Second Floor Common Room [Tuesday, Late Afternoon]

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No more calls today for Kate, for which she was really, really grateful.

Today she'd done nothing in particular, and looked set to continue with that, complete with pizza, and the apparently rare ability to tune the TV in the common room onto something that wasn't a talk show, infomercials or trippy cartoons. It was a fucking miracle. She'd managed to find a meta Terminator marathon. Enough about this world was the same, that she recognised some old movies.

She was here, and she had no plans to move for a while. This was her celebration, see Greg?

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Freddie, on the other hand, was bored. Bored and wandering about with his PearPad. He ended up in the second floor common room and plopped down into a chair.

"...Are you gonna make fun of me if I don't know what show this is?" he asked.

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Kate glanced over her shoulder as she chewed her pizza. "I don't know. Are you going to whine if I do?"

It was worth checking, even if she'd probably manage to keep the best part of her mocking to herself.

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"...depends," Freddie said after a moment of consideration. "I don't tend to whine if it's particularly creative. I mean, I wouldn't want to give a bad first impression."

He smiled at Kate pleasantly.

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"It's not a show, it's a movie. Or movies, I guess. Really well-known, popular movies." Yes, there was a TV show, but that must've have been a casualty of a loss of technology in her world, because she didn't know it.

"Killer cyborgs and explosions." That about summed it up, right?

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"...awesome," Freddie said, after a moment. "I keep getting weirded out by how different some things are from where I come from. And not in the 'weird magic and stuff' sense. It's the different TV, that's what messes with me."

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"And here I was thinking that was the one thing that stayed the same." Albeit that it was a lot newer to people here than people back home. To her these films were nearly fifty years old.

"So what the hell do you have?" she asked.

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"Stuff like... Food Fight, the Dingo Channel, Celebrities Underwater," Freddie said. "Most people look at me funny when I describe that last one."

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"I'm going to go against the curve and give you a strange look before you describe it," she told him, and proceeded to do just that.

Her face straightened out after a moment. "You can go ahead and explain now. Reaction free."

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Freddie smiled. He definitely liked this girl. "It's kind of in the name. Celebrities try to spend the most time underwater. David Schwimmer almost died, one time, it was actually kind of scary."

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"... Do they win something for it?" That seemed like the sort of crazy thing someone would do at least have to for cash, or a reward, or something.

"Or... just nuts?" That was the other option.

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"It's for charity," Freddie said. "So no weirder than other d-list celebrity shows, I say. I'll watch it over America Sings, any day."

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"I think all of those shows are weird. That's something we just don't have," she shared. "I think reality TV missed us somewhere along the way." Kate for one, was not mourning this particular side-effect of the breakdown of society and technology.

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"I think that might be a good thing," Freddie admitted, tapping away at his PearPad for a moment. "Some of them are cool, but waaaaay too many are just kind of trashy."

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Kate snickered, shaking her head. "There are some that aren't?" That wasn't her experience.

"I'm still going to stick with the murderous cyborgs from the future. They're smarter than most celebrities, and can kill you with their pinkie."

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"Yeah, only MMA people can do that, in real life. We've had some on our show, actually. They're usually pretty cool, and even kinda laid back for fighters, which I never expected."

He finally set down his PearPad. "So how lost am I going to be coming into the middle of this?"

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Kate shrugged, "So long as you can appreciate action movies, you'll be okay," she decided. "Big muscled dude, trying to kill the brunette, and lots of things get destroyed in the process."

".... You don't have your own reality show, do you?"

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"No, no," Freddie said. "My friends and I do a webshow, it's a little bit of everything. It's called iCarly. We're kind of... internet famous."

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Which aside from the 'different universe' issue was a good reason why Kate, who didn't really get along with technology, had never heard of such a thing.

She hitched a little shrug. "Sorry, I'm lucky if I get a computer to turn on for me." She was so saturated in magic, that highly technological things tended to malfunction. She figured it was just part of her poor luck, and lack of knowledge.

Anyway. The internet was a little beyond her realm of expertise.

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"That's okay, most people here haven't heard of it," Freddie said with a little sight.

"Wait... you have trouble getting computers to turn on?"

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"I've never really used them," she admitted. "Things like that don't work in my world half the time, so--" Kate shrugged, "Magic knocks electricity right out." That was her excuse.