fh_trips | Spring Break Trip 3/8

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spring break 2006: london

Spring Break Trip 3/8 - Bus Trip Home

Pack up your bags, get everything in order and climb aboard the big purple bus back to Fandom.

The bus leaves London at 4pm GMT and will arrive at Fandom at 6pm EST.

Visit London and sightsee
Visit the hotel and shopping
Or choose your own adventure!

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It's two hours travel time. Talk amongst yourselves.

You don't need to use this thread if you don't want to, but I'm a ocd-thread-making mood this morning. Knock yourself out.

Xander is sitting near ~~the untrustworthy residents of 212 who make him say bad things just to get into their room for the good chocolate~~ people who would hopefully protect him from glitter, nailpolish, mustache-growing spells, makeup, Sharpies, and other such things. If he fell asleep. WHICH HE IS NOT. AT ALL. HE IS JUST RESTING HIS EYES.

God knows who'll protect him from them, of course.

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{Player is afk for most of the daylight hours, but Xander's totally here, yup. and JUST RESTING HIS EYES. The people who can do horrible things to him if and only if they are so inclined know who they are. Granted, he also knows where they live.}

Marty flops down in one of the seats and dozes off. Angela is probably nearby also sleeping.

Pippi has opened up a chocolate frog and chases it around the bus.

She's reading, actually.

Mostly.

About 45 minutes into the trip she gives up and falls asleep.

Zero climbed onto the bus and announced, "This is where we part ways. I'll see you guys next week," before climbing back off the bus, shouldering her backpack and picking up her suitcase, and heading for the train station.

[ooc: waitaminute, waitaminute ~~stop the execution~~,

GMT is five hours ahead of EST.

The bus ride is (I've heard) two hours, thanks to the magic of HP.

So, 4 pm GMT = 11 am EST. +2 hours = arrives at Fandom at 1 pm EST.

6 pm EST = 11 pm GMT. 11 pm GMT - 4 pm GMT = bus ride of 7 hours, which is nearly the same as a standard flight from London to New York.

Is my math wrong? Is my understanding of the bus wrong? Or are the times wrong? *is confused. is almost done with dumb day at work, and despite seeing this post when she GOT TO WORK, is only just now noticing discrepancies. help*]

Parker is very glad Xander is resting his eyes. He needs his sleep.

Also, he'd probably have disputed that Night Blooming Madness was not his color, since the purple nail polish clashed with his complexion, and Parker didn't want to fight with him about that.

She debated decals on the polish while it dried. Daisies? No, that was for Anders. Stars? Hmm...

Rory smirked at Parker and pulled out her makeup bag.

She waggled her eyebrows as she pulled out some body glitter and gently swiped it over Xander's cheeks and browbones.

Because his bone structure really needed to be accented.

"Bye, Zero! Have fun! Say hi to your mom, and remember to tell her I liked the bit in the documentary!"

Your math is not wrong. We went *back* in time six hours to arrive in the early afternoon of March 4. We're going *forward* in time six hours to get back to Fandom High in the evening of March 8. Not only can it drive over water, it can go through time! All Hail the Knight Bus and *handwavey* abilities and plotting. Good catch, though.]

Parker gave her a grin and an enthusiastic nod, because yes, in fact, Xander looked much more ethereal with his cheekbones highlighted. Tapping her lower lip, she tried to think what else needed to be done. Maybe something with his hair? Or would he wake up?

Pulling out a tube of mousse, she decided the only way to tell would be to test it.

Rory dug through her bag and grinned gleefully when she unearthed some bright pink temporary (as in 'washing out that night,' not 'good for only six weeks') dye that Lane had passed on to her. She carefully squished a bit onto the brush and traced a magenta streak through the soft hair at Xander's temple.

When he didn't stir, she glanced up at Parker and grinned.

Parker returned the grin with interest and wickedness, and carefully styled Xander's hair into horns over his temple, leaving room for the pink streaks Rory was putting in. Humming contentedly, she got out her camera, and took a photo.

*FLASH*!

There, if that didn't cheer up Angel, nothing would.

Elizabeth bit her lip, trying not to snicker as she pulled out her camera to take a few shots of the "masterpiece" in progress.

Rory happily snapped a shot with her camera phone, and took a few of others on the bus, before busying herself with streaking Xander's hair.

And then she pulled out the matching lipstick.

Parker gave a thumb's up, and watched as Rory applied it. Hmm. Not quite a match, but... close enough.

*FLASH*

"I think if we do anything to his eyes, he'll wake," Rory murmured apologetically. "I have a Sharpie, I think?"

"Just make sure it doesn't tickle too much," Parker cautioned her. "That's how Daisy thwarted us by waking up at the beginning of the year."

Rory nodded, and pulled out a Sharpie. "You want to do the honors?"

Giving her a little bow, Parker took the Sharpie, pondered for a moment, then grinned.

And drew little fishies of doom swimming up his jaw to his mouth.

Rory took the Sharpie and thought for a moment before beginning to draw a flower in the middle of his forehead.

However, Rory's not the best artist. So after a minute, she sort of scrapped that idea and turned it into a maple leaf.

And then she wrote, "IT'S BUTTERY!" in lovely block letters across his left arm.

Parker took one last picture -- *FLASH*-- then patted Xander on his now pink-and-horned head, and curled up with a copy of Vogue for the rest of the trip.

Art was done. No one else would be allowed to damage the perfection of their masterpiece.

Rory, being NOT AN IDIOT, did not succumb to sleep, and instead pulled out the pamphlet Andrew had given her for the ride home.

But not before taking a few more camera phone pictures, and one with her real camera.

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