Fifth Floor Common Room, Thursday Evening

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

The drawback to having both his workshops early on in the week, Toby was finding, was that without something to do, the rest of the week got kind of boring. Funny how even with no classes at all, boredom had never been a problem when he'd been on the streets. Still, he'd take boredom over being cold and hungry any day.

So he'd wandered over to the common room, snagged someone's sandwich they'd left in the fridge and a half-full bag of chips he'd found tucked in the back of one of the cupboards, and flipped through the channels until he stumbled across one playing a rather distinctive theme along with an opening text-crawl.

Something seemed wrong, though- he'd seen these movies tons of times, and none of this was familiar- he frowned and checked the channel listing. "Space Battles: Part 1?" he frowned. "What the hell?"

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[randomspanish.livejournal.com]

Freddie had been quite enjoying himself at this new school. Almost enough that he didn't miss Seattle. But not quite.

And even if he was a bit homesick, he figured a good cure for that would be finding some other people to hang out with.

He even had left his laptop behind!

...He did have his PearPad with him, though.

"Space Battles?" he said, having overheard Toby. "I've been meaning to check it out, someone told me my favorite movies sounded like a 'rip-off' of it. Which is crazy."

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"You've never heard of Space Battles?" Toby said dubiously, finding that hard to believe.

[randomspanish.livejournal.com]

"Where I come from, the big thing is Galaxy Wars," Freddie said. "I've been to conventions, even. So there is no way it is just a rip-off of some movie I've never heard of."

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"Galaxy Quest?" Toby replied, misunderstanding. "I thought that was more of a TV thing." Though he was pretty sure there were movies too...

[exactlyaverage.livejournal.com]

Jack was wandering around and waved at the people in the lounge before opening the refrigerator.

Unfortunately cans of beer did not magically appear there. He sighed and grabbed a can of soda instead.

"Oh, Space Battles," he said with a shrug. "Anything on ESPN?"

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"ESPwhat?" Toby replied. He... had a pretty reasonable guess what that was supposed to stand for, actually, but like he'd ever lived with anyone willing to shell out money for American cable channels.

[exactlyaverage.livejournal.com]

"The sports channel?" Jack asked rather slowly as if that was the most obvious thing in the world.

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"Which isn't neccessarily obvious if you're not from the States," Toby felt compelled to point out.

[hurtingzeebo]

"Why's it gotta be so hot around here?" Sam said without preamble as she came in. She made a beeline past the folks watching TV, headed straight for the freezer.

Where she prompty climbed halfway inside.

Damn, no frozen pizzas. There was some coffee ice cream in the back, though.

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"I think it's cause we're in the desert," Toby pointed out dryly.

[hurtingzeebo]

Sam came back out a moment later with the ice cream and a frozen burrito. "Yeah, that really wasn't in the brochure."

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"Hey, at least you got a brochure," Toby pointed out.

[exactlyaverage.livejournal.com]

"Um. We're in Egypt?" Jack offered helpfully.

[hurtingzeebo]

"First we're in Iceland, then we're in Egypt -- where next, the moon?" Sam groaned. "At least they have decent pies. And possibly no naked dudes wrestling each other all oiled up."

She seemed torn on what to think of that last bit.

[exactlyaverage.livejournal.com]

"... It's amazing but with every statement from your mouth I find you-"

And that would be Jack taking his hand and showing a small measurement between his pointer finger and his thumb.

"-just that more disturbing."

[randomspanish.livejournal.com]

"You're not eating uncooked frozen food in there, are you?" Freddie said, eyebrow raised.

Hey, he'd heard the stories.

[hurtingzeebo]

Sam indeed had a mouthful of frozen burrito already.

". . . What of it?"

[randomspanish.livejournal.com]

"That's dangerous," Freddie said. "Half of those half packaging that says 'do not eat uncooked. You don't want to get like that time you ate the rancid chocolate again, do you?"

He was being a concerned friend. Awww.

[bat-spawn.livejournal.com]

Damian came upstairs in search of food and wasn't happy with what he found. "The nutritional content of the food in this place is atrocious," he announced to anyone who might be listening. He selected a chocolate-covered protein bar, eyed it with suspicion, but peeled off the wrapper.

[hurtingzeebo]

"Nutrition?" Sam smirked. "What are you, forty?"

[bat-spawn.livejournal.com]

"I'm thirteen," Damian said. "And I need to be in peak physical condition. Fried carbohydrates are not satisfactory."

[hurtingzeebo]

"You should go for the fried meats," Sam suggested. "Does a body good."

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"I've had worse," Toby said easily, quite happy with his purloined sandwich.

[bat-spawn.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure it's adequate for those who are working towards a future as office drones," Damian sniffed.

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

No, Toby's future was as a paramedic-slash-cop. Not that he knew that. Right now he was mostly focused on just shuffling his way through the system. "Yeah?" he raised an eyebrow. "You got your sights set higher than that?"