second floor common room | afternoon | wednesday | april 14

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

When Alex woke up, he'd been wet and cold. For a second, he thought he'd gotten drunk and passed out outside somewhere but that theory didn't last long. No, he'd quickly discovered there was some fucking thunderstorm happening above his head (and only above his head) that followed him around. As the storm continued, Alex had gotten more angry which had caused hail.

All right, so getting angry hadn't been the best of ideas so now, after forcing himself to calm down and into a mood that was half his regular misery and half mellow. It still meant things like occasional rain showers and a gusty breeze but he'd dressed warmer and stuck a hat on his head to deal with it.

So, that was where he was at now with this strangeness. He'd taken his storm down to the common room and flopped down on one of the couches, feet up and hands behind his head. There was nothing on television but it was on anyway while Alex tried to quietly read a book. Every so often, he checked his phone before going back to his book.

[cr is open and stormy!]

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[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Just don't let that crush on me get out of control," he said, snickering. "I wouldn't want you to hurt your reputation or anything like that."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Hey, my reputation's just fine," Rose snapped. God, what was it with guys and reputation talk? At least Alex was joking. "Ugh, even if it wasn't, I don't have to care about it til I get back to St Vlad's."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Why so snappy, Rose?" Alex wondered innocently. "I hit a nerve? It's so easy to do that with you lately."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"You try to hit nerves," she pointed out, making a face at him. "I'm not snappy."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"You just snapped at me," he pointed out helpfully. "And yeah, maybe sometimes but your nerves are more easily hit than others. What can I say, I know what buttons to push."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Rose glared at him then flopped back against the couch. "Yeah, yeah, lucky me. You try to press buttons, you get bit. That's how it works."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"You planning on biting me?" he wondered, amused. "Your boyfriend might not like that."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

It was Alex getting kicked again, if he didn't watch out.

"Yeah, wow, I don't have a boyfriend," she snapped. "No more than you've got Effy as a giiiiirlfriend."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"See, you just snapped at me," Alex said, steadfastly ignoring that last statement of hers. "When you say one thing so defensively, I have to believe I'm right."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"I snapped at you cause it's annoying," Rose retorted.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"You snapped because you do have a boyfriend," he shot back quickly. "It's okay to admit it, Rosie."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"If I have a boyfriend, why didn't I bring him to Prom?" Rose asked, rolling her eyes. "That's what boyfriends and girlfriends do, right? Look at Jack and Emma."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"How the fuck would I know what boyfriends and girlfriends do?" Alex asked, making a face. "I'm not an authority."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Yep, thanks for making my point there, Alex," Rose smirked, totally okay with that response.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Ah, that'd been a nice bit of trickery there. "So, what is he to you?" That was actually an honest question.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Someone I like a lot," she said with a shrug. "Something completely temporary."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Why temporary?" he asked, relaxing a little more on the couch. "Does it gotta be?"

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Rose shrugged again. "Cause guardians don't have relationships with each other," she explained. "So even if we did have one - and we don't - we couldn't."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Rules are made to be fucking broken," Alex said, shaking his head. "Never thought you'd be telling me you're gonna follow some stupid rules."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Fuck off," she said, making a face at him. "That's not how it is."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"See, I think that is how it is," Alex said, shrugging. "Because, you just told me guardians don't have relationships with each other yet a kid from some other future of yours and his showed up. I'm pretty sure you didn't let him just knock you up and leave you barefoot and pregnant, Rose. It happened."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, see? It's genetically impossible for me to have a kid with him. Just like I couldn't ever get knocked up by you," Rose told him. "So whatever fucked up world the liger kid came from, everything was totally different. Which means whatever happened doesn't matter shit to me."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Alex rubbed his forehead before saying, very bluntly, "Rose, you're an idiot. The kid was not the important part. The important part was you two were apparently guardians wherever he came from. Your kid mentioned that several times. You broke the rules there. It didn't kill you. So, fuck. The. Rules."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Not me I'm worried about killing," Rose muttered. She shrugged a little. "Maybe. Or maybe the kid just came from the same fucked up reality as wherever that kid of yours and Griff's came from." Someone listened to radio.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, that proves my point," Alex said, forcing himself not to rise to that bait and get defensive and snappy. "Anything can happen, can't it? It pisses me off to hear you say 'this won't happen' because you just don't know, Rose."