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[3nanashi]

Trowa's visit to Quatre's home is about halfway through. It's been a good week. (And, thanks to spending several of Quatre's workdays hanging out at the local university, Trowa now has much more detailed mental notes on how to successfully pass as a college student. Yes, low-stakes infiltration practice is Trowa's idea of a vacation

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[seewhatyoumean]

Cass sees him enter the bar. Cass sees his little exchange. Cass oh so sneakily follows him to the gym.

He doesn't notice her, of course. She is being sneaky.

Like, on tip-toes and a manic grin and everything.

[who_s_there]

"But if I let him go," says Buffy, very reasonably, "he may bite someone. I can't let that happen! I'm the Slayer! Vampires of the world, beware!"

The paper towel dispenser creaks.

[walksthebounds]

"Would you like to i-e i ee?" says Jamie, holding his jaw dramatically open in a show of good faith.

[who_s_there]

She does.

"You should floss every day!"

[3nanashi]

. . . Buffy is great with the relevance today, then.

Trowa's gonna wait a minute, since stabbing doesn't seem imminent, to see if the penny drops. (It seems unlikely.)

[seewhatyoumean]

Trowa is better at casual social interaction that Cass is. (And isn't that a worrying thought?) So she follows his lead, leaning back ever so slightly to give Buffy and Jamie some space.

She glances over at Trowa to make sure she's doing it right.

[2020sight]

Someone bangs the door to the bathroom open.

"--and IIIII would walk five hundred more, j's to--"

The door to the stall opens.

"--be the oh hey." Epimetheus blinks at the crowd drunkenly. "What an enormous stall. Sorry, don't mind me, I'll find somewhere less crowded."

He looks from person to person again, gives Trowa a thumbs up and an eyebrow waggle, and staggers back out, picking up his song ("BADALA DA DAH") as he goes.

[3nanashi]

. . .

Insofar as there are social rules for this, yeah, Cass is doing fine.

Trowa does not change expression. Or facepalm.

[walksthebounds]

"You know," says Jamie, attempting once again to squirm out and away from Buffy, "I think I'd like to find somewhere less crowded too? And, ah -"

If Epimetheus' eyebrow waggle was any kind of a clue, he thinks he's beginning to figure out what these other two people were doing in the men's restroom!

"- you know, get right on the flossing. In my own room."

[seewhatyoumean]

Cass reaches down to her belt (which she's wearing even with her civvies today) and flips open a pouch. Then she extends her hand to Jamie.

Bat-floss!

So now he won't have to return to his room or anything! He can floss right here! (Isn't she helpful?)

[3nanashi]

. . . That was a little out of the realms of normal conversation, Cass. FYI.

Although Jamie's face is hilarious!

[who_s_there]

"Are you sure you're not a vampire?" says Buffy, unconvinced by his teeth. After all, he's clearly not in gameface.

Then she brightens. "Oh, I know!"

She tightens her grip on Jamie's collar, and calmly swings him through the stall's opening (careful not to actually hit Cass, but not careful to avoid awkward proximity) and forward, in front of the mirror.

"You're not a vampire!"

This is brand new information!

[seewhatyoumean]

Cass doesn't really have a concept of 'awkward proximity', so she just watches curiously as Jamie swings past her. Then she glances at Trowa and tries to resume her totally-nonchalant stance.

[walksthebounds]

"Gosh, what wonderful news for us all! Can I please go now?"

Jamie is kind of creeped out by Cass' attempts to get him to stay in the bathroom, he's not going to lie. WHAT DOES SHE WANT HIM FOR?

[3nanashi]

Trowa's not stopping him.

This is a much more eventful trip to the restroom than planned, that's for sure.

"Yeah," Trowa says mildly, to Buffy. (Presumably-Buffy.) "It'd be polite to let him go now."

Or to have let him go ten minutes ago. But, uh, whatever.

[uquars_gadget]

Helen’s hair is pulled back into a tight ponytail other than a hank of it that she pushes out of her face, when she walks through the door and notices the (thankfully empty) urinals. She frowns, and glances back at the other door (marked with a woman), and back into the room angrily. She’s about to declare an offended 'they changed sides,' when she notices the people at the mirror include Jamie.

Coldly: "Jamie? What exactly is going on, here?"