Second Floor Common Room, Friday Afternoon

[glacial_queen]

Cream? Check.

Milk? Check.

As many different types of chocolate as they could find? Check.

Enough other various toppings and ingredients to open up a grocery store? Check and double-check.

The second floor common room's kitchen had been transformed. Bowls filled with fruit, candy, chocolate pieces, and other various ingredients were strewn about the counter. Tiny bottles filled with lemon, vanilla, and peppermint extracts lined up like soldiers awaiting deployment. Every available surface in the fridge was filled with cartons of heavy cream and gallons of milk.

In the center of it all, whirring in self-important splendor, was the ice cream maker Ben had gotten for his birthday.

"This," Karla breathed as she glanced around the kitchen one more time, "is going to be epic."

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[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

"I'm looking forward to trying it," Tim said. "How'd your first week of classes go?"

[glacial_queen]

"I got hit with pies this morning," Karla said ruefully. "Apparently, I'm not as much of a badass as Professor Loki is. But that's what class is for, I guess. All of my courses are interesting, though, which is always fun. How about yours?"

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

"I'm in a class with Sherlock Holmes!" Tim grinned. "I don't think he's the ones from the books, exactly, but he's pretty close."

[glacial_queen]

"Who?" Karla asked, puzzled. "I tried to sign up for that class, but it was full. Is the teacher a famous author or something?"

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

"Detective," Tim said. "One of the greatest detectives ever. He lived back in Victorian times and his friend wrote up a bunch of books about his cases. This guy's probably a descendant of the original."

[glacial_queen]

"Does he live up to his famous predecessor, then?" Karla asked.

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

"So far," Tim said. "In class today, he could tell all kinds of stuff about the students just by looking at them."

[glacial_queen]

"Really?" Karla asked, grinning. "You going to tell me what he was able to tell about you?"

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

"He could tell I've done gymnastics by looking at my forearms," Tim said.

[glacial_queen]

"I didn't know you did gymnastics," Karla said, intrigued. "Of course, I'm not Mr. Holmes, either. I wonder what he'd pick up from me."

She idly played with her right ring finger nail, where her snake tooth hid. "Bet it was be interesting. How did everyone else take it?"

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

"He was a little condescending to some of the students," Tim admitted. "They didn't like it much. Momoko had fun, though."

[glacial_queen]

"Momoko always has fun," Karla said wryly. "I think she was having fun even when we got almost-arrested."

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

"You guys got almost arrested?" Tim grinned. "You gotta tell me that story."

[glacial_queen]

"I didn't tell you about that?" Karla asked, laughing. "It all started when I burgled the art museum."

Her eyes danced as she waited for Tim's reaction to that bit of news.

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

There had to be a punchline to that one, especially with the look Karla was giving him. "No, you've told me nothing about your life of crime."

[glacial_queen]

"It's probably to lure you into a false sense of security before I attempt something dastardly," she assured him, dimples out in full force.

"I don't know if you know, but both Dinah and Momoko plan to go into law enforcement after school and sometimes they deal with bad guys with powers." Which was a handy way to skirt around their superhero identities. Because why would Tim know those?

"I had a handy catsuit laying around, which as far as I can tell is half of what someone needs to become a supervillain. I dubbed myself Mistress Mayhem--" because, clearly, the other half was a swanky name "--and agreed to use my powers against them, so they could get some practice taking on a criminal with a few surprises up her sleeve."

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

Tim snickered. "Mistress Mayhem? I wish I'd seen that." Plus, catsuit. "How did they do?"

[glacial_queen]

"Well, they tracked me from the art gallery and then we started this epic battle in the pond...except that's when the Fandom police showed up. I wasn't as good at evading the gallery's alarms as I'd thought."

Karla was kind of pouty about that, yes.

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

"And there you were, in a catsuit," Tim said. "Might as well just have hung a sign around your neck saying 'villain.'"

[glacial_queen]

"With a backpack full of artwork, too!" Karla said merrily. "Of course, it was all shielded, because I didn't want anything getting damaged in the fight. But they hauled us all down to the station for questioning. Fortunately, we were smart enough to call Professor Cabot."

Who had been just the tiiiiiniest bit annoyed with them, yes.

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

"You lawyered up on 'em, huh?" Tim grinned. "Smart move."

[glacial_queen]

"Well, I'd had permission to burgle the gallery, but it was kind of looking bad for all of us...and I didn't want Dinah to have that on her record while she was going to school for criminal stuff." She shrugged a bit. "Just made sense, since the only thing we could really get in trouble for was disturbing the peace."

And bothering the flamingos.