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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"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.

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"Ohh. Did I just screw up some kind of etiquette by not bringing something?" she checked. "I'm new."

Clearly.

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"Oh, no," Toby assured her. "It's not a hard and fast rule, or anything. But if you've got extra food on your hands... bringing it to a common room is a good way to make sure it doesn't go to waste."

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"Makes sense," Maddie said thoughtfully. "I mean, this place does seem kind of popular."

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"It's a place where we can hang out and be social without making the extreme effort of going all the way into town," Toby said. "Hence, yeah. It attracts a crowd."

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"Plus food and TV all in the same place," she conceded. "I think I might try getting out into town sometimes, though."

Because she could and she didn't have to check in with anyone.

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"There's an absurd number of restaurants for a population this small," Toby shared. "But the upside is anything you're craving, you're bound to find it."

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"That's kind of cool," she decided. Not that she could afford anything yet, but there were ways around that. Like jobs. "What else is there to do here?"

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"There's a couple of bars, only one of which actually cares if you're legal or not," Toby explained. "Um. A bowling alley. The gym. And, you know, woods and beach and stuff." He was beginning to realize that maybe he needed to do a little exploring of his own. Still.

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"Does the bar where you have to be 21 have zombies?" Just checking.

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"No, but occasionally there's a vampire?"

And a werewolf or two.

And a succubus.

[mummyspromdate.livejournal.com]

"Huh."

And a moment later...

"Still stuck on 'huh.'"

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"He's friendly?" Toby offered. "Or at least... not... overly hostile? I think he's more concerned with running a business than draining anyone's blood."

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"That's sort of weirder," Maddie said.