Fifth Floor Common Room [evening]

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Sookie had had better, and less upsetting days. That afternoon, her brother had actually finally returned a phone call -- not to really check on his baby sister, though he did ask after her, but to tell her that he couldn't come to visit that weekend.

But that wasn't enough. Scarcely ten minutes after getting off the phone with Jason, just as the sun was going down, her phone buzzed with a text.

pam & i coming to visit. arrange accommodations. sleeping in the ground is hell on hair.

Because that was exactly what she needed. Eric and Pam, in Fandom. All weekend. Terrorizing her friends and teachers and people who could conceivably be either of those things, but now wouldn't, because some stupid vampires had ruined it.

Wonderful.

So Sookie was in the common room, whisking her second batch of banana pudding. She'd already poured the first batch over vanilla wafers, and admittedly, maybe she was whisking a little harder than necessary. She had some aggression to work out. But at least there was pudding coming out of it.

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"Should we save the pudding for afterwards, to save our stomachs?" Jason said, at least a little teasing.

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"But the pudding's ready now," Roy pointed out, because, well. Pudding.

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Jason laughed. "Good point. I don't want to offend Sookie and make her think I don't want her cooking or anything. Did you plan on cooking together, or was it an accident?"

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"It was an accident," Roy admitted. "Sookie was already here when I got here."

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"Seems like a good accident, as long as you don't accidentally end up with banana-flavored chili," Jason said.

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"That would be pretty weird," Roy said thoughtfully. But it might make it a little milder, and therefore more survivable. "Don't think I'll try that one."

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"Is this therapeutic cooking for you like for Sookie?" Jason asked. "I didn't realize people would be so freaked out about this weekend."

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The watching people taste the chili for the first time did him more good than cooking it, really. "A lot of people here have...family issues," Roy said delicately, because he was self-aware enough to know he was probably pretty high on that list. "Or, like, maybe they have totally normal families who think this is a totally normal school, and the lid's about to get blown off that."