The Park, Saturday Morning

[lockestheway]

With the appearance of the portal, the pollen abated, blowing gently away from the island into the water, where it would almost immediately dissolve. The flowers that had brought it dropped their petals and then faded almost immediately.

That was the first noticeable part.

The second was the portal itself, opening up shining bright above Fandom's park. Laughter could be heard through it, and tears, and yelling, and people being very, very quiet.

Then the children burst through.

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[kleptopathic.livejournal.com]

Ellie had been home, playing at the playground, when the blue shiny thing appeared. It felt like there were familiar voices on the other side. Time to explore.

When she stepped into the park, she stopped, looked around, and then grinned. "That way!"

[stealabeat.livejournal.com]

Vlad, on the other hand, had gotten a flat by the side of the road. He hadn't seen the portal until he'd already slipped off the embankment and fallen into it.

"--it!"

He rolled to a stop and took a second to glare at the sky above him. "Not my fault. So not my fault."

[stealabeat.livejournal.com]

Cadence had been practicing on the back porch when she heard a high-pitched tone-- E above C, and rising in volume. Stories from her Mom and Aunt Bo had her standing, still hanging onto her guitar, looking around--

Then running for the portal with a grin and a jump.

"All right!"

[suited2conflict.livejournal.com]

It was not that Syanna was not aware of the importance of her diplomacy classes - she was. It was simply that in comparison to some of the other lessons she was receiving, they, well, sometimes tended towards the boring.

Barely had she left the classroom for a much-needed 'refresher break' when she spotted the...

"That's not convenient or anything."

She stepped through, taking a nice deep breath of fresh air. Much better.

[namedfromikea.livejournal.com]

Little Keysmash Sel'je liked exploring and a portal appearing in the middle of his room was just too much of a temptation not to step through.

He glanced around at his new surroundings, noticed the sun's position in the sky and nodded to himself. Dad wouldn't be up for hours. Time to find Mom instead.

He trotted silently into town.

[tiny-ktarian.livejournal.com]

Being a student at Fandom High and having gone through this particular portal a few times herself when she was younger, Kathryn wasn't that surprised by the portal showing up. She knew she should have avoided going through but curiosity got the better of her and had walked through anyway.

She glanced around, it did not seem that much different than from when she had last been here (or at Fandom during her time) but as she was here she may as well try and track down her mum.

[caringtimesten.livejournal.com]

Hillary Madeleine Knope-Ludgate tumbled out of the portal in a mess of limbs, stumbling only a little as she landed.

She had some moms to find. If she wasn't very much mistaken, it was the best time of day ever. Breakfast time.

[weegodofneuro.livejournal.com]

Edie Brink (well, Adrienne Brink, if you wanted to get technical) knew what portals were, and that they could take you dangerous places. She also knew that when the portals in question were blue and orange and you could set them up and move them around yourself, they were supposed to be a lot of fun.

The portal that she had gone through from her kitchen in Los Angeles, incidentally, had been blue.

A walk through town would give her an idea of where and when she was, Edie thought. Hopefully the other kids wouldn't want to talk to her and make her lose focus.

[momokodomo]

Of course Boaz knew what portals were! What the six year old didn't know was that portals could show up without someone calling the Portalocity office and ordering one.

More specifically that one could appear in the middle of the sidewalk when you were running to catch up to Otaki-kun before he got to class before you did.

She stumbled through the portal before she could stop herself, falling onto the grass with an "/Oof/" followed by a quick and loud, "/I DIDN'T MEAN TO!/"


[She's speaking Japanese on instinct. Can switch to English if spoken to!]

[wingedwitchling.livejournal.com]

Kayla didn't know this girl. She also didn't know what she'd said. But she recognized the language from Auntie Momo.

"Ohayo," she said, giving the girl a bow. "'Tashi o namae wa Kayla!"

Okay, no. It wasn't perfect. She was still learning. But she'd tried!

[momokodomo]

Eh? Boaz bounced around and grinned at the girl. "Ohayo!"

Nope, she didn't look familiar.

"/My name's Boaz! I'm six! Nice to meet you! Is this where you live?/"

[momokodomo]

Lasumi may only be three and a half (three fingers and a thumb) years old but he did know better than to go through portals without a mom.

It didn't stop him, but he knew better. He just had a bit too much of his mother in him, perhaps.

He stood there a moment, staring all around him and hugging MonMon. This... wasn't his hallway, but it didn't look too scary.

[techhasfeelings.livejournal.com]

Alec knew all about portals. She wasn't supposed to jump through any without permission, even ones she accidentally made by herself. But she was also seven, insatiably curious, and more than a little mischievous.

She found herself in the park. Oh, Fandom! She knew about this kind of portal. Surely there must be adults around to entertain herself with by being a brat.

"It's Fandom, Lasumi!" she said, spotting him near her. "Where your moms went to school."

