2nd Floor Common Room, Thursday Afternoon

[whenshewasnice]

So, guess you couldn't leave Peter alone for too long. Or maybe he was feeling particularly frustrated with his foxness today. Natalie didn't know. What she did know was that she'd come back from her visit to Clint's office and found her desk in disarray, and Mr. Moxy hissing at Peter like he'd really crossed some kind of line by messing up Natalie's workspace.

She'd left the cat in the room and ushered the fox out into the hallway with her. She'd been meaning to go for a snack, anyway. "It was because I took the laptop with me, wasn't it?" she asked, as they were entering the common room. "Already told you you can't use it, anyway."

Peter the fox seemed to give her an indignant look.

"What?" she asked. "You'd just scratch it. We've been over this. You don't even have your own independent narrative." Too bad foxes couldn't roll their eyes all that well, though she got the message. "And don't give me that look, I know you don't. So, there's nothing you can or should be doing on a computer right now."

Was that a whine?

"You're a fox. Deal with it."

She was going to get them some cereal right now. And yes, newbies, arguing with animals was a thing that occasionally happened in this town. In case you hadn't figured that out yet.

[ooc: Open!]

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[dollpocalypse]

"Hey, Natalie," Topher said, waving idly at her on his way to the fridge. "Hey, Peter."

He'd met fox!Peter before. It was a thing.

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie raised an eyebrow at him a bit, but she wasn't that surprised he could identify foxes that easily. "Hello, Topher."

Peter, understandably, said nothing.

[dollpocalypse]

Well, it was partly a knowledge of foxes and partly a logical guess that there probably weren't that many other foxes hanging around in the dorms. Plus, Natalie seemed more the cat-lady type than someone who would choose to keep a fox as a pet.

...Sorry, Natalie.

"Babysitting?" he guessed, hopping up onto the counter with a Mountain Dew. "He eats wires, you know."

[whenshewasnice]

What was the point in going "sorry, Natalie" when she had a cat as a pet, though? Foxes were for people from medieval-type worlds, anyway.

"He messes up desks," she replied dryly, with a glance down at Peter who looked like there was absolutely nothing wrong with that. "It's not as charming as he thinks."

[dollpocalypse]

Because cats were terrifying and for weird people, duh.

"He's probably just technology-deprived," Topher said sagely. "Maybe get him a book or something and flip the pages for him to tide him over."

[whenshewasnice]

"I honestly don't think I could find a book he'd be interested in," Natalie replied, reaching into a cupboard. "And I'm already keepinng an eye on his work. No one helped me read when I was a snake."

[dollpocalypse]

"Because snakes are creepy," Topher said."You know the last time Peter was a fox, he got paintballed?"

And it had been hilarious, yes.

[whenshewasnice]

Peter didn't look like he thought so.

"Well, that's not happening this time," Natalie drawled. "But I can't guarantee my cat won't scratch him."

[dollpocalypse]

Well, that raised an important question. "Think Peter would win in a fight against it?"

Ahahaha. Ha.

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

Cade did that raised eyebrow "I acknowledge you exist" thing to Natalie as he entered the common room, then added on raised eyebrow "what the kark is that?" to it when he spotted the fox.

Talking, apparently, wasn't his thing today.

[whenshewasnice]

Really good thing Natalie could check the meanings of his eyebrow raises from his narrative, then, wasn't it?

"Hi," she said, a little on the dry side, then nodded at the fox. "Peter Wiggin."

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

Cade snickered and got closer to the fox. "Seriously?"

[whenshewasnice]

"Yes, seriously," Natalie replied, not a lot less dryly. "I know it's hard to believe with the lack of suit and everything."

Peter looked at Cade... pretty warily, yes.

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"A fox wearing a suit would just be karking ridiculous," Cade decided just as dryly. "Does he do this a lot?"

Because Cade hadn't heard about it, if so.

[whenshewasnice]

"Well, it's his second time," she shrugged. "Does that seem like a lot?"

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," Cade said. "I've turned into a fox zero times."

[OOC: And I sleeeep. Pick up tomorrow?]

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie shrugged. "Well, I've turned into a snake once," she remarked. "It happens. Fandom thing."

[Tomorrow is fine! *tucks you in*]

[reven8e.livejournal.com]

"So the fox talks back?"

Emily was expecting the answer to be yes, because it was easier to deal with than thinking of Natalie as clinically insane. It really was! It was also more entertaining than trying to find something interesting on the television.

[whenshewasnice]

"No," Natalie replied mildly, with a dry look at the new girl. "When he's a boy, yes. But not right now."

That did not stop them from arguing with each other, though.

[reven8e.livejournal.com]

Well that was a nice stare. Emily pretended to be none the wiser though, eyes opening a bit more at the answer. "So, gender bending, animal transformation. Am I missing something else?"

[whenshewasnice]

It wasn't really a stare. At least she was blinking – that wasn't always a given with Natalie. She shrugged a shoulder. "Occasionally people turn into objects. Or other people who look just like them."

[reven8e.livejournal.com]

The blinking was...appreciated. "Things? Other people? What the hell is wrong with this place? No, wait, I bet people have lists of what's wrong."

She really, really didn't want to think about that sort of stuff. "Although...now I have to wonder how does it feel to be an inanimate object."

[whenshewasnice]

This time, Natalie shrugged both shoulders, but even that was mild. She'd been told she had next to no body language around strangers, once, and for good reason. There were few people who could be so utterly neutral in conduct as Natalie Adams.

"Wouldn't know, hasn't happened to me."

[reven8e.livejournal.com]

Neutral and uninterested Emily could deal with. Maybe with a bit if jealously, as she was the one forced to pretend to care, but she could certainly keep on pretending anyway.

"Well that's fortunate. Maybe I should ask him once he's back," said as she looked at the fox.

[whenshewasnice]

Peter the fox looked mildly interested. Natalie wondered if he was trying to figure out the girl's worth.

"He's not an inanimate object, though," Natalie pointed out. "I don't think he's ever been one."