Third Floor Common Room - Tuesday evening - 02/09

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

Liir was baking.

Not only was he baking because he wanted to provide something delicious and freshly baked for the inhabitants of the dorm, but he wanted to bring a set of a very specific kind of cookie to work with him tomorrow for his boss.

The cookie was a favorite, of course, but more specifically, it was the first cookie that he'd ever made with Miss Lulu: a rather naughtily named confection of chocolate and hazelnut which had provided more than one laugh over the, goodness, two years or so since he'd come to the Island. And now she was back, Miss Lulu, and Liir could scarcely think of anything else.

Makejoy was just chuffed that Liir seemed to be out of his funk.

[open as a common room is + chocolate and hazelnut cookies!]

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[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

Joan smelled cookies and followed her nose to the common room. She was pleased to find Liir was the one there baking.

"Hey, you," she said, bending down to give Makejoy scritches. "Whatcha makin'?"

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Cookies," he said absently, "Oral Sex. They're chocolate and hazel--"

Blink. Blink blink.

Well.

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

Oh, look, Joan's cheeks were BRIGHT PINK.

"Um... never heard of those."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

Wait for it, wait for it--

"They're a speciality of Miss Lulu, who is the one who taught me to make them. And trust me when I say that I turned a slightly more wine-tinged version of that very color when she told me the name of them. But they are delicious."

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"Well, I guess it wouldn't hurt to try one," she said. "One of the cookies, I mean."

Lest he get the wrong idea.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"I assumed nothing else," he said honestly. Well, she had said 'one' hadn't she? The grammatical answer had to be 'cookie'.

He pointed to the plate on one side where the hazelnut cookies (with a center of chocolate) were cooling.

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

Her cheeks were still pink (though the color had faded slightly) and she wandered over to fill the kettle with water before helping herself to a cookie.

"So what made you decide to bake tonight?" she asked.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

"Tomorrow," was his answer. It didn't make a lot of sense as answers usually went, but he continued.

"I have work tomorrow. Miss Lulu has taken over the cafe and I just thought I'd bring her a little surprise."

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"Oooh."

The whole thing made a lot more sense now. "She's the one who taught you how to bake, right?"

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

Hayley was on the wrong floor. She knew this. But there was someone baking, and it wasn't as if she'd had a supernatural sense about baking going on, but sometimes a hungry girl wanders around hoping to find someone to sucker into making her food.

"Heeeeey there, father of my baby," she greeted.

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

Joan whirled around from the stove and stared.

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

Hayley just waved at Joan and smiled. "Hey," she said. "I ain't interrupting a private party or anything, am I?"

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"No," Joan said, shaking her head slowly. "I'm just, uh... wondering about your greeting."

She wasn't jealous or anything.

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

"Oh, we had a robot baby together," Hayley said, waving it off. "It was kinda cute, kinda weird, and we let Makejoy take care of it most of the time. We were great parents."

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

Okay, the explanation made Joan relax and actually chuckle. "Sounds like fun. What class was that for?"

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

"Ethics, with Master Skywalker," Hayley said. "And boy, it sure is rich now. He's got a lot of nerve, trying to teach us about babies, when he gave up his own."

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"Oh. Right. I took that class," Joan said. "But what are you talking about? He lives with his wife and daughter in DC, I thought."

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

"Oh sure, now he does," Hayley said, crossing her arms. "Guess his kick butt daughter Leia wasn't good enough for that."

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

Liir didn't think much of it and gave Hayley a smile.

"Hello, Hayley. If you'd like some of the cookies, there's a few already cooled out on the table."

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

"And unlike Karla, I'm smart enough to wait for the cooled ones," Hayley declared, going to take one of the cookies. "What are they?"

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He was putting the next batch in the oven and at some point the comic timing would fall down dead and exhausted, but for the moment it was still running strong.

"Oral Sex is the name of the cookies," and he was careful not to burn his arm even as his sleeve pulled away from the mit right near the edge of the oven, "and they're chocolate and hazelnut."

La di da da da.

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

Hayley froze, cookie in her hand.

"So you're offering me..." she giggled before she could say the name. "You're offering..." she trailed off in giggles again.

"They're..." Nope, still giggling.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

He turned to look at her and managed a small smirk.

Perhaps it wasn't the comic timing.

"Yes, as much as you'd like."

[onlysmokesnics.livejournal.com]

Hayley tried to hold the cookie up to take a bite, and just end up laughing all over again.

"I don't think I'm gonna be able to chew without choking!" she said, her eyes watering.

[new-to-liirness.livejournal.com]

If anything, the smile became more wicked.

"That's really a terrible shame. They're rather nice to enjoy when you can."