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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[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"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.

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

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"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.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"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.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

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."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

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."

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"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."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

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

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"Always," she said, frowning at her phone right about the time she saw a lion in bunny ears. Said lion at least gave a good conversation changer if he reacted badly to this, anyway. "We're sort of linked now. Earth is weird, by the way." She'd still missed it.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Linked? Meaning I'm talking to him right now?" Because ew, gross.

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She could have downplayed it, but John got honesty. "A week ago, the answer would have more or less been yes," she said, though to be fair, a week ago she and Zekk would have been having this conversation with him together. "There's too much distance now, though. Now you're getting just me."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Huh, creepy." John didn't like the thought of anyone else in his head, let alone inside the people he was talking to.

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"It's not so bad," Jaina assured him. "In fact, it's nice to know someone's there."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"What, the thing missing your whole life was that guy in your head?" John asked skeptically.

[solo_sword]

"It was a bad few years," Jaina said, shrugging a bit uncomfortably. The only reason he got the truth was because it was him. "It'd been a long time since I was really connected to anyone. It wasn't going to last. The bond'll be gone before you know it."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"I don't even know what that means," John told her, brow wrinkling in confusion.

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"Don't worry about it," she told him. "The explanation sounds emo when it's not. Just think of it like my bond with Jacen, but much more... invasive?"