Fourth Floor Common Room | Evening | 1/26

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Hayley had spent too much time cooped up in her room. She decided to come out to the common room, and started to occupy her time by putting together ingredients for an omelet. Her efforts, however, didn't turn out so well. She burned the first one, and by the time she got to trying it again, she actually ended up burning her hand.

With a scream, she flung the frying pan off the stove. Which thankfully wasn't hot enough to actually start a fire or anything when it clanked across the floor, leaving an eggy, cheese splatter in its wake. She was just so angry that she couldn't manage a simple meal, as she ran her hand under cold water from the sink. Her tears were both of pain and frustration. She just felt so useless, right then.

[ooc: Open! Feel free to distract the poor girl.]

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[heromaniac]

Momoko was just aimless wandering, and happened to hear the scream and familiar crash-bang of the victim of a stove conspiracy. She popped into the common room. "Hi? Everything okay?"

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"I burned myself," Hayley said, making a face. She still had her hand under the tap. "Stupid omelet wouldn't cook right."

She was muttering obscenities under her breath.

[heromaniac]

Momoko rushed over to look. "Oh, Hayley! Is it bad? Not the omelet, your hand, I mean." She could see the remains of the omelet.

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Hayley held up her hand. There was definite redness in the shape of the pan handle against her palm, and some on her fingers. It'd hurt for a few days, but it wasn't too bad.

"The omelet is probably worse off, to be honest."

[heromaniac]

"Ah! It looks like you burned your whole hand!" Momoko exaggerated, but it really did look like it would hurt! "Did you actually hold the hot pan? You should have used an oven mitt. You should always wear protective gear!"

She frowned. "I wonder if there's some burn creme or something we can put on that?"

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"I'm not stupid," Hayley said, a little more cross than normal. "I just forgot, that's all. One little mistake."

She harrumphed but softened after a moment. "Burn creme might be nice."

[heromaniac]

Momoko grinned and started looking through cabinets. She was fairly sure she'd seen a small first aid kit in her common room's kitchen once (or twice) (or every time she'd tried to cook).

"I never said you were stupid, silly, I was just reminding you. Especially since sometimes people here don't know about stuff like that. I met a boy once who, ah!" She found the kit and retrieved the creme. "Here we go! Anyway, he thought the TV was a box that had people trapped inside it!"

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"...that's ridiculous," Hayley said, staring. "I mean, that's crazy. But I guess they might've been from somewhere else or something."

[heromaniac]

"Or some time else, too. But yeah," She removed the lid from the burn creme and held out her hand for Hayley's. " So see, I thought maybe you didn't know! Although I totally suspect that the stoves are possessed or something. My stuff ends up burnt all the time!"

[azuldragon.livejournal.com]

Azula glanced at the other person in the common room. "Good evening."

[heromaniac]

"Hi!" Momoko waved and grinned. She remembered the other girl from class, but was having trouble... ah! "Azula! We were in Centurion's class together! Tactics! How are you today?"

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Bouncy and peppy. How nice.

"I remember," she replied with a raised eyebrow. "I'm well and you seem... bouncy."

[heromaniac]

Well, yes. Momoko pretty much defined bouncy, most days.

"Yep!" She gave a small salute. "Bouncy and good! I'm feeling much better today than I was this weekend, you can be sure! Were you going to make an omelet, too?"

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"I don't cook," she answered with a disdainful sniff. They had rations for meals during campaigns. It sucked but it meant Azula didn't need to cook, just heat. "I quite enjoyed the weekend, it was fun."

[heromaniac]

"Ah! You eat out a lot, too? I can cook a few things but not much, even though I took a class a while back." Momoko nodded in sympathy. "So, you were fighting the gremlins too, then, right?"

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Fighting. Killing. Potatoes, Poh-tatoes. "Yes, I was."

[heromaniac]

More nodding. "Thought so! Dinah said once that you were training her, so it kinda made sense when you said you'd enjoyed the weekend!"

She grinned. "I was fighting too, but it wasn't fun like it usually is."

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Azula was walking around the dorms when she heard the scream. Curiosity drew her to the sound just in time to see the frying pan on the floor then to Hayley. "You seem distressed."

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"I burned myself," Hayley said, scowling at the mess on the floor. "Cooking is so stupid."

She was going to throw accusations at the act of cooking, so she didn't feel bad about failing at it.

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"I wouldn't know about cooking, I've never done it," she remarked. Azula went forward and reached out for the pan and picked it up. "The pan is hat for a non-Firebender."

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"...you can just pick it up?" Hayley said, in awe. "It doesn't hurt, at all?"

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"Of course," she replied, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "A little heat doesn't hurt me."

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"I guess not," Hayley said, remembering exactly how she'd felt about Azula. "I sure wish it didn't hurt me."

Her hand was going to sting for a few days, that was certain.

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"A little pain is a good reminder you're alive," she said, placing the pan back on the stove. "You should clean up that mess."

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"I'll get to it," Hayley said, struggling to stand her ground against Azula. "I just need a minute or two. That's okay, right?"