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 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?"

[thatsamilkshake]

"I don't know." Boy, did she not know. Boy, was there a lot she didn't know. "Katchoo's my best friend; I guess she trusts me more than other people?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin snorted. "Arthur would never admit to being my friend, but I suppose he is."

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine looked at him thoughtfully. "Do you like him? Not the working for him part, but him?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Looking up at the ceiling, Merlin stayed quiet for a moment. "I didn't at first. I thought he was the dumbest, rudest, biggest arse I'd ever met. But he got better about things. He saved my life once. Did I ever tell you that?"

[thatsamilkshake]

"Nooo." Francine shook her head. "From the badger?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"No, I rescued him from that," Merlin said with a laugh. "Poison, actually. I drank it in his place and he risked his life to find the cure. Most masters wouldn't think twice about letting a servant die."

[thatsamilkshake]

"Oh, wow." Francine shook her head. "I've never had anything that scary happen to me."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"What about you and Katchoo?" Merlin asked, shrugging off the fear over nearly dying.

He, after all, had the self preservation instinct of a lemming walking into a burning building.

"How did you two become friends?"

[thatsamilkshake]

"We had to write poems for English class. Hers was really beautiful." And awful, once she knew the truth behind it. "Later on she sort of beat up these girls who hit me with a ball in gym."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin couldn't help but laugh at that image. "I can see that. Have you known each other long?"