"Haven't you noticed Leon's been acting a bit weird lately?" Suhail asked, frowning out of the window of the GC main building.
"Tell me about it." Viv, leaning against the window, stifled a snigger.
"Do you know something you're not telling me?" the General looked at her suspiciously.
"You have to swear …" Viv attempted to say, but then dissolved into giggles.
Girls, Suhail thought, sighing boredly.
"All right already, just tell me."
Viv's giggles subsided.
"Well, Leon kinda has a bit of a thing for …"
Just as she was about to give Suhail a name, Viv's voice was drowned out by raucous giggles from down the corridor.
"Is that Walter? I thought I told him to lay off the drink." she sighed. Suhail scowled in the direction of the door from behind which the noise was coming. A few seconds later, Walter fell through it, still laughing.
"What is it this time, Moon?" Suhail demanded, glaring at him.
"It's Leon!" Walter choked out, between bouts of laughter.
Viv immediately stood up a little straighter, and seemed to pay a bit more attention.
"Ooh, what about him?"
"He's talking in his sleep!" Walter spluttered.
"So?" Suhail seemed nonplussed.
"About Nicolae!" Walter dissolved into hysterical laughter, collapsing to the floor. Suhail bit his lip for a millisecond or two, then couldn't help but see the humour in it, and joined in. Viv's shrill giggles echoed around the corridor, and through the door Walter had just entered by. Eventually they reached a certain sleeping someone.
Leon stumbled through the door, looking sleepy. He glared at the laughing trio through bleary eyes.
"What's so funny?" he yawned.
Cue the abrupt silence.
Walter suddenly coughed, but Leon's sleepy brain didn't register how much that cough sounded suspiciously like 'Nicolae'. He raised his eyebrows, then shrugged, and trudged along the hallway from whence he had come.
As soon as he was out of earshot, the trio began laughing again.