Room 528, Weds Morning

[icecoldfrost]

Emma was awoken this morning by other people's thoughts.

This, in and of itself, wasn't unusual. Emma was usually woken at least two or three times a night by leakage from the rest of the dorm; bad dreams, loud 'activities', unholy perky people, that sort of thing.

But this was loud. It wasn't just one or two people bouncing around like squirrels on pop-rocks in the morning. No, this was much, much bigger.

And it felt very very familiar in tone. Disturbingly familiar.

Oh hell.

Emma was just going to stay under the blankets all day, if she could get away with it. Possibly kill a particular minion with the power of her brain if she got close enough. What good was it having an underling that 'knew stuff' if she wasn't going to be useful?


[Closed door, open post! SP warning in effect, as I teach three times today.]

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[thatsamilkshake]

There was a knock at the door, accompanied by a painfully open mind that was still chanting Iwillnotfreakout every so often, and a male voice that sounded more confident than it felt. "Pants fairy!"

[icecoldfrost]

"You're already freaking out!" Emma yelled through the door, totally unhelpfully. Just because she was a guy didn't mean she wasn't still a bitch.

There was a muted thump and a curse, and the door was yanked open to reveal a boy in too-small sweatpants and no shirt. All of hers were too small and too tight. "And what about a pants fairy?"

[thatsamilkshake]

...Emma, the management would like to apologize for the fact that even Francine did the staring at your chest and thinking Things thing. And it's not even your regular chest!

So, so gay. Maybe if I thought about the way Emma usually looks, it would he-- NOT HELPING.

Francine wordlessly held up the box. Then decided words were manageable after all. "I...am one?" ....Maybe not those words.

[icecoldfrost]

"You're lacking wings, darling," Emma deadpanned, leaning against the doorframe to deliberately give Francine an eyeful. "Although you do pull off fey quite well..."

[thatsamilkshake]

So not fair. So not fair. "I...have no idea what that means. But I have pants. And..." Something. What did she have? Oh right. "Shirts."

[icecoldfrost]

"I'm sure you don't," she replied silkily, holding out a hand. "I'll take pants, then, if you please."

She'd take a shirt, too, if it was handed to her, but Emma was enjoying making her Pants Fairy squirm.

[thatsamilkshake]

She really didn't know. Francine was...special. In that stop-easting-the-paste way.

She also had no idea how to guess Emma's size, which sadly resulted in more staring. Then thrusting out the box. "You might want to pick your own."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

She was a cove. She wasn't sure what that meant, but she'd no idea how to add this experience to her report. Twas best to avoid it for now and she wondered if other gixies'd be experiencing the same as her and Hayley.

Emma was the first person she thought off which'd be why there was a knock on the door that morning.

[icecoldfrost]

"Keep staring, and your face might freeze that way," Emma informed her, leaning over to pick through the box. If she'd had her regular body, it would have been quite a view, but it was probably still nice.

Ugh. Boys could have style, there was no reason to wear things that didn't fit right or match. "Are you the Pants Fairy for everyone today, or am I just that special?"

[icecoldfrost]

Emma was being complete amoral when it came to her powers today, reaching out to check who it was before even answering.

< Beka, darling, I'm afraid I'm a bit male at the moment, > she sent, wincing at how even her mental tone sounded like a guy. < If I open the door, I do not want any screaming or flailing about. >

[thatsamilkshake]

"Sorry!" Oh God, that was rude. Just because I have one, do I have to turn *into* one? "Sorry. Um." Right. Pants Fairy. "Everybody, I guess? I've just been knocking on rooms that I know have girls in them that I didn't already see downstairs."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

The voice caught her off guard for an instant and that answered her question. She nodded. "Just don't scream back," she answered, both out loud and in her head.

This should be interesting, Pounce commented and she'd not even realized the cat had followed her.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

Maybe Layla had a deathwish, but after helping Karla with her issues and making sure her set up in the lobby was taken care she wandered up to Emma's room and knocked on the door.

"I have coffee, pastries and explanations," he called out as he knocked.

[icecoldfrost]

"You already turned into one," Emma answered, not realizing Francine hadn't said that part aloud. She was too busy trying to find pants that weren't fugly. "Downstairs? Has my illustrious minion set up her rummage sale of good again?"

[icecoldfrost]

< Right then. > A moment later, and Emma was at the door. In pants that fit, now, thanks to Francine, but still shirtless. She was going to take her amusement where she could get it.

"Well now, aren't we the pretty pair?"

[icecoldfrost]

"Coffee is good, explanations are better," Emma answered, yanking the door open. "Miller."

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Easy, Ms. Frost," Layla said holding out the coffee. "If you remember the last time this happened with the boys there was someone taking pictures to celebrate the event. Keeping things on the quiet side was merely my way of stopping the Fandom paparazzi from showing up to have their revenge."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

Emma was pretty, that was certain and Beka stared at her before she remembered to speak. "More manly than I remembered," she mumbled.

She wasn't shirtless despite the icon, but she was back in her tunics. The fitted much better than the clothes she'd both with Emma.

[thatsamilkshake]

"Um. What?" Did I say that out loud? Sadly for the farcicial aspect of this, Francine really did have to ask herself that sometimes. "Layla's down there, if that's what you mean."

[icecoldfrost]

"Yes, that's what I mean. Layla's my head minion." HA! Emma grabbed a pair of decently-cut khakis and held them up against her waist critically. "And you might have said it out loud, or you might not have, or you might not have said that out loud either. Did you or didn't you? That might be the great question of the day."

"Beyond the obvious question of 'How the hell did I wake up with a dick,' of course."

