Main Campfire | Afternoon | Tuesday | June 7

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

Nathan wasn't sure how he felt about all this cabin shit. On the one hand, it was a bed and after sleeping on the floor in a community center for months, beds were always good. On the other, there was like no fucking privacy. There was less privacy than in the regular dorm rooms and those were pretty damn open and exposed.

Nathan sighed and lit a cigarette. He wondered if sitting around a campfire meant he was supposed to sing campfire songs or if he was supposed to join hands with someone and meditate. He'd never gone to camp as a kid and was kind of really glad for that. No one was going to get him into too short puke green shorts and no one was going to get him to sleep in the bottom bunk under some smelly kid named Clive.

Nathan gingerly touched his broken nose and the bruising under his eyes before grimacing and pulling his hand away. Kate was damn lucky she'd run away because Nathan had planned on...glaring intently at her. He didn't know. He just knew he owed her something for making his face look like it did.

With a groan, Nathan leaned back against one of the logs and blew out a few smoke circles. Cabins did make it easier for him to seem like a courteous guy with his smoking, at least. Maybe he'd get a reputation as a nice guy.

Yeah, right.

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[dollpocalypse]

Topher hated the cabins. In an attempt to escape the apparently boy-band-themed one that he was assigned to, he took one of his laptops out to the campfire and decided to lurk there.

"Oh, hey, man," he said upon encountering Nathan.

And he promptly took his laptop several logs away and sat down there. Not that he had anything against the smoking. He just didn't want any of the ash finding its way to the computer.

Maybe outside wasn't the best place for him.

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Nathan was just gonna give that laptop and then the owner of the laptop a look. He snorted and shook his head. "Don't nerds belong in libraries? Isn't that your natural habitat?"

Yes, that was hello in some language.

[dollpocalypse]

Topher feigned shock. "You mean this isn't the library? Crap, I must be lost. Must've been all the mining that confused me."

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"The change in scenery can confuse the slow," Nathan said, taking Topher's sarcasm literally before puffing a few more times on his cigarette. "It's okay, I won't judge you."

He already had. Oops.

[dollpocalypse]

"Whatever, libraries are boring anyway," Topher concluded. "And I gotta say, smoking by a campfire? Doesn't exactly sell you as a party animal."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"I am recovering from a very traumatic weekend," Nathan said, gesturing to his smashed up face. "Besides, there's nothing fucking open right now to have a party in or around. Why? You wanna have a game of pin the tail on the donkey? Sorry, mate, you're not my type."

[dollpocalypse]

Well, that was disturbing.

"Gonna pass on that," Topher said in a tone that implied Nathan would be disappointed. "And, uh."

He was just gonna go ahead and look at the injuries, yeah. He was a curious guy.

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

And, meanwhile, Butters loved the cabins. He loved that the island had moved again and he loved that things now felt like a real camp! Donning his Big Texas Butters hat, he sidled on out of his cabin with the intent to go check things out, but he had to at least swing by the campfire to greet everyone with a cheerful, "Howdy, pardners! How's everyone doin' today?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Welp, I'm just about to go rope me some steed and then I might head over to the brothel and bang the dirtiest girl in there so I'm doing just dandy," Nathan drawling, not even caring that he sounded extremely sarcastic. "Pardner."

Yeah, he was just wondering if Butters was serious or not. The look he was giving the kid probably spoke of that.

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

"Well, boy howdy," said Butters, swaggering over to a log so he could have a seat. "That there sure sounds like a fine idea, pardner. Just remember to use protection and wash your hands afterwards. Wouldn't want you to get one of them thar sex-ually transmitted diseases."

Because of course Butters was going to keep playing along.

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Yeah? That something you know a lot about?" Nathan asked, dropping his drawl for his normal accent. "Wait, don't tell me!"

Nathan put two fingers to his temple and stared intently at Butters as if he was reading his mind. Too bad Kelly wasn't around to do that for him.

"You've got warts on your dick, I bet! Genital warts! I bet I'm right."

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

"Naw, I reckon yer wrong," said Butters; his mouth shifted over a little to allow for a good cowboy spit. "My weiner's in good shape; real good shape. I gar-ran-teee."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"You're not gonna whip it out right here, are you?" Nathan asked, sliding away from Butters. "I don't need to see a wart covered dick, mate. I bet you and the one eyed demon have lots of fun together, applying wart cream and all but I don't need to see it. Congratulations and all."

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

"Did you get trampled by a horse?" Ramona asked tactfully as she wandered over to the campfire.

[hush yes i'm still at work but the end of the year is boring. sp yay!]

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Nathan rolled his eyes at her which just made his face ache. He'd need to take more painkillers soon.

"That's so funny," he said and fake laughed. "No. Kate turned into a fucking vampire this weekend and broke my nose."

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

"Ah, why didn't I guess that?" she wondered, going to sit with him. "Totally more reasonable than 'horse attack.' What happened, you pissed her off? Insult her fangs?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Hey, fuck you, man!" Nathan said, glaring at her. "Why does it have to be my fucking fault? She was a vampire, Ramona. She wanted to drain me and when I resisted, she fucking broke my nose and licked blood off my neck."

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

"Ew," Ramona commented, wrinkling her nose. "And calm down. It seems like your mouth gets you into trouble more often than not. But that sucks. It it healing okay or whatever?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"No, I'm gonna die from a broken nose," Nathan said sarcastically before reaching up to rub the bridge of his nose and forehead. "It's healing fine, I guess. I went to the doctor, he set it, I nearly cried because that hurt like a fucking motherfucker, and then he gave me a lollipop and some strong painkillers."

[withasword.livejournal.com]

After her relative success at pretending to be sociable out here last night, Kate was back, picking the same comfy(ish) log she'd found before to sit on as she eyed up Mr. War Wound across the way.

"What the hell happened to you?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"I've got herpes," Nathan quipped sarcastically. "What the fuck's it look like, man? I got my nose broken in like six places."

No, it was just one place.

[withasword.livejournal.com]

Oh so that was how it was. One eye roll, coming up.

"Right, clearly you were distracted by your herpes and repeatedly walked into a wall." Clearly.

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Way to figure it out, Inspector," Nathan drawled, giving her a fake thumbs up. "Someone broke the fuck out of my nose by headbutting me because the little twat didn't get her way. She obviously has some interpersonal communication problems to work out."

[withasword.livejournal.com]

"I don't know," Kate had to admit, "Seems like she got her point across." So it wasn't really the communication that was the problem. Breaking his nose was possibly a little extreme, but Kate couldn't say she hadn't done the same before now.

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, she was a vampire at the time," Nathan informed her, rolling his eyes. "Change your opinion at all? No one deserves to have their nose broken by a demented teenaged vampire."