Fourth Floor Common Room; Wednesday Evening [ 10/06 ].

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

It had been an interesting Wednesday for Alexander, what with a fake cat at the store that he was pretty sure was following him and then his usual issues with the reserves meeting. Top that all off with the demands that had come from his mother after his visit, and he was feeling the need for something grounding that didn't take too much concentration on his nice little bag of issues.

That, of course, meant turning to cooking. And, so that the habitual activity wouldn't bring up other facets of his past, he was at least challenging himself with making something new. After all, he'd enjoyed so many different pizzas on the island before, yet he had failed to actually make one himself.

He was finding it to be fairly successful thus far. And perfectly cathartic, as well.


[[ open common room is open, of course! PIIIZZZAAAA. I want pizza now. Figures. ]]

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[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

With a moving picture (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289043/) in hand, Maladicta wandered from first Alexander's room to the common room to find him.

"What are you making?"

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"I am having my hand at making my own pizza," Alexander announced proudly, turning toward the sound of Maladicta's voice with a smile.

A smile that fell from his face very soon after seeing what was in her hand.

"Moving picture night!" he declared. "Oh, my apologies, Maladicta! I've had so much on my mind that I completely forgot!"

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"I think we can manage to figure out the television here as well." By 'we', she meant 'him'.

It made perfect sense!

"Bad weekend?"

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Alexander would have never dreamed that, when it came to television sets, Maladicta would truly mean we.

"Oh, the weekend itself was quite enjoyable," he said, taking a second to slip the pizza into the over and set the timer on the over. Wonderful appliance, that over. "It was good seeing Rosella again, although my mother certainly had no shortage of things to be disappointed with. It's just been a bit of an...off day...."

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

Offering over the dee vee dee over, she smiled. "Off how?"

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

Dinner in the oven and now getting a moving picture set up for her. No wonder Maladicta hung out with Alexander.

He took the dee vee dee and dutifully headed over to the television set. "Convinced that a decorative cat statue was following me around off," he offered, not wanting to go into more detail than that, really, and, to prove it, he ventured, "And how are you feeling? I mean, after..."

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

Maladicta stared for a moment before her eyes widened. "Ah, just fine. Thank you for the shirt, though."

There was a pause before she just had to ask, "Decorative cat?"

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"Yes, one at the shop," said Alexander, shaking his head. "It was a disturbing thing, with these eyes that would just stare. I kept believing I moved it toward the back of the shop, but I kept finding it toward the front again not too long afterwards."

There was a slight paused, filled with a troubled frown.

"I'm not...fond of cats to begin with," he elaborated. "Much less fake ones that seem to be following me. And you're quite welcome about the shirt, but, er, I must ask. Do you plan on...returning it? Mother actually did ask after it this weekend; I believe it's one of her favorites."

She said it set off his eyes, or something.

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Oh, of course!" No, never. It was lovely and fit her so well! "As soon as I have it laundered," Maladicta replied.

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

Alexander nodded. "Don't feel the need to launder it," he offered. "I do know how to launder clothes myself, you know, but I certainly would not mind the gesture. And it has been a busy weekend. Did you have any visitors?"

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"No, but I did meet Faramir's brother," she replied. "I managed to miss you and your guests unfortunately."

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

"Quite alright," said Alexander. "It was mostly Rosella convincing me to avoid our mother, and our mother apparently trying to inspire a match between my dear sister and random men. How is Faramir's brother? I would say I am saddened to think I missed the chance to meet him, but that would have meant that my mother would also have met him, and then press an engagement."

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"...he seemed quite eager for most matches."

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There was a slight pause there, and Alexander's brow arched most inquisitively at Maladicta.

"You don't mean...."

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure he could be very charming for most women," Maladicta replied dryly. Which was mostly just funny if you asked her.

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

No, no. Alexander was not laughing, really. Not at all. A mere...chuckle at best, followed by a cough, a clearing of the throat.

And perhaps a deft change in the conversation, because the moving picture was prepared and any further thinking on this topic would threaten his attempts not to laugh again.

"So what is the picture of choice this time around?" he asked.

Not laughing. Not laughing, really.

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

You just keep not laughing, mister. You just keep it up. "31 Days After. It's about zombies."

And not overzealous flirts.

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

Oh, he will.

"Zombies?" Alexander asked, getting up from the television to plop on the sofa with a glance at the timer on the pizza. Then he shook his head. "People of this realm choose such bizarre things to make moving pictures about."

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"I don't think they're used to normal things," Maladicta pointed out, taking a seat on the other end of the sofa.

Yes. Normal. Because a guy who was enslaved by an evil wizard since birth and a vampire knew all about normal.

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

Normal, clearly, was all relative.

"Perhaps," he allowed. "I still can't see zombies managing to fill a whole moving picture, though."

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"They can be awfully chatty once they get started, though."

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

Excuse Alexander a moment as he looked at Maladicta a bit funny.

"Blaaarg, grrrraaaw, and urrrrgh is considered chatty?"

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

Oh sure, bring that up!

"...well, if they don't have jaws."

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

"Do you mean to tell me," asked Alexander, more intrigued than he would have expected he'd be on this topic, "that you're more familiar with zombies that can get an actual word in edgewise?"

Pause.

"I mean, besides brains, of course."

[inneedofcoffee.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes, they tend to crop up on occasion," Maladicta replied. "It's as though the people just can't seem to stop moving, even after death. So they tend to be a bit more zealous than the average person."