Roof: late, Thursday evening

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker had a mentally grueling day, and then she exhausted herself at the gym. So she was up on the edge of the roof, smoking her last allowed cigarette of the day, and watching the lemmings jump off the edge.

Gently, gently, like a teeny bizarro-world ballet, they pirouetted off the ledges and balustrades, their little parasols carrying them softly to the ground.

Spin. Leap. Parasol. Wooooosh.

It was actually kind of relaxing.

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[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter nodded at Parker as he came up the stairs to the roof and watched the lemmings fall.

[socksofcool.livejournal.com]

Seely was a woeful little puppet as he made his way up onto the roof to brood.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker waved a cigarette at him, and breathed out a plume of smoke, eyes following the lemming parachuters.

*wooooosh*

That last one really got some altitude....

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker opened her eyes at one point, then stared.

Wow. Okay. Who spiked her cigarette with LSD? Wait, Fandom.

She stared a moment longer. "Um...."

[socksofcool.livejournal.com]

"Parker," Seely nodded.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

The voice put the vague resemblance together for her, Parker got it. "Seely?!" Staring, she said, "What the-- how the--"

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter rolled his eyes at Seely. "Still felt, Booth?"

[socksofcool.livejournal.com]

"Yup," Seely replied. "Willow said it was her, but I have to wonder."

[socksofcool.livejournal.com]

"Want to make something of it, English?"

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Do I need to? Because I rather think the situation speaks for itself."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker didn't mean to. Really, she didn't. But his face was so sad. And the hair was so funny. And, well, it had been a looong day.

Giggling madly, she almost fell over the edge of the roof before she got a grip. "Ohhh, God. Oh God. Oh, wow. Hehhehehehehehehe..."

[socksofcool.livejournal.com]

Seely facepalmed. "So glad I could amuse you."

[socksofcool.livejournal.com]

"Hardy har har."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you just... oh, god, it's like Smile Time, only with an adolescent snarky older brother...." Parker managed to get her giggles under control when she starte coughing, then swung her legs back to land on the roof, staring at him. "How. The. Hell. Booth?"

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter grinned. "Figure out how to be a real boy again?"

[socksofcool.livejournal.com]

"If I knew I'd be trying to change myself back."

[socksofcool.livejournal.com]

"I'm more of a real boy than you are."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker slid down to sit on the roof, her back to the retaining wall, still smirking, but looking a tiny bit more sympathetic. "So. The traditional measures haven't been tried yet?"

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Keep dreaming."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"...There are lemmings." Bridge says, staring.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker was watching this confrontation like a tennis match, legs stretched out before her, glancing at Seely, then Peter, Seely, then Peter, keeping the giggles strictly internal.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"With parasols," Peter pointed out.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker looked up from the grudge-match of Pevensie vs. Booth, and waved a cigarette to him in welcome. "Is that what they are?" She blew a smoke ring, and chuckled low in her throat. "They're not the best entertainment here."

[socksofcool.livejournal.com]

"Traditional measures?" Seely asked.

[multiplez]

"Well, that's something you don't see every day," Z said, staring at the lemmings.