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[gotgreenmagic]

[On the far edge of the lake - as far as you can get from the cabins, and semi-obscured from view by some trees - 1am finds Shego sitting on the bank, lazily trailing her toes through the water and lighting a cigarette. As much as she's tried to avoid herding small children, she's still had more encounters today with idiot fourteen-year-olds who think they're at the center of the universe than she was planning to have all summer. At least she's alone-ish now, although it feels like camp never really sleeps. She inhales deeply, exhaling smoke.]

[OOC: Backdated to last night; open spam for other irresponsible jerks/linefacing camp guardians/adventurous ninja campers. ♥  Multithreading etc. positively encouraged.]

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[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

"New York." Her tone doesn't suggest any willingness to be more precise. "You?"

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

"Chicago. Works for me. New York is a nice sorta place, though."

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

"You think?" She didn't look convinced. "I think you stay in any place long enough, you start hating it. I cannot wait to get out."

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

Paddy nodded, "Yeah, I'll go with that. Can't fucking stand Chicago these days, y'know." He took a drag from his cigarette and stubbed it out against a rock, "Know anyone about here with some drink on 'em?"

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, but I'm not making a dent in my stash until at least next week." She exhaled a plume of smoke into the dark. "Until then? You wanna look up Misato. She spent like the entirety of last summer in a semi-comatose state of boozedom."

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

"I was keeping mine for a special occasion." He lit up another cigarette and looked up at the stars a little, "I didn't realise they'd let her back in, y'know?"

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

She shrugged. "I figure she blew the manager. Actually, she probably blew him last year and let him tie her up or something this time."

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

"Figures." He shrugged, "Here's to never getting that fucking desperate, hey?"

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

"I'd drink to that. If I had a drink." She ground the butt of her cigarette into the ground at her side. "So. You're still at college, right? What's your major?"

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

"Business. Dad's suggestion, that kinda thing, you know what it's like." He lit up another cigarette and pushed the pack and a lighter towards her, "And you?"

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

She took a cigarette and lit up. "Thanks - psychology." Not strictly true. Eh. "Couldn't hurt to get a degree for messing with people's heads." She lay back again, making herself comfortable. "So either your dad's some kind of business tycoon who's shaping you him in his image, or he's flipping burgers for a living and wants you to be everything he's not."

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

"Buisness tycoon is sorta... one way of putting it. I really don't want to fucking end up in his image, though. It's sorta complicated."

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

"If you told me, you'd have to kill me?" she offered, mostly joking.

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

"No, but my dad might come and do it anyway. It's that kinda thing."

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

She blinks. "That's....sobering. My dad's just a mall rent-a-cop."

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, it ain't good. I don't really wanna get involved, but... family thing, you know."

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

"Yeah."

Long silence.

"You realize there's like nothing I can say now without a really abrupt change of subject."

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

"Hm. Point." He took a drag of his cigarette and looked at her, "So, any kids that are setting 'emselves up to be right bastards this year? Spotted any?"

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

"There's a bunch more 'wait until I tell my father about this, you'll never work in this town again blah blah blah' types than last year. Exactly the same bunch of kids who fail to realize they've been sent here because their parents can't stand them being around all summer."

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

"Oh, fuck me. Stuck up little bastards as usual, then." He grimaced and shook his head, "Get the picture guys, your parents fucking don't want to fucking deal with your whining."

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

She grinned. "You could've crammed at least another two F-bombs in there if you really tried."

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

"Eh, once you start actively trying, then you just become a fucking dick."