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

[bigdamnprincipal]

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 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. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

"That's good." Rosalind's future problems with Elena could only be helped by getting to spend time with her. And Scully envied her the chance to be with her sister. "It's very ... disorienting, that this place is feeling so familiar now."

Her family wasn't home, D.C. wasn't home, her mother was almost home, but....

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

"It's been quite a while now," she pointed out, "and we're living here, day in and day out."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

"True." Scully considered. "I have to do something pro-active this semester toward changing that, or I'm going to get too comfortable."

The day she actually thought she was 15, it was all over. She'd run yelling off the island, straight to the FBI and demand her junior agent badge.

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

"Have you any ideas as to what you could do?" she asked curiously.

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

"Magic's out," Scully said, frowning. "At least from what I found in Special Collections. That leaves science. Which I'm more comfortable with anyway." She spread her hands. "Somewhere in this school has to be someone who would know of an aging process. Of some kind. I'm only going back into the Library stacks if it's to help a friend, or a last resort."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

"That's tricker," she said, frowning. "As you have to hope that someone with the knowledge you need does attend the school."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

Scully grimaced. "At least I have a few years to figure it out, and if I actually concentrate on that I'll get upset, but... if I just take it a day at a time, maybe I'll find something. Or a portal, a vortex..."

Some way to grow up to 35 and then go home?

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

"Maybe," she said carefully, "you could talk to Portalocity and find out what worlds are moving at a faster time than ours is. You'd still have to live out the days, but coming back here would mean not much time had passed."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

"That... might be a serious option." One that would keep her from losing her mind, if this went on for longer than a year. "I can go back to my D.C. in 2000 at any time now, anyway." She shook herself. "Anyway. Re-earning college credits is still on the agenda this semester."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

"What courses are you taking this semester?" she asked, tilting her head while picking out another apple slice.

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

"Chemistry, Parapsychology, Psionics through the school," and Home Ec, though she didn't know it yet, "And Russian, Calc III, and more physics online." She tilted her head. "You? Any of those?"

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

"Parapsychology?" she asked, a bit dubiously. "Was that on the list?"

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

"Taught by a Dr. Saltzman. I think it was listed as 'Paranormal Activity 101'. Which, if it's useful, will be great. And if it's not... well." She smirked a little. "The teacher will learn something from the island, at least."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

"Depending on the definition of paranormal you're going by," she said, almost lightly. "I'm in that one, and--Primatology."

...Rosalind wasn't sure what to make of that, no.

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

"You're studying great apes?" Scully asked, mildly surprised. "Paperwork error, or .. .why?"

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

"Paperwork error," she said, very dryly. "I would not have bothered on my own."

Seeeriously.

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

"Always safer to check," Scully said, holding up her hands. "Well. It'll be different. And hopefully the teacher will be good. We seem to have quite a few new ones this semester."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

"We do," she allowed. "Did you see that the director of the theatre has become a teacher?"

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

"No, what's he teaching?" Scully took another slice of apple, and looked thoughtful. "I don't think I've ever met him, so I wouldn't know him by sight."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[give-areason.livejournal.com]

"Teamwork, I think."

Which was hilarious all by itself.

"He's from a version of my world," Rosalind explained, "so I tend to... keep an eye on what he's doing." It was a Turk thing.

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[showmetheproof.livejournal.com]

"Ahhh. Did he work for the same agency you did?" Scully asked, curious. "Or is there no other connection?"