Rebounding and Resounding ((Open RP, L, Great Hall))

[pre-l.livejournal.com]

While not exactly the easiest thing to do, L, aka Ryuuzaki, was adjusting his own manner of thinking. He felt he'd reached some degree of success when he took A shopping rather than question his potential preparedness. He was making a concerted effort and when he made a concerted effort, things happened.

Concerted efforts also required sustenance. And, while eating in his room was adequate, L knew that, as part of his programme to change, he needed to get out more often. So, rather than request cheesecake and tea be brought to his room, he ventured out to the Great Hall, perching on a bench, adding copious amounts of sugar to his tea. Glucose, after all, was vital for brain functioning.

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[rosecasson.livejournal.com]

Out of almost-nowhere, a brown curly head pops out from behind the bench.

'All that sugar,' Rose informs L, 'Will rot your teeth.'

She has had exactly one filling in her so-far-short lifetime, and she genuinely wishes to save anyone else from the same fate.

[pre-l.livejournal.com]

L looked at the little girl, surprised at her appearance. "Sugar is the brain's fuel. It is vital for proper and quick functioning. Proper dental care will prevent carries," he informed her in a tone that he believed was appropriately conversational but may come across as condescending.

[rosecasson.livejournal.com]

Rose rolls her eyes. 'No. You're wrong, because I did everything I was meant to and still had to drink that pink gunk and spit it out. Besides, I can almost see the sugar coming out of the tea.'

Rose's parents are artists. Bill is more concerned with appearances than Eve, being the more upwardly-mobile of the two, and although Rose is fairly sure she doesn't like her father as much as her mother, she still cringes at some of the things he, too, would frown upon.

Sugar coming out of somebody's tea is one of them.

[pre-l.livejournal.com]

"If you spit it out, you did not actually drink it," L pointed out. He looked at the cup of tea. Sure enough, there was precipitate of sugar at the bottom of it.

He glanced at the girl, setting his spoon down. "Sugar at the bottom of the cup indicates that the solution is maximally saturated. At this point, the tea is prepared for consumption."

[rosecasson.livejournal.com]

'Daddy usually has lemon in his tea. Mummy likes milk, but no sugar.' Rose rests her chin on her arm. 'And I could still taste it, that's almost-drinking it. So.'

Indigo would tell him off for saying 'spit' as if it were present tense, when it's actually past. Maybe not. Indigo wants to get on with people.

[pre-l.livejournal.com]

"A prefers tea without anything in it," L said, making a face at the remembered taste. "I do not find that palatable. It also serves no function. If something is to be consumed, it should serve a function. Sugar gives tea a purpose in the diet."

L took a sip of his tea, holding the cup between his thumb and forefinger, the handle in front of his nose. "I have heard that almost only qualifies for hand grenades and horseshoes, though I fail to understand the second," he admited.

[rosecasson.livejournal.com]

'Who's A?' Rose asks, full of curiosity. 'Mummy had a t-shirt making workshop once, and someone there said they wanted to make a t-shirt that said 'Fuckin' A' but they couldn't because the first word was one they weren't allowed to use. Is A famous? Is that where it comes from?'

The girl knows a lot, but at times like this it's better to just smile thinly and hand her a textbook. She won't read it, but she will appreciate the effort.

[12panelwonder.livejournal.com]

"AGGGGGGGH!" Matt turned off the PSP in disgusted frustration. Fucking boss with the fucking cheating attacks! That should be banned!

Oh, hey, L, he'll cheer him up.

"Hey," Matt said with a grin, nudging L and sitting next to him.

[pre-l.livejournal.com]

L smiled at Matt, his thumb coming to rest on the corner of his mouth. "Hey," he replied. He offered Matt a slice of cheesecake since his lover was one of the few people he would share with and such sharing usually was done regardless of if Matt actually wanted said cake.

[12panelwonder.livejournal.com]

"Thanks." Matt took a bite. "How was that thing with A?" Matt knew that L had taken A someplace, he just didn't know where or why. He hadn't put together the connection with the condoms, mainly cause he was gaming.

[pre-l.livejournal.com]

"It went well, aside from the fact that A credits inanimate objects with the ability to observe," L said, picking up his prepared tea.

[12panelwonder.livejournal.com]

"Ha. Not until AIs can become sentient. Oh wait. GLaDOS is here." He had forgotten about Creepy Computer. "Where did you guys go, anyway?"

[pre-l.livejournal.com]

"Cardiff," L said, holding his tea cup between his thumb and forefinger and tipping it up, his hand at the 12 o'clock position. When he'd drained the readily availble liquid, he held the cup above his mouth, waiting for the precipitate to drip out. "The store near where the floo network drops us off."

[mio-remaining.livejournal.com]

Ryuzaki wasn't the only one that needed to get out more.

Mio was starting-sort of-to, well, not get over Mayu, canonically, she never will. But she could hold it together long enough to meet people and get some food.

She smiled shyly at L as she walked in. "Um. What are you eating?"

[pre-l.livejournal.com]

"Strawberry cheesecake," L replied, looking at the girl from under his bangs. "The combination improves brain functioning twenty percent better than either singly."

[mio-remaining.livejournal.com]

Mio tilted her head. "It does? I didn't know that." She sat down across from him.

[pre-l.livejournal.com]

L nodded. "I have conducted the research personally," he assured her.

[mio-remaining.livejournal.com]

"And you're an expert on sweets?" Mio couldn't help asking as she asked for some soup. And some cake.

[pre-l.livejournal.com]

"Glucose is vital to proper brain functioning. It is vital that my brain function properly. Ergo, I have become an expert on glucose." It was a simple logic, after all.

[serrulata.livejournal.com]

While Kurama had made a vow never to go back to the great hall unless he was 100% sure that there were no controlled substances floating around to make life a special kind of awkward, there were times when such a vow had to be broken. Especially when people he needed to have an immediate conversation with were in said hall.

After a quick peek to make sure there were no mad orgies or suddenly transformed students milling about, he strolled in, motioned for a house elf to bring him some black coffee, and sat across from L.
"Ryuuzaki," he greeted politely, folding his hands.

[pre-l.livejournal.com]

L picked his up up between his thumb and forefinger, holding the handle at 12 o'clock. Before he drank, he returned the greeting. "Kurama," he said adn then drained his cup, his hand remaining at 12 o'clock. When the easily emptied fluid was finished, he continued to hold the cup above his head, catching the drops that were mostly sugar on his tongue as they fell. "You wish to speak?" he asked.

[serrulata.livejournal.com]

"I do." He waited until the cup was drained, taking a sip of his coffee when it arrived. "I hear you took A on a shopping trip." His voice was calm, businesslike. There was a tiny edge to it, though, a nail in one end of the board.

[pre-l.livejournal.com]

L could see the subtlety of patterns that revealed the culprit in a crime, yet often missed the social subtleties of human interaction. "Yes, that is true," he said, setting his cup on the saucer and picking up his fork between his thumb and forefinger to begin on the cheesecake.

[serrulata.livejournal.com]

"Did it not occur to you," Kurama said, setting his cup to the side, "that bringing an adolescent who has been sexually abused to a sex toy store would be an unwise idea?" His fingers he folded under his chin, looking very intently at L. "That perhaps it would have been wiser to take him somewhere easily accessible that wouldn't potentially cause him psychological trauma?"

[pre-l.livejournal.com]

L blinked and then blinked again. "A did not seem unduly distressed, aside from anthropomorphizing the manikins," he said.