BWI Portalocity Terminal [Saturday Morning]

[whitequeensfire.livejournal.com]

Emma had flown with Angelica from Logan Airport in Boston to Baltimore so she wouldn't have to make the entire trip alone, and Angelica was grateful for that. But after a hug goodbye when the time came for Emma's flight back to Massachusetts, Angelica was alone in the lounge, waiting for the bus to Fandom High. She buried her face in a book and tried not to be too nervous about changing schools, counting out the positives. She might make new friends. Empath and Roulette wouldn't be there. She might accidentally fry someone with her microwave powers.

Oooookay, that last one wasn't too positive.

[Up early for SP! Please wait for OCD! The Ginger Express is now in service.]

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Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[godofxbox]

Alex was carrying a backpack, a sword in a padded sheath, and a small duffel bag when he arrived in the lounge. The rest of his assorted stuff was being shipped, but he'd needed clothes for a few days and stuff, and like hell he was trusting Grasscutter to FedEx.

A quick scan of the people in the room turned up all teenagers, so he was probably in the right place, but just to be sure, he asked, "Fandom High, right?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy nodded, trying not to look glum. "You going there too?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[godofxbox]

Alex nodded and said, "It was that or--actually, I don't think there was an 'or.' Dad's not much on options. Oh, uh, I'm Alex."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[walkswithcoyote]

"Mercedes Thompson. Nice to meet you, Alex." Mercy shrugged. "There was an 'or' for me, I guess, but this seemed like the best choice."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[godofxbox]

"Dad said I might be able to find an adventure here. That would be cool. But, yeah, I'd missed so much school in New York--" even without being dead "--they were going to make me repeat eighth grade." If they could even find a school that would take Ares' son.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[walkswithcoyote]

She winced. "I can see where that would be something you didn't want to do."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[godofxbox]

"I know, right? So." He shrugged. "Boarding school. What about you?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[andthemoralis.livejournal.com]

"I hope so, otherwise I'm fucked." Stan, stop being kind to people you don't know.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[godofxbox]

"Well, then I hope so too!" Alex said. "That would be bad."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[andthemoralis.livejournal.com]

It could have been worse, though. At least it was a mildly normal place. Kinda.

Damn it all.

"As long as this place doesn't end up being some freakin' cult or slave labor camp, it can't be too bad, though."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[godofxbox]

"I don't think Nicholas would tell my dad to send me to a slave labor camp, so you're probably safe," Alex said, trying to be reassuring.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[andthemoralis.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, but adults are morons," Stan replied, speaking from so much experience dealing with it.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[godofxbox]

"That's true sometimes," Alex agreed. "But not my dad! Except for that whole Osborn thing. And Nicholas isn't most of the time either."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[sedlexduralex.livejournal.com]

Her attention was drawn by that padded sheath more than the question. Look, weapons were cool, okay? "Anyone give you problems with that?" Jocelyn asked, lifting her chin towards that part of his luggage.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[godofxbox]

Alex shrugged and admitted, "I didn't come by commercial air, so I didn't go through security. But I have the paperwork and everything." The paperwork still probably shouldn't have let a thirteen-year-old cart a katana around, but it had SHIELD authorizations stamped all over it, which changed the game immensely.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[sedlexduralex.livejournal.com]

And now she was startled. "You have paperwork for your weapons? Who checks on stuff like that?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[godofxbox]

"I don't know, but if they did and I didn't have them, they'd try to take Grasscutter away from me, and then I'd have to hurt them, because that's not happening." He said this like it was the simplest thing in the world.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[sedlexduralex.livejournal.com]

"Clearly," Jocelyn agreed, pleased to find someone who understood these things. Even if he did look barely old enough to for his first marks. "No point in hurting the uninvolved unless you have. I'm Jocelyn."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[godofxbox]

"I'm Alex. Nice to meet you, Jocelyn," Alex said, equally pleased to find someone who understood these things. "Where are you from?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

"Ohhhh, b-boy," said Butters, catching the question with a nervous little twist of his fingers, "I sure hope so. I'd sure hate to find out I was boarding the wrong bus and wound up somewhere in Mexico, or something. I'd be g-grounded again for sure."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[godofxbox]

"Yeah, but at least it would be an adventure?" Alex tried.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

"H-hey, yeah!" Butters had to agree a little bit there, gaining a bright smile. "Sure, lots of adventures can be lots of fun, but, well..." And here the brightness began to fade, "othertimes, it's not fun. Not fun at all..."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[godofxbox]

"Sure they are, that's the whole point of an adventure. Well, that and to help people, sometimes," Alex added. Then he thought for a moment and said, "Actually, if you got on the wrong bus I'm sure you'd realize it before you got to Mexico. That's like way further away than the school."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but you'd still have to find your way back," Butters pointed out. "I'd just wait until we got to Mexico, 'cause then you'd at least know where you were."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle! [5/7/11]

[godofxbox]

"But then you'd be way too far away from where you needed to be," Alex pointed out.

Not that this was a problem for him, but, you know, for other people.

((Sorry! Technical difficulties on this end. I blame LJ.))