Second Floor Common Room, Saturday morning

[monkeymonkeydie.livejournal.com]

There was a pitching booth set up in the common room this morning. More or less. A couple of tables had been dragged into a corner, there were pyramids of canned vegetables set up for people to knock down, and there were a bunch of oranges in a bowl (do you know how hard it is to scavenge up baseballs on short notice?) next to a sign that read "HiT A tARGiT WiN A PRiSe".

The box labeled "pRYZeS" was shut, with Bucky standing on top. What was in it? It was a mystery!

"Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, and try out your aim! How good can you throw?! Win stuff! ...C'mon, dumbasses, what's taking you so long?"


[No, Bucky has no new powers this weekend. You should all be thankful for that. Enjoy the common room!]

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[monkeymonkeydie.livejournal.com]

"Right," Bucky agreed. "That's what I said. You would make me some serious bank, and then I'd give you a cut. That's how it works."

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

"No, that's stupid. All you'd do is stand around with misspelled signs and drive customer away. Also, I'm not doing anything! It's these stupid oranges of yours!"

Someone was getting a little frustrated here.

[monkeymonkeydie.livejournal.com]

"I'm not the one driving customers away, Miss Pouty-Face!!!" Bucky insisted. "And they're not MY oranges, anyway! I stole them from the fridge!!!"

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

"Well, what did you do, cover them in lard?" Zeela snapped. "Why did you make them so hard to grab?!"

Granted, it wasn't like her hand was slipping off the oranges, more like slipping through them, but she wasn't going to think about that right now. The idea that it was some kind of trick of Bucky's was much easier to swallow.

[monkeymonkeydie.livejournal.com]

"Since when does lard give someone magic ghost powers?!?!" Bucky asked, confused. "And why would I do something stupid like that when you haven't even been tricked into giving me money, yet?!?!"

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

"No, but you have," Zeela smirked at him. "And I don't have ghost powers. I just keep...missing."

Yeah, you tell him, Zee.

[monkeymonkeydie.livejournal.com]

"What, you're just having trouble with your hand-solidness coordination?!" Bucky asked. "You just forgot to not slide through things like they weren't even there?! Nope. Ghost. I'm calling this one right now. We cats have a sense about that sort of thing."

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

"I'm not a ghost!" Zeela snapped. "I'm not a ghost and you're just an ass! If you weren't a cat, I'd punch you to get you to shut up about it, too!"

[monkeymonkeydie.livejournal.com]

Bucky popped out his claws and swiped at the air in front of her in a way that was supposed to be menacing but just ended up looking cute. "Don't start something you can't finish, Missy," he told her.

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

"Awww," she said, less because she found it all that endearing, and more because she thought that it would piss Bucky off, "who's the cutest? Who's the cutest?"

[monkeymonkeydie.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, well..." Bucky started hissing and spitting angrily, too mad for words. He started wiggling his butt back and forth in the cutest imaginable way, and then suddenly he launched himself at her, a fluffball of scratching claws and biting fang.

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

On any normal day in the universe, Zeela would have had no problem catching Bucky by the scruff of his neck, shaking him a bit, then marching him over to the sink to get sprayed (Not spayed, Bucky, relax). Today, however, that didn't happen.

Not because of her phasing powers, though they helped, but because her first instinct was to squeal and flail out her hands, chest-height, in a completely useless manner. If she hadn't randomly gone all...all...pass-throughy, she would have gotten a set of claws to the face.

Whut?

[monkeymonkeydie.livejournal.com]

Bucky landed awkwardly on the floor and rolled, growling. "You did that on purpose!!!" he complained angrily. He finally dug his claws into the carpet and got himself upright, and then immediately launched himself at her leg.

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

"I did not!" Zeela snapped, preparing to kick the little bugger for all he was worth. Her leg flung out, but rather than connect with Bucky--or anyone else--it managed to kick her other leg out from under her, bringing her crashing to the ground.

"Whoa! Oof!"