The Playground In The Park, Monday Late Afternoon

[genesishero]

Evan... didn't want to go back.

He'd kind of forgotten just how easily this place could become home, and he'd known but he'd never fully realized just how much people hated... not just him, but everyone like him, back in his own world. He hadn't lasted long there before, when he'd been sent here to give him a chance to sort of breathe, and then he

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[mr_hippie]

"Oh far out Man." Leo said happily. He looked around at the playground, smiling vaguely. "It's still here." He did a bit of a double take at the kid, as if he'd momentarily thought Evan was someone else.

[genesishero]

Evan blinked back at the man, tilting his head as the dinosaur trotted back, stick in her mouth, with the dog... hanging by the teeth from one end of it.

Life with pets.

"The playground?"

[mr_hippie]

"Yeah Man. I remember not much when they first built it. Unless this is a dfferent playground."

Leo gaped at the Dinosaur. "Woah! They're back! And me without my brownies. They love brownies Man."

[genesishero]

"They do?"

Evan glanced at Old Lace.

Old Lace looked between Evan and the old guy, confused.

"I guess I could try giving her some later. I was always kind of worried she might have a bad reaction to them. Like dogs."

[3girls_1core]

"I don't think things ever do," Sholeh said softly, from where she was swinging on the swings. One hand was clutching his, though, even with him being all the way over there. The closer they got to the inevitable leaving, the more Sholeh wanted to cling and hide. Maybe they could go through a different portal instead? Like Yeul's or Ulrik's or anyone else's at all? "But this is Fandom, after all. Anything can happen here."

[genesishero]

"Anything can," Evan agreed. "Maybe the wrong portal will open and solve all of our problems."

He chewed the inside of his cheek thoughtfully.

"But I doubt it. We might have to actually... talk... about it."

That part was terrifying.

[3girls_1core]

"Oh," Sholeh said. That option sounded terrible. "We can't just kiss some more instead?"

There had been a lot of ardent kissing and handholding this weekend. Ardent.

[genesishero]

And it had been adorable and just the right amount of not too scandalous, honest.

"... We can do that, too," Evan replied. "Maybe... a kiss for every suggestion we come up with?"