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

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

It was Fall! It was stupidly humid today and it was about a billion degrees, but the picnic area was full of apples, pumpkins, and those decorative corn stalks that looked cute until it rained. There was food on tables--including more Cup Noodles than strictly necessary--and chairs scattered throughout the lawn in front of the castle.

Welcome, new and old, to Fandom High! It's only gonna get weirder.

[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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Summer nodded. "Gimme one sec," she said, before turning away enough to dash over to the food tables and return with a bottle of water.

"Not a glass," she said, grinning a little crookedly as she handed it over, "but it's a start. We can get you clothes at the store, so that'll be two. And I've got a tub and a couch although that begs the question: how are you with cats?"

"Oh! Um." Jon took the bottle and blinked at her again. He looked down at the bottle and over at the tables, a bit awkward at not having done that much himself, then opened it up and took a drink.

"Thank you. I don't want to put you out," he protested weakly. "I do quite like cats, though." He still missed The Admiral.

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Summer was absolutely dreading the clean-up she'd have to do to her tub after this, but thus was the burden of the esteemed Teaching Buddy! She shook her head. "Please," she said. "What kind of school-assigned friend would I eve be if I couldn't at least offer a time-displaced surprise faculty member who has, I'm guessing, already had a day so far a place to crash and a chance to avoid what could potentially be some gnarly infections? Besides, I had some friends let me crash on their couch when I came back from space a while ago, so now it's like I'm finally getting the chance to pay it forward.

"My cat's name is Pancakes, by the way," she added, because that was the most important information of all, "and you will love her."

"I'm sure I will," Jon answered, still a bit dazed by the bulldozer that was Summer.

He huffed in a laugh that had only a little humour in it. "And I have indeed had a day," he agreed, mimicking her intonation.

Summer's lip caught under her teeth for a moment as she gave Jon another slightly more appraising look.

"Can I ask what happened?" she ventured cautiously.

Jon's lips twisted in a wry smile. "The world ended. Then eventually I think, I hope, we fixed it, but I...I died. And then I was pulled out of the world. And then I was in the Baltimore airport."

As she listened, Summer lifted her brows at first, then she nodded a little, then she sort of looked like I died was just kind of a natural progression for this sort of a story, went a little sympathetic in her expression with the whole pulled out of the world bit, and then...

Well, that brought them to nicely up the present, didn't it?

"And now you're teaching high school," she said. "Harsh. But could be worse, as far as afterlives go."

And, honestly? Maybe he didn't look so bad after all, for someone who'd just, you know, died.

Well, it was hardly his first time.

He did manage a genuine laugh at that, even if it was a bit rusty. "There are definitely worse possibilities, yes. Though I'm really not a teacher."

"I wouldn't worry about it too much," Summer assured him, glad to have gotten a laugh, no matter how rusty. "They let literally anyone teach at this school. There was one summer where my boss," who, hey! Was also a dead guy! There were a few of them around!, "teach a class on napping. Hell," she realized, "I teach classes about jello half the time."

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"I...how do you...that is, I wouldn't think there's much to teach about napping."

Said the man who looked like he hadn't slept in ages. (Because he hadn't slept well in ages.)

Summer just shrugged, lifting her hands and shaking her head, because she had gone this long without trying to understand how or why Shunsui Kyōraku did anything he did and was not about to start now.

"So basically, yeah," she said. "If you manage to do better than nap class, I think you'll be okay. Honestly, I guess that's one thing he actually does bring to the table: setting the bar so low that even a worm could manage to jump over it..."

"Some worms jump fairly high," Jon muttered, more to himself than Summer.

He sighed. "Right. Definitely worse fates." He was mentally thanking Summer for that perspective, and desperately clinging to it. He could be torn apart, half his mind or body missing, completely taken over by the Eye, or just dead.

He was not mentioning any of that, and shoved it firmly to the back of his mind. "I could be teaching maths."

"Ahahaha!" Summer laughed exactly like you might imagine a woman who had spent the entire day pretty much with a target on her back would laugh, and now that target suddenly felt like it was burning through her shirt. "I know, right? Gross. Maths. Can you even imagine--Hey!"

She was just going to go ahead and try to gently goad Jon away with non-tactile gestures toward the general direciton of MHA.

"Let's go see what we can do about checking that whole 'bath' thing off your checklist next, yeah?"

Jon frowned at her in confusion. Then in bemusement as he Knew what the problem was. He glanced over toward Rosa, who...definitely seemed to have that look about her, yes.

He let Summer herd him. "A bath would be lovely, thank you."

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