BWI Airport, Portalocity Port, Saturday Morning

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Timing had worked in Bruce's favor this morning. After a long overnight flight from Japan, he was really early for the shuttle to Fandom. That was according to plan. This way he'd get to see how people came into the room marked "Fandom High," whether they were nervous, or excited, or annoyed at the very thought of having to go to school.

Those first impressions didn't necessarily mean anything, but Bruce felt they often gave a good insight into how his new classmates would react in a stressful situation. You never knew when that kind of thing might come in handy.

[OOC: OCD is coming up!]

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Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

Jacob stared back at her. "April," he argued.

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[notmyownage]

"January," said Claudia. "For a whole two days, now. Before that? December."

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

"April 29," he said and he fished his cell phone out of his jeans pocket to show her the time.

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[notmyownage]

"January second," Claudia said, and she pulled out hers. "2010. Which explains why it's, y'know, twenty-six degrees outside. I'm pretty sure that doesn't happen in April around here."

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

"Is it?" he asked, because well... when you have a body temperature of 108.9 degrees, you tended not to notice. Which would be why he was wearing nothing but a t-shirt.

Wait.

"2010?"

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[notmyownage]

See, Claudia just figured he was from the great white north. People up that way had different definitions of "cold". "It is. And yes. For . . . two days, now."

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

Sure, but he would have still worn a coat before.

"You're joking, right?" he asked. "This is some weird routine to make me think I'm crazy." Because it was working.

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[notmyownage]

"I could ask you the same thing."

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

"No joke," he said. "It's 2006 for me."

He frowned.

"Hang on," he said and he wandered off to a newspaper stand.

The look on his face when he wandered back, a newspaper in hand... well, it'd be priceless to some. "You win," he tossed her the paper.

What the hell was going on?

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[notmyownage]

Maybe the guy was hit over the head and spent the last four years in a coma. Poor tall, hot guy. "Hey, it's okay. The last four years were totally lame, anyway."

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

Now he did drop on down in one of the plastic chairs. "That's something." He supposed. He blinked. "I just got on a plane, how the hell...?" He didn't even know how to finish that.

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[notmyownage]

Claudia shrugged. "Random time portal?"

She meant it as a joke. Poor girl.

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

"Are you supposed to notice going through those?" Jacob asked. "Like, a big blue puddle or something?" That's how it looked on television.

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[notmyownage]

". . . Stealth time portal?"

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

Jacob glanced up at her and then laughed. "Maybe you should invent one of those," he suggested.

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[notmyownage]

Claudia offered a salute. "I'll see what I can do."

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

He chuckled. "Of course, that's just going to end up with us going into the past and accidentally screwing up ever being born," he said. "And then I get a headache if I try to figure out what'd happen next."

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[notmyownage]

"The ole time paradox. It's a bitch."

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, so maybe you should quit while you're ahead," he suggested. "We're just going to have to decide that we need to stop you from inventing it to stop it all."

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[notmyownage]

"And then I'll have to learn how to be a ninja to defend myself."

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

Jacob gave her an amused look. "I have no idea how that followed, but sure. Why not?"

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[notmyownage]

"Well, I might have been following a conversation we'll have in the future. Before we come back."

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

"Does that mean I'll never get to find out what we said?" he asked.

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[notmyownage]

"Nope. You've just gotta wait for it."

Re: Waiting for the Shuttle

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

"You know I'll never stop wondering now if you're your future self who swapped places with yourself now," he warned her.