Fifth Floor Common Room, Sunday Evening

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

So yesterday had been- well, weird didn't even cover it. And today? He'd managed to find the laundry room, at least, and lucky for him they didn't need quarters or whatever to operate, so now at least what little he owned was clean. There'd also been a real honest-to-god shower to be had, and so so far Toby was counting today as a win.

There was still a part of him quietly freaking out about the weird stuff everyone had told him about yesterday, but for now? Toby was content to eat some leftover pizza he'd snagged from the picnic and channel-surf.

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[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

The luring scent of food was a strong one for Butters, who had spent most of the day getting horribly lost. Which was kind of impressive, if you considered that it was a pretty logical layout, but once you got into the sixth floor, things got really confusing.

"H-ho, boy," he said, peeking in anxiously. "Is that pizza for everyone? I sure am hungry..."

The little growl given off by his stomach attested to that strongly.

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"I, um," Toby resisted the urge to clutch the remaining pizza slices to his chest and declare "MINE!". "Sure, I guess? It's not fresh or anything," he added hastily, hoping the other boy would be discouraged by that. "S'from yesterday."

[godofxbox]

"Hey," Alex said as he walked through the common room door, carrying a bag of Chinese takeout. (Yes, he'd already found the Chinese restaurant. It was practically a survival skill in New York). He paused midstep and said, "You know, I don't think I got your name on Friday. I'm Alex. You want a spring roll? I ordered like my dad was going to be eating with me." He shrugged. "Habit." It also meant he had enough food for at least five normal people.

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"Toby," Toby managed around his last mouthful of reheated pizza. "And I'm never one to turn down food if it's being offered."

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

"Oh, h-hey, Alex!" said Butters, waving when he spotted the other blonde.

He may have been really excited about the fact that he could easily claim hey, I know that guy!!!

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

Mercy waved to Alex. "Hey, how's it going?"

See, it had paid to make an effort to be sociable on the bus and at the picnic. She didn't feel like quite such a stranger here.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

Yesterday, Sookie hadn't really met anyone aside from her new little sibling, and today, she wanted to rectify that. So Sunday night found her wandering out to the common room, peering not only at the television but they boy flipping the channels.

"Are you gonna pick something?" she wondered, her voice warm and lightly teasing. "Or are you new to TVs entirely?"

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"I've seen TVs before!" he retorted, a little defensively. "...Just don't recognise any of the stuff that's on right now," he added, sounding more than a little sheepish at his previous outburst.

[godofxbox]

"You get people who are new to TVs?" Alex asked, sounding kind of horrified.

Different universes, clones, superpowers, demons, relatives from another dimension, whatever. Not knowing what a TV was? Horrible.

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

All Butters picked up on what the girl said was the golden word.

"There's TV!" he said, beaming at her happily. "And we can watch it!"

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Fandom was always weird, though. You got used to that.

"Anything good on?"

[godofxbox]

"Hi, Tony!" the boy who'd broken his brain said with a little wave.

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"I dunno," Toby said with a frustrated sigh. "Weird stuff, mostly."

[randomspanish.livejournal.com]

"Here's hoping it's not the Dingo channel," Freddie said, looking up from his laptop. "I reaaaaally don't like their shows. Though, I don't think anyone above the age of twelve does."

[walkswithcoyote]

Oh man. Her big sibling. Someone she definitely owed an apology to.

"Tony?"

[iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com]

After a long Mother's Day call home, Dave figured it would be worth it to head out and socialize. Despite the promises of awesomeness that came with chocolate yesterday, the third floor didn't seem to have anything going on. But he had time to kill, so he started wandering the dorms.

Eventually he came across the fifth floor, heard talking, took a deep breath, and walked in, trying to act like this wasn't completely alien to him. "Hi, everyone," he said in his friendliest voice.

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Toby waved. "Grab a couch and sit down, man."

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Gabrielle hadn't been in the sunniest of moods since saying goodbye to Katniss on Friday, and so she'd skipped out on the picnic -- trying to get a head start on holding up her end of that bargain, at the expense of several pieces of parchment. There were new kids to meet, though, and she couldn't stay holed up forever, so wandering it was.

"I take it there's nothing good on?"

That might be a weird-ish question, coming from a girl wandering around in a short burlap skirt and a horrible green midriff top when it was an Icelandic winter outside. Okay, the part where the clothes looked (with good reason) like they were from a time long before machinery revolutionized the textile industry might be what made the question weird.

[godofxbox]

"He can't pick anything," Alex told her. What was up with her clothes?

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"Not even an Air Farce rerun," Toby griped.

[iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com]

"Apparently not," Dave said, sounding just a little distracted since a girl just walked in wearing a short skirt and a midriff top while Dave was just 15 years old. He didn't even notice the color or fabric. "We're just kind of flipping around."

"... Hi, I'm Dave."

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy blinked at the other girl's clothing, but hey, each to their own. "I think Toby's in charge of the remote tonight."

[tasenburn.livejournal.com]

Elle was bored, so in tried and true fashion she was wandering the common rooms. Except did it really count as wandering when you actually stopped in your own for once?

"Ooh, what're you watching?" she asked as she snagged a drink from the fridge before plopping down onto a couch. "Anything good?"

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"Nothing in particular," Toby admitted, far more interested in the fact that there was apparently stuff in the fridge that was there for the taking.

[randomspanish.livejournal.com]

Freddie wandered up a floor, mainly because he wasn't looking to watch TV by himself that night. And the sound of people gathered made him think this was the place to be.

Of course, he had his laptop Pear computer with him, sort of like a security blanket.

"Nothing good on?" he asked, amiably.

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"Not at all," Toby admitted. "I'm trying to find a baseball game or something, though."

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy'd decided to try and be social a little, maybe meet another person or two before classes started. She smiled when she saw Toby. "Hey, how's it going?"

[iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com]

"Not too bad if you don't mind channel surfing," Dave said. "I'm finding it strangely compelling."