Main campfire [Monday evening]

[momslilassassin]

Ben still had a residual headache from the pounding music in Stark's earlier in the day, but he decided that it was nothing grilled sausages and marshmallows couldn't fix.

Besides, the weather was too nice out tonight to waste it by being indoors. Ben sat on a log next to the crackling fire, grilling a sausage with half his attention. The other half was focused on the stars.

It'd been too long since he'd flown.

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"Dude," Puck greeted Ben cheerfully, "do you have like, graham crackers and chocolate to go with the marshmallows? Because I've been told we're like, deficient unless we eat them all together. And I don't do things half-assedly."

Some people say 'hello,' Puck.

[momslilassassin]

"Of course," Ben said, laughing. "I don't want to be run out of town by angry, s'mores-less people."

[sexonyoursheets.livejournal.com]

"It's scary. There were threats the other night when I just had marshmallows," he admitted.

[momslilassassin]

"And angry people with sugar that catches fire is a dangerous combination," Ben declared. "I try to keep them happy."

[sexonyoursheets.livejournal.com]

"The other night, I was blowing up Peeps," he told him, "and this one chick got all sad at me because I was mean to them. Which, whatever, they don't feel. Probably."

[momslilassassin]

"Those are the marshmallow things, right?" Ben checked. "There have been misunderstandings--back home we eat nerf, but that gets me looks here."

[sexonyoursheets.livejournal.com]

"...like the footballs?" Puck was a simple soul, yes. A smarter person might have figured out that nerf was an animal or something.

[momslilassassin]

"Here, yeah, kind of spongey and yellow," Ben said with a nod. "At home, they're sort of like cows."

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri was not often one of those people either, so that was okay.

"I take it that means you want some."

. . . she meant the marshmallows.

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Puck arched a brow at her, smirking. "Always do."

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri raised both eyebrows and gave him a dubious look in return. "That didn't really mean whatever you thought it meant, just for your information."

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"You should be more careful with your words, then," he told her solemnly. "Misleading isn't any fun."

[weetuskenraider]

"I was just offering you marshmallows," Tahiri told him. "No need to get overambitious about it."

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"How do you know I didn't just want marshmallows?" he asked innocently.

[weetuskenraider]

"Please, as if anyone gets that excited about marshmallows, unless they come from a world with no sugar," she scoffed (mildly).

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"Maybe I do," he said woefully. "Maybe I've been sugar-deprived my whole entire life. Poor little me."

[weetuskenraider]

"Well, if that's the case," and Tahiri so didn't believe it was, "I'd be willing to let you have a whole bag of marshmallows. But that might be all you're getting from me."

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"My disappointment, then," he said with a wink that he was pretty sure was like, super-charming. "I'll be pining away over here with the marshmallows, then."

[weetuskenraider]

Tahiri rolled her eyes at him, but nicely. Mostly. "Enjoy them, and next time don't get your hopes up too high."