JUNE EVENT: CAMP

[sailmods]

early on June 10th, Friday's morning announcements end with a request for everyone going on the latest excursion to meet her in the atrium. she seems in noticeably better spirits than she had been last time, and she leads them cheerfully to the tender. once they are all aboard, and the door is securely shut, the interior fills with gas, and, perhaps, their last thought before they slip into unconsciousness is "oh shit, not again."

passengers wake up on a rickety old school bus, driving down a dirt road surrounded by woods. what is it that they notice first? that, no matter what they were wearing before, they are now wearing a camp t-shirt and legitimately horrifyingly short shorts? the overstuffed backpack between their knees? the words "take one down and pass it around" dying on their lips? the fact that Friday is absolutely driving the bus?

or, maybe the fact that it's already slowing down, pulling up in front of a massive wooden sign, saying:

 

 

 

 

 

CAMP AION

when they get out of the bus, Friday is the one to divide them up into their cabin groups, and she is the one to give the counselors their very official-looking clipboards and whistles. she explains that they are in charge, and that she will be back to pick them up in a week, and... very little else. she responds to nothing outside of whatever is on her unseen little script, and she gets back on the bus shortly after, leaving them there.

welcome to camp. let's make some summer memories!

Comments

[secondtick]

Figured if you're calling dibs you wouldn't want anyone else taking me out. So if you bail, then I know the plan and I'll have to fight on my own.

Wouldn't be the first.

(It wasn't like he had anyone after Vi vanished and Jinx joined Silco.)

[opheliac]

(she was going to retaliate to something possibly flirtatious or maybe something witty. but it's the very last thing he said that threw all of it out the window. jinx shoots over a glare his direction and abruptly sits up.)

I didn't see you being there when I needed someone.

(and maybe he would had been if her younger self went on the search for him. but she wanted to prove that she could help without any assistance; that she can handle everything on her own with someone holding her hand.

jinx probably shouldn't be reopening this wound but as far as she is concern, he is the blame with what path this conversation is about go down on.)

[secondtick]

(Because I was too scared.)

You all left me waiting in the dark in Benzo's shop.

(In one night Ekko had lost the only father he knew, and the only friends that he had, he'd lost his home when Benzo's shop was of course torn apart for whatever killed those enforcers. Ekko turned away from the fire, he didn't want anyone seeing his face, the back of his hand being drawn across it.)

By the time I knew what happened you were gone, everyone was gone. Benzo was dead, Vander was gone, Vi was gone. You were gone, at least until you turned up with Silco.

I was left waiting in the dark waiting for the monsters to come back when none of you did.

[opheliac]

And you got Vi to blame for that. Not me, not Silco, but her.

(jinx is doing her absolute best to not shout or get too fired up because it's more than just the two of them here. and so far, she had kept her past mostly a secret and unwraps. well, beyond venti knowing but he is still in the dark on what exactly happened that night )

— So take it up with her.

[secondtick]

Maybe.

(Maybe he'd already unloaded all that he had on her, maybe he'd gotten the years of frustration of being so helpless that night when they spoke. But this was the first time it'd come up with him and Jinx. With Vi it was come out swinging and she'd just take it, Jinx though, Ekko had felt so much more there and he wasn't angry at her. He was angry at himself. Angry at Silco.)

But even if you bailed, I'd still have your back.

[opheliac]

(now she falls silent. jinx was expecting this go on a full blown raging argument; similar she would have with vi. shouting things they don't mean, maybe getting physical by pushing, and storming off. she was completely prepped for it but it ends with ekko statement despite it, he will have her back.

bewildered, she peers to him with her mouth slightly hanging open. ... now what does she say? or what should she do now as a response? jinx pulls her legs close and hugs them in a hold with her chin resting along her knees. her gaze is lock on the fire in front of them -- wondering if she should poke surface of it with a stick.)

[secondtick]

(You don't say things that you don't mean, not when it mattered. Ekko sat there a moment before getting up, taking a few steps, and then pausing before stretching.)

Think I'm going to call it. I have a lot to figure out tomorrow for the last day.

See ya tomorrow?

(He paused before looking back hopefully. He might have ruined his shot at their first date before they even got started.)

[opheliac]

(it's strange but seeing and hearing his departure makes her heart sink just a little. but it makes sense, after all. it is getting late and she can't expect him to stay up forever.

so shyly, she nods to him and flashes him a small smile.)

Yeah, yeah! S-See ya tomorrow...