FIRE DRILL!, Outside of the Dorms, Very Late Thursday Night/Very Early Friday Morning

[suitably_heroic]

The wind roared around campus this time of night. Temperatures had dropped to close to freezing, and clouds blocked out most of the fragile light of the moon.

Perfect time to ring the fire alarm for a test, right? Right.

Somewhere deep in the middle of the night, the alarm went off. Loudly. So grab what you can and bustle on outside, students! ... and let's hope this is over quick.

[[ FIRE DRILL! have at. ]]

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[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

Four hopped from one foot to another. "Good. It's cold."

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy debated offering to share her blanket, but the courage required to chase drug dealers down dark alleys was apparently not the same required to share body heat with offer cute, shirtless boys.

Besides, Vidar might just up and murder her if she did.

"I don't think this is a fire drill so much as an exercise in sadism," she said instead. "When we get back inside, you should have some tea or cocoa or something. Warm you up from the inside."

[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

Four nodded. "I have two classes tomorrow--today?--so yeah, I need to be awake. Maybe I'll just go for a jog and warm myself up."

Weirdo.

[spin_kick_snap]

"Me too," Kathy said, about to be incredibly grateful that one of her classes was going to be a movie day.

The one with Four in it, in fact. Fancy that.

"I just got to sleep. I need at least a few hours or I'm going to be worthless when classes begin."

[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

"What were you doing up?" Four asked, looking interested. "Movie marathon?"

[spin_kick_snap]

"Oh, uh, no," Kathy said, suddenly flushing. At least her face was warmer. "I, uhh--promise not to laugh?"

She didn't wait for him to answer, just blurted out, "I spend most nights patrolling in Baltimore fighting crime."

Nope. Didn't sound any less silly the more she said it.

[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

Four arched his eyebrows up. "Why?"

[spin_kick_snap]

"What do you mean, why?" Kathy asked, genuinely confused. "Because it needs to be done. Because I can do it. Because it's something that's important to me?"

[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

"I wanted to see if it was because you liked the adrenaline rush or because it was fun," Four said. "There are different types of people who do things like that."

[spin_kick_snap]

"Well, I mean it is fun," Kathy said. "But if I want an adrenaline rush, I'll just jump off the dorm roof or something. The stuff I do in Baltimore is bigger than that. It's prep for when I can go home and do it for real. Get the gangs out of my neighborhood, so my sister doesn't have to walk to school past drug dealers, you know?"

[dauntless-four.livejournal.com]

Four nodded. "Well, in theory, anyway," he admitted. "Our streets are pretty safe.