Main Campfire, Friday Evening

[godofxbox]

Now that Alex was back to being a real boy god, he wanted to resume the interrupted process of getting to know his fellow campers. And he'd never really done the sitting around a campfire singing songs or whatever thing before. Yes, he'd cooked things over a fire before, but that had been, like, antelope while he and his dad had been in Africa. So, once he'd recovered his stuff from the dorms, he'd tromped into town and bought an assortment of things that went on sticks and got thrust over a campfire (enough to share around, of course), and was currently attempting to fashion some sort of method to cook a Pop-Tart over the fire.

If that failed, he could always make an entire meal out of S'Mores. Maybe he'd eat a hot dog, too, then he'd have all the major campfire food groups, right?

((Open campfire is so very open!))

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[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"What're you trying to cook, man?" Percy asked as he wandered over. "Smokey the Bear says only you can prevent forest fires."

[godofxbox]

"That's why I'm using the campfire area instead of, like, some random patch of woods," Alex pointed out. "Right now I'm trying to cook a Pop-Tart." The one currently wedged into the fork of a stick fell into the fire. "...it's not going real well," he admitted.

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"How many Pop Tarts have you gone through?" Percy wondered before taking a seat on a log, arms on his bent knees. "I'm surprised they didn't flame up big time. Pop Tarts never cooked right for me."

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

"Whoa!" said Butters, coming over the campfire and finding Alex and his Pop-Tarts there. "Are those Pop-Tarts? Gee whiz, Alex, I never would have thought of cookin' those by campfire, but that's a great idea!"

[godofxbox]

"Just two so far. I had trouble getting them to stay on the stick long enough to put them over the fire at first," Alex said with a shrug.

[godofxbox]

"It's kind of better in theory than in practice," Alex had to admit. "So far they mostly fall in the fire."

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

Percy found himself trying to think of a way to get the Pop Tart to stay on the stick. Suggesting tape was just stupid so he didn't say that.

"What about like a skillet or something?" Percy finally said. "Hold it over the fire and it'd...probably cook. I don't think it's strong enough for a stick or a skewer."

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

"Oh." Butters frowned a little at that, looking into the fire. His head tilted a little in thought. "Well," he reasoned, "what if you just sort of put 'em the fire, like you would the toaster, and then got them out with, I don't know, tongs or something?"

[godofxbox]

Alex looked thoughtful for a moment, then admitted, "I don't have a skillet. And wouldn't that be more like...frying it?"

[godofxbox]

"They'd catch on fire," Alex pointed out. "All that sugar. I'm just trying to toast them like a marshmallow, you know?"

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

Butters nodded. "So you'll have to be real quick," he noted. "Or, hey, what about those old things they used to use, before they got toasters, because that's all they had to toast bread back then. I bet we can find one real easy, bein' all in the cowboy days and everything."

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, probably," Percy admitted, scratching his cheek. "My other suggestion was taping it to the stick but that sounded stupider than suggesting the skillet."

[godofxbox]

"Then you'd have tape stuck to the Pop-Tart. If you want to eat it, I won't stop you, but I think I'll take a pass," Alex said, grinning at Percy.

[godofxbox]

"Hey, yeah!" Alex said. "Maybe we could get one of those things!"

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"You could just eat around the tape?" Percy pointed out before snorting and shaking his head. "Yeah, don't mind me, I sound like my mom right about now. Tape and Pop Tarts don't mix. Hmm."

Why he was still trying to think of a way to cook the Pop Tart, he didn't know. "Tie a string around the Pop Tart and then suspend it from the stick?"

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

"It's gettin' a little late to go out and find one tonight," Butters noted thoughtfully. "Maybe tomorrow? Or, hey, I could try to make one at work on Monday! Oh, boy, that could be fun!"

[godofxbox]

Monday was too far away! Alex wanted fire-cooked Pop-Tarts now! "I'll go looking for one tomorrow, and if I don't find one, you can do that?"

[godofxbox]

"It might fall off," Alex said unhappily. "Butters--" Alex gestured to Butters "--suggested one of those things they used to do to make toast before electricity, but we don't have one."

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

"That's a deal!" Butters said happily. He sure hoped Alex found some, but he wouldn't mind trying to whip something up himself. Maybe he'd try to make one anyway, even if Alex did find an old toaster thing. "Hey, what kinda Pop-Tarts you got, anyway?"

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"Too bad I'm not on better terms with Zeus," Percy mumbled, shaking his head. "I could just ask for him to zap the darn thing with some of his lightning."

With Percy's luck, Zeus would intentionally miss and zap him with the lightning.

[godofxbox]

"I think that might overcrisp it. Besides, I heard he's kind of been in a mood since he came back," Alex said conspiratorially.

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"He doesn't like me period," Percy shared, rolling his eyes. "There was a misunderstanding, he thought I stole his lightning bolt and then I almost killed myself getting it back. No appreciation, man."

[godofxbox]

"I've got, uh. Strawberry, blueberry, brown sugar cinnamon, S'More, and...'American Idol Blue Raspberry.'" Alex wanted to make sure they did not run out of Pop-Tarts. Because that would be a tragedy.

[godofxbox]

"We never really got to talk because of that whole...well, yeah," Alex said, because that was totally explanatory and not vague and confusing.

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I haven't seen you in awhile," Percy said, glancing over at Alex. "You go home or something? Take a summer vacation?"