3rd Floor Common Room, Monday Evening

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Tony had the television on what appeared to be CNN, and his laptop out for the sort of coding session that made lesser men go blind. Or insane. Oddly enough, this is what he was doing for fun, though. Tony Stark's fun is not the normal idea of fun.

On the plus side, he'd apparently ordered enough pizza to feed either a small army or a handful of teenagers.

Welcome to the wonders of free food in the common rooms, newbies. Aren't you glad you came here?

[[Open, of course!]]

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[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

Okay, so Olive needed food, and she had no idea where to find it, and there was nothing on her own floor and that was sad.

But then, a miracle occurred when she wandered past the common room below hers. A miracle. "Is that CNN?" she asked skeptically, kind of hovering near the pizza because she was just polite enough to not just help herself.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"It's better than Fox News," Tony said, glancing up from the laptop after finishing a line. "And I'm not allowed to do anything to the cable to get better channels."

THANKS, CAPTAIN BUZZKILL.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"Says who?" Olive asked, frowning. "I vote that you can do whatever you'd like to make something awesome happen to that TV."

Olive had no vote.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"One of the teachers." A beat. "I'm pretty sure he has my guardian on speed dial now."

But that was possibly because someone kept getting into trouble. Or nearly dying.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"Rude," she decided and okay she was just going to take some pizza now. Screw being polite. "Can the teachers do that here? Is someone going to call my mommy if I'm out past curfew?"

That was...actually fine, because her mom would be like 'Good for her! Tell her to go get some!' but still.

[notconflicted]

Sia had been coming back up to her room, which meant she had to pass by the common room on her way there. It also meant she thought she should stop.

"Is this a very quiet party?" she said, eying the small army pizza rations.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"...I might have overestimated how hungry I was," Tony replied, eyeing the boxes as well.

[notconflicted]

"At least you shouldn't be hungry again anytime soon," Sia pointed out.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"I like to think of it as being a giver to the rest of my classmates." Be glad he didn't order Chinese.

[notconflicted]

"I think I speak for the rest of your classmates who will visit this floor now or in search of leftovers when I say thank you," she said. She probably could have used fewer words for that.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"Marsie!" Olive said cheerfully, waving. "Hi, come eat this guy's pizza."

Not yours to give away, Olive.

[notconflicted]

"You were not joking about the nickname," Sia realized.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"I think it's cute," she replied. "And I can't call you Sia until you're leaving, per the rules of the pun."

[notconflicted]

"Are there other rules I should be prepared for?" She was almost afraid to be asking that.

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

"Oh, look, five dozen pizzas," announced Stephanie, who might or might not be wildly exaggerating but was definitely teasing Tony either way. "The recommended daily allowance for teenage geniuses."

She swiped a couple of veggie and sausage slices for herself and plunked down beside him, glancing at the laptop screen.

"Wild party time, sweetie?"

Yes, she knew what he did for fun.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"I spent it all on a jet," Tony whined, flopping back on the couch. And Against her. Because she was all there. "I am a wild and crazy guy. Better call TMZ."

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

Stephanie snickered and put an arm around his shoulders. "Can't. All that wild partying of yours wore me right out, and besides, I don't want to know what they'll call me this time."

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Ooo, maybe one of the Olympic gymnasts?" Tony, no.

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

"Ooooh." Stephanie considered that for a second and then grinned. "I could get behind that idea. Or maybe a diver? I always wanted to try the ten meter platform!"

DON'T ENCOURAGE HER, TONY.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"I would have probably starved tonight if not for this pizza," Olive said, very realistically. "Your boyfriend is like a philanthropist for wasting-away teenagers. He should sponsor me full-time."

Look at her using context clues and putting that relationship together. Genius.

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

Total genius. Stephanie felt like less of a junior detective now!

Except for how she wasn't exactly being coy about it or anything.

"He gives back to the community like that," she replied cheerfully, with a nod, then wiped her fingers off on the knee of her pants and held a hand out. "Hi! I'm Stephanie. New this semester, or did you come in over the summer?"

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"Olive, and I'm like, fresh-this-weekend new," Olive replied, easily reaching out to shake the offered hand. "I probably still have that new-kid smell."

[notconflicted]

"It's a very quiet wild party," Sia nodded.

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

"Only at standard human hearing frequencies," Stephanie replied, deadpan. "This is why we're lucky dogs are probably, and I emphasize that because look where we are, less likely to call the cops with a noise complaint."

[notconflicted]

"I somehow doubt that in this town, the police have ever done anything about a noise complaint," Sia pointed out.