3rd Floor Common Room | Monday Afternoon

[thegreywaren.livejournal.com]

This whole thing was annoying. Ronan just wanted to go back to constantly feeling angry and annoyed at the world. He didn't want to throw angry, annoyed and wanting of the world into that mix. No. It wasn't happening.

(It already was happening).

There was absolutely nothing on television but that wasn't stopping Ronan from changing the channel every five seconds in a futile attempt to get his brain engaged and away from so many mental images that were dangerous to even broach.

He'd left Chainsaw and the robot baby in the room, trusting his bird to watch over that thing and not even caring if Chainsaw pecked it till it broke. He didn't want to deal with. Nope, he was just going sit on the couch, drink ice cold water (that was, unfortunately, not spiked with anything good) and take his frustrations out on the channel clicker.

God, he was sad.

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[not_a_moonie]

Alana wandered in, headed for the refrigerator. She'd been eating a lot these last few days; it helped with the oral fixation. (Johnny helped with the rest.)

"Watching anything good?" she asked, with half a smile. "Or can I talk you into turning it to Animal Planet?"

Some people might be turned on by shows about safaris and puppy training, but Alana was not among them. Fuzzy, cute harmless animals seemed like the safest thing she could watch for the time being.

[thegreywaren.livejournal.com]

"Why Animal Planet?" he asked grumpily. "Is there a show about tigers maiming other wild animals? That'd be interesting."

And distracting.

[not_a_moonie]

"No," Alana said with a slight laugh, "though now that you mention it that sounds pretty cool. Catharsis and all, right? But I was thinking, 'what's the least likely channel to have hot people on it' and Animal Planet's what I came up with. You got a better idea, go for it."

[thegreywaren.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I have lots of better ideas but they're really not appropriate for right now," he growled, frowning at the television before he started clicking the remote again. "What channel are the cute, cuddly animals on?"

[beautifulsenshi.livejournal.com]

"Alaaaaaaaaaaaana!" Take pity on your classmates, Minako. Less hyper. "Kathy and I were thinking of going off to the mainland and going dancing this week. Wanna come?"

NOT DIRTY.

[not_a_moonie]

"If it's not zero degrees, sure," Alana said, surprised but intrigued by the suggestion. A girls' night might help the itch under her skin. "Did you guys have a place in mind?"

[smilestopscars]

Why was Ezra not wearing a shirt? Simple. It was an easy way of attracting the kind of attention he wanted to attract right now. Consider it advertising.

He waltzed in, and snorted when he saw Ronan. "Aw, grumpypants."

[thegreywaren.livejournal.com]

Ronan had something snide to say but he pretty much forgot about it when he looked up and saw Ezra not wearing a goddamn shirt. Goddammit.

"Aren't you cold?" he finally managed to say though it didn't hold the usual anger his words did. "And that's not my name."

[smilestopscars]

"I'm not sure you ever told me your name," Ezra replied, and smirked smugly as he shrugged. "And my body runs pretty hot in general."

So no, he wasn't cold.

[not_a_moonie]

And somehow Alana forgot about Johnny for a moment. Or, not so much forgot about him as stopped seeing his existence as a reason not to flirt with other guys.

"Hi," she smiled over at the guy, with a swish of her shortish hair. "I'm Alana. I don't think we've hung out before. I'd remember you."

[smilestopscars]

Ezra smiled widely at her, and gave her a little bow. Like a shirtless gentleman. "I'm Ezra. Pleasure to meet you, Alana."

[beautifulsenshi.livejournal.com]

Oh wow hi boy shirtless and it was either blush hideously and try to pretend she didn't see him or blurt out the first thing that came to mind. Because Minako.

"Oh gosh, aren't you cold?"

[smilestopscars]

Ezra smiled at her. "No, I'm very hot." Ha ha. "So, that makes two of us."

This was basically the best week ever for his compulsive flirting.

[beautifulsenshi.livejournal.com]

On one hand, Minako craved people on a daily basis. It was, like, just part of who she was. This week? This week it was even worse. Plus, what with the flowers and the pollen and the who she was... she could practically feel Venus thrumming under her skin. So it was either distraction or... some distraction that was probably a terrible idea. Common room with the most people it was, with a droid-baby in-tow.

And yeah, like Ronan-the-Grump was in there and he wasn't her favorite person ever? But considering all the things, that was probably a good thing. She wouldn't (hopefully) be tempted to kiss him.

Even if he was hot.

"Did you ditch yours with your co-parent, or throw it out a window?" she asked, holding up the baby she was mentally calling 'Artemis Jr.' "Because I gotta admit, the window has been tempting. I like kids, but this robot abomination is making me crazy."

[thegreywaren.livejournal.com]

"Left it in my room," he told her, glancing over at the robot baby. "I don't want to deal with it. It's got shelter, I didn't leave it in the snow somewhere. That's my good deed for the day."

[beautifulsenshi.livejournal.com]

"See, I have a cat," Minako confessed, making a face. "A bitchy, evil cat, who'd probably eat it. I mean, I love him, and I wouldn't blame him, but I'd come back to an ex-robot and Kira and I would fail."

[stacyexperiment]

Gwen was feeling pretty confident after her talk with Cassandra, in that she didn't need to be a slave to her hormones, and she was taking a stand... and then she walked into a common room full of hot people.

"God dammit, does this school not have any ugly people?" she demanded.

[thegreywaren.livejournal.com]

Ronan raised an eyebrow and started snickering. "That a compliment? I think I'll take that as a compliment. Thank you."

[stacyexperiment]

"Oh, please, I'm sure you've gotten a lot of that this week," Gwen said, slumping into a chair, and apparently settling in for frustrated-flirting.

[smilestopscars]

Ezra was going to keep things simple, faced with that question.

"Nope."

Fandom was hot people central.

[stacyexperiment]

And now she was checking out Ezra. Great.

"Seriously, dude? Seriously."

[beautifulsenshi.livejournal.com]

"I think you're very pretty, but I don't think you're my type?" Minako offered helpfully. "So you should be safe if you want to sit over here."

[stacyexperiment]

"Thank you," she said, coming over. "Straight women are my new best friends this week."

[not_a_moonie]

"Pretty sure not," Alana agreed once I finally looked at the whole post and not just my pings. "Do you want us to be uglier?"

[stacyexperiment]

"Yes please, it'd help... hopefully, a little," Gwen said.