Jackalope campfire, Monday night

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean had got a fire going and was reclining lazily against a log with a soda and staring up at the night sky. The assignment in Treasure Hunting had him thinking about stars again and he was seeing how many constellations he could still pick out. When that got a little boring he started making up his own constellations and stories to go with them, wondering if he could pass them off as fact to Vala.

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[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Dean," Charlie said, taking a seat on the log next to him. "Have a good weekend?"

She started messing with a few of the rocks next to the fire, picking them up, and setting them down.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Hey Charlie," Dean greeted her with a smile. "Yeah, pretty good. Went out drinking with my brother Saturday night and just hung out in the cabin watching movies yesterday. You? Any more dates I should know about?"

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"Nooo," she laughed, shaking a rock at him. "I had fun at the luau on Friday, though. And I almost talked Gavin into becoming a beekeeper last night. But that was easier than it could have been."

She finally found a rock that she liked and put it next to her on the log.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Do I want to know why you were trying to talk him into being a beekeeper?" Dean asked around a laugh.

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"He was hiding in his jacket! And wouldn't come out. I didn't get the whole story, just fed him Doritos because he forgot to take food in there with him," Charlie said, snickering. "He and somebody named Luke did something embarassing on Saturday. That happens a lot around here, doesn't it?"

She stared at the rock for a little bit, then back at the fire. Yup. That would be good cover, just in case she couldn't do both at once.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, pretty much." Dean looked thoughtful. "I wondered if he ran into a gremlin. Or if it was just," he waved a hand, "random Fandom stuff."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Heyyyyyyyy, campfire!" Turtle announced, bouncing out of the cabin and having a seat.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Hey Turtle," Dean greeted her, startled out of his thoughts by her arrival. "Did you have a good day?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Very, very good day," Turtle beamed. And it wasn't even stocks related (although there was another record close in S & P, woot)! "How are you, Dean?"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"I'm good. Really good."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Yeah? Any particular reason?"

After a moment, she altered the question a little bit. "Any particular reason that I'd actually want to know about?"

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Charlie said, waving to the girl she didn't know. "I'm Charlie. Are you new?"

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Psssh, no," Turtle waved her hand as if being here for a semester made her a full-fledge regular around these parts. "Name's Turtle Wexler. Nice to meet you, Charlie. I like that. Charlie." She smiled.

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"Thanks! I like Turtle. Is that what your parents named you?" Charlie wondered. "Or is it a nickname."

She held onto the stone a little tighter, wondering if the other girl had seen her little show-and-tell. Not that it mattered. It just... would be nice to know.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle was a little oblivious to most things right now; she'd had a lot of sugar for dinner...

"Nickname," she admitted, and, no, she had no intention of disclosing what it said on her birth certificate, thank you very much. "How 'bout Charlie? Nickname? Parents really wanted a boy?"

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

Inara took a seat by the campfire, not really saying much. She had some thinking to do, mostly about Gavin and Chad and how maybe dating was a bad idea, even if it did sound like fun and they were both nice and sweet.

She sighed. Nandi would know how to handle this.

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"Hi," Charlie waved to the girl who'd just sat down. "I think I saw you at a couple campfires before. I'm Charlie."

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"Hello, Charlie," she smiled. "I'm Inara."

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"That's a gorgeous dress. Are you new here too?" Charlie asked hopefully. The more new people she met, the less outnumbered she felt by the old ones. "I'm over in Minotaur, but Dean's my Big Brother, so I keep ending up over here."

[ambassadorinara.livejournal.com]

"Thank you, and yes," Inara fingered the fabric of her skirt, moving it away from the flames, "and I'm over in Basilisk, but I'm here for the fire."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

It had been . . . kind of an up and down day, but Anders had succeeded in his shopping expedition and was now wandering the campground in hopes of burning off some of his restless frustration. It was kind of hard to miss a bunch of people gathered around a campfire, so he found himself a bare patch of log and sat down.

"Hey," he said distractedly to no one in particular.

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Charlie said back, waving a little. "How's it going? I'm Charlie. This is not my campfire."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Not mine, either." Anders waved a hand around the campsite, vaguely. "Technically I'm in Salamander. Hey, Charlie -- name's Anders, by the way. Sam Anders, but the first name's not important."

[girlzippo.livejournal.com]

"If you say so," Charlie said, a little amused. "My last name's McGee, for what it's worth. I'm over in Minotaur, but Dean's my Big Brother, so I came by to say hi to him. Are you new or old?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Old," Anders replied, looking slightly surprised by his own admission. "When fall rolls around it'll be the start of my third year here, holy frak, where does the time go? Dean's a good guy from the few times I've talked to him, so you're in good big-sibling hands."