Pixie cabin, alcove *mumble*D, Sunday morning

[fates_jaye]

When Jaye's phone rings, she realizes she could go outside to take the call. Then she realizes she has like fifteen other people in the cabin and decides they can listen to her babble.


"Hey there," Jaye says when she picks up the phone.

"Hey. So I've been filled in on graduation. Like, way more than you told me," Mahandra greets her. "Sharon's really confused, apparently."

"You heard all about the performance art?"

"...Yeah. In which they pretended to blow up the school?"

"Oh, no, they blew up the school. I'm just planning on being gone before I have to help fix it," she says.

"Did you decide when you're coming back?" Mahandra asks. It was probably a testament to how many of these weird phone calls Mahandra got that she wasn't questioning the fact that the school blew up. Ah, Fandom, people don't even have to be there to be affected by you.

"I'm not sure yet," Jaye answers. "I'm supposed to go to LA. I'm not sure how much of my summer I'm wanting to spend with my parents."

"I am making a decision for you," Mahandra says.

"...Uh oh."

"I graduate next Friday. What is that, the 25th? You have to come see me."

Jaye smiles a little. "I think I can manage that," she says.

She pauses. "I didn't think you'd actually agree to it. Score!"

"You're graduating. I can come home for that," Jaye protests.

"And now you'd better. I'm gonna send you a contract stating so in .pdf form. Sign it and send it back to me."

Jaye frowns at the phone. "You can't talk to Sharon anymore."


Once she's off the phone with Mahandra, she finally returns a call and tries not to think too hard on that week and a half thing.

[Pretty open, especially if you're in Pixie or have kidnap plans.]

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[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

After a less than cheerful morning, Alec's happy to get out of Jackalope for a while - even to the point of walking down to town and getting a donut, which becomes a half dozen when he listens to his phone messages.

Heading over to Pixie when he returns, stares a the door a moment, then shrugs and knocks. Jaye's got to be in there somewhere, right?

[fates_jaye]

Jaye's pretty sure she heard something, so she heads towards the door just to check. So when she opens the door, she greets him with, "You don't look like a Pixie."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"I have no idea what a pixie even is," Alec says, grinning at her as he holds up the donut bag. "You requested a rescue?"

[fates_jaye]

"Best rescuer ever," she says, letting him in. "You brought me stuff!"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Like I'd come empty-handed," Alec scoffs, stepping inside like he's going into hostile territory. "There's fifteen other people in here?"

[fates_jaye]

"Fifteen," she says with an eyeroll. "It's the super mondo giganto cabin. Luckily the people in my alcove or cool or I'd have to sleep in the tub."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"You have to share alcoves, too?" Alec looks like this is an amusing idea. "They really treat you grads right, don't they."

[fates_jaye]

Jaye facepalms. "Alcove area, or whatever," she corrects. "The cabin orgy is probably not going to happen, even with this many people."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"You're sure? Who's on your side?" Alec grins at her. "I think we might've come close in Seahorse, if not for Sam."

[fates_jaye]

"Sam, Kawalsky and Angela," she says. "And I think Seahorse was just special that way. I might be a little worried if it could really be recreated, you know?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"True," he agrees, and offers the donut bag. "Plus, then we can reminisce about the good old days. Or at least the days of shirtless parties and rampant jello shots."

[fates_jaye]

She takes one of the doughnuts, offering the bag back to him. "Did we have jello shots? Oh my god, did I forget the jello shots? That's just wrong."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Didn't we? At the party where we had the alcoholic gummies," he says, taking a donut for himself. "I could be wrong. Even my memory gets hazy after a good party."

[fates_jaye]

"Maybe I skipped the jello shots in favor of the alcoholic gummies," she says, trying to remember. "But the gummies were kind of ingenious. I think Sam threw some at me at graduation."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec snickers, taking a bite of donut. "She's a good friend. And so -- what's up with these mysterious 'plans'?"

[fates_jaye]

"I might be going to work for a certain vampire in LA," she says with a shrug. "I'll make a really good office drone, don'tcha think?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

It takes Alec a moment, because he's not really familiar with that crowd. "...Angel?" He frowns. "Why?"

[fates_jaye]

"The lion told me to," she says with a shrug. "It was either Brown or UCLA anyway, so this way I get free room and board."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

That should probably be a phrase he should question except that it sounds really familiar, so he just questions the other part of it. "It told you to go and do vampire-filing? Why?"

[fates_jaye]

"No idea. I guess I'll find out when I get there." She pauses. "Maybe Rhode Island's gonna blow up and it just means I shouldn't be there when it does."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"That'd suck with all your family being there," he says, feeling frowny still and not liking it. "You'll keep in touch, right?"

[fates_jaye]

"I kind of don't even want to leave. I'll probably be calling all you guys every weekend to come visit and bring a few gremlins with you," she says.

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

He brightens at that. "Could do. Maybe. Along with a case of the wee tiny animal of the week?"

[fates_jaye]

"Ooh, the bunnies," says Jaye. "That'll annoy people. You'd come visit me, right?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

He makes a show of thinking about it. "Maybe.

[fates_jaye]

"Maybe?" she repeats. "I don't like maybe."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

He sniffs. "You did miss my birthday," he points out.

[fates_jaye]

"I'm sorry," she winces. "I didn't know about the party till the last minute. I do still have your present back at the dorms, though."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

He gives her a surprised, but pleased look. "Oh. Well, okay then. I'm totally visiting - I've never seen L.A. when it's not half in ruins."

[fates_jaye]

"...Well now that I know it gets ruined I might need to change my plans," she says. "Or I can move before then and you can see the smog while it's still there."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"I don't think it gets ruined where you're going," Alec says oh so naively. "Visiting will definitely happen."

[fates_jaye]

"Good," Jaye says, grinning. "Because otherwise there will be withdrawal and that will be bad."