makesthings: (embers and mechanics)
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Somersby doesn't have that many good places to hide and most of the boys know them all by their last year.

After a few bribes and Nick using his charm, they convinced the groundskeeper to let them use a shed as long as nothing broke.

Over the few years that Nick and Sam have had access to it, its become a fairly serious workshop which at the moment is full of the sounds of metal as Sam waves something that was once a clock at Nick,

"It won't work if you do it like that."

Date: 2009-10-24 09:31 pm (UTC)
wordofa_sayre: (skeptical)
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"I'm almost finished with this -- how're you coming along with the cage?"

Nick looks up from his work and eyes Sam closely.

"You look like you're getting a little overheated there, Sam."

Date: 2009-10-24 09:38 pm (UTC)
wordofa_sayre: (sideways grin)
From: [personal profile] wordofa_sayre
"Come on."

He gets up and motions for Sam to do the same.

"We'll get out of the shed into the air for a bit. Do you some good. Besides--"

A quick grin.

"--we're not going to catch any bees inside, right?"

Date: 2009-10-24 09:44 pm (UTC)
wordofa_sayre: (school days)
From: [personal profile] wordofa_sayre
"So we do."

He tosses the cage into the air and catches it again.

"Dormalan doesn't have a clue what they're in for."

Date: 2009-10-24 09:48 pm (UTC)
wordofa_sayre: (outside looking up)
From: [personal profile] wordofa_sayre
"Thirty miles south isn't really that far, is it?"

He points over toward the cricket ground.

"That clump of daisies by the high grass on the other side is where several were before..."

Date: 2009-10-24 09:58 pm (UTC)
wordofa_sayre: (skeptical)
From: [personal profile] wordofa_sayre
"What are you talking about? Real is real," Nick argues, hurrying to catch up.

Date: 2009-10-28 08:14 pm (UTC)
wordofa_sayre: (skeptical)
From: [personal profile] wordofa_sayre
"That doesn't make it less real," he counters, stubbornly.



"... better look out there, old chap."

Date: 2009-11-03 02:18 am (UTC)
wordofa_sayre: (b&w thoughtful)
From: [personal profile] wordofa_sayre
He winces in sympathy.

"Should have thought to get a net somewhere," Nick mutters.

Carefully, with the small cage stretched out before him, he attempts to sneak up on a bee.

Date: 2009-11-03 02:27 am (UTC)
wordofa_sayre: (outside looking up)
From: [personal profile] wordofa_sayre
The bee he's stalking so intently doesn't have a chance. Nick swoops down on the daisy, the bee, and all the way into the grass below with the force of his pounce.

Of course, that means he's not even ready when the other disturbed bees come zipping toward his corner of the daisy clump.

"What the--"

He breaks off with a yelp as a bee dives at his ear and gets tangled in lock of blond hair.

Date: 2009-11-03 02:51 am (UTC)
wordofa_sayre: (school days)
From: [personal profile] wordofa_sayre
"Wait, wait -- the cage!"

He snatches up the slightly-crumpled screen enclosure and takes off after Sam... and away from the bees, save for the lone confused captive buzzing wildly around the cage.

Date: 2009-11-03 03:03 am (UTC)
wordofa_sayre: (blond and brooding)
From: [personal profile] wordofa_sayre
"In a second."

He scratches absently at one of the welts on his neck, then tries to balance the cage on the scale.

Date: 2009-11-03 03:18 am (UTC)
wordofa_sayre: (blond and brooding)
From: [personal profile] wordofa_sayre
"Can't possibly," Nick counters. "Seeing as it stings like bloody blue blazes as it is."

He gets the cage arranged to his satisfaction, straightens up, and reaches for the balm.

Date: 2009-11-03 03:27 am (UTC)
wordofa_sayre: (sideways grin)
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"You know what?"

He gives the apparatus a once-over, then turns and beams a grin at Sam.

"I think it will."

Date: 2009-11-03 03:30 am (UTC)
wordofa_sayre: (sideways grin)
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"Sure," Nick says, cheerfully.

"And I will. When you're right."

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