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

With all the rain that had blown through earlier in the week, the school administration had been worried that welcome picnic day would be wet and gloomy. Thankfully, it was sunny, warm, and beautiful outside, and everything had been set up just in time for the shuttle of new folks to arrive. There was a buffet table of food and drinks waiting, along with the list of Big and Little Siblings, the list of roommates, and more name tags than they'd probably need for three picnics.

Also, there wasn't a single flower out on the lawn after last weekend. Just saying.

With everything in place, it looked like it was time for the first summer term to begin!

[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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"I'm Jack," Jack said, returning the grin and taking the offered hand. "And thanks. So, how crazy does a guy have to be to come back knowing what the place is like?"

Her tone was more teasing than actually surprised; she already knew the place grew on people. Like a fungus.

"The sort of crazy that runs around killing monsters for fun back home," Reno laughed as he shook her hand. "Here's a nice break, in comparison. And when shit does get nasty here, it's really just good exercise, yo."

Just the way he liked it. Except for all those times he'd become a zombie or had to walk backwards while being followed by stone angels or whatever.

"Seems like the island's body count's pretty low," Jack agreed. "What kind of monsters you got? Most of the worst ones I went up against were other people."

"Isn't that always how it goes?" Reno gave a smile verging on sympathetic, at that. "We've had more than our share of those back where I came from. Worked for a few of 'em, once."

A point he was simultaneously remorseful for and proud of. Life was complicated for a Turk.

"Then there are the less complicated monsters. The coeurls and behemoths and giant man-eating artichokes of the world."

"Yeah, I got my arm twisted into working for a bunch of bad guys once, too," Jack said. "Other times it seemed like a good idea at the time. It's way easier when we were just smashing aliens."

"Isn't it? For us it was beatin' the shit out of science experiments gone wrong, yo. Not as much as I would'a wanted to beat on the one doin' those experiments, but you can't win 'em all."

You couldn't even really win most of 'em.

"You fuck up, you don't die, you keep going. That's life."

"Not like most people get a say when mad scientists start wanting to mess with them," Jack said, a hint of bitterness in her tone. "But I guess you can't always get to the top guy right away."

She liked the rest of what he'd said. You fuck up, you don't die, you keep going. If she had the space for it, she might try to make that one into a tattoo.

"Guess you can't," Reno agreed, shaking his head. "Sometimes they got you by the scruff and there's not fuck-all you can do about it without makin' shit worse. And sometimes, you got nothin' left to lose anyhow."

He shrugged.

"That's life, too."

He wasn't going to pretend he was some sort of hero. There was no point to it.

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