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The Lawn | Noon Onward!

With graduation festivities occurring over the weekend, the school administration expected most of the graduation guests to begin arriving today. To ensure guests felt welcomed, Barney's student council minions had set up a small gathering on the lawn where the guests could arrive, mingle, and feign relaxation before heading off with their graduates.

Or where they could all hear about how George got the makeouts with his girl the night before. Someone was a little chatty while hefting the tables and chairs that would serve guests well for getting a load off after travel, and Barney thought it was a tale worth sharing. For the hungry and forgetful, there were finger foods and nametags spread out on a long table. It was time to get the all-weekend grad party started!

[Up early because I have no control over the internets once I go to work!]

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This was the trouble with Fandom; people you never expected to see again showed up without warning.

Griff saluted her in return, unsure what, if anything, he could say upon seeing her again.

Fiona, ever the brave, decided to try something.

"We're both alive. That's... good."

Facts! And blatantly obvious information! Where could that go wrong?

After seeing in on so many others, Griff was working on the whole false bravado thing and thought now would be a great time to try it out.

"Yeah, they haven't managed to kill me yet," he shrugged. "'M surprised you're back. Thought you moved on to bigger and better things."

That stung. But if she'd learned one thing during her time with her family, it was how to school her face to stone.

Didn't do a damn thing for her eyes, though.

"Interrogation. More trials. A birthday party that was more about politics than Eliot and me."

A twitch, and it was too fast to see if it was a smile or something else.

"They haven't managed to kill us yet."

"Huh. Seems we've made it to the same boat," Griffin commented. He wasn't trying to sting her, but if it happened it was probably for the best given his current mental state was not much better than it had been at midterm rather than give anyone hope he was a happy person.

"We've been in the same boat. I was just under the mistaken assumption I was on dry land."

Whether she meant 'now' or during those 15 years of ignorance was not something she felt like going into.

But she couldn't let something go.

"You really thought I'd leave on my own and not even say goodbye to you in person?"

"I tried not to expect anything," Griff answered, scrubbing his hand through his messy hair like he was totally cool and lacking in all concern no matter the truth of the situation.

They were going to out-cool each other into another Ice Age at this rate. Fiona didn't help matters.

"Well, I would. And if I'd had a choice in things, I would have before I left a month ago."

He was thrilled to hear that note, really. "So why are you back if you're so keen not to be here?"

She blinked at him.

"Where did you get that idea?" she asked him, amazed.

"I'm annoyed you thought I left without seeing you on purpose, but I'm glad to be back. Relieved, even. Or would you rather I wasn't back?"

"You just said you would've left before a month ago!" Griff was letting his exasperation show more than he would've liked. It didn't go well with the cool attitude he was working for. "What am I supposed to think here, Fi?"

She groaned.

"No, what I said was that if it'd been my choice, I'd have seen you in person before I had to leave. It was late when I got the phonecall and I figured you were asleep."

Sigh.

"And I didn't know I'd be gone a month."

It seemed some things never changed. One of them being the complete communication failure between these two.

"Yeah, well, it's not like I'm pissed about it," Griff shrugged again. "You aren't obligated to tell me anything." Even if there was still that little part of him that would've liked to have heard.

"Just because I'm not 'obligated' doesn't mean I wouldn't have done it," she said in reply.

She let that sit for a minute, since she had a feeling arguing the point wasn't going to help anything, and tried for another topic.

"What've you been up to, then?"

Taking away the obligation nullified the sting he would've felt otherwise at her lack of notice. It saved him some face.

"Same as always. Training, reading, classes. Well, not this week. We're between torturous ethics courses for the moment."

She winced for the entirely mundane suck of annoying classes.

"Sad to say, I would have preferred 'Love and Romance'. Are you staying the summer?"

Griff snorted, "Where would I go?" Yeah, it was kind of a painful thought.

"There are other people's worlds," she said, and instantly wished she hadn't.

"I'm not going anywhere either. They're done with me for the year."

At least for now.

"So far as you know," he added helpfully, eyeing her with some wary interest.

"Precisely," she agreed with a soft huff of breath. Not huffy, just a huff.

"Right." Griff didn't know what to make of Fiona being back. On the one hand, he was really glad to see her. On the other...there was some strange history to consider. "Welcome back."

He got a wry smile for that.

"Thank you."

"See that? We just managed polite," Griff replied with a smirk.

Her face scrunched up before she couldn't help the laugh.

"Oh weird."

Dammit, she wasn't supposed to encourage him to be amused. Griff was going to get an earful from Karev on this. "Call it growth or something."

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