Summer 10 - newcomer mingle

[kollomods]

[ It's late morning when the ferry comes around, landing on the jetty and letting off a small but valued group of new arrivals. Olivia is out there, greeting and handing out information packets.

Later in the afternoon, there's a small welcome party set up at the community center. The tables are laden with cinnamon buns, elderflower lemonade, fresh strawberries and an assortment of small cookies and other treats. There's also thirium lovingly set up to the side of the buffet, for the android population. Ingvar shows up a little later with his accordion, setting the mood with some traditional folk songs like he's wont to do. ]

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[forever_jack]

"All right." He gives Spike a wry, gentle smile, and lets it go.

"Yeah, I guess so!" He picks up his bottle and reaches across to clink it against Spike's before taking a big swig from it, gasping as it burns.

"So," he drawls, searching for a lighter topic of conversation. "Met anyone interesting here?"

[sparkandburn]

He takes a swig of his own, surprisingly relieved at how easily Jack let go of the topic. This wasn't his intention with coming here tonight — it wasn't going to be about him. Whatever. It's a nice night and there'll be more like it.

"A couple." he muses, glancing over at Jack with a mischievous look. "But I feel like you'd have more to say about that than me. Met anyone yet?"

[forever_jack]

Well, not pushing on the sensitive issues goes both ways. They both have things they don't want to go too deep into yet.

His eyebrows go up at that look. "What, because you've been too busy staying home shagging Ianto to get out and meet people?" he asks amused, and shrugs. "I've met quite a few folks here. The only one I've really got to know well so far, though, is my housemate, Hanako. She's ever so young and she's pretty badly damaged - in more ways than one - so I've kind of taken her under my wing, you know? She's a really sweet girl."

[sparkandburn]

"Like most people here, I'd wager."

He takes a swig of whiskey to swallow down that casual observation. They're all here for similar reasons - time, escape, freedom. Most people are damaged in some way and he has to wonder if it's good or bad that Jack's taken on this girl. Sounds like a good way to not take on himself.

"And if you recall, I was never one for all this socialising."

[forever_jack]

"Yeah," he agrees, without really acknowledging that he himself is just as damaged as the next man, and a darned sight more than many. He's always been short-sighted in that respect. He'll lay down his life to help a stranger, but he's still pretty terrible at taking the time and making the effort to sort his own life out.

He chuckles. "Good of you to come along tonight, then! And very good of you to bring the whisky. This isn't bad stuff!" Emphasising that opinion by taking another long swig from his bottle. He's beginning to feel a very pleasant little buzz.

[sparkandburn]

"Had to find some way to survive tonight."

And alcohol seems to be the best social lubricant no matter what decade you're in. He gives Jack a nod and tips the bottle back for another swig.

((ooc: wrap up here?))

[forever_jack]

((OOC: Yeah, sure - I don't think there's anything else to include and it would be nice to get them up to date! New thread tomorrow for the new week?))

[sparkandburn]

((ooc: sure thing! They have a lot to catch up on! ))

[forever_jack]

((They do!))