Outside the dorms!

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

At 10:00 a.m. the bus was waiting outside to take everyone to the ballgame.

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[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

After his interview with Doctor Reid, Peter was actually awake and pumped to be taken out to the ballgame. He was going to be taken out to the crowd. He would buy some peanuts or Cracker Jacks. He wouldn't care if he ever came back! For it's root, root, root for the Orioles, he guessed, if they didn't win, he'd deal. For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out at the old ballgame.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Peter," Sam called as she walked up, relaxed since she'd already decided on peanuts. "I didn't know you liked baseball."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Sam," Peter said. "Yeah, I'm a big Mets fan. I've been very happy so far this year."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders had a baseball glove, cap, and jersey on as he stood outside waiting for the bus. (So they were an Angels cap and jersey. Hey, he didn't have a chance to get hold of Orioles stuff in time.)

To say he was fidgeting with excitement? That would be an understatement. What he was doing was more like dancing like a highly neurotic leadoff runner attempting to steal second from a paranoid pitcher on a hair trigger, while both of them were extremely high on speed.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"As a Mets fan, you've been happy?" Sam asked. "Isn't that unusual?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam resisted the urge to laugh. "Morning, Anders. Ready for this?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Best team in the NL so far this year," Peter said. "So, yes, very unusual. I'm kind of scared."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Morning, Carter! Ready as I'm ever going to be," Anders said, waving the non-gloved hand at her. "First baseball game ever! I feel like I should've gotten cleats, too."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure they'll start losing again," Sam offered, trying to be helpful, but unsure what the proper response was in this situation. "So, no emotional ties to this game? Who're you rooting for?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"You've never seen a live game before?" She gaped at him. "How it that possible? You're addicted to the sport, aren't you?"

She wondered if she should tell Anders that they wouldn't recruit him from the stands so cleats weren't a requirement, but decided not to burst his bubble.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"I've been trying to! I just haven't had a chance, so far," Anders said. "Stuff kept coming up. But I'm fixing that, now. I'm so fixing that."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam grinned. "Good for you. It's so much better live, I can't even tell you."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"It might be the sports gods of karma looking down upon New York. The Knicks are terrible and the Yankees aren't doing as well as usual, might as well throw the Mets a bone. And then Atlanta will still come back from 13 games down to win the division," Peter said.

"I think I'm pullling for the Orioles. Might as well root, root, root for the home team, right?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders bounced around, smacked his glove, and got down into a crouch like a middle infielder looking for the DP ball. "Is this going to end up being a whole new dangerous addiction for me?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Probably," she admitted.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Hey, I'll root for anyone who's playing against Cleveland," Sam said, shrugging. "And I don't think Atlanta has the chops to pull something like that off this year. God knows they don't have anything waiting for them on the farm team."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Lucky for me the season's over by October, or I'd be doomed to flunk out of school," he said with a grin.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

She laughed. "And at least they're playing this year. You missed the year they went on strike."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"They haven't had the chops before. And they've had nothing in the minors for a few years. And then they just keep doing it. I'm not ruling them out until the playoffs start and they're not in there," Peter said.

"What's your beef with Cleveland?" he asked, curious.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Ex-fiancee boyfriend was insane for them. Gut reaction, I guess."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders wrinkled his nose. "Collective bargaining fun."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Except for the part where no one had fun," Sam rolled her eyes. "Anyway, baseball game, here we come. Are you cheering for one team over another today?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Orioles," Anders said after a moment. "Gotta go with Eastern division over Central. Unless it's the Yankees, in which case, go other team."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"I knew I liked you, Anders."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"What," he teased, "just for that?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Not just for that, but that definitely helps." She winked at him.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Ah. That's as good a reason as any," Peter said. "Here's hoping Cleveland gets crushed and he cries a little over it."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"I've noticed that tends to either win you friends or make you enemies, real fast, one way or the other." Anders pretended to field a two-hopper, spin, and throw to first.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Er, yeah." Okay, Jonas wasn't so much with the crying these days, but she wasn't going to explain that to Peter. "Here's to Cleveland sucking the big one."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"The Yankees do many things to people, but they don't make anyone ambiguous," she snickered as she watched the play. Then yelled in her best announcer's voice (which wasn't very good), "And Anders throws to first, and the runner's...he's Out! Certainly looks like that guy's worth every penny he's being pain."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel's there, sipping a coffee and actually getting more excited as she woke up and they got closer to the stadium.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders grinned. "Can I hire you to do my play-by-play?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam grinned back. "Depends if you're going to pay me what I'm worth."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"I pay in baked goods," Anders deadpanned.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Hmmmm...." Sam considered. "Chocolate?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Chocolate is doable." He pulled out his Palm Pilot, got a few jujubes out of it, and raised an eyebrow. "Milk or dark? I don't do white chocolate."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"That's handy, since I don't either," she made a face. "Dark, please."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Excellent. Actually, I don't do milk chocolate, either. I'm strictly a dark-chocolate guy." It was Anders's turn to use the line. "I knew I liked you, Carter."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam grinned back at him. "Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"After almost a year." Anders shook his head playfully. "We're slow."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Better late than never, right?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Definitely."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Let's go catch some fly balls," Sam said, slinging her arm around his shoulders.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Okay, but we're throwing back any Cleveland home runs," Anders said.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Okay." Sam had no problem with that.

[conathon.livejournal.com]

After basketball practice, he and Tempe hurried to wash up and get down to the bus, so they too could go to the game.