Fifth Floor Common Room, Wednesday evening

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After work, Jessica was still trying to deal with the fact that she tasted like SPAM. It displeased her so much that she felt the strong need to grab some food from the common room that would allow her poor tastebuds to focus on something else.

The fact that there was a cake with seven candles in it for some reason seemed like karma. Or justice. Or dumb luck. Or like an opportunity to make a seven year old cry. But since the odds of that last one being true seemed small, Jessica took a piece of cake. And it tasted pretty great. Like karmic justice. And definitely not SPAM.

[OOC: Common room is open and cake is wonderful!]

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"Why is there cake?" Tony had dragged himself out of his room after spending the day aggressively hunting for his new buddy The Ghost. For caffeine and... well, cake now.

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"I've decided 'karma' and I'm sticking with it," Jessica said. "It was there when I got here."

And then she took another bite of her piece of cake.

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"Cake!" Olive said happily, pointing as she walked in. Because she had like, cake-dar. Okay? It was a thing. "There's cake here!"

She still tasted like oranges. At least that tended to go okay with cake?

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"...if you turn green, we'll know."

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"And it's good cake!" Jessica said. "I'm thankful for whoever is responsible."

[dollpocalypse]

"...are the little kids here again and it's one of their birthdays?" Topher demanded, immediately edging toward a wall he could flatten himself against for safety. "It's not even a weekend."

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"Not yours?" she asked, pausing and counting the candles. "You're not...seven?"

Well, okay, fine. "Are we ruining a child's day?" Not a deterrent, for the record.

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Toby had woken this morning with the vague taste of maple syrup in his mouth. No amount of teeth-brushing could quite get rid of it (and oh god, the combination of toothpaste and syrup was actually kind of horrifying), so eventually he'd just given up on the assumption that it was one of those things.

And now, hey. Here was Jessica who I'm going to assume exchanged names with Toby in a handwavy fashion in the Cactibear CR since I don't remember that actually happening and cake.

"Oh, sweet," he declared eyeing said cake hopefully. "Literally, I suppose."

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"Hey, the universe owes me today. I taste like SPAM. It's horrible," Jessica said. "I'm pretty sure the cake is a reward for living through that."

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"If any child were here, their day would be ruined already," Jessica said. "The way I see it, any cake that's left completely unguarded in a public area is fair game."

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"Spam?" Tony yawned, stealing a piece for himself. "So, it's other people, huh?"

He took a bite of the cake with a pleased hum.

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"I'm pretty sure I don't understand half of what you're talking about, but I'm still saying no," Jessica said. "It's just regular cake for people who want some. I think."

It wasn't stopping her from eating it.

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"Regular cake doesn't have candles," Topher pointed out. "They would just complicate the non-celebratory eating process."

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"It is indeed, my friend," Jessica said, lifting her cake-filled fork in kind of a toast. "It's also a great way to end the day."

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"Cake!" Olive greeted him, pointing with her fork.

In case Toby had missed it.

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"Could be poisoned."

As she helped herself to some, yes.

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"Yeah, apparently," Jessica said. "I thought it was just me for a while. Excuse me if this is a little personal, but what do you taste like today?"

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Metal." Shocking no one. "Like it smells when I'm welding."

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"Well, I'm still alive, so at worst it's slow-acting. You'll have plenty of time to get to the clinic," Jessica said.

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"Regular cake with candles," Jessica amended. "Regardless, no kids that I've seen or heard today."

[dollpocalypse]

"Good." Topher gave an emphatic little nod at that. "Those kids are scary. You're probably too new to understand."

Also, hi, Jessica, nice to meet you!

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"I would have bet 'money,'" Jessica said. "Now I'm glad I never had the chance to put any cash down on that bet."

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"Since I still have no idea what you're talking about with the kids, you're probably right," Jessica pointed out. "Are you going to leave it a mystery?"

[dollpocalypse]

"Sometimes kids show up who are people here's kids from alternate timelines," Topher explained. "And then they make fun of you." Genevieve.

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"It could be specific to me," Olive pointed out, totally not worrying. "I mean, what if it's like, redhead-specific? We are somewhat hated, especially on the Internet, for some reason."