Outside room 201, late Monday night

[notmyownage]

It'd taken an exceptionally long time -- especially after Claudia became convinced the rickshaw driver was a stealth-goblin and decided to abandon ship -- but Claudia'd finally managed to haul the lightly snoring Scully back to her room. She had her arms hooked under Scully's, locked tight over her chest, and after half of town, the school grounds, and two flights of stairs, Claudia wasn't actually sure she'd end up being able to let go.

"Next time --" she gasped, fumbling around to try and get at Scully's pocket for a key without dropping her friend. "-- I'm just gonna --" *pant, wheeze* "ow -- take pictures and -- keeeeeeeeeeeeys -- send them your -- ha! -- lonely sniper friends."

Okay. She had keys. She had Scully. She had no idea where her knees were supposed to be.

"Oh lord. Going down." She tipped over backwards. "Okay! We'll just -- rest here a bit."

[ooc: I haaaaaaaaaaaaad to. Scully modded with permission.]

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[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

Still sleeping, Scully rolled over and flopped like a ragdoll.

Possibly, she was frowning. Maybe. A little...?

[notmyownage]

Claudia made a half-hearted attempt to keep Scully from rolling to far.

"There's not a part of me that doesn't hurt." She flopped an arm in Scully's general direction. "You so owe me."

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

Somewhere that was else (http://community.livejournal.com/fh_adventures/4309.html?thread=639957#t639957), there was screaming and falling and flying and a clock booming and glass shattering and then--

Scully inhaled and sat straight up, eyes huge as she flailed. "Whoa!"

[notmyownage]

Claudia flailed back, startled. "Oh, sure, NOW you wake up!"

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

"Claudia? Claudia." Scully gulped, hands on the floor, steadying herself, and still looking wild-eyed. "What the... how did I get back here?" She looked around, patted at her face. "What happened to the mask?"

[notmyownage]

Mask?

"Mask?" Claudia was too worn out to have a brain-to-mouth filter just now. "There's been no mask."

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

Scully looked around in bewilderment, wondering, "I'm on the floor?" Then held her head. "There was dancing. Peaches. Ariel was there... And some guy in a mask..." She took a breath, her head pounding, and then looked at Claudia. "We were at the bookstore," she realized.

[notmyownage]

"Yeah." Claudia flopped back onto the floor, trying to muffle her groan. "And then I dragged your snoring ass here. Musta been a dream."

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

"Must have... My head hurts. I saw so many people there, Karla and Ender and Raven and... Ow." Scully lay back on the floor again, because it wasn't spinning. "Thank you. Really. I just fell asleep in the store?"

[notmyownage]

"More like you went comatose in the store." Claudia smacked at Scully. "Never do that again."

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

Scully flailed back but failed to connect, an indication of how unnerved she was. "I can't believe I did it the first time! Ow."

[notmyownage]

"Yeah, neither can I. It was -- wait, did you say peaches?"

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

"Yes." She remembered this part. "The whole place smelled of them, or peach wine-- I talked to someone about that there."

[notmyownage]

"Yeah, and you stuffed yourself with peach cobbler at lunch." Claudia raised an eyebrow. "I'm thinking weird coma peaches."

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

"Coma peaches." Scully groaned and then muttered, "Well, why not? It's the only un-typical thing I did today." Her headache was starting to fade, and she straightened, looking at Claudia. "Wait. So maybe, other people ate something from the Cafe, and are in comas now too?"

[notmyownage]

"If they are, I am not dragging them home." Claudia remained on the floor. "At least until after I take about seventy long hot baths."

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

Having already said thanks, Scully winced and said, "I'm sorry? I'll owe you. Big. For a while. Yes." A hot bath sounded good to her too, after whatever contortions she'd flopped around into.

[notmyownage]

"Eh. It probably wasn't that nice for you, either. You might be a little bruised up, later." Claudia felt slightly bad about that, but only slightly. She wasn't that much bigger than Scully, after all.

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

"I'll get you ice cream," Scully promised, then winced as she stretched. "Not peach. After this weirdness is over." She shook her head. "Think I'll stick close to the dorm tomorrow, aside from Reserves, if they have it." She frowned. "Wish I could remember more of that dream...."

[notmyownage]

"Good plan. We're usually pretty safe in here."

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

Scully nodded, staggering to her feet, then looked, blinking. "Oh, we're outside my room. Come on in. I don't think I want to go to sleep right away after that."

[notmyownage]

"Of course we're outside your room. Mine's up another flight of stairs."