Third Floor Common Room - Monday Evening

[notlikebobby.livejournal.com]

Jack was perfectly okay with forgetting about last week. Unfortunately, his body had other plans. When you were run down from being stuck outside in winter for a few days, there was a good chance you were going to let a cold get to you. That was the case with Jack. He'd slept. He'd eaten. He'd slept some more and now that he was sick of his room again, he moved to the couch in the common room. He had tissues and a blanket and the TV was playing a Christmas show. He wasn't that interested in it, but the remote control was all the way over there and moving wasn't really something he planned on doing for a while.

[OOC: Open of course!]

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[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Oooh, it's Frosty night?" Quinn asked, stopping in for a snack on her way home from work. "That has potential."

[notlikebobby.livejournal.com]

Jack looked up from the TV. "Every night is Frosty night if you look hard enough. They have cable channels here I've never seen before."

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"There's a lot of random stuff on the TV," Quinn agreed. "I keep finding the worst reality shows. I'd rather have Frosty."

She selected a yogurt from the fridge and flopped into a chair. "Hi, I'm Quinn."

[notlikebobby.livejournal.com]

"Jack," came the reply. He managed a smile because, hello, pretty girl here. "I've seen this one a total of once at a friend's place so I don't remember a lot."

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Yeah?" Quinn asked. "Are you a from-another-dimension type, or just deprived?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Hello, Quinn," Bruce said. "I didn't realize you were a fan of Christmas specials." If you made him guess, he probably would have said she was, but it was still a decent starting point.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"What's not to be a fan of?" Quinn asked. "There's stop-motion, there are songs ... " She shrugged a little. "It makes you feel like you should be all in the Christmas Spirit. Do you not like them or something?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"They're great for some people," Bruce said. "But I don't think I'd count as one of them."

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Anti-holidays, or did animation beat you up and take your lunch money?" Quinn asked lightly.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Unsurprisingly, Bruce wasn't the biggest fan of cartoons, or Christmas, or Christmas specials, or snowmen, or magic. There was very little justification for him to stop into the common room except for vague curiosity. Maybe he was missing out on something. Maybe... Okay, there was a song trying to pass "thumpity" off as a lyric. But he was in the room. He was committed.

"Evening. 'Tis the season, right?" Bruce asked, gesturing toward the TV.

[notlikebobby.livejournal.com]

"Hey Bruce. So the TV keeps trying to tell me. I'm not entirely convinced."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"You're a holiday skeptic?" Bruce asked. "Good, I'm not alone."

[notlikebobby.livejournal.com]

"I don't mind celebrating Christmas when it's Christmas Day. But until it hits Christmas Eve, I'm not listening when they tell me it's the season unless the season is winter."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"That sounds reasonable. Especially when the so-called holiday season starts so early," Bruce said. "Christmas is a day. It's not two months."

[wrongkindofsith]

"Bruce." Cara nodded in his direction. "Trying to find a television that doesn't hate you?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I figure one of the common rooms has to be more friendly than the fifth," Bruce said. "This one hasn't messed with me yet."

[wrongkindofsith]

"Give it time," Cara said. "It will once it figures out you're here."

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

Elphaba wandered into the common room and found herself sitting down to watch the TV. A rare thing, indeed.

"Christmas program, correct?" she asked, hoping that it might help her learn more.

[notlikebobby.livejournal.com]

"You don't have Christmas at home?" he guessed.

[didntchewgrass.livejournal.com]

"The closest is Lurlinemas, a winter solstice festival," Elphaba said. "I find it interesting that the 'mas' is shared between them, actually. But I've been trying to learn more about the holiday, ever since Bruce first told me about it."

[notlikebobby.livejournal.com]

"What do you think of it so far?"

[wrongkindofsith]

Her lack of classes until Wednesday meant that once Cara had caught up on missed sleep, she'd also quite rapidly gotten bored of the four walls of her room.

Hence the venturing out into a common room. She tilted her head curiously at the television. "Should I even ask why the snow is alive?" Maybe it was going to try and eat people??

[notlikebobby.livejournal.com]

"A magical top hat," Jack explained.

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara would have preferred the eating people explanation, that might have made for a fun story. "That just happened to be lying around?"

[notlikebobby.livejournal.com]

"There's probably a wizard involved. There's always a wizard involved."