3rd Floor CR, Friday Night

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

When she came into the common room Friday night, Quinn hadn't expected more of it than maybe a movie or a bad TV show and some distraction to fill the time until they had to leave for Hawaii.

She could probably have watched a bad TV show, but she was temporarily waylaid by the dozens of boxes of Rice Krispies covering every surface.

"Fantastic," she said. "Somebody had a craving and didn't clean up."

And then, well, there was nothing to do but start poking through the cabinets for marshmallows to make some snacks. It was either that or start checking behind the couch for elves.

Quinn wasn't quite paranoid enough to think she heard giggling.

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[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

Alexander was squeeful over awesome new canon eeee had been spending a quiet evening in his room reading, but eventually, he felt a strange restlessness that drove him to his feet, into the hallway, and ultimately in the common room.

And once he was there, he couldn't help but wondering if some sort of sixth sense lead him here to experience such a bizarre situation.

"I suppose," he couldn't help commenting, "we won't have to worry about running out of cereal any time soon..."

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

Quinn aimed a quick, easy smile at Alexander. He'd been kind of cute at the dance, even if he went on about his sister a little too long.

"At least not as long as we like Rice Krispies," she said. "I was going to try to make cookies with them. Want to help, or do you have better plans?"

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

"My only plans involved reading a book," Alexander admitted. "And while I quite enjoy the solitude of an activity like that, I've spent enough time with it and would be quite pleased to be of use, though I admit to not exactly know how to incorporate them into cookies...Much like one might use nuts or chocolate, I suppose?"

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

Rilla had spent most of the day after her classes soaking in the sunshine, so her nose was slightly sunburned as she skipped into the common room.

"Are you quite hungry?" she teased.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

Quinn shook her head. "There's a whole thing," she explained. "You melt marshmallows and butter and mix them with the cereal. It's an old family recipe from the back of the box."

She passed one of the many boxes over so Alexander could see what she meant.

"The question is," she added thoughtfully, "how many marshmallows we have."

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Yep," Quinn drawled, not hiding the sarcasm. "A hundred boxes of cereal sounds about right for a Friday night snack to me. Who buys this stuff?"

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

"If it were the summertime," Alexander observed as he took the box, tilting his head at it as he found the recipe Quinn spoke of, "I doubt we'd have any problem at all with the marhsmallows, but if we're lacking, it's nothing a trip down to Turtle & Canary shouldn't be able to fix."

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"People who are quite enamored with crispy rice bits?" Rilla replied. "Possibly gremlins?"

She paused. "Are they the ones doing the shopping?"

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"I don''t know," Quinn admitted. "It makes as much sense as there being some house mother we never see. Or cereal elves. Plus, I bet gremlins would think this was funny"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Bruce hadn't really intended to stop into the common room tonight. He just peeked in quickly, but the boxes pulled him in. Was it strangeness? Did somebody go way overboard on cereal because they were staying in town next week? He had to know.

"This isn't a party with a very specific theme, is it?" Bruce asked.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Maybe bring a wagon to get the candy back here," Quinn suggested, as she knocked a bag of multicolored marshmallows off a high shelf. "Ah! Okay, that should take care of one of these boxes."

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"Well, they probably can't read," Rilla mused. "Maybe they really liked the boxes. What shall we do with it all?" She smiled. "Do you think we could take some and leave it on other floors? Perhaps they've been covered in corn cereal there."

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

"Do we really want to make that many cookies?" Alexander wondered, imagining how much just one box would manage to produce.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Maybe," Quinn deadpanned. "Our working theory is that gremlins had a craving. It was here when I got here."

She waved a hand over the counter. "Seriously, what would you do with that much cereal?"

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Like an exchange program," Quinn mused. "That would work. It'd just be selfish to keep it all here for us, anyhow."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Prepare for the end times? Get the biggest bowl of milk you can to see how loud the snapping, crackling, and popping can really get?" Bruce suggested.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"No, but we'll take them on the trip tomorrow and they'll disappear," Quinn suggested. "Or leave them here so the people who decided to stay behind have something to eat."

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"Oh, very. Or leave a box in front of every door on the floor," Rilla said.

She looked at the number of boxes. "Perhaps several floors."

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"Now you have me wondering what dumping a bunch of the cereal into the swimming pool would sound like," Quinn suggested. "But I don't think we have that much milk."

Still. It'd be a little epic.

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

"Oh, that's right!" Alexander straightened, blinking up from the box as if just being struck by a hard fist. "There's the spring break trip coming up."

His attention seemed to go inward for a moment, a flash of something in his eyes before they regarded Quinn again. "Do you know much about these Hawaiian island, Quinn?"

Why didn't he think of this before? Of course he'd come across them in his study of Earthly geography, and for a brief moment, he almost thought....

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"It's for the best. Would you really want to anger the cleaning crew just before taking off for a week?" Bruce asked.

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

"And maybe get somebody to take some to the apartment buildings where the teachers live," Quinn suggested. "Happy late Valentine's Day, have some cereal."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Spend a little too much time in the sun?" Bruce asked, noticing the sunburn.

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

"I certainly hope someone is," Alexander offered to Rilla with a duck of his head and then a faint smirk. "It would be a shame to let all this go to waste."

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

"The gift that keeps giving," Rilla said with a little giggle. "We're so very thoughtful."