The Park, Saturday Morning

[jaegerborn.livejournal.com]

There was a brief, bright blast of blue light.

A couple of 1974 lottery tickets drifted down from between the trees and settled gently on the grass.

There was another brief, bright blast of light, but it was green this time.

And then the children came.

[[ arrive, children! ]]

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[owngreatuncle.livejournal.com]

So on one hand, Henry knew that going near the portal was a bad idea, and that David or his mom would be mad at him for it, but on the other neither of them had explicitly said anything abut going near them, and he just somehow known that Emma (and probably Mary Margaret as well) was on the other side of it.

So he'd gone through it.

...he didn't think this was the Enchanted Forest, sure there was a castle in the distance, but there was also a playground right over there.

[catlikeblueeyes.livejournal.com]

Gabe knew portals were about as unsafe as it got, but he could sense that this one was harmless. Much more important was that his fathers were fighting again and Gabe really wanted to leave the apartment without being seen. A portal would do nicely.

Once on the other side, he dusted off his trousers, took in his surroundings, and set off to find the nearest bar that would accept his fake.

[pre-medprincess.livejournal.com]

Jayden hadn't counted on the bathroom door at the manicurist's leading to a European-looking town instead of a bathroom. When she looked around and saw a bunch of other kids her age and younger looking as disoriented as she did, she panicked a little.

"Okay, whoever is behind this, not funny!" she yelled. "My parents will totally pay your ransom!"

She thought she could trust the manicurist.

[bantha-rawk.livejournal.com]

"I don't think you've been kidnapped," Nat said.

[pre-medprincess.livejournal.com]

"How do you know?" Jayden demanded. "And why should I trust you?"

She wasn't always freaked out and paranoid, but this girl had no inkling of the existence of the supernatural beyond her daddy's occasional grumbling about some planets' backwards physics.

[andmypetdino.livejournal.com]

Luca was almost certain his parents wouldn't want him jumping through portals without a grown-up, but they were at some dumb gallery opening and Uncle Chase was watching a football game instead of playing with him and Old Lace was taking a nap instead of playing with him, and he figured he'd be back before anybody knew he was gone.

Probably.

He brushed the grass off his knees and peeked around the park, trying to figure out what to do next.

[bantha-rawk.livejournal.com]

Nat knew exactly where he was the moment he stepped through the portal--he'd be on a different Fandom island at the time, going to school--but there was an unspoken rule of "if there's a glowing thing to jump through, you JUMP THROUGH IT" (which was, admittedly, a stupid rule), but here he was, still in Fandom, surrounded by short kids.

"Must be alternate universe kids weekend," he said. "Wonder if they're still in the dorms..."

[moretrauma4dads.livejournal.com]

Claudia had been blessed with her dad's curiosity and impulse control issues so of course she went into the swirly glowy thing.

Sad thing when she got back Stiles probably would let it slide because he would have done the same thing.

She looked up at the castle ahead and decided she wasn't in San Francisco anymore and it definitely wasn't Beacon Hills either. But if she concentrated hard enough and wandered around a bit maybe she'd be able to find her dads or somebody she knew.

[skycrawlers.livejournal.com]

Val was, let's face it, vastly more mature than either parent, and when they started round number 50 on whatever the kark they were yelling about now, Val took the out the portal offered and ended up...

Well, he still wasn't sure where he'd ended up but he'd figure it out.

[shadow-jaeger.livejournal.com]

The environment waiting for Angela on the other end of the portal she'd approached so cautiously... was not something she could stab, and therefore not what she'd been expecting. She stuck her knife back in her belt - no sense scaring the mundie kids - but still proceeded carefully, even if she had a pretty good idea where she was.

Her dads may not have kept their high school yearbooks, but that alone was all she needed to know to convince her to look the school up.

[jaegersandwings.livejournal.com]

Pico hadn't planned on going through the portal. She'd been thoroughly exploring it so she could tell her parents what it was -- they were very big on complete details -- when, whoops, she put one hand a tiny bit too far through and ended up in a totally new place.

