5th Floor Common Room ; Sunday Afternoon

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Jasper felt lazy today. A week spent around dinosaurs being little to nothing should have reinvigorated him but it had just made him lazy. He'd woken up late from sleep littered with nightmares and come down to the common room as soon as he could.

He'd made a late lunch of pancakes but that was about the extent of his productivity for the day. He was sitting on the couch now, feet propped up in front of him with the plate of food near his hip. There wasn't anything decent to watch so Jasper just settled it on some news show.

Sometimes, if they were hurting for news story, they'd run something about his dad. They ranged from how he was faring in prison to what his son had been up to since Billy Dent's incarceration to the fervent adoration of his fans.

Jasper really hoped nothing like that came on today.

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"What are we watching, pretty thing?" Ezra asked, wandering into the common room. Wasn't his common room, and he hadn't actually met this guy before, but neither mattered to him.

He'd been bored. That was all that mattered.

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"The news," he said, raising an eyebrow at the endearment but saying nothing about it. "It's that or religious programming, choose your poison."

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"Both are equally terrible," Ezra decided, merrily traipsing along to the fridge. No, there wasn't anything of his in there. He wasn't going to care. "News tend to be depressing, and the less said about religious programming, the better."

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"Well, feel free to try and find something," Jasper said, holding up the remote and giving it a wave. "Maybe you'll have some magic touch where the television suddenly starts showing something decent."

Just about anything was better than what was on right now.

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Ezra snagged something random out of the fridge (looking like it was perfectly planned and whatever he'd pulled out of there belonged to him) before wandering over to take the remote.

"I can give it a shot. Sometimes my charm works on electronics."

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Jasper looked highly dubious but maybe this would be entertaining.

"Go for it, by all means," he said, nodding. "I await the grandeur."

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Ezra flopped down on the couch.

"Well, I did say 'sometimes'," he said, as he clicked away. "Although I can always bring other types of grandeur, should this one fail."

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"Such as?" Jasper asked, reaching for his plate and settling back. He glanced over at Ezra before looking back to the television.

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"My charm."

He smirked over at Jasper, briefly. He was at least going to take a moment to try his hand at the TV, although so far, it was making him wonder just how many channels were playing sermons by increasingly dramatic old white guys.

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"I've got enough of that already," he said dryly, glancing over. "Why would I need yours for grandeur?"

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"You don't enjoy extra charm?" Ezra asked easily. "Pity."

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"Where am I gonna put all that extra charm?" he asked, amused. "These pants don't have pockets."

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"Well, then you could always take them off and carry all the charm in your arms."

Yes, he knew taking pants off was in no way necessary for that in any logical way. But this Ezra: he was always in favor of pantslessness.

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"I'll pass," he replied, shaking his head. "I think I'll just stick with the charm I can carry and keep my pants on. It's a little cold today."

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"Suit yourself."

Oh, boo, another news broadcast. Click.

"Personally, I think you're missing out, but suit yourself."

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"Does that line usually work?" Jasper wondered curiously. "I bet it does."

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"I wouldn't know, I don't tend to re-use my speech as lines," he replied, shrugging a shoulder lightly as he glanced over. "But to re-define your question and answer it, do things in that vein generally work for me? Often enough."

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"Apologies for being an anomaly," he said, amused. "You're just really not my type and these pants are very comfortable."

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"I'm offended to be disqualified so quickly ––" He wasn't and didn't sound like it, either. "–– but I do understand the allure of a comfortable pair of pants."

Even if he was more of a style over comfort kind of guy in that regard.

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"There are a few good bars in town to go drown your sorrows at if you're that offended," Jasper commented. "It might help you get over my heinous declaration."