Open RP: A Good Old-Fashioned Kansas BBQ

[mutantwatch]

ooc: takes place Friday afternoon. Everyone is welcome!Washington DC doesn't see many perfect summer days. It's a city that lends itself more to a steely gray atmosphere, to faint, depressing drizzle that lasts for weeks, to granite monuments shrouded in fog. Today, however, the sun has won out against both politics and history, and has burst

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[john_movinon]

John isn't that good with social events. He had to hide and be careful for so long when he was with the Brotherhood - not that he hadn't been to them in the last year or so with the Brotherhood, but they were always with high security or promises of safety or in magical little pockets that Mike seemed to know about.

This was... a bbq. Just a regular, run of the mill bbq, and John had never been to one of those before. Not that he can remember, anyway.

He's out of place here, he knows. It's not that he's nervous or anxious or shy or anything like that - he's still has the self-confident set to his shoulders - but he doesn't know how to make himself fit in. And so he sort of hangs back a little bit, on the edge of the crowd, and watched family members talk and laugh and people coo over a baby and his social boyfriends mingle with the crowd.

He wonders how his life has become so civilian.

[sewing_on_ears]

"Hi John."

Nic had spotted him looking vaguely uncomfortable, and has headed over to see him. "How are you doing? I heard there was a bit of an incident at the Center last week?"

[john_movinon]

"Oh, hey, Nic," John says, greeting her. "I'm okay."

There are some bruises on his face still fading but almost gone, and it's a damn good thing she couldn't see his ribcage, which was still pretty bruised looking, underneath the tape. But, of course, he wouldn't answer any other way.

"Uh, not at the Center, actually," John clarifies. "Away from it. I made sure it was away. But I'm fine, really."

[sewing_on_ears]

She studies him a little doubtfully. "Well. If you're sure. So you and the boys are going to Kansas? I really envy you. I miss it. We all do. But Dylan's a bit small to travel at the moment. Which is why we seem to have brought most of Kansas here."

[john_movinon]

"Yeah, we're heading out to my house for the weekend," John explains. He shrugs, "Kansas is okay."

He's pretty indifferent to a lot of places, actually, and hasn't spent a lot of time there, considering it's where he has a house.

"It'll be nice to be out of the city." He adds, "Yeah, you have a lot of family, huh?"

[sewing_on_ears]

"More everytime I see them," Nic agrees. "My parents. My sister and her husband and their kids... And Jamie and Ian, of course. John's manning the music, and Joel's running around dressed up as Iron Man. I think that's it."

That doesn't seem to account for even half the people there. "Oh, and some of the neighbors. And... I have no idea. Bobby invited some people."