By the Front Gates: 10:30ish [1-11-07]

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana got out to the gates a little early to be sure she had enough time to stretch out well before she and Conner went running. It was chilly, but all-in-all not a bad day for running.


[OOC: For running with Conner, but feel free to stop by and chat while Lana's stretching out or ask to tag along as they they run.]

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[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"So am I, now that I think about it," Conner replied. "That's kind of scary, isn't it?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"But didn't you have the whole... power thing going on before?" Lana asked. "Me, just totally normal. No powers, no special energy. My only specialties seem to be being abducted and getting concussions."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"I was totally normal until I found that gem. Then I had powers for a year, lost them again, got them back for a week, and lost everything but the speed again . . . which I'm not using when we run, because that would be mean." Conner stuck his tongue out at Lana. "Aw, come on, no way are those your only specialties!"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Well, I know who to call if I need someone to run into town for me really quickly," Lana teased.

She thought. "Well, I read well. I can organize things and I do well in school." She shrugged. "Nothing like super speed or magic here."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Hey, that's fifty times more useful," Conner insisted. "I used to have to pull all-nighters sometimes just to pass my classes, and some days I'm lucky to find my socks."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana laughed. "So if I see you sockless one day..."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Then my tiny little bit of organize-fu finally gave out on me," Conner concluded. "Seriously, it's happened before!"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana grinned. "We'll have to hold a sock intervention."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"There's a twelve-step program for that?" Conner asked between snickers.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Well," Lana said as seriously as she could manage. "We might have to create our own, but I have confidence that we can do it."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"We might be doing tons of people a favor," Conner said solemnly. "Like if the laundry machines ever go on strike again. I mean, even normal laundry machines eat socks on a regular basis. I bet that really upsets some people."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Very true," Lana agreed. "Who hasn't suffered the pain of sock loss?"

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"I'm telling you," Conner insisted, "there's a laundry god with chopsticks who hides behind the dryer."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"I read something somewhere where they said socks were the larval form of wire hangers. You know how there always seem to be more of them every time you look? Well, that's because when socks get old enough they crawl away through the dryer vents and into closets where they metamorphosize into hangers." Somehow Lana managed to get through that whole thing with a mostly straight face.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner pulled up in his tracks and stared at her.

". . . seriously?"

It's sad how well that worked sometimes.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana burst into laughter and had to stop running to catch her breath. "Maybe?" she managed.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner scratched his head, still completely convinced she'd been serious. This was, after all, Fandom. "Now I wish I was taking science this semester, so I could do a project on that."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana looked at him, suddenly realizing he thought she was serious. "I'm just kidding," she said a little apologetically. "Although, in Fandom... it just might be true."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Around here it probably is," Conner said lightly. "Which is probably why I believed it."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Now that might be interesting to find out," Lana said with a smile. "I wonder how we'd go about finding out."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"High-tech spy cameras planted inside the dryers?" Conner suggested.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Students with clipboards, probing deep into all the closets, tracking the hangar population?"

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"With little radio tags like they put on penguins at the North Pole!"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana started laughing again at the image of hangars with radio tags. "Oh God, that would be too funny!"

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner grinned. "Bet you'll never see that documentary on the Discovery Channel, huh? I mean, can you seriously imagine some guy with a stuffy British sort of accent talking about this?"