Room 308, Sunday Afternoon

[bitten_notshy]

After his discharge from the clinic, Jack took a rickshaw back to the dorms. He planned to change his shirt and head out to Caritas to help if he could. The rickshaw driver went fast enough that it was a clear ride -- any lurking gremlins were smashed under the vehicle's wheels.

Jack made it a point to tip well.

When he got to his room, though, he found a small bobcat lolling on his rug, gnawing on what seemed to be gremlin entrails. He blinked and, cautiously, asked "Who are you and how did you get in?"

The bobcat padded over to some photos Jack kept on his desk and batted the one of Rose to the ground before going back to her snack. She seemed irritated but resigned to the question.

Jack let out a short bark of laughter that sent a shock of pain through his head again. "Well," he said, "at least I know you aren't hurt."

The bobcat rolled her eyes as if to protest her own awesomeness -- like she'd ever get hurt -- but was quickly distracted by a cluster of gremlins rolling out of Jack's closet. One-two-three clashes of fang and fur against fang and scales, and the gremlins were deposited at Jack's feet.

The bobcat seemed very well-pleased with herself as Jack decided to stay in the room for a while. His head still hurt a bit, and he could hardly leave the huntress alone.

[OOC: Open door, open post, linkdrop to come. guardianborn-the-bobcat modded with permission.]

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[wantstodirect]

Tony stuck his head in the door. "Hey," he said. "You safe and alive and all that?"

[bitten_notshy]

"Safe, alive, watching Rose shred gremlin ears," Jack answered, with a nod to the bobcat. He'd explain more about that later. "What about yourself?"

[wantstodirect]

"Hi, Rose," Tony glanced at the bobcat. "I got a little scratched up last night when a bunch of the buggers tried to get to the pool. Other than that, I'm fine."

[bitten_notshy]

"I managed to get a concussion trying to fight them out in the salle. Ino healed me but I was stuck in the clinic overnight," Jack shared. "... and I love that Rose being a bobcat doesn't make you blink."

The bobcat in question wandered over to sniff Tony's shoes.

[wantstodirect]

Tony reached down to pet her head very carefully. "I've been here a year and a half," he said. "You're okay now? No headache or anything?"

[bitten_notshy]

She snapped playfully at his fingers than rubbed along his trouser legs.

It was really too bad she was slimy with gremlin bits.

Jack made a face. "I can't remember hitting my head or the first few minutes afterward," he said. "And I get dizzy when I move too fast." He didn't want to talk about it. "What happened with you and the pool?"

[wantstodirect]

"Don't move fast," Tony ordered. "Don't know if you noticed, but water makes more of those things. Jennifer - you know the big green girl?" He wasn't sure what her deal was, but it seemed rather rude to ask. "She saw a bunch heading to the pool and I went to help her. She can really kick ass, by the way."

[bitten_notshy]

"I never would have figured that out," Jack said dryly as his fingers went to his temples. "I know Jennifer a bit. I'm not surprised she's good at what she does."

[wantstodirect]

Tony frowned at the gesture. "She held off a ton of them while I shut the pool down," he said.

[bitten_notshy]

Jack brought his hands down from his head, self-conscious at the frown.His injury was nothing.

"Good luck you knew how to do that."

[OOC: NIGHT.]

[wantstodirect]

"It was pretty well-marked," Tony said. He looked down at the bobcat. "Don't let him do too much while he's hurt, okay?"

[ooc: Night!]

[bitten_notshy]

The bobcat nodded a serious bobcat nod. She'd protect him. It was What She Di -

Oooh, shiny candy wrapper to pounce.

Jack laughed. "I think we can manage it. How are things looking outside?"

[wantstodirect]

"Actually," Tony said, with a touch of guilt. "I just got up." He'd used a bunch of magic fighting off the gremlins and then more when he'd healed himself afterwards. He'd needed a lot of rest to recover!

[bitten_notshy]

Jack raised his eyebrow, then slumped back with a snort. "Well," he said, "if the gremlins gave you peace I say you take advantage of it."

[wantstodirect]

"I blocked the door and the vent and turned on every light I had," Tony said. "They don't like light."

[bitten_notshy]

"Maybe that's why they attacked us in the salle," Jack suggested. "We were letting the light in."

[OOC: Never saw the movie, so I did not know this.]

[wantstodirect]

"Or maybe 'cause they're mean fuckers," Tony said. "Do you think they're the same cuddly things that showed up on Friday?"

[Was it left out of the info post? (That movie traumatized me as a kid!)]

[bitten_notshy]

"They could be," Jack said. "It would make sense. If something made them transform...."

Not that he had the first clue what that something could be.

[I don't think it was in there, but it's possible I looked right past it.]

[wantstodirect]

"Either that or the cuddly ones were some kind of advance team," Tony said. "Doesn't seem like a coincidence."

[I just skimmed the info, so I'm not sure.]

[bitten_notshy]

Jack shook his head. "Not at all. They could be male and female of the same species, or mothers and children, but ... there's got to be a connection."

[wantstodirect]

Tony nodded. "No more trusting cute and fuzzy things that show up out of nowhere," he decided.

[bitten_notshy]

Rose mrrrowled at him.

"I think she took offense," Jack pointed out.

[wantstodirect]

"Transformed students don't count," Tony said, and grinned at Rose. "Though you are adorable."