Lawn of the Dorms, LATE Sunday Night

[bitchprince]

Just a few hours ago, the flamingoes had given up on their sudden, magical performance, and retreated to their usual perches for the night. The lights had gone out across Fandom Town, and so no one was awake to witness the start of the gentle tinsel snow. Glittering paper floated down, spreading across the fresh snow, coating it in shimmering colours. It was pretty, it was unnoticed, it was...

The fire alarm cut through the air without warning. The fragile peace of Sunday night shattered into tiny little shards, like a lunatic firing bullets into Christmas decorations with utter abandon. The tinsel? Kept falling. The alarm? Would not stop blaring. The firemen? Were out on the town. It was time for the annual 'strange weather' drill, and no man, woman, or angry pseudopod was going to dissuade them from ushering all the students away from the school.

As they rushed into the school, the tinsel kept falling. Enjoy, kids. We hope you stole a coat upon leaving, or you're going to be plenty cold.

[[ HAVE AT THE FIRE DRILL! Go here for our previous fire drill. Y'all know the drill! ... bad pun. bad. ]]

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[bitchprince]

Arthur was not best pleased. It was, after all, the middle of the night, and he'd had to get out of the room before being dressed properly.

Considering that he'd been shirtless up until the alarms went, that meant he was currently wearing an entirely unsuitable old shirt with a few scratches down the ends. He was also freezing.

Not that he would point that out. He was a knight. His stubbornness could upstage any cold spell.

[ihavenocodename.livejournal.com]

Jean, with a blanket wrapped firmly around herself, was busy glaring at the dorms for doing this. Because it was their fault.

This never happened back at the mansion.

Though, at least she was able to keep up a TK shield so no tinsel got in her hair.

[endsthegame]

Ender was generally sensible: he kept extra sweaters in handy just in case this happened. He was wearing one - an old one, given to him a long time ago, proclaiming him Property of the International Fleet in faded white letters.

He had to pick bits of tinsel out of his hair almost non-stop.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Rushing out with his little---fluffy, clawed--bundle of joy (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/02/25/article-1155056-03A96B0B000005DC-602_634x502.jpg) shoved into his shirt for warmth, Merlin was busy trying not to die from the cold. As he was a twig.

And not have Arthur notice he had an owl.

Because then he'd get ideas about training it to kill things.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin was a ninja. Merlin was just going to slink on by without drawing any attention over here. Yes.

He was just that good.

[bitchprince]

"Merlin," Arthur said, sighing, and fixing his eyes on the sky, "What do you think you're doing."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"...going for a leisurely walk?"

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

All right, so this sucked. This sucked a lot. It wasn't like Hannibal slept in much and he'd only managed to get some pants, shoes and a blanket before heading outside into the cold.

The tinsel didn't bother him that much. The cold? Yeah, that sucked and Hannibal would just be bouncing around, trying to keep the chilly air off his skin.

[bitchprince]

"I'd hope so," Arthur said, fixing his eyes on him, "Because if that's you trying to sneak by me, it's woefully inadequate, so stop trying."

[youcantfollow.livejournal.com]

There wasn't much to be done about a fire drill and its loud noise, but Griff hadn't exactly left the dorms normally, instead jumping down to the alley beside the Perk and finding himself some coffee. He'd returned to the dorms looking much like the others in hooded sweatshirt, he just also had some heat for his hands.

It made the tinsel in his messy hair that much more bearable.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin cleared his throat. "Good then. That I'm not trying to sneak by. Because I'd never try to put something past you, Arthur."

...ignore the hissing. Ignoooore the hissing.

[bitchprince]

"Merlin," Arthur said, his eyebrows going up, "Either you've just developed a bad gas problem, or something in your shirt appears to be hissing."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"...I can explain."

[bitchprince]

"I'm waiting," Arthur said, graciously.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"It was an experiment with one of Francine's dolls..." Merlin replied. reaching in to fish out the bird.

[see-beyond.livejournal.com]

The noise frightened Jonas into almost falling out of bed. When he got himself back together, he had to figure out what the sound was. He'd ended up just following the crowd and shuffling outside and into the icy cold.

He'd remembered his coat (thankfully) so he wasn't that cold but the tinsel rain made it difficult to see and got snagged in his hair and on his coat. Jonas still didn't know what was going on but everyone else was out here so he thought he was in the right place.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Rose hated this.

But at least it wasn't pouring rain like it had been last time, right? She'd grabbed a hoodie to throw over her thermal shirt cause it wasn't like it was that cold compared to Montana winters.

Not that she still wasn't grumpy as hell about having to be awake, but hey, her phone was out and she was texting Lissa cause might as well might something of being awake at this hour.

[bitten_notshy]

The good thing about this fire drill was that Jack wasn't wearing a nightshirt this time.

The bad part was, he'd been unexpectedly interrupted, and he'd thrown on clothing rather quickly and was now foggily wondering why he was having such a hard time buttoning his shirt the rest of the way. (It was probably because it was inside out.) He was also not best pleased with the deep purple tone of the coat he'd borrowed from Emma, but he pretended he was doing that on purpose.

[bitchprince]

"And...?" Arthur prompted.

Damn skippy it was superciliously.

[living_endless]

Yes, Didi's pajamas were black under her jacket. And yes, she was still wearing her ankh.

The eye makeup, however, was missing.

She held out her palm to catch some glitter. It was too pretty for her to be grumpy.

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

This is ridiculous, Pounce complained from his spot on Beka's shoulders. She'd grabbed her coat (and a knife), but wished she'd thought of putting on her boots over her socks.

"I'm not disagreeing," she grumbled, hopping on the spot.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

It'd been late enough that even Alex had been asleep so getting woken up by a blaring alarm and noise outside wasn't the ideal ending to his night. He'd clambered out of bed, forgoing a shirt and just grabbing a jacket and some jeans before making his way out of the dorms.

Fuck the tinsel rain, it was the cold and the lingering snow that pissed him off. At least he'd remembered cigarettes this time. And it wasn't raining actual water so he could smoke.

God, he hated fire drills.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

For Effy, this... might actually be worse than having to stand out in the rain. For one, it was cold, in a way that throwing a jumper over her sleepwear didn't really solve, and then there was the tinsel that was fucking everywhere.

Not impressed, freezing, and already covered in a layer of glittery crap. Lovely.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin produced a very put upon barn owl chick who continued to hiss at Arthur, while attempting to climb up Merlin's arms, back into the shirt.

IT WAS WARM THERE.

"It worked?"

[life_inshadow]

Tara cuddled Mr. Moxy in her arms as she rushed outside, bare feet jammed hastily into the boots that accessorized her pajamas. She didn't really like loud noises in the middle of the night; she just wanted this to end so she could go back inside.