Room 511, Wednesday Night

[thatsamilkshake]

After today's trip out to talk to Katchoo, Francine wasn't feeling very social. More thinky, not that her thoughts were really going anywhere except in circles.

So instead of going downstairs for the weekly shirtless vampire fix, she was camped out on her bed with a bowl of vanilla wafers, a glass of milk, and the beginnings of a letter home about everything she'd been doing for the past few months. If by 'beginning' you mean five lines worth of I was a super-hero! Booze is evil... Katchoo is...

Dunk. Crunch. Scribble.

[OOC: For the eeeeears.]

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[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin made a face and put it down next to the carton. "I'll stick to just the biscuits."

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine made a note to buy some whole milk next time. "Is milk different where you're from? I mean when?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Well--" Merlin paused to think about it. "Have you ever milked a cow before?"

[thatsamilkshake]

"Actually, yeah." She nodded. "My grandparents had a farm when I was little."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Didn't you drink that?"

[thatsamilkshake]

"I was five!" she said, laughing. "I don't remember what it tasted like."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"We need to find a cow for you to try it now," Merlin decided, taking a bite of the biscuit.

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine stared at him. "Well, that would definitely qualify as someplace I've never been on a date."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"What? Getting you proper milk isn't romantic?" Merlin asked. And, okay, even he was having trouble keeping a straight face there.

[thatsamilkshake]

"I don't think the cow would think so."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin thought about what one was doing to the cow and shook his head. "Francine. No."

[thatsamilkshake]

"Trust me, you don't want them to start calling you Cow Guy."

Said someone whose nickname for the 4th quarter of sophomore year had been Naked Girl. She knew whereof she spoke. Not that she was going to trot out that credential.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"I'm already Porn Guy," Merlin pointed out. "Or Ears."

[thatsamilkshake]

"Ears isn't bad," Francine said. "I like Ears. It's better than Badgerface, that's for sure."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"You don't have a badger face," He assured her. "Least badgery face I've seen."

[thatsamilkshake]

"Thank you." She grinned. "...Have you seen a lot of badger faces?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Well. There was one time when Arthur took me hunting..."

[thatsamilkshake]

"Hunting. Badgers." Not that she had a real clear picture of what they were besides 'kind of like a non-smelly skunk.'

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"We'd been hunting deer, actually. He just managed to corner a badger and..." Merlin grinned. "They're very vicious for how small they are."

[thatsamilkshake]

"I can't quite picture Arthur vs. the small fuzzy creature," Francine said, her brain breaking a little at the thought.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"He's--" Merlin made a slight face. "It's something that not many people see, I suppose."

[thatsamilkshake]

"What is?" Francine asked. "Badgers?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Arthur. Not acting like... Arthur in public," He said weakly.

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine let that one percolate for a few seconds. "I guess I get that. Katchoo is different with me than she is with most people, too."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin sighed and leaned back to rest on his elbows. "Why do you think they do that?"