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

[nomoresportscars]

It was a new year, and with the new year came the new spring term, and Fandom High was all set to welcome its new students, along with those just returning from holiday trips home. It was a familiar setting for the latter bunch: there was the requisite bonfire, with tables and chairs scattered around it, as well as the buffet table with moddable warm food and drinks.

And of course, name tags and lists of Big and Little Siblings as well as roommates. Yep, the weather was okay (if snowy) for early January, and Fandom was all ready to celebrate the start of a new term.

[OCD up! This is part one of the picnic, specifically for meeting siblings, roommates, and teachers. The rest of the picnic is happening here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2014]

[jaegerbombdad]

"Not all of it," Herc said, his voice a little rough. Then he cleared his throat and said, working for normal, "This place will always manage to surprise you." And right now it had him on the ropes.

"C'mere, Max," he tried. The dog glanced at him and went right back to beaming up at Chuck with pure doggish devotion. Even if Chuck had gone and gotten another him somewhere. Why did you go and do that for, Chuck, wasn't Max good enough?

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2014]

[jaegerborn.livejournal.com]

That glimpse of roughness in Herc's voice was downright unnerving. Shame about that, too, because Chuck had had a nice riot act prepared to read him about this place.

"He likes me better than you," he said instead, squatting back down. "Don't you, boy?"

He scrunched up his nose at the older dog. Reached out and scritched him behind the ears again. There. That felt-- better. Under the current unnerving circumstances. "'s good to see you too, whoever you are," he informed... the dog, of course.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2014]

[jaegerbombdad]

"I told you," Herc said, a little irritated, "he's Max." As if to confirm it, the dog looked over at him when he said his name.

He wasn't touching the part about Max liking Chuck better; that had always been true. He was Chuck's dog, after all. Herc was just the one left.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2014]

[jaegerborn.livejournal.com]

"Whatever," Chuck said, with an idle roll of his eyes. He patted Max's cheek. "You stick with the old man, make sure he doesn't lose more of his marbles."

He'd sort this insanity out some other time. He'd managed to go most of the day without getting rattled and now that streak was in danger of ending and he didn't like it one bit.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2014]

[jaegerbombdad]

"C'mere, Max," Herc said gruffly, and this time Max did as he was told.

Herc needed a drink. Herc needed all of the drinks.

"I'll, ah...I guess I'll see you around, then."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2014]

[jaegerborn.livejournal.com]

"Well, thanks to you-- not-you, whatever-- I'm stuck here until the end of the semester, so yeah, sure."

Right, this picnic thing was over. Chuck needed a drink. The kind he technically wasn't allowed to drink.