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Jack Priest ([personal profile] bitten_notshy) wrote in [community profile] fandomhighdorms2010-04-16 09:13 am
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3rd Floor CR, Friday Morning

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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bitten_notshy: ([neg] disdainful in jacket)

[personal profile] bitten_notshy 2010-04-16 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"No." A beat while Jack, most of his routes blocked, moved a pawn in a way that neither helped nor hurt him. "Maybe. Only if it would make her happy."

[identity profile] fratboybitch.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Alex grinned, sliding his rook out a little more to grab one of those pawns. "That was a pretty affectionate thing you just said, Jack. I'm beginning to think you're a teddy bear at heart."
bitten_notshy: ([pos] laughing like a dork)

[personal profile] bitten_notshy 2010-04-16 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm not the one who let a girl paint my nails because she put on tight pants," Jack pointed out.

He frowned at the pawn's sacrifice, then recovered by using his bishop to take Alex's rook.

[identity profile] fratboybitch.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, but I think you would have," Alex said, shaking his head. "Besides, it wasn't just the pants. I had other motivations for letting her talk me into it."
bitten_notshy: ([neu] looking off to the side)

[personal profile] bitten_notshy 2010-04-16 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm sure you had very good reasons," Jack said loftily.

[identity profile] fratboybitch.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, you know, it's not chess but it was still pretty good," Alex joked. "But that's all right Jack, you're just as good as Effy in tight pants."

Except not really.
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[personal profile] bitten_notshy 2010-04-16 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Jack raised an eyebrow, genuinely surprised for a moment. "I didn't realize you looked at my arse, Alex. Should I be flattered?"

[identity profile] fratboybitch.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Alex threw one of Jack's pawns at him. "I meant the chess game. You don't come close to matching her in wearing tight pants and no, I haven't looked."
bitten_notshy: ([pos] cheeky monkey)

[personal profile] bitten_notshy 2010-04-16 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Jack swatted the pawn away. "Touchy," he observed. "But glad to clear all of that up."

He moved a pawn. "You know I'm two moves from checkmate." This was ... kind of a bluff.

[identity profile] fratboybitch.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm not that gullible," he said but he did check the board before sliding his queen into a better striking position. "I'll let Emma be the one that checks out your ass. She'll appreciate it more."
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