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Parents' Weekend Meet & Greet, Town Park [Friday Afternoon]

Barney was smart and had purposefully blocked all outgoing mail from Fandom to his New York City (sorry, no luck for you, Robin) and so could blissfully oversee the gathering of guests, students, teachers, and townies happening in the park. The day was bright and sunny, regardless of what any weather reports might claim.

The Student Council had done a nice job getting things together to greet the visitors. A wide variety of sumptuous food was spread out on long tables at one end of the park. In the center were plenty of comfortable blue and gold tables and chairs perfect for sitting, chatting, and eating. To the other end of he park was the registration table where visitors could sign in and pickup their name tags.

Just above the registration area was a gaudy banner announcing the start of a calm and relaxing weekend. Okay, a weekend where Barney got a lot of popcorn to listen to radio.
Welcome to Parents' Weekend 2009!

[ OOC: DONE! Registration | Security | Food & Drink | Mingling | OOC ]

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Jak took her hand and sent her a quick flash of Samos, in full belogged fury, harumphing at him before digging into the foodstuffs. I... left him to it. Safer that way. Seriously.

Now that he was over the original shock, Jak was going to give Daxter a look.

Which Dinah noticed, but gamely glossed over with, "You're Jak's best friend, you guys go on adventures, and he missed you." She squeezed Jak's hand and slid her fingers between his. He's funny. And more buzzed than either of us on energy drinks. She bumped his shoulder. And I can meet Samos later. "So what do you think of the Island so far? Aside from the girls?"

Ugh. They were getting all coooozy. But that was alright! Daxter was resilient and stunningly attractive! He would prevail!

There were other lovely ladies running about this place, after all!

"Well," he said, and then held up one hand, ticking off on his fingers as he went. "The food's weird, the alphabet looks funny, I'm not putting a sticky name tag onto my chest, and the people at the hotel think my name is Dexter."

... Really?

Jak pulled a face at him. Dexter? Dexter was a weird name. Daxter was perfectly normal.

Dinah snickered, and rubbed a thumb across Jack's hand. "I'm sorry, Daxter. That kind of sucks. Did they at least get you a cool suite? I heard they have one with a Jello Dragon." She nodded to Jak. "He said the alphabet was off too. We put together some flashcards to help. And no, a nametag would be bad! It might pull some of your... um, fur. Off." Owwwww. Also, now she wanted to feed Daxter some Beaver Buzz. Just to see what would happen.

She sent Jak an image of that, face perfectly normal and composed.

Dax on energy drink would be a terrifying combination. There would probably be explosions. Big ones!

"I suggested a sash or something, you know, something flashy and stylish that says something like 'Daxter the great!' on it? But they wouldn't." Pout. "They wouldn't get me any pants, either. What does a guy have to do to get a decent pair of pants, anyhow?"

Jak coughed. He coughed loudly. Not so much to cover up any laughter, because seriously, Dinah, that image was worth the incredibly frightened look it got from Jak. Scary. So scary. Although the explosions would be kinda cool.

Just not the talking.

He was mostly coughing, however, because of the pants, and glancing at Dax's wee nude fur-covered legs.

Dinah stared for a second, involuntarily thinking No pants?! Why no pants?! at Jak, then snapping her gaze back up to Dax's face, biting her lower lip hard.

"IIII think a sash would be awesome," she tried. Swallowed back hysterical giggles. "And, um. Maybe you can buy... stuff, here in town?"

"Stuff. Stuff would be good," Dax decided, latching onto the word in that sentence that he liked the best. A pause. "So long as we don't have to go rescuing muses from dark and dangerous islands or anything like that. I want stuff! You'd have to be crazy to not want stuff. I mean, wouldn't you want stuff, too? But risking life and limb for it?"

And at that, he was going to have to shoot Jak a pointed look.

Oh, come on. That had been fun! They'd had a good time. Taking down Lurkers, digging up power cells... Jak shot Dax a look to communicate the whole grow up theme. He was trying to communicate with Dinah at the same time, honest, but oh come on, Dax and It's not like you can see anything wound up kind of a word jumble.

