Mauvaise Chance Office/Lobby, Monday, 11/19

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Xander wasn't sure if the number of twenty-years-older students roaming the island should make him nervous or curious, so he'd decided to try out the first yesterday, staying holed up in his apartment after Bridge left. Nervous had quickly turned into bored, and there were only so many times you could type "I will not disappear from all available contact and give Willow a heart-attack, nor will I die without sufficient warning filed in quadruplicate with the appropriate authorities" into an e-mail before you realized you could just use the cut and paste function to make it to the requested 1000 without getting carpal-tunnel syndrome.

So today he was trying out curious. At least as far as heading out to the office, putting out the Guy With Tools signs, kicking back with an oh-so-enthralling printout of Willow's notes on prophetic Slayer dreams, and hanging out behind the counter to see if any familiar faces wandered by. Or new ones, since those were the kind that tended to actually want apartments.
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[OOC: Open for ladies, gentlemen, and monsters of all ages.]

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[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin wondered who owned this place these days, so he stopped in to see. "Hello?"

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Xander blinked at the sound from nowhere, then peered down over the counter. "Robin, hey."

It was hard to tell if he was older or not -- despite actually living with one, Xander had no clue how frogs showed age. Aside from a guess that a non-muppet frog wouldn't be around in twenty years.

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Xander! You're still here! And...still the same age as last time I saw you. Woah."

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Guess that answered that question. "You don't look so much older yourself."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Yes but I'm a Muppet. We don't tend to age the same as others."

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"That's gotta be kind of annoying in places that actually have a drinking age."

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin snickered. "Fortunately I'm not a big drinker. But yeah a lot of people do tend to treat me like a little kid still. Heck I played meta Tiny Tim when I was in college."

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"On the other hand, you don't have to worry about a receding hairline," Xander said thoughtfully.

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"That's true. Cause, hey, no hair." he agreed happily.

[offthelisthero.livejournal.com]

It was a new face that wandered in, accompanied by and attached to the standard issue human body parts as well as various luggage related items.

Mohinder looked round the lobby and approached the counter. "Excuse me?"

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Xander may have looked a little longer before speaking than normal because he was trying to figure out if this was a new island resident or a grown-up student he just couldn't place. Or he might just have been enjoying the view. Either of these were equally possible.

"Hey there." Xander stood up and smiled. "You're gonna think I'm an idiot if the answer's yes, but have we met? Xander Harris."

[offthelisthero.livejournal.com]

"I don't think so?" Mohinder sounded vaguely puzzled. "As far as I'm aware, my memory's intact, though I'm sorry if I've forgotten you. Mohinder Suresh."

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"No, your memory's good - just making sure mine was," Xander explained. "There's kind of a class reunion in town this weekend, and it'd be just my luck to introduce myself to somebody who used to sit next to me in Art History."

[offthelisthero.livejournal.com]

"So you're just in town for the reunion, then?" Mohinder replied.

He looked around the lobby again, but it still appeared empty of anyone else. "Only I was looking to rent an apartment." The case resting at Mohinder's feet might have given that away.

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"No, you came to the right place; I live here." He jerked a thumb towards the manager's apartment on the other side of the lobby. "Guess I found my way back a little sooner than some people."

Xander headed for the countertop terminal to punch up the specs on open apartments. "I've got vacancies on pretty much every floor except this one. What're you looking for? One or two bedrooms?"

[offthelisthero.livejournal.com]

"Do you have a policy on sudden, unexplained breakages?" asked Mohinder. It hadn't been a problem in New York - hell, it had been hardly noticeable at times - but this place looked considerably more structually sound.

"And just one bedroom, I think. I'm not expecting any visitors." Something pulled Mohinder's eye to a point on the screen. "You have a 'kitchen of doom'? And you advertise this?"

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No, but we have a policy that all new residents must remain shirtless for a month, Xander didn't say. But really kinda wanted to. He pointed to the Guy With Tools sign. Which, alas, said nothing about shirtlessness. He really needed to get Willow to make some new ones. "Call me and I fix 'em?"

He peeked over the corner of the screen at the apartment layouts. "I didn't name the rooms - I think that was the original owner. But I'm going with Kitchen of Doom: Hunger Goes In But It Doesn't Come Out as his reasoning. It's a little bigger than most of the other kitchens in the building."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn couldn't resist seeing if Xander--her other Xander--was still in Fandom. And of course, what would a visit to Xander be without doughnuts? So, she brought a box--all jelly.

"Hello?"

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Even though there's some faces you don't forget the shape of, it still took Xander a second. "Dawn?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Hey, you," she grinned, leaning on the counter. "I brought jellies."

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"Um. Wow." Xander might stop staring sometime. "Uh. At the you, not the jellies. Not that I don't thank you for the jellies."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"What? Is there something on my face?" She brushed imaginary crumbs off her mouth.

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"Just a little being a grown-up. Leave it; it looks good on you." Xander grinned.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"I think we're having a Fandom thing," she explained as best she could. "Sam and I are older, but Dean's not. You're still the age I remember you best."

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Xander nodded. "I still live here. Bridge on the other hand went to sleep a senior and woke up... not so much."