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

[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 for guests were set up further out on the lawn, under a tall blue and gold tent. There was plenty of room for everyone to sit down and enjoy themselves, but it might not have all been dry. Did we mention being grateful that it was just water falling from the sky?

[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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Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Privilege gave Kenzi hives; she had finally pinned down what it was about Peter setting her preservation-sense off, and that made her happy. He wasn't stupid, and he didn't seem mean. But that clue (and being unaware of his luckiness) had her reaching for that zipper, iiiiiinching it down as slowly as possible while keeping her eyes fixed on Peter. "Seriously? Just a button? Can you have anything you want, or is it, like, limited to healthy shit?"

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[lockestheway]

Really, if Peter knew that she thought he didn't seem mean, he'd have patted himself on the back for a ruse well-maintained. He was doing so much better at this stuff these days.

"Practically anything," he said. "Joys of not being from a backward time, I guess. Though my little sister's tried baking once or twice - now that was a disaster."

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"Dude, that is awesome," Kenzi said with unfeigned envy, in order to cover up two nimble fingers carefully dipping as fast as she could make them. Backward, hunh? Wait. "Backward time person says what?"

Let him gloat a little, if it got her an explanation of that remark. Now she was really curious. And maybe, it felt like, just about there--

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[lockestheway]

Peter grinned. He thought it looked disarming. "I'm from the 22nd century," he said. "A hundred years and a half or more away from most of these s-- people."

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

S-what? Slackers? Snakes? Hunh? It didn't really matter, 'cuz now there was a wallet concealed under a plate, so Kenzi could grin at him in awe.

"Whoaaaa. You're shitting me. Right?" She leaned forward, staring at him hard as if trying to pick up a lie (which she was) ... so he wouldn't notice that now she was eating with two hands again. "You've traveled in time? To here? How come? Is this place that..." What the hell *would* the word be for this place? Kenzi gestured with pizza to fill in the blank that her imagination couldn't come up with.

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[lockestheway]

Suckers, actually. Beneath all that carefully-faked friendliness, classy ol' Peter Wiggin still lurked, arrogantly sneering at the world.

"Insane?" Peter asked, snorting. "Yep. The first thing I heard when I got here was that not only was it centuries ago, but apparently an older version of my little brother used to go here. Which my parents would've loved to know about."

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Kenzi would have sympathized. Even as she objected to being put in that category. Wallet! Under a plate!... not that she'd be able to use futuristic credit cards.

"Ow," Kenzi muttered, trying to work that out, and winding up with more confusion than she expected. "Okay, wait. Your little brother used to go here... but you didn't know that?" Which would've been normal-ish in her family, but not everyone tried to escape when they were ten, so... "Hey, did your little sister who baked go here too, or was that somewhere else?"

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[lockestheway]

"Oh, she went here, too," Peter said, "Just not the one I grew up with - both of them were older than me, apparently. Go figure that one out-- that's going to make for awkward family dinners if they ever show up again."

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Kenzi was quiet for a full minute, eating, studying Peter, and carefully working that out, and arriving at.... "So you've got little siblings, who are older now, who ... wait, is this science fiction shit where you wind up with fifteen clones and some of them want to kill you?" That had been an amazing movie! Jet Li kicked ass. His own ass!

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[lockestheway]

"It definitely feels that way," Peter agreed, privately classifying her as 'ditzy'.

Re: General Mingling [SS2 2011]

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

He wasn't wrong, entirely. But he was also out a wallet. It evened out.

"Cooooool." Kenzi nodded at him, then grinned sincerely. "Thanks for coming by to orient me, dude. My big Sib's okay, but he has a stick up his ass the size of a two-by-four. Or a 4x4."