Second floor common room- Monday morning

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Sabine only had one class on Monday, and she had just planned on getting some caffeine before having to go, except she walked into the common room to find puppies. Random puppies. Adorable, tiny, fluffy baby puppies.

She didn't know where they came from and obviously they wouldn't be staying, but could anyone blame her if she ignored the caffeine to pick one up and cuddle him? (The answer was no, not unless they were a monster.)


[Snow day! You need puppies, come play.]

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"Infinite puppies wandering the halls in the middle of the night."

That was not a deterrent. That was adorable.

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"See, everybody would thank me," Vette laughed. "Imagine, not just a puppy common room. Puppy everything."

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"I'd say people might get tired of it, but we all know that's going to happen." Sorry, people with allergies!

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"Tired of puppies? Who are these monsters??"

A beat. Vette leaned up to moosh her nose against a little beagle's snoot.

"Paris, maybe."

Vette was never going to let Paris live that down.

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"Paris, definitely," Sabine agreed. "They'd get in the way of something or other."

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"She tried to use me as a shield that one time," Vette noted, grinning a little. "Who does that?"

From puppies!

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"Someone who doesn't know this kind of happiness," Sabine said, hugging the puppy. "They're so fluffy."

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"They are," Vette agreed, maybe a little bit in awe. "Do we even have things this fluffy back in our galaxy?"

Maybe not on Nar Shaddaa. Definitely not on Ryloth. You couldn't exactly snuggle a gutkurr.

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"Not that I've seen in person, but I'm happy to have that challenged. I guarantee they're not this cuddly." Though this puppy didn't get a choice in how cuddly he was. Sabine was just cuddling.

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Vette was sure none of the puppies here would have minded a good cuddle, though.

"Nothing is this cuddly," Vette agreed. There was a puppy curling up to nap against her lek, now, and she was pretty much going to die of 'awww.' "I'm sure it's some kind of trap, maybe some kind of carnivore tactic to restrain their prey, but I'm really okay with that."

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"We'll deal with that when the time comes," Sabine assured her. "Without harming the puppies. At all."

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"I mean, speak for yourself," Vette replied. "This one is getting sleepy. I'm totally about to get eaten."

Thou shalt not awaken the sleepy puppy.

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"Please don't get eaten," Sabine said.

That was it. Just don't. She had puppies on her, herself.

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"That," Vette said, "would be a pretty bad way to end my Monday."

A beat.

"Cute, but not quite as pleasant as this is right now."

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"It's pretty great," she said, as a puppy tried to nip at her boot. "I wonder if I can bring one to class..."

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"I mean... I don't think anybody would complain if you did." She paused. "If they do, just make up a story about it being a student here, since that's a thing."

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Sabine looked down at this new puppy. "I mean, I did find him in a common room. Who can say, right?"

Or at least that's what she would tell Deadpool and Vanessa if asked.

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"Maybe they're all students," Vette mused. "Maybe we're the last few survivors of the puppy plague."

Way, way better than rakghouls.

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"If that were true, I would not be here when everyone turned back."

There were just some things she never needed to see en masse.

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Vette paused.

And lifted up the beagle in her hands, staring up at it. It stared right back.

"... You," she informed the puppy, "had better not be a student."

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"I'm pretty sure it's not," Sabine assured her. "Pretty sure. They probably wouldn't all be puppies."

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"Puppy plague," Vette said again. "What if puppyhood is passed through cuddles? What if we're only one adorable sneeze away from being little puffballs, too?"

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Sabine shrugged.

"Good way to go."

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"I think I could live with catching the puppy plague," Vette decided, glancing at the little guy whose chin was draped over her left lek. "I mean, they're clearly living a tough life, but they'll probably persevere.

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"They are tough little things who can grow up to be anything they want to be," Sabine said, nodding seriously.