Sal's Reality, Port aux Basques: The Official Road Trip Thread

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"So." Sal leaned on the hood of the van, sneaking in one more cigarette before they left for Florida. It was quite the sight: the massive maroon vehicle was stuffed to the rafters with luggage, snack food, and had a full tank of gas.

"So?" Ven was staring at her from the other side of it, completely amused at his mentor's stressed outlook. In all the years he'd known the woman, he'd never seen her really lose her cool - but she was coming close.

"So we've got ourselves reservations for the eight o'clock boat. And it's ten after six and we needs to get goin else we misses our spot. An' Mu launches in exactly forty-eight hours and..."

Ven stooped down to pick up Shae, who had barrelled down the stairs with her still-yawning mother in tow. "And we'll get there just fine. Didn't you say she had a portal waiting for you in North Sydney, anyway?"

Sal extinguished her cigarette and blew the smoke away from Shae, watching Jav, Kurt, and Vic come down the stairs hauling the rest of the luggage. "Yes, yes, and yes, but still, b'y, I hates bein' late." She held out her arms in response to Shae's attempt to get closer to her grandmother. "Give her here, look..."

She was interrupted by a loud bang that sounded like it was coming from her kitchen. She looked at Shae, who was grinning.

"D'you know what all that noise is?" she asked the toddler.

"Nope," the little girl shook her head, brown curls bouncing around.

"Want t' go find out with me?"

"Yeah!"

They went up the stairs together, Sal maneuvering Shae into a piggy-back position. "I betcha it's Leeroy. It always is."

"Uncle 'Roy is funny," Shae declared. "He's always doin' somethin'." The girl had a slight Newfie twang and it amused Sal to no end.

"Yes, b'y."

They opened the front door and peered into the kitchen where Sam had Leeroy in a headlock.

"Do I want t' know?" Sal asked resignedly. "Or should I just yell at the load of ye to get yer butts downstairs 'fore I loses it?"

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"Get outta my chair an we might be able to, b'y!" Sal glared at Vic and tugged on his arm in an attempt to get him to move.

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"I'm drivin." She might as well have been tugging on a concreted in post.

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"Like @%^#$@# you are. Git out of me van. Now."

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"No." He growled as somebody in the back started singing 'Dead Man/Carry Me' under their breath.

"Hey. Come on. We have to go, and this is Sal's van." Josh stepped between them. "Please move."

Vic growled.

Josh's face never changed, but the big mutant suddenly found himself crammed back in with the luggage and wrapped in a pair of someone's nylons.

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"Thanks!" Sal grinned and hopped into the driver's seat, started the van and noticed with a sense of glee that the lane they were parked in was free to drive onto the Caribou.

From all around them a loud roar seemed to build - it got louder and louder as they drove onto the vehicle deck.

Sal had an odd smile on her face as men in orange suits directed them to where they would be parked on the deck. She went where they indicated and turned off the van's ignition.

"Yer ears," she said, still smiling in that strange way. "Cover 'em."

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Everyone obayed, some with wondering eyes, and others with expressions of extreme boredome.

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"It's loud." Sadri didn't even bother to cover her ears - she just stared around in wonderment (her hands covering Shae's ears) at the chains and ropes and massive yellow doors all about the vehicle deck.

People were everywhere, and everyone had the excited sense of going-somewhere that made the Force hum.

Ven grabbed her elbow and she noticed that Sal was leading everyone through one of the giant metal doors.

Once she was through them, the noise dwindled considerably.

"That was fun." she said.

"What?" Ven asked, sticking his tongue out at her.

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Sam looked around, absently holding Leeroy's hand. She'd been on ferry's before, so this wasn't really new for her....

Well, most wasn't. She'd never seen a guy in a flag with a horn before.

"Vhat the?" Kurt blinked.

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"Why." Sal pinched the bridge of her nose, "Do. They. Let him on the boat?"

She looked around at Jav, as did most of the others.