Calling Suburbia...

by **Brigid Plunder** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:25 pm

"Okay, yeah, no. Those things are built like tanks."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:26 pm

"So you've tried, then?" he said with a smirk.

by **Brigid Plunder** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:28 pm

"Just trust me, unless you've got backup you run from those, or better yet you hide."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:38 pm

"All right, all right, dropping the whole 'dinosaur' thing before I give more examples of just how ignorant I am," Alex chuckled. "Sorry for having too much faith in you," he added with a wink.

by **Brigid Plunder** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:40 pm

"I'll try and take some photos from far, far, away. Maybe then you'll believe me," she chuckled.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:44 pm

"Do you ever see those National Geographic specials on dinosaurs and stuff and want to write them angry letters about how stupid and wrong they are?" He was, actually, legitimately curious and not trying to poke fun.

by **Brigid Plunder** » Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:47 pm

"They're not... you know, that far off. I mean, not since the Daily Bugle broke the news about this place existing, which was before my time."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:09 am

Alex chuckled a little, deciding to drop the subject before he pushed it too much. "So have you managed to make any more headway than me into getting to leave early? So far I haven't gotten any suggestions that don't involve property damage."

by **Brigid Plunder** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:10 am

She sighed.

"It's just not happening. I'm going to have to tough it out."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:16 am

"Yeah, I don't think I'll manage it short of running away. Which got suggested to me, too. Side note, we go to school with some people who like to get people to do things that are a really bad idea."

by **Brigid Plunder** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:42 am

"Whose advice are you taking?"

by **Alex Carpenter** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:13 pm

"Oh, don't know if you met her. Haley. Little blonde girl, looks about T-Bow's age, permanently attatched to her cell phone? She IMs me and says how simple it is to get sent there, I just need to pretend that I can't control my power and just use it to destroy a bunch of stuff that people will miss. Because that's a great idea and pissing people off to get sent to school early is totally worth it, right?"

by **Brigid Plunder** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:28 pm

"Sounds like she's just lonely."

"Or maybe she has a little crush on you," she grinned.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 3:42 pm

Alex laughed. "Please, she's like thirteen. T-Bow ought to be all over that if he didn't have a thing for older women," he teased back, winking.

by **Brigid Plunder** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 3:45 pm

"Oh come on, he does not!"

by **Alex Carpenter** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 3:56 pm

"Well, I admit there isn't a lot of evidence, but that is where the evidence points so far," Alex teased.

by **Brigid Plunder** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:20 pm

"He's just a kid. I think he's just nervous around people."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:21 pm

Alex smirked. "All right, if that's what you think, that's what we'll go with."

by **Brigid Plunder** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:41 pm

"He wears a wizard hat," she said as if that explained everything.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:00 pm

"Yeah, I... really hate to think about how well that would or wouldn't have gone over at a regular school," Alex admitted.

by **Brigid Plunder** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:10 pm

"Yeah, so he'll probably relax a lot once we're all there in the fall."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:22 pm

"Well, I'm sure he will around me. Around you on the other hand..."

by **Brigid Plunder** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:02 pm

"Eesh. Don't tell me you're jealous."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:11 pm

Was the tint on Alex's cam not working right again? "Well, I mean, no, of course not..."

by **Brigid Plunder** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:17 pm

"Even if he's... yeah, he's not being a jerk about it or anything."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:22 pm

"Well, yeah, of course not," Alex said, evidently still a bit off balance. "I mean, he's just a kid."

by **Brigid Plunder** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:24 pm

"Exactly. So, you know, nothing to worry about there."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:28 pm

"Well yeah! I mean, I wasn't! Because that'd just be silly, right?"

by **Brigid Plunder** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:30 pm

"Okay, look, I'm going to distract you here."

She reached out towards the camera and the view lurched for a few moments, then panned out the window. Shortly, it settled on a triceratops that was apparently getting a drink in a stream a few hundred yards away.

"Better?"

by **Alex Carpenter** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:56 pm

"Want to trade homes with me?" Alex asked with a smirk.

by **Brigid Plunder** » Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:58 pm

"I don't think you can afford to feed Mister Stampy there."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:07 am

"The cleanup costs would be brutal, too," Alex admitted.

by **Brigid Plunder** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:08 am

"Probably don't have a big enough can of bug spray to live here either," she teased.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:25 am

"Yeah, yeah. Still, picturing you riding down the street on a triceratops is a nice picture," he teased.

by **Brigid Plunder** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:26 am

"Now you at least know what one really looks like. I uh... named him when I was little."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:29 am

"Yeah, it sounded like it," Alex said with a grin. "Hey, it's a valid name. No worse than naming a dog 'spot' because he has spots, right?"

by **Brigid Plunder** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 4:27 pm

"Needless to say, he's not coming along in the fall."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 5:03 pm

"Probably wouldn't be able to hide him in your suitcase, no," Alex agreed.

by **Brigid Plunder** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 5:13 pm

"And I bet all your pets are pretty normal, huh?"

by **Alex Carpenter** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 5:23 pm

"Don't have any," Alex said. "Mom's kind of anti-pet. Too much 'ripping up the house' possibility."

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