Fifth Floor Common Room, Wednesday Evening

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Tonight, Toby decided, was a 'laze around in the common room with pizza and hilariously terrible movies' sort of night.

Which was why there were a number of pizza boxes on the table, and Cactibear- that made-for-TV classic about a half-bear, half-cactus that killed base-jumpers- on TV.

Aww yeah.

[eta: FEEL FREE TO MAKE UP RIDICULOUS DESCRIPTIONS OF WHAT'S HAPPENING ON SCREEN, GUYS. ANYTHING GOES.]

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"I think you are exactly as much trouble as I think you are," Olive replied, shaking her head. "Probably more. I'm usually kind of conservative with my estimates."

[pursuedthestars]

Shrugging one shoulder, Jim finally did put his feet on the ground so he could reach for a slice of pizza. He'd gone long enough with avoiding it.

"And what's so bad about being so much trouble?" he asked, actually curious. "Not that I'm admitting that you're right. Just curious."

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"Nothing. Good Girl Olive's just taking a break from trouble, that's all," she replied with a smile. "So your troublesome-ness is going to get you nowhere with me."

[pursuedthestars]

"Who said I was trying to get anywhere?" Jim wondered, raising an eyebrow. "That's another assumption. That's two tonight! You should be ashamed."

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"I was, again, being preemptive," she replied with an acquiescing nod. "More a hunch than an assumption. So enjoy your troubling nature. I'm a little used to guys like that, though, that's all."

Even if he seemed nicer than most of the ones she'd dealt with.

[pursuedthestars]

"Just what is it that you think I'm trying to do?" Jim asked, putting his feet back up and slumping down on the couch. "Seems like you have everything figured out so why not fill me in."

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"Nope," she replied cheerfully. "You'll just find a way to make my explanation dirty, anyway."

[pursuedthestars]

"A guy doesn't have a right to know what someone else is thinking about him that puts him in a somewhat negative light?" Jim wondered. "That's not fair. I'd tell you if I was thinking that way."

He probably would, yeah. That was honesty.

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"It's not negative," she replied, shaking her head. "It's just not something on Good Girl Olive's agenda."

[pursuedthestars]

"So, what is on Good Girl Olive's agenda?" Jim wondered, curious. "Since, you're putting much putting me on the 'no' list without even asking me what I want, I figured I'd ask."

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"You're not on the 'no' list so much as in like, quarantine," she non-explained. "Good Girl Olive's staying away from double entendres, to start."

[pursuedthestars]

Jim wanted to ask again about what had caused all this but he held off. He hadn't known her for that long and he wasn't gonna push. He'd just keep it in mind for the future.

"Quarantine's the same as no," Jim argued though he wasn't bothered by that at all. He was still smiling, in fact. "Someone or something is quarantined because they're either gonna be removed or they're gonna better."

Living in a space traveling society had its benefits. "So, which are you hoping for when it comes to me?"

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"Maybe it's easier to say I'm quarantined," she replied, sighing because of course he knew the technicalities of quarantine. Of course. "And I'm hoping for the latter, because I already removed myself from my prior environment." Olive raised an eyebrow at him, because he wasn't getting more than that so hopefully that explanation was good enough.

[pursuedthestars]

"Hmm."

He didn't push for more but that was still some additional information he filed.

"I still think you're making assumptions about me," he said and took a bite of his pizza which had gone pretty lukewarm over the past few minutes. "Shouldn't do that. I'm very surprising."