Fandom High Graduation Ceremony, Class of 2012, Early Saturday Evening (Part 2)

[bigdamnprincipal]

Were you all enjoying your graduation, children? Ingvar certainly hoped you were. It was so much fun, after all! Though... it could be a little more fun, couldn't it? It felt as if something was missing somehow. Something to really make it... fun.

Ingvar knew what it was.

And so, while the graduates were still on and around the stage, the earth began to rumble. Large black clouds of smoke pushed out of Ingvar's volcano and into the air, obscuring the sky and the moon. Soon, the air was covered in a thick black blanket of darkness.

The tune of the rumbling shifted.

Around the stage, clear protective walls sprung up. This was not Fandom's first tango on graduation day, thank you. She knew how to take care of what was hers.

Unfortunately, Ingvar knew its mother well. Moments later, it began to rain: a thick downpour of familiar plastic poppets in varying levels of creepiness, but also nice, brown, fluffy ...red-eyed, sharp-clawed teddy bears. And leading the charge, teeth-first--

"DROP BEARS!"

[OCD is up! Have at it! Audience | Grads: Fight! | Grads: Hide! | Aftermath | OOC 1 | OOC 2]

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[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

Well, it'd been easier than that damn philosophy exam that Jake still didn't understand how he'd passed it. The broken off baseball bat was tossed to the side and Jake was going to pretend he couldn't find his gown again.

[notmyownage]

The skies had cleared, and Claudia had taken just long enough to blow entirely unnecessarily on her Tesla and tuck it away before going right back into happy dance mode.

"Ohmigoshwedidit!" she squeed at the nearest fellow graduate -- then noticed who that graduate was. "Jake! Hi!"

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

Jake laughed at the little dance. "Hey, Claudia. Nice tasering there."

[notmyownage]

"Thanks! Nice . . . batting?" She tilted her head. "You didn't want to just go all 'grrr'?"

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

"I like these pants," he laughed and shrugged a shoulder. "And you know, someone's grandma might be in the audience and I don't want to be responsible for heartattacks."

[notmyownage]

"Right. You know, I forget sometimes that the whole world doesn't have weird in their face all day and night." After all, her version of normal was the Warehouse, these days -- and she'd managed to be out of town for the school board visit.

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

"I guess Fandom does that to you," he looked amused at her. "And to think you were perfectly normal when you got here."

[notmyownage]

"Completely," Claudia agreed. "Just your average teenage super-genius with a giant chip on her shoulder." She smiled back. "So, uh. How've you been?" She did her best to make it sound casual. "We haven't talked in, like, forever."

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

Right. They hadn't and Jake scratched the back of his neck sheepishly.

"It has, huh? I've been good," he said with a definite nod. "I'll be packing soon. What about you?"

[notmyownage]

Claudia nodded. "Same. Warehouse calls, you know?" He was one of maybe two people on the island who really did, actually.

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," he grinned. "That's still on then? Is Archie still as cranky?"

[notmyownage]

"Artie. And yes. I think that's congenital or something."

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

"Artie. Right," Jake nodded. "Probably, but hey, if he's letting you stick around there. So no going to uni? I figured you'd be off to get your PhD."

[notmyownage]

"Yeah, that's what Myka says, too. But where exactly am I gonna find a college where I'll fit in? It's not like there's a Fandom University around, right?" She shook her head. "Anyway, what about you? You and Caroline have some big plans?"

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

"No, but you've got the warehouse to take care of the freaky factor," he just had to get that out, stalling a little before he answered. "Sort of. We're heading for La Push for a bit and the back home to Mystic Falls so she can finish high school there... I think, considering the weirdness, that might actually come kind of close to Fandom."

There'd just be a lot of vampires. Ugh.