Room 325, Saturday Morning

[bitchprince]

It was morning, and there was an Arthur in his room, poking through some foods. He was a growing boy, it was winter, he needed a bloody lot of sustenance and he was going to get to that right now.

Or rather, he had been getting to it for quite a while, which explained why he was now hunched over his desk, chewing on a piece of bread in thought as he drafted up some plans for the frat over the coming weeks. For his standards, he was in a terribly good mood: he had hockey to look forward to, he had food, and, well.

Life wasn't too terrible, barring the ever-present itch of not being at home where he belonged. For the moment, at least. (Partly because he was generally good at repressing his angst except for when bits slipped on out)

He was also trying the Teevee again, much like he had every once in a while over the past few months, just to see if it got less... irritating. It did not.

And as it turned out, Arthur also still hadn't mastered the volume controls.

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[living_endless]

"Y'know," Didi observed, taking the three or so steps from her doorway across the hall to Arthur's, "some people might ask if you were trying to wake up the whole dorm."

Incarnations needed their beauty sleep!

[bitchprince]

"I'm not," Arthur said, tightly, "But the technology seems to. My apologies." Maybe he should just hurl the remote at it?

[living_endless]

Okay, if he was going to be nice about it, that deflated Didi rather quickly.

"Not a problem," she said, and held out her hand. "Do you need somebody to make it work, or do you have it covered?"

[bitchprince]

If it helped, he looked more than a little frustrated as he attempted to be nice? "I have it covered," Arthur announced, "Just need to sort out this whole... volume business."

Seriously. Why couldn't the TV be more like a Blackberry? Unobtrusive, sensical?

[living_endless]

"You could try one of the buttons you haven't been hitting?"

Look, no one had ever mistaken Didi for a technological genius.

[bitchprince]

"I have tried that, yes." Oh, look, someone dropped some irritation here, all over the floor.

...It was also entirely likely the remote had just stopped working, and Arthur just hadn't been able to tell the difference.

[living_endless]

"All of them?" Didi checked, flicking her hair out of her eye. "Is it doing anything? Changing channels, making the screen go funny, any of that?"

[bitchprince]

"I've tried all of them, and it just keeps screaming along," Arthur said, glaring at the screen. "It's like someone's being dragged off behind a horse."

[living_endless]

"Not that bad. It's more like an angry cat trapped in a closet," Didi contributed, and fixed her own gaze on the TV. Powers would be handy about then, but, since she didn't have anything worth mentioning: ".... have you tried unplugging it?"

[bitchprince]

Like... the Blackberry charger, right?

Arthur squinted at her. "I never 'plugged it in' to begin with," he pointed out.

[living_endless]

"So it was just in the room when you got here?"

Didi squinted at it, trying to discern the cord. Or if it was battery-powered, in which case her observational skills needed work.

[bitchprince]

There was a cord, curled neatly and nearly invisibly behind the TV dresser the whole thing rested on.

"I didn't exactly go out and buy it," Arthur pointed out.

[living_endless]

"Sorry, I didn't know the island handed out electronics," Didi said calmly. She couldn't see where the cord ended, and she wasn't inclined to move furniture, so - "You could try the power button?"

[bitchprince]

"That won't lower the volume, will it?" Arthur said, peevishly, but he did in fact lean over and smack the power button.

Repeatedly.

It finally went off, and there was-- "Blessed silence."

[living_endless]

"And I did my good deed for the day," Didi said, though really most of the good deed was in getting things quiet enough that she could go back to sleep, which may have made it too selfish to be an actual good deed. She yawned, smiled. "Thank you, Arthur."

[bitchprince]

Arthur rolled his eyes, and flopped backwards. "No problem," he said, "I just need to get a new bloody remote." Or throw the TV out the window. It might make Merlin sad, but it might also do a lot for Arthur's peace of mind.

[living_endless]

"Or at least close the door when you turn it on," Didi suggested helpfully. She was already retreating a bit. "But if you really need something to do this weekend, shopping for a remote is an idea..."