Second Floor Common Room, Friday Afternoon

[arsenicmauls]

In the semester that she'd been here, Gert had learned that there were basically two reasons to be in a common room: to watch a bad movie or to try to pawn bagels off on people. Today, shockingly, was an example of neither.

No, today she had Chinese food to give away (seriously, what was it with the delivery guys in this town and bringing way more food than any one person needed?) and the movie she was watching, about a fish looking for his son, was actually pretty good. Imagine that.

Old Lace seemed personally moved by this movie. She was making whimpery noises at the sad parts and everything.

Comments

[arsenicmauls]

Hi, eyebrow going up. "Fetching caffeinated drinks to feed a teacher's ego?"

[whenshewasnice]

"Clearly you've never actually met him." Ego? Not that big a thing when it came to Clint. Especially not among all the other people Natalie was close to. "And we've already had this discussion before, I think. He was a friend before he was my teacher."

[arsenicmauls]

"Right." She still thought that was weird, for the record. "Well, I hope that's... fun for you, I guess."

[whenshewasnice]

"It's okay."

It was better than okay, but like she'd say that in this company? Or... in most company, actually.

Actually she was slowly running out of the kind of company she would say these things in.

"Was that bear thing a reference to an actual class?"

[arsenicmauls]

"Surprisingly, yes," Gert reported. "Survival skills with some guy named Batman. Because fighting a bear is a survival skill that comes up in my life all the time."

[whenshewasnice]

"There were drop bears at graduation last year."

Just saying.

"But probably not the same thing."

[arsenicmauls]

"Wow." She actually sounded sincere at that. "I can hardly wait to graduate and see what my class gets at our ceremony."

Uh, well, about that graduating thing, Gert... oh, wait, that was sad.

"I was picturing plant identification and stuff, anyway," she clarified. "Though I guess in LA, they're about equally useful."