4th Floor Common Room, evening

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

The news that there was a vampire on the island had Dru unsettled. On one hand, she felt like she should be doing something about it, the same way she'd helped with the gremlins. On the other hand, she remembered all of her father's lectures on how suckers were bad news and best avoided.

For the moment she'd done what she could, which mostly meant redoing the wards on her and Hayley's room. Dru wondered if anyone else would want it done. She'd have to check with Dinah and Kennedy at least.

Still restless Dru took her sketchpad, curled up on the couch in the common room and started to sketch.

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[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin had heard of the spooky things going on, but was determined not to freak about it. Therefore he was instead wandering through the dorms singing (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Narwhals/).

He was at the beginning of a song when he made his way to the 4th floor common room.

"Narwals, narwals, swimming in the ocean, causing a commotion, cause they are so awesome!"

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

Dru glanced up briefly, looked back to her sketchpad, then looked up again.

This place was weird.

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Hi! I don't know if we've met before. If we have I'm sorry. But I'm Robin."

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

"I think I would have remembered it," she said dryly. "Dru."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Pleased to meet you Dru. How long have you been going to Fandom?"

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

"A few weeks now," Dru replied.

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Oh good he hadn't somehow gone really really long before meeting her. "How do you like it so far?"

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

"It's not bad," she said. "Everyone seems pretty nice."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

That had mostly been Robin's experience. "As long as they don't think you're a hallucination, yeah."

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

"The thought has crossed my mind," Dru admitted.

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Well I'm not. I don't see how I'm that much stranger than anything else here."

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

"It's the felt," she explained. "The last time I saw animated felt there was a nasty poltergeist involved."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"I'm not made of felt. I guess if feels like that though."

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

"Probably."

She wasn't going to feel him to find out.

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"It's more like fur I guess. Only I don't shed."

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

Harper had a large basket full of garlic, a needle, and a ball of twine. Working with garlic didn't seem like a good idea in a small dorm room, so headed for the common room.

"Hello!" said Harper, taking a seat on the couch and setting the basket at her feet.

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Dru said. "Vamp deterrent?"

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

"Yup! It should also make a pretty cool fashion accessory," said Harper. "Plus I figure wearing it around your neck makes it more effective in keeping people from biting your neck. I'm going to make a bunch of them in case other people need them."

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

It wasn't necessarily something Dru would wear, but given the mood, some people might want them. "You'll be ready to cook Italian food at a moment's notice."

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

"Unless I use a clear ceramic glaze on the garlic first. They would last a lot longer that way," Harper pointed out.

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

"But it'll block the odor," Dru pointed out. "Which is sort of the point."

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

"Good for the person wearing the them, but bad for keeping vampires away," said Harper. "Unless... is it really the odor that works on vampires, or is it something else about the garlic?"

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

"I'm not sure exactly," she admitted. "But do you really want to take a chance?"

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

"Hmmm," said Harper, thinking. "I'd prefer not to actually test it out against an actual vampire, so maybe I should leave them unglazed for now."

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

Dru nodded, "Probably for the best. I'd also suggest staying indoors after dark as an obvious thing to do."

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, that probably seems like the best course of action," said Harper. "Still, it can't hurt to be prepared."

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

"No, it can't" she agreed. "Suckers are bad news. You don't want anything to do with them."

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

"Then it looks like I'll only be venturing out in the daylight for the time being, just to be safe," said Harper. "Though it'll probably be a bummer on Valentine's Day if people can't go out at night."

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

"I hadn't even thought about that," Dru admitted. "No reason to. But maybe the school will set up some security?"

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

"That would make sense. It wouldn't look good if kids were killed by vampires at a school event," said Harper. "Besides, people will be safer in numbers, so it shouldn't be a problem for couples."

She sighed before adding, "I'm going to have to get a date."

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

A date for Valentine's Day. That was something Dru had never had. "I'll probably stay in and watch movies for the night."

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

"But you'll miss all the fun at the dance and the chance to dress up," said Harper. Obviously, the dress was her favorite part of any dance.

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

Dru looked down at her jeans and hooded sweatshirt. "I'm not the dressing up type."

[chic-harper.livejournal.com]

Harper took a closer look. "Well, you could always check out some of the stores in town and see if you can find something. If not, I could always whip up an extra dress. I design all my own clothing!"

That would work if Dru liked the tie-dye monstrosity that Harper was wearing. It would be safer to visit Pixie Dust.

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

"No, really," Dru said, trying to keep the horror out of her voice, "I'll pass. Dressing up is not my thing at all. I'll be quite content to stay in my room and relax for the night."

[longislandiceme]

Bobby was no longer a penguin. And he was celebrating this fact by... eating a lot of candy, apparently.

Including some of the Dusk conversation hearts. Look, they'd been on sale, okay?

He poured a handful out and frowned at them as he entered the common room. "Dazzle? Seriously?" he shrugged and popped it in his mouth before flopping down on the couch. "Hey, Dru, what's up?"

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

"Hey Bobby," Dru smiled. "Nothing much, just doing some sketching."

[longislandiceme]

"Can I see?" Bobby asked, already leaning over like the nosy teenage boy that he was.

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

Dru turned the pad around so that Bobby could see the flowers she'd drawn. "These were lilies that grew around my grandmother's cabin."

[longislandiceme]

"Cool," Bobby grinned at her. "I can draw, like... stick figures. That's about it."

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

"That's a high art in some circles," she laughed. "I'm not going to knock it. Sit still for a moment, I'll sketch you."

[longislandiceme]

"Sit still?" Bobby echoed. "I can try, anyway, for you."

Sitting still wasn't quite his strong point.

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

Perfectly still wasn't necessary. Just reasonably so so that she could sketch out the lines of his face.

"So what have you been up to?" Dru asked as she started sketching the lines of his face on the page.

[longislandiceme]

"Mostly? Being a penguin," he told her. "Which is kind of cool, except for not having thumbs and Jeannie trying to be all 'no, you can't eat that!'," he rolled his eyes.

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

"A penguin? Seriously?" she laughed. "I wish I'd seen that."

[longislandiceme]

Well, there were pictures... Bobby took a moment to give some serious thought as to whether he wanted to admit that.

"Kennedy got pictures," he admitted with a sigh.