Fifth Floor Common Room, Wednesday Evening

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

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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[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"What is that?"

Olive was actually a floor up from where she belonged and there was food for her to focus on too, but hey let's be honest, her attention was not on much of anything aside from what the hell was on that TV.

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"Oh man, have you not seen this movie?" Toby grinned. He was usually the one who hadn't seen stuff. "That's the Cactibear!"

...Way to clear it up, Logan.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"Never would've guessed," Olive told him, hissing in a wince and shaking her head. "No, seriously, what is it doing? What is this movie? Why is it real?"

[pursuedthestars]

After today, Jim knew the island a little better than he had before. He'd actually gone into town, scoped out the bar (but hadn't gone in) and then come back and taken a look around the dorms a little further.

Creeping around for free food could excused because he was new, right? Whatever, he'd found a guy with pizzas and some movie that he hoped was better than what he'd been watching last night.

"That's a lot of pizza, man," he remarked. "Stocking up for a nuclear winter?"

[abitlowkey]

"Why is that bear spiky?" Loki asked, already perching on the back of a couch. Like a normal person. Perfectly normal.

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"Well, you see that guy?" Toby gestured to the douchey-looking guy with the parachute on screen. "He's a base jumper. The Cactibear hates them. So he's going around stalking and killing any he can find."

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"Well, I figured I might get a few people wandering in looking for free food," he shrugged. "So, because I am a nice guy, I decided to oblige."

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"I should have realized," Olive said, finding a seat. "I mean, Cactibears and base jumpers are ancient enemies. Everyone knows that."

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

Well that was- it was pretty hard to surprise Toby, what with the telepathy and all, but this kid managed it.

"Because it's actually half-cactus," he explained. Totally logical.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"Are you complaining?" Olive asked, shaking her head disparagingly at him. "It's free, Jim. Free. I'm stealing like half of it and saving it for breakfast tomorrow. Because it's free."

[abitlowkey]

It was a god thing. Or possibly just a Loki thing. Who knew?

"...that bear must have been very drunk," Loki decided slowly, unable to take his eyes off the television screen.

[walkswithcoyote]

"Never seen one of those before," Mercy said, finally dragging herself out of her room to do, well, something other than hide out in her room or go to class.

The smell of the pizza might have helped as well.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"It's a Cactibear," Olive said helpfully, like she hadn't asked that same thing like two seconds ago. "Also, are you like, a bird-person?"

What? It was probably a thing.

[pursuedthestars]

"That is pretty nice," agreed Jim with a nod, taking a look over the various pizza boxes. "Juliet said most dorms furniture smells like pizza. I'm beginning to see why."

And he was beginning to like that reason if it meant free food for him.

[pursuedthestars]

"Did you hear a complaint come out of this mouth, Egg?" he asked, using that name because, well, because. It made him chuckle something. "My mouth is better for so many other things rather than complaining."

Like eating. But she didn't need to know that he meant that innocently for once.

[abitlowkey]

"No, that is Ikol." Wait, what. "He is my pet magpie. I am a god."

The worst god ever.

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"Exactly," Toby nodded. "It's part of the natural order of things."

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"Me neither, thankfully," Toby said. He wasn't a base-jumper, so he'd probably survive, but that didn't mean he wanted to run in to Cactibear in a dark alley or something.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"Don't you be filthy at me, James...middle name Kirk." Oh, the day she learned that middle name of his would be amazing. It'd be like Christmas. "I am a nice girl, thank you very much. And I was being preemptive."

And she was not a nice girl, really. Technically, yes, but "nice girl" was not really how most people would describe her back home.

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"Well, sometimes people go for Chinese food," Toby said helpfully. "But yeah, pizza's pretty much a staple around here. Unless you happen to run in one of the handful of people who can cook."

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, okay," Olive said, because at least she was sort of used to guys with stupid pickup lines or whatever. Yeah, no, she didn't think he was serious -- she thought this was an ego thing. "Magpie like the little bird that likes shiny things? Aren't those endangered or something?"

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I'm not sure I wanna know the origins of Cactibear myself," Toby admitted with a face.

[abitlowkey]

Loki nodded solemnly. "Might I have some of your pizza?"

[myownface]

"Is that bear a cactus? Oh my god that bear is a cactus."

Why yes, Sparkle was draping himself over the arm of the couch and leaning in to get a better look at the television.

... His room was several floors down, but his pizza sense had been tingling.

[abitlowkey]

Well, it was in a way...

"Are they? They are clever birds. I cannot see how they might be in danger."