[newlances.livejournal.com]

Sin popped out of the portal right after Lasumi. She sighed as she looked at him.

"So. Much. Trouble." She blinked, then waved. "Hi, Alec."

[friendshiplurks.livejournal.com]

The most cheerful, pinkest, bounciest kid of all time was making her way through the portal to survey the island. Well, it was no Ponyville, but it was nice all the same!

Goji Berry Hale was ready to find her parents!

[hasafirstname.livejournal.com]

Jane was bored. There was a portal. She figured she might as well go through. There was nothing better to do, and her parents would flip if they ever found out.

Ugh, the other side was a park full of little kids. She was not even remotely the babysitting type. But there was also a town, and maybe restaurants and coffee houses and other places to be seen being cool, so she kept her head down, avoided making eye contact with any of the children, and headed off to see what was what.

[wingedwitchling.livejournal.com]

Kayla had been practicing her flying (Daddy still called it fluttering, even when she told him not to! She could fly! She cooould!) when she saw the portal. There wasn't enough time to find Nommy (and besides, he was a baby), so she went fluttering SWOOPING LIKE A HAWK OR A FALCON OR A EYRIEN into the portal.

Hey! It was Fandom again!

...Where was she supposed to go now?

[collinommy.livejournal.com]

Collin... wasn't practicing his flying, no. Collin was actually avoiding training this morning, because training today meant being trounced into the ground by his father, and, you know, some days you just needed to not get your ass handed to you by your old man. So the portal was a bit of a blessing, really.

Seeing his big sister on the other side, but tiny?

Well that made it all worth his while.

"Well, look at you."

[wingedwitchling.livejournal.com]

"Who're you?" Kayla asked, suspicious. Look, she'd been told not to talk to strangers and this strange male had a Jewel, so he wasn't a strange-Fandom person (who would be okay to talk to), but a strange-stranger.

He was either a bad male or he was gonna be all bossy and try to make her be safe. She didn't want to deal with either of those.

But he did have wings like her daddy, which was the only reason she was waiting for his answer, rather than kicking him in his knees and running away like her daddy and her uncas had told her to.

[techhasfeelings.livejournal.com]

"Hi, Kayla," Alec said cheerfully, waving up at her.

[newlances.livejournal.com]

Laurie, had she known what she was in for, would have totally jumped off a cliff instead.

But the blue swirling thing had pretty much scooped her up and dumped her in this park. With a castle in the distance. What. The. Hell.

Getting to her feet, she grimaced at all the little kids, then went off to find out where the heck she was.

[glowyfacebabies.livejournal.com]

Glitz was incapable of resisting portals when they appeared. Sure, his Dad and his Daddy had both told him over and over and over and over not to go in them but they were so SHINY and they always brought him here and he loved here. Here was the best.

Someday Glitz might end up in a portal or a wormhole that took him somewhere other than Fandom. Today was not that day and so he still hadn't learned his lesson. He was instead happily zooming around yelling "HI FANDOM DIDJA MISS ME?"

[glowyfacebabies.livejournal.com]

"I didn't," his sister said. Well, sort of sister. She still wasn't convinced they were really related even if he did almost have to be Papa's with his face the way it was. She had missed him though. A little bit. She would never, ever admit it, but she had.

[filsdurenard.livejournal.com]

In theory, someday Papa would let Rambouillet have his own knife, and hopefully that would be soon, but for now he had to make do with his cane. That had been a gift from Papa too, when he came home after a job one morning and handed it over with a terse comment about not asking where it came from. It wasn't even a sword-cane, and he was disappointed about that, but he could at least pretend. (Papa wasn't thrilled with his "make-believe games," and grumbled about how he'd gotten that from his mother, but then again Papa didn't care enough about that one way or the other to stop him.)

That was what he'd been doing: prowling around under the bridge at Les Invalides, creeping up on imaginary victims like Papa taught him, when the portal opened up. Any second thoughts he might have had about jumping through it evaporated when he caught sight of a couple of cops heading his way; they didn't have enough evidence to pin that robbery last week on his family, but he wasn't about to give them any more reason to be suspicious.

Besides, he'd been on his way to find Maman when he got sidetracked 'practicing,' and he had a good feeling that if he went through the glowing thing, it'd take him to her.

So here he was, a 12-year-old dandy in slightly worn and clearly secondhand fancy dress, a battered cane in one hand and his cap slightly askew.

"Well, won't this be interesting," he remarked cheerfully to himself, taking a few minutes to look around the park before he went to find his mother.

[zimniipauk.livejournal.com]

In Ivan's defense--no, he had nothing, his mama was going to kill him. Even if he really had tripped.

He looked back over his shoulder at the portal to make sure his mama wasn't going to swoop through it and scoop him up, asking, "Ivan Zimnievich, what do you think you're doing?" No Mama. So he decided there was nothing for it but to go find a phone to call his emergency numbers and wait for someone to come get him, wherever he was, so Mama could yell.