3rd Floor Common Room, Wednesday Evening

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Bobby and his three pints of ice cream were not sulking about this whole goodbye business, really. He was just... adequately prepared for the Really Strong Guy Who Can Fly movie marathon that was on television at the moment.

There were also several containers of Chinese food, because clearly the obvious remedy for people-leaving emo (not that he had any of that, really) was to attract people with the use of food.

[ooc: I survived my first day back at the job I loathe! Yay? Post open!]

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Roy smelled food.

And hey, look, Bobby! "'Mano! How's it going?"

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"Mrrf mrrraffron," Bobby mumbled around a mouthful of noodles, gesturing at the screen. "Movie marathon," he repeated, after swallowing.

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Roy always kind of wondered why Clark didn't sue the people who made these movies, actually, but he went for, "Oh, God, these total ripoffs?" because that was less blindingly obvious.

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"Ripoffs?" Bobby gave Roy a confused look.

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"Maybe not to you," Roy said thoughtfully. "But where I come from? Total ripoffs. There's this, uh, actual guy. Superman?"

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"Neeeever heard of him," Bobby confirmed, smirking as the scene switched to one of Really Strong Guy zooming through the air... complete with visible wires.

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Sookie certainly wasn't a little gloomy herself, nope. Though, really, this week sucked, pardon her language. So she'd traipsed down a couple flights of stairs in search of something to eat and hopefully company. And luckily, she not only found food, but one of her favorite people!

Who, admittedly, looked a bit blue himself. "You better be sharing," she teased, wandering in to perch beside him.

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At least he wasn't literally blue. Which... was actually possible, and not just when someone snuck dye in his shower.

"I dunno," he mused. "I can eat a lot." Not this much, though. Not unless he'd been spending all day using his powers or something.

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"Oh, I know," she agreed, "but in the name of my lack of starvation, you'd help a girl out?"

...because Sookie clearly would not be able to find food anywhere else. Ever. At all.

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"Well," he mused. "You did help me out yesterday with the waffles of handwavey eating. So I think I might be able to do something for you, yeah."

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"Much appreciated," she said, curling up on the couch and snagging a carton. "I'd have to resort to drastic measures, otherwise."

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"Oh yeah?" Bobby raised an eyebrow. "Drastic how?"

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"I was mostly thinking I'd start withholding cake, on my end," she mused. "And then maybe dressing you in a tiny sailor suit next time you're a penguin."

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"Ouch," Bobby said, wincing dramatically. "You know how to hit a man where it hurts, Sookie Stackhouse."

...As if Bobby were a man. Come on now.

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"I know," she said seriously. "That's why I try to use my powers for good, and why you should always share with me. That, and because sharing is nice and also I would be really sad otherwise."

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"Coincidentally, sad Sookies are one of my least favorite things ever," Bobby replied. "So that works out."

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"Sad Bobbies aren't high on my list, personally," Sookie noted, reaching out to lightly touch his arm. "You're okay?"

She could totally tell he wasn't. Shielding or not, she could usually get a pretty decent emotional vibe, at least. Plus, you know, it was Bobby. Telepathy aside, she could read him pretty well.

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"I'm fine," he said, doing his best to give her a reassuring smile. "I've got food, dorky movies, and an awesome girlfriend here, what more do I need?"

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"Awesome telepathic girlfriend who can tell when you're lying," Sookie amended, scooting a little closer, "but okay. You know I'm here if you need anything. What're we watching?"

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Pretending to be fine was something Bobby had refined almost to an art. So he wasn't about to admit the opposite even when essentially called on it.

"Really Strong Guy Who Can Fly," Bobby said. "Roy says they're ripoffs based on some guy who's real in his world. But as far as I always knew they were just goofy movies."

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"I've seen this!" Sookie said, eyes lighting up. "They're based on some guy? Weird. They exist at home for me, too." Hush, she got excited when people watched things that were twelve or so years old and she recognized her. Lord help everyone if they ever watched that movie with the boat. "But I guess that makes sense. If telepaths and mutants and vampires and angels and all are real, then I guess it stands that maybe this guy is, too, in someone's universe."

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"Named Superman," Bobby nodded. "Which is, admittedly, a lot easier to say."

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"Catchy," she said with a nod. "I wonder if it's like, in the superhero credo that you have to have a neat name like that. It's a million times better than 'Rogue,'" she added, slanting a look at him. She personally thought 'Iceman' was kind of cute and descriptive, but she wasn't about to point that out in the middle of a common room.

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"I think it is," Bobby said knowingly. "Except some people apparently didn't get the memo, because, well. Rogue. Or Stilt-Man." Though Stilt-Man was actually a villain, not a hero. But details.

And Iceman was not 'cute', it was awesome.

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"...Stilt-Man," Sookie repeated skeptically. "Really? Someone thought that was a good idea?"

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"Yeeeeah," Bobby nodded. "The name's, uh. Pretty descriptive, actually. He's got this suit with these big metal legs that he can make taller. I guess he figured he needed to be tall in order to... rob banks?" it was clear from Bobby's tone that he had no idea how the two were really connected.

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"...because banks are so tall?" Sookie also had no idea how the two were connected. She considered, and added, "Maybe he just really likes stilts!"

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"Supervillain logic is not normal person logic," Bobby shared, as if he were imparting some great secret.

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"Coming from you, that's saying something," Sookie noted, raising a brow.

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"Hey! I am not a supervillain!"

...Except that one time. But that was not his fault.

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"No, sweetie, I meant the normal people logic thing," she said, immediately contrite. "I'm not sure you'd know normal people's logic if it came up and kissed you."

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"Hey! I'll have you know that math? Is full of logic," he pointed out.

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"That is very true," she agreed. "But I'm not sure normal people, y'know, sit around and think about things like kangaroo sign language and trampolines." She paused, and added, "So I fall under that umbrella, too."

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Well, okay, when you put it that way. "Yeah, well. When you put it that way- Good thing there's room for two under this umbrella," he grinned, impulsively leaning over to give her a quick kiss on the cheek.

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Sookie smiled in a totally, totally dorky way, and curled a little closer. "I like having non-normal logic with you," she decided. "It's way more interesting, anyway."

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"Everyone else is just sad that they don't share our awesome logic," Bobby declared. "Or they would be, if they had any idea what they're missing. But they don't, because they're too busy being all... normal."

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"Much as I'd like to be normal in other ways," Sookie mused, "I can honestly say our weird way of thinking makes us way more interesting than...oh, about eighty-five percent of the population. In my experience."

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Bobby... wasn't touching that 'normal in other ways' comment, mostly because he agreed with it but didn't really like to dwell on it. "Eighty-five, huh?" Bobby asked. "You do a study?"

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"Informally," she said seriously. "For about...oh, sixteen and a half or so years. My data's pretty conclusive."

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"Are there charts?" Bobby had to ask.

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"Spreadsheets, but I can make charts," she decided randomly.

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"Pie charts?" Bobby asked hopefully.

...What? He liked pie charts! And not just because they were named after a food. Cake charts, for example, just wouldn't work at all. Even if cake itself was pretty awesome.

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"Which I could then make into actual pies," she mused, tilting her head in thought.