School Grounds - Wednesday Night

[mauledbyabear.livejournal.com]

Emmett had been a little wary about eating a deer that was that weird greenish color, but he couldn't resist trying something new. He figured that worse comes to worse at least it wouldn't kill him. They hadn't been hard at all to catch and Emmett found them to be sweeter than most deer, if not entirely satisfying. Still, he hadn't been trying to fill himself up. He was just trying to tide himself over until he could leave during the weekend to hunt something bigger.

He walked up to the school grounds from the preserve, his face looking more flushed than usual and picking teal fur out of his teeth. What'd he do for a toothpick right about now.

[Open. The fact that Emmett has been hunting is NFB. No actual teal deer were harmed in the writing of this post]

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The cooler (colder, even) weather of the east both made Sookie wish for the relative warmth of Bon Temps, and grateful and pleased to show off her new winter coat. And in a bout of restlessness, she'd decided to go for a walk this evening, still trying to learn her way around the grounds.

"Emmett?" she called when she spotted him. It was either him or a bear or something, and if it was a bear, she had bigger problems.

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Emmett would be so happy if there were bears on campus.

"Yeah, it's me," Emmett said, quickly checking himself for blood and teal fur before walking closer. "Hey, Sookie. What are you doing out here?"

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"Walking," she said honestly. More importantly, walking outside without other people, so she could hear her own thoughts for once. "Just needed some fresh air. You?"

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"Same," Emmett lied. He had stupidly forgot to bring a coat with him so he could pretend to be cold. Emmett felt that when it came to hunting, the less clothes, the better. "It's really crowded in those dorms, huh?"

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"You don't know the half of it," she said with a small smile, poking out to see if she could hear him, again. Still nothing. It was so weird. "What's your roommate like?"

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"Oh, I don't have one," Emmett said. "I'm one of the lucky ones who gets a room to himself. I'm using the spare bed as a place to lay my hats."

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"Lucky!" Sookie said, genuinely envious. "Mine's been real respectful and sweet. His last roommate was a terrorist, though."

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"...Seriously?" Emmett asked, the shock of that turning quickly to amusement. He shook his head and chuckled. "I should be more surprised but I'm not. This place is like a breeding ground for weird sh--crap."

Which is why he felt like he belonged here, kinda.

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Sookie actually laughed at that little slip. It was like listening to Jason. "It really, really is. I mean, I...it's a lot different from my last school, that way. People are so accepting here."

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"I still don't understand why people wouldn't accept you," Emmett said honestly. "Maybe I should go down there and really scare the hell out of them. Wouldn't be saying anything about you again."

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"Aww, if scaring them worked, there wouldn't be a single rumor about me floating around," she said, laughing. "I've tried that a few times. It's fun, but it just makes them bitchier. 'Scuse my language."

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"Hey, I feel that language is totally acceptable when talking about people that deserve it," Emmett said, holding up his hands. "And it sounds like some of those people in Louisiana really deserve it."

Emmett didn't like it when people were mean to girls. Or, well, human girls. Some vampire girls deserved it.

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"Maybe," she said, shrugging. "Can't fault people for being scared of what they don't understand."

She eyed him. "Aren't you cold?"

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"Oh me? I'm totally fine. This is nothing compared to Washington," Emmett said, puffing out his chest and clapping his hands together just to prove how manly and not-cold he was. "You're too used to the south, I think."

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"Does it snow there?" she wondered. "I've never seen it before."

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Emmett's jaw dropped open and he almost wanted to reach out and hug Sookie because he felt so bad for her. "You've never seen snow? But snow's awesome! There's nothing better than a snowball fight, seriously. It snows all the time in Washington."

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She shook her head, smiling at his reaction. "Nuh uh. We sometimes get some frost, but that's 'bout it, at least as long as I've been alive. I mean, I guess we can hope for some here?"

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"It totally snows in Maryland," Emmett said. "And when it does we're definitely having a snowball fight."

He tilted his head a looked around. "Are you walking somewhere specific? I could walk with you."

Emmett always had more energy after eating and there was no way he could go back into the dorms now.

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She shook her head. "Just kind of familiarizing myself. I think better outside. But if you want to walk with me, I'm not saying no." Besides, it's not like she could hear him anyway. She still got her mental break.

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"Awesome," he said. If Sookie had been Rosalie or, hell, if he had been wearing a coat, he would have done his best Jasper impression and offered her his arm. But as it was he just smiled at her and started walking slowly (painfully slow in his opinion), heading nowhere in particular.

"So your roommate is a guy?" Emmett asked.

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"Yep," Sookie said, nodding easily and shoving her hands in her pockets. "His name's Worf. He offered to put up a divider but I grew up with a brother who has no concept of modesty. Doesn't bother me at all."

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Emmett chuckled. "It's good that kind of stuff doesn't bother you. There's a lot of people in the dorms. I think it's inevitable that you're gonna end up seeing some pretty immodest things, whether you want to or not."

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"Or hear them," she commented lightly. "People here aren't all that shy."

Not that it'd stop her if they were, but still, there were a lot of really loud broadcasters here.

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"That's a problem I'm used to," Emmett admitted with amusement. "My brother he, uh, he's got very good hearing."

So what if Emmett thought dirty things on purpose just to piss him off? It was funny.

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"Really?" she asked, tilting her head. "Does he ever hear anything interesting?"

And okay, maybe she was fishing. She'd found four other psychic-types so far. That was four more than she'd ever met.