[icecoldfrost]

"I heard a rumor that Layla's got boxes of men's clothing down on first," she replied, looking her Little Sibling over. The tunic was understandable, given the circumstances, but still a shame since Beka was adorable as a boy, too. "Francine is playing Pants Fairy, which is how I got mine."

[icecoldfrost]

"If the Fandom paparazzi would like to oggle, I will happily give them a number of reasons to keep their appreciation private," Emma snapped, taking the coffee. "First and foremost is the reminder that I can and will kill them with my mind."

"You could have warned me, you know."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

Beka nodded and she shouldn't be distracted by the lack of shirt.

"These seem to work for me," she said, plucking at her tunic. "The difference isn't too bad." She paused. "My roommate went out dressed in pink." Because that needed to be shared.

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"Trust me," Layla smirked. "It's better this way. Besides, I didn't give the boys a heads up. Had to be fair to everyone."

[thatsamilkshake]

"I've been here a while; I know that one. It just never actually happened to me before."

And no, the great question of the day was, Why am I less disturbed by the idea that I'd be a gay *guy* than -- well.

That and is Emma really as hot as I remember her being or is that just the blonde thing like with Karla?

[icecoldfrost]

"Pink? I assume you mean as a boy?" Emma asked, gesturing for Beka to come in as she wandered back to flop onto her bed. "An all-pink ensemble only works on drag queens and children under three. What possessed her?"

[icecoldfrost]

"Fuck fair. Fair is for preschoolers waiting to use the swings," she retorted, finally taking a sip of her beverage. Mmm...blessed caffeine... Please hold, while Emma takes her hit for the morning. "If I waited around for fair, darling, I'd still be living at home with Winston."

[icecoldfrost]

Okay, this time that did catch Emma's attention long enough to make her stop riffling through the box, and she gave Francine a slow smirk. "Which of those questions do you want me to answer first, darling?"

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

Beka nodded and shrugged a shoulder, her eyes skimming over the room as she entered and closed the door once more behind her. "She said she was enjoying being a cove, so it didn't seem that important."

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

"And what exactly would you have done if you had such advance knowledge?" Layla asked curiously.

[icecoldfrost]

"Who's your roommate again? I forget, if I ever knew," Emma admitted. "Sometimes I'm not a very good sister. Brother. Sibling. Ugh."

[thatsamilkshake]

"I didn't ask any questions."

Slow, not stupid. Slow, not stupid. Eventually she'd get there.

"..."

Ajahgsjaghsjahgsajsghajsghajlsghajlsghajsghalsjhgasjlh.

[icecoldfrost]

Hey, it could be any number of things! It was Fandom! Maybe the squirrels were on her payroll.

"Auntie Emma knows everything, darling," Emma replied as she started picking through these shirts. Was there a button-down anywhere? "How can I help?"

Meddle, Emma. The word you want is 'meddle', not help.

[icecoldfrost]

"Not slept in my favorite camisole set, for starters," Emma said wryly. "Luckily I do own sweatpants, as shocking as that may seem, and they weren't in the dirty laundry hamper."

[thatsamilkshake]

"...Take a shirt?" So, so good at playing dumb, from all the years of actually being it.

Meanwhile the innner monologue hadn't varied much from Ajahgsjaghsjahgsajsghajsghajlsghajlsghajsghalsjhgasjlh.

[icecoldfrost]

"I'm looking. I have to make sure it will fit," she drawled, selecting a tshirt and pulling it over her head. Nope, too small, and if she peeled it off a tad slowly, well, she was making sure not to rip it. "And you still haven't picked a question."

[iknowstuff.livejournal.com]

Layla smirked at that. "Well I can reimburse you for any damages," he replied.

[thatsamilkshake]

All right, not that good at playing dumb. "They were kind of rhetorical..."

[icecoldfrost]

"No they weren't," Emma half-sang, trying another shirt.

A flash of divine inspiration struck as she remembered a conversation from awhile ago. "Don't tell me your Merlin still hasn't figured out his book?"

[thatsamilkshake]

"What?" The protest of confusion lacked something when her mind was filled with an image of The Book so clear you could read the ISBN under the barcode.

[icecoldfrost]

"Don't 'what' me," Emma replied, rolling her eyes. "Either he has or he hasn't, that's all there is to it."

"Or maybe Freud or Jung would be a more entertaining read for you two, if you're trying to figure out why it's not disturbing to know you'd be a gay man."

"Oh, and yes, I'm usually stunningly attractive, thank you, although it might just be a blonde thing." She smiled at Francine brightly before plucking a plain white button-down shirt from the box and shrugging it on. Not fastened, of course, but on. "Did I miss anything?"

[thatsamilkshake]

That slightly-pouty face Francine made when she couldn't decide whether to be confused, mortified or annoyed was worth framing when it appeared on a boy.

"We are just fine in the book department, thank you." It was the video department that was slightly unsettling these days and I am not picturing that I am thinking of fuzzy bunnies in an Easter basket. "And I'm not disturbed to know I'd be a gay man; I like boys." I'm disturbed that I probably wouldn't be. Entirely. BUNNIES BUNNIES BUNNIES BUNNIES WITH PASTEL COLORED EGGS. "And you missed buttoning your shirt."

She yanked the box back, since Emma appeared to be finished with it.

[icecoldfrost]

"You know, bunnies have a lot of sex," Emma replied sweetly. "And they eat their young."

"And I said 'not disturbing'. I'm sure many people are finding their heteronormative view on life challenged today, so I'm glad you're not too shaken up about it."

[thatsamilkshake]

The expression didn't change one whit, except maybe to shift more towards the confused end of the spectrum.

"...Right." With a side of eww for the bunnies and what for whatevertheheck heteronormative meant. "So. Um. Enjoy the pants."

Fleeeeee, Francine. Fleeeeeee!