Third Floor Common Room; Late Sunday Afternoon [ 11/14 ].

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Alexander was just about at his wits' end with the strange way he'd been feeling this week, but he had done well, he felt, with staving it off with a lot of coffee ice cream and handwavy movie nights that resulted in a few close calls and scooting slightly away from the normal proximity. And so it was this afternoon that hewas feeling the need for another coffee ice cream antidote and went into the common room to fetch it.

Only to open the freezer door to a truly disturbing image.

"No!" Alexander muttered, staring for a moment before he started shifting through the contents within. "No, it couldn't possibly...how...How could we have honestly gone through all of that ice cream already?"

He was just going to stare into the freezer in shock and dismay some more.

If anything, it was at least cooling him down.

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"What was her idea?" Scully asked, curious, then pouring some of the milk for herself and Alexander, and sticking a bottle of formula in Frohike's mouth. "I ended up saying far too much on many topics at Magic Reserves, before being far too admiring of Roy Harper here in the Common Room."

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"And that," Alexander said pointedly, "is why I skipped the Magic Reserves that day."

Somehow, that didn't sound right, so Alexander paused.

"Err, the saying far too much, that is, not Roy Harper."

Ahem.

"Anyway, it was just a song that dealt with a topic I was not exactly comfortable with, but she insisted that we would harmonize perfectly on it. And she had asked so kindly and sincere that I just couldn't bear to say no..."

Yes. That was why you couldn't say no, Alexander...

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"Completely understandable," Scully commiserated. "About wanting to avoid more interaction." Some imp of the perverse made her ask, "And what was the title of that song? Hmm?"

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Congratulations on turning Alexander's face red once again, Scully.

"I believe," he said, trying to clear his throat and shoulder through it bravely, "the title had something to do with conversing about intimate intercourse."

Pause.

"It involved....rapping."

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Scully's face was a study in trying not to laugh out loud. The 90's being more recent for her than for other people, and the song coming to mind easily. "I see." She took a breath, swallowed, then said, her voice a little higher in amusement, "So then you realized it would be a bad idea, and just... ahem. Exited stage left."

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Alexander cleared his throat again.

"Er, no," he admitted, the blush surging again. "We were...distracted due to the whole event of blurting out secrets, and so I hoped she would forget but she managed to find me before club and implored me again, and I just could not say no and disappoint her so..."

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Scully covered her face to hide the laugh, and said, "So you sang 'Let's Talk About Sex' to the entire Glee Club? This week?"

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"...thankfully, it was just a snippet, enough to introduce to the club Ariel's supposedly good idea of what to do for a topic this week..."

Oh, yes. Alexander was going to sigh. Sigh like the wind.

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And Scully was quietly going to giggle, as she dunked her cookie in the milk. "Did anyone start making out?"

Look, it was a significant possibility this week.

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"I'm not sure," said Alexander. "I decided to take my leave early."

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Scully hummed in amusement, and said, "Smartest course." Then patted his arm. And resisted squeezing his bicep. "This too will pass. I hope. Or we're all going to have to leave the island."

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They were very nice biceps, having developed from a lifetime of manual labor and everything.

"I'd much prefer to leave the island," Alexander commiserated, "as the only person I would wish to share these sorts of feelings with is not exactly on it."

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But random groping was wrong! So Scully kept her hands around her milk and cookies now.

"I know exactly how you feel," Scully muttered, then grimaced. "Not that it would help me if he was here, since he still wouldn't do anything with me."

The idea of Mini-Scully and him squicked out Mulder.

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Wouldn't do anything with me seemed like such an odd phrasing to Alexander that he didn't know what to make of it; all he knew was that his brain pieced it together, as it had so many other things this week, as something that he must be misunderstanding.

"Ah," he said, "so you've got a paramour just out of reach, yourself?"

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"Heh. Paramour... Sort of? He's four years older. And a very good friend. And he loves me, but ... not like that."

This was probably even more confusing to Alexander on some level. Had Scully known what he was wondering about, she would have given him a very clinical explanation.

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"Are the feelings you have not exactly reciprocated, then?"

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"We've been friends a very long time," Scully said, omitting various truths while still being honest. "And right now, I remind him of his little sister. So... no. Not in the way I'd like. Especially this week, with stupid romantic notions and hormonal impulses in the air." She sighed. "Cassima is the same age as you, isn't she?"

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"I can't honestly say I know for sure," Alexander admitted, "but I imagine so, yes. Why should that matter?"

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Right. Love at First Sight. Scully shook her head a little, then said, "It doesn't, much. It just makes things easier. More in common for both of you, if you're in the same place, emotionally."

Instead of battling teenage angst and hormones instead of middle-aged regrets.

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"I think," Alexander offered, "that Cassima and I share a particularly strong bond in that respect. We've both been through very...similar experiences."

Enslavement by evil wizards did amazing things to create connections, really.

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"Is that why you fell in love with her so strongly?" Scully asked, nibbling on her cookie. That made more sense than just instant attraction. "Then I'm very sorry she's not here for you this week." She pointed at Frohike and Langley. "Although I'd still tell you to be careful."

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"Be careful...?" Alexander asked, following Scully's point, but not following he--

--oh.

Ohhh.

Alexander's eyes widened and he was pretty sure every inch of him was red, and he realized he just did not know what to say to that, only thathis longings went up to a whole new level.

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"Alexander?" Scully checked, blinking. A lot. "You did know... ahem. Where babies come from. Right?"

Welllll, did he?

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"Of course I know how children are created!" Alexander said, about three seconds away from a flail. "I just...I wouldn't...I mean, I'm a gentleman...and I wouldn't dare....unless I absolutely knew for sure it would be reciprocal..."

Oh, by the heavens, Alexander, stop thinking of Cassima in her very revealing slave clothes....

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Looks like someone left off the "when a Mommy and Daddy love each other very much" part of the Where Babies Come From explanation for Alexander.

"Welllll," Scully said carefully. "Obviously. But. If Cassima loves you as much as you love her... and, well. You're the same age, so she's not too young for the proceedings. She might, after all-- welcome the idea." She grimaced. "She definitely would if she were here this week. Waiting for the wedding would be entirely problematic."