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The Roof; Saturday Evening [ 01/07 ].

Okay, so, it was Saturday night and Britta felt a little lame about the fact that she was up on the roof with nothing better to do than smoke some...cigarettes, but it hardly felt like Friday when you'd basically taken an extended weekend and didn't get back until Wednesday. So she was actually enjoying the chance to just know that there was a good spot in this place for just reflecting and smoking...cigarettes.

From the stash of...tobacco she'd gotten on her little trip. Man. A lot of the guys she smoked with in Riverside claimed there was nothing better than homegrown, but...

"I beg to differ, gentlemen," Britta said to no one in particular after a satisfied inhale and a pleased sigh. "I beg to differ."


[[ open roof is open! ]]
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[identity profile] didntchewgrass.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
"It's completely unlike what I'd read," Elphaba said, partially because she was still thinking it was just a cigarette and nothing beyond that.

She smiled a lot now. "I probably should have said my name," she said. "I'm Elphaba. Elphaba Thropp."

Lurline help her, she giggled after that.

[identity profile] shestheworst.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
"The rest is yours," Britta said with a nod. "I've got a head start. And I'm Britta, nice to meet you, Elphaba. And see? Can't believe everything you read, especially since most of what you read is probably business-political bullshit bandied up by the man to keep us from expanding our minds, you know?"

[identity profile] didntchewgrass.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Head start?" Elphaba said, not following. But then she nodded her head in agreement with Britta. "Or it's stories for so-called children that lie and try to get you to think that witches are evil and deserve to be melted by stupid Kansas farm girls. You really can't trust books all the time."

[identity profile] shestheworst.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
And now it was Britta who wasn't following. "Kansas farmgirls?" she asked. "Do a lot of Kansas farmgirls burn witches where you're from? I thought they kind of stopped doing that during, you know, the middle ages or something."

[identity profile] didntchewgrass.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
"In the story," Elphaba explained. "Not in actual Oz." She inhaled again, and again coughed. "It's one of those things that always bothered me about it."

That probably didn't help with helping Britta follow.

[identity profile] shestheworst.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
Not really, but Britta was going to pretend she followed, anyway. "I can't blame you," she said. "People shouldn't be burning other people, unless they're, like, igniting each other on fire in protest like the Tibetans for the Dalai Lama, and persecuting against witches is just the barbaric practices of religious tyrants trying to completely annihilate the same believes they stole in order to convert more hapless victims."

[identity profile] didntchewgrass.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Elphaba just sort of looked over at Britta confusedly.

"People set themselves on fire in protest?" she asked.

Even in this state, that sounded like a really bad plan to her.

[identity profile] shestheworst.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah," Britta said with a faint smile in admiration. "In Tibet, to protest against Chinese rule. It takes a lot of dedication to set yourself on fire, that's for sure."

[identity profile] didntchewgrass.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Elphaba opened her mouth to argue, but decided it would be better to inhale just a bit more from the cigarette.

"I think I have a different sort of dedication," she said.

And then she started staring at her hand. It was the most fascinating thing she'd ever seen her life at that moment.

[identity profile] shestheworst.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Like what?" asked Britta. "I don't think I could set myself on fire, too, but I'll bet pepper spray isn't all that bad. Ooh! Or getting tasered. One of these days, I'm going to find out what it's like to be tasered."

[identity profile] didntchewgrass.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, well, I wouldn't want to boast," Elphaba said, still staring at her hand. "I just have dealt with more than a little..."

She started giggling again.

[identity profile] shestheworst.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
"More than a little what?" asked Britta, unable to help herself from giggling, too, now that Elphaba had started it. "And what is up with your hand? You keep, like, staring it at, or something."

[identity profile] didntchewgrass.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Have you ever really looked at a hand before?" Elphaba said. "Even if mine's, well... It's green, in case you hadn't noticed. And I thank you for not trying to make fun of it. People tend to do that."

[identity profile] shestheworst.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
"So it is green?" Britta asked, jaw dropping in amused astonishment. "No way! I totally thought it was just the pot!"

[identity profile] didntchewgrass.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Elphaba looked around Britta, and then about the roof.

"I don't see any pots here," she said, matter-of-factly.

[identity profile] shestheworst.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Noooo," said Britta with a well-put-upon sigh. "The pot, man. In the joint. That you were just smoking. That's pot. And you're green. Why are you green?"

[identity profile] didntchewgrass.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
"I thought you said it was a cigarette," Elphaba said, slightly confused. "And I don't know why I'm green. No one seems to know. I was born this way even though neither of my parents were green. Nobody else is green in all of Oz except me."

She sighed a bit, and looked up at the moon.

"...I could really use a vegan cupcake," she said, suddenly very hungry.

[identity profile] shestheworst.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
"I was thinking pizza," Britta said, and only partly because it avoided the cigarette issue. "And tacos, but that's just stupid, because I don't eat meat. Do they even have vegan cupcakes?"

Oh, the bliss of being from a world before Cupcake Wars.

[identity profile] didntchewgrass.livejournal.com 2012-01-08 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
"You can do just about anything vegan," Elphaba said. "I don't eat meat, either. And I really don't like industrial farms so I'm a vegan in this world. Poor animals deserve better than how they're treated here."

Elphaba's stomach rumbled.
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