Room 511: Wednesday Afternoon

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Francine might no longer possess a book about flowers, but she still had a computer, a tiring week behind her, and a somewhat pouty pathological dislike of Feeling Stupid.

So she was currently trying to decide which to google first: three dollar bill or "Sex: how do we stop failing flailing?"

...Eventually she would also get around to military support services, yes.

Since it was kind of warm, the door was cracked open a bit, as was the window. A computer screen, after all, she could hide a lot more successfully than a book.

Yes, she really thought that was true. Feel free to pat her on the head as you walk down the hall. You'll hear her humming, since That Song is still stuck in her head.

[OOC: expecting The Twitter, but open!]

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Dinah had been humming That Song all day, when not focused on not making a mistake in Criminal Justice. Maybe song calls to song?

She knocked on the door, and peeked in. "Hey!"

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"I wanna start a-- HOMEWORK! DOING HOMEWORK!" Yes, that worked well. Also attempting to throw herself in front of the screen that currently said

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"Three dollar cafe?" Dinah asked, seeing the screen, then blinking at the flinging of Francine's self. That was pretty intense for whatever she was researching. "What the...?"

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"Oh, it's you." Francine waited for her heartrate to go back to safe-for-human levels and pushed herself back from the screen. Granted this also did her the favor of hitting "I'm Feeling Lucky" for her.

"Uh, no, I was just looking up something Katchoo said about Arthur on the radio last night."

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"She said a lot of somethings about him last night. I haven't laughed so hard in ages," Dinah said, sitting down with a snicker. "And who did you think I was that you had to hide the screen?" She blinked at the newest website courtesy of Google. "Hunh. Okay, that's catchy."

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"...Anybody who wasn't you?" Francine suggested. "Arthur's really good at stopping by when I'm reading something he shouldn't know I'm..." She glanced at the screen. "...reading.

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Dinah grinned at her, shaking her head. "Right. I forgot. Pillows. Flowers." She tilted her head at the computer screen, then diffidently asked, "Why are you looking up a gay film festival?"

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"I have no idea. Because Katchoo said Arthur was a medieval three dollar--"

Leto. Squirrels. Euphemisms. The lightbulb going off may have burned out the power grid along most of the eastern seaboard.

Her facial expression wavered between WTF and Jesus Christ. "Oh for. Is everybody gay but me?"

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Dinah did a double-facepalm, partly to put her hands over her mouth. Eyes crinkling over her fingers, she mumbled, "You didn't know? About Arthur and Leto?" Pink, pinker, pinkest.

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"Or Katchoo," Francine reminded her. "Or Hannibal, or Chuck. And Hannibal was my roommate on the cruise! I slept on the deck while he was in our room with Chuck, and didn't know!" She sighed. "Apparently I have a gay blind spot."

Somewhere, Katchoo laughed hysterically.

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Dinah had known about half of those, but touch-telepathy was a help that way. And Leto had been the one to tell her. "Well. I mean, Arthur's interested in girls, too. And so're Chuck and Hannibal. But." She winced at Francine, and shrugged. "Sooo, you were half-right?" Maybe not as comforting as it could be.

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"Leto too." Obviously. And awkwardly. And pun not intended. Francine shot her an apologetic look. "Which I probably didn't need to point out, sorry." She shook her head. "I barely heard about people who weren't either gay or straight before, and now it's like, half the people I know."

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Dinah grimaced at the reminder about Leto, and lifted her shoulders in a feeling of whatcha-gonna-do. "It's okay. He told me about him and Arthur when I first admitted I had a crush on him, ages ago. Which was why I wasn't going to date him at all." Until things got massively more intense and complicated, ending up with more limit-setting on touching and kissing or anything. "Anyway. Maybe more people you knew were. And it's just people here are more comfortable admitting it? I don't know, sometimes it seems like a lot more people on the Island are bi or gay to me, too."

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Francine shrugged and nodded, still way in the crawling stage of figuring out how she felt about that, or even figuring out what it is she thought she was supposed to be figuring out.

"Maybe it's in the water," she joked a little lamely. "Eh. It's not like straight boys make any more sense." Like you know any, Francine. "Speaking of, what's happening with Zaaaaaaack?"

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"Or the glitter. Zack told me he heard it can make boys kiss. Speaking of him." Dinah turned a little pinker, but smiled, bouncing. "Nothing else yet, since the ice cream date on Monday. But it was fun and he's going to get me Pixie Stix!" Courting gift of bouncy dorks! "And he's cute, and fun, and heroic. I don't know. I just... feel good around him, you know?" Not terminally confused or behind the curve or lacking in moves.

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Francine grinned. "Aww. He is cute. He's in our TeeVee class, right? The hyper guy with the dark hair?"

