Fifth Floor Common Room, Thursday Afternoon

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Wesley? Was surreptitiously taking down some of the more... well, horrible signs that Kenzi had put up in the common room. They were all bad, but some were worse than others and so not going to be representing his campaign. Like, at all.

Once most of the worst offenders were gone, he disposed of them in the garbage and started making tea.

There. Productive day.

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[glacial_queen]

So...Katniss was back. And Karla hadn't seen her. Wasn't sure if she should see her, all things considered. She wasn't entirely sure if Wesley would want to see her, either, but he was a better possibility to talk to than Katniss was.

"Kiss kiss," Karla called quietly when she saw Wesley through the doorway. She didn't come in all the way, lingering in the doorway. "Uhh, hi Wesley. How've you been?"

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Wesley, in the middle of some very elegant tea-sipping, glanced up.

"What? Oh -- hello." Holding up the tea kettle, he offered, "Care for some?"

...Yeah. Odd. He knew she'd done something to piss off Katniss and he wasn't sure what, so... oddness.

[glacial_queen]

"Please," Karla said, coming inside at that invitation. Wesley didn't look like he was about to castigate her on sight. "Are you making any particular type?"

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Well. To be fair, he was partially to blame for whatever had been so upsetting to her in Panem. He could hardly go off on her with TEH GUILT already weighing on him.

"Something I found in a cabinet," he said, glancing at the box for clarification. "Oh." Well, then. "Raspberry Madness."

[glacial_queen]

"I'll give it a try," Karla said, giving Wesley a slight smile for the offer. "I usually drink my own teas, but that's more out of habit than preference."

Except for the Lipton stuff. Mother Night, that was like garbage in a cup.

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"I was rather hoping for something else, myself," he agreed. Bad tea. Still, he poured hot water into two cups, then dipped a tea bag into each and offered one to Karla. "Best of luck?" he laughed, holding his own up as if in a toast.

[glacial_queen]

That got a real smile out of Karla. "To lowered expectations," she said, clinking her mug against his. Then she took a sip. And grimaced.

"Well, it's not Lipton." Talk about damning with faint praise.

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Barely," he said a bit weakly after a sip. Because gross. "I think I'll be sticking to Earl Grey."

Tea shouldn't be raspberry! Why couldn't Americans get this? Sigh.

[glacial_queen]

Karla had no problem with raspberry tea! It just needed to be good tea as a base, dammit!

"How're you settling back into school?" she asked. "Radio says you're running for student council again?"

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

Annie gave Karla a little wave and said, "I'm still sorry."

[glacial_queen]

"Me too," Karla said, brushing her hair from her face and looking awkward. "And still doubting it was your fault. That, ummm, one was kind of...bitchy."

Though that Annie had swung first.

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"And mine was... high-strung?" All Annies were high-strung, though. Never would there ever be a low-strung Annie. "But at least it wasn't really us. That has to make it a little better, right?"

Because Annie herself was clinging to that. She had no problem hitting someone if they deserved it, but this was slightly different.

[glacial_queen]

"Mother Night, it so wasn't us," Karla said, wrinkling her nose at the memory of the other duplicate who had been running around being difficult. Ugh, the buttons and then that skirt...

"I'm almost positive that Mr. Madrox programmed them to be impossible."

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Oh, he had to," Annie agreed. "I'm sorry, but with three me's working on that fort, it would have been the most organized fort to have ever existed. There wouldn't be tears and catfights."

[glacial_queen]

"I'm kind of dreading next week's class," she admitted. "If it's more duplicates, I'm just cutting."

She was already failing and hadn't managed to build a pillowfort. It wasn't like her grades could get worse.

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"I don't think I can," she admitted, making a face. "I've never cut a class. And I know the one time I do, he'll notice and it'll be even worse."

[glacial_queen]

For awhile, Karla had been missing more than she'd been attending, so she was probably not the best person to discuss the morality of cutting with.

"I don't know," she said. "I'm pretty sure he doesn't even know our names."

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

Between falling down cliffs in class and then prepping for the debates, Annie desperately needed some socialization today. So taking a little break from going over hours and hours of radio podcasts to try and find out what the issues were that people might have in case she was asked about them, she went looking for people.

At least this would be way less awkward than Sunday! Hopefully! "Oh, hi again," Annie greeted him with a little smile.

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Wesley looked up. It was a really good thing he'd already managed to get the really awful posters off the wall, otherwise it would be really awkward.

As it was? Only kind of.

"Hello. Would you like some tea?"

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Oh, sure," she said, still looking sort of cheerful. Because she was pointedly ignoring any posters that were still up. And making plans to put some more of her own up later. "How are things going?"

See, she could totally do normal conversation.

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Ah..." He pretended to consider it before giving his (less than true) answer. "Fairly well."

You know, with his grieving girlfriend and the political interventions of Kenzi and all that.

"Yourself?"

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

Annie thought about that for a second. "Strange week. But you know what, that's okay. Next week will be better. And who knows, without any insane classes, maybe things will improve even sooner."

Welcome to the world of crazy optimism.

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

...Okay, he had to ask.

"Crazy classes, you say?"

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

She ticked them off on her fingers as she spoke. "Tuesday there was a discussion about whether or not to eat a lemur while lost at sea. Wednesday I had duplicates, one of which got into a fight with one of Karla's. Then today I fell off a cliff into a scary forest. I'm never going to be able to explain any of this in my college interviews."

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Right.

"That certainly is odd," he agreed. "By Fandom standards, however..."

It was less so.