Which made Dinah explode from the suppressed giggles, then gulp and say, "Sorry, Daxter, not laughing at you! Yes. You should get, um. Pants. There's stores? I'm sure someone has them!" Or maybe a nice kilt? she sent to Jak.

"I just, it shouldn't be that difficult! Really. Ahem." She grinned wide at Jak, then back to Daxter, and said, "But you guys totally kicked Lurker ass, right? I mean, you're heroes!"

... Oh, yes, play to the ego, Dinah, and you'd have a friend forever.

There was not enough room on the island for Dax and his Ego to coincide. They nearly had to get separate rooms, but then they were all shuffled into the same one as Samos anyhow...

"Well, of course I am," Daxter decreed, rubbing his knuckles on his chest, and then inspecting the ends of his fingers. "And you should'a seen those guys! Big and ugly and armed to the tusks, but I saw to them, don't you worry!"

Oh, this was Jak's so not amused face.

All Dax had done was crawl through some drains! And... sit on Jak's shoulder. Occasionally, cling to Jak's shoulder.

He let go of Dinah's hand so he could cross his hand in a cross kind of way. Hey. Then he sighed, rolled his eyes, and dropped it.

Dinah caught enough of that to send him a sympathetic look, and then give him a shoulder-bump.

"I'm glad you guys came out of it okay." Well. Except for Daxter still being an ottsel. "And hopefully nothing will be too dangerous this weekend. It's relaxing and visiting time, not fighty time. Some of the people visiting are kind of weird," she said. Then realized who she was talking to. "I mean, some of them may not even believe in a talking ottsel. You have to cut them slack."

Jak's cross gesturing was more or less taken in stride (something like water off a duck's back), as Daxter nodded his agreement, deciding that he'd had quite enough of this 'standing on the ground' thing and making a break for Jak's shoulder again.

"Oh, no worries there. Daxter is always understanding of the shortcomings of the little guy."

Figuratively speaking, of course.

Jak's shoulder dipped for a moment under Daxter's weight - it had been too long since this was a regular thing, really - but then his back straightened again. He gave Dax a look that clearly spoke uh-huh, of course you are.

They were brothers, man. Brothers.

Dinah grinned at the picture they made, then said, "Look, I want you to meet my sisters, later. Maybe meet up later? Or tomorrow? We're having a family dinner tonight." She smiled up at Daxter. "It was really cool meeting you, Dax." Then she took a breath and leaned in to give Jak a good-bye smooch on the mouth. Just a fast one! No big deal!

Why, was there a fuzzy orange thing right where Jak and Dinah's lips might have been were there not a fuzzy orange thing there?

"Yeah, yeah, the pleasure was all mine! Hey, Jak, how'sabout you give me the grand tour, hmm, big guy?"

Kissing? No can has!

Hey! Jak had just been leaning into that!

He shot Daxter an angry look. Did he have to be a ~~cock~~lipblock every single time this happened?!

Dinah shot Daxter a totally non-plussed look, then sighed, and smiled at Jak. "I'll see you later."

Then she reached out with her telekinesis, which ha, Daxter could not see! And brushed the pressure of phantom fingers across Jak's lips in what was very close to an invisible kiss.

Jak blinked once. Maybe twice. Ohh-- Okay.

He grinned after her. And grinned. And...

Stop grinning, Jak.

"You're grinning, Jak."

What? Girls were not to get In The Way of their Bro-ness. It was law which only Daxter was allowed to break, yes indeed.

"A lot."

And Daxter was kinda almost observant maybe a smidgen!

Dinah gave him her sunniest, gleefulest grin and said, "He's just happy. Bye, Dax. Byyyyye, Jak." And she winked at him before flipping her hair and turning to bounce away.

Jak kept up the grinning for a few more seconds. Coming up on a minute. Then he dropped it, and shot Dax another foul look; he turned to start padding off to... somewhere.

With Dax on his shoulder, but. Seriously, Dax. Not on.

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