BWI Airport Portalocity Lounge, Saturday morning [05/04].

[howareyanow]

"What the ever-loving fuck is a Portalocity Lounge?"

Apparently, it was precisely the place where Wayne was standing, squared shoulders, thumbs in his belt loops, frowning up at the softest, most sparkliest banner he had ever seen...and he'd een to at least a baker's dozen of Dary's traditional soft birthday parties, so he knew a soft fucking banner when he saw one.

"That," he stated, to no one in particular, especially since he seemed to be the first one there (if you're not five minutes early, you're five minutes late, bud), "is fucking 10-ply."

But it was what it was. No going back now, ain't no reason to get excited, he supposed. Pitter-patter. So he turned his head sharply to one side of the lounge, eyed the chairs against the wall, and went to have a seat, one hand on his knee, tohe other around the smallest cup of coffee he could get, and settled in to wait.

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Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[howareyanow]

Wait with Wayne while wondering what wayward world awaits, waging war with wiser words.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[following_my_fishie]

"He said fuck, does that mean I can say fuck?" Delirium asked Barnabas.

Barnabas' eyes widened and he tried to answer quickly, "No.."

Too late.

"Fuck fuck FUCK fuuuuck fucccckkk fuck fuck fuck sounds like duck but isn't duck it's fuck, fuck fuck fuuuuuck, not a truck and has no pluck, fuck fuck fuccccccky fuck fuck fuck!" she sang cheerfully.

Barnabas sighed.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[howareyanow]

Wayne was of the opinion that anyone who wanted to could say fuck, but he might have been disposed to inform this girl that she might want to take about 10, 20 percent off there.

But there was a dog, and no amount of excitedly dropped F-bombs could distract him from that.

He also thought for a second that maybe the dog had said 'no,' but that was just silly. Dogs couldn't talk.

"Didn't know we could bring dogs," he noted, sounding maybe a little petulant about it, but making himself feel better by pointing out that the dogs were much happier back home on the farm. He tilted his head at Barnabas for a moment before clicking his tongue a little, patting his knee to see if that good bo wanted to come over and say hi.

But not actually say hi, because dogs couldn't talk.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[following_my_fishie]

"I'm a service dog," Barnabas said wryly, "I provide a very valuable service." That tongue-click and knee pat got the canine version of a haughty look. "I'm Barnabas," he said, "Pleased to meet you."

Delirium looked between the two of them, confusion evident. "I didn't bring Barnabas," she explained, "Barnabas brought me so really it's not bringing a dog but a dog bringing a girl and that's ok because it's a school for people. Did you want to pet him? Is that what.." She clicked her tongue and patted her knee, "means in whatever language it is where you came from? You can just ask him. Barnabas likes pats and scritches.."

"Delirium," Barnabas sighed.

"What?" she asked, "You do. Your tongue gets all pantsy and you sometimes do the leg flobber thing.." she stomped her foot several times in a row to indicate it, "but that just means it's a good itchy spot that you wanted scritched but didn't know it until just that very minute and for a communication doggo sometimes you're not so good at knowing your own communication things and that's why I'm asking the boy right there whether he's trying to communicate with you in his own language."

To Wayne, she said, "Barnabas speaks English, mostly."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[howareyanow]

"...You're not 'exposed to give dogs human names," said Wayne, after a very, very long time and a suspicious look down into his coffee cup with a furrowed brow, because that was a lot to process right now, what with the talking dog and everything. Then he looked back up, still frowning deeply, and blinking maybe a few times. "But maybe there's an exception for talking dogs. Fuck. I don't know."

Then he looked away, off to the side, frowning even still as he tried to sort out this sort of new territory. Because of course he wanted to pet the dog. All he could think about was how he wanted to pet that dog. Scratch his ears. Maybe rub his belly. But it felt a bit awkward, didn't it, knowing that dog could talk, and here you'd just met him and was already thinking about how all you wanted to do was rub his belly.

Processing this a little more, he turned back toward the girl. "Does he shake--" he started, then stopped, because the dog apparently could answer the question himself, and turned his attention now toward Barnabas and tried again.

"Do you shake hands?" he asked.

Seemed only polite to shake a talking dog's hand before you went and rubbed his belly, at any rate.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[scoffs_at_tradition]

Shuri had a large, colorful bag slung over her shoulder, a small bracelet of kimoyo beads on her left wrist and a woman who was watching her from a cafe a careful distance away.

