2nd Floor Common Room, Tuesday Afternoon

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

Rosalind had entertained the notion of going and visiting Jono at work today, truly she had. She had even made it outside and begun the pleasant walk to town when the bears had started offering her drinks.

… That would be why Rosalind was back in the common room, idly rereading a few reports she was going to revise before sending off to Tseng. The TV played quietly in the background--on a news station, of course--and she considered that to be well enough of an effort to be relaxing.

(Rosalind was special that way.)

This month, Rosalind had decided, was quite weird enough without willingly subjecting herself to more of it. The reports made more sense and were infinitely preferable.

At least, for today.

[Ooopen as a common room is!]

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[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Amazing, someone's still here," Alex said, wandering in and shooting her a smirk. "Thought everyone had gone home to do exciting shit."

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

"Not everyone celebrates this world's holidays," she said dryly. "And if I go home, I'm confined within a building."

Which... no. She'd take the dullness of an empty Fandom over that.

Rosalind debated pointing out that he was present, but...

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Did you hear me mention the holidays?" he wondered, raising an eyebrow. "It's also a break week. You could go home just to fuck off and go home. Stop assuming."

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

"Touchy," she murmured, "and lacking listening comprehension. You're in a fine form today."

Tsk tsk.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"I hate Christmas," he said bluntly, shrugging. "And considering it is Christmas, I'm hating things a lot more than usual."

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

"Charming," she replied. "I'm surprised you've not earned detention yet for making some poor soul weep from your anger."

Look how affected she was by it! ... Which was not at all. Rosalind was still reading her reports, after all.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"There's no one here," he said, grabbing some water and sitting down. "Who am I going to offend? The bears outside?"

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

"Nice to see that I equate to being 'no one'," she observed.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"No one that offends that easily," he clarified, rolling his eyes at her. "Feel better now that you're included?"

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

"By far," she said, glancing up from her reports. "What about the season has your nose so out of joint?"

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"It's always sucked," he said and shrugged. "I don't expect this year to be any different so I don't get my hopes up. Christmas sucks."

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

"Are you staying here, then? And hoping for peace and quiet?"

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Nothing really to go home to anyway," Alex said, shrugging. "It'd be peace and quiet there but it'd drive me insane."

Or something.

"You sticking around?"

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

"Most likely," she said, pursing her lips. "Though I suppose visits elsewhere are not entirely out of the question."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Eh, I don't have the money for that shit," he said and shrugged. "I don't mind it here. If everyone's gone, I could do anything and everything if I have the dorms to myself."

He'd probably just be bored.

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

"You'd be bored in hours," she said, arching an eyebrow. "Unless you had something to occupy you?"

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"You know, I am fairly intelligent so there are things I could do that aren't dumb caveman things," he replied, making a face. "I have books."

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

"Without pictures?" she teased, a faint smile playing around her lips.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Don't make me throw my water bottle at you," Alex mock threatened. "The only thing with pictures that I have is the porn under my bed."

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

"If you throw something at me," she informed him, "you'll not get it back."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Alex raised an eyebrow. "That's not a great way to not get me to throw something at you. It's not like I want this plastic water bottle or something."

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

Rosalind paused in her reading for a moment.

"I could," she noted, "throw something back."

And hard.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"I could dodge it." He was pretty quick when he wanted to be.

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

"That's juvenile even for you," Rosalind chided.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"What? Are you kidding?" Alex asked, amused. "Dodging a projectile thrown at me is juvenile? I should just take it like a man?"