Summertime And the Living is Boring (OTA - tag Carl)

[dannolovesme]

Grace liked school, that was the problem. Summer was good too, but it was different here, she didn't have scouts and tennis and mommy and camp and things like that so mostly she spent a lot of time alone when Danno and Uncle Steve were at work and Kamekona was busy

Comments

[timetobeaman]

Carl was in the lobby too, but it wasn't because he needed a place to read, so much as he needed a place to sleep.

Judith had been crying nonstop and he'd been up most of the night trying to calm her with his father. But now he was utterly exhausted and just needed a place to sleep away from the piercing screams. She hadn't been nearly as bad at the prison. Maybe because she knew, could sense the danger in being too loud. Not that it had stopped her from crying entirely even there.

He had his dad's sheriff's hat over his head as he laid curled up on the couch. Hopefully he wasn't drooling or snoring.

[dannolovesme]

He might be drooling a little, and snoring a little. At the least a kid sleeping in the lobby was strange enough that Grace noticed.

Surely he had a room. And if not then.. well Danno could fix it if he didn't. Danno could fix anything.

She put her book down and walked over to shake the boy's shoulder lightly, waking him up to find out if he was okay lacked logic, but she's in the third grade. Shoot her.

[timetobeaman]

Shoot her was nearly what he did as he jolted awake, a crazed look in his eye as his hand reached behind him for the gun shoved in the back of his pants.

Only his vision and brain managed to clear quick enough to stop himself, "Wh-Who? What?"

[dannolovesme]

Whoa.

"Grace." She hand both hands up in a nonthreatening manner. Police officer dad ftw. "Uh... you were... drooling?"

Maybe, a little, or not. It was something to say.

[lordoflocksley]

Robin came into the lobby from outside clad in full leather. His quiver was on his back and he carried his recurve bow with him. Three dead hares hung around his shoulder, too. He looked as if he had a long day outside.

He paused and knelt to tighten one of his boots.

[dannolovesme]

She saw the man with the bow and arrows and her eyes widened, she was learning how to use a bow from Mr. Barton at the dojo. Mr. Marton was boring, this guy looked like.. "You look like Robin Hood."

[lordoflocksley]

Robin turned at the voice and smiled when he saw it was a young girl. He liked children and hoped to have several of his own - he already had one and Scarlet was growing up to be a find lady, even though she was still just a baby.

"That's because I am Robin Hood." His English accent probably helped his claim.

[dannolovesme]

If a nine (almost ten) year old could swoon she would totally have swooned.

"Really?"

[believesthebook]

"Whatcha reading?" Henry was walking back from the library with a few stories of his own, but when he saw Grace, decided to stop and talk. It was nice to have people who didn't think he was crazy.

[dannolovesme]

"Anne of Green Gables," she smiled at her friend, a lot of the kids in the village were way younger than her, or way older, but at least the only slightly older ones like Henry were nice.

"Well, technically it's Anne of the Island, which is the third book but it's all the same series."

[believesthebook]

"Anne of Green Gables?" Henry looked at the cover and saw a red-headed girl. "I don't think I've heard of that one." Which kind of made him a little upset because he liked reading. Although, he would have probably been made fun of back home for reading a book with a girl on the cover, not that it mattered to him.

[dannolovesme]

"It's good, it's about an orphan who gets adopted by a brother and sister and her adventures after that." She tucked a bookmark into her book and smiled at him. "You can borrow the first one if you want."

[notanevilbree]

Bree was in a cheerful mood as she came back inside. She'd been out all day, taking pictures with the ever-present camera now in its bag around her neck. It'd been a good day, too -- she'd fed before taking pictures, so she was full and content and just genuinely happy.

Her time in the village had been good for her, it would seem.

She caught sight of the younger girl sitting there and reading. "Hey, kiddo. What're you reading?"

[dannolovesme]

Being called kiddo by someone who looked your age was sort of weird, but she lived in a village outside space and time so... weird was relative.

She smiled despite the weirdness, "Anne of Green Gables, the third book."

[notanevilbree]

Bree smiled. "I've read that one. Long time ago, though."

She'd always loved reading; it'd been her one escape from the hell that'd been her growing up years.

[dannolovesme]

"How long?" Cause she didn't look that old.