Picnic Time! (Charlie-member)

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Marie sat on the beach of the lake after decent unpleasant efforts to get to ground level. How she was going to get back up in a way acceptable in public, she wasn’t sure. But she was confident this would be worth it. She sat awkwardly as she pulled her ballet flats off. Then came the joy of it as she dug her bare feet into the warm sand. “Ah, better than a hot bath. Well, on par.” She dug her fingers in too for good measure. The sand felt so free.

She wiped the sand off her hands on her pants and grabbed the bag she’d just gotten from the grocery store. First she pulled out the fruit cup. Then the bottle of aloe juice. Then the banana. Cravings were real and they truly were weird. Grocery trips were dangerous because she would see something and realize she wanted it. That was why she planned on recruiting her little brother, Alden, to be her grocery police. For now, though, she was on her own. With a fruit cup, aloe juice, and a banana. She pulled the plastic back on the fruit cup and tipped some into her mouth without an ounce of shame. Ah, so good. She set that down and twisted open the aloe juice. Sure, it was a whole liter, but it didn’t come smaller and it looked really, really good. She drank a swig of it and decided a liter was worth it. So refreshing. Cap back on, and rest in the sand. Next the banana. She peeled it and took a big bite. On the tail end of the aloe juice, it hit pretty hard with a curious and almost nasty taste. She continued eating it though, finding the weird taste kind of fun to experience. She tucked the peel back into the bag when it was void of banana. Another mouthful of fruit cup and she leaned back on her hands to stare up at the cloudy sky peacefully.

TAG: (member-Charlie)
WORDS: 335
NOTES: Muse ran out.

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The lake was one of the places that Gabriel had always liked to hang out. It was one of his favorite reading spots. There were always awesomely large trees with bunches of shade where the wind was nice and cool. There were always families out here and they always made him smile. There was just something about watching them, watching the kids interact with the other kids, watching families be together, Gabriel often would find himself peering over the top of his book, probably one that he had read at least a thousand times before, while he watched them. He wasn't trying to be creepy or anything, but he always ended up doing some form of people watching. He was good with people, easy to get along with. Many people tended to think of the children of Pluto to be super crazy, which to a degree, they were right. Gabe had his own personal style of crazy that just wasn't operating on the same level as his deceased sister. And his nieces and nephews tended to be a little odd. HE still had yet to meet one that was on some semblance of normal. No wonder everyone looked at him oddly.

Then he spotted Marie. Chris's wife. Gabriel was now a centurion though almost everyone in first cohort knew about Chris and Marie. It was one of the favorite gossips of some of the girls. Gabriel was very happy for his cousin. Being a kid of the big three could be a pain in the rear sometimes, so to see someone being happy, well he was ecstatic. When the centurions were happy, generally the rest of the cohort were happy. When they had a bad day, everyone paid for it. Well at least when Charlie was running the show that's what happened. He could remember bad mood training sessions that tended to leave him super sore in the mornings. "Hey Marie." Gabriel said as he plopped down beside her. Whoops, he totally forgot to introduce himself. Gabe had just assumed that she knew who he was. "I'm Gabe, Chris's cousin. Well we're all cousins here or so I think. But like closer cousins." He gave a bit of a laugh at his awkward hello. "Sorry, I'm odd." She said.

words: 380
Notes: Gabe is a doofus
tags: Marie Ashby

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Marie had just rested her head in the soft, warm sand. It was like the world’s best pillow. It gave just enough, and retained its own warmth that made her feel like a cat in a sun beam. A big yawn escaped her lips and it mildly registered that she may actually doze off here if she wasn’t careful. And if the baby wasn’t pressing on organs in weird ways. Then again, she was getting used to that feeling. Even had a thought that she might miss it. Oh well, tiny hands grabbing fingers was far better than tiny butts squishing bladders. Right? Sure.

Then she heard someone say her name and her eyes opened instantly. The voice was not familiar, but she was Roman enough to pinpoint exactly where it was coming from. She sat up and looked to that spot, which happened to be a tree, but the voice couldn’t have been the tree because dryads had distinct tones. And there he was, blending into the shadows to her sun drenched eyes. She held up a hand and blocked the sunshine from her eyes and smiled. “Hey there!”

She grinned as he took a seat and introduced himself. She casually waved him off. “Oh, I know you. I had one of those distance crushes on you long ago,” she said as though she was stating the weather. “Short for Gabriel, like the angel.” She grinned. “You’re odd? You obviously haven’t been here at the lake long, given my super sensible diet going on here.” She laughed. “So fill me in, Gabe. What brings you here? I heard you’re the new centurion. Congrats.”

TAG: @gabriel
WORDS: 274
NOTES: why is it that typing “yawn” makes you yawn??? Even the word is contagious!