Second Floor Common Room- Saturday Morning

[furrybluefreak]

Kurt was in a baking mood.... the cookies the other day had really got him missing the times he would make Christmas cookies back home. That meant Kut was rummaging around the cabinets in the common room that morning, trying to take stock of what was there on hand if he wanted to make those cookies after all. It was looking pretty good and there were only a few things he might have to get depending on what he decided to go with. So, if anyone was walking around the floor they might have heard some humming and singing coming from the kitchen area.

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[pun_king]

As it so happened, Graham was walking by, on his way to the stables to meet Triumph for a but of training, so the sound of Kurt at work in the common room had him backtracking and poking his head in.

"Hey, Kurt," he said, waving a hand and looking over curiously. "What'cha working on, there?"

[furrybluefreak]

"Oh, Graham! Hi!" Kurt said with a smile as he pulled his head out of the cabinet he had been rummaging in. "Trying to take inventory and see if I have what I need to do some baking."

He gave a small sigh as he stood up and gave a glance around the kitchen area. "Nothing around here is really organized at all, it's a wonder we can find anything!"

But it was a dorm, and filled with teenagers, so that might have a lot to do with it.

[pun_king]

"That may be so," Graham agreed with a chuckle, deciding to detour a little and come in to the common room, maybe to see if he could help Kurt out or just to say hi for a bit, "but I'm pretty sure with how much everyone around here does bake, there's probably no shortage of supplies!"

And then, after hearing it, he amended, "Or maybe that's why there could be a shortage! 'Cause we've used them all up!

"What were you going to bake?" he asked, and then, gaining a knowing grin and waggling his eyebrows at Kurt a little, ventured, "those dinosaur cooking with Libby?"

[furrybluefreak]

"Ah, was at least thinking of seeing what I might need to still get from the store" Kurt said, feeling his face heat up a bit. "Haven't had a chance to ask Libby about any specific timing or anything yet."

There was a moment's pause as that nervous uncertainty crept back in.

"I know shes busy with classes and her work at the clinic. I... I don't want to bother her with something as silly as cookies if she's too busy."

[pun_king]

"Kurt." Graham's face was suddenly quite serious, as he looked at the other boy imploringly, and even went to put a hand on Kurt's shoulder so that he could truly feel the weight of this next statement.

"Cookies are never something silly."

But he did grin, a little, at the end there.

[furrybluefreak]

"Ah yes. It's more just...." Kurt started then stopped and gave a small grin to his friend in return. "Nevermind. You're right. Cookies are definitely nothing to scoff at." Never mind that wasn't quite what Kurt had been focusing on just then.

[pun_king]

"Besides," Graham added, the grin broadening quite a bit as his shoulders squared with the confidence he had in this next statement, "take it from me! The stomach? Is almost always an effective way to someone's heart!"

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"Good morning, Kurt!"

Belle had just been conveniently passing by and stopped in to see answer was happening. Just in case there might be food and not just whatever that little package of items that had appeared earlier was meant to be.

[furrybluefreak]

"Morning Belle! How's it going?" Kurt asked, giving a smile and wave.

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"I haven't found any plates of cookies yet this morning so it's not quite as pleasant as yesterday," Belle said with a smile. "But I'm doing well. And you?"

[furrybluefreak]

"Yeah the cookies and the coke have been really nice right," Kurt said with a smile. "I'm doing well, looking forward to the holiday break! You have any special plans for the holidays?"

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"I enjoyed the treats much more than the singing gremlins or the hot chocolate in the water pipes," Belle said. "I haven't got any plans, no. It's not a holiday we celebrate at home. Are you going home for the break?"

[furrybluefreak]

"I hope to get back to see everyone at the Academy for some of the break," Kurt said with a nod. "And I will be spending time visiting Mutti and Vati too. I mean, my mother and father" he clarified with a small shy smile, realizing he had slipped back into the familiar German like he often did when talking about his family.

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"Oh, that should be lovely. I hope you have good visits, Kurt. The Academy is your old school?"

[pun_king]

"Hey, Belle!" Since Graham decided to postpone his training session with Triumph for just a little bit to hang out in the common room and see who else showed up, it made sense that he would want to wave and say hello. "Good morning!"

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"Good morning Graham," Belle greeted him cheerfully. "How was your game last night?"

[pun_king]

"Ohhhhhh, it was greaaaat!" Graham enthused, almost immediately, lighting up over the fact that Belle had even asked. "We're still in an ambush by some mysterious bandits who slayed the carriage driver, but it's alright, Vi and Kurt have been clearing them out without barely breaking a sweat, and Libby brought the driver back to consciousness so he...probably won't die. But who knows what might happen if the bandit leader reveals herself and really gives them what for!"

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"Oh, that all sounds very exciting! Were they bandits after your characters particularly, or were you all attacked just by chance?"

Look, it was all a story. Belle loved that.

[pun_king]

"I don't want to say too much here," Graham gave Belle a very meaningful look, "because of, well..." He not-so-subtly nudged his head and eyebrows in Kurt's general direction, and then lifted his hands up and wiggled his fingers on his best pantomime of a squirrel, "but...."

He looked dramatically to the left. Then dramatically to the right. Then leaned in and lowered his voice as he revealed, "it was not an incidental encounter."

[scarlet_and_indigo]

TJ lived next door, so yeah. "I know that song." She leaned against the doorway, watching him. "Looking for something?"

[furrybluefreak]

"Ah T.J. hey!" Kurt said as he gave a grin and a small wave. "Just making a shopping list for some baking later on." He held up the bag of chocolate chips he had saved from the back of the cabinet he had been searching through.

[scarlet_and_indigo]

TJ bounded over to grab the bag and started eating the chips. "Need to make stollen?"

[furrybluefreak]

Kurt blinked a bit in surprise and then, shaking his head he added 'chocolate chips' to the shopping list. "Done!"

Setting the pad down, he hopped up on the counter and gave TJ a grin. It had been a while since they had really talked more than passing greetings around the dorms or in class.

"How have things been? Looking forward to the break?"

[scarlet_and_indigo]

TJ nodded. "Looking forward to it. Hold on." She pulled out her phone and held it up to take a picture of him. "Say hello to yourself."

[furrybluefreak]

"Ok that is always going to be a bit weird... yet cool" Kurt said as he looked at the picture. "Still feels a little weird though," he added with a glance at TJ, knowing that this all was a lot odder for her than it was for him.