The Playground, Noon

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

This was new. There had not been a playground when he'd been here before. Tim wondered how long it'd been here.

He tried to hide his nervousness by sitting on a swing and trying to remember how to swing in one. It wasn't that hard. It was like riding a bike. Which, he'd never learned to do.

[For the ex. But it's a park, so open.]

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[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

If Gwynn had any idea that Tim would be nervous about seeing her outside of the class, Gwynn might have been relived. That would mean that she wasn't the only one feeling like horses were galloping away with her stomach.

She arrived at the park and smiled to see him on the swings.

"They're nothing like horses," she said by way of greeting.

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Or Phoukas. Or Unicorns I imagine. Though Goldie never let me ride her."

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

"We had a unicorn as a student here for a little while. No one rode him, either."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Seriously? Kick ass." Tim said amazed. "What else did I miss?"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

She looked thoughtful. "There have been zombies, the former vice-principal tried to take over and kidnapped a lot of us and took us to hell." It was obvious that one still affected her. "The island was kidnapped by its evil twin and we had to take part in tournaments against bad guys. I lost mine and one of the teachers had to stop him from trying to kill me. Oh, and the island spent an entire summer taking a world tour and moving every two weeks."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Jesus." he said softly. "I guess that's why the island is bigger? And in Maryland instead of Virginia?"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

She nodded, coming over to sit on the grass next to him. "There were some evil faerie creatures that attacked at graduation last year. The island went into protection mode and moved every two weeks after they were defeated."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"More unseelie? I didn't think they got around that much."

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

"I don't know what they were called, just that they attacked the graduating class and Eve's daughter was freaking the hell out because she had friends there that were fighting."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Eve? Not biblical Eve?"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn looked confused. "I don't think that there's an Eve Levine in the Bible..."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Well there's an Eve, but they never mention her last name."

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

"She would have told me if she were the same one. She's been my best friend and roommate for two years now."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Okay. So wait, your room mate's daughter was a student here and already graduated?"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn laughed softly. "I was just as confused by that. No, Savannah, her daughter, is a senior here and Eve just graduated. Something about Angels and Fates being meddling something... I forget the words she used."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"I'm just gonna chalk it up to Fandom strangeness." Tim decided. "It sounds complicated. Uh, what happened to other people that we know?"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

"Uhm, well, Nadia, Walter, Pippi and Pip all left and disappeared back to their worlds. Tori went to California... as did Conner." She smiled. "He runs a soccer camp."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim was a little sad to hear about Nadia and the others. "He did? Good for him. What about, Lana and River?"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

"I haven't seen River since she graduated, and Lana..." She sighed softly. "Lana was sad for awhile after she came back from the past where the statues had sent so many people. But she did look happier the last time I saw her with Shawn. Shawn's the one that healed me after I got stabbed in the chest by the freaky guy in the woods with the large blades."

She may have forgotten that he was no longer here when the maniac was attacking kids in the woods and trying to kill them.

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Lana got sent to the past? Wait after you got what?!"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

"After you left, that following summer, we were out in the cabins for the first two weeks of summer. There was some kind of evil killer in the woods. He was attacking anyone that went into them. You know me, Tim. The woods are home to me." She sighed, swallowing as she thought about that night. "I went into the woods for relaxation and the creature attacked me. I fought back as hard as I could, but he ended up slicing my chest open with his machete and then lifted me up by my neck."

She shook her head, trying to purge those images from her mind. "Conner was nearby in the senior cabin and he heard me screaming. We thought he killed him, but the blasted thing just got back up. Conner carried me all of the way to the clinic even though I told him I only needed a bandage and could go hunt the villain. The doctors did in fact, disagree, and sedated me so they could do surgery." She wrinkled her nose. "And then Conner, or Tori or someone else sat with me to make sure that I didn't try to get up. Tori would have had Adam get Phoebe to sit with me... but she was seriously hurt by the attacker, later."

She looked at him. "A group of the magic users and witches and other hunters finally took care of him for good."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim looked vaguely sick. "Oh my God. Gwynn, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I wasn't there to help."

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

"I am not, Tim," she said softly. "You could have been killed and I would not have wanted that to happen for anything as you mean a great deal to me even still. You were needed elsewhere. You had battles in your world that if ended up getting killed because of me, what would have happened to them?"

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Tim couldn't quite argue with that. "Well, I'm glad you're alright. But good god that's a lot of shit happening. What else did I miss?"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

"Classes and Gremlin bites. I got bitten by one and thought I was a baby duck."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim couldn't help but laugh at that. "That's so cute."

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

She blushed. "I was fascinated with the sink and bubbles going down the drain."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim laughed again. "When I was really little I was afraid I'd get suck down the drain whenever we let the water out."