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

Yes, there were more tables and chairs here. No, they were not allowed to be used for making a bonfire. Eat something hot if you're still weirdly cold.

[OCD is up! This is the SECOND post for general mingling. Use this post if your browser can't handle the comment load of the first mingling post. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are here.]

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If Cal had wanted to, he probably could have started breaking brains in his own style the day he arrived, but he had distinctly decided to give over that right, regardless to the situation. One hand abandoned his pocket to run sheepishly through the hair at the back of his neck.

"Uh, not yet."

Probably not at all, today, either. He hadn't quite decided yet.

Ino gave him a Look at that.

"Okay," she said, after a moment. "I'll give you a pass on that because at least you came. Michael didn't, and Liir's currently a kitten, so... yes. You're way further in my good graces than any other of my anti-social boys."

...not that Ino kept track or anything. Totally not. Honest.

Any other of her boys? That got an arch of Cal's eyebrow, a little, and a slight frown. He wasn't sure what to think about being categorized in some sort of collective like that, although part of him was telling him that he should be over joyous with relief over the fact that she would so easily categorize him amongst other males. Really, though, had he given anyone any reason to doubt his masculinity?

Instead, he focused on something else. "A kitten? If I were to see him now, would I find him all covered in ribbons and bows?"

Ino meant it, really, in only the best way possible. It was totally not her fault that she had erm... a certain type of boy, and liked the challenge of their anti-socialness.

Totally not.

She eyed him, and his frown. "No bows.... right this minute," she said. "But I've got, um, a lot of pictures that might have ribbons and such all over him."

"Dear God," Cal stated with the utmost stoicism, "may I never turn into a cute, tiny creature in your presence."

She just laughed. "Liir didn't protest at all! He's a very sweet kitten, just purred and wanted scritches."

Well, Cal supposed that Liir and Worf were just a bit different, personality wise. Just a bit.

"Doesn't matter," he said. "I still wouldn't want to be in his shoes. Er. Paws."

It also helped, rather, that Liir adored Ino while Worf hated her. Just a bit.

"You realize, I hope, that now one day you'll totally be in that situation, right?" With a grin even.

"I know, I know," Cal nodded a little. "So I'm just covering my bases now so you know that when it does happen, and there are pictures involving ribbons, I will be very unhappy with you and you're not allowed to be pouty about it because you know it's coming."

"But you'll get scritches, and cuddles to make up for it as a kitty," Ino protested, giggling. "What's a few harmless pictures in relation to that?"

No, Cal; you were not going to think about asking what you would have to do to get scritches and cuddles without the kitty part. But he was thinking about asking, and thinking about the motions themselves, and...

He blinked, shaking his head, trying hard to stop thinking about that sort of thing. That sort of thing would probably never get to be a part of his life, so he better not even consider it.

Except maybe as a...

"I'll have to think about it."

That just made her laugh. "It's totally going to happen if you come anywhere near me as a small fuzzy animal, you realize."

"Then I'll just have to avoid you when that happens."

Or milk it for all it's worth, good Lord...

She looked at him, all mock-indignant. "I'll have you know that I take excellent care of any small fuzzy creature in my possession."

She totally spoiled them rotten.

"...Worf was an exception to the rule, and even he got loads of scritches." And he'd been severely unwilling about them too.

Although it was kind of depression for Cal to think that the only way he'd ever be able to get that kind of affection was through becoming a small, fluffy creature, he reminded himself that it was for the best that way.

"I'm sure he loved that," Cal said with a grin. "Good that he's back, though. I think any longer, and we would have had a murderous warrior feline on our hands."

"Oh, totally. You should've seen how deep some of the scratches he gave me were," not that they'd deterred her at all, "and he smashed a few of my plants."

...

"If he does that again I'm seriously going to stab him."

Cal frowned a little at that.

True, it was kind of an exaggerated, teasing frown, but it was still there.

"That doesn't seem like behavior fitting of a warrior..."

"It's, like... you know? I totally get that he was pissed at me? Both as a kitty though he's totally pretending to be in denial of the whole... kitty thing now, and all, right? And I've got no problems if he wants to take it out on me, but my plants are, you know, living things in their own right and totally don't deserve to be smashed. It'd be... like... kicking someone's puppy 'cause you were mad at them."

Ino, yeah, was never going to get along with Worf. Ever.

"Hey, I agree with you there," Cal said, nodding a little. He then shrugged a shoulder. "I could talk to him, you know, if you'd like. We get along pretty well."

...Somehow. But he liked Worf, and Worf seemed to tolerate him better than he tolerated most...um, civilians.

"I'd like it if you tried?" Ino said, smiling a bit. "Though I bet he'll say something about me lacking honour and such. Worf caught me sleeping once, at work, and was really pissed about it. I don't see why it matters, I mean, Cable-san's the boss and he just put a blanket over me so I wouldn't get cold, so it wasn't like he cared..."

...Aww. That was cute. Cal grinned a little before shrugging a little.

"Worf's just...kind of special. But, yeah, I'll mention something to him for you."

Cal couldn't help but wonder a little, though: what was with so many of his friends disliking Ino? Granted, it was only two people, but Cal didn't really have that many friends over all.

Ino, for her part, if she knew what he was thinking, would say that Worf had totally started it, and that she'd just be rather confused about Amber. But, as Ino didn't actually know that...

"Thanks, Cal. I appreciate it. I don't even mind the honour stuff, you know?" she said. "But... at least in that case it didn't matter because Cable-san didn't care. And then he, when I argued with him, he said 'you humans are all alike' and I got, erm, madder at him because that's not a very nice thing to say."

Cal winced a little at that. But this was good, that he was learning about this. He wasn't going to tell Ino about it because he wasn't sure if Worf wanted it kept quiet, but if he was supposed to be helping the guy fit in, things like this were important to know.

"Yeah, he's...coming from a completely different angle at things than we are, but I know he probably doesn't mean to be so brash. It's just what he's used to."

"I guess?" she said, tugging at her hair. "But it makes it hard to like him, and I like most people here. And, really, it's like... the first thing you learn here--don't insult people based on species, you know?"

Cal shrugged a little. "You can't really expect to like everyone, you know. I'm not saying he's right, of course, I'm just saying. Not everyone's going to be easily won over."

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