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BWI Airport Portalocity Lounge, Saturday Morning

Well. As it turned out, traveling across the country with a seven-foot dinosaur in tow was an experience very similar to hell on earth. Not only had Gert been checked by TSA agents roughly forty times throughout the journey, not to mention flight attendants on the plane itself, and not only had she incurred all kinds of additional pet fees (paid for by Captain America and whoever was paying him, but still), but she also had a seriously antsy ~~velociraptor~~ deionychus to deal with. Between that and the expected grouchiness from having been traveling all day, by the time Gert reached the Portalocity lounge in the airport where she was supposed to wait for the Fandom High shuttle, she was not in the best of moods.

The one good thing was that she at least didn't have very much luggage. She stuffed her single backpack under a chair and then flopped down in it, patting the seat beside her for Old Lace to follow suit. Now she just had to hope that whoever was driving this bus showed up punctually, because she was rapidly getting tired of this airport and was about ready to take a nap.

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Bay texted as she walked from the gate where her flight from Kansas City had deposited her to the Portalocity terminal. Yeah, she knew, texting and walking was going to make her crash into somebody and give her a concussion or at least a latte all over her new sweater. But Emmett had texted her four times during her flight -- twice to send photos he'd taken, twice to ask how sure she was about the whole boarding school concept. And even if she still wasn't getting back together with the cheater, she couldn't just not answer.

boarding school is totally the right choice for maladjusted- she typed, then glanced over at the girl with purple hair and, more importantly, at the giant freaking dinosaur sitting next to her. (Okay, not so giant, but the number of live dinosaurs Bay had seen before was exactly zero, so this one seemed plenty big enough.)

She turned her phone off and stowed it in her pocket. Chats with certain overanxious friends could wait.

"Okay, did somebody spike my drink on the plane or is there a freaking dinosaur over there?"

"There's a giant freaking dinosaur," Maddie confirmed, confused but still way calmer about that than she probably should be.

Bay stood there for a moment, nodded slowly, then broke out in a grin.

"This may just be the coolest thing ever," she decided. "I mean, completely insane, sure, but -- a dinosaur. I'm down with that until it starts trying to eat me."

It was always encouraging to speak to someone new and not get told something like 'I wasn't talking to you.'

"Considering it made it past security, I'm thinking it might be safe," Maddie told her. "...I wonder if it went through the body scan."

"I wonder if it tried to bite any TSA guys," Bay said, in a tone of morbid fascination. "I hope so. They took my shampoo."

She turned her gaze to the redhead as she spoke. The other girl seemed normal enough, so far. That was somewhat encouraging.

"I wonder if it has to wait in line or if it gets to go ahead..." Then noticing she was being looked at, she said, "Hi, by the way."

"I'd let it ahead," Bay said. "And hi, I'm Bay. I didn't expect boarding school to come with dinosaurs, did you?"

"No," she said, because she hadn't at least expected another boarding school to come with dinosaurs. "Maddie. I thought it'd be more, you know... normal."

"I'm just glad to get away from uniforms," Bay told her, with a little eyeroll. "My old school was wall-to-wall prep. Here ... apparently we have dinosaurs."

"Mine was definitely not preppy." But they did have dinosaurs! Which Maddie thought she might want to keep to herself if she didn't want to look like a total crazy person, and she was sure she'd make herself look that way on accident soon enough anyway. "Where are you coming from?"

"Kansas City," Bay said, in a tone that suggested she was aware it was not the most thrilling place to be from in the history of the world. "My school was called Buckner. What about you?"

"I just came from New York," Maddie said. "Kind of a small school, nowhere exciting."

Just the multiverse, no big.

And wow, was she going to have to learn to navigate this sort of talk. Seriously.

"I don't even know how small or big this Fandom place is," Bay admitted. "I kind of picked it on impulse."

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Gert's resulting expression was somewhat long-suffering, as though this happened to her all the time. Weirdly, it actually didn't.

"Her name's Old Lace," she said. "She's a velociraptor."

Nope!

"How come you get to have a pet velociraptor?" Bay wanted to know. "I mean, it's cool and all, but I thought they were kind of ... extinct."

Was this something her parents had lied about?

Didn't you know, Bay? Parents lied about everything. Oh, the ranting Gert could do on that subject.

Meanwhile, the words 'get to' struck a particular chord in Gert - now that she was being sent back to high school, she was glad for every bit of getting to do things that she got - so it was with a little bit of satisfaction that she replied, "Long story, involves time travel and lots of dying. Call her an early birthday gift."

"Uh-huh." That was Bay's I don't believe you, but you have a pet dinosaur so I'll go with it tone. "Lucky you, I guess."

She pushed some hair out of her face. "So, I'm Bay. Are you giving the boarding school thing a try, too?"

"Apparently," Gert said a little dryly. Suffice it to say that this wouldn't be her first choice of a place to spend time. "Somehow it's the closest school to LA with an open pet-friendly policy."

Well. Dinosaur-friendly.

"You too?"

"Second half of junior year," Bay nodded, trying to sound hard-bitten and mostly failing. "L.A., wow ... somehow I suspect there's an SFX joke in here about the dinosaur, but I can't think of it."

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"She's more realistic than the ones in ~~meta for~~ Jurassic Park?" Gert offered, then admitted, "That sounded a little cliche."

"We can work on it," Bay offered. "Like ... okay, there have to be dinosaur movies besides that and ~~meta~~ Land of the Lost, right?"

"~~Meta~~ The Land Before Time," Gert offered. "Those are a little more cutesy, though."

She was totally lying. She loved those movies.

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"With the baby dinosaur trying to find its mom?" Bay asked, and shot a glance to Old Lace. "I'm .... really hoping that one's full grown and not a baby. I don't want to see the mom if it's a baby."

"She's normal-sized," Gert promised. "I think. She was like this when I met her, anyway."

"How long have you had her?" Bay asked. "And what does she even eat, anyhow?"