Room 528 -- Wednesday Morning

[icecoldfrost]

It was lucky for Emma that ermines likes burrowing into things, such as blankets. Because it meant when she woke up person-shaped (and without clothes) on Wednesday morning, she wasn't freezing or in a hideously embarrassing situation. Well, no more embarrassing than being a rather cuddly ermine had been in the first place.

Blanket firmly wrapped around herself, Emma hopped out of bed and headed over to her dresser to pick out some clothes and find her shampoo. After a week of being small and furry, a hot shower and something to wear that wasn't a blue ribbon sounded fantastic.

[OOC: For the roomie, should she wish, and open to other visitors once Emma is happily clothed.]

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[icecoldfrost]

Jack would feel a very familiar brush of someone's mental touch, just along the outside of his thoughts. <<No ermines here, darling. Just a few girls.>>

Yes, Emma thought she was funny.

[bitten_notshy]

"Emma," Jack couldn't resist the delighted note in his voice as he went to turn the doorknob. <<No one's been taking inside my head this week. It was getting quiet.>>

... which meant he'd missed her. A lot.

[icecoldfrost]

"Does that mean I'm spoiling you?" she asked, smiling at him as he came in. "Maybe I should start making you use your words, instead of just that tricksy brain of yours."

[bitten_notshy]

"Say that and I might start talking in Hungarian," he cautioned, but he was wrapping her in an embrace. "I like you better this way. You bite less."

[icecoldfrost]

"Lies and slander, I still bite when needed," Emma laughed. "And if you start in Hungarian, I shall take that as due provocation to poke at your brain until I understand what you're saying."

[bitten_notshy]

"And then I'll start thinking and saying terrible things about all your ancestors, and you'll be the only one to blame," Jack rejoined lightly.

"I did miss you. How was it?"

[icecoldfrost]

"Strange," Emma admitted. "I couldn't see colors very well, and everything was huge and loud. Although the most unsettling part was not having my powers."

[bitten_notshy]

"Not at all?" Jack asked, intrigued. "I knew I couldn't hear you, but I thought you might just be thinking at me in weasel."

Privately, he was a bit surprised Emma admitted to missing her powers. He knew they were a part of her, but the sometimes seemed to be a part she'd be just as happy to be without.

[icecoldfrost]

Well, yes, they were sometimes a pain. It wasn't like mutant powers came with an instruction manual, after all. But...

"At this point, they're just part of me," she replied with a shrug. "Like my ability to see or hear or taste. Without that, it was... disconcerting."

[bitten_notshy]

"Like you were blind as well as small and furry," Jack nodded. "I can understand that."

[icecoldfrost]

"And no thumbs!" Emma complained. "I never thought I'd be happy to have fingers again." She wriggled them at him impishly. "See? No more paws."

[bitten_notshy]

"I never would have noticed," Jack said roguishly as he went to kiss one palm. "Do you have special plans for your hands, or are you just excited to have them?"

[icecoldfrost]

"No plans in particular," she answered, tilting her head at him. "Besides the fact my hands -- and I -- will have to go to class at some point. Why? Did you have a suggestion?"

[bitten_notshy]

He tilted his head right back. "I could come up with several," he said. "But ... I've missed talking to you. And you missed Valentine's Day. Did you at least find my flowers?"

[icecoldfrost]

"I tried to go exploring in them," Emma replied mock-seriously. "They're beautiful, Jack, thank you."

"So what did I miss out on at the dance? Besides the punch; Beka kept pulling me out."

[bitten_notshy]

"She told me," Jack said. "I didn't know there was such a thing as an alcoholic ermine."

He shrugged. "Nothing. I might have kissed Tony."

See, totally nothing.

[icecoldfrost]

"If you were suddenly an ermine, wouldn't you want a drink?" she asked, and then the second part of what he said sunk-in, and Emma raised an eyebrow. "You did or you didn't, darling? Most people know if they've kissed someone; it's not exactly something that's ill-defined or nebulous."

She was going to kill Tony if he was screwing around with Jack after dumping him. And she was possibly going to kill Jack, for being so damn changeable and frustrating. What happened to 'not seeing other people'?

[bitten_notshy]

Technically, Jack only promised not to sleep with anyone else.

... yeah. It might not be good to look too closely at that.

"I did kiss him,, but only because we were drunk and Lee is an ass and I thought you'd decided not to give things with me a chance after all," Jack said sullenly. "I'm sorry. I didn't want to hurt you."

[icecoldfrost]

Oh fantastic.

"I don't care about the kiss," Emma snapped, pulling her hand back from him. "People get stupid when they're drunk. Whatever." But Tony? Really?

"But I am a wee-bit annoyed that you so easily thought the worst of me, darling."

[bitten_notshy]

Jack closed his eyes, leaned back against the wall. "The last time we talked," he pointed out, "The best you could say was that you 'needed to think about it.' How was I supposed to know you hadn't thought about it and decided the answer was no?"

[icecoldfrost]

"I said you already had me, but I needed to think about the monogamy," she answered. "I'm not going to make some promise like that without talking with the other people I've been...involved. With. You're the one so convinced I have a heart, so I was trying to do the right thing."

"And you couldn't bother to call me? Or stop by my room? I could have been gremlin bitten or sick with a migraine from all the excitement, had to rescue Bobby, again, or even been in another coma. It's not like you don't know where I live."

[bitten_notshy]

"Because I didn't think to look for you until the dance," Jack answered. "I wondered a bit, but it's not odd for us to go a few days without seeing each other. I have a life, Emma. I don't spend all my time mooning over you."

He brushed his hair back, arrogant. "Anyhow, you know where I live too. I wouldn't have ignored an ermine at my door."

[icecoldfrost]

Emma gave him her patented 'Jack, you are a Moron' Look. "Have you ever tried stairs as an ermine?"

[bitten_notshy]

Jack facepalmed. "I take it that it's not as easy as it sounds."

[icecoldfrost]

"I seem to remember someone calling me thimble-sized at one point," she replied crossly. "Everything was a lot bigger than me."