xp_logs | Topaz and Sarah (Backdated)

In which Topaz is confused and Sarah just about has a heart attack. (Backdated to May 3)

Sarah's May 4th plans were last minute at best, what with work and school having taken up so much of her time lately. She'd gathered up all of her copies of the movies, however, bringing them to the rec room in preparation for Saturday's viewing, and now she was checking the kitchen to ensure there were tons of snacks for the event. When she got there she saw that she wasn't alone, seeing Topaz across the room.

"Hey there!" Sarah waved at her and headed for one of the cupboards to see what kind of cookies they had, and how many were there. Maybe she would sample them too, just to be sure they were of the highest quality, of course. And maybe get some milk too.

Topaz was in the middle of making tea when Sarah walked in. She looked around. "Hello." She didn't know Sarah that well, which was probably a problem at this point, that there were people she still weren't familiar with. But in her defense, there were a lot of people here.

There really were a lot of people to, it had taken Sarah two tours of duty before she'd really gotten somewhat acclimated to the people and the place. Not to mention that since Layla's departure she'd mainly stayed in her room, coming out to work or to go to school, so Sarah hadn't made much of an effort to meet the newer students either.

"Ooh, whatcha' makin'? I mean, it looks like tea, but what kind? If you don't mind my asking, that is." she added with a smile, chomping on a cookie with one hand and tilting the package toward Topaz with the other, eyebrows raised questioningly as she offered the other girl some.

"Earl Grey." Topaz shifted a bit as she stirred the liquid for a minute before taking a sip. "No, thank you," she added at Sarah's offer.

"Earl Grey, hot." Sarah replied with a giggle. Hey, she might not have been a Trekkie but even she knew that reference. Taking one more cookie for herself, she returned the package to the cupboard before turning back to face Topaz. "So, how's it going?" She'd never really talked to the other girl that much but there was no time like the present, right?

"...Isn't tea supposed to be hot?" The reference went right over Topaz's head. She didn't know much about pop culture. "All right, I guess. You?" She really wasn't very good at this. She really needed to learn not to leave her room or the library until everyone else went to bed.

"Yeah, it's... it's just this thing." She shrugged and waved a hand dismissively. "Eh, not bad I guess. Glad the weekend's almost here, and oh! Tomorrow's May 4th, which is awesome!" Sarah clapped her hands together excitedly, thinking it was of course totally obvious why May 4th was such an awesome day.

It wasn't. "What's May fourth?" Topaz asked, raising an eyebrow as she sipped her tea.

Sarah laughed out loud for a few seconds, before she realized that the other girl was serious. "Wait, you're not joking, you... I mean... what?" How could anyone not know about something as important as that? "Star Wars. The Force. May 'the Fourth' be with you." She airquoted the quotation marks around 'the Fourth' for emphasis. "You know, from the movie, when- wait, you have see the Star Wars movies, right?" RIGHT?

Yeah. Everyone in this place really was mad. "I'm...afraid not," she managed to reply after a moment. "Sorry."

"Ok. It's ok, it's going to be ok, we'll get you through this," Sarah said aloud, partly to herself but also to Topaz. "We can fix this. We can make this better." Closing her eyes, she exhaled deeply and then smiled at the other girl as she reopened her eyes. "Right. Now. We've got about 17 hours or so of movies for you to watch. When would you like to start?" When, not if, because of course she wanted to see them, Sarah reckoned.

"I...huh?" Seventeen hours of movies? "Wait, how many of these movies are there?"

"Six! The first three are the best three," she replied. "Well, technically the first three are the last three, as they're chapters four through six, but the first three chapters - which are the last three, chronologically speaking - aren't nearly as good."

"..." All Topaz could do at this point was stare. "So...the first three are the last three? Why didn't they release the last three first?"

"They did release the last three first. The last three chapters, I mean, those were the first three movies. They didn't do the first three chapters first because they weren't as prepared, I think? I'm not really sure now that you mention it, huh," Sarah said, rubbing her chin. "All I know is that first three were the last three and the last three were the first three. So there's six." she concluded, with a nod. Who's on first?

"...Okay." Best not to question it, really. "And...why is May fourth important to these movies? Is it the day they came out or something?"

"It's a pun on 'may the Force be with you,'" Sarah explained, dipping her voice low for the quote. "Which is from, well, all of the movies, really. So on May 4th people just watch the movies and geek out, heh." Which she kind of did all of the time anyway, but she'd let that part slide, as if it wasn't obvious enough by now anyway.

"I'll...take your word for it." Topaz took a sip of her tea, still a bit bewildered. "Sounds interesting."

"Well, if you want to check them out I'll be watching them all day Saturday," Sarah said with a slight grin, brushing back some of her hair out of her eyes. "If you don't that's ok too, but just fyi. And there'll be snacks!"

"Um...I'll think about it," she said, rubbing the back of her head. It would be rude to just outright say no, after all.

"Ok, well, cool." Adding another grin, Sarah nodded. She'd confirmed that there were, in fact, snacks ready for the marathon, and had sufficiently freaked out the other girl, so that was her cue to leave. "You know where we'll be, I guess. Have a good night, Topaz, and I'll talk to you later."

"Yeah...see you."