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"Uh-hunh. He's from Reno's world, and he's in Terrain with me too, as well as the Reserves, and training on swords with Arthur. We have stuff in common. And he thinks the telekinesis is awesome!" Dinah did a little sitting chair dance at that, shimmy shimmy yay! "Not assuming anything. Waaay too soon. Trying to learn from my last few crushes. But it's cool. To have someone to crush on a little, again." Who did in fact prefer girls, according to him. That was a plus.

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"Ohhh, yeah, I think I saw him at preserve," Francine said, nodding. "I went to talk to Arthur about the Not Getting Kidnapped and Eaten Reserves." She paused. "I didn't call them that to his face."

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"That probably helped. How'd it go?" Dinah asked. "Was he good with it? Did you mention Morgana was part of it too?"

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"He actually didn't hate it!" Francine said, bobbing her head. "Probably because he thinks it was his idea, but pfft, whatever, it was totally Morgana's."

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"Oh god that is so annoying," Dinah grumbled, shaking her head. "I'm glad he's not going to try and block it, but it was you guys' idea. Credit where it's due! Grr." She made a face, then shrugged a little and asked, "So when's the first meeting? I'll talk it up to everyone I know if I can tell them a place and time."

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"There isn't one yet," Francine answered with a shake of her head. "I just talked to Arthur about it yesterday, and I ..um. Kind of got distracted from following up with Merlin."

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"Oh, reeeeeeeally?" Dinah said, propping her head on her hand, and giving Francine the big inquisitive eyes. "Is this good distracted? Or oh-my-god-we-have-joint-broken-ankles distracted?"

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"One of those things is fairly likely to lead to the other, with us," Francine pointed out.

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"But you don't have any bandages or bruises and you're not bleeding!" Dinah said, following this logic to its conclusion. "So I have to ask!"

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Francine ducked her head. "It was good distraction. But also flaily OH GOD HE DOESN'T MEAN THAT CHAPTER NUMBER OH GOD OH GOD distraction, which could have easily led to the other kind. I think The Book may be a dud, for us."

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"Oh, whoa, hi, panic attack," Dinah said, looking intimidated, then worried. "You're not giving up thought, right? Maybe a different chapter?"

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"Well, let's just say he really didn't mean that chapter." Francine tried to cut herself off from flashbacking herself into another. "We're not giving up on... I mean. I hope we're not!" That would be....you could just take the L out of flail and you'd have another perfectly good word for free. "But not with the book. It's all... like... too much pressure?"

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And now Dinah was dying to know which chapter. "Which chapter--" She cut herself off, and shook her head. "I'm sorry it didn't help you. It at least cleared up some stuff for me. Even if Tony was really way more helpful." She raised her fist. "Never give up. Never surrender!" John Quincy Taggart would so approve of this.

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Francine cracked up at that despite the subject, or maybe because of it. "Maybe I can pretend I'm Lieutenant Tawny. She'd never have a panic attack with a boy."

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"Waaaay no. She's probably caused a few." Dinah faced the computer and gave her hair a flip, then adopted a breathless, silly voice. "Computer? Please specify nearest available male with a pulse. Ooo! Computer? Monitor his pulse while I check his vitals."

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"Dirty." The phrase was just in the air in Fandom. That, or a million radio broadcasts had implanted it in her head in exactly that tone.

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Dinah cracked up this time, and then reached to poke Francine in the shoulder. "Maybe? Maybe that would work?" she asked, still giggling. "You could show him Galaxy Quest and then go from there. Better than porn!"

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"Hrrrm. I'm not sure I could live up to Lt. Tawny. He might like her better than me!"

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"Neeeever happen," Dinah said comfortably. "You're way less plastic and way cooler." Be good, be good, be good.... "Although, you could always get a shirt like one of hers?"

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Francine eyes bugged out. "With the v-neck so low they were clearly held in with superglue, duct-tape, and devout prayer?"

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Dinah snickered at the face Francine made. "You could skip the superglue and duct tape as too ouchy for socializing, and maybe skip the prayer?"

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"If I skipped the prayer, they'd fall out!"

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Dinah gave her a cheerful, hopeful look that probably said more than words.

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Again with the bugging eyes. "Dinah!"

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Hopeless giggling, and then, "Okay, okay, I'll quit making suggestions." She grinned. "But just remember, I have those supplies from Tony if they're ever needed!"

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Just because she was a spaz didn't mean she wasn't practical. "It... might be a good idea." One, two, three, spaz: "Just in case! I wasn't planning on needing them tomorrow or anything!"

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"No! Of course not! Wasn't suggesting you were!" Return-flail triggered. "'Cause... not my business, not that much! Just. Sometime. In case! In case, of, you know. Cases?"