3rd Floor CR, Friday Morning

[bitten_notshy]

Jack had arranged his week to have a three-day weekend for ease of travel back and forth to Baltimore. Of course, now that he wasn't visiting Baltimore so much, it meant he had a long chunk of dead time at the end of every week. It bothered him.

Today, he was trying to fill that time in the common room. There was some rerun on the television -- a wacky doctor show, full of adults acting like children in ways intended to be humorous -- but Jack's attention was on a chess board he'd pried free from the back of the storage shelves. He didn't play chess regularly, but he was decent enough to find it a good mental exercise.

He was playing himself. Right now, the black side seemed to be winning, but Jack saw a way for his white pieces to regain their advantage.

[OOC: Open common room, natch.]

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[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"They're fried dough with sprinkles," she teased, tossing him the bag to mod choose as he pleased. "You'll eat 'em." She studied the board again. "Right. Go grey then!"

[bitten_notshy]

Jack snagged a chocolate donut with sprinkles then put the bag back on the table for Rose to pick up if she wanted.

"Grey's the best color in chess," he nodded, before taking a bite. "And this is very good fried dough."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Good cause usually it's crazy boring," she pointed out. "It needs some love." She shrugged and flopped back onto a couch. "J, GoB. I got 'em on the way back up, but I figured I'd have to, like, look for people to share with, not just run across 'em playing chess."

[bitten_notshy]

Jack laughed. "Now I'm going to imagine you knocking on all the doors in the dorm, trying to find people to give donuts to. It'd be sweet."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"That's me," Rose said, making a face. "Just a little donut fairy, roaming the halls with sweet sugary goodness."

[bitten_notshy]

"You'd slip them under people's pillows, except then they'd wake up with crummy beds," Jack suggested.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"No, I think that's exactly what'd I do," she decided. "Their fault for getting up so late, right?"

[bitten_notshy]

"And for not waking up when someone clomps into their room with pastries," Jack agreed. "How was training this morning?"

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Hey, I don't clomp," Rose frowned, making a face at him. "Lots of running. So like the exact same thing from every other morning the past seven months."

[bitten_notshy]

"I'm sorry to tell you this," Jack said, almost managing to sound serious, "but you do clomp."

He shrugged at her description of the training session. It sounded dull, but he knew it was important to her. "Lucky you."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Keep dreaming, Priest. I'll remember that next time I sneak up on your ass," she snorted. "And yeah, pretty much. Lucky to have an awesome teacher. But you know what that's like, yeah?"

[bitten_notshy]

"When did you ever sneak up on my ass?" Jack demanded, halfway indignant. "And yes. I do. Even if something's dull, it's easier if you;re doing it for someone worth impressing, right?"

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Which hadn't really been what she meant, but that was true enough too, and Rose nodded in agreement.

"Just you wait. It'll happen, and then you'll admit how right I am."

[bitten_notshy]

"I won't," Jack said stubbornly. "I'll just find a way to sneak up on you better."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Rose smirked a little, amused at the idea. "So when's our time frame for this? Before graduation?"

[bitten_notshy]

"Sure," Jack decided. "That gives us two weeks, doesn't it? And if we don't manage it by then, we can call it a draw."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Shit, two weeks?" she checked. "I don't even wanna think about that. Let's pretend it's not for like months still. Can it be January again?"

[bitten_notshy]

"We graduate two weekends from now," Jack confirmed. "But I wouldn't object to going back to January, either."

He eyed her. "Weren't we both absolutely convinced we'd barely last the year a year ago? We've gone soft."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Hey, I thought I'd get kicked out again," Rose pointed out lightly. Or that she'd manage to get back to Lissa. "That's different."

[bitten_notshy]

"I just thought I'd be ready to go home," Jack shrugged. "You really expected to get kicked out?"

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"You thought you were going home on the day after your 18th birthday,"she replied with a little smile. "And, well, yeah. Wasn't much point in staying if I didn't have a chance to go back after."

[bitten_notshy]

"It's modern technology," Jack pronounced solemnly. "I got all attached to gadgets and couldn't go back."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Cell phones, right?" Rose teased. "And tv."