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Sam Ford (treated) wrote in utr_logs,
@ 2009-11-21 20:02:00

Entry tags:

candy quackenbush, eskarina smith, hope, iggy, john connor, reggie lass, sam ford, tony stonem

Who: Open to anyone attending Homecoming.
What: Taunton Homecoming Dance
Warning: Explosions!

The gym had been decorated with streamers and banners. There was punch in the corner, and kids were dancing to songs that grownups had decided were popular. It looked just like a typical dance from any high school movie. The faculty must have done their research via Netflix.

It was Taunton's first Homecoming Dance. One of the women on the party planning committee was from America, and since Taunton had quite a few American students, they'd decided it would be a fun event. With the recent loss of the headmistress, they thought everyone could use something to cheer them up. They'd gone all-out, even holding elections for Homecoming King and Queen.

Sam had just "broken up" with Candy yesterday, but he'd told her he still wanted to take her to the dance, if she wanted to go. She was his best friend, and that wasn't going to change. Neither of them had another date, and he'd already bought the tickets, so they might as well go together.

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traitorousrat
2009-11-28 06:28 am UTC (link)

He chuckled and gave the top of her head a kiss. "Distracted much?"

The new body thing was kind of weird to him too. If it hadn't been Reggie's mannerisms and Reggie's speech patterns, he wouldn't have bought it at all, and probably would have been in jail for doing something stupid out of his grief instead of at a school dance. But he made an effort to not seem like it was that weird to him, because if it was weird to him, it would make it all even weirder between the two of them.

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canibeontheboat
2009-11-28 03:50 pm UTC (link)

"Sorry." She leaned up to give him a quick peck on the lips. "Just not used to these things. Maybe it was kind of a silly idea, but I thought it would be romantic, or something." She really did want it to be romantic. She wanted to have a fun time, and she was hoping for something to distract her from 'work'. But she practically felt sick to her stomach about the whole thing.

Then she spotted Kyle, over by the bathrooms. That was as good an excuse as any. "Hey, I'm gonna run to the bathroom. I'll be back." She leaned up to kiss him again.

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	traitorousrat 2009-11-28 09:06 pm UTC (link)
	He kissed her back and grinned. "Cool, I'm going to go find a place to have a smoke. Then we can start over on the whole romantic idea, okay? Maybe even dance or whatever." He was definitely going to need a cigarette if he was going to have to dance. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

canibeontheboat
2009-11-28 09:56 pm UTC (link)

After she finished with Kyle, she headed back to David. He was just coming back inside from having a smoke. She was feeling less shaken now, and determined to have fun, like Didi had encouraged her to. She waved to him just before the explosion went off.

Reggie hadn't known how or why Kyle was going to die, so she was just as surprised as everyone else. She'd been expecting him to choke on a pretzel or something. She stumbled forward, a large chunk of metal from the bleachers flying at her and embedding itself in her torso. It was a little disorienting.

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traitorousrat
2009-11-30 10:03 am UTC (link)

The flash of light and a loud noise. He shielded his face with his arm instinctively, and was knocked to the ground by a flying chair's collision with his leg. When he drew his arm away from his face to see what the hell happened, he found several shards of metal had pierced his jacket. His leg hurt like a bitch, and there was something stuck in his side. All that was secondary. Because there was Reggie, and she was impaled.

"Reggie!" he screamed her name, but he wasn't the only one screaming now. He ran to her, dodging the crowds of people now heading for the doors. When he got to her, he wore an expression of absolute horror. "Oh god baby, don't move." Shit. Was he about to lose her, again?

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canibeontheboat
2009-11-30 12:09 pm UTC (link)

"I'm okay, I'm okay." Reggie looked down, confused. How was she okay? She reached down and grabbed the object and carefully pulled it out of her body. "That felt really weird." Her skin was now smooth, no sign of any sort of wound, except for her torn dress.

She reached out to him, brow creased in worry. She didn't think his injuries would be so easy to tend to. "Are you okay? We gotta get out of here."

Bringing a date was a really stupid idea.

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traitorousrat
2009-11-30 09:04 pm UTC (link)

He stared at her for a moment, his brain needed to process that even though there had been a big piece of metal through her, she was absolutely fine. He shook it off. "Fuck, you scared me." Guess she couldn't exactly die twice, could she? He took her hand in his bloody one and kissed it. Then and only then did anything start to hurt. He winced. "I'm fine. You get out of here, I should help get some of these other people out."

He kicked off his shoes and ditched his jacket. The little bits of bloody metal and glass that had stuck in it fell to the floor. He was already starting to change. Looks like this would be the second time in a week that he went lion to pull somebody out of debris.

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