Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part I

[bigdamndean]

Everyone might have been getting ready for the fall semester, but it was definitely still summertime in Fandom. The temperature was high, the wind was low, and it was only going to get hotter once everyone arrived.

There were chairs and tables set out around the lawn, some in shady spots and some out in the sun, and there was a long table of

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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015]

[vdistinctive]

Eliot had gotten a decent look at some of the new students on the shuttle ride over from BWI, but he was still scanning the crowd and assessing any new folks he spotted. Old habits died extremely hard, especially when said habits had saved your life a few dozen times over.

The little bowl of bright pink sorbet was kind of ruining the whole badass hitter effect, though. Whatever. Watermelon sorbet was delicious.

RE: Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015]

[age_of_the_geek]

"So how was teacher buddy bondin' time?" Hardison teased. "You an' Agent Washington finally put your differences aside an' become the friends I always knew you were meant to be?"

Your boyfriend was an asshole, Eliot. FYI.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015]

[vdistinctive]

What, like he hadn't noticed that already?

"I awed him with my cynicism."

It wasn't even a lie.

RE: Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015]

[age_of_the_geek]

It was always good to get a reminder! Which was also why Hardison was going to attempt to steal some of Eliot's sorbet.

"I bet," he said. "What were you talkin' about? Your views on the military industrial complex?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015]

[vdistinctive]

"Lack of moon missions." Eliot shrugged. "He was wearin' that damn armor."

Because that definitely explained why they were talking about the moon.

RE: Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015]

[age_of_the_geek]

"...To pick up a buncha kids?" Hardison asked. "How'd he even get through airport security in that rig?"

Now Hardison was almost disappointed he hadn't woken up early enough to tag along. Almost.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015]

[vdistinctive]

"We just picked them up curbside. Airport security never saw him."

It might've been a more interesting trip if they had.

RE: Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015]

[age_of_the_geek]

Decision to sleep: confirmed as a good idea. Excellent.

"What did the kids think?" he asked. "Or did you scare most of 'em off from talkin' to you with that scowl?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015]

[vdistinctive]

"One of 'em decided we were kidnapping him," Eliot said, shaking his head. "And one of the other ones was already drunk."

He did not have high hopes for this crop of new students.

RE: Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015]

[age_of_the_geek]

"Okay, so one has a real high opinion of himself an' the other..." Hardison shook his head. "Did you confiscate whatever the other kid had left?"

Because Hardison a) still clung to the idea that Fandom sometimes did things the way they'd be done in normal high schools, and b) was not prepared for the reality that was Frank Doyle.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015]

[vdistinctive]

"He had an entire clinking bag left," Eliot said. "This kid makes Nate in LA year one look -- well, sober."

Basically, trying to confiscate anything would have been an immediate lost cause.

RE: Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015]

[age_of_the_geek]

"Well, that's a horrifying analogy," Hardison said, rubbing his chin. "So, like, do we do somethin'? Talk to someone? Or is it not our job if he ain't our student...?"

He wasn't entirely sure how it worked, but looking into stuff for the home in Toronto had his child-protection instincts in overdrive.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015]

[vdistinctive]

"The kid had at least three drinks between me openin' the shuttle door and him takin' a seat," Eliot said. "I'm half convinced he actually lives on the stuff."

RE: Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015]

[age_of_the_geek]

"So if we even tried to break him of it, he'd probably keel over an' die from detox," Hardison sighed. "Good to know. What else can you tell me 'bout this crop of newbies?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015]

[vdistinctive]

"I mean maybe the kid's a booze-fueled robot." The kid hadn't even shown signs of being drunk, other than the continued drinking. "They seem like a pretty grumpy lot, really. Except this little redhead, she seemed cheery."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2015]

[age_of_the_geek]

"So, buncha surly teens, one with an underage drinkin' problem." Hardison snorted, taking another swig of Squeeze Orange Soda. "That actually sounds pretty normal. Which probably means two of 'em are aliens an' one is secretly related to us."