Main Campfire - Tuesday After Classes

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Just because Chuck hated making food for himself, it didn't mean that he couldn't do it when times were desperate. S'mores were a meal, right? They better be because Chuck didn't really have the equipment or the will power to try to make anything else. He jacked the ingredients to make them from his cabin's kitchen and headed down to the main campfire since, from what he had seen, it always seemed to be lit. Chuck couldn't start a fire on his own unless you were talking about flipping switch on the fireplace.

Chuck laid down a blanket on a log (as if he was going to get his pants dirty) and sat down. He took a couple moments to light a joint he rolled before shoving a marshmallow on a stick and sticking it in the fire. He could so totally survive in the woods on his own. He just hoped he'd never have to.

[Open campfire is open]

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"Oooh, s'mores," said Hoshi, grabbing a log of her own. "Mind if I grab one?"

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"Go ahead," Chuck said, slipping the joint between his lips long enough to pick up the bag of marshmallows and hand them to the girl. Technically they weren't his marshmallows to give out but he didn't really care.

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"Thanks," said Hoshi. She frowned at the sight of the joint. "Don't tell me you're a smoker, too. Don't you know what cigarette smoke does to your body?"

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Chuck was kind enough to blow the smoke away from Hoshi when he exhaled. "I don't smoke cigarettes. Usually."

He did smoke the occasional one when he was drunk or he had to audition for a TA spot. Man, he loved Tink and Jean-Paul.

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"Well, just remember that those things are addictive," warned Hoshi as she added her marshmallow to the fire.

Then, thinking about it a little more, she added, "Sorry to be such a nag about it. No one smokes anymore where I come from."

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"And where are you from?" Chuck asked. He figured she was from California or something.

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"Kyoto, but actually, when I'm from is a bit more important," she said. "I'm from the mid-22nd century, about 140 years from now."

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Chuck should have been surprised by that. Should have been, but wasn't. This school was getting to him.

"That's quite a time difference. I'm not surprised they stopped smoking. It's inevitable," Chuck said. Just the mention of smoking made him want to take another hit off his joint. So he did. "Do people in the future go to school in the past often?"

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"Actually, they don't seem to think time travel exists in my future, so I'm something of an anomaly," said Hoshi. "I've met people here who are from further out in time, though, so who knows? Maybe eventually they find a way to do it. So far, I've found that most of the time if I just cross the causeway, I'll end up back in my time."

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"That's convenient," Chuck said. "Technically I'm from a year in the past. Not very impressive but still. It's nice to know when I get off the causeway I'll be in 2007."

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"Well, it can still get complicated," said Hoshi. "For example, where I come from, there was a major world war in the late '90s, but that hasn't happened yet in this world. So I'm not sure if I'm just from an alternate Earth or what."

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"The whole thing confuses the hell out of me. I try not to think about it too much," Chuck admitted. Especially when he was stoned because that was a total downer.

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"Tell me about it," said Hoshi, pulling her marshmallow out of the fire and checking to see if it was done. "I found that everything was a lot easier once I stopped worrying about it. Plus, having the extra time and space away from my mother is great."

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"Oooh mother troubles?" Chuck said, smirking. "Care to share?"

He really was a nosy bastard.

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Hoshi smirked. "Well, to start with, my mother hates aliens. Oh, and she wants me to become a concert pianist instead of a communications specialist," she said.

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"I can see where that sucks," Chuck couldn't really relate. His father just wanted him to be happy with his trust fund and was a fan of aliens. They were cheap labor. "You are, of course, going to go against her wishes and become a communications specialist?"

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"Well, it's been ages since I've touched a piano, but I've learned a ton of new languages since arriving in Fandom, including a few alien ones," said Hoshi.

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"Good work. You should do what you want," Chuck said, taking another hit off his joint. "People are happier that way."

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"Definitely, as long as it doesn't hurt others," agreed Hoshi. "I think I'd make more of an impact as a translator than a piano player."

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"You don't see too many piano players making an impact nowadays, do you?" Chuck mused. "Chopin and Mozart were so long ago."

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"Exactly!" said Hoshi. "I have no idea what my mother's thinking sometimes. It's almost like she's the one stuck in the wrong century."

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"Lucky for you that you ended up here," Chuck said. "Adults don't interfere too much in this town, do they? And this is coming from someone who was allowed to do what they wanted back home."

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"It probably depends on which adults you're talking about. I've met some who don't really care, and then there are others who really worry over what kind of messes we get into," explained Hoshi. "Who do you have for workshops this term?"

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"Deadpool, Ms. Scherbatsky, Jean-Paul and Tink," Chuck listed off. Yeah, those would be the cool teachers. "They all seem to like me. Which is kind of weird, actually..."

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"I haven't had any of them, although I know Deadpool and Tink by reputation," said Hoshi. "They probably wouldn't interfere that much with the students. On the other hand, I got a lecture and extra homework from Professor Kerrigan because I missed a workshop."