Fifth Floor Common Room - Monday Evening

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

Kyle wasn't in the best mood, but he'd been in plenty of worse moods. Hiccup and Toothless had left all of a sudden, leaving only a note behind. Marcus was still a raccoon. He hadn't seen much of anyone else lately and with so little to do, the restlessness was building up. The noise of the TV helped, so he had that on in the background while he slowly wrote a letter to his brother. He didn't know whether it would get there, but he felt like testing the limits of the Fandom postal service. The prospect of more people leaving this week didn't make him happy either, but he'd accepted it and was focusing on next semester. He liked the normal school year better than summer and was looking forward to getting stuck into keeping himself busy.

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[wrongkindofsith]

Cara? Was fine. After all, Cara had no reason not to be fine. None at all. Even if she had had a reason, it wasn't like she didn't have more than enough experience with unexpected departures, often without even the time (or inclination) to send a note, to actually care when it happened again.

So just ignore the fact she was sulking skulking around a common room she didn't really have any reason to be in. Clearly something else was responsible for the foul mood she definitely wasn't in.

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

Being of a paranoid nature (was it paranoia if something was really out to get you?), Kyle looked up when someone came in, saw Cara and went back to trying to make his letter legible. Then he looked up again. "Hiccup's gone."

[wrongkindofsith]

It wasn't paranoia, just good sense, but then Cara had spent a lot of time around people other people wanted to kill.

She leant against the back of the couch, not quite looking at Kyle. "I know."

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

"He was a plastic figure for a few weeks. Only changed back the other day. Something must have called him home. You were friends weren't you?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Bruce wandered into the common room and gave Kyle a nod in greeting. "Good evening," Bruce said. "Watching anything special?"

He saw the letter, so he figured the answer was no, but it was still the reasonable thing to lead with.

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

"I only had it on for the noise," Kyle explained. "You can change it to whatever you want."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"No, I was just curious," Bruce said. "I don't watch much television anyway. I wouldn't even know what's on."

That second part was a lie. He memorized TV listings, just in case. "What are you doing, then?"

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

He looked down at his notepad and pen, then back up at Bruce, gesturing to it. "Trying to write a letter to my brother. It's slow going."

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara acknowledged Bruce's presence with a nod. Considering how cheerful and outgoing she was even when she wasn't in a massive sulk perfectly normal mood, that could almost be considered an effusive greeting.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Cara," Bruce said. "How are you tonight?"

[notavalleygirl.livejournal.com]

Kitty didn't have a bad mood going, but she was the restless kind of dying to get out of her room, and so she was more than happy to find something going on up here. "Oh, good, people!" she said, finding a seat. "What are we watching?"

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

"We're watching whatever you want to watch," Kyle said, putting his pen down. There were people now and you didn't pass up a chance at talking to people in Kyle's book. "You might have to wrestle someone for the remote control though."

[notavalleygirl.livejournal.com]

"We're on break. It's too much work to wrestle," Kitty decided. "But I'd totally watch someone else wrestle. Might be like better than TV, even.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Whatever was on to begin with," Bruce said, excluding himself from any remote fights. "I'm not actually sure what it is, though."

[notavalleygirl.livejournal.com]

"You sure don't like want to change the channel?" she asked curiously.

[wrongkindofsith]

"Nothing important." Of course, she wasn't really watching it at all, since it still didn't make any sense to her.

[notavalleygirl.livejournal.com]

"And you don't want to change the channel, either?" The hope that she and Bruce might fight for entertainment value was pretty much dead, but she had to try.

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"Hello, Kyle," Rilla said as she practically bounced into the room.

She'd eaten most of a packet of cookies from home and had a lot of energy to burn.

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

"Hey Rilla," Kyle said, genuinely pleased to see her. "Having a good day?" he guessed at the enthusiasm. Or maybe she was just settling in well now.

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"I did!" she said. "It was lovely outside today, so I picked some flowers, and I received a package from home, and I wrote a letter home to Walter. I was terribly productive."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"You seem excited," Bruce noted when he spotted Rilla's near-bouncing. "Happy to be on a break week?"

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"I got food from home," she said with a little blush, "though not having classes is a lovely change as well. How have you been?"

[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

Alex was taking what she and Ino had discussed earlier to heart and decided to wander up two floors from her own to find people. It seemed like she picked the right floor, after all.

"Hey. Anything exciting on tonight?"

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

"I wouldn't call it exciting, but there's people to talk to, so it's something. What's new in the world of Alex?"

[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

"Better than nothing, I suppose," Alex replied. "Not much, really. Aside from my going home tomorrow to visit my family before the new year starts."

Yeah, she didn't want to think about how it was her last year in Fandom. "Anything exciting in the world of Kyle that I should know about?"