Kyle and Nick, backdated to Feb 1

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Nick gives Kyle his Christmas present, and ends up getting roped into helping build the fallout shelter.



Nicholas Gleason turned the corner and began his long walk around the grounds of the mansion. He was doing his best to continue his casting away the doom cloud tour, and there was another stop in his mind. Bouncing a DVD in his hand, he kept his eye out for the school's grounds keeper. But finding Kyle during his daily chores was sometimes easier said than done.

Luckily for Nick - or perhaps unluckily, Kyle was in the process of seeking out 'volunteers' to help with the latest jumbo-sized project. Which meant latching onto very nearly every idle person he saw and dropping chore lists into their arms, sometimes literally.

Or in this case, calling out to the closest person he smelled, and making a beeline for them. "Nick! Yo! Busy?" Kyle asked.

Nick looked around for a second. This wasn't the first time that he had been the subject of one of Kyle's sneak attacks. "No, I was uh..." He held up the DVD in his hand. "I was just out trying to deliver my left over Christmas gifts after my most recent emo spell." He flashed a quick grin.

"Aw, now I'm gonna feel all guilty and crap for recruiting you to stand on a ladder and hand me stuff." Not that it was gonna stop him, because going up and down the ladder would really slow down the time it took to get the clay tiles set on the fallout cottage. Even if most of the building was underground, Kyle just felt like it should have a roof. "Seriously though, thanks, but dude, you really didn't have to."

"Naw, I did. I still owe you for being the only one that didn't threaten me with some sort of weapon after the whole Catseye thing became public." Nick was fighting a grin as he handed over the DVD. "Plus it's a little something we both have in common." As he passed off the case, the smiling face of a young Michael J. Fox was clear on the front of the copy of 'Teen Wolf'.

Kyle wasn't sure if he wanted to laugh or throw Nick in the lake. But since it was pretty cold out and parts of the lake were frozen over, he decided, after a brief moment of covering his face with his free hand, to just crack up. "Hey now, I am not that hairy!" That he had two days of beard wasn't really helping in his defense. "Pretty sure I could surf on top of a van if I didn't think it'd get my ass arrested though."

Nick let himself chuckle a little bit. "I'd love to see you try sometime." The boy pushed his hands into his pockets, but more out of habit than anything. Kyle was one of the few people at the mansion that he was now actually comfortable with. "Maybe one day when the professors aren't around we can take an old car out into the woods and have a teen wolf off."

"Dude, we can do that pretty much whenever. One of the truck's is built for off-roading and I'm on staff. Not like anyone's gonna give me crap for giving you something fun to do for a couple hours." He put the DVD into one of the pockets of his cargo pants, still occasionally chuckling. "Only risk is Angel finding us and taking pictures. She's kind of a menace with that camera. Snuck it into the guy's locker room once."

"Well we wouldn't want it showing up on YouTube. The Professor may have a heyday with that one." He let himself laugh, remembering how good it felt to let go for a few minutes. "So what's your poison of choice today? Are we building something or ripping it up?" He thought that if they got it done soon enough, maybe the two could have their first van surfing lesson this afternoon. Suddenly he was really invested.

"We are building a roof for new nuclear dude so he can have a place to walk around in his underwear and not give everyone like, rad sickness." The crash course in Bad Things Radiation Can Do To You, Yes, Even You Mr. Gibney had been terrifying and had happily ended with an additional explanation of how they could secure a small building with only minimal fuss. "I mean, there'll be some waste or something to deal with but I guess the docs have a way to work on that."

"I'd still take living with the nuclear guy over Keller any day of the week." The boy half-jested as he shoved up his sleeves and turned towards the groundskeeper. "So are you gonna trust me with the nail gun this time, or do I still have to do everything manually?'

"No nails this time, sorry dude. Clay tiles and mortar. Gotta be easy to replace so if it fails the rad check thinger it can get dumped and replaced pretty fast." Kyle shifted his toolbox into the other hand. "It's pretty easy, but it gets kinda messy." Of course, that was the fun part.

"Then it's a shame that I didn't wear my Sunday's dress." The boy continued to make his way behind Gibney. "Let's get this going so I can embarrass you in our Teen Wolf competition later."