fandomtownies | First Responder's Memorial Day Barbecue - Fire Station and Selkie Lake, Monday

Where there were a number of squirt guns and water balloons at the ready for people should they feel the need. You know. For reasons.

Look, Bucky ordered them and now you get to deal with that.

Annie would have likely been here with the kids even if their dad wasn't involved in an important shirtless tug-o-war later, but given that he was, it was all the more important that they come to support him as a family!

Even if their son was, you know, traitorously rooting for the babysitters. (Maggie appeared to mostly be rooting for bees, and also taking an early stance on dresses with pockets.)

In any case, Annie had found herself a spot to spread out a blanket on the grass and sit with the babies and a beer for herself, alternating between soothing Maggie (who was still not sure about grass) and fixing Ben's shirt.

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"Aaaaaaannniiiieeeee!" said Summer, who was absolutely coming over and joining her on that blanket with a little waggling finger wave on both hands to the kids, who got a slightly more serious, "Maggie. Ben." with nods, before she turned a bright grin Annie's way. "How's it going? You guys need anything?"

Look, with their dad out being involved in important shirtless tug-of-wars later, maybe Annie could use an extra pair of bestie hands, you never knew! Sure, Summer was banking on Annie being a capable expert at this point, but, you know, she was still going to offer!

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Oh, like Yukari was going to miss a barbecue.

Did she have a class she should actually be teaching right now? Probably! Maybe! It was a holiday, right? Look, she wasn't from around here, she didn't know how it worked, but she was pretty sure anyone showing up to class today instead of going to a free barbecue was just a big nerd, anyway, and, quite frankly, not someone she was interested in associating with, much less teaching.

After a tour of the firehouse, Kamala was still wearing the souvenir hat and had a squirt gun ready to defend herself.

Kitty thought this would be a fun thing to bring Lexi to, and she was right!

Because she was going to be doing her best to keep her kid from going for the squirt guns and water balloons that she clearly fully intended on abusing.

This would of course end in Kitty finally giving up and going home with awkward water spots on her clothes if she didn't phase at the right time but that was a problem for later.

Dean was uncharacteristically dressed in a plain t-shirt and cargo shorts today. He was not so much mingling as resting in a lounging folding beach chair he had brought with him. Next to the chair was a cooler of beer and on the other side was another empty beach chair.

With sunglasses on and a beer in his hand, Dean was ready to simply enjoy the day.

And watch that raccoon in the middle of the lake with goggles on.

As one of the first responders in question, Watts was, naturally, here. Although for the moment still dressed in his typical three-piece suit. Would that change by the time the tug of war got started? Perhaps!

"Do you see a good spot to settle in?" he asked Steven, who was ~~lightly modded~~ with him.

"Somewhere in the shade, perhaps?" Steven asked. He didn't want Llewellyn risking a sunburn after all.

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"Hey, Llewellyn," Annie greeted him, with Ben (in his shirt of betrayal) up on her hip and giving Watts a baby-serious examination from that vantage point. "What're you gonna do with your hat for the tug-o-war?"

Important questions. She was less concerned about, like, the vest or whatever.

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As big as her issues with cops was these days, Rosa was still a member of the Nine-Nine family, and, as such, was therefor obligated to show up here today, not necessarily in support of her former Trooper coworkers so much as root against the firefighters.

Which was nothing personal, she barely knew any of them (and definitely preferred to keep it that way). It was just....a thing, alright? Sometimes, we were all bound by laws greater than ourselves.

Don was happy to come out and support the island's first responders! Although he was slightly self-conscious about the fact that the bottom of the new tattoo (let's imagine the photo as upside down, so, the head of the hammer) on his left thigh was visible below the hem of his shorts. He didn't know what had come over him last week.

"You got a tattoo?" Jane asked like that made any sense to someone outside their weird lives. Like, you know, she actually knew Don on a level beyond having recently met him.

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Where there were shirtless first responders, there would be Gray. It was like a rule or something.

Okay, he might be asleep somewhere inconvenient where people might need to step over him, with his plastic firefighter hat askew but somehow still on his head, but he was here. And maybe you could catch him while he was awake?

Lydia was not entirely sure it was appropriate for her to celebrate this holiday, what with the only war America having had yet in her time being the one to throw off her country's rule and all, but she had a new dress and a parasol trimmed to match, and she was here nonetheless.

Stark eyed the squirt guns and water balloons, noting where they were for later. Just in case.

For now he was just going to look around for friendly faces.

At some point Don slipped away from the barbecue, possibly to go teach a class on how not to electrocute yourselves with an AED, after which there was a lightning strike somewhere on the island and Thor arrived at the picnic. Being all Thor.

And hey, there was a second Thor! Well, Thor-ish. Please call her Jane, okay? It'd get really confusing otherwise.

But who would turn down free food and attractive men? So of course Jane was there.

One of those Thors was mightier than the other though!

"Hello, Jane!"

Could the first responders bring in ringers from the audience for tug-of-war?

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Hmmm, hang out with Apu at work all day or duck out early to for an event with free food, all her friends, and shirtless firefights.

Yeah, real tough choice Summer had to make there. Either way, she was here a bit later, and was clearly looking to make up for the delay.

"Hi, Summer."

What, you thought he wouldn't come over as soon as he saw her?

"I'm glad you made it. Store wasn't too busy? The clinic was quiet enough."

The clinic was always quiet.

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Social butterfly she was not, but Henry certainly was down with food that a) other people made and b) she didn't have to pay for. So here she was.

This gathering had several things that immediately made it anathema to Stewart: during the day, celebrating another nation's holiday, and held by figures of authority of the law. It was enough to make him hiss upon arrival and contemplate skulking right back to his apartment and his video games, but...

He wasn't exactly living off of drug sale money any more, and free food was free food, and so, while he was trying to stick to the parameters of the event like a skittering creature ready to flee at the first sign of trouble, he was occasionally dancing (literally dancing, by the way, he was not just being cute with descriptors) up to the food tables and then dancing away to enjoy it then and there or spirit it away to go for later on in the week.

Nell and Gladio had decided to forgo their usual Monday night gathering and come here instead. It was a nice day and Nell was happy to let someone else handle food and clean-up before heading home for some quiet time with Gladio.

Not only was there a certain appeal in getting to eat grilled meats while also giving Nell an convenient excuse to take a day off from her usual entertaining for the evening and get their socialization in at the picnic, Gladio did have a pretty strong reverence for this particular holiday, even if it wasn't strictly his. But it was impossible to come from his background without a lot of respect for fellow soldiers, especially fallen ones, and so he really sort of wanted to participate in that regard, too. Definitely with his mind on having a good time and enjoying the festivities, but also with a certain, quiet, thoughtfulness to it, too.

He and the guys should definitely plan a fishing trip this week, actually...