Laffy Taffy Cabin, Alcove A3

[icecoldfrost]

When it came down to it, Emma was bored. There was only so much sitting quietly and playing nicely that she was capable of the in the first place, and she'd used most of it up the first fourteen years of her life, trying to be perfect for Winston.

Which is how the germ of an idea started tickling inside her head, and why Emma was in her alcove, pecking away at her Blackberry and haphazardly shoving items in a bag. It was devious and sneaky, and might actually work. Now she just needed to work out the timezone difference to make sure she didn't arrive too early, and her evil plan would be complete.

[OOC: Open alcove!]

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[glacial_queen]

"Are you still grumpy at me?" Karla called, leaning against the doorframe of the cabin. It wasn't hers to enter, after all. "Or can I come in?"

[icecoldfrost]

"I'm still grumpy, but can come in if you make yourself useful and promise not to make fussy-faces behind my back," Emma retorted, leaning back to stick her head out of the alcove and glare at Karla.

[glacial_queen]

"Fair enough," Karla said, heading down to her alcove. "I hadn't planned on making fussy-faces anyway. Why, what are you doing that I would make fussy-faces about?"

There was always something, if Emma was involved.

[icecoldfrost]

"I'm blowing off my studies and running away to join the circus."

[glacial_queen]

"Gonna be a fortune-teller?" Karla asked, grinning. "Use your powers to tell people who they're gonna marry? Oooh, should I ask you how my date on Friday's going to go?"

She was a little nervous and a little proud, admitting to Emma she had a date.

[icecoldfrost]

"I was thinking something a bit more active, like lion-taming or a high-wire act," Emma said, just to tweak Karla's nose. "Or jumping through flaming hoops."

"But I predict that you're date will be interesting enough for you to call me by Saturday if you don't want to wake up with frogs in your bed."

[glacial_queen]

"Saturday, I'll be in Rome with Triela, but I'll make sure to call you before we leave," Karla promised. "I'm not entirely sure how you'd fill my bed with frogs, but I have no doubt you could."

[icecoldfrost]

"I see how this works. You called Jack to rat me out, so that there'd be someone to babysit me while you ran off to Rome." Emma was going to glare again, yes. "You ought to bring me back the present."

[glacial_queen]

Karla rolled her eyes. "Yes, that was exactly my brilliant plan," she said, ignoring the glare. "Because my first thought when agreeing to go to Rome was 'Who can I get to play nursemaid to Emma?'"

She was just going to perch on the foot of Emma's bed without asking permission. So there. "I was going to bring you back something from Rome," she added. "But then I learned about this tradition of giving coal instead..."

[icecoldfrost]

"Coal is for horrid little girls who go telling stories to people who have no business hearing them," Emma retorted as she threw a shirt at Karla.

[glacial_queen]

Karla caught it and began folding it, in case Emma needed it for her trip. "Perhaps other little girls should start listening to their Healer, so she doesn't have to run and tattle to someone they will listen to," she sniffed. "Also, big words from someone who likes to send Morton pictures."

Almost a full year later and Karla had finally found out about that.

[icecoldfrost]

"Maybe if my Healer could give me a reason why I shouldn't be sitting in class, I might listen," Emma snarked back. "I thought nice walks outside and sitting quietly were things I was allowed to do."

"And Morton has nothing to do with this, beyond the fact he is your dear cousin and your family, and implied that he would like to be kept up-to-date regarding your life in Fandom, so that he knows you're happy." Really, Karla. "Jack is not family. He's just a friend who's now in a fuss because you made him worry."

Also, Emma found it funny to send Morton pictures.

[glacial_queen]

Karla wasn't about to point out that family deserved any consideration simply by virtue of being family, however true that was. "Jack may not be family, but he's a dear friend who also wants to be kept up to date," Karla declared. "He's got a vested interest in your well-being and happiness, too. So nyah."

And she was going to stick her tongue out, like the super-mature girl she was.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

Sookie tapped lightly at the edge of the entrance to the alcove. "I brought muffins!" she said, peeking in.

Because this was what good cabinmates did, okay. Particularly for people who had had a trauma-ridden week.

[omg I am BATTLING STATISTICS for the next couple hours so MILD SP WARNING!]

[icecoldfrost]

If you were Emma, you were a good cabinmate if you didn't try to feed someone.

"I think I can make time for muffins," Emma decided.

[OMG I am BATTLING WORKS, so SP is LOVE]

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Going somewhere?" Sookie asked, raising an eyebrow even as she held the wee bag of muffins out.

[icecoldfrost]

"Karla apparently called Jack, frantic, because she thought I was pushing it too much by going to class," Emma complained, swiping a muffin or two to start. "So then Jack calls, and starts fussing by phone, and now I'm going to London to make him stop fretting."

"Of course, he expects me Friday, after my classes, so I'm going to leave this afternoon and practice my breaking and entering skills as a lesson in what happens when you try to guilt trip me; you get an annoyed me that you have to put up with longer than anticipated."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"...of course you are," Sookie sighed. "Are you sure that's a good idea, honey? I mean, I'm not gonna stop you, but are you feeling up to international travel?"

[icecoldfrost]

"It was either go to London or have him come here, and if I have to pick, I'll pick the one where I can make him take me to museums I've never seen once he realizes I'm fine," Emma pointed out. "Besides, I told him if the portal left me scrambled, it was his own fault."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Take a picture with those guys with the big hats for me," she said, smiling a little. "And promise you won't exert yourself." Sookie gave her a look of concern. "Karla might've patched you up, but you were concussed like three days ago."

[icecoldfrost]

"I am fine," and to prove the point, Emma was going to take another muffin and stuff half of it in her mouth. See? Totally healthy appetite.

She savored it for a moment before swallowing. "I've been doing nothing but sitting quietly and going to classes which involve sitting quietly and taking walks to keep myself from throttling people quietly. I am the picture of non-exertion."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Well. Bobby took off on Tuesday, and now you're leaving too," Sookie noted. "Color me a little worried that the two people who swapped bodies are both jetting off to parts unknown less than a week after the accident, is all. But I believe you."

[icecoldfrost]

"Bobby is fine, darling, I left everything where I found it," Emma assured her. "And the moment I start to look too tired, you know Jack. He'll magically produce tea and a blanket and make me sit down."

Emma was looking better than she had on Monday. Still paler than usual, but the bruises under her eyes were almost gone.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I know you did," Sookie replied, shaking her head. "But you know. I'm concerned. Jack better mother hen you at least as well as Karla and I would here."

[icecoldfrost]

"It's Jack. I'm sure he considers it his just revenge for how I nagged him during his concussion," Emma sighed, looking forlorn. "If I don't get to see any of London on my trip, I shall be sad."

"Should I bring you back one of the big hats, if I can find a way to steal one?"