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[forksextras]

Who | Claire Bennet Butler (autophoenix ), Jessica Stanley (yournewbff ), Various Forksians (forksextras ), Lyle Bennet Butler (itsnotlarry ), and Edward Cullen (likealocalgod )
What | The first day of Claire's new life at Forks High.
Where | Forks High School;  Unnamed Twilight/Heroes verse
When | Post S1-Heroes
How | An amorphous road of prose, commentspam, and action-spam, winding merrily from one to

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[autophoenix]

All things considered, it could have been worse.

You know, in the way that it occurred to Claire that it could, quite possibly, be Alaska. Or Antarctica. Iceland, maybe -- or Greenland. Which one was the one with the ice again? Everything about the school reeked of the fact that there were probably 35 kids total in her junior class, from the too-cold breeze from the air conditioning (who needed air conditioning in Washington?) and the fact that kids were, for some reason, wearing shorts and t-shirts while it was 52 outside, to the fact that there was one Spanish teacher in the entire school.

Under the radar was an understatement. What happened to New Mexico? Wasn't that witness protection central? Warm, dry witness protection central? Needless to say, Lyle's scoffing fit was pretty much the best expression of how Claire was feeling for the time being, but at least she was doing better at hiding it. Maybe when they got home, she'd find the time to complain, but for now, she just forced a none-too-convincing smile and

[itsnotlarry]

Lyle's wet sneakers squeaked across the floors as he felt himself suddenly yanked backwards by his sister's iron grip on his backpack. He turned a fixedly annoyed look back on her, prepared to be reamed out for who knew what. Exasperation didn't quite cover it.

And there she went, off on an entitled tirade, about what she needed, like she just expected everyone to fall all over themselves backwards to give it to her if she added in a pretty please at the end.

His annoyance morphed into a glare, as he jerked her off even as she began to move her hand from him, and took a step back.

"You mean you need to make sure I can cover your butt?" he shot back. He couldn't believe her : acting like he was incapable of maintaining this stupid simple cover. It was just like Claire to assume that everybody else in the world was an idiot. Took one to know one.

"Relax, I'm not the one who's going to do something weird and get us kicked out of here." It was a daring thing to say in the middle of school, and the look he gave her told her

[autophoenix]

Of course he was going to turn it into her being selfish again. Everything was going back to that lately even though this whole stupid mess wasn't even her fault. She didn't even do anything. The situation sucked, sure, but that didn't mean Lyle needed to demonize Claire over it. She scowled bitterly as he responded, remaining quiet as she could so that he didn't think she was trying to steamroll him or something.

Unfortunately, remaining quiet could only last for so long before he took it too far with his mutters of butt-covering and weirdness. Okay. There was only so much of that she could stand for. Being discreet meant Lyle wasn't allowed to dangle that over her like it were a threat he could actually follow through. Noah would never stand for Lyle actually pretending he'd say something too forthcoming if he knew, and at this rate, Claire had half mind to tell him.

"Would you keep it down? I'd like to make it through a week of school before you turn me into a social pariah, you little brat." She reached out and

[autophoenix]

First class. Fighting with her pocket to convince it to free her schedule, Claire found she was due in U.S. History. Yay. On the bright side, at least that had to be the same from state to state, right? Right. Focus on the positives, Claire