Lawn of the Dorms | Late, Late, Late Night (2am EST)

[death_and_pies]

It was a quiet night. Just after midnight, a steady rain had started falling, drenching the island quickly and showing no sign of slowing. A few hours later, at 2am, the peace of the night was broken when the fire alarm started blaring. It would shrilly blare, stop and then repeat the same shrill blare two seconds later. And it was not going to

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[joan_notjane]

Joan managed to slide her feet into flip-flops before dragging herself in her tank top and pajama pants outside.

It never even occurred to her to grab an umbrella.

[blackmagic_eve]

"I am so not going to miss this," Eve declared crankily.

[joan_notjane]

"Yeah, it sucks a lot," Joan agreed, equally cranky.

[blackmagic_eve]

"This place is evil for it."

[wantstocheer]

A very cranky and barefoot Claire was standing in the rain, arms wrapped around herself. At least it was warm and she wouldn't freeze in the shorts and t-shirt she had been sleeping in.

[asgardcreated]

Jon made his way over to Claire, shirtless but wearing a pair of long sleeping pants and his running shoes.

"At least we're not having to do ten mile hikes in this stuff," he said, trying to look on the bright side.

[wantstocheer]

That... was a good point, but didn't really quell Claire's crankiness. "If someone burnt microwave popcorn..."

It was what a lot of people complained about causing fire drills in books and movies.

[asgardcreated]

"They will be promptly found and hung from the roof by their toes," Jon finished for her with a grin. He noticed Turtle and waved toward her. "I'll be right back."

[bitch_prince]

Well, at least this time Arthur actually knew what the shrill noises meant. That was the good side.

The not-quite-as-good side involved him, outside, in his night shirt and appropriate breeches getting rained on on the lawn. He was not best pleased, no.

At least, when he wasn't busy looking around to see if there was an actual fire, or making comments at Merlin, who'd permissibly modded appeared at his side a bare few minutes in.

[bigdamndestiny]

"Why does this keep happening?"

[bitch_prince]

"I'd say there's a constant threat of fire," said Arthur. Who realised that didn't sound very calming, no. "The Lady Zoe must be trying to prepare us."

[bigdamndestiny]

"It's pissing down rain. I don't think we need to much worry about a fire," Merlin grumbled.

[endsthegame]

Ender had only had to suffer one fire drill so far, and he'd been pretty good at bearing it. He made his way down with a makeshift umbrella he'd kept for emergencies (it wasn't much, really, and way too cheap, but at least it worked) and would be more than willing to offer to someone else.

He didn't really care about getting wet.

[glacial_witch]

"There's still some room under my rain shelter," Karla said, "And your umbrella looks awfully sad. Want in?"

[endsthegame]

"My umbrella will do me fine," Ender assured her, somewhat amused. "But thanks for offering. Telekinesis?"

[glacial_witch]

"Craft," she answered. And since she didn't think he'd notice, she used a little more Craft to reinforce his umbrella. Since it was pretty sad looking.

[awesomebigsis]

Ellie was still sort of groggy when the fire alarm woke her, but she did manage to find Eleanor the kitten before heading outside. It didn't occur to her to bring her umbrella, too.

The kitten was not happy. Neither was Ellie.

[anarchist_queen]

Therefore the happy smile on Leda's face as she danced past might be a little annoying. "La la la la," Leda sang tunelessly.