BWI Airport Portalocity Lounge, Saturday

[scarlet_and_indigo]

The plane down from New York hadn't taken long, but after all the time in airports, TJ was ready to be done with it all, and was regretting her refusal to let Dad take her in the jet. But nope, she was doing this on her own, no overprotective parents around.

Somehow, she thought the biggest danger here was going to be glitter. The stuff was everywhere. Most of it was concentrated on a huge banner that read FANDOM HIGH, but it never stayed just where you put it, did it?

She wheeled her suitcase over to one of the seats and perched on the back of the seats, tail out for extra balance, and took out her phone to text back that yes, Dad, yes, Mom, she'd made it just fine. And then maybe to whine to Aunt Kate about how she'd had to do that.


[Newbie shuttle ahoy!]

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Wait for the shuttle

[scarlet_and_indigo]

All the cool kids are doing it.

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[itsananomaly]

Cutter definitely wasn’t a student but he figured catching the shuttle over to Fandom made the most sense and as soon as he could get to Fandom, the sooner he could get away from London and how bad everything was over there.

He had packed as many of his books and research papers in two very large suitcases, plus the additional work he’d been doing on the plane in a smaller suitcase . He definitely had more books than clothes at this point, which he’d packed in a duffel bag.

His phone rang in the process of making his way over to the waiting area, adjusting his duffel bag he picked it up and checked it even though he knew it would be Stephen. He then put the phone back in his pocket without answering it and looked around.

“Well I think I’m in the right place,” he remarked with a rather bemused look at the banner and all that glitter.

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[scarlet_and_indigo]

"Kind of hard to miss, isn't it?" TJ waved and glanced up at him, though she was paying more attention to her phone.

Look, she'd been on this level for ages. She didn't want to screw it up.

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[itsananomaly]

At first Cutter thought he was imaging things, he rubbed his eyes and blinked several times but the colour stayed the same.

Sorry TJ, Cutter was used to dinosaurs running through England but everything else was still new to him.

It felt rude to say something about that so he nodded, “erm…yes,” he said, small talk was really not his strong point, “at least it made it easy to find,”

He was really bad at this.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[scarlet_and_indigo]

Hey, he got points for not saying anything out loud. Also for not trying to kill the mutie.

"Definitely that," she agreed. "We'll probably be finding it all over for weeks."

She glanced up again, actually took in who she was talking to, and ventured, "You a teacher?"

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[wildgalegirl]

"I don't know if you're in the right place, but I'm glad you're in the same place as me," Charlie said cheerfully. Hey, potentially months away from the aunties trying to run her life and good looking people? Charlie was happy.

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[itsananomaly]

Cutter was trying to not focus on his phone that had started ringing again, he let it go to voice mail, “oh are you going to Fandom High?” he asked, trying to be conversational but small talk was really not his strong point.

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[wildgalegirl]

"Oh yes, when the aunties get an idea in their head nothing can stop them," Charlie said cheerfully. "Luckily, I think it's an awesome idea."

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[nostemneeded]

"Err, well, it is a high school, sir," Meeka says, with a respectful bob of her head. "So I cannot say with any certainty whether you are or not."

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[itsananomaly]

“Oh then it’s definitely the right place,” Cutter nodded with a small smile, “I’m Professor Cutter, I’m teaching palaeontology this semester,”

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[nostemneeded]

"Oh dear, Professor, I am so sorry!" she said, looking appalled at her misstep. "I did not realize. Please forgive my presumption."

Batting a thousand, Meeka girl.

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[imawizard]

Harry had been here a year ago, only it was two years if you were him. He had mixed feelings about being back here, but you know what he didn't have mixed feelings about? The glitter he was trying to get off his shirt.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[scarlet_and_indigo]

"Pretty sure that's a lost cause," TJ offered. "But good luck."

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[imawizard]

"I know," he said with a sigh. "This school is very big on glitter."

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[wildgalegirl]

"I'd just go with it," Charlie said. "Besides it's brings out the color in your eyes."

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[imawizard]

Harry frowned, looking down at his shirt, and then back up at her. "...It's glitter."

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[nostemneeded]

Meeka looked over at him from where she was picking rose petals in her hair and gave him a nod.

Solidarity.

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[wildgalegirl]

"Now this is cool," Charlie said with a grin. She had her guitar slung across her back and a duffle over her shoulder. "Glitter and banners. Tha aunties would hate this, so I'm taking it as a good sign."

She sketched a fast charm on the front of the bus, hesitated, then sketched a safely charm next to it. No sense injuring her fellow students before they even got to this Fandom place.

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[scarlet_and_indigo]

TJ laughed, then cocked her head at whatever the other girl was doing. "Is that magic?"

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[wildgalegirl]

Charlie's eyes widened in delight. "You can see them? Yes. Charms actually."

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[nostemneeded]

The comment about aunties got a tentative smile. "Always judging everything and clucking like hens?" she asked the other girl. "Your aunties, I mean."

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[wildgalegirl]

"Judging, organizing, ordering, yep, that would be the aunties," Charlie agreed. "I take it you have some of your own?"

They wouldn't be Gale Girls, but aunties in general were similar,

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[nostemneeded]

Meeka had planned to arrive incognito. Meeka should have known it wouldn't be that easy. First, her father had insisted on her taking the family plane. You know, the gold one with his face on the rear. But that could have been okay - who knew the King of Zamunda by face alone? Most Americans couldn't name five countries in Africa.

But then she'd been met at the gate by the half the Zamundan embassy, including the ancient ambassador her grandfather had appointed in the sixties. He was deaf as a post - or at least, pretending to be - so he insisted on escorting her to the shuttle, complete with Rose Bearer Priestesses (three of them) were there in full regalia, sprinkling rose petals on the ground before her.

Because the heavens forbid that her feet touch the naked ground.

She'd managed to convince him of the importance of traveling incognito (at a half-yell, which wasn't actually great for subtlety, though at least it was far enough away from the shuttle entrance that she didn't think the sound carried much), though he still stubbornly refused to dismiss the priestesses until they were at the Fandom sign and she was able to point out she was in the right place.

And now she was going to slink over to a chair and hope that nobody had noticed. Somehow.

She'd been in America for half an hour and things were already going not to plan.

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[scarlet_and_indigo]

"Wow." TJ watched the ladies with the petals leave. That was way over the top, but the other girl looked more 'oh god, get me out of here' than 'please worship the ground I walk on', so.

"And I thought my folks were bad."

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[nostemneeded]

Oh noes.

Meeka continued to look like she wanted the ground to swallow her up, which hopefully solidified TJ's impression. "They are priestesses from my home country," she said, eyes still firmly on the floor in case a trapdoor handily appeared. "We have a, err, custom. To be greeted with flowers from home so that our first, err, steps in a foreign country are...reminders of who we are."

That was even mostly technically true!