke a cigarette and go out," she corrected, shooting him a look. "Just because I start here, doesn't mean I'm going to stay here."

Roof of the dorms was just a conveniently quiet place to enjoy the sunset and a smoke while she considered what to do with herself.

"Doesn't mean you're not going to stay here either. You have before," he retorted without hesitation, turning and leaning a hip against the wall. He'd been able to make her give up nights out before. He had that on her. "You got solid plans? You make assumptions about my plans like you're not just talking to talk either."

"It's Halloween," Effy said, as if he actually needed a reminder of that, and she nodded her head out towards the lights of the mainland. "Gotta be something going on out there."

Couldn't really deny that she had stayed here, and might stay here. But generally, that was only if she was offered something better to hold her attention.

"So, that's a no on solid plans," he replied, shrugging a little slower than usual but still managing it. "Guess that answers my question. You got nothing, too."

He grinned at her, smug just for the hell of it. "Besides, I bet you don't want to leave anyway. Nothing as fun out there as there is here."

His ego meant him but he'd use the island as an excuse if he needed to.

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