Second Floor Common Room; Sunday Morning

[fiery-demigod.livejournal.com]

Leo was wide awake after radio and he wasn't comfortable enough to spend all his time stalking Fixer-Uppers yet, so he decided to check out the common room on his floor. It seemed nice, not as high-tech as cabin nine, but it had a TV and food so he really couldn't find much to complain about.

He put the TV onto ESPN and idly listened to the anchors talking about the playoff games today while making himself breakfast. Southwestern omelets. The actual, good, Southwestern kind. Not that crap rolled up into a burrito that you got at McDonalds for two bucks.

[The common room is open, yes]

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[puppywithatutu.livejournal.com]

Once again, Caroline was following her nose to the common room with the food. "Mm, Jack was so right about this place," she remarked, going over to see what and who was cooking. "Are you taking orders?"

[fiery-demigod.livejournal.com]

Leo's initial reaction was to ask if he looked like a waiter, but realizing that it was a girl speaking to him, and a pretty one at that, he was eager to please. "Uh, sure! But, uh, I only know how to cook a few things so don't make it difficult for me."

[puppywithatutu.livejournal.com]

"Then we should start with what you can do because failure is so not an option when breakfast is on the line," Caroline told him, totally on board with this boy playing personal chef for her. "I mean, I've eaten really terrible food in my time, but that's why I'm not the one with the spatula."

[fiery-demigod.livejournal.com]

"Well I can guarantee what I give you will be edible," Leo decided. Of course anything could be edible, if you really thought about it. "Do you mind hot stuff?"

That wasn't a come on, by the way.

[puppywithatutu.livejournal.com]

"Oh, you could say I prefer it," Caroline said, amused by the potential double entendre. "No one should be completely averse to the hot, don't you think?"

[fiery-demigod.livejournal.com]

Leo didn't necessarily agree with that, no, but was willing to pretend to go along with whatever a pretty girl was saying. He had no shame.

"Oh yeah, the hotter, the better," Leo said, nodding. "Well, I mean, food that's too hot isn't that good. Burning your tongue sucks."

[puppywithatutu.livejournal.com]

Boys who made her breakfast and agreed with her? Sometimes Fandom gave a girl a lot of good things to make up for the crazy.

"Oh totally, and makes everything taste nasty so what's even the point of eating after that. What's that saying? One burned, twice shy?" No, no it wasn't.

[fiery-demigod.livejournal.com]

"I think you mean bitten," Leo corrected. He scooped up some of the leftover peppers and onions he had cut up and put it in a bowl. "Once bitten, twice shy."

If the saying involved fire it would most likely be 'once burned and you're dead'. Unless you were him, of course.

[puppywithatutu.livejournal.com]

"Well that's less appropriate, but still totally true." And capable of defining people who dealt with Damon. Caroline leaned against the counter, intent on entertaining herself while she waited. "So, cooking boy, where'd you pick up this skill? Lovely weekends at home with the perfect family or in a tragic tale of fending for yourself while dad drank himself to death in the corner?"

[therewaslife]

Bod recognized her from one of his classes (she'd wanted to learn more about werewolves, if he remembered correctly) so he waved and said, "Good morning. The food enticed you in as well?"

[puppywithatutu.livejournal.com]

"Completely. I could practically smell it from my room." Ahh, cute boy with the ghost and vampire friends, Caroline could spare him a smile. "You're in paranormal whatever class, yeah?"

[therewaslife]

"I am, yes," he said, nodding. "I'm Nobody Owens. Bod, though, for short so no one thinks I've awful self esteem or that my parents hated me."

[puppywithatutu.livejournal.com]

"God, and I thought Caroline was bad in the third grade. Did your parents hate you? Or is that like, some foreign thing?" Because he had an accent and she was rather terrible at knowing where they were from.

[therewaslife]

"My parents didn't hate me, no," he answered, snickering some. "When they adopted me, my mum apparently said I looked like nobody but myself. And that became my name. When the other choices were Marcus and Henry, I think I might have gotten a good deal out of it. It gives me a story to tell, at least."

He shrugged and smiled lightly.

"I like Caroline, though. You're the first Caroline I've met."

[puppywithatutu.livejournal.com]

"Aw, it's even a cute story," Caroline decided, like he needed her input. "And yeah, I'd totally not want to be a Marcus. It sounds...stodgy and like he'd be really bad in bed. Oh God, is that like, your brother's name? Now I feel bad for him."

[therewaslife]

"I don't actually have a brother. I've a sister but she's passed on and I never really knew her name but I doubt it's Marcus. I hope it's not Marcus. I don't think my parents could be that mean."

Of course, he didn't know his parents either so he couldn't be sure.

"You can associate the way people are -- " Oh, he hadn't blushed in awhile so he was surprised it popped up there. He cleared his throat. " -- in bed just by their names?"

[puppywithatutu.livejournal.com]

Caroline was totally going to ignore the sad part of his story and focus on the blushing. That was something she could deal with. "Well, you can totally make an educated guess, right? I mean, I'm not some whore who's run around testing the theory, but some names seriously make you wonder. Like say, Todd. Sounds like a total snoozer if he doesn't play for the other team and then all bets are off."

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

Jake had quite possibly been concentrating on the whole food scent to not have noticed the leech stink that was permeating the common room. Honestly, the entire dorms reeked of leech, but this time it was a fresh scent coming from the blonde.

He wrinkled his nose at it, knowing he should probably just turn around and get the hell out of dodge. Except that he wasn't giving away to a leech. "God, where the fuck do they keep getting you from? It's almost an invasion."

Nice to meet you too, Caroline.

[puppywithatutu.livejournal.com]

Caroline glared at the boy making faces at her. So not fair that he was hot and somehow anti...her at the same time. She pushed her hair over her shoulder and stood her ground since this asshole had no idea what he was dealing with.

Except for how he did and she was a moron, but that was not the point.

"Um, rude much? Have they not invented manners wherever you're from?"

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, they just don't apply to bloodsuckers, blondie," Jake told her cheerfully.

Somewhere Didi was fighting an urge to thwap him over the head.

[puppywithatutu.livejournal.com]

Oh fucking hell, who had told him? Caroline's eyes went wide as she wondered if Nathan had been gone all night spreading things around.

"I don't know what you think you know about me, but you're totally wrong," she said, crossing her arms and wondering what she was supposed to do about this.

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

Jake snorted and he actually looked amused in a none too friendly manner. "No, I'm not. You're going to need a whole lot more perfume to even try to cover that stink."

[puppywithatutu.livejournal.com]

Insecurity raging, Caroline gave the sleeve of her shirt a sniff. "Who the hell do you think you are? I smell awesome and you should seriously be more careful about who you piss off!"

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I really don't care about pissing off a bloodsucker, it's kind of what I do," he tilted his head. "I think your sense of smell is pretty messed up if you can't figure out what I am."

[puppywithatutu.livejournal.com]

"What, like your Old Spice is supposed to give up your name and--" Had he said what he is? Caroline's brain kicked into overdrive as the realization hit her. "Oh are you fucking kidding me? Are you the shirtless, hot, fifth floor werewolf? I mean, not that I think you're hot after insulting me here, but come on, a girl's gotta have standards!"