A Prince, a Prince and...a Fish? (Dink/Dory)

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Beowulf hated these dormitories. They were nothing like the great halls back in Geatland. They were nothing like any of the great halls in any of the Norse villages. The beds were comfortable, but that was the only good thing about them. Especially since they had placed his in a room with a kid and, the most insufferable man of all, Humperdinck. Beowulf hated Humperdinck and having to share any kind of space with him was torture.

And it was especially torture when Beowulf was standing in towel, still soaking wet from head to toe, in front of the door, finding that it was locked. Humperdinck was going to die. That was the only result of this situation. Beowulf was going to kill him. He was going to beat his face in and then kill him. Or beat him until he begged for mercy. There was also a good possibility that he was going to take Humperdinck’s keys and throw them out of the window or bury them somewhere where he would never find them. And them possibly hide a mace in his bed when he was least expecting it.

Beowulf pounded on the locked door. “Let me in,” he called in a murderous voice.

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One of the great tragedies of Prince Humperdinck's life was the fact that he simply could not get away from his dorm, or more specifically his roommate, all the time. He could be out hunting and annoying the poor population of Tintagel and Trenale for as long as he wished, but eventually he had to return to his dorm, unless he wanted to sleep outside, of course. Not that he couldn't do it, but it just seemed like a dumb move all the same...or perhaps a good chance of getting a good kill. It wasn't as if he couldn't sleep with one eye open, right? He did that in a metaphorical sense on a regular basis anyway! Hmm, he would have to consider it. You know. Once night was less dark.

However, when Humperdinck awoke this morning and found Beowulf gone, as he usually was before him, an idea that was so ingenious that he wondered why he hadn't thought of it before entered the prince's mind. It took all of his self control to not laugh, which was just as well, because as strange as this school was, laughing maniacally so early in the morning would have probably earned him a few knives in his abdomen. Instead, he was perfectly quiet about it when he locked the door, and let out a smirk. He'd be alone at last...well, apart from that mad boy who thought he was a dog, but he'd probably deal with him at some point...somehow. Once he could find a way to not get blamed...

Ah, would you listen to that. It was the sweet sound of the black wearing pest...well, one of his black wearing pests, anyway. He smirked just a little bit more and said to himself, "The wind appears to be making the strangest sounds today," although really, he said it loud enough that Beowulf would hear, just because he could. And just what was the bastard going to do about it? So there was the prince, enjoying the peace and quiet...or at least, that's what he thought was going to happen.

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Dory didn't even understand that she was human, how was she supposed to tell the difference between boy human dorms and girl human dorms? What was even a dorm? She'd just gone for a walk, since thats what you did with legs, she guessed. She really wanted to show people her exciting discovery of clothing. After much confusion and hilarity yesterday she'd finally ended up in her dorm. Thats when she found the mirror. She'd spent hours in front of it, trying decided if she'd always looked this way or not. Either way...she liked it. She'd found lots of fun materials in the drawers in the room that she'd gathered were meant to cover her body. She'd found that it was an awful not of fun dressing up, somehow feeling like she'd never had the chance to do this before. She'd found lots of little shiny knick knacks to drape around her neck and around her wrists, but that wasn't even the best part. On top of her head and over her shoulders feel the most exciting, radiant, red hair she'd ever seen. Not that she could recall ever seeing hair at all before, regardless. It was exciting.

Dory spent hours messing with her pretty cherry locks , finding ways to pin up the strands in fun new ways. It almost seemed as if she could be endlessly entertained, but at some point she fell asleep and whens he awoke and saw herself in the mirror again, all she wanted to do was show someone her creation. There was no one in her room so she took off around campus, eventually heading into the male dorm, oblivious of the strange looks she was getting from all the boys around. She'd chosen to wear a bright yellow dress with lots of silver jewelry, her red hair was tied up in a a high ponytail with a big blue ribbon. She really liked those colors together, though she couldn't quite figure why.

