1st Floor Rec Room, Late Monday Morning

[vanillajello]

This morning, Kate had found out that repression only works well when you're not faced with having to go to a class taught by someone you're trying to repress about.

Which might explain why after breakfast, she'd grabbed some candy from her stash and made her way down to the rec room on the first floor, where she'd parked her ass on a couch and started playing a snowboarding game.

Yeah, she'd be right here until she had to go to Algren's class in 5th period.

[ooc: Open! I love that I have an icon for gaming and candy.]

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[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

Edmund was on his way back from Narnia when he heard the noise coming from down the hallway. His bag was still slung over his shoulder as he wandered in, looking around curiously to see what it was. "It's a bit early for sweets, isn't it?" he asked as he spotted her.

[vanillajello]

"Dude. It's never too early for candy," Kate said, shooting him a quick look that suggested that if he disagreed, he had to be crazy. "Besides, I already had a healthy breakfast."

A cup of black coffee with one and a half muffins was a healthy breakfast, wasn't it?

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

He set his bag down and moved so he could see the screen. "It doesn't make your stomach churn this soon in the morning?"

[vanillajello]

Kate's character was currently racing down the track in a way that suggested she'd maybe played this game once or twice or several hundred times before. There were a lot of insane jumps and high-scoring tricks being pulled.

"Please. After all the practice I've had? I'm a total pro at eating candy in the morning."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"My sympathies to your digestive system," he offered with the hint of a smile. "What's this sport? It looks like skiing but on a board." Someone was a little slow about 'new things' at times. Same with the 'don't talk when someone's concentrating on a game' thing.

[vanillajello]

Luckily, Kate didn't need to concentrate much. She'd be fine just as long as he didn't expect her to actually look at him while she talked.

And even then she'd probably do okay for a while. "'S snowboarding. It's way cooler than skiing."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"It looks like it takes quite a lot of balance," Edmund remarked. "You're quite good."

[vanillajello]

"I've had a lot of practice at this, too. A side effect of general laziness," Kate replied, glancing at him and offering him a wry smirk. "I'm Kate, by the way."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"I'm Edmund," he replied. "I think I've heard of you on the radio. Champion of the Third Floor?" He had a long memory for details.

[vanillajello]

Kate let out a surprised little laugh. "Yeah, that would be me. Not so much with the championing, lately, but I'll get back to it eventually."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"There'll be new students in a few months. I'm sure they'll be eager for someone to reassure them that they're not going mad and that it's a perfectly normal school, if you ignore the parts that make no sense."

[vanillajello]

As the race ended - first place and a bazillion points - Kate set the controller down to reach for some more candy, and shrugged. "Actually, I've kinda been thinking I might go home for at least part of the summer. Might have to delegate the reassuring to someone else."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"To be honest with you," Edmund said, taking a seat nearby, "home is probably infinitely more fun than rounding up all of the jaw-dropping new students and going through the usual round of conversations. Where are you from?"

[vanillajello]

"Overland Park, Kansas. Same time we're living here," Kate rattled off the usual stats, leaning back. "You didn't know snowboarding, so I'm gonna guess you're from somewhere a bit further than that."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"Narnia," Edmund replied with a nod. "I won't be offended if you don't know it, I promise. It's in a different world to this one. Before that, England but quite a long time ago. I'm occasionally rusty on newer things." Like TiVo and Schwarzkopf. "Have you done snowboarding before? Off the computer, I mean." It didn't matter which console it was, he'd still always call it a computer. Small steps.

[vanillajello]

"If you'd be offended because of that, you'd probably have to be offended way too often," she mused with an amused smile. "Yeah, I've tried snowboarding a few times. Fell down a lot. It was still fun, though."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin missed the warm weather already. But upon entering the rec room, he forgot all about that. The game being played grabbed his attention.

"Oooh!"

[vanillajello]

Kate glanced away from the screen just long enough to shoot a smirk in his direction. "Hey Robin."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Hi Kate. That game looks like a lot of fun."

[vanillajello]

Kate grinned. "That's because it is. You wanna try it?"

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Yeah I'd love to, thanks!" He hopped up onto the couch. The controller actually fit into his lap and it would look like he was sitting at the controls of a space craft or something.

[vanillajello]

"There you go," she said, pausing the game and handing the controller over, while completely failing at not looking too amused by a felt frog going to play a video game.

Then again, she wasn't even trying too hard.

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"So, what control does what?" Robin asked, managing not to notice the amused expression.

[vanillajello]

Kate explained the controls to him – jumps, grabs, flips, the boost that made the board go faster - then reached to grab some more candy. "But really, you'll learn as you play. I fell flat on my face so many times when I started playing this."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

As did Robin. But he didn't give up. "Whee!" He went off a jump that...well it wasn't so much a jump as a cliff he wasn't supposed to have gone off. He figured out a few tricks before the game started him over at the top.