Locust campfire- Thursday night

[solo_sword]

This was really weird.

Jaina didn't have the anxious, jittery feeling in the cabins that she used to. Some closure and time had done some good there. No, the weird part was that she was still in the cabins again. But it was this or singing insects and she'd already screamed at them twice before the announcement, so she figured she was fighting a losing battle there. It was just very strange going back to something she'd thought was fun at sixteen and then circumstances had sort of ruined the fun part.

Still, she could deal with it, and it wasn't going to stop her from getting a fire going and bringing out the makings for s'mores when she was pretty sure it wasn't going to be raining. When you'd been deprived of chocolate as long as she had, you found reasons to have it.


[I've been wanting to play all daaaay. You should play with me. *nods*]

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"Thanks," he said. "You might say different if we went on an op together these days, but that's not so likely."

[solo_sword]

She gave him a sideways glance and said, "Now you have me curious what an op is like with you, though." He'd never really been able to talk about it, so she'd sort of just put the thought aside.

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"Well, of course it'd be great, right?" John teased. "And highly successful, except for the part where something went terribly wrong. But we'd come out of it in the end, no matter how beaten, broken, tortured, or dead I was at any point during the op. I know, it sounds like your kind of fun, yeah?"

[solo_sword]

"That sounds a lot like most of my missions," she frowned. "Except for the dying part, stop that." Said, of course, as she held out the finished s'more.

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"Mmm, s'mores," he said, accepting the cooked creation as a good conversation change. "Now this is what the Pegasus Galaxy is missing."

[solo_sword]

"Yeah, we have a chocolate shortage back home," she told him. "When I heard 'cabins' my first thought went to these. Thank you, Earth."

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"At least you have chocolate," John whined. "They don't even have something similar to coffee out there. It gets depressing. Got. It's not like I can go back."

[solo_sword]

"I'm sorry. It sucks," she said sympathetically, realizing she might actually get where he was coming from on that now. Where were these insights before? "There is a bright side, which is coffee and chocolate, and if you're so inclined, just go straight for mocha. It's not a huge bright side, but..."

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"Don't be sorry," John plastered on a smile. "I'm good here. But don't go putting chocolate in my coffee. I'd rather drink your evil hot cocoa."

[solo_sword]

"It's not evil, it's just misunderstood," she said, grinning as she shook her head at herself.

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"Misunderstood like an evil mastermind," John smirked. "But then, what else can we expect from the chocolate drunk by Jedi."

[solo_sword]

"Are you saying hot chocolate gives me evil mastermind powers, or that me drinking hot chocolate makes it like an evil mastermind?"

It had been so long since she'd had this weird a conversation. It was great.

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"Depends on your answer to which came first, the bunny or the Cadbury creme egg?" There was a reason no one ever called John sane. Not that he ever would admit this.

[solo_sword]

She totally gave him a funny look for that, because this was somehow still a new reference. "Bunnies lay eggs now?"

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"Jesus, Jaina," John smacked his own forehead. "I failed you in so many ways. Uh, culturally speaking." The rest he wasn't copping to yet.

[solo_sword]

"You tried! That's the important part, right?" she said, smiling at the reaction.

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"Not when you learned so little!" Possibly because they'd make out during every movie they ever tried watching, cultural references be damned.

[solo_sword]

"I learned plenty, there's just always new stuff!" she protested.

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"Well then, I'm gonna fill you in," John decided. "See, at Easter, people eat a lot of chocolate, and this chocolate company called Cadbury makes these egg shaped things with yellow and white sugary creme inside to look like an egg yolk." He paused. "And the more I think about it, the grosser it seems? But anyhow, the ads for Cadbury products feature a clucking bunny that lays the creme eggs...and you're not following at all are you?"

[solo_sword]

"I'm following, I just... Okay, I don't think you're making it up but it sounds like you could be. Clucking bunny. Seriously." Maybe he'd cluck for a new ringtone.

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There would be no clucking. "Just remember this come April when you're candy shopping. This time of year you really can't verify it. Unless you go on the internet and find a commercial..."

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Jaina smiled and whipped out her phone. "You have no idea how much I missed this thing."

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John could only laugh. "You would. Three years with an earpiece attached to my head and getting pulled from sleep for situations has me thrilled to leave mine in my apartment, oops."

[solo_sword]

"I'm sure you mean that 'oops'," she said with a lopsided grin, pulling up the webpage. "I keep my comlink on me now, but it's nothing but my parents and Zekk checking up now. This phone is my favorite toy, which I couldn't use when I was stuck at home. It is never leaving my sight again."

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"Still hanging with your favorite pop star?" John asked, only rolling his eyes a little bit.