4th Floor Common Room - Monday Afternoon

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

For once Rose didn't feel like being outside - something about the humidity or the thunderstorms or whatever. She didn't feel like being in her room which still felt too empty without Morgana there either so she found herself down in the common room with the music turned up loudly.

Even better, in the refrigerator, there was a tube of chocolate chip dough. Rose eyed it warily. Should it be eaten with a spoon or should she try to make cookies? The oven was on and a cookie sheet was out, but the possibility of ruined cookies was high once they actually went in the oven. Difficult choices for a Monday afternoon.

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Luke's room wasn't anywhere near this floor, but he was bored and was looking for people to talk to.

"Making cookies?" he asked, noting the wary look on the girl's face. That was encouraging.

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"Um," Rose made a face. "Nah, just eating the cookie dough. It's probably safer that way."

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"What, you don't think catching things on fire is fun?" he asked.

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"Things? Yes," Rose replied with a smirk. "Cookie dough? No way. Why? Are you a bit of a pyromaniac yourself?"

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"I wouldn't go as far to throw out the word pyromaniac," he said. "But I know my way around a lighter, yes."

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"No destructive tendencies with one then?" she teased.

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"Me? Destructive? Never." At the moment that was almost the truth. "You don't have plans to destroy the dorms, do you? I'd like the advance warning so I can save my stuff."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Nah, any destruction of the dorms will be totally accidental," she promised. "Which is why we're not actually baking the cookies today."

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"Ah, I see. Well I thank you for keeping us safe," he said with a smirk. "I'm Luke, by the way. Pretty sure I haven't met you yet."

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"It's my job," Rose joked. "And I'm Rose. You're one of the new kids, right? Might've seen you at that picnic."

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"Yep, I'm as new as they come," he said with a nod. "I was too busy trying to do the shirtless tradition proud to really notice too many people at the picnic. You know, flexing, making sure the sunlight hits my abs at the right angle. That sort of thing."

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"You know, if you have to work that hard, it's probably not worth taking your shirt off," she teased.

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"Hey, I am just dedicated to my new school," Luke said. And years of sword fighting had guaranteed him a rocking body, thank you. "I do school spirit right."

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"If you really did it right, you wouldn't wear a shirt anytime," Rose pointed out. "Shirtless spirit isn't just for the picnic."

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"Now, see, I was told it was just a picnic thing," Luke said. "I figured me walking around shirtless on any old day might be perceived as me showing off."

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"School spirit, showing off, is there really a big difference?" Rose pointed out.

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"I suppose there isn't," Luke allowed. "School spirit is essentially showing off how awesome the student body is. Literally, in this case."

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"There's all this big talk about the awesome, but I haven't seen any proof of it yet," Rose pointed out.

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"All right, all right. Put up or shut up, I get it," Luke said. He didn't have a sense of shame when it came to his own body (he even felt that scar on his face was kind of cool), so he had no issue with pulling off his t-shirt for the sake of proving a point. It definitely helped that he looked like a person who worked out often.

"Huh. Didn't notice how high they had the A/C up in here until this exact moment."

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"Niiice," Rose admitted, smirking a little as he actually took the shirt off. "You a fighter?"

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

Luke nodded, tossing his t-shirt over a shoulder so he wouldn't have to hold it. "Work with swords, mostly."

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"Yeah?" she looked interested. "Why swords? Personal preference or you a knight or something?"

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"Monsters where I'm from can only be defeated with celestial bronze, and the only weapons made with that are swords and knives," Luke said. "I wouldn't necessarily say no to bullets made of the stuff, but my family is very traditional."

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Rose nodded, understanding. "For me, it's silver stakes. No one will tell me why they just can't charm some silver bullets but I'd be up to blaming being stuck ass traditional."

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"Stakes?" he asked. "What, you fight vampires or something?"

He met a witch yesterday, no reason for vampires to not exist as well.