Second Floor Common Room, Wednesday Afternoon

[arsenicmauls]

Fact the first: Gert had gone out this afternoon in search of one (1) sandwich.

Fact the second: Someone (a bartender? Gert hadn't caught his (her?) name, but he (she?) had hair tucked into a baseball cap and seemed very drunk) had been racing around a town with two garbage bags that held a combined two hundred bagels.

Fact the third: Evidently running away from a pursuer, who Gert assumed was the owner of the bagel store, Baseball Cap had thrust one of the bags at Gert and yelled at her to take it and run.

And so it was that a baffled Gert hauled a massive bag of about a hundred bagels up the stairs through town and up to the second floor common room, at which point she proceeded to dump the bag on the counter and collapse on the couch with a cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese.

What. The hell.

[[open. i don't know. if you care, it was totally april.]]

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[ultron_junior]

Victor waved his own bagel lightly by way of greeting because this is the runaways reunion CR. "You realize we've been here a year now?"

[solarhippie]

Karolina's eyebrows bounced. "I... hadn't realized that, no," she admitted. "Wow. That's pretty long. Go us?"

[ultron_junior]

Victor grinned briefly. "Not sure about you, but it's the longest I've stayed in one place since I was with my mom. I say that's a go, us."

[solarhippie]

"I didn't really have time to move around too much before coming here," Karolina said. "But yeah. I don't think that, you know, after the thing with our parents... I didn't think I'd stay anywhere like this."

And that also covered being somewhere that was like Fandom, not just how long she'd stayed.

[ultron_junior]

"Right," Victor agreed. "I was kind of used to the idea I'd be hiding out, but now ... now we're all stable. I like it, even if sometimes I wonder if I'm doing enough, you know?"

[solarhippie]

"Yeah." She actually really, really knew. "I... I've actually been back to LA a couple of times lately. I'm going back this weekend again, I think. Still feels a little like..."

Like she wasn't pulling her weight. She trailed off, and shrugged.

[ultron_junior]

"Oh, I was going to go next week, after graduation," Victor told her. "Just to check in. Have fun."

There was some necessary irony on that, as going home for Victor (and he assumed for Karolina) was usually a very special kind of fun that wasn't, really, much fun at all.

"And -- yeah. Like, if I want to talk about being a hero, I should do it, right? I mean, if Molly can, and she's 12 ..." He kneaded his fingers together. "It'd be easier if I didn't like it here so much."

[solarhippie]

"Yeah," Karolina said, with a lopsided smile. "Darn Fandom being so accommodating and nice."

[ultron_junior]

"Practically paradise, if paradise tossed you in a dungeon or made you think you were somebody else once in a while," Victor nodded. "Admit it, you'll miss it while you're home."

[solarhippie]

"I'll miss the people," Karolina retorted. As much as anything she said could be called a retort, as such. "Just in general, but also... specific ones."

[ultron_junior]

"Anybody in particular?" Victor asked. "Though if you're just flattering me, I'll take it."