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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-Well, that sucks. And here I was all ready to send the lot of you back to Port aux Basques for the post launch party.-

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"Send the rest of us anyway," said Mykayla softly, looking at the door and praying for Sam as the Song in her heart urged her to.

"Party!" Jav put up his arms to try a cheer, only to yelp and nearly fall over as Jabez let go of her father and mother long enough to poke him in the ribs with the tip of her disguised tail.

Kurt laughed, then looked up as Vic came out of the bedroom yawning and stretching.

"Hey, Sal, where's the dog?" asked the big mutant, smirking.

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The dog barked.

"There." Sal said, nonplussed. Wilcoxe had that power to show up wherever the gang happened to be.

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-Okay. Go and huddle around that van. It's easier if I send one thing.-

They did so; and the air chilled and grew shimmery and the next thing they knew they were in Sal's driveway, still parked as though they hadn't gone anywhere.

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Vic looked around with a grin, then headed for the kitchen. "Don't have kids with 'er, Elf. She'll lose 'em."

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"Wilcoxe has and always will do her own thing," Sal said to Kurt as they all scaled the stairs and entered the house. "And what makes ye think I'll be poppin' out kids, Vic?"

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He just snorted and took a package of kelbasa and one of cheese smokies out of the fridge, then started mixing bannock.

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"Ye know," she said, arms akimbo as she stood in the kitchen, "ye really gotta stop with the whole not respondin' t' me thing."