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[somerandomhippie]

With a sigh, Katy flopped down on the couch, tossing the outdated DVDs on her stomach. She was in the commons room, finally settling down after ferrying one thing after another from her room to here. She had been setting up for a scary movie night, seeing as it was Halloween, so she had thought it necessary to bring all the usual staples-- food, caffeinated beverages, comfy slippers, and scary movies, of course. Alfred Hitchcock and Dracula had been her first picks, so those were the ones digging into her diaphragm at the moment. She'd invited Nate along, which was bound to be a good time, if anything.

Sighing again, she hopped up, walking over to the Holo. She'd better start getting everything wired in-- it could take a while. She'd never tried hooking up an antique in the commons room before. Setting the movies down beside her, she kneeled and started untangling cords. Then, she looked up, to the door. No one there. Funny. She could have sworn she heard something. Shrugging, she turned back, wrestling with her entertainment. Hopefully, it wouldn't take too long.

[Natalie Blake]

Not wanting to spend Hallowe'en night out partying (despite all of Braun's hinting that she should, as he clearly thought it was going to be fun), Natalie had readily agreed to watch old horror movies with Katy instead. That way, even if she stayed up late and came in to work tired the next morning, she wouldn't be hung-over.

Having decided it would be a proper movie night without snacks, she'd swung by the mess hall to raid the kitchen after her shift. Popcorn was a given, but she'd also found a variety of chocolates and a couple bottles of pop. She was almost to the sleeping-quarters when she thought she heard someone behind her. Glancing around, she found there was no-one there, and with a shrug she continued on her way.

"Hey there, girlie," she teased as she entered the common room, offering the brunette woman fussing with wires a bright smile. "I brought munchies and such," she said unnecessarily, dumping the contents of her arms on the coffee table. She then fell back onto the couch and pulled a large cushion across her lap, hugging it.

"So, once you get the machine set up, what're we watching?"

[somerandomhippie]

This time, Katy found the source of noise-- Nate walking in with a bunch of snacks. "Hello my baby, hello my darlin', hello my ragtime gal..." she sung with a grin as said blonde popped down on the couch. "Ooh, yum. Chocolate." She unwrapped a piece, and munched as she turned back to the wires.

"Well, I've got the original Dracula, North By Northwest, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and a bunch of other stuff lying around somewhere," she rattled off, starting to plug stuff in. "You can choose, since I got to pick the selections. Unless, of course, you have anything scarier in mind." She grinned devilishly across the couch, and finished setting the antique movie-player up.

"Okay, I think this should work..." she muttered, waving her hand through the power space. The holo flared white, and gave off an odd smell. Katy frowned. "Did something blow a fuse?" she asked uncertainly, looking around. Everything was plugged in, and looked in good shape. Weird.

[Natalie Blake]

Katy's singing made Natalie roll her eyes. This was why she loved her--she was such a strange, bubbly girl. It made life more amusing. "Yes, chocolate," she agreed with a laugh, grabbing a piece for herself as well. "And popcorn, and various assortments of gummies and hard-candies and chips and such."

She listened as the brunette listed off different horror movies they could watch, and Natalie smirked a little, deciding to make a joke about something that only Katy would understand--her and her retro style. "I heard of a twenty-first-century horror flick. I believe it was called Twilight. Scariest actors anyone's ever seen before or since."

Just as they were about to kick back and begin their movie spree, the holo essentially exploded, and Natalie wrinkled her nose at the smell. "I don't know, but it doesn't smell like anything particularly good happened," she pointed out, coming over to check it out. She'd just reached her friend's side when the lights flickered, and she looked around worriedly.

"What's going on?" As if in answer, she thought she heard a distant, eerie laugh fading down the hall outside the common room. She frowned and glanced at Katy, wondering what her friend thought of all this. It seemed likely that it was prank, but she was still adamant in the belief that her dorm in university had been haunted. Call her superstitious.

[somerandomhippie]

Katy raised her brows gleefully. "We'll be up all night," she grinned. "Not that I wasn't planning that anyways, but this'll help. Maybe we'll actually, you know, look alive." Finishing off the chocolate, she popped open the fizzy drinks, laughing as it started spilling. "It's like New Year's all over again!" Slurping up what had spilled past the lid, she passed the bottle off. It was like college all over again.

Though her eyes sparkled with mirth, her jaw dropped with horror. "Oh, no," she warned, shaking a screwdriver. "That was just plain gory. I'm surprised they hadn't censored it. That gave me nightmares, no joke." She shook a little, turning back to the DVD player. Seeing as they were both vintage junkies, it made great times to crack jokes at the ancient ways of things. Go history.

Katy nodded in agreement as the lights suddenly went out. "Maybe we blew the entire fuse line," she suggested, just as she heard a chortle down the hall. She spun. Glancing at Nate, she shrugged. "Now, I'm not so sure." Walking over to the other side of the room, she pulled out a flashlight, and grinned. "Let's go investigate."

[Natalie Blake]

When Katy offered the opened bottle of pop to her, Natalie took it and knocked back a sip or two. It fizzed down her throat, making her cough, and she laughed a little. "Definitely like New Year's. That sparkling champaign did the same thing to me as this pop just did." Then again, most soft-drinks did. She wasn't much of a carbonated-beverage person.

The brunette's rejoinder to her comment about Twilight made Natalie chuckle. "You certainly got that right. They didn't even rate it R, those silly people." All right, so the movie hadn't been all that bad... oh, who was she kidding? She'd hated that thing. The books had been all right, she supposed, but the movies had sucked the life out of her.

Almost the same way the light was sucked out of the room just then. One instant it was there, the next it was gone. "Oh, come on--even we can't screw up that badly. At least, I really hope not. Explaining that to maintenance wouldn't be fun." When a flashlight flickered on, Natalie got to her feet and followed Katy to the door.

"What--who do you think is behind this?" she quickly corrected herself. It was Ben, most likely. Or maybe Hollie. They were the major pranksters on board.

[somerandomhippie]

Katy chuckled as she watched Natalie's face twist, in response to the pop. Girl could hold her liquor, but fizzy drinks rendered her incapacitated. Katy was exactly the opposite. "I remember that," she snickered. "Oh college, oh college."

"I really don't know what they were thinking. Or what they were on, for that matter." The past must have had some pretty strong stuff. Not like the hand sanitizer people were ingesting these days. Silly kids.

"Well, we've done worse," Katy mused, poking her head down the hallway. "I think." She fished in her pockets, and upon finding nothing, handed the flashlight off to Natalie. "Well, whoever it was is getting a good beating. I really wanted to watch Dracula." She stepped out hesitantly, then continued on down the hallway.

She'd gone a few feet when a voice chuckled in her ear. Katy nearly jumped out of her skin. With a little gasp, she scrambled in her jacket for her blaster, fumbling over it a couple times. "What was that?" she panted, calming herself down. Probably just her imagination.