Dorm Lobby, Sunday Evening

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

In the lobby is a big-ass banner that reads "WELCOME HOME TIME TRAVELLERS AND AWAY TEAMS AND WORLD SAVERS AND EVERYONE". And... that's more or less it.

On a table in the corner is punch and pie. JUST punch and pie, and the punch comes pre-spiked. There's also a box with a sign on it that says "NO PIE unless you deposit souvenirs here". Feel free to ignore it.

Sokka, after the TREMENDOUS effort involved in planning a shindig such as this, is sitting on the couch and rubbing his eyes, which are still dry and burning from earlier.

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[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka raised an eyebrow. "Yeah, you MIGHT say that," he replied, with a grin. "We only got rid of the angels once and for all and figured out how to bring everyone home. You been locked in your room or something?"

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad's slightly shifting jaw was the only indication of the complex network of gears going on inside his brain, and then, finally, he scratched the back of his head in a sheepish fashion. "Yeah, kinda," he said, and it was partially true. He did, after all, have a particularly overprotective boyfriend. "But you guys got 'em? Really? What did it?"

If it was spirit force attacks or reitsu after all, Chad was probably never going to forgive himself.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Well, apparently they can only move when no one's watching them, or something like that, so we tricked them into all looking at each other." Sokka grinned. "Nobody messes with Fandom and gets away with it."

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad's head gained a slight tilt as he considered this after Sokka explained it.

"Huh."

He nodded.

"That is pretty smart."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka shrugged. "Yeah, it is. Wish I'd thought of it." He aimed a friendly slap at Chad's back. "So, hang out. Have some punch and pie."

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Oooh, punch and pie. Like Chad was anyone to turn down punch and pie. There was, however, a small, mostly automatic grunt at the slap at his back. "Cool. Everyone who'd gone missing come back yet, then?"

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka looked around. "Not yet? They're in London right now, apparently?"

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"What are they doing there?"

Not that Chad had been living under a rock or anything, since Friday. He wasn't aware that it was even Sunday yet, after all.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Uh... we weren't able to time-travel to go get them? So they got put in cryogenic suspension for the past 85 years."

No, cryogenics weren't actually involved. Poor boy's seen too many sci-fi movies.

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"Oh," Chad said, like Sokka had told him the time, and nodded again. "That makes sense, too."

There was a considering pause.

"Would be weird, though."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka shrugged. "Probably. Let's hope the thing works and they come back okay. If they come back all old, I'm-a hurt someone."

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"Like who?" Chad asked, following it with, "What good would that do, anyway?"

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka stared at him. "Uh... I don't know who. It doesn't MATTER who. They need to come home SAFE NOW."

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

"If it doesn't matter who," Chad reasoned, "then you should hit something instead of someone..."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Keep trying to use your fancy-schmancy logic," Sokka grumbled, "and I'll end up hitting YOU." He shrugged. "It doesn't matter. FIRST, we wait for people to come home."

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

It was often that Chad was accused of having too much logic. The grumbling made him feel oddly proud. He got himself another cup of the punch, and settled in for the waiting.

For maybe a moment or two.

"...They should hurry up," he decided, taking a sip.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"See?" Sokka said, cuffing him on the shoulder. "That's what I was SAYING!!!"