[Sometime during AU week]

[the_ex_in_xp]

[meanwhile at the dorms, a half-pirate and some girl who managed a +3 lockpicking skill in her bag of tricks are trying to break in to "their" room]

This lock is way more sophisticated than the others. You'd think they were worried about unsavory people trying to break in...

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[the_ex_in_excessive]

And I really don't want to kick the door open. Especially not when it's technically my door.

[the_ex_in_xp]

It's fine. Gimme another minute--[and with a savage twist that...may have not left the lock perfectly intact, gets the door to swing all the way open]

See? That wasn't so bad--

[the_ex_in_excessive]

[except for the three rabbits that were primed and ready to mob from the moment they heard their humans' voices outside the door?

though bad is in the eye of the beholder, and in Roxanne's case she is in "OH MY GOD THEY'RE SO CUTE" shock right now, sorry]

[the_ex_in_xp]

[Ramona's is a brief "stabbing? y/n/maybe" response before she realizes, oh no, these are probably Roxanne's pets and sheathes the switchblade, leaning out of the way of the stampede]

--what the fuck. It's like a petting zoo.

[the_ex_in_excessive]

Awww, hi, little guys! What's your names, huh? You must've been so lonely without --

[snapping to focus when she realizes that nobody's been home in the last day, though, and looking over her shoulder]

Ramona, can you get some water? There's probably greens in the kitchen too.

[the_ex_in_xp]

[if she's annoyed at being cheerfully bossed around, it's counteracted by the gratefulness for an excuse to escape the cuteness party]

Yeah. I'll find something. Be right back...

[the_ex_in_excessive]

Thanks. I really appreciate it.

[focusing on being a pleasant distraction for the poor little guys in the meantime]

[the_ex_in_xp]

[okay, so she's not exactly "right back" since there's a few minutes of debating to just leave or at least find alcohol to make it better, but after five minutes or so returns with a water bottle and some bok choy, not really announcing herself but looking on at you and the animals]

[the_ex_in_excessive]

[but I'm beaming at you in appreciation and everything and reaching out to take them]

Thanks, Ramona. Here, let me get their stuff set up and they'll probably settle down.

[the_ex_in_xp]

[yep, handing them off and going back to using her hands for productive things, like idly twisting a bracelet on one wrist]

Probably. They look pretty wound up.

[the_ex_in_excessive]

[finding the rabbits water bowl and filling it up, placing it and the food by a corner and actually taking the dorm room in]

... so, uh...

[the_ex_in_xp]

[it's unmistakably a room of cohabitation...awkward]

...you think the mess is the rabbits' fault or are we slobs?

[the_ex_in_excessive]

It could be both? But from the way Sarah described this me she's probably my opposite on a lot of stuff. Maybe it carries over to cleanliness too...

[the_ex_in_xp]

[looks to where there are obviously paint tubes scattered around]

I think the messy artist stereotype overrides your differences. But I don't see any katanas lying around, so...

[picking up a striped shirt her other self probably forgot to put in the laundry]

[the_ex_in_excessive]

Hey, I have an entire system now. I'm way less messy than I was in college.

Is that yours? Or, I mean, hers?

[the_ex_in_xp]

[smirking in a "uh-huh sure" indulgent way before holding the shirt against herself]

It's my size anyway. Not really my style, but that doesn't mean much, right?

[the_ex_in_excessive]

Probably not. I guess I wasn't told anything about that, just about your hair and the fact that you do deliveries for Amazon...

[the_ex_in_xp]

[raises her eyebrows a little, tossing the shirt on a bed corner]

I work for Amazon? Huh. Sounds okay, I bet their employee discounts are nice...

[the_ex_in_excessive]

Probably. But still, that's not a huge change or anything.

[picking up an eyeblack container]

Whereas I'm starting to think I'm waaaaay different...

[the_ex_in_xp]

Right, yeah, seems pretty similar...

[except for the part where she's in a stable long-term relationship, that's definitely Bizarro world]

Is that paint for art or paint for your face?

[the_ex_in_excessive]

It's eye black. Like, as in the stuff football players wear.

[the_ex_in_xp]

Maybe it's a ninja thing? Or a football thing. You could be into sports, or roller derby. Like that match I took you to before, you sort of liked it, right?

[the_ex_in_excessive]

[looking under the bed and pulling out a stray roller skate]

Wow, maybe I do do roller derby. I wonder if I have one of those cool names...

[the_ex_in_xp]

You've got a lot to work with a name like Roxie Richter. Rox and Roll, Richter Scale, something involving ninjas..

[the_ex_in_excessive]

I bet it's an art thing. Like Francisco de Gore-Ya!