BWI Airport Portalocity Lounge, Saturday Morning

[thegreatmanfredo]

Saturday morning, an elderly teal and white RV pulled into the dropoff lane outside the airport and disgorged a lanky teenaged boy and his bags onto the pavement, the driver asking him as he went if he had his laptop, migraine medication, and assorted other essentials. "Now get going and make some friends," she told him. "I've got a consult to get to in Virginia."

"I love you, Grandma," he said, and closed the door of the RV. As Xylda peeled out on her way to, he assumed, her next mark, Manfred headed into the airport, stopping off at Starbucks for a caffeine infusion before following airport employees' instructions until he found the right room. He was apparently the first one here, but he knew it was the right place because of the incredibly glittery banner.

High school, here he came.

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Re: Trip to Fandom

[uncertain_dume]

"Apparently the school figures I have enough life experience or something," Kanan replied with a shrug. "It isn't like the classes that it offers are terribly academic, anyway."

Did teachers ever actually assign homework?

Besides that sadistic thing Skywalker did with the droid babies?

Re: Trip to Fandom

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"What's the fun in that?"

Nerd.

Re: Trip to Fandom

[uncertain_dume]

"Fan of studying, are you?" Look, Kanan wasn't going to call her a nerd, but the thought was right there anyway. He grinned a little. "I'm teaching a class about keeping a low profile, especially in dangerous situations. I'm pretty sure one of the arts and crafts teachers is an assassin. We make our own fun."

Re: Trip to Fandom

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"You know this is insane, right?" Just checking.

Re: Trip to Fandom

[uncertain_dume]

"I hate that I'm about to say, 'you get used to it,'" Kanan replied, shrugging. "But I promise, I'm well aware of how crazy this whole situation is. I've been here over two years. It gets weirder from here."

Re: Trip to Fandom

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Oh," she said, "this is temporary. I get this figured out and I'm gone."

Sure, Sabine.

Re: Trip to Fandom

[uncertain_dume]

"Yeah," Kanan said, and now he was just sounding flat-out amused. "I said that too, over two years ago."

Fandom didn't work like that. Not for the people who didn't mean to be there.

Re: Trip to Fandom

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine just looked at him, unimpressed.

"That's not going to happen here."

Re: Trip to Fandom

[uncertain_dume]

"Alright," Kanan said, just grinning and leaning back in his seat. "Don't say I didn't warn you."

He'd give it a week. And possibly some traumatized Portalocity reps or something.