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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Kurt took the foot and removed the shoe, then started to rub it gently.

Josh, meanwhile, suddenly turned and looked toward the bathrooms. "Sam and Jabez just went to the Cafe, I think. They vanished as they went through the bathroom door."

Mykayla looked up with concern, being the only person there who'd never been to the nexus, she wasn't as comfortble with its idiosycricies.

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Leeroy frowned.

"Think they'll be able to get back in time? I means, what if we're traveling and..."

"I think it'll be okay," Ven said. "Even if we have to wait until Florida to go get them."

-Don't look at me,- came Jeimu's thought process. -I'm kinda stuck here.-

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"It's usually pretty easy to get back." Josh looked around as Vic staggered in and flopped full-length on the floor with his hands over his ears.

"Got too loud for ye, b'y?" asked Jav.

"They yelled at me with a freakin' bullhorn," growled the big mutant. "I don't remember any rules agin' sleepin' in the car."

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"There usually aren't," Sal said slowly, "but I haven't been on a ferry fer years."

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"There ain't." Jav stuffed fries in his mouth, then reached down and picked Shae up as she danced in front of him, lowering the plate so that she could help herself. "They was fer hazin' him fer the times he's carved his name on the boat."

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Sal laughed, looking out the window again. The Caribou had completed its turnaround in the harbour and now Newfoundland was becoming more and more of a faint line on the horizon.

"Guess ye deserved it, huh?"