Fourth Floor Common Room - Wednesday Morning

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There was something decidedly unkingly about sitting on a couch in sweatpants, a t-shirt and socks while eating cereal and watching cartoons. That didn't stop Edmund. He'd been here far too long and was developing bad habits. Relaxing, comfortable, bad habits.

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"Where do you want to go?"

[wannabehunter]

"Anywhere that's not Nebraska."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"That's specific," he remarked. "Don't you want to go to Disneyland like the people on television?"

[wannabehunter]

"I hear Disneyland's not much fun if you're going on your own."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"You could take the hunters on a field trip."

[wannabehunter]

Jo chose not to dignify that with a reply. Beyond laughter that was.

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"You can't imagine a group like that in the happiest place on Earth?"

[wannabehunter]

"Not unless they were trying to put down the restless spirit of Walt Disney." Always a possibility that.

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"Something they'd be surely thrilled about. Isn't there anyone our age in Nebraska?"

[wannabehunter]

"Yeah, but they're all boring. Not a lot of hunters have families. Even less of those stay put in the one place their whole lives."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"Not everyone who's not a hunter is boring," Edmund chided her. "Maybe you'll run into some worthwhile people on your road trip. You travel far enough and you always find someone interesting."

[wannabehunter]

"I know," Jo admitted grudgingly. "But I can't be honest with most of them. All the kids I went to grade school with think my dad was a travelling salesman."

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"For every hundred that think you're mad, you may find one who believes you."

[wannabehunter]

"But they're probably the crazy ones."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"Then you'll fit right in," he said, giving her a smile.

[wannabehunter]

Jo snorted. "Speaking from experience?"

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"You have to be a little mad to live as we do."

[wannabehunter]

"Only a little?"

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"Too mad and you end up like the really crazy people. We toe a fine line."

[wannabehunter]

"Or dance along it, weeks like the other one."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"I think we'd be on the far side of the line if we'd sat inside and not done anything."

[wannabehunter]

"Good thing we didn't, then."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"You needn't sound so heartbroken. We'll find other ways to go completely mad."

[wannabehunter]

"Like watching cartoons until our brains rot?"

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"Personally, I'm about halfway there already."