Second Floor Common Room, Thursday Evening

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

The TV was on, tuned to Fox Soccer more at random than anything; Gabrielle didn't really care much what was on, since the names of players and drama over whether someone might be transferring from the EPL to Serie A meant nothing to her; she mostly cared about having the background noise while she cooked up a huge batch of bacon. (The smell was comforting. She liked it.) And some eggs, and there was bread warming in the oven, and if there were any rules about breakfast at dinnertime she would just flout them now and apologize later if she absolutely had to.

The TV wasn't turned down so low that she could ignore that MagicJack commercial when it came on for the fiftieth time in the past hour, though.

"With all the money you're saving using that thing, can I get a cut of it every time I have to hear this again?!?"

[OOC: I sincerely hope you have never actually had this experience like I have. Common room is open, though!]

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[godofxbox]

Alex followed the smell of bacon down allllll the way to the second floor, though, to be fair, for bacon he would have gone a lot farther than that. "Please tell me the bacon is to share," he begged. He was willing to forego pride for bacon. Look, he would even make the puppy face.

((I avoid the TV on transfer deadline day as a rule. The internet and mad refreshing are another story...oh yeah I went soccer crazy after the 2010 World Cup and never really turned back, I don't know if you knew that. The magicJack commercials need to die.))

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

And she was such a sucker for a puppy face.

"I'd just be asking for trouble if I ate it all," Gabrielle replied, waving a hand at the stack of already cooked bacon on a plate on the counter. "Cooking it is therapeutic, though. Help yourself."

[OOC: Heeeeee. I try not to watch either, but I had to think of something to put on TV and was too lazy to meta something.]

[godofxbox]

"Yeah, but isn't it tempting to try?" Alex said. "I mean, bacon."

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

"I know," Gabrielle replied, gesturing vaguely with one hand while she turned the bacon strips in the pan. "Just the smell of it is like . . . like curling up with a good book."

A beat.

"Or whatever your favorite hobby might be. Anyway, I've had some bad experiences with overeating and don't really want to go down that path again."

It would ruin the bacon experience, for one thing. That would be awful.

[godofxbox]

Alex probably didn't want to know. Besides, "I play a lot of XBox. I don't think that it's really the same thing." Although if you could eat bacon while playing Xbox...Alex would basically be in his own personal Elysian Fields, right there.

The actual Elysian Fields had been pretty boring. Hence the busting out of Hades with his dad thing.

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

No, the story about the seasickness and the squid really didn't need to be told.

"Okay," Gabrielle conceded. "So my metaphor could use a little work. What's XBox, some kind of game?"

Her own experience with the Elysian Fields had been boring too, but mostly because her part in it had consisted of sitting on a lakeshore waiting for Xena to get back. Because you could swim there, in the world without practical concerns (like reasonable length of time before oxygen loss became an issue).

[godofxbox]

"It's a thing you use to play games," Alex explained. "I like Call of Duty."

To be fair, oxygen loss wasn't so much going to be a concern in Hades anyway, because everyone was dead and didn't need oxygen.

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

People who were supposed to be there, anyway. So it made sense, really.

"Oh -- those video things! Call of Duty?" Gabrielle perked up, intrigued by the title. "What's that one all about?"

[godofxbox]

"Yeah! They're First Person shooters set during World War II? Well, most of them are, the Modern Warfare games are different but anyway. They're really cool." And, when he played on multiplayer, sometimes even challenging.

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Okay, Gabrielle had to frown at that. "So . . . it's like today's version of acting out giant legendary battles?"

There could be a lengthy pontification about war in there, but it wasn't fully-formed yet.

[godofxbox]

"Pretty much? It's like you're in it, for a certain degree of 'in it' that involves a TV screen," Alex said, then shoved a strip of delicious bacon in his mouth.

[randomspanish.livejournal.com]

Freddie was out and about with a camcorder, just for the heck of it. He stopped in when he heard the shout, though the smell of bacon was extra incentive.

"Is it that gecko selling insurance again?" he asked, camcorder in his hands but not actually recording anything.

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

"No, the TV's trying to tell me that I can save a lot of money calling home with their magic-thingie," Gabrielle replied, brandishing her cooking tongs in a not-remotely-threatening way at the TV. "You know, I can't even call home, so the number of dinars I'd save is a pretty moot point, isn't it?"

That was directed at the TV, by the way.

"I like the gecko, though." She paused. ". . . bacon?"

Take it off her hands, please.

[randomspanish.livejournal.com]

"Dinars?" Freddie said, tilting his head. "You're from the middle east?"

"Oh, and sure, I'd love some, thank you. Is it foreign bacon?"

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

Gabrielle gave him an odd look. "Well, I guess you could say the fridge is a foreign land. It's pretty scary in there, let me tell you. I'm from Greece, by the way."

Not the middle east by her standards, but . . . special universe.

[randomspanish.livejournal.com]

"Cool," Freddie said. "I don't think I've met anyone from Greece, before. I mean, other than the weird teacher guy who gave me pizza, once."

He also held up a finger on his free hand. "And foreign bacon is a thing. My friend Sam was part of a bacon-of-the-month club once."

[ancientbschamp.livejournal.com]

". . . a club just for bacon?" Gabrielle blinked a good five times. "That's either the strangest thing I've ever heard, or the most brilliant."

[randomspanish.livejournal.com]

"It meant she got sent new, exotic bacon every month," Freddie said. "And given she dated a guy just because he bought her the subscription, I think she'd say it was the latter. Unfortunately, I wasn't her friend at the time so I never got to try any."