With a happy skip in her step she wandered around aimlessly, suddenly no longer sure why she was out at all, until she flat out smashed into another being while studying the ceiling. Thankful, whoever it was, was like a rock and far larger than her in everyday, so it was pretty likely he wasn't injured by the accident. She was a bit jumbled for a moment, however, and breathily spouted out an apology oh no I'm so sorry mr...big...guy she said slowly upon feeling his chest and looking up at him. After a moment of gawking at his size she smiled. Whoa. And she thought her new self was big. After another beat Dory stepped back and looked him over, placing her hand on her chin as she scrutinized him.

Somethings not right here... she mused aloud then jumped slightly and held her hands out to stop him in case he was thinking of saying anything DON'TTELLMEDON'TTELLMEDON'TTELLME she rushed, looking around everywhere for hints. When her eyes finally landed on her own clothes she was reminded of the fun she had dressing up and how she wanted to show someone. She smiled dreamily, letting her hands fall to her side and them looked up, remember what she was doing a second ago, then it connected. I GOT IT! she cheered happily You're barely wearing any sheet thingies. she stated proudly, then dropped her expression into confusion once more almost instantly. Why aren't you wearing any sheet thingies? Sheet thingies are fun... Then a slowing growing smile appeared on her face. She grabbed his hands like he was her brand new girlfriend and said eagerly I'll show you!

Dory turned to the door and thought really hard about where she found her clothing. In the boxes or something...in...in her room place thing! This must be his room...place thing! She was so glad to have remembered, but her face fell when the shiny door nob didn't turn. Um...is there somebody in there? she called, thinking she might have heard someone. If you could let us in that would really be great because this... She realized she didn't know what to call him he forgot to wear thingies she chuckled so if you could help us out that would be great, thanks

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Beowulf hated Humperdinck. There was going to be a murder in his future and when they found found Humperdinck’s body, mangled, bloody and torn apart, they would also find Beowulf not far off wiping the blood off of his weapons. They could send him to jail. They could make him pay Humperdinck’s family for the loss of their son. They could send him home. Beowulf didn’t care what they did to him as long as the false prince was out of the picture. He was about to pound on the door giving the absurd idiot one more chance to open the door before he busted it down.

However, the Fates did not see that in his future. Instead they threw a girl with bright red hair into his path, quite literally. Beowulf stared down at her, not quite sure what was going on. He watched her suspiciously. She was strange. Stranger than most strange people that Beowulf had met here at this absurd school and there were quite a few. He didn’t understand what she was playing at.

Something was very much not right here, like the fact that she was in the boys dorm and not the girls dorm running into Vikings who were locked out of their rooms by stupid insufferable people that said Viking wasn’t technically allowed to kill but was planning on it anyway. That was what was wrong here. But he didn’t say all of this because just as he was about to, she told him not to tell her. And then she realized that he wasn’t wearing any clothes. Couldn’t she tell that he had just gotten out of the shower?

Beowulf could tell that this wasn’t going to be any fun at all, especially when the girl was calling out to Humperdinck to let them in. Why had they even let absurd people into this school like her? The only answer that Beowulf could think of was that the Fates wanted to taunt him. The Fates wanted to make his life difficult.

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Perhaps Humperdinck had had perhaps a full five minutes to fully appreciate his own ingenuity, just leaning back on his chair and smiling like someone had told him that he could have all the MLT's he wanted (not that he would admit to enjoying such common things ever) for the rest of his natural born life. Even better, it seemed that the knocking had ceased. Perhaps Beowulf had realized he was no match for the master plan and had given up. He didn't really care where he wound up so long as it was far, far away from the dorm. And besides, perhaps he'd just die of shame if enough people saw him without clothes; that would be glorious.

Sadly, it turned out he was apparently not giving up and turning the door knob. Now that just made Humperdinck laugh. Surely he wasn't foolish enough to try a thing like that when it had been very clear that it was locked. What? Did he think that Humperdinck would just give up on the master plan? The idea! Apparently the Viking was even duller than he had originally thought.

Yet before he could call Beowulf out on outdoing himself in foolishness, he heard a voice that was very much not Beowulf's...which just confused him...then he realized just how feminine the voice sounded and now he was getting irritated. What on earth was a girl, or effeminate sounding (so said the boy who wore purple on his first day here, mind you, no matter how much he insisted it was a royal thing) boy doing here anyway? And...she. Was. Asking. To. Be. Let. In. So Beowulf could wear...thingies? It took Humperdinck a second longer than he was proud of to realize she meant clothes...well how was he supposed to know that! What sort of person called clothing thingies??

