5th floor common room | Friday Afternoon

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

Since Jace had only had classes on Monday (which was quite strange for mundane schools, or so his research told him) he had spent most of the week outdoors, getting a feel for the island. The place was small but there were a lot of oddities about it. Jace guessed there was a backstory to a lot of it, but would he ask someone about it? Of course not.

Yesterday had been spent exploring the dorms, which didn't take all that long and now...well now he didn't have anything to do. Since he hadn't brought any books with him and didn't quite feel like going to the library yet, he decided to do as the mundanes did and watch some TV.

And subsequently landed on a Real Housewives of Orange County marathon. Well all right then.

[Open CR is open, yes]

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[shestheworst.livejournal.com]

Britta's eyebrows lifted a little. "Like, an abandoned church, or something? Or are you, like, a monk or something?"

Talk about a waste!

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"In what universe would a monk dress like I do?" Jace asked, gesturing to his jeans and black shirt. "It's just a church that I happen to live in. It wasn't abandoned, it was just given to my people a long, long time ago."

[shestheworst.livejournal.com]

"I'm atheist," Britta said with a shrug and a faintly offended snort. "What the heck do I know about what monks wear these days or people who live in churches?"

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"You can be an atheist and be informed about stuff like religion at the same time," Jace pointed out. He would know considering he didn't really care if God existed or not, but knew the Bible back and forth. Came in handy.

"That's not to say religious people would know why I lived in a church."

[shestheworst.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, but it would mean that I'd be an atheist and I cared about stuff like religion," said Britta. "All I've got is that most people probably don't live in churches."

She did take a brief look around again, though recalling up her first comment, "But at least they'd have a bathroom in a church...right?"

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"There's several," Jace replied. "Impressed?"

[shestheworst.livejournal.com]

There was a twitch of smile that Britta, thankfully, was able to tuck away in submission. "Several bathrooms," she intoned. "Kind of hard not to be."

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"Yep, it's a pretty hot piece of NYC real estate," Jace said. "Luckily the church part scares most people off from trying to snatch it from under us."

And, you know, there were about a million wards up to keep people away.

[shestheworst.livejournal.com]

"Maybe next time I'm there I'll have to look for a church to crash in rather than the 2 by 2 closet apartment of the guy supplying the E," said Britta, who then drifted off a little with a wistful sigh. She couldn't actually remember most of that night, but she did remember that it was awesome.

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"Weren't you just chiding me for wasting brain cells on this?" Jace asked, gesturing to the TV.

[shestheworst.livejournal.com]

"I was," Britta agreed with a nod, "because if you're going to waste brain cells, you might as well do it on something worthwhile, make connections with other people."

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

Jace lifted an eyebrow. "From what I've seen, people on drugs are a little too busy falling over and shoving chips into their mouths to make connections with other people."

[shestheworst.livejournal.com]

To that, Britta could only snort a laugh. "Clearly, then," she said, the grin on her face a little more than licentious, "you've never been on E."

She had to TOUCH AAAAAALLLLLLLL THE THINGS.

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"I haven't," Jace said, and didn't feel bad about that at all. "I have other ways of making connections."

He beat the shit out of people.

[shestheworst.livejournal.com]

"Yeah?" Britta tilted her head a little, grin sneaking up on her again. "Like what?"

She definitely was not thinking beating up people.

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"Go to a bar," Jace started. "Annoy someone enough until they try to punch me in the face."

He was very good at that, believe it or not.

[shestheworst.livejournal.com]

"Really?" That was not where Britta was hoping things would go. "What, like, you get off on something like that? You know that guys fighting is usually just a way of releasing their pent-up gayness, right?"

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"Someone's read Freud For Beginners," Jace noted. "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

[shestheworst.livejournal.com]

Britta shrugged, content in her analysis. "And sometimes a guy punches another guy in the face because society makes that easier."

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"If that's what you want to think," Jace said with an easy shrug. "Any guy would be lucky to have me."

Though Alec would probably kill them before anything happened.

[shestheworst.livejournal.com]

"Now that I could easily believe," Britta said, because she wasn't about to let a perfectly good opportunity to use a cheap compliment pass her by.