Fifth Floor Common Room, Thursday Evening

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The TV was on, showing the hockey game, but since the Leafs weren't playing until tomorrow, Toby wasn't really paying all that much attention. It was really more background noise than anything.

His attention was still on hockey though, after a fashion. He'd been browsing the shelves of the library out of boredom and had stumbled across a series of books by someone named E.J.J. Erie. He'd picked the first one, Cross Check, up out of idle curiosity and... well. Now he was finding it difficult to put down.

So, curled up on a couch in the common room, reading hockey fiction while paying half-attention to hockey on TV. All he needed now was some poutine and this would be an excessively Canadian evening.

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[wasthecuteone]

The blue and gold half-moon mani Petra had done for graduation had finally chipped, so she'd picked out a fun mint green polish, then headed down to the common room for entertainment and better ventilation while she worked. "Hey, Toby," she said as she entered the room and picked out a seat. "Whatcha reading?"

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"Hm?" Toby hadn't even sensed her come in, he'd been so engrossed. He looked up now, though, and tilted the cover so Petra could see. "Cross Check," he informed her. "It's, uh. About this goalie, Chris West, and he's in the middle of this slump..." he trails off. "And- that's pretty much where I am right now."

[wasthecuteone]

"So it's about--what is that, is it hockey?" she asked, tilting her head to get a better look at the cover. Look, Petra wasn't much for sports. He was lucky she knew hockey had goalies. "Is it any good?"

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"Hockey, yeah," Toby nodded. "It's amazing." And there was maybe a little bit of gushing, there. "He's got this really intense relationship going on with Sazzy- Sazonov- the team captain, who's just really... I don't know how to explain it, Russian?"

[wasthecuteone]

"I have no idea what that means," Petra had to admit, "but you sound really into it. Intense relationships, huh?"

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"They're best friends, and teammates," Toby said with a nod. Best friends with raging UST, anyway. "And West might get traded- to another team, in Winnipeg, and so- tension. Because they might get split up." A beat. "You should read it. You don't really need to know that much about the game- the author explains it pretty well without it reading like, a how-to."