CoolerThanIceCubes [jarod]

[LUKE DONOVAN]

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For the most part, it had been a normal day in the not-so-normal lives of Luke and Quinn. Wake up late, eat an unhealthy breakfast, mess with some locals, and now it was time to find a way to kill some time in the afternoon before the real fun started later in the day. So Luke had gone back to the forest. Last time, he and his sister had gotten lost (by Quinns definition of the word) but they'd ended up running into the alpha of the local shifters, so it was a pretty successful trip none the less. This one was proving to be less exciting so far, mainly because Luke had already done that walking in circles around trees thing once, and it wasn't as interesting the second time. That and Quinn wasn't there, which, would have made walking in circles around trees much more amusing.

Okay, I know what you're thinking so again, lets reiterate this. Luke was not lost. He just.. had no idea where he was..or where he was going.. or how to get back to where he came from... Fine, so he was lost. At least Quinn wasn't around to rub it in. She'd decided to go off earlier and do some exploring, and sooner after Luke got bored and decided he'd explore himself. He wasn't sure what had really given him the impression that there might be something interesting to do in the small gloomy town, or why he thought that if he kept walking through the trees, he might eventually reach the end of the forest.. but that was Luke for you. Always the optimist. Carpe diem and all that jazz. He wasn't having the time of his life, but he had plenty of time in his life to do so. Eventually, he'd find his way somewhere. Or he'd have to call Quinn and be like.. okay, help.. Not that doing that would help anything, because she'd probably only get lost herself. So, Quinn wouldn't know. Good. End of story.

Again, making the best of the situation, he decided he was going to go for a run. He was still going nowhere, but at least he'd get there faster. He wasn't really sure how long he'd been running for when a scent distracted him. Well, that was cool. He wasn't alone. Either he'd actually found.. something, or some creepy forest psychopath was going to try killing him. Of course, being a shifter and all, he wasn't actually worried about a creepy forest psychopath. He and Quinn just watched a lot of movies. Probably at a younger age than that should have. Anyway, whether they were a raging psychopath or a sweet old lady with cookies (I mean, he knew they were a shifter but.. you had to leave room for creative variation) Luke was extremely excited to be having contact with another human... like thing. He followed the scent, which was admittedly a game he was not particularly well practiced in because he'd never needed to do it before. "Helloo?"



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[JARED CAMERON]

i pretty much operate...

[atrb=style, background-image: url(http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn16/w0lff4t3/PostTemplate%20Requests/AlexPostThings/images.jpeg); border: solid #086b1d 2px; border-radius: 0px 50px 0px 50px;][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, border: solid #086b1d 2px; width: 395px; float: center; padding-right: 30px; padding-left: 30px; padding-bottom: 25px; padding-top: 45px;] [/style] [style=width: 380px; border: solid #000000 2px; border-radius: 15px 15px 15px 15px; font-family: bookman old style; font-size: 12px; padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; color: #21bb11; line-height: 100%; background: #000000; opacity: 0.9; text-align: center; float: center;] THE TAGGED FEW:: LUKE /// CHECK THE THREADS Jared sleepy rolled over in bed, let a small groan out. Sam had kept him out all night on patrol, and while that normally meant he would sleep in all day. He physically could not do that. Jared was not the type of person to sleep for long periods of time. It was weird. His pack mates need more than nine hours of sleep to be remotely pleasant. Jared could sleep for an hour and have energy for three days. So when he got home at seven and woke up at eleven that was perfectly fine with him. He really couldn’t sleep any longer. No matter how much his body actually needed to sleep. So he crawled out of bed, into the shower, to his closet…managed to successfully dress himself. And finally made it down to the kitchen. His parents were at work and there was a lunch ready for him in the microwave, because his mother was that amazing when it came to his well-being. About twenty minutes later the food was eaten and Jared was sitting upon his couch bored out of his mind. He tried to text Kim, but she was having one of her girl days. It was best to stay out of that. Jared didn’t really want to get harmed at all today. So he was bored. So generally the next person to bother would be Embry, but he was on patrol. Paul was probably busy with Rachel and Jared…wasn’t really sure where Seth was half the time. Usually the little boy followed Paul around, so he was probably with him. Jacob was mad at him from the last time they hung out, Leah was a bitch, and Sam finally had a day off with Emily. The first time in a week because the pack managed to convince him to relax for once in his life. So Jared couldn’t really bother any of them. Well he could but he didn’t really want to get chewed out for the day. Well that mean he would have to find entertainment on his own. That was never safe with this boy. He was dangerous by himself. He was a gambler and a dare devil. So when he didn’t have that other person to keep him grounded…well the boy got a little carried away. He was going to start things slow. It was time for a random run through the forest, because nothing interesting ever occurs when you do that on this site. The boy ran for what felt like hours until he stumbled upon a scent. Thank god to because he was starting to get really bored. He stepped forward towards the scent when a voice came through the trees. “Hello!” Jared cheered and stepped around a tree to find another man standing before him. A shifter. Was he part of the other pack he heard of? “You lost or something?” Jared wasn’t asking in a mean way like Jake or Paul would. He was asking out of concern for the guy. Because Jared was concerned for strangers and was always up for making friends! “This place can get a little confusing, I even get lost sometimes…well I necessarily don’t like to think of it as lost. But that’s probably like a pride thing of something.” Generally Jared wasn’t a rambler…okay he was. Especially when he was excited and felt the need to fill in the silence. Also Ally figured a lengthy quote would be good for the second reply. This guy seemed pretty cool and his wasn’t a leech, so Jared was perfectly fine with the fact that he was on his pack’s territory. ~:~ HOW MANY WORDS:: 607 ~:~ JUST A FEW NOTES:: Jared is a man of many words! ~:~ STUCK IN MY HEAD:: CAN’T HOLD US ~ Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

