Main Campfire | Wednesday Night | 5.26.2010

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

Peter didn't particularly want to gather a crowd, but making a campfire and tossing black snakes and firecrackers at it seemed particularly amusing today.

So yeah, there was definitely a bit of noise. Peter wasn't a blossoming pyro or anything, he was just a bored teenager. Anyone was definitely welcome to join him. He might even have some moddable extra bits of fireworks.

[ooc: Open like an open space!]

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[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

Kyle frowned at the mention of a funeral, but was glad to hear that he'd be back. "He wasn't being dramatic," he explained. "This time. I was pretty sure it was a one way trip. Turns out it was only a seven month tour. Is Bobby okay?"

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"He's fine. Physically, I mean. It was Jean," she said, knowing Bobby would have told Kyle if he'd been able. "So, yeah. But I'm glad you're back. Especially since you thought it was going to be longer -- that time travel thing's a pain."

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

"Literally," he agreed. "Was it the Jean here? Or no. It'd be his Jean at home," Kyle realized. He shook his head. "It's never easy. He's probably not going to take it well." It was Bobby. He cared about everyone he met more than anyone else Kyle knew. "He won't know I'm back. Can you call me when you see him?"

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"I will, and I'll tell him to get in touch with you, too," she promised. "I've been telepathically tracking the island for his brain a couple times a day, in case he forgets we're supposed to be in the cabins or he shows up and doesn't find one of us right away. But yeah, he didn't take it very well. He's hanging in, though, but I think he's going to need some distractions when he's back."

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

"He'll be okay," Kyle said, trying to convince himself of that as much as Sookie. He wasn't too sure of that. "You, me and George can keep him busy."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"I'm planning on it," she assured him. "I already talked to him a few days ago, and he's...repressing. So he's going to need time with you two, and I'll see what I can do, too."

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

Kyle nodded. "We'll make it work. Are you okay?" They hardly knew each other, but she was with Bobby and that made her important.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"I'm fine," she said with a quick smile. "Worried about him, and irritated over the cabins, but otherwise fine. Are you okay? Time travel aside -- things are okay?"

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

"I'm alive, so I'm always okay," he said, but forgot he was talking to someone who had mental reading things going on. He was not okay, not even a little. There were brief glimpses of what he was thinking of while he lied to her, of barging in on a large African-American man who was beating the hell out of Toby Ziegler a man tied to a chair, of glowing red eyes staring down at him and of dark tunnels full of sick, tired, dirty people. "It was a long couple of months, but I'm okay."

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

She hadn't been planning on intentionally probing, but Sookie recognized a lie when she saw one. Hence, she lowered her shields just enough to take a quick peek, and even if she hadn't seen the images -- and she did catch a glimpse -- the emotions roiling off of Kyle alopne were enough to startle her. "...are you sure?" she ventured, a little quietly. "I don't mean to pry, it's just -- it's hard to lie to a telepath, Kyle."

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

That expression? Kyle's busted expression. He tried to clarify. "I'm okay here. Home isn't okay any time, but I think," he paused to think of what to say. "I think it's getting worse. But I'm here and I can't change that here. I'm just okay." He wasn't sure if that made sense.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"You can't change anything while you're here," she parsed, frowning a bit. "But you know things aren't going well back home? I don't suppose there is a way you can help from here?"

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

Kyle shook his head. "I can only follow my orders and do what I have to do here. It kind of sucks." He managed a smile.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"It really does," she said sympathetically. "And I suppose your orders are to stay here. I mean, for whatever it's worth, at least you're safe here. And when you graduate, you'll be able to go home and work on things -- you're sort of...being preserved."

It was similar to what she'd said to Karla a week or so ago.

[I fell asleep. D:]

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

"Every army needs a second line," Kyle nodded, coming to the same realization. "It's a good place to train. So you were saying you're not liking the cabins? Someone causing trouble?"

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

"Not exactly. Close quarters for someone with mind-sensitivity, is all," she admitted. "I'm dealing with it. No one's like, starting fistfights in my cabin or anything."