Room 509, Thursday afternoon

[trigons_child]

Probably to absolutely no one's surprise, Raven had amassed herself a small army of love monkeys, which were now snuggled up with her on her bed as she used her laptop to catch up on Rumor Gal episodes and gossip and speculation. Priorities, people. Priorities.

She wrinkled her nose at the comments on one blog post and glanced down at the love monkey that had claimed her lap. "I do very much prefer it when Charlie and Claire are together," she told it, "for I think they are truly meant for each other, but I do not understand how heated these 'shipping wars' get. It seems so unpleasant and unhealthy to invest so much anger and energy in the lives and relationships of fictional people."

The love monkey squeaked in agreement. Or maybe it was just asking for another hug. Or maybe it was secretly a Claire/David shipper and just didn't want to start an argument.


[Door and post are open. Beware of love monkeys!]
 

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[trigons_child]

"There is a great deal of it, yes," Raven said. A couple of the monkeys left the Raven pile and scampered over to Ariel. "Though many of the couples have recently changed. There is also a lot of scheming and attempting to bring misfortune down upon others. I do not like those parts as much."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

Ariel's nose wrinkled a little at that. "Yeah," she said, holding a hand out to the scampering monkeys. "I don't think I would as much, either. Do you like the changes, or did you like the old couples more?"

And, to the monkeys, she said, "Hi, little monkeys, I don't have any bananas, unless you like wax or plastic bananas, I have a few of those in the collection, but I don't think they'd be very tasty."

[trigons_child]

The monkeys liked leeeegs, and Ariel had plenty of that, right?

"I enjoy it when Charlie and Claire are together," Raven said with a wee bit of a wistful sigh. "I know it is silly to feel that way about fictional characters, but I cannot help but feel they are right for each other."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

That she certainly did, and there they were for clinging.

"Oh!" Ariel said with a laugh as one of them attached themselves to her leg and the other, after a moment of regretting not seizing the chance, quickly joined on. "Hello, there! You really are friendly, aren't you?"

And then she smiled over at Raven. "And sometimes, people just are. In TV shows and in real life, too."

[trigons_child]

"Of course, in real life as well," Raven said, struggling a bit to keep the smile on her face. "Only in real life we cannot rely on writers to mend things between those who are suffering difficulties." I crack myself up.

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"Noooo," agreed Ariel, tilting her head at the monkeys clinging to her legs with a faint frown on her face all of a sudden, "but we do have things like hope and true love shines through no matter wha--"

Ariel's eyes widened. "WHOA THERE MONKEYS!" She started shaking her legs but it did nothing to disrupt the monkeys' new thrusting interest in her legs. "Get...off...ohman, you weren't kidding about affectionate..."

[trigons_child]

"I have managed to convince them not to try that any more with me, that snuggles are fine, however," Raven said with a look of dismay. "Unfortunately I do not believe they think that rule applies to everyone else. Baby J! Stop that!"

Yes, she'd named them after Rumor Gal characters.

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

Baby J seemed to have hit a stride and showed no intention of stopping any time soon.

"Er, maybe we should just let her ride it out..."

[trigons_child]

"She is very rebellious," Raven said helplessly. "Hopefully she will become tired soon."

In the meantime she would facepalm and blush. She debated trying to use her powers to calm Baby J's desire, but she was really afraid of any awkwardness that might result should she be momentarily overcome by it.

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"Man, she's really going to to--" But Ariel stopped herself, shaking her head and trying to focus her attention on something other than the monkey who seemed very in love with her legs.

To be fair, they were pretty awesome legs.

"Err, so, any big plans for Valentine's Day, Raven?" she asked, making sure it sounded like just a nonchalant subject change and not at all a convenient way to find out how things might be going between her and Jono.

[trigons_child]

Raven shook her head. "I do not have any," she said quietly, because Jono had totally pinged after Ariel. "I am uncertain if I will go to the dance or not."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"Oh, you have to go to the dance!" Ariel said eagerly. "I mean, unless you have other plans with someone else, otherwise you have no reason not to go. You know?"

[trigons_child]

"Perhaps if it were not a Valentine's Day dance," Raven fretted. "It is a night dedicated to love and romance. I do not think I would be comfortable going by myself."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"Pffffft!" said Ariel, eloquently, waving her hand. "I'm going by myself. If it's a night dedicated to love, well, then, I love having fun, and so there we go, that's all I need. I'm going with fun as my date."

[trigons_child]

"I do not know if I can bear to be surrounded by so many happy couples," Raven admitted. "I am pleased for them, of course, but...." She was worried she'd become jealous.

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

With a response like that, Ariel was just going to stare at Raven for a second before folding her arms in front of her and arching her eyebrow with her best Did you honestly just say what I thought you just said? look.

Because seriously.

[trigons_child]

"...what?" Raven said, fidgeting with a monkey that was trying to crawl under her skirts.

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

"That's the silliest thing I've ever heard, Raven," Ariel informed her. "I bet there's going to be just as many people there without dates, not in a happy couple, as there are people who are. I don't have a date, for example. Does that mean I shouldn't go?"

[trigons_child]

"No, no, of course not," Raven said, shaking her head. "I just...I do not think I would want to go without Jono."

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

Ariel...didn't know how exactly she'd respond to that comment; she actually wasn't sure how she felt about it, but, initially, it wasn't really all that positive and so she decided just to not say anything.

"Well," she said instead, plopping her hands down on the bed beside her to help her to her feet, "I've got to get going again. Thursdays are always pretty busy, anyway, and I've got to decide on a dress for tomorrow, anyway."