Fire Drill, Outside the Dorms, Oh Dear Lord How Is This O'Clock Wednesday Night

[endsthegame]

Fandom lay peaceful in the night, recovering from its latest brush with invasion. It had reached such an hour that even the teal deer slept soundly in the woods, and the crickets had given up on chirping to go play Texas Hold-'Em in the caves in the cliffs just off the Preserve.

The rain started almost tentatively: a few drops of dew that wrestled loose from the grass and gently made their way upwards. But soon they multiplied, soon they went faster. Soon the dark skies were full of water raining upwards, coagulating into clouds far up above.

And then...

...and then the fire drill alarms went off in the dorms.

Sorry, kids.

[[ this will be your fire drill post for the evening! have at, oh students. ]]

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[vanillajello]

"Mmm, I like that thought," Kate murmured. "I like that thought so much I want to marry it even without accidentally knocking it up first."

[therewaslife]

"Why don't you just try to sleep right here and I'll carry you up to your room once the drill ends?" Bod suggested quietly. "You're tired."

[vanillajello]

"I'm standing up and there's rain going up my shorts," she pointed out, still not managing to sound like she was protesting too hard. So tired. "Sounds inconducive to sleeping."

[therewaslife]

At that, Bod stepped back from her and tugged his t-shirt off. He lay it carefully on the ground and then said, "Step on my shirt and lean against me. It'll stop some of the water from hitting you."

[vanillajello]

Kate watched him do all that through half closed eyes. "... Chivalrous," came the verdict, once she was stepping on to his shirt as requested. "Hm. This does feel a bit better."

[therewaslife]

"Try to relax," Bod said, reaching to pull her back against him. "The drill will be over soon and then we'll go back to your room and sleep. I promise."

[vanillajello]

"Mm, promise." She leaned against him pretty heavily, trying to do some of that relaxing thing she'd heard so much about. Maybe she'd even succeed. Her voice was a sleepy mumble against his bare chest. "How do I deserve you?"

[therewaslife]

"You just do," he murmured, rubbing her back and keeping her close to him. "That's all that matters."

[vanillajello]

"If you say so."

She wasn't going to argue more than that, not tonight. She also didn't say anything else, just gave another quiet sigh, closing her eyes.

[therewaslife]

"I say so," he murmured, letting that be the last thing he said for awhile. She looked like she might actually be settling down and he'd just be her pillow until he could get her up to her actual pillow.

[vanillajello]

And he was such a good pillow. Soon enough, she was doing as close an approximation of sleep as one could while standing up in freaky rain. It wasn't restful and it wasn't comfortable, but it would do until they could go back in.

Stupid island, but hey, at least she didn't have to suffer through this on her own.