Room 507, Thursday night

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Nadia flopped down on her bed with her notebook and a sigh, and looked over the notes again, as though staring at them and willing more information would somehow work.

She was glad that the ghosts couldn't physically harm her friends, but that also meant she couldn't physically harm the ghosts. And that was driving her nuts.

She thought again about the possibility of doing something to encourage one of her weird dreams. Being superstoned hadn't seemed to work, and she had no alcohol, which meant either trying to get herself sick, which would take too long, or hitting herself over the head with her own mallet.

Which would hurt. And therefore suck.

She let out another frustrated sigh and rolled onto her side, in doing so knocking the bear Veronica had given her off the bed.

[ooc: door's closed, post is open.]

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The bear fell to the floor.

As inanimate objects do when they're knocked off beds.

Well, almost to the floor. There was something blocking its way.

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Something as blue and furry as the bear, in fact. Furrball jumped up with a shocked meow, then spun to face his attacker!

Which was a bear.

Furrball's shocked expression grew evil as he started to stalk the toppled bear.

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The bear lay there on the floor.

As inanimate objects do when they are stalked.

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Furrball narrowed his eyes and flicked his tail as he dropped into a preparatory pounce.

He would defeat this bear, get it into a tree, somehow, and then he'd have only two bears left before Merdebaise would accept him.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeexcellent.

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The bear . . . continued to lie there.

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The bear was taunting him. Well, he'd show the bear who was boss.

Furrball pounced!

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The bear did not react, except to squish slightly under Furrball's weight.

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Ah, so the bear would play the stoic one, eh? He'd see about that!

//Fight back, you cowardly bear!//

Furrball dug in his claws.

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The bear shifted slightly to the side under the force of the clawing.

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Furrball toppled to the side.

//So that's how you want to play it!//

He leaped back at the bear with what he thought was a mighty roar, claws and teeth bared!

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Nadia rolled her eyes without looking up from her notes. "Shut up, Furrball, I'm trying to think."

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The bear skidded away from Furrball when it was hit.

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Furrball scowled. //You think you can escape me?!//

He pounced again.

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The bear skidded away again.

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Furrball pounced.

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The bear skidded.

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Furrball pounced harder!

And overshot, but managed to grab the bear in his claws omg, bearmodding! and roll with it, yowling and biting at it furiously.

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"Furrball!" Nadia sat up in the bed, glaring at her pet. "What the hell are you doing?!"

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//Not now, woman! I'm in the middle of a battle to the death, can't you see?! I must win the affections of the beautiful creature I met last week!//

Furrball continued to attack furiously.

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The bear did nothing. Except rip in a couple places. And get damp where Furrball bit it.

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"Piece of--" Nadia leaped out of bed. "That's my tea party bear!" She reached down and scruffed Furrball, picking up both him and the bear.

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Furrball continued his attack, despite his change in position.

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Nadia cursed and carefully pulled the bear away from Furrball. "Stop that! You're going to ruin it!"

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//Stop that! I'm going to kill it!//

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Nadia dropped Furrball back to the floor and cuddled the poor, slightly ripped, damp bear.

"Bad kitty."

She went to answer the door.

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Furrball scowled and began to studiously clean himself.

He'd totally meant for that to happen. He'd now put the fear of cat into the bear. He'd tree it, next time, for sure.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally knocked on Nadia's door.

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Nadia opened the door, ignoring her cat and clutching her ripped, damp bear. "Hey, Cally, what's going on?"

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"My roomie didn't come home," Cally said.

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"Your roomie?" Nadia blinked, then her eyes widened. "Dios, Veronica!"

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"Erm, well, okay, she came home, but she left again," Cally said. "Given the advice I gave her this morning, I'm fairly certain where she went."

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"What advice?" Nadia stepped away from the door and gestured for Cally to come in.

Furrball continued to clean himself, ignoring them both.

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Cally entered and shut the door behind her. "Well, she'd been having issues with the ghost doing stuff while she was sleeping... so I told her sleeping alone might not be a great idea."

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"So she's probably with Archie, then. I hope that works. Do you need a place to sleep?"

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"Erm, well, I don't need a place to sleep so much as a place to sleep with other people?" Cally said. "I know it's kinda dumb, but I don't wanna be alone either."

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Nadia shook her head. "I understand. I grew up sleeping surrounded by people. When I came here, it took awhile to get used to being alone."

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Cally nodded. "I'm almost not used to sleeping by myself," she said. "It's... colder."

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"Even when you pile on all the blankets." Nadia looked around her room. "We only have two beds, but you're welcome to share mine. Or I could sleep on the floor. I'm kind of used to that, too."

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"I'm so not kicking you out of your bed," Cally said.

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Nadia smiled. Not so long ago, she'd been saying that to Walter. "Okay, we'll share then. I've been told I snore, though."

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"I'm used to it," Cally said. Luckily, she had wandered up in her pajamas. "Just push me away if I do anything weird in my sleep."

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Nadia nodded. "Okay. Same to you. And feel free to kick Furrball off the bed if you need to. He's pretty hard to damage."

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Cally reached over and ruffled the fur on Furrball's head.

"Naw. The more the merrier," she said with a chuckle.

Then there was the yawning.

[nadiathesaint]

Furrball purred and shot a dark look at Nadia, who rolled her eyes. "Well, I'm just going to go brush my teeth, then. Make yourself comfortable."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally climbed into the bed and smiled. She just hoped Veronica and Archie were enjoying themselves, that's all.