"This is for Fandom?" she asked, checking the sign. Her eyes lit up at Wayne's coffee cup. "Oooh, is that Starbucks? I've always wanted to try Starbucks."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[howareyanow]

"It's no Tim Hortons," said Wayne, because Canadian, "but it'll do." He lifted his chin a little, cocking his head in the general direction of the concourse in the station where he'd gotten it. "Just down that waaay's a bit, if you can be quick about it before the bus gets here, but it's not likeleh. Line's about longer than a hawkey player's treasure trail."

He would have added a disparaging fuck at the end of that, but he was talking to a girl, and it was impolite to swear too much in front of girls you didn't yet know.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"Who is Tim Hortons?" Shuri asked politely.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[handystand]

"Oh, is there a Starbucks here?" Okuyasu said, his eyes also lighting up at that prospect. "There's not too many of those in Japan yet."

At least, not in 1999.

Okuyasu was in for multiple shocks.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"There are zero in Wakanda," Shuri complained, "though my brother promises that will change. Eventually."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[sir_zapsalot]

The truth was, Billy might have been a lot more reluctant to come here, to spend a summer at camp so soon after he'd actually found himself a family, except that it had been a family effort to get him here. It was Victor and Rosa who had signed him up, but Mary was the one who had heard about it in the first place and talked them into it after Pedro and Eugene had done the research, Freddy had been very persuasive about how it was a good opportunity for a fledgling superhero to get in some training, and Darla had pointed out that it wasn't like it would be hard for him to come home for a visit, even if he just wanted to stop in for dinner.

He was looking up at the banner with a faint, bemused grin, and texting pictures of it and the lounge back to his siblings.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[howareyanow]

Wayne took note of the other boy taking the pictures, and would offer an amicable nod to him if he notcied, but he was mostly content in just sitting and waiting quietly, for the most part.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[sir_zapsalot]

Billy happened to glance that way now that I finally have a decent screen size to track multiple threads in between a couple of those pictures (Freddy was disappointed that it looked so mundane for a place with interfreakingdimensional portals) and nodded back at him. "Are we all going to the same place?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[scoffs_at_tradition]

Shuri gave him a friendly wave.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[sir_zapsalot]

"Hi," Billy said, looking up from a text message from Freddy, something about an eBay auction for a piece of marble tile with a certificate of authenticity for how it had been broken by Wonder Woman during a thwarted bank robbery.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[handystand]

Okuyasu looked over at the younger kid and paused for a second.

"...what are you holding?" he asked, because he was woefully out of his element when it came to technology that was, admittedly, 20 years from his future.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[sir_zapsalot]

"What, this? It's just my phone," Billy replied, both eyebrows going up in confusion. Eugene had said something about the place he was going to being some kind of interdimensional nexus, but he hadn't quite processed everything that term would entail.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[overparented]

Janet hadn't actually believed she'd get here until she was on the plane from Toronto, and now she was feeling super great about it. She assumed the kids sitting here had to be her classmates, but rather than looking uncool about it, she was mostly checking them out first from her seat among her bags.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[howareyanow]

And there'd be at least a small nod of acknowledgement from the boy in the flannel, sitting off to the side and doing pretty much the same thing.

So far, except for the whole talking dog thing, seemed like a pretty normal, upstanding, decent bunch, really.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[overparented]

When Janet did it, she felt like she was being cool and aloof.

She felt like maybe this guy was better at it?

So she went with, "Hey."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[scoffs_at_tradition]

"Hello," Shuri said with a little smile.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[overparented]

"Hi. You going to Fandom, too?" Janet returned, and then paused. "Which is probably a duh?"

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[handystand]

Okuyasu was a sight - his modified school uniform had a prominent gold Cifrão on the chest, and the word 'Billion' written in white on both arms (though one was in kanji). That was aside from his black pompadour and the grey hair on the sides of his head, and the prominent curved scars on his face.

"So this is where we wait to go to that famous and not suspicious school, huh?" he said, totally suave.

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[howareyanow]

Wayne was trying his best, he really was, to be polite and not pass too many judgements while scoping out the other students, but, fuck every duck, this guy right here was what you'd get with the dictionary definition of 'spare parts,' wasn't he?

"Not sure about famous," he said, since he hadn't even heard of it before a week or so ago, "or not suspicious, either, but if you're talking about Fandom High, I'd think the sparkly banner over by the entrance kind of answers that one for ya, bud."

Re: Wait for the Shuttle - [05/04].

[handystand]

Okuyasu paused, looked over at the banner, then laughed. "Oh yeah, that would do it, huh?" He waved a hand in excited greeting. "Ohayo, I am Okuyasu Nijimura. We're going to be going to the same school as of today."