I Just Want To Be Normal

Lana knocks on the door. "Hey. Still bouncing?" She looks a little discouraged.

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"Hey Lana! Yup, still bouncing," she said, making a face.

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"Still doing chemistry recitations when I try to eat. So, I haven't been," Lana says glumly.

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"Okay, the bouncing is annoying, but at least it stops if I sprawl. Not being able to eat? That would really piss me off." Isabel shook her head. "I'm telling you, if I find out who or what's responsible for this? I'm going to beat them with one of Rory's arms."

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"Honestly? The eating is a pain in the butt, but when I get hungry enough I just deal with the constant pinging and chemical stuff in my head. But trying to kiss my boyfriend..." Lana sighs. "Chemical compounds are *so* not what you want to be thinking about then. I'm just... getting really frustrated."

"And yeah, I'd gladly knock them around myself once I find out who or what made this happen. God, it's got to wear off soon, because if this is permanent..."

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Isabel raised an eyebrow. "At least you have a boyfriend to kiss. And even if you can't kiss, you can still snuggle."

"I'm sure it'll wear off at some point. That's the one nice thing about Fandom. The weirdness isn't permanent. It just mutates into another type of weird."

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"Very true," Lana says thoughtfully. "Thank you. I will have to keep saying that to myself over and over. He is a very good snuggler and remembering that will help."

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"A full sized teddy bear even? I make do with Mr. Bear," Isabel laughed and pointed at the stuffed bear sitting on her pillow.

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Lana giggles. "A full-sized teddy who's warm and comfy and gives massages and strokes my hair..."

She smiles over at Isabel, "You know... I think I'm going to go track him down and make him snuggle with me. Good luck with the bouncing."

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"You have fun! I'm not going anywhere," Isabel said. "It's just me and Alton Brown."

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"I'll try," Lana says with a smile. "Catch you later!"

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{only because slowplay and at the end of this Xander is most definitely falling asleeeep omg, and Ms. Izzy already has.}

Xander, backpack not slung over his shoulder but cradled gingerly in the crook of one arm, entered the room and winced at the sound of the door closing behind him. His finger, forehead, and the side of his face were plastered neatly with bandages, and his hair was... sticky-uppy. And a little cripsy in places. He tossed his backpack on the desk and stared at Jeremiah for a second, just vaguely blinking, then dumped a couple of amphibi-stix into the tank before dumping himself backwards onto his bed. And wincing again.

"And the word among the people," he said, "is robots suck."

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Isabel looked at Xander, just a little bit shocked. "What the hell happened?" Pushing herself to her feet, she walked over to his bed and knelt beside it. Because if she stood that would be hovering. And that would be weird. "There were robots?"

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Xander nodded, then reflected vocally on what a stupid idea that was. "Ow, that was a stupid idea."

He made a note to stop moving. Anything. "The shop computers went whackadoo and locked us in, then made crazy robots attack us."

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"Oh my god. Are you okay?" she asked as she very, very gingerly patted his arm. "Is everyone else okay? Can I get you anything? Aspirin? Vodka?"

She chuckled just a bit. "Notice the fact that I'm not even questioning your story? Anywhere else? I'd probably think you got the crap kicked out of you over a girl or something."

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"I guess I did, sorta? At least at one point Nadia got knocked out and we were trying to get to her." Xander chuckled as he pointed to, but didn't touch, the top of his head. "And you could say I got the crap kicked out of me by a girl if you really stretched the definition of kick, since the goose-egg came from Pippi's boot."

He made a sad face. "Aspirin good, vodka bad. At least according to Doctor New Guy. Trevor, I think his name is?"

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Isabel leaned over a bit to see the goose-egg. ~~And in no way gave him a view of her cleavage.~~ "Do you want some ice for that as well?"

She pushed up to her feet and went to her desk, rummaging through the drawer until she found the bottle of aspirin. Grabbing a bottle of water from the fridge on her way past, she returned to Xander's side. "Here. Hopefully it'll help. You saved Nadia? Does this mean I have to call you hero now?"

"What else did the doctor say? Do you have to stay awake or anything?"

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~~YAY CLEAVAGE which Xander would totally have looked at if this wasn't in strikethrough because Mountie or no Mountie, boobies are niiiiiice.~~

"No concussion, so I don't have to stay awake; just a big ouchie bruise that brought its buddy Headache along fpor the ride at no extra charge." Xander took the aspirin and water gratefully, but shook his head over the ice. Which was stupid, and he hoped the aspirin kicked in soon, because the single pill Dr. New Guy had given him was not gonna cut it. "Hurts to touch, so an icepack would probably be more trouble than it's worth."

He downed a couple of pills with a swig of water and added, "I think mostly Sydney did the rescuing. She blammoed the robot that was going after Nadia with enough bullets to drop a rhino. Crichton and I mostly threw things at it. And I tried using the channel-changing powers on it - dunno if they worked on that one, but they made some other ones sing and dance. Which was almost scarier than the laser-fire."

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"If you say so," Isabel said as she knelt by the bed. Sitting would be much more comfortable, but sitting led to bouncing and that would be too much for poor injured Xander ~~even if he might enjoy the view~~. "Is there anything else I can get you?"

"Good for Sydney," she said, shaking her head. "Should I ask what you had them sing and dance to? Or would it scar me for life?"

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"Then I think I'm going to go get ready for bed now," she said as she climbed to her feet and started towards the bathroom. "But if you need anything tonight, wake me up okay?"

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