Splish Splash, I was taking a bath (Bendy timed to just after the weddings)

[psi-flames.livejournal.com]

Not everybody wanted to go to the consummation huts straight off the bat. Which meant if they wanted to get cleaned up, they needed another spot to do so in.

Luckily, the city had just such a place: the great public baths. They were rather immense. And open, since the Moai didn't have much in the way of nudity taboos. There were private stalls around the edges, though, for those who weren't quite so open. Or just wanted to do a