fandomhigh | BWI Airport, Portalocity Lounge

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!event: newbie shuttle

BWI Airport, Portalocity Lounge

It was That Time Of Year again. At BWI airport, they knew well that this was not the kind of thing you wanted to be asking questions about. So when a teenage boy showed up wearing a ratty long red-and-black coat, an expression that blazed hell and a large series of bleeding scratches on his face, well, they didn't ask. About anything.

Dante didn't mind. It meant he could walk into the nice warm Portalocity lounge and crash on one of the benches. Had to sleep off the day he'd had... yesterday? Was it yesterday now? Who cared.

By the time he jerked back awake about an hour later, the scratches had vanished and his expression had gone sleepy, though the ratty coat remained. He sat up, rubbing at his eyes. Guess he wasn't alone anymore, huh? Fine, whatever. "Who knew the public still showed up for transport?"

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Blame the sleep-groggy face on... well, the fact he'd been sleeping two minutes ago. Dante squinted at her. "Wait, what?"

There was an airport, and he figured this was the bus section or something. (Okay, so maybe he hadn't figured a whole lot of a lot besides the fact that he needed to sleep off busting out of that last place.)

"You asked about public showing up for transport," Maria said with a slight shrug. "I'm assuming people show up because this is how we were told we'd get to the school."

Because Maria was helpful.

"Right," Dante said. "The school."

What school? He sure as hell wasn't going to ask - itch on his abdomen said he could use at least another half-hour of sleep, so he didn't exactly want to give someone a reason to kick him out. "Yeah, you're totally right."

He was not a fantastic liar.

Maria had met some fantastic liars and knew immediately that this guy was not one of them. She wasn't going to say anything, though. He probably had his own reasons for being here.

"I'm Maria," she offered with a smile. "I'm new to this whole thing, too."

The whole she could get my ass kicked out thing prevented Dante from being an ass, the way he kind of wanted to kneejerk. Like, new to what? What stupid play was this, this time?

"You have any idea what's up with this set-up?" he asked, instead.

Maria shook her head before finding somewhere to sit and dropping the dufflebag to rest at her feet.

"Nope. I was told to get off my plane in the main airport and head to this lounge to wait for the shuttle to Fandom."

She rotated her head to ease the straining muscles in her neck. She felt like she had been travelling forever. The humidity here was already making itself known to her.

Fandom? There was a school called Fandom? Seriously?

She had to be kidding.

"Fandom, huh? And here I thought you could get there just sitting your ass down in front of a computer."

"Apparently not or we wouldn't be here waiting for a shuttle to the island." Maria leaned back against her seat. "I'm guessing that you didn't get a lot of information before you were sent here?"

"Not really a brochure kinda guy," Dante said. "Trying to save a rainforest worth of paper."

Not really.

Maria broke into a grin at that explanation. She was so not buying that, but he was at least fun to talk to.

"Do you have a name I can call you because I'm known for making up nicknames for people. You mind end up as Cute Snarky Guy."

"My name is Dante." And don't ask. "But I'll answer to Cute and Snarky just this once."

It was better than 'asshole', which had been included in about fifty percent of Dante's nicknames.

Maria thought he was cute and he sounded snarky so she might call him that in her head a few times.

"It's nice to meet you, Dante."

Was she actually being nice to him?

Weird.

"Same thing," he said, his attitude mellowing somewhat, "Uh...?"

Yes, yes she was.

"Maria."

It didn't seem to bother her that he didn't remember her giving her name earlier.

He hadn't exactly been paying a lot of attention to the details. He still barely had a reason to, actually.

But that was more of one than five minutes ago. "Right," Dante said. "So why don't you fill me in on the brochure, Maria?"

Maybe he could bluff his way into... something.

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