Camping (locked to Joe, backdated to Sept 29th)

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Seeing as how he and Neil had been fighting about damn near everything all week, Logan had been more than a little eager to go camping with Joe by the time Saturday morning rolled around. So eager, in fact, that he'd already been to the compound to find a sleeping bag in the clothes box (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle themed no less), and had packed his make-shift bag before Joe had even come to find him.

For once Logan was ahead of the game, knocking on Joe's door to see if he was ready.

God, he'd never thought he'd be so eager to stare at trees for nearly forty-something hours.

"Hey, you ready?" he asked, knocking once and then pushing the door open a crack. "I grabbed some food for us to take or whatever... so, uh, I'm ready to go when you are man."

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[jdick.livejournal.com]

"Better than me and him trying to kill each other all the fucking time," Joe agreed. "He'd kick the shit out of me, anyway. I'd lose." And there was really no question of that, as Dale had already proven twice.

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Logan snorted a little at that, but didn't argue. He was pretty sure Dale could take Joe without even really trying.

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"Not much further," Joe said after a moment, following the path up the mountain a bit further. "We're close now."

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"Thank god, man," Logan sighed. "It feels like we've been walking forever."

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Joe snorted softly, but didn't say anything else until they'd finally reached the place he'd been talking about and then he set down his bag. The ground was flat and there was enough room for them to set up camp and the view was pretty fucking amazing.

"Good?" he asked.

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Logan took a long moment to just look around, dropping his things near Joe's. He took in the view with a long hard look, eventually turning back to Joe and nodding. "It's beautiful," he admitted.

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"Yeah, I figured this was a good place," Joe agreed, sitting down on a rock to rest for a minute before he began to get his shit out. "Billy and I camped out here once."

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"He liked coming up the mountain," Logan said, remembering how often the other man had gone away to enjoy it. "I always wondered why. He ever tell you?"

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"No," Joe answered, although he thought he knew. "Billy wasn't happy here, man. This place... it was like the place I had to go to fucking survive, you know? And it just sort of broke Billy down and I think maybe the mountain was the only place he didn't feel like it was killing him."

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It was kind of painful to think about, and he offered Joe an apologetic look. "He didn't always hate it," he said after a moment. "He liked it when he was with you."

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"Sometimes," Joe allowed with a faint grin, looking over at Logan. "Sometimes, yeah. And sometimes I just pissed him off even more."

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"I miss him," Logan said quietly. "And i think Dale's a good guy for you, but sometimes it's weird to see you with him... It's stupid, I know it is, but I always figured it would bs you and Billy forever or something. Guess it just proves that nothing ever lasts forever. Not even the best relationships."

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If Logan thought Joe and Billy's relationship had been one of the best, then he hadn't seen enough of them together. Joe didn't correct him, though, because there was no point now.

"Some things just aren't meant to last forever," he said with a small shrug.

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Logan had a tendency to see what he wanted to see, and frankly, he'd needed to see Joe and Billy that way. Not that he was really sure why.

"Sometimes I worry me and Neil can't last."

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"You never really know, eh?" Joe asked, because telling Logan that he and Neil would last forever wasn't something he could say. It might be a lie or it might not. "No one ever really knows."

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Logan simply sighed a little and moved to sit down beside the older man. "It sucks," he decided.

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"Yeah," Joe agreed. "Doesn't matter where the fuck we go, there's always gonna be shit that sucks. People who think this is some kinda fresh start completely are fucked."

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"Yeah," Logan agreed, resting against Joe lightly.

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Joe was quiet for a moment and then nudged Logan lightly. "You wanna get some shit set up and then get wood and shit for a fire?" He didn't know much about camping, but having done it with Dale a couple times meant he'd learned a few things.

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"Yeah, okay, Uh, how about I go get wood, you set up our sleeping bags and stuff?" Logan suggested, getting to his feet.

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"Sure," Joe said, climbing to his feet as well. "Don't, uh... don't go too far. Don't know what kinda shit there is up here, you know?"

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"Worried I might eaten Joe?" Logan smirked, grinning deviously as he ducked off into the trees to grab the wood he'd promised to fetch.

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"I am, fucker," Joe said with a snort, rolling his eyes affectionately as Logan went off the get the wood. He worked quickly, getting the sleeping bags unrolled and set out, then grabbed some of the food, putting it all together.

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Logan returned a few minutes later, his arms full of dry wood and broken branches. He dropped them into a careless pile a little ways away from the bags.

"Look, ma, still got all my limbs," he said, holding up his hands and wiggling his fingers.

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"Hardee fucking hah, asshole," Joe muttered, but he was smiling faintly as he set stones in a circle to make a pit for the fire. And he'd never really known how to build a fire before the island, but being here now had changed that.