5th Floor Common Room, Friday morning after third period

[demonbelthazor]

After class, Bel made his way back up to the fifth floor. Instead of heading to his room, he sat down on the couch in the common room, picking up the remote and turning on the TV. He flipped through the channels, idly looking for something to occupy a few hours.

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[cantgetnorelief]

Anders had managed to get a few hours of sleep after the insanity last night, so he felt marginally human. And 'marginally' was a very generous term.

He also wanted a smoke, so he'd headed up to the roof and stopped in at the common room on the way back down.

"Mmmph," he mumbled, flopping onto the couch.

[demonbelthazor]

Bel had to resist an urge to pet Anders. "You look tired," he observed.

[cantgetnorelief]

Anders was totally pettable, really. "Frakkin' exhausted and not because of you for once."

[demonbelthazor]

Bel glanced sharply at Anders. "What have you been doing?"

[cantgetnorelief]

Anders cracked one eye open and squinted at him. "Rescuing Bridge and Z from the crazy shapeshifting guy and his shiny robots?"

[demonbelthazor]

"...shapeshifting guy?" Bel repeated, blinking.

[cantgetnorelief]

"And weetiny terror tot. With the doll," Anders continued. "Gruumm . . . was pretending to be Bridge. Trying to say they'd already taken Z and there was a bomb that was gonna go off . . . got 'em out but so tired now."

[demonbelthazor]

"But everyone is all right now?" Bel asked, while thinking How conveeeeeeeeenient.

[cantgetnorelief]

Anders nodded. And started falling asleep again. Possibly tilting over in Bel's direction.

[demonbelthazor]

"It's my birthday today," Bel said, poking a little at Anders's shoulder to keep him from tilting over on him.

[cantgetnorelief]

Gravity was winning out, and Anders kept tilting sideways. "Bastard. You didn't tell me earlier."

[demonbelthazor]

"It slipped my mind," Bel said. He dropped his voice. "And if putting your head in my lap is your idea of a birthday present, it can wait until later," he whispered.

[cantgetnorelief]

Well, that got Anders to sit up really quickly. "I would've had time to get something nice if I'd known ahead of time," he said, in an overcompensatorily boisterous way. "No Easy-Bake Oven for you now."

[demonbelthazor]

"I'm sure you can whip up a treat for me," Bel said with a grin.

[cantgetnorelief]

"Birthday cupcakes?" asked Anders, quirking one eyebrow slyly. "Or did you want me to get more ambitious?"

[demonbelthazor]

"Surprise me," Bel said, as close to a purr as he was willing to get in a public place.