Second floor common room- Sunday afternoon

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Was it bad that this place didn't take as much getting used to as expected? Sure, day one was filled with a lot of information and surprise and everything. Maddie was rooming with a girl with time traveling parents and a dinosaur, she'd gotten the rundown on the possibility of turning into a boy from a talking pink pony who held mirrors, there was a girl from an alternate universe of where she came from and also at least two Avengers hanging around, one of which was supposed to be dead in Maddie's time. When she went to bed last night, she wasn't sure she was going to be sticking around.

And then this morning she woke up, remembered that she'd been a superhero-in-training two days ago who was going to be a walking ghost in like ten years, and she realized she wasn't really in a different situation than she was before. Well, here they weren't going to ask her to save the world at all, which was exactly the thing she'd been trying to get away from anyway.

Since her side of the room still looked too depressingly empty to want to hide out in there, Maddie ventured out into the common room to check it out. Where "check it out" meant "find a seat on the sofa and make sure they had cable."


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[ultron_junior]

Victor was a little bored and checking the common rooms in search of intelligent life, a bag of barbecue chips, or preferably both. He waved to the redhead as he came into the second floor common room.

"Hey," he said. "New girl, right? Find anything good on TV yet?"

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"Werewolf movies on Syfy and a Braxton Family Values marathon," Maddie said with a frown, looking up at him. "So... no."

[ultron_junior]

"I can do the werewolf movie thing," Victor decided, as he rifled through the snack cabinet. "If you're asking for votes. Reality shows are always really ... loud."

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Maddie clicked over to find the werewolf movie, and put the remote down. "They kind of try to be obnoxious on purpose," she said, because she knew Brandon. "Hi, by the way. I forgot that part."

[pursuedthestars]

It was Jim's second day in a row visiting the common room and, again, it was for purposes of finding food. Hey, he didn't want to keep anything in the room. Jackson was acting...weird, after all.

"Hey," he greeted, tossing her a wave while he ambled towards the kitchen. "Hope you have better luck with that thing than I did. Came up empty last night."

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"Sunday TV, pickings are kind of slim," Maddie pointed out, watching him. Ooh, she hadn't even thought to check out the kitchen.

[pursuedthestars]

"So, everyone's lied to me when they say there's always something on," he replied, pulling open some cabinets to peer inside. Potato chips, cookies, crackers...

"The pickings in the kitchen aren't slim at all," he added.

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"Let's see," Maddie said, and got up to join him in the kitchen and look in the cabinets. "Clearly adults have been nowhere near this place."

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Emily had invariably found herself looking for common spaces, mostly because it would have been too easy to hide in her room and grow to the idea of never interacting with people again. That was basically the contrary to what she had been sent to do so, yeah. Common room it was.

"Are schools supposed to have...this stuff?" Shockingly enough she really didn't have the faintest idea of how things worked on private schools.

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"Which stuff?" Maddie asked, giving what she hoped was more a friendly smile than anything.

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Emily made quite a wide motion with an arm, basically encompassing the entire room, yeah."Uh, this. My experience with schools is...lacking."

She didn't forget to smile back.

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"Some places do, I think," Maddie said. "My last boarding school had it, just to give everyone a place to hang out."

And because when you had an infinite mansion, you had to take up the rooms with something.

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"So this is where people are today," Jessica said. "I was looking around, but I didn't see anyone in the creepy basement, so I thought I'd check here and boom. People."

She was not aware if there was a creepy basement to the dorms.

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"We have a creepy basement that people hang out in?"

Maddie was a bit impressionable sometimes.

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"I actually have no idea, I just thought it was a better line to walk in on than 'Hi, what's on TV?'" Jessica admitted.

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"I'm sorry I didn't have a better reply, then," Maddie said. "Because what's on TV is werewolves." And that wasn't a very interesting answer.

...That she'd just said out loud anyway.

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"You know, I thought about going to hang out in the creepy basement?" Toby remarked. "But then laziness won out. All those stairs, you know."

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"I don't mind the stairs. It's the shadowy corridors that gets me," Jessica mused.

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"But that's prime lurking space, right there."

[reven8e.livejournal.com]

"Is it next to a torture chamber? That would only make sense."

Sense might have been a very strong word...

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"You'd think so, but no. There's a surprising lack of torture chambers in the creepy basement," Jessica said. "I think you have to go into town for that."

[reven8e.livejournal.com]

"Now that's just poor space management," pointed out Emily. She had lived enough time with maybe-ninjas to know a thing or two about that sort of stuff. "Someone is missing a good business here."

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sure, the picnic had been just yesterday, but Toby was still feeling like getting out and meeting people should be a thing, and so he'd boxed up a couple pies from work and headed for the first populated common room he saw.

"I bring gifts," he announced. "Gifts of pie."

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Maddie did a little bit of a double take when she saw that yes, he did actually have pie with him. "Why?" she asked, because she was new and didn't know the rules yet.

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"Because it's kinda how things work around here," Toby explained with a smile. "People just sort of... bring food in to share, when they can." Not everyone did, of course, but enough so that the system worked, anyhow. "And because I seriously underestimated the demand for pie today at the restaurant I work at," he admitted.