Graveyard: Early Monday Evening

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

It was her last patrol in Fandom. After that it was over the causeway and then... whatever came next. She'd sent out a *handwavey* e-mail and left notes for various people to let them know if they wanted to see her off, that this would be the place for it.

Sitting on a gravestone, Mel took one last look around. Could someone really feel sentimental about a graveyard?

[Goodbye post for Mel. If you think you got notification then you did. Will be subject to bouts of AFK-ness throughout the day.]

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[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"So this is it, huh?" Sokka asked, gingerly walking around the graves as he approached Mel. "One last patrol, and then you're off to save the world?"

He bit his lip, thinking. "If we were to have, say, a huge infestation of lurks in the Danger Room, you'd have to stay until they were all gone, wouldn't you?"

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, but they're not real," Mel said giving him a grin. "I'm going to need more than just a monster that disappears at the flick of a switch."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka nodded sadly. "Yeah, I know. It's just... It has to be today? Destiny sucks."

[thebluespirit.livejournal.com]

Zuko wasn't sure why he was saying goodbye at the graveyard, but he managed to show up nonetheless.

"Hey."

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Hey, yourself," Mel replied. "Shouldn't you be off to help save the world?"

[thebluespirit.livejournal.com]

"Yes," he agreed, "but I finally got the room to myself so I figured I should take advantage of it."

Look, an actual joke.

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

Gabriel sat perched on a tombstone, black wings towring above him. "Hi!" he called out to Mel, sounding eerily cheerful.

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

Mel eyed the creepy guy carefully. Last time? Not so much with the wings.

"Hi," she said warily. "Just so you know? Last time you'll see me crawling around the graveyard."

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

"Found a better hobby?" Gabriel asked raising an eyebrow.

[needsaparrot]

Xander might be a little unclear on this saying goodbye concept. "You're doing what, now?"

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"What?" Mel said. "I graduated, time for me to go, right?"

[needsaparrot]

"You graduated, time for you to go where?"

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

"Already?" Katara asked quietly as she approached Mel on her way to the clinic.

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"I know," Mel said sadly. "But things are going on and I need to move on."

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

"I know," Katara agreed. She scuffed her toe into the dirt. "It's still stupid. Will you be able to be in contact?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"No." Dawn had gotten the e-mail and immediately come running over. "Uh uh, no way, no sirree, nunca. Not going."

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"C'mon, Dawn," Mel said with a small sad grin. "You knew I couldn't stay here forever."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"No," she shook her head, "I'm sure I didn't sign anything or see anything that said you had permission to leave. Nope, sorry. You're stuck. Where's your stuff, I'll help you take it back to the dorms."

[withoutverona]

Romeo was still in a bit of a mood, but he had a dinner break and he needed to say goodbye to Mel in a way that didn't end in a food fight.

"We met here too, I believe," he said as he approached her, not smiling. "So it's all a circle."

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

Mel flashed him a grin. "Well you're going to have to promise to hang out in the graveyard now and then. Can't let it get lonely now that I'm leaving."

[withoutverona]

"I've gotten fond of that angel," Romeo said, indicating a grave. "I'll do my best to stop and check on it and the rest, now and again."

"Though I think they'll miss you and your the patrolling."

[neverfaithful.livejournal.com]

Faith sat on a gravestone, lighting a cigarette idly.

"Takin' off?"

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Yep," Mel said taking a seat across from her. "You going to be okay being the only game in town?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Bridge says with a little wave. "Have we met? This is always my least favourite part about graduation," he admits.

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Walking through the graveyard?" Mel asked. "Funny, I didn't think that was a part of the tradition."