She thought she was probably back on Earth, which might mean she was close to someone Dad knew. She confidently headed off in what seemed like the most likely direction, tiny wings fluttering lightly behind her.

[tri-psi-lupi.livejournal.com]

The three identical girls who stepped out of the portal smirked, almost in unison, as their minds flitted out and over the town, assessing when and where they were.

...oh. This could be funny.

They didn't even have to speak. Annika raised an eyebrow at her sisters, and Christiana automatically shifted, the other two following. It would be faster to get where they were going this way.

[cawcawwerewolf.livejournal.com]

Talia was surprised by how much she wasn't freaking surprised at all to end up here. At least it got her out of soccer practice.

She shrugged and walked on to hunt down her parents. And breakfast.

[clonewelldone]

Angela Simone had been taught better than to step through strange portals, and berated herself for not moving fast enough when this one had started sucking her in. Dad would have some things to say about that, she was sure.

At least she didn't seem to be anywhere dangerous. She sighed, picked herself up, straightened her clothing, and reached out telepathically to see what she could find.

And...oh. She blinked. What was going on here? Still alert, but a little more relaxed now, she struck out towards the familiar mind she could feel.

[hijas_kawaii]

Natalia looked around a moment. "Oh no. Not again!"

She reached into her pocket wih a sigh. Momma was at work, so she was going to have to call Papa...

[weldedtomyspine]

Jaime stepped through the portal, one of Milagro's winter coats in one hand as he looked around, looking to see who he was here to pick up.

[hijas_kawaii]

Was it possibly a little redheaded girl sitting on the ground shivering? She had found a little stick and was drawing in the grass as she sat there singing softly to herself.

[letthenookiewin.livejournal.com]

"--the shit is--" Oof. "...this?"

Vocabulary courtesy both of Ilse's parents, interruption courtesy her ass hitting the snowpatch-dotted grass. The cursing in old Norse that followed, though, could be blamed entirely on her not-aunt Acacia.

"These are new pants, dammit," she grumbled to... someone... as she stood up and looked around.

[islets-of-dr-me.livejournal.com]

As soon as he reached the other side of the portal, Shepard reached out with senses most children didn't have, examining, calculating...

The television and radio signals said this was Earth, 2014 -- so, clearly the portal was some sort of theoretically impossible temporospatial singularity. Boy, mom was going to be PISSED that it opened inside her observation deck. And probably worried sick. He could try jumping back through, but that wouldn't be any fun.

Besides -- despite the date, there seemed to be a few open extranet connections on the island. And one of them, guessing from the username and date, was a teenage version of Dad. That, he had to see!

[roundherfinger.livejournal.com]

There had been a shiny thing, and Maeve had thought it was cool, and Vlad had said Nooo! but she and Ellie outran him, HA.

She looked around in disappointment. "Awww. We're still on the island."

[kleptopathic.livejournal.com]

"We still went from the house to the park!" Ellie tended to look on the bright side. "Which means Mom and Aunt Bo don't know where we are, neener." She grinned. "Which means...."

[notontheceiling.livejournal.com]

Masha sighed when she saw where she was, wondering which parent she should look for first. Both of those were trumped by the chance to spy on them.

So.

[collinommy.livejournal.com]

Collin had danced this dance so many times before that he'd practically hit that portal running when it opened in front of it, with a quick *Going to Fandom to pester younger you guys, see you after the weekend!* flung off to his parents as he went.

Actually, he'd hit it flying, and landed on the other side of the portal with a flourish and a grin, folding his wings behind himself.

Ah, Fandom. Nommy had missed you.

[wee-heartillies.livejournal.com]

She remembered the portal. It was when she had been Shapeless, when she had been nothing but feathers clinging together for sustenance.

This time, she had a body, and her body could walk.

Pluma strode through the portal, then began sniffing the air. She could smell the feather-blood. It would lead her to Mother and Father. There were others ... ones like her but not the same. They would require investigation.

She had time.

[weetinyjaeger.livejournal.com]

Okaaaaaaaaay, that was definitely not supposed to happen. Abby dusted herself off and set off to start figuring out where she was, and why it didn't look like Australia.