fandomhigh | 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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"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."

"Me, too," she admitted. "I think it's sort of small? I didn't see a ton on it, but I've never heard of it so that probably says something."

Bay nodded, fiddling with her scarf and hoping the Fandom decision was not going to blow up in her face. "I guess we'll know in a couple hours," she offered.

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