The Beach: Thursday morning

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Apart from occasional puddles of pudding, it was a glorious morning.

Cedric had handwavily picked up Jack, as promised, and they'd made their way to the beach. Now they were just waiting for the other member of their party to arrive.

[ooc: open for all your beach needs, but Cedric, Isabel, Jack thread locked to them]

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[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

"At least the rain seems to be holding off for time the time being," Cedric says, glancing at the sky. "It's felt a bit like England this past week. Cool and gray."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Do you get a lot of pudding rain in England?" Jack asked with a smile. "But yeah, the break is nice. I think it's only temporary, though." He looked up at the sky. "There's more rain up there."

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

"All the time," Cedric laughs. "Pudding rain and cookie hail and ice cream snow. Why do you think I've such a sweet tooth?"

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"It would explain why you're sweet," he said with a grin. "But I'd think a confectionery based climate would give you less of a sweet tooth, not more. Wouldn't you get bored with it if you had it all the time?"

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

"Bored and rather sick, I think." He shrugs and peers at the sky again. "At least it didn't rain meat because that might make me...meaty. That made no sense."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Snickering, Jack opened his mouth to answer, closed it, and started snickering harder, shaking his head. "I'm not touching that one."

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

"I can't even believe I said it," Cedric says, laughing and shaking his head. "It doesn't rain meat, by the way. Regular rain does happen in Hogwarts."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack laughed with Cedric. "I'm pleased to hear it," he said. "I was beginning to think Hogwarts was strange even by Fandom High standards."

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

"Oh, it's an unusual school but attending Hogwarts is benefitting me as not too much surprises me," he says. "There are one or two surprises, of course," he says with an almost shy smile.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"What sort of surprises?" he asked curiously, smiling warmly in response. "Pudding rain?"

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

"Well, yes, of course. Pudding rain is the most unusual of all," he says mock seriously. "And..sunrises."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Are the sunrises different in England?" he asked teasingly, his smile widening.

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

"Perhaps," he says, tucking his hands into his pockets. "I'd never taken the time to look before. No one ever showed me one."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack watched him in silence for a moment, then walked over to stand in front of him. "I'm glad I could show you something you'd never seen." He glanced at the ground then up at Cedric, grinning slightly. "I'd like to keep doing it."

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

"I think that's a good plan," he says, taking a step even closer. "I'm quite partial to that plan. Really."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Are you now?" Jack asked, voice dropping. "We'll have to see what we can do about it then." He closed the minute distance between them and kissed Cedric, one hand coming up to rest against his neck.

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

Cedric doesn't even manage a nod. He just kisses Jack, one hand resting lightly on his hip.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack swayed forward until his body was flush against Cedric's and brought both hands up to grasp his face, gently deepening the kiss.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Walking up the beach carrying a take-out tray of coffee cups from the Perk, Isabel shook her head and smiled. Then cleared her throat. Loudly.

"Ehem! Good morning!"

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

At the sound of Isabel's voice, Cedric's eyes blink open and he slants a glance over.

Yes, she was really here. And he was still kissing Jack.

Laughing, he pulls away easily and looks down at the sand. "Good morning, Isabel."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack let him go with a grin, reaching up to ruffle a hand through his hair when he looked down, and turned to face Isabel. "Morning, Izzy. Is that coffee?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Still smiling because they were too cute, Isabel held out the tray. "The one with the x on it is tea. For Cedric. The one next to it is for you Jack. Just regular coffee. And don't even look at my mocha," she laughed as she pulled it out of the tray. "I'm very protective."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack smiled back at her. "You are a goddess, Izzy."

He reached out and plucked his coffee and Cedric's tea from the tray, holding the latter out to Cedric. "I'm not sure I want to give this to you," he teased. "I'm become rather partial to tea."

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

"I'll share with you," Cedric says, trying to compromise. "Because, like you said, I'm sweet."

He smiles sweetly to punctuate that statement.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel took lots of mental notes for future teasing. Putting the empty tray down, she reached into the bag she had over her shoulder and pulled out a package of nerf balls (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/toys/B0007VZVHY//102-9223728-5504135). "I brought battle ammunition, but if you guys want to continue being sweet, I can always just hang out and drink my coffee."