Outdoor Adventures Time! Tuesday, period 1

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“CLIFF DIVING.”

The class met this week on the edge of the preserve. Eliot, who had a large bag of supplies slung over his shoulder and a walking stick, gave Parker a bit of side-eye.

"Yes," he said. "After we hike out to the cliffs."

“Right, that,” Parker agreed. “I brought wetsuits again.” She pointed to a few duffel bags. “Because it’s warm out, but the water is still cold. And if you want to dive in just your clothes, that’s okay. I brought towels. But you might regret that is all I’m saying.”

"Those of you not into throwin' yourselves off cliffs," all, like, three of you, "I'll be setting up some campfires at the top. If you're interested, I can show you. If not . . . I got stuff for s'mores."

Parker was maybe rubbing off on him.

“Or you can do both,” Parker pointed out. “If you wanna dive for a bit and then decide you’re not up for it again. Or vice versa. No limits, people.”

"Only requirement is the hike," Eliot said. "Which you might wanna get used to, since stuff we're doin' on the island is all gonna involve walking to it. It's a shorter one today, though, only about ten minutes. Keep an eye out and see if you can spot any of Fandom's weirder wildlife."

Like those green deer people always talked about. Eliot hadn't really seen one. He wasn't chatty enough.

“Let’s get going, people! Hup hup hup!”

That last bit was for you, Eliot. Heee.

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"You mean when I was thrown off the pier," Eliot said. "After being hit by a car."

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"You walked it off!" Pfftt, whatever, Eliot. "You haven't been hit by a car today."

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"Exactly," Eliot said.

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Parker waited. And waited. Then waited some more.

"So you're saying I have to hit you with a rickshaw first?"

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Eliot sighed. "No. Please never hit me with a rickshaw." Other people didn't have to specify things like that. "Is it really that important to you that I jump off a cliff?"

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"Yes. Pleeeeease. You know you want to!"

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Honestly, Eliot had no real strong feelings either way on it. He was just stubborn.

"I'm s'posed to be the calm, zen-like teacher in this class."

Right. Like that was going to last.

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"You've been zen for hours and hours." Okay, at least an hour and a half. "And you can be zen and jump off a cliff!" Probably. Eliot was capable of a lot of things.

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"Jumpin' off a cliff is kind of the opposite of zen."

Maybe. He was reasonably sure.

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"You're not afraid." Said like a fact. "...right?"

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"'Course not," Eliot said easily. "You scouted the place." Which was far more of a guarantee of safety than most jumps Eliot had taken ever had.

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Parker beamed at him for that expression of trust, then said, "So, you should jump and find out if it's zen or not right here. There's 3.5 seconds of freefall, I think that's pretty awesome."

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"Yeah, darlin', we all kinda noticed," Eliot said. "You're just tryin' to get me all wet, aintcha."

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Parker grinned back at him wickedly. Students, you overheard nothing. NOTHING. Heh. Heeeeeehheheh.

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"You're incorrigible," Eliot told her.

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"That means you'll do it!" Woo-hooooo!

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"And yet, here you are," Kathy said, wringing her hair out. Because, you know, she'd jumped. "Far back from the edge of the cliff. Not jumping."

She wasn't saaaayin', she was just sayin'.

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"We got live fire here," Eliot pointed out. "Somebody's gotta keep an eye on it."

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"If only you had not one, but two TAs capable of watching over a fire..." Kathy mused.

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"Well, one of 'em was busy throwin' herself off a cliff, wasn't she?" Eliot said.

And then, since she was all making eye contract and not about to spontaneously combust out of mortification, he shrugged. "Fine." He stood up and shrugged out of his overshirt (showing that he still hadn't given up on wearing undershirts, at least to class), then bent down to start untying his boots.

If he was going to do this without being on the run for his life, he was going to get to do it without steel toed anchors on his feet.

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Hardison was very disappointed in you right now, Eliot.

"Leaving the other one still perfectly capable of watching a fire," Kathy noted. Because of logic. And arithmetic.

Though right now Kathy was very studiously poking at said fire, mostly because ogling a teacher--especially in front of his girlfriend--would be Wrong.