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]

"Fucking jerks," Joe said affectionately, leaning back on his elbows a little bit. He obviously didn't mind that they were around to help him out.

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

"You love it," Logan said simply, giving Joe a gentle shove and then flopping back down on his own bag.

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, well, can't fucking give it up now, can I?" Joe asked with a small smirk, looking over at Logan. "Feel any better yet?"

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

Logan nodded a little, because he did feel better. A lot better. So much so that it was almost as if he hadn't heard Aaron at all.

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"Want another story?" Joe teased with a small smirk, nudging Logan's side gently. "Want a fucking once upon a time with a moral?"

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

"Only if it ends with me slaying a dragon," Logan quipped.

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"What the fuck would the moral of that story be?" Joe asked with a laugh. "If you're a good little boy, you'll get to slay a fucking dragon?"

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

"I dunno if you could call me good," Logan snorted.

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"Well, there's gotta be a fucking moral," Joe decided with a smirk. "No point in me telling a story without it having a moral."

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

"I could tell a story," Logan offered. "But I can't think of any happy ones, and none of them have a moral."

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"Well, then that's not a fucking store. Has to have a moral," Joe decided with a firm nod. "But you could tell one anyway."

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, alright," Logan agreed. "Once upon a time, there was this girl... She wasn't a princess or anything, but she was definitely the fairest of them all. She had a smile that could light up a room, and a party wasn't a party until she showed up.

She was dating one of the most popular boys in school, but little did anyone know, she was never content to setlle with just him.

She test drove as many guys as she could... Tall ones, short ones, rich ones, poor ones... Old ones. She toyed with each and every one of them... until one day they just found her cold body by the pool."

Logan stopped at that, frowning a little to himself.

"I'm pretty sure the moral of that story is don't test drive old men."

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"That's a pretty fucking depressing story," Joe pointed out after a moment, frowning himself. Hadn't they just been trying to forget Aaron? Maybe Logan needed to talk about it anyway.

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

"That's all it is though," Logan replied. "Someone wrote it. You ever think about it that way? Wonder who it was who wrote it all down..."

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"Whoever wrote it all down is a depressing fuck," Joe decided. "And whoever changed the end of my movie to have my fucking death is a depressing fuck, too."

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. People are sadistic dicks, huh?" Logan said, watching Joe.

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"People fucking suck," Joe agreed with a soft snort. "The shit we watch for entertainment is sick."

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

"Like horror movies. I love horror movies," Logan admitted.

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, like horror movies," Joe agreed, grinning a little. "They're fucked up, but what's not to love, man?"

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

"It's sick though, if you think about it. Watching people suffer. It's really fucked up that we enjoy that," Logan said, frowning slightly.

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"People like seeing other people worse off than they are, I guess," Joe said, shrugging a bit. "Makes your own life a little bit better for awhile."

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

"It's twisted," Logan said firmly, reaching for his bag and casting Joe a quick glance.

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"Sure is. People are twisted, man. It's like a fucking rule," he agreed, looking mostly relaxed and comfortable.

[echolls-cursed.livejournal.com]

Fishing out a joint and his lighter, Logan flopped onto his back. "I mean, what if they showed up here? Imagine having to see yourself mutilated and murdered, only to find out it was a movie? A slasher flick for people like us to watch for a cheap thrill."

[jdick.livejournal.com]

"Beth," Joe answered immediately, although he didn't know she'd been in a movie. It just seemed to terrifying and too perfect, the scars on her legs and the thing dragging her down into the dark. "Beth's like that, so I think one of them is already here."