2nd Floor Common Room - Thursday Evening

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Them hockey players just happened to be on the television again when George  - and Beka-the-terrier - wandered down to the Common Room.   It was a shock, really, and totally not planned at all.

Beka flopped down on the couch, covering her eyes with her paws.  George didn't much mind that as it meant for once she wasn't trying to bite him for something she'd decided he was doin' wrong.  Being bitten would have distracted him from watching the little men skate around the ice.


[OOC: As it is a Common Room, it is open, la]

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[gods-gymnast.livejournal.com]

"Did you get a dog?" Maron asked, leaning in the doorway. "And I'm afraid that I'm rather invading this room as mine is quite boring at the moment."

A pause.

"And several flights of stairs up. Hi!"

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"She's not me dog," George said quickly as Beka lifted her head with a growl. "She's a student, an' she's testy."

He paused, eyeing Beka before smiling at Maron. "Hello."

[not-jaded-yet.livejournal.com]

"Hey George," Jennifer said, plopping down into a seat. She actually kicked off her shoes. and loosened the top button of her blouse - she was still dressed business like from work. "How are you?"

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She held up her hands. "I meant no offense!" Maron said to the dog. "I'm sorry!"

Keeping an eye on the dog, just in case it decided that it still was cranky about her totally innocent mistake, she slipped in. "Not violent though, I hope? That'd be no fun at all, especially if you're being nice enough to take care of her!"

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'Not undressing' was swiftly discarded as an appropriate answer as George nodded to her.

"'M good," he said easily. "Are ye too hot?"

[not-jaded-yet.livejournal.com]

"A little," Jennifer said. "Just more sort of... too lazy to go up to my room to change."

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"She's only bitin' me pants so far," George said. "An' then only when I do somethin' she don't approve of."

Beka heaved a sigh and lay her head back down on her paws. She was so put upon.

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"Where did ye come from?" he asked.

The concept of different clothes for different parts of the day still didn't really click with him, no.

[not-jaded-yet.livejournal.com]

"Work," Jennifer said. "At the law offices. Have to be extra professional there."

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"Why?" he asked. "Does it make ye work harder?"

[gods-gymnast.livejournal.com]

"And how often is that?" Maron teased. "I haven't seen you for awhile--how have you been?"

[not-jaded-yet.livejournal.com]

"Sort of," Jennifer said. "It also looks better if anyone comes in seeking legal advice."

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"All th' bloody time," he said, making a face. "Comes of bein' a Dog." He shrugged. "'M well. There are classes an' th' like, but nothin' too captivatin'. An' ye?"

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Given that he didn' have a clue that th' legal advice was supposed to be for, George just nodded. "Do they often do that?"

[not-jaded-yet.livejournal.com]

"...stop in?" Jennifer said. "Ummm, no. At least, not as much as I want."

[gods-gymnast.livejournal.com]

She laughed even though she didn't know the slang. Maron totally thought it just meant the personality of... whoever it was... suited the form they were in.

"Poor you!" She tilted her head at the television screen and considered it for a moment. "Mostly I just complain about how I wound up with two classes and my job on the same day. It's a lot of running around on Thursdays. I'll have to plan that better next semester, especially if I get a class like Ethics again; it always makes me think."

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"Hi," Maron called, waving one arm over the edge of the chair she was slouched down in. "I suppose I don't rate a greeting?"

Her voice made it utterly clear that she was joking.

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"I only have t'work at th'library on Saturdays," he offered. "What's Ethics about? Or jus' hard?"

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"Mayhap they don' wanna pay fer advice?" he suggested.

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"I'll have to visit," she said, "if only to make sure you've left the books there--or would they be too heavy to carry off, do you think?"

Maron flopped down in one of the chairs. "It's complicated? A lot of the situations that come up I don't have anything to base my opinion off of--which makes telling what I'd do in a circumstance pretty hard if I don't have even something small to compare it to. And some of the ideas... I just don't understand them."

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"Sorry," Jennifer said, sheepish. "He's my little sib."

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"I don't really mind," Maron admitted, pushing herself up to peer through her hair to glance over. "I was just teasing you. You're his school-assigned sib, then? You don't talk like him."

[not-jaded-yet.livejournal.com]

"Possible," Jennifer said. "But I guess people don't get into much legal trouble here."

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"They'd be too bulky t'store," he pointed out. "An' not terribly valuable." Unless you got into Special Collections, of course.

He considered her point for a moment. "Don' seem like much of a class if th' only way t'learn is if ye already have experience on th' question," he said finally.

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"Forsooth, what gave you that impression?" Jennifer joked. "School assigned. George is great, though."