New kind of victory.

[etcircenses]

Who| Everyone on the District Tours.
What| The Celebration dinners for all the Districts.
Where| Specified in thread.
When| The second night they are there.
Warnings/Notes| Find your district below. Leave any questions here. And please add any needed warning into your subject line when appropriate.

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[not_cocked]

"Let me tell you how excited I am to be here." She snorted, giving Ellie a conspiratorial little smile, before plucking up another little baked thing and popping it into her mouth, hissing as she bit down on it before it was cool enough.

"At least the foods good." She got out after she had managed to finish it. "So where are you from?"

She hadn't gotten to feel out much yet where the other were from.

[onlyimmune]

"Uh, Boston, I guess." Ellie said with a shrug. She knew what De really meant. What world was she from. But it was hard to think like that, and it's not like worlds had names.

"The Boston Quarantine, I mean. What about you?"

[not_cocked]

"Originally? Lawrence, Kansas. I travel a lot, though. Been through Boston a few times. Awesome place."

She paused, thinking of the way that last bit from Ellie was phrased.

"Was a nice place. Where I come from, at least."

[onlyimmune]

She let out a little snort. "... Yeah. I hear that a lot. Hawkeye said it was awesome, in his time. But uh, yeah. I guess according to you guys I'm from the future and... well, it's pretty much just shit."

She gave De a lopsided smile.

"I've never been to Kansas, though."

[not_cocked]

That was a shitty thought.

"So I'm guessing the future isn't going too well?"

Seeing into the future was never something De had sought out. It never brought good things. And her life was made for moment to moment, not the long term. But now, with the idea of all these other worlds, it was sparking a curiosity. It wouldn't necessarily be her future.

[onlyimmune]

"Does the Apocalypse count as 'well'?" Ellie asked, smirking slightly, but then tried to shrug it off.

"I don't know. Maybe in your world it'll be fine. Mine... covered with infected."

[not_cocked]

"Here's to hoping. With the way we're going, things don't look good..."

Between the supernatural, and the very human threats, she wouldn't be shocked if someone didn't ruin the whole party soon.

"I haven't gotten to compare notes much yet, but my world is fairly normal. At least what the general population sees."

[onlyimmune]

She raised an eyebrow.

"General population, huh? Yeah, careful there. That's how ours started, you know. Everyone just thought it was a few people getting sick, no big deal."

[not_cocked]

"Well, our normal people tend to be missing the demon possessions and ghost and voodoo spells murdering teenagers around."

She flashed a grin, with another shrug. The idea of the apocalypse was fascinating and uncomfortable.

"So what do you do at home?" She imagined it wasn't easy, and she didn't exactly grow up with barbies and sleep overs talking about the Chads and the Jesses of the world. Which was something she could relate to.

[onlyimmune]

Ellie's mouth opens, then shuts, then twists into a disbelieving smile that clearly read 'yeah, you're shitting with me'.

She shrugged at the question.

"Survive. I was uh, on my way out west, before I got here. Had been traveling for a year. Before that I was in a boarding school in Boston, doing army training. That was shit, though."

[not_cocked]

De didn't mind not being believed. Right now it didn't seem to bad to be leaving hunting behind, at least for the time being. There were certainly other things to occupy her time right now.

"What was out west?" She asked idly, working on a mental image of this world. "My dad was a Marine. So I know the drill. Literally."

[onlyimmune]

There, she hesitated. Visibly. "... A group of people. Scientists. The Fireflies. We-- were delivering something. It isn't important now. Here. There's no infection here, so... none of that is important at all, I guess."

She shrugged, vaguely. "Don't remember my parents. No clue who my dad even was. But Marlene made sure I got into the army school, so."

[not_cocked]

"The Fireflies?"

She was sure it was something that made a lot more sense in Ellie's world, but the phrase caught her attention anyway.

"Man, sorry you had it so rough, kiddo." She said, and her voice was sincere, nothing patronizing in it.

[onlyimmune]

"Yeah. Basically, uh, when the world went to shit, the Army took over the government. They've been in control ever since, so, twenty years or so? The Fireflies wanted to reinstate a democratic government, and did that by uh, blowing shit up. The Army called them terrorists." She shrugged. She loved Marlene, but she really didn't know how to feel about the group beyond that.

"They had scientists, though. Trying to find a cure. And we were trying to get out to help them. But don't uh, feel bad or whatever for me, okay? Thing I've learned here is that everything sucks pretty much everywhere."

[not_cocked]

She gave the girl a lop sided grin. Different world, different bullshit, but she could relate to that feeling.

"You don't seem like you need felt bad for." She said, shrugging her shoulders. "You seem to have your shit pretty solidly together."

She wasn't sure how, exactly, to play this role right. Doubt was warring with instinct here. The certainty that she wasn't good with kids was under-minding that fact she had raised her sister. She didn't want to treat this girl like one of their hunting targets.

"So 20 years? It's been like that your whole life."

[onlyimmune]

"Heh, thanks," She said, offering De a lopsided smile.

"But yeah. Well before I was born. This place is a fucking cake walk, compared, though I could do without the arenas, if you know what I mean."

[not_cocked]

"Yeah, not looking forward to that part."

She was actually trying not to think about it. Except when she laid in bed, thinking about how to get out of it.

Looking at Ellie, she suddenly was hit with the idea that this girl was going to be in there too.;

"Hey. At least the foods good." She knew it was a sorta broken record mantra, but it was better than thinking about impending death.

wrap?

[onlyimmune]

Ellie snorted, and offered De a wry grin.

"Yeah. At least the food is fucking good."