Room 317, Monday afternoon

[notmyownage]

For once, Claudia actually wasn't tinkering with something on the floor. Artie had her running searches for any pings on Ben Franklin's kite string -- she could have sworn that whole thing was a myth! -- so she was lounging on her bed while her handbuilt computer program trawled across the web for anything that screamed "two-hundred-year-old electrified twine".

Such was life as a Warehouse intern.

[ooc: expecting one, but also open.]

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[childhood-taunt.livejournal.com]

Before Matt headed off to town to try and hunt down an assassin-

Come on. How many times do you get to write that in a RPG?

-Matt swung by Claudia's room and knocked on the door, a bundle of clothes under his arm. "Claudia? You there?"

[notmyownage]

Depended on the RPG, really.

Recognizing Matt's voice, Claudia hopped up and went to open the door for him. "Hey, you!" She stepped aside, holding the door open. "Come on in. The floor's even clean."

Mostly.

[childhood-taunt.livejournal.com]

"Hey yourself," Matt said cheerfully. "You don't mind if I drop by unannounced, do you? I brought back the clothes I borrowed from the other weekend."

And yes, there were her clothes nicely laundered and folded while Matt's currently clothes were... a bit on the grubby side.

[notmyownage]

Aw, he'd made an effort.

"Of course not." It wasn't like he could see what was on her laptop screen, so she didn't even have to quickly close it to keep the Warehouse a secret. "You can come over any time."

[childhood-taunt.livejournal.com]

Matt looked rather pleased by the comment. "Well, I'm going to have to take advantage of that invitation more often. I trust you were able to survive the invasion of the dolls without too much damage?"

[notmyownage]

"Barely noticed 'em. I have a few traps set up around the room in case of gremlins. I guess they deterred dolls, too."

[childhood-taunt.livejournal.com]

Matt chuckled. "Not taking any chances after the last time you got bitten?" he teased.

[notmyownage]

"You have no idea how long it took me to get all the grape jelly out from under my fingernails."

[childhood-taunt.livejournal.com]

"I know you were making meatballs," Matt said raising an eyebrow. "But I'm not going to even ask why even a deluded person would be using grape jelly."

[notmyownage]

"It was supposed to be for the sauce," Claudia explained. "That's actually a thing. I just . . . added it super early."

[childhood-taunt.livejournal.com]

"I'm sorry I wasn't around," Matt replied. "I would have at least tried to stop you. Or at least help remove the grape jelly."

[notmyownage]

"That's alright. I'm pretty sure enough people saw me make a complete ass out of myself while drunk on virgin cider."

[childhood-taunt.livejournal.com]

"Well lucky for you I wouldn't be able to see you at all," Matt teased.

[notmyownage]

Claudia winced. "True," she said. "Unless that means you have, like, a super-nose or something? 'Cause I'm pretty sure I burned the hell out of at least something."

[childhood-taunt.livejournal.com]

So that was what smelled so bad.

"A super nose?" Matt chuckled self-consciously. "That has to be the worst power ever."

Heh. Heh. Heh.

[notmyownage]

"I know, right? Especially in a dorm. It'd be all 'ah, so half the guys decided to skip showering again, today'."

[childhood-taunt.livejournal.com]

"Well I'm sure at some point you'd learn to block that kind of thing out."

Though some days? Eww.

"But yeah, I'd hate to be that guy," Matt said with a shake of his head. "One smelly sock and you could be down for the count."

[notmyownage]

"Your arch-nemesis would be, like, a stink bug."

[childhood-taunt.livejournal.com]

Or a really large mobster. Or a guy with stilts.

Stilts? Oh, Marvel.

"And his love interest would smell like bread. Or maybe pudding."

[notmyownage]

"Bread pudding," Claudia offered. "Although then he might just walk around salivating all the time. Or get really horny when he passes bakeries."

[childhood-taunt.livejournal.com]

"See that's just plain awkward. It's probably the reason why Ratman and Flying guy wear capes."

And we won't go into why Matt loves to stand on the roof of J'GOB for a good twenty minutes before running off to patrol.

[notmyownage]

"Right, so I'm going to assume you mean to wipe their mouths on when they're salivating and not . . . the other reason I thought of. And then change the subject to 'if you could have any super power, what would it be?'"

[childhood-taunt.livejournal.com]

"How about the ability to make a conversation awkward at the drop of a hat?" Matt joked. "I didn't embarass you did I?"

[notmyownage]

"No more than any other teenage boy," Claudia assured him. "And you're not, like, snickering weirdly, so that's actually a bonus."

[childhood-taunt.livejournal.com]

"Rats. There goes my future as the Superhero known as Captain Awkward."