on adrenaline and arrogance...

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[LUKE DONOVAN]

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'Hello!' Okay, cool, call and response with voices was a lot easier (and less stalkerish) than with scents. After only a few more tree circling attempts Luke was face to face with another guy who looked around his age. And it make it better, the guy seemed friendly (or at least not horribly the oposite of the term). That made two for two.. well.. only counting the good ones.. which defeated the purpose of counting, but like, it's Luke, don't question the logic here. “You lost or something?” "That depends. Does this forest ever end?" It didn't really seem like it, at least where Luke was coming from. If it did, his next question was going to be where it went. Because if this whole place was just some giant forest or something he and his sister were high tailing it out of there. They needed variety in their lives.

The guy went on to tell him (even though he hadn't admitted to being lost) that this place could get confusing, and Luke laughed. Talk abut the understatement of the century. "That's good, because I was starting to think I was directionally challenged." Clearly, he wasn't.. He just wasn't a tree expert. And had no intentions of becoming one. And that's what you needed to be to navigate around there. Luke was pretty open to striking up conversation with random strangers, much more so than his sister, so he was able to joke around with the guy he didn't know pretty easily. Especially when he mentioned pride. Man, they were exactly on the same page. "Hey, I won't tell anyone, you won't tell anyone." Nobody's pride suffered. The one thing that was clear by this point was that the guy had a good attitude, and so Luke liked him already.
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i pretty much operate...

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[LUKE DONOVAN]

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”I don’t think so.” Well that was just great. Luke was a very go-with-the-flow person almost all of the time but there was only so much of the endless forest of doom (it became the forest of doom after his third time getting lost in it) that he could handle. ”Well I guess I’d better start getting used to the color green.” he joked. Really, because green was a pretty cool color. That definitely could have been worse. Like.. ”At least it’s not an endless desert.” I mean, aside from just being boring and brown and sandy, that would have been a lot more concerning. Really, people died in deserts all the time. After hallucinating .. or getting high off of cactus juice.. or like poisoned by a snake. At least, that was what happened on TV. Luke couldn’t really remember seeing anything where someone died in the forest (of natural causes, not talking about crazy serial killers or anything cuz they all practically live in forests) Anyway, regardless of what Luke thought of it, the other guy had offered confirmation.. the forest was here and it wasn’t going anywhere any time soon. Quinn would surely be happy to hear it.

”I wouldn’t be surprised if it doesn’t end… I mean, if it goes past Seattle it probably hits Canada and… it’s Canada.” Luke had never been to Canada but he was pretty sure the whole country probably looked like this… Anyway, I’m going to stop now before this turns into another through where our characters just talk about trees. And these trees aren’t even talking so they’re not half as interesting as the other ones. Luke laughed when they guy replied that he very well could have been directionally challenged because it was funny..and probably true. Growing up with Quinn the back and forth was a very normal thing and you learned to A, have thick skin, and B, laugh at yourself… because seriously, if he couldn’t do that the last twenty years of his life would have been miserable. But since he could, they were pretty awesome.

”Probably. But in my defense, I just moved here. In California tree navigation is a lost art.” Trees weren’t a rarity, but they definitely weren’t as plentiful as they were here because forests were not part of the average person’s backyard. Besides that, they had different kinds of trees. You could be like, hey I’m by a palm tree, or a tree with purple flowers.. These trees all looked identical, like they were mass produced out of some tree machine. (I said I was going to stop talking about trees in the last paragraph oops) Anyway, Jarod had a cool theory about the earth being a giant tree and Luke had a theory about tree machines so it was obvious that these two were ridiculous and would be getting along fine. (Not to mention that Luke didn’t know how stupidly angry and dramatic most shifters were yet so Jarod was going to give him an awesome impression and later he could be disappointed when he realized that he like.. didn’t like anyone else.) He shook they guys hand and nodded at his introduction. ”I’m Luke.”

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