big thread two.

[christ_onabike]

Who: EVERYONE.
Where: clearing in the woods designed for bonfires.
When: Duskish.
What: Fire, twigs and a big bag of marshmallows meet.
Warnings: None I can think of, just go nuts.

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[doctor_j_crane]

Fourteen year old Crane, despite announcing that his previous fire with Rose was the best fire ever, never to be challenged by any other, has still rocked up. Because fire is excessively fascinating. He's sitting a little too close to it, poking it with a stick and a very intense expression on his face.

[charmedandperky]

"Ya don't want to burn yourself," Piper remarked, almost whispering. "You're kinda close."

[doctor_j_crane]

He stares at the fire for a long moment, and then looks at her. He doesn't move back, just continues poking at it without even watching it.

"I've never burnt myself before. It'll be fine." He looks back at it, apprently not worried by the fact that his poking stick is catching fire itself.

[charmedandperky]

"Yeah, well, I have, trust me, it's an experience you wanna skip out on if you can. Especially with a medieval practitioner on the premises." She watches the thing catch fire, but does nothing. The boy is probably stronger than her anyway.

[doctor_j_crane]

Crane watches the fire creep further and further up the stick. About halfway up, he tosses the things into the fire.

"A medieval practicioner of what?" He hadn't needed to visit a doctor yet, so wasn't aware of anything unusual in that department.

[charmedandperky]

"Medicine? Complete with drilling holes and
leeches," she shudders.

[doctor_j_crane]

Crane just looks at her for a moment, considering this.

"Yeah, that doesn't surprise me. No one cares what happens to kids." He shrugs, and stands up to look for another fire poking stick.

[charmedandperky]

"People care! Maybe not
these people, but people care."

[doctor_j_crane]

Crane, having retrieved his new stick, just looks at her.

"People always say that, but they can never point out who, or where or why."

He sits down again, way too close to the fire. "How can you be so sure about it?"

[charmedandperky]

"Well, you can't expect strangers to do it," she replied. "But my Grams cares about me and my sisters.

I know because, they're happy when I'm happy, if someone tries to hurt me, they're angry at them and sometimes they're angry at me when I do something stupid or dangerous. They take care of me."

[doctor_j_crane]

"Good for you." Crane doesn't make it sound like it's a good thing at all. If anything, he sounds resentful.

He pokes the fire a little more, fiddling with the base of a log.

"It must be nice to have people who like you." Said with a slight edge.

[charmedandperky]

"Why, does nobody like you at all?" she asked, concerned.

[doctor_j_crane]

"No." Crane doesn't elaborate, just continues focusing on the fire, occasionally giving Piper a sideways look to keep an eye of what she's doing.

[charmedandperky]

"Why not?"

[doctor_j_crane]

Crane looks at her sharpy. He looks upset, and turns back to the fire quickly.

"I don't know. But it's their problem, not mine." Crane says the last bit with real anger in his voice.

[charmedandperky]

"Yeah," she replied, upset that she's upset him. Again. "Of course it is."