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

In order to give people a place to get away from the traffic jam of the buffet and information tables, most of the chairs and tables had been set up further out on the lawn, away from the school building. The bonfires were going strong, and there was plenty of room for everyone to sit down and enjoy themselves. Assuming they weren't too busy still trying to figure this place out.

[OCD is up! This is the FIRST post for general mingling. Please use this post first, if your browser can handle the comment load. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here and there's more room for mingling here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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"Probably what brings everyone here, Bruce. School," Caroline teased. "Plus the fun of my mother sending me away for my own good. It's all very dramatic, I promise."

"Of course it's dramatic. Probably less than half of the students are here for entirely mundane reasons," Bruce said. "It's just that kind of place."

"So no drama will shock you, huh?" Caroline didn't know why she wanted to get a rise out of this guy. He was like an emotionless Matt saying hey twice in one day. "Let's turn it around then. Why are you in Fandom, Bruce?"

"I'm not going to lay down any absolutes, but I don't shock easily," Bruce admitted. "Anyway, the short version is that I was going through tutors a little too quickly. I figured I would be better off going to a real school for a while. A year later, it's still holding my attention."

"Ah, so I've met my first true Fandom veteran," she said. "Do I get old war stories?"

"How much have your heard about Fandom's weirdness so far?" Bruce asked. "I just want to gauge what you're ready to hear at this point."

No way in hell was he mentioning the gremlin bite that made him think he was a mime. Or the pollen.

"Oh tons," she said. "My big brother was very thorough." Or something. "I'm not freaked out by lions and tigers or werewolves."

"Well in that case, you won't be surprised to know that we had to deal with some kind of fog that clouded minds and lizard monsters created by a mad scientist who kidnapped our principal last spring," Bruce said. "I helped rescue her while a lot more people fought a giant lizard monster."

And then he waited to see Caroline's reaction.

Caroline raised an eyebrow. The fog she got - Damon could make fog and she was totally trying to get him to show her how. But a lizard? "Seriously, do they have no security guards here?"

"We have a Canadian Mountie and a town police force," Bruce said with a shrug. "But sometimes special things happen here that need some helping hands."

"Oh, a Canadian. Sounds really scary," Caroline said with a grin. "But I get the special things. Especially when you start talking giant lizards, what the fuck?"

"Sometimes it's a goblin city springing up in town and we have to fight a giant robot," Bruce said. "Or sometimes people turn into animals randomly. My roommate has been an owl for weeks."

"An owl? Now you're just trying to make me look confused." It was a good thing Caroline looked cute when she was confused or she might have gotten pissy.

"I wish I was," Bruce said, appreciating the cute look. He also noted that it was the owl and not the monsters or goblin city that threw her. "I don't know how he changed, but one of his friends has been watching him since."

Yes, but monsters and goblins were possible. People transforming into animals? Totally messed up. "Just don't tell me you guys had a fight and now he's an owl. You don't come back from that, Bruce."

"No, fortunately we're on good terms," Bruce said. "And whenever he's human again, I'm going to have to see what changed him just in case it's something I can avoid."

No, he hadn't seen Faramir in the picnic yet.

"And if you figure it out, you should let me know," she offered. "Like hell do I want to end up with wings." Ugh, vampire bats were so 90s.

"Absolutely," Bruce said. "But overall, just be ready for something weird to happen eventually. You usually can't predict what or when."

"I'm not a boyscout, Bruce. I missed all that be prepared training while I was learning how to be a girl." No matter how hard her mother had tried, she would always be a little more like daddy.

"Around here, 'be ready' mostly means 'don't freak out too much if something happens,'" Bruce said. "If you can manage that, you'll be fine."

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