Fourth Floor Common Room | Afternoon | Friday | January 28

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With his one class over and done, Nathan found himself almost energetic. He didn't want to go laze around his room like he usually did and he didn't want to smoke near his window in his most sincere imitation of a hipster emo poet douchebag. He didn't (and wouldn't ever) have the beard or scarf for that.

He ended up in the common room because that was the next best thing to going into town. This little dinky island had absolutely no nightlife to speak of which was unbearably sad and needed to be changed. Of course, Nathan had no money and no drive to really change that but he'd perfectly happy to encourage someone with a round of applause should they take the initiative.

Nathan clicked on the television and then actually practiced jumping onto the couch. He wanted to see what positions he could contort his body into before landing. There was the flat on your back, flat on your stomach, stretched on your side, tuck 'n roll, ass down, and swan dive. Eventually, he stayed on his stomach, head pillowed on his arms while he watched whatever the fuck was on the television.

So much for his energy. He was fickle like that.

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Elphaba herself only arrived in time to see his last leap onto the couch, and raised an eyebrow far above the rim of her glasses.

"Are you practicing for a sport?" she asked, wondering idly if there was such a thing as competitive couch leaping.

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"And if I am?" Nathan asked lazily, not even looking over at her just yet. "Would you be willing to fund my way to the Olympics? I heard the athlete's village is full of easily accessible booze, drugs, and foreign women who will let you do any damn thing to them."

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Elphaba didn't even know what the Olympics were. But from his description, she made assumptions.

She needed to stop doing that sort of thing.

"There's a village just for athletes?" she asked, curious. "And it is in a country or area called The Olympics?"

She was going to ignore his rather odd demeanor. For now.

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"What?" Nathan asked, finally looking over at her. He couldn't really stop his eyes from widening at her skin color despite knowing that this place was fucking weird.

"You, uh, haven't fallen into a vat of food coloring lately, have you?" he asked, forgetting about the Olympics for a moment. "Your skin's green, you know."

Maybe she didn't. Nathan didn't really heed the feelings of people.

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Elphaba barely bit back an extremely angry response, instead looking like she was about ready to explode for a brief second before she instead let out a highly sarcastic, highly droll "I had no idea. I thought my skinny dip in the food coloring wouldn't have any long term effects."

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"Yeah, it did. Your skin's green." And his roommate was a vampire so really, this wasn't that big a deal but now that he'd gotten a reaction, he had to focus on it a little bit longer. "If your favorite food is broccoli, lettuce, cabbage or cucumbers, I will just shit myself right here. I will literally just die!"

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"It's apples," Elphaba said, crossing her arms. "And if this sort of thing causes that reaction, you must ruin a lot of underwear."

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"Is that a rather subtle way of asking to see my undies?" Nathan asked, twisting her statement around a little bit. "I've never shown them to a green girl before. Might be a bit exciting, even. I can feel a little stirring in my pants just thinking about it."

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Elphaba barely withheld the utter horror at the idea of him showing off his underwear. She instead buried it under more sarcasm.

"Only a little? Then perhaps you should keep your trousers on, for fear of me bursting out into laughter."

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"Oh, but it takes time to build up to something that's extraordinarily good and amazingly large," he quipped, undeterred. "Are you not a fan of anticipation? That's what makes everything good even better. And trust me, what's inside my pants is better than anything you'll ever see."

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"Than anything?" Elphaba said, oddly amused by the boy's audacity even if she didn't like his manners. "So more spectacular than the Emerald City, a city the shines like a precious jewel at the heart of Oz? Better than that? What, is yours made of diamonds?"

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"I think that's for me to know and you to find out," Nathan answered, giving her a waggle of his eyebrows. "If you wanna see it, just ask me, and I'll be happy to whip it out and let you have a look."

Nathan really had no shame and he really didn't think she'd take him up on the offer either so he felt fine about being ballsy.

"It is spectacular, though."

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Elphaba couldn't hold back the mildly disgusted shudder.

"Why do you think it's so impressive, any way? It's an organ. You don't see me talking about how magnificent my spleen is. It's ridiculous. They aren't special at all."

[vanillajello]

Kate wasn't doing much better. As morning turned into afternoon, her biggest achievement had been to pick up her bag of candy, get a few pudding cups from the fridge in her own common room, and then sort of drift her way up the stairs.

"Nathan," she drawled lazily, wandering in and spotting him, "I'm booored."

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"And you are coming to me for what reason?" Nathan asked, glancing over at the familiar voice but not really moving. "I am not your puppet and you cannot pull my strings to get me to dance."

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"So suspicious," Kate chided lightly, going over to the kitchen area to get a spoon first. "I was just informing you. I'm sure you were just dying to know what my mood was."

There may have been quite a lot of sarcasm in that statement.

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"If you're so bored, why not put on your deck shoes and take a jaunt to your yacht club?" he asked, settling back comfortably on the couch. "Perhaps you could pop some caviar and then shit out something nice and pristine as the rich are wont to do."

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"I'm not going over to see Zach until tomorrow," Kate replied, not exactly bothering to... be bothered, by how he put it all. Spoon found, she padded over to the couch. "He's got work stuff, so I'm left here entertaining myself."

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"Oh, is that when you'll be visiting the country club and chatting it up with Muffy and Buffy and her son, Bucky, who owns a golf course in the country?" Nathan asked, continuing to be a little scathing about things since she hadn't bitched yet.

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And she wasn't about to bitch, but she was about to invade his personal space. Or claim a spot on the couch for herself and sit down. One or the other.

"Someone sounds jealous." Not really.

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"Someone doesn't know what sarcasm sounds like," Nathan retorted, rolling his eyes. "Really, I'd rather buy tampons for my gran than go to some gathering of rich people where they compare boat sizes instead of dick sizes."

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Kate snickered, leaning back against the couch and holding out her bag of candy for him. Because she was occasionally a sharing kind of girl. "Not exactly what I was implying you were jealous about, but okay."

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"And just what am I supposed to be jealous about?" he asked, twisting his body a bit so he could dig out some of her offered candy. "The fact that someone has more money than I do? Homeless people have more money than I do, Kate."

[vanillajello]

"Me, jackass," she said, though she didn't manage to sound anywhere near as offended as her words may have warranted. "You're supposed to be jealous of me being over there with these fictional rich people instead of dicking around here with you."

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"Nah," Nathan replied, shaking his head. "You might be over there, dicking around with rich people but I know you don't really want to be there. You'd rather be here, slumming it up with me, watching porn and making fun of people with big asses and big noses. Rich people are boring. Boring."