The pool in the basement, late Friday night

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia was feeling a bit inexplicably frustrated and damp, thanks to the whole apartment leaking and maintenance incompetence thing her mun has had to deal with restless, and was damp from the rain on the roof, so changed into her swim suit and headed down to the pool to swim some laps.

She'd never been down here alone at night before.

It was peaceful.

But, also, a teeny bit creepy, so she left Walter a quick voicemail before actually diving into the pool and starting to swim in slow, lazy strokes.

[ooc: open as I try to refrain from punching things and causing more damage to my apartment]

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[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

After making his way back to his room and getting out of Pippi's clothes and into his swim trunks, Walter headed for the pool. It was heated and he was still chilled through. He stopped in the door to watch Nadia swim for a moment before dropping his towel poolside and sliding down the side into the water.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia saw Walter as she turned at the end of the pool, and changed direction to swim over to him. She grinned as she treaded water. "So. Would you get mad if I said you were pretty?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter blinked. "How did you hear about it already?"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia blinked back. "Here about what? Setsuna and I were arguing over whether you could say a boy was pretty or not."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Ordinarily at home, I'd say no, boys aren't pretty," Walter allowed, swimming closer. "But here, pretty seems to be applied to boys quite a lot. I thought it was modern slang?"

He'd have to tell her about the locker, but he wasn't in a rush.

[nadiathesaint]

"But I think you are pretty. You're nice to look at and isn't that what it means? And don't think I've forgotten that you thought I'd heard about something when I first asked."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Pretty does mean nice to look at. And I know that I've heard boys called pretty on the radio all the time, so I think you win the arguement."

Yeah. She was going to make it sooner rather than later on the telling.

"So, Pippi and I went to the locker."

[nadiathesaint]

"Mmhmm," Nadia hummed patiently as she slid over next to him to prop herself up against the wall.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"We fed it chocolate...." It wasn't that big a deal, but now he was going to draw it out, since he'd already made it something she was waiting on.

[robotboyfetish.livejournal.com]

Cassie had thought that the basement late at night would be a good place to practice her size changing when no one would notice or be around.

She kinda froze when she saw people, since she was in her unstable molecule suit.

"Oh. Hi."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter bobbed in the water and looked the girl's peculiar bathing costume over. "Hi?"

[robotboyfetish.livejournal.com]

"Late night swimmers, huh? I... should have anticipated this."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"The water's warm and I just spent a few hours in a blizzard with a talking platypus and echidna. Come on it."

[robotboyfetish.livejournal.com]

Cassie blinked.

"...a platypus?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"And an echidna," Walter reminded her. "Welcome to Fandom."

[robotboyfetish.livejournal.com]

"This really isn't designed for swimming in," Cassie pointed out. "Besides, there might not be enough room in the pool."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter looked around. The pool seemed plenty large enough for all three of them and many more.

"Then what is that for and what do you mean by not enough room?"

[robotboyfetish.livejournal.com]

Cassie, since she wasn't in danger of actually busting anything, grew to the point where she was almost hitting her head on the ceiling.

"I can take up a lot of space," she said.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia leaned back into a float and waved. "Hey. Cassie, right?"

[robotboyfetish.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," Cassie said. "I... feel dumb."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia shook her head. "Why? It's not like that outfit's any worse than Jamie's anti-duplicating thing. You look like a superhero."

[robotboyfetish.livejournal.com]

"I... kinda am a superhero," Cassie said.

[nadiathesaint]

"Then why are you feeling dumb?"

[robotboyfetish.livejournal.com]

"Cause I really wasn't expecting people," Cassie said. "Hi. This is super-hero me."

[nadiathesaint]

"Well, welcome to the pool, Superhero-Cassie."