Alligator Cabin, Alcove B4

[icecoldfrost]

Emma was quite done with this nonsense, thank you.

After a few bags had appeared around her feet during First Aid, continually tripping her up, she'd stomped back to the cabin, yanked the bags out from earlier, and promptly gone and tossed them in fire pits around the cabins. Sheilding herself didn't seem to stop them from them from appearing, or to stop her from chucking the smaller ones out the window.

The giant box marked 'Warning: Hazardous Materials' with the names of her family scrawled on it was too heavy to lift, so it got a blanket thrown over it, and Emma was going to sit on it and read her book, occasionally tossing another handbag outside.

Take that, Fandom.

[For those that know who they be, plz.]

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[bitten_notshy]

Jack's baggage had not caught up with him yet.

That was the only possible reason he had for smiling at Emma as he spotted her through the cabin window.

The smile died when yet another bag flew out, narrowly missing Jack. He blinked as he sidestepped it, calling through the window to Emma.

"... not quite how you normally say hello, Miss Frost."

[icecoldfrost]

"It is today," she replied, viciously bouncing her heels off her current perch. "Why are you so cheerful?"

Most people start with 'hello,' Emma...

[bitten_notshy]

"It's sunny outside and I'm going to go to the mainland with Kyle tomorrow," Jack answered. "And I was going to ask if you'd let me in, since it's been a few days since I saw you."

A bag labeled ABANDONMENT ISSUES popped up next to Jack as if cued.

[icecoldfrost]

Emma got off her box to come hang out the window and look, pointedly, and the bag that appeared next to Jack. "You can come in if you want, the door's unlocked," she replied. "Although hopefully the strange weather clears up before your trip."

Emma wasn't going out in public if she could help it, thank you. It was uncouth to air baggage like this.

[bitten_notshy]

Jack did his best not to miss a beat as he scooped up the bag and let himself into the cabin and back to Emma's alcove. By the time he got there, NEED TO BE PERFECT was in his left hand, counterbalancing his first bag.

"Strange weather indeed," he said, an unreadable expression on his face. "I don't suppose this is anything you had heard of?"

[icecoldfrost]

"Not until this morning, when I awoke to a few 'gifts' that had not been here when I went to bed last night," Emma replied. "They kept appearing when I was in class, too."

[bitten_notshy]

"if it was happening to the whole class, it's a miracle you all made it out," Jack observed sourly. He was resigned to the island being odd, he just didn't like this latest bout of misbehavior. "What's the one you're sitting on?"

[icecoldfrost]

"Nosy, Mr. Priest," she chided, gesturing for him to take the bed if he liked. "I'm at the point that I'm just tossing some of the less-offensive ones out the window. The more vexing ones get removed to the campfire." When no one was looking, of course.

[bitten_notshy]

"Does it hurt you when you burn them?" Jack asked curiously. "And are you really surprised I'm nosy?"

[icecoldfrost]

"I didn't say I burned them, I said I put them at the campfire," she pointed out. "I'm too lazy to build a fire. It doesn't hurt me when I throw them, so I assume burning will work quite well too, whenever someone gets around to it."

"And no, I'm not surprised that you're nosy, darling. But I've removed most of them from the room, so you shan't find anything too shocking." A small white purse with FEAR OF FAILURE appeared on her bed, and Emma gave it a disgruntled glare. "Really? That describes 99% of the population of the world. Go away."

[bitten_notshy]

Jack laughed. "You intimidated that one, didn't you>?"

An enormous wheeled suitcase labeled SEBASTIEN popped up, pressing up against the curtain. Jack waved a hand. "I know what most of yours would say, anyhow. I've no interest in being more than normally nosy."

[icecoldfrost]

"You think you know what they'd say," she shot back, tossing her hair. But there was a half-smile on her face, which meant she wasn't offended. "I would think the detective in you wouldn't rest until you'd found each and every one of my bags."

[bitten_notshy]

Jack smiled back at her. Someone who didn't know him might even find it angelic. "Unless I already have, and this whole visit is to cajole you out of the last few."

[icecoldfrost]

"When you're looking particularly innocent, I know you're about to cause trouble," she answered. "My box, you can't have it."

It's not that Jack wasn't aware of that particular issue; Emma just felt like being contrary. Also, she'd stuffed ACCESSORY TO MURDER and MY FATHER-SUBSTITUTE IS A FUZZY INSANE GENIUS inside of it, to save space until she could dump them somewhere.

[bitten_notshy]

Jack clucked his tongue at her. "Impossible girl." But he was smiling, too.

At least, he was smiling until the bag that said ATTENTION-HUNGRY materialized on top of Emma's dresser. "Honestly. I am not."

[icecoldfrost]

Emma laughed delightedly, leaning over to try and snag the bag without getting off her box. "I'm keeping this one," she informed him. "Because you are too!"

[bitten_notshy]

"It could just as well be meant for you!" Jack protested, but a bit feebly. "I know you like being pretty."

[icecoldfrost]

"I am pretty, AND I like being the center of attention, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Ergo, this is yours," she sang, catching it and waving it at him. "Don't worry, I won't tattle."

[bitten_notshy]

"I'm not worried about tattling."

Yes, he was.

[icecoldfrost]

"Yes you are." Emma knew she wasn't helping, but she couldn't resist. "But we already know what a vain creature you are, so tattling wouldn't be any fun at all."

Although she should tell Rose. Rose would find it funny, too.

"Don't worry, your lovely little tricksy brain makes up for it. Usually."

[bitten_notshy]

"You're going to tell Rose," Jack sighed. He wasn't psychic; he just knew the girls.

His sigh was cut short by a bag skidding into his foot. It read WON'T COMMIT TO ANYONE EXCEPT A DEAD MAN. "... and I suppose you'll mention that too, though it's hardly fair."

[icecoldfrost]

"Don't be cruel," she replied shortly, wrinkling her nose at him. "I'm hardly going to gossip about your Sebastien. That would be vulgar."

Another small purse dropped down next to Emma, and she quickly picked it up to toss it out the window, trying to hide the NEVER COMES IN FIRST FOR ANYONE emblazoned across the tag.

[bitten_notshy]

"I didn't think it would be cruel -- Rose knows everything anyhow," Jack pointed out, leaning over to read her bag.

He made a slight snorting noise at the label. "Was tossing that therapeutic?"

[glacial_queen]

Eventually, Karla got tired of hanging out in her fort and knocked on the wall separating her alcove from Emma's. And then just passed through that same wall, because she'd forgotten to put doors in when she'd been building it.

"The island is stupid," she announced. You know. In case Emma had missed it, or something.

[icecoldfrost]

"I only gossip about people's personal affairs if they're funny or have immediate blackmail value," she answered, pouting at him slightly. Really. She wasn't going to say anything to anyone other than that Sebastien was gentleman, and Jack assured her that he was housebroken. Anything other than that was...uncomfortable.

"And none of this is therapeutic. If it were, we'd all be feeling better instead of getting crankier."