School Grounds, Wednesday afternoon

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

After the two boys were handwavily gremlin bit earlier in Chris' room, Jack Johnny and Ennis Chris headed outdoors to get to work and do what need's doin' to gather the herd and keep 'em secure on Crackback Mountain.

It was just that Johnny was a bit confused and glancin' over at Chris told him that the ranch hand was pretty much in the same boat.

"Ah, hell, Chris, I don't be seein' them heffer's 'round, do you? And the good Lord strike me dead if this here be Crackback Mountain. I'll be a yankee sumbitch if these here hills be called mountains."

Hands on hips, he glared at the ground.

"You thinkin' real hard over there or are you just as confused as I am?"

[ooc: Chris and Johnny have been, with permission, gremlin bit that was handwavily done. Welcome to Brokeback Mountain, Fandom style. Woot! Feel free to notice, gander, or just plain wtf at the boys.]

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[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Damn! People's comin' outta nowhere's! Hey! Buddy, get they hell outta here! Unless you've seen some heffers round here? We gotta round 'em up."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Go out in the preserve and start talking," Anders said, grinning -- and filming. "You'll round 'em up easy."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Boy, you talkin' nonsense and lookin' worse. Your daddy know you up here?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders cast a thoughtful look at him, then at Chris, then back again. "Does yours?"

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Johnny's lips thinned. "We's workin'. That's all. Just workin' and makin' our pay. Ain't nothin' that no one's daddy need know about."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

It had been a wild guess, but hello there payoff. "Workin', huh?" echoed Anders, with an unmistakable emphasis on the word. "Nothing to be ashamed of there, y'know."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"That's right," Johnny said with a nod, shading his eyes a bit with the rim of his cowboy hat. "What you do for a livin' anyhow? I don't see your horse. Anyone worth a lick o'sense wouldn't be up here on Crackback Mountain without a horse."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, well." Anders patted his Glider. "I went for the shinier model I don't have to clean up after."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"I ain't never seen nothin' like that a'fore, I'll admit it," he said, eyeing the foreign contraption. "What is it?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"It's a horse from the future," Anders informed him in as solemn a tone as he could manage -- which he thought he pulled off pretty well. "Don't need to feed it, don't need to clean out the stable."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Johnny jumped back. "Slap me stupid! There ain't no way that thing's from the future. Boy, you pokin' fun at me?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders grinned and held his free hand up, then got to his feet and rode the Glider in a slow circle around Johnny. "I'm not the one doing the pokin' . . ."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Holy sweet Jesus!" he exclaimed, turning in a circle with the mechanism thing.

Then he stilled.

And his eyes cut sharply over at the boy. "What's that?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Noooooooooooooothin'," drawled Anders, picking up a tiny bit of speed for a second circuit.

And snickering to himself. Oh, this made him feel so much better about everything.

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Johnny twirled in a circle, tryin' to keep up. "You're meanin' somethin'," he said, pointing his finger. "I get it and unless you want an ass whoopin', you best be headin' down the mountain, boy."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Right, right, heading down the mountain." Anders slowed the Glider to a halt and cast a deliberate look around. "Because we're so frakking far from sea level here."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Johnny cocked his head. "Frakkin'?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Don't look at me." Anders was so going to milk their confusion for all it was worth. "I'm not demonstrating."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Don't need to know, anyhow. Chris and me, we just herdin' heffers. That's all. It's our livelihood." Johnny glanced over at Chris, confusion in his eyes mixed with something warm and tender.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

And wow, was that ever disturbing, and yet still completely filmable. "Must be nice to like your work so much . . ."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Puts food on the table, son," Johnny said matter-of-factly. "Got a family to support." He shrugged. "Summer job anyhow."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Summer?" Anders gave him a 'bitch, are you for real' look. "What are you, working overtime now?"

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"What do you mean?" Johnny asked dumbly.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"And I thought I was dense sometimes," Anders muttered under his breath, taking a moment to enjoy the fleeting sense of superiority. "I mean, why are you working a summer job in December?"

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Johnny was goin' to let that comment slide. No sense in pickin' a fight when Chris would just come on over and... no good. "Stop pokin' fun."