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

[echolls_cursed]

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]

"I figure most of this island logic is beyond me anyway," Joe decided after a moment. "Dunno if it's even worth trying to figure it out anymore."

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

"I dunno," Logan sighed, looking at Joe. "Sometimes I just wish I knew what was next."

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"No one ever knows what comes next," Joe pointed out, shrugging a bit. "Isn't that what people say is the beauty of life or some bullshit like that?"

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

"People are full of shit," Logan countered. "They have a platitude for every occasion."

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"You got that fucking right," Joe agreed with a nod, pointing two fingers over at Logan. "People are full of shit, you are so fucking right."

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

"You high man?" Logan asked curiously, wondering if maybe Joe had been sniffing the smoke from his joint.

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"Second hand high," Joe said with a snort of laughter. "No, man, not high. Just agreeing with you."

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

Logan squinted a little, as if that would help him judge Joe's sobriety. "Yeah, alright, man," he replied. "I believe you."

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"How the hell would I get high when I've been sitting right here?" Joe asked with a grin. "You've been fucking with me the whole time."

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

"Contact high," Logan said, pointing at Joe in return. Though really, the only stoned person there was him.

Logan was a little toasted.

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"You're the stoned one," Joe replied in turn. Although he wasn't even sure what they were arguing about any more. "But I'm not high."

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

"You sure?" Logan asked. "Maybe you are and don't know it."

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"You spend as much time getting high as I did and you know," Joe assured him with a faint smirk. "You know, man."

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

Logan seemed to consider that, and then nodded. "Alright," he agreed. "True enough."

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"And if I wanted to get high, I would," Joe decided. "Wouldn't sit around and inhale your second hand smoke."

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

"Fuck you, in Neptune my second hand smoke is a delicacy," Logan grinned.

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"Not in fucking Neptune anymore," Joe pointed out, grinning in return. "Gotta take the bad with the good."

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

Logan just laughed a little and nodded. "Guess so."

Rolling onto his back, he looked up at the stars as he spoke. I can't remember a time before coming here when people didn't know who I was. I remember people snapping photos of me as a kid. Seeing myself on the covers of trashy tabloids with headlines I didn't understand. When I was nine, some woman even tried to get me to go home with her."

He was quiet for a moment and then looked at Joe again. "I don't miss it. Being known. Being watched. Do you?"

[jdick.livejournal.com]

Joe thought about it, giving a small shrug after a moment and he said, "I guess I miss parts of it. I miss performing, I miss people knowing the words of my songs and shouting them back at me. I miss the free drinks and the free coke and the women who'd just fucking throw themselves at us."

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

"Yeah? I bet that was cool," Logan said softly.

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"And here there's barely even a fucking stage," Joe said, snorting quietly. He'd love to perform again, but it wasn't the same and it would never be the same.

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

"It's still a stage though," Logan said.

"I was enjoying learning to play from you," he admitted after a moment, looking at Joe again.

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"We can still do that if you want," Joe replied. He'd more or less given up doing most things since Bucky had started to get on his nerves, but he'd like doing it. "I'm sure as hell not the best teacher."

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

"You are," Logan argued. "Wouldn't want to learn from anyone else, you know?"

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"No one else here who's even half as good as me anyway," Joe replied smugly. It was arrogant, but he thought it was true anyway.