Thursday: Forests

[marlex]

Hello, everyone. I’m marlex and today's theme is forests. Prompts can be anything involving forest, trees and the like. Are our heroes on a picnic in the forest? Lost in the woods? On vacation? Searching for food? Whatever you want. Go wild! Literally!

Just a few rules:No more than five prompts in a row

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[daria234]

Leverage, p/h/e, Eliot wants to give them a wilderness survival course but Hardison just brings his video games and Parker gets into a territory war with a bunch of squirrels/beavers/geese/whatever

Fill: Survival Training is not a Euphemism - 1/2

[lynne_monstr]

Their campsite looked like a bomb had hit it. That is, a bomb whose payload was more computer equipment than any one person rightfully ought to have. Eliot’s eyes took it all in- the tablet computer stacked on a laptop next to some handheld device that he swore better not be a damn video game. And that didn’t even take into account the random wires and other crap that Eliot didn’t even want to try and identify. Next to his own solitary drab-brown backpack, it looked even more ridiculous.

“I said necessities only.”

Hardison looked up from where he was typing one-handed, the other toying with a dead leaf. “Hey man, you said travel light. This is me traveling light. ”

“This nerd-fest thing you got going on is a lot of things. Light ain’t one of ‘em. What part of necessities did you not get?”

“Quad core processing is a necessity. Are you seriously telling me you’ve never brought along the backup to your backup gaming laptop

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[lynne_monstr]

Laughter rang out from above them. “Not you, silly.” A swing and a flip, and Parker landed catlike at their feet, a grin stretching across her face as she swung an arm around each of their shoulders.

“The squirrels,” she confided in a whisper. “They keep looking at me funny. I don’t like it.”

“The squirrels aren’t the weird ones, here,” Eliot mumbled under his breath, but let himself be led to the empty fire pit that they still needed to get finished before sundown.

Hardison followed his gaze and grinned, “Don’t worry, man. I can think of a much better way to keep warm than that.”

“He means sex,” Parker added.

Eliot laughed and bumped his hip against Parker’s as they walked. “Yeah, darling, I got that.”

They might not get much survival training done, but that didn’t mean the trip would be a total loss.

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[evil_little_dog]

HAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA.

That is all.

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[lynne_monstr]

Thanks!! :)

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[leni_ba]

*snickers* Oh, this was fun. I loved that Eliot wants his fancy French press! lol

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[lynne_monstr]

Haha, I'm pretty sure Eliot would agree thatcoffee falls under the same serious business as cooking does. Thanks!

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[marlex]

This is great. You captured all three of them so well. Great story.

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[lynne_monstr]

Thanks!! Those three are way too much fun to write!

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[daria234]

Oh my goodness, that was HILARIOUS :)

The fact that the territory battle was like above Eliot and Hardison the whole time lolol

And I could so picture Eliot's face at the tech equipment.

and the end is so sweet :)

And these lines were so perfect:

“Leave and don’t come back! This tree is my tree.” LMAO

“The squirrels aren’t the weird ones, here,” So true ;)

THank you so much!!!

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[lynne_monstr]

Ahhhh thanks!!

One of these days Eliot is going to make an annoyed face at Hardison and it's going to get stuck that way :)

And I'm super glad to hear Parker came out okay - I always find her to be very difficult to get a handle on.

Thanks so much and thanks for the great prompt :)