Room 238, Sunday afternoon

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Aeryn's attempting to study. She really is. There's one class that's going to kill her, and she's rather not flunk the final right before graduation. Unfortunately, things aren't sticking in her head- if they ever get there to begin with- and occasionally she needs to get up and do something like wash dishes before going back to studying. And then rewash them because she needs another break.

Yeah, studying's not going well.

[Ooooopen. Plz to be alleviating my boredom.]

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[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly knocked on the door.

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And wow, that book got tossed aside pretty quickly. Aeryn gets up to open the door, greeting Molly with "Hi."

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

"Hi, Aeryn!" Molly said cheerfully. "Did you know Anakin was an idiot?"

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"I'm vaguely aware," she says, opening the door wider for her. "Why this time?"

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly walked in ans plopped onto the couch. "Did you here about our daughter?" she asked.

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"Not specifically," she says, and that's a mental image she can't quite handle.

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

"Okay, in some other reality, Anakin and I get married and have a daughter. Weird, I know, but it's true," Molly said. "So, I told him on Friday that I could tell that he was a good father and he was all, 'Woe! I'll never be a father! I'm too messed up to let anyone love me!'" She'd leaned back on the couch, put her hand to her forehead and used an extra woeful voice.

She dropped her hands and rolled her eyes. "I came really close to hitting him."

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"I heard a bit of that, too," she says, sighing. "He needs to be shaken. Hard. And often."

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

"I don't understand him at all," Molly went on. "He's got a second chance and he just wants to wallow in guilt."

She hmph-ed and then looked up at Aeryn. "If you want me to shake him every day, I will."

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Hey, hot stuff," John says, coming back from wherever he's been.

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She still doesn't understand that, but at least she doesn't have the urge to check her temperature anymore. "Hey," she says, putting down her book.

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Did I interrupt studying?" he asks. "I can come back later."

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"I'm not learning anything I didn't the first thousand times I read it," she says. "You don't have to go."

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Okay," he says, kicking his shoes off, patting Betram and moving into the kitchen.

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"Hw are you?" she asks, watching him.

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"Good," he says, grabbing some cookies. "How're you?"

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"All right. Molly came by, but it's been quiet," she says.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory, bored and no longer severely hungover, wanders down the hall at some point and taps lightly on the door of 238, holding three wrapped boxes.

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Aeryn gets up to answer the door. "Hi," she greets her, holding the door open.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Hi!" Rory says, stepping in. "Happy late birthday."

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"Thanks," she says, closing the door and asking, "Are those for me?"

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She nods. "Of course," she says, holding them out.

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"Thank you," she says, taking them and taking a seat on the couch. "You really didn't have to."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"I know I didn't. That's the point of a gift," Rory says, sitting down ungracefully.

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Aeryn opens the first package, noting, "I wish I'd had these for prom."