Touch Football mega thread

[nola_eleanor]

There was a field not too far from Phoenix Effect that was too small for all the various sports leagues in the city to have snapped up for weekend practices or games, but big enough for the fairly flexible game of touch football, so that's where they played. People came and went for most of the afternoon, though the game itself only lasted an hour and change. Almost everyone played, but there were several people watching, choosing to cheer or heckle or talk amongst themselves as it suited them.

When everyone got together enough to actually start the game, they divided into two teams, with Matteo as the referee. Zach's team was made up of Hazel, Max, Hanne, Nori, Nick, Alex, and Oliver; Kyle had Elspeth, Joel, Carrie, Caleb, Irene, Sam, and Elena on his team. It wasn't a blowout, but Zach's team won by a few touchdowns and were crowned the victors. Despite a couple minor accidents, everyone came out of it in one piece. More or less.

Comments

[nola_quicksilver]

"You gonna play? You can be on my team." He was teasing, though he was also fully prepared to nag Sam into letting Dani take his place if that was necessary.

[nola_wanda]

She laughed and shook her head. "That's okay. I'm just going to watch." It was nice to be invited, though, even if observing was definitely more her speed. "I think Joel is playing though, and he's...he's from the same place I am."

[nola_quicksilver]

Oliver raised his eyebrows in surprise and looked around for Joel, who he knew a little through Elspeth. "Wow...who? I mean, other than being Joel."

[nola_wanda]

"You know Joel?" Dani looked just as surprised as Oliver did. "He's Bucky Barnes, does he exist in your world? He said Steve's here, too. Cap." She was very out of the loop on a lot of pop culture and knew next to nothing about comics, but even she knew Captain America was a big part of that universe.

[nola_quicksilver]

"Yeah, he's seeing a friend of mine." He found Joel then, talking with Elspeth herself. "Jesus, Cap and Bucky are here? That changes some of the stuff we were assuming about this situation." He turned back to Dani. "But they're good to have on a team—of course, you know that. Well, Cap is, anyway; I don't know Bucky very well."

[nola_wanda]

"I wouldn't assume anything. I think what we actually know about what's going is probably only a tiny fraction, and I'm not sure we'll ever solve it like it's some kind of puzzle." Some situations could be solved by super heroes and some just required people, and Dani had the feeling that this was the latter. But then that was an assumption in its own right, too. "Bucky's a good person, I trust him." Not that Dani was thinking about a team so much as a friend. She knew which she needed more.

[nola_quicksilver]

"I really, really need to watch those movies." He smiled apologetically. "I mean, I've seen parts of a few, but it felt like watching an adaptation of life as I knew it that took extreme liberties with the text, in retrospect."

[nola_wanda]

"I wish you wouldn't?" Dani replied softly, hesitantly. "I can't speak for anyone else, or the movies I'm not in, I guess--" She knew there were a lot of them, and that many of them were about characters she didn't know or events she wasn't part of, so she didn't feel the same way about them. "--but they feel like...I don't know, like an unauthorized biography. Like someone took, specifically, the worst or most difficult parts of my life and wrote about them to entertain people. Millions of people. But at least most of them don't know it's about me." Dani spent her whole life feeling exposed, and judged, and worse, she didn't need more of the same from Wanda's perspective.

[nola_quicksilver]

He winced. "I won't if you don't want me to."