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Fifth Floor Common Room - Late Thursday Night

The TV was blaring some infomercial about some stupid egg-cracking device because apparently cracking eggs was too hard for people.

Kyle, however, wasn't paying much attention to it. He was very, very wired from too much caffeine today and as such was highly strung and focusing on constructing a small town that looked a lot like Fandom (only with primary colors) with some Lego blocks he'd found in one of the storage closets.

There was room on the floor for plenty more buildings though.

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Kyle tensed up for a split second before he remembered that the bear wasn't a threat. "I think he's trying to say 'screw you, I'm a bear.' Point taken." Weetiny bears weren't scary after dealing with a fully grown one. "But if I find any blocks missing, I'm blaming you."

"Yeah, I don't think that's all he's trying to say," Rose said, trying to swallow her laughter. It wasn't really working so well. "People don't usually call him cute."

She was ready to grab Dimka if she had to, but she hadn't reached forward yet.

"He's not going to eat the blocks. Just taste 'em a little. Like he's been doing to all my stuff for the past two days."

Rose was thrilled with that.

"I'm not really into bear drool," Kyle said, leaving the bear to it. "And you didn't answer my question."

Rose glanced down at the bear, her eyes fond as she reached out to brush her fingers down his back. She was pretty sure it wasn't the bear drool he'd been reacting to, no.

"Can't sleep. Adrian might call," she replied. "And Dimitri's - um, indisposed. So I'm on call if he has to go out."

"You're that heavy of a sleeper?"

She made a face at him, getting up to head to the kitchen. "Want something to drink?" Rose didn't wait for the reply as she pulled out two cans of Coke and brought them back.

"S'not how it's done. Most guardians just adopt their Moroi's schedule, but not really possible here."

"Yeah," he said anyway once she was back, holding up a hand to take the can from her. "At least it's not sentry duty. Going without sleep is hard, but it's worse when all you're doing is looking out at the dark. Here," he gestured to the blocks, "I can do something. When do you get to sleep?"

Rose gave him the can, checking back on Dimka who'd wandered off to check out the interesting clutter under the couch.

"We run patrols at day mostly. Night would be worse" she admitted. She curled up against the couch, reaching to grab a handful of legos. "He won't go out once it gets too near dawn." Which meant a hour or two before her first exam. Good plan for the day.

"If you want back-up, I'll be here." He opened the can and guzzled half of its contents. "Building this."

There was a warm smile for the offer. "I don't do this, I can't protect Lissa later," Rose said. "But thanks. I'll remember it."

She dropped the legos in her lap, starting to put some together. "How big you going with this?"

"I don't know," he admitted. "I was going to keep going until I ran out of blocks and couldn't find any more."

Dimka-the-bear was licking his paws as he clambered out from under the couch and flopped down over Rose's feet. The paw-licking turned to chewing on the hems of her jeans almost immediately.

"Find more like without buying them?" Rose asked, making a little stack. "Cause you can probably get tons at T&C."

"I don't go to Turtle & Canary anymore," he said without explanation. "And I'm not buying blocks. So unless there's some in the supply closets on other floors, this is all we've got." It was an impressive amount nonetheless.

"Bet there's some in the rec room downstairs too," she said thoughtfully, fumbling her block and reaching to open and drain her Coke. The caffeine should better wake her up a little even if it didn't help the persistent headache. "What's wrong with Turtle & Canary?"

"Nothing's wrong with Turtle & Canary," he said in all honesty. "But Apu's always there, so I don't go there." He pulled the first thing he'd been working on and clipped the two together. "Can you hand me that?" He pointed to a clump of blocks.

Okay, well, now Rose was wondering if Kyle and Apu had a feud of gigantic proportions. She leaned forward, dislodging the little bear who made a whuffled noise of protest. "This one with the yellow?"

He nodded. "It's part of this one's roof. Then I can put this together with those two and those two go onto that one." He pointed out a base set on the floor. Someone had put a lot of thought into this.

"...I don't know if I want you to have been thinking about this for weeks or not," she pondered, flipping Kyle the piece. "This is what you do every night?"

Kyle caught the piece with one hand, then shook his head. "This is what I'm doing tonight. Tomorrow's probably something else. Anything else."

"What can I do to help?" she asked, shifting enough that she had better access to the pieces. As she shifted, she pulled out the cell phone, checking to make sure she had reception and hadn't missed a call. The wee bear waited until she was settled and then flopped across her foot again, his eyes closing as he fought falling asleep. "Didn't know you were still up most nights."

"I wasn't until a couple of weeks ago," he replied, surveying the mess of blocks. "You can do that side. It's supposed to be the hotel, Caritas, all that stuff, but I don't care what goes there."

"You know I'm going to ask what happened a couple weeks ago, right?" she said, glancing up at Kyle with not-quite worry. She brushed her fingers through the blocks, looking for a few good base pieces for the hotel.

Kyle glanced up from the blocks and gave a small shrug. "The fog happened." He pointed out some long blocks. "Try those. I sleep whenever I feel like it. I don't like going out when it's dark unless I'm going somewhere specific, so I've been finding stuff to do. I'm running out of ideas." Normally he could sit and listen and watch for however long he needed to, but lately he'd been restless and felt the need to keep busy, to keep the feeling of something crawling up his neck away.

To Rose who'd grown up on a mostly-nocturnal schedule, the idea of not going places in the dark seemed odd even though she realised Kyle's world was - different that way. And a lot of ways. She grabbed some of the long blocks and started to fit the smaller ones on top. "Legos is a good one," she pointed out then gave him a tiny, teasing grin. "You could take up knitting."

"Know anyone who can teach me?"

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