Second floor common room [morning]

[momslilassassin]

Ben hadn't exactly been getting a lot of sleep these days, so he finally gave up on trying and wandered into the common room barefoot in search of coffee and something other than the list of Fandom students and alumni who hadn't made it back to the island by yesterday evening to keep his mind busy.

He flipped the television on...and found that it was showing a gremlin-bite tape of his father and Gavin Kriffing Darklighter thinking they were gay German magicians.

"Poor Artoo," Ben murmured, a small smile playing across his lips.

This was certainly distracting, but Ben might not be so pleased the next time a Skywalker gremlin bite came onto the screen.

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[lockestheway]

"Can't," Peter said, "I think I spotted your roommate making out with some girl on my way here."

That was a terrible lie, but when Topher flailed, you made it worse. That was law.

[dollpocalypse]

Mean, Peter. MEAN.

After emitting a desperate little noise and flailing his arms a bit, Topher got to his feet anyway. "Then I'll go to the library!" he decided, because wow he needed to escape this room before he inadvertently made Peter hate him. Then before he could flee, he made sure to clarify, "Um -- it's, like, in the school building, right?"

Okay, so he'd never been there, per se.

[lockestheway]

"I don't know," Peter said, slanting a look at him. "Is it?"

[dollpocalypse]

"I'll get a map!" Topher flailed, and with that he scrambled out of the room.

Look, he didn't want to die today.

[lockestheway]

Peter flopped back on the sofa, and regarded the TV. He supposed he should go find Topher later and find out what the hell that was about, but...

... well, right now, he was just grateful for the distraction from thinking about his sister, or about how useless he was.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"...I thought I got rid of all that footage!"

[dollpocalypse]

Topher raised his eyebrows. "Just like you got rid of the crocodiles?"

Look, Nikki beat Terry any day. That was law.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Tony covered his eyes. "We're not talking about this."

[dollpocalypse]

"I agree!" Sort of. "You might want to escape before Peter sees you, though. Or Ben."

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Please, Ben's gremlin bait."

True story.

[dollpocalypse]

"Ooh, yeah?"

TELL, TONY. TELL.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"It's apparently a Skywalker thing," Tony replied, stretching his neck. "Ender told me."

So it was true.

[dollpocalypse]

"Ender is usually right about stuff..."

It was true. He was known for his wisdom.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Any reason why the TV is playing this?" Not that he was complaining. It was better than that damn jingle.

[dollpocalypse]

HEY NOW. That jingle was awesome, okay. It was just the reptition that was annoying.

"My guess is on the end of the world," Topher hypothesized. Like a true scientist.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Tony shot him a look for that. "It's not the end of the world."

[dollpocalypse]

"You don't think?" There was a new perspective. "How come?"

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Because we're going to stop it." Tony was very firm once he'd come to a conclusion.

Which was good. Because someone was prone to dramatic bad ends.

[dollpocalypse]

Topher had no comments on Tony's firmness, thank you. None. At all. Nope.

"You are?" he asked, with just a little bit of admiration in his eyes. "How?"

FANBOY.

[momslilassassin]

"Who would we even send the money too?" Ben wondered.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"We all are," Tony replied, taking a seat on one of the couches. He'd been working faaaar too long. "We'll figure something out."

[dollpocalypse]

"Huh."

That was... more inspiring than so few words really had any right to be.

"'Kay."

[lockestheway]

"Dear auditing agency in the sky," Peter said, spreading his arms, "Please accept our back taxes with all due apologies and stop eating our worlds, pretty please, signed, everybody ever."

[momslilassassin]

Ben snickered. "You are amazing at beating off imaginary--what did you think they were again?"

[momslilassassin]

"Not that much!"

Ben was wrong.