Room 306, Friday afternoon

[tigerundercover]

Raven didn't have much by way of clothes, but after two years living in one room, she did have plenty of other stuff that needed packing up. Unlike some other folks who were packing and cleaning out their dorm rooms this week, though, Raven was only going two floors up.

She and Kathy were very soon to be actual for real roommates! She was going to have a roommate who was unlikely to just up and leave quietly in the night in the middle of the semester!

So this packing session was anything but gloomy. She was bopping around the room, playing a new song she'd heard on the radio full blast, and occasionally pausing to rock out or punch her fist in the air.

"I love me! Gonna love myself,
no I don't need anybody else!
Hey! Gonna love myself,
no I don't need anybody else!
Any time day or night!"

She'd apologize if someone came by complaining about the noise. Then probably try to make them dance with her, too.

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[tigerundercover]

"Just to warn you, that's kind of how Charles does it, too."

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy sighed and made a face. "Guys. Is he at least sincere in his flirting, or is it one line after another?"

Ezra's surprising sincerity was why his flirting worked on Kathy. He didn't say anything he didn't mean to get someone into bed. He just genuinely appreciated people. And their bodies. And the various configurations those bodies got up to.

[tigerundercover]

"It's . . . mostly sincere. Charles really likes girls, but he's also charming and kind of manipulative and he knows it."

[spin_kick_snap]

"Manipulative?" Kathy asked, eyebrows knitting together as she frowned. "How? What do you mean?"

[tigerundercover]

"Well, he can literally read people's minds."

[spin_kick_snap]

"Well, yeah, but..." Hmm. Good point. "...I totally should have kept going to Ms. Frost's class."

Except for how Ms. Frost had intimidated the heck out of her.

"If I ask him nicely not to, will he not read my mind? Because that's just--" She didn't want to call Raven's brother creepy, even indirectly. "He can just learn to flirt without reading minds like the rest of us poor suckers."

[tigerundercover]

"I'll make him promise not to," Raven assured her. "And then remind him about it repeatedly. It's worked for me so far."

[spin_kick_snap]

"And I'll back it up by thinking VERY boring thoughts," Kathy said. "Like...balancing chemical equations and whatever linear algebra problem I worked on last."

[tigerundercover]

"Might not work," Raven said. "He's a nerd, too."

[spin_kick_snap]

"Okay, so I still don't want him poking around in there?" Kathy said. "But I have to admit that if he peeks and decides to flirt more because I'm thinking about chemistry and linear algebra...well, that's kinda cool."

Kathy's idea of cool sharply deviated from most other people's, yes.

[tigerundercover]

"Well, I can't say he'd do any better anywhere else."

[spin_kick_snap]

"Yeah, well, only if he comes into the future," Kathy said with a snort. "I like having rights. It's a whole thing."

Not that she had to preach to Raven, obviously.

[tigerundercover]

"You'll get absolutely no argument from me."

[spin_kick_snap]

"Though we'll have to give him a second- and third-wave feminism update before we let him into the 21st century to stay," Kathy decided. "Otherwise he'll end up running around in leisure suits patting strange women on the butt and getting brought up on charges."

[tigerundercover]

". . . Can we let him do that just once?"

[spin_kick_snap]

"Only here on the island," Kathy said. "I'd say let him try it on Parker, but I don't think he'd survive to having charges pressed."

Kathy tried to think of people on the island he could safely harass without getting injured. Heck, even she would be dangerous to pull that on. She'd have Charles on the ground before she had a chance to consciously think about it.

[tigerundercover]

"Mr. Hardison would never forgive me for setting that up. Or possibly for setting it up without giving him warning first so he could film it."

[spin_kick_snap]

"Well, technically Parents' Weekend isn't until October so you would have time to mention it to him..."

Kathy, stop trying to get Raven's brother tased.

[tigerundercover]

"Maybe you should actually meet him once before you plot his downfall," Raven suggested.

[spin_kick_snap]

"I thought you were supposed to help me have fun!" Kathy said, laughing. "What's more fun than plotting someone's downfall?"

[tigerundercover]

"Your plan is solid," Raven said, "save for one fatal flaw. You're picking on the one person I have more loyalty to than you."

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy sighed, flopping back on...whomever's bed? Kathy forgot who used to live with Raven before. "And thus I achieve only my own downfall by plotting another's. Woe!" Propping her chin up on her hand, she grinned. "Though is it really his downfall? I mean, what would Mr. Hardison do?"

She was conveniently ignoring what Eliot and Parker would do.

[tigerundercover]

Raven opened her mouth to answer, then tilted her head. "You know, it's not like Charles has a computer."

[spin_kick_snap]

"See?" Kathy said, as if this weren't a completely terrible idea all the way around. "No harm no foul!"

[tigerundercover]

"What's Mr. Spencer likely to do?" Raven hadn't really met the guy, but she knew he was pretty built.

Short, though.