He stood up, staring at the door with an expression that was probably rather priceless, considering the fact that his jaw was open and his eyes were narrowed to almost cartoon-like lengths. Perhaps it would have been wise to keep his mouth shut, but since when was Humperdinck the least bit wise?

"Uh...no."

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Dory was a happy girl, a sweet girl, and giving girl, and an excited girl, but theres something you need to know about Dory. She doesn't like mean people. It's not often that she meets someone to bring out her sassier side, but this man behind the door was just being plain rude. Here Dory had asked very nicely for him to open up so she could help this poor human with his forgetfulness and he said no! What did he mean no? He better have a good reason for saying so because there was really no call for it that Dory could think of. Life was too short for people to be grumpy, she'd have to get in there and show him the light, but for right now she was quite irritated by him and his lack of curtesy. no. he said no!?

Dory's bright expression changed rapidly into something of bent determination and she placed a hand on each of her hips. She gave the door an unpleasant look as if that would make it feel bad and open up. Now, perhaps if it were just her here looking to enter then she would have let the moment roll right off her back and said some perky 'okay!' and left the man inside the room be. Unfortunately for him, Dory had set her mind on helping someone and nothing was going to stop her once she'd started. She was very protective and loyal to friends and, weather Beowulf liked it or not, they were now friends.

After a moment of thinking she pulled a pin out of her hair as a memory stirred. She couldn't quite tell exactly what was going on in her head, it was like remembering a fuzzy dream, but she was looking up through some water, through a window and at a large box that displayed moving pictures. Dory got the feeling that she used to watch this box a lot when it caught her attention, that was why she could read and understand human better than most fish. Dory starred at the pin in her hand, her brow furrowed as she struggled to remember how it related to the moving picture box. Dory gasped dramatically when it came to her and seized for a moment in excitement before clearing her throat and returning to her state of intense determination.

Dory wasn't exactly sure of what she was doing, but she was sure as heck going to try her hardest to mimic what she'd seen on the box upon occasion. She dropped to her knees and bent the hair pin like she remembered before jamming it into the key slot and moving it carefully about. Nothing happened at first, but Dory was going to do this. She was going to do this. Narrowing her eyes at the stubborn door she took out another hair pin and worked it into the slot until click was heard and the door knob turned. Dory was so overcome by joy and shock that her mouth opened so wide with a smile you'd have thought it was impossible previously to now. She soon covered her mouth to keep from giggling too loud. She didn't want the guy inside to hear, she had to keep up the detective charade. So, feeling extremely proud, Dory opened the door with a sort of melodramatic smirk of satisfaction on her lips.

Thats right, bub she said in her best New Jersey accent, striking a pose with her hands on her hips as if where were superman you mess with the bull, you get the horns She finished with a nod, only then did she break character with a genuine smile and a small laugh. Oh she felt so good about her self right now.

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Yes, Beowulf was going to pound that insufferable Humperdinck to within an inch of his life when he got his hands on the other man. He should just kick this door in. He could do it. He had the strength to do it and it would teach that Humperdinck a lesson. You couldn’t lock the young Viking out of his room. There were consequences for such an action and Beowulf was prepared to deliver.

He was about to break the door down when he noticed the girl with the obnoxious hair was staring at the door. He didn’t understand what she was doing. She was just staring at the door like it was going to have answers for some unanswered question, which was absurd because doors didn’t talk. As much magic as there was around this place the doors did not talk, which was a good thing. When the doors started talking Beowulf was going to head back home no matter what. Doors shouldn’t talk. Not ever.

Beowulf watched in silence as Dory picked the lock and then opened the door. There was a bit of new found respect for that ,though he wasn’t going to tell her that. Instead, once she had opened the door and spoken to Humperdinck, he pushed past her. Approaching Humperdinck he grabbed the other man by the collar and pulling him close so that he could understand everything Beowulf was about to tell him. “If you ever lock me out again I will make sure that you will never be able to have children.” The young Viking pushed Humperdinck away with disgust. “You’ve been warned,” he growled ominously, making his way to his wardrobe so he could put some clothes on.