Room 507, Thursday night

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia was feeling . . . abstracted. She blamed a number of factors, including that most of the boys in the school, including her boyfriend, were currently girls, the super-powerful (apparently) brownies she'd had the night before (and no more left, since it had turned into an impromptu brownie party), and the fact that she'd been spending much of her free time listening to Joanna Newsom, and, well, if a 16 minute song about a dead bird hitting a window didn't make you abstracted, Nadia didn't know what did.

So now she was lying on her back on one of the beds in 507, getting in some alone time and watching the shadows of the rain on the window run across the floor, with, yes, Joanna Newsom playing softly in the background.

She kind of wanted to learn to play the harp.

[ooc: I'm pretty sure this one is for walter_n_wires. It may also eventually be a linkdrop . . . but I wouldn't hold my breath for it. NWS!]

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[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter had had an interesting day watching other not-boys flail while she... didn't. She'd already done her flailing.

And now, she was looking for her girlfriend and 507 was the place to look.

"Hey you."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia looked up and grinned. "Hey! It's the hottest girl in school."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter sat on the edge of the bed and bounced a few times. "I can share the title with you," she said modestly before adding, "And Steerpike."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia wrinkled her nose. "Ew. That kid is still around?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Yes. He- she- he's around. I have some classes with him." Walter leaned over to start unlacing her borrowed boots. "But who wants to talk about him anyway? Did you have fun with not-girls today?"

[nadiathesaint]

"I didn't really hang out with any." She shrugged. "I think I wanted a low key day, so I've mostly been hanging out. I think Chad just about broke me, though."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"How did he do that?"

[nadiathesaint]

"Well, it turns out he can shapeshift now? Apparently because he gives Teddy blow jobs. Which is probably more information than I needed, you know?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter blinked several times and raised an eyebrow. "Can you repeat that again with an explanation attached?"

[nadiathesaint]

"Not really? Chad can shapeshift. I said I wanted to be able to, and he said it would require me and Teddy and getting really drunk and . . . well, that's how we got around to the whole 'Teddy's DNA' thing and I decided I really didn't want to be able to shapeshift that badly."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter laughed and pulled her feet up on the bed. "I'm glad. And that certainly tells me more about their sex life than I really wanted to know."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia held up a finger. "Hence . . . the breaking. And then El Professor wanted to know what we were talking about . . . . I've been hiding ever since."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

That elicited a completely unladylike snort from Walter.

"You poor thing. You still managed embarrassment despite not being one of the guys who turned into a girl."

[nadiathesaint]

"I know! Totally not fair. How about you? What'd you get up to, today?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Classes, hanging out watching not-girls flail. With all the rain, it's been kind of quiet."

[nadiathesaint]

"I know what you mean. Pippi was getting people to go to the spa, but I didn't really want to go out. I think it might be starting to flood a little."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I turned down the spa trip. I wasn't in the mood for slogging through the rain to do girl things with a bunch of girl-boys, even if Pippi was the ringmaster."

[nadiathesaint]

"Well. Your hair still looks good. That's important."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"That's your doing, not mine." Walter tugged at the hair tie and started to comb out the braid. "Such a bother to be a girl."

[nadiathesaint]

"Well, I've only been a boy twice . . . but I think I prefer being a girl."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"You make a handsome boy, but I like you very much as a girl. And I'm much more comfortable being a boy. Lucky thing we're what we are most of the time."

[nadiathesaint]

"Definitely. But it's good to see the other side, too."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Most people never get this chance," Walter agreed, slouching over to lean against Nadia. "And some people don't appreciate it when they do. At least I finally learned better." It had only taken three tries.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia ran her fingers through Walter's hair again, then traced around the edge of her ear. "Maybe that's what we're really learning here. How to see this stuff as an opportunity instead of something to be dealt with."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Mm..." That would be Walter suddenly looking quite contented. "And if we learn how to blow things up and talk to sharks along the way, all the better."

[nadiathesaint]

"That's very true." Nadia's fingers ran lower, to Walter's jawline and then collar. "So . . . learn anything else interesting, today?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"A couple of things you'd laugh to see me doing," she admitted. They'd involved a mirror, bralessness, and bouncing. "But I thought I'd save the serious business for when I had a trained professional around." Or at least someone who had been born a girl.

[nadiathesaint]

"You realize that telling me I'd laugh only makes me want to see you do it, right?" Nadia slipped her fingers under the collar. "And it's a good thing that you're so close to a 'trained professional', to help you out."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"I'm a very lucky guy... er... girl that way," she agreed, stretching her neck luxuriously and rubbing a hand across Nadia's back. "I can't think of anyone better."

[nadiathesaint]

"Oh, there is definitely no one better to show you the 'ropes', as it were. Any place you'd like to start?" Her hand slipped back up into Walter's hair, and she reached for the buttons on the front of the blouse.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter leaned in to kiss Nadia's neck and slid a hand under her shirt to brush over her ribs. "Lips are always good places to start, and we can see where our lips go from there."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia was always more than willing to agree with lips. She figured hers had better things to do than talking and put them to that use, slipping her hand under the blouse to the new soft tissue of Walter's chest and . . . well. Things progressed from there. All the way to a fade to black.