Fourth Floor Common Room [Saturday afternoon]

[leavingthenest]

The newbies had been on the island for an entire week! Rapunzel was pretty sure that at least some of them had to be feeling overwhelmed.

Besides, she hadn't had a chance to meet most of them!

But that was okay. Rapunzel had a solution to both of those problems! Baking. Lots and lots and lots of baking! Cookies, brownies, muffins, and

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[not_a_parakeet]

One of these days, Warren would make it all the way to the roof before being distracted by something in the fourth floor common room.

Today was totally not one of those days.

"I smell baking," he announced, peering into the room, cautiously at first, and then breaking into a little grin.

Safe baking, even! Score!

[leavingthenest]

Rapunzel spun around with a grin. "Do you?" she asked, trying to go for teasing, but not really managing it.

"I wonder why that is..."

Apparently it was harder to keep a straight face and not giggle when doing that than television had suggested.

[not_a_parakeet]

"Well, yeah, unless my eyes are messed up right along with my nose," Warren chuckled, stepping into the room and looking at the way most of the room was filling up with baked goods. "You've been busy today, huh, Rapunzel?"

[leavingthenest]

"A little bit!" she agreed eagerly. She walked over closer to Warren and let her voice drop into something that sort of, kind of approximated a conspiratorial whisper. "It's part of my plan to meet new people." Somehow Rapunzel managed to convey that this was a super-secret and subtle plan that no one could possibly guess.

Except for the part where she'd tell anyone who asked...

[glacial_witch]

Karla had a good nose for scents. Most of them were psychic, but the smell of baked treats? They managed to call for her from several floors away. Hopefully whoever was baking wasn't done yet so that Karla could help, too, but just getting to sit back and enjoy freshly baked treats was a fabulous consolation prize.

"Kiss kiss?" she called, poking her head through the doorway to the fourth floor common room. "Who's cooking, what's baking, and can I help?"

No, Rapunzel. Just say no.

[EEEEEE!!! YOU DID THIS THREEEEEAD!]

[leavingthenest]

Poor Rapunzel. She didn't know any better!

"I am!" Rapunzel declared. Then she grinned. "And I think you are, too!"

"At least as long as you want to help me bake a pie..."

[Why, so I did!]

[glacial_witch]

"I love pie!"

Sure, she'd never actually made one before, but she was a cookie and cupcake master. She was positive she could pick up the knack of pies without much effort, too!

"What kind of pie? Can I make suggestions?"

[leavingthenest]

Rapunzel giggled. "Suggest away. I've already got a couple of eggs separated, if that helps you with ideas."

[longislandiceme]

Okay, the free food? Definitely one of the things Bobby had missed about Fandom. So was it any surprise that the smell of baking lured him up a floor?

"You're sharing, I hope?" he asked.

[glacial_witch]

"Bobby!"

Yes, Karla had seen in him Visor-Boy's class (sorry, Scott, but she'd met a different version of you first) but there hadn't been a chance for a proper greeting. Not since Christmas which had been failsauce for me.

Which meant there was going to be a serious tackle-hug aimed his way. One liberally dusted with flour. And perhaps the odd egg or two.

[longislandiceme]

Bobby was never one to turn down a good tacklehug, of course. "That's my name," he told Karla cheerfully. "Don't wear it out."

[glacial_witch]

"That was one of the dorkiest things I've ever heard you say," Karla informed him, delivering the promised tacklehug. "Which is quite the feat, considering how many dorky things I've heard you say."

She said, while hugging him hard enough to possibly inhibit breathing.

[cant_be_helped]

First, there was a girl who was very tentatively sticking her head in the doorway of the common room. The last time she'd been in here, she'd found herself being yelled at by a rather scary looking student.

She wasn't one to back down from scary people, of course, which was why she'd come back. It was a relief that he was not there, though.

So then she confidently stepped into the room and gave a curtsy in her plain blue dress.

"Is there anything I can do to help?" she asked.

[leavingthenest]

Rapunzel did not think of herself as scary looking. And her huge, welcoming grin probably helped somewhat with that.

"Hi! Do you want to help with the eating, the baking, or both?" Rapunzel wasn't picky herself.

[cant_be_helped]

"Oh, well, I suppose I can do both," Dorothy said with a little smile. "I was mainly looking to try and help with the baking. I've helped my aunt bake a lot of different things, so I shouldn't be a burden at all. I like to think I know quite a bit about it."

[leavingthenest]

Well, that just earned Dorothy an even wider smile.

"Excellent! I was just getting ready to make a pie." Or two or three.

[regretiz4suckas]

Cookie smell! Kenzi just followed the cookie smell.

"Need help eating those?"

[leavingthenest]

Rapunzel laughed. "Well, someone's got to."

Might as well be Kenzi!

[regretiz4suckas]

It was one of her talents! Kenzi grabbed one for each hand and started nibbling. "Mmmmmm. Any special occasion, or did you just have a cookie urge?"

[leavingthenest]

Rapunzel's eyes darted left, and then right. Just to make sure no one could overhear her cunning plan.

"Newbies. I'm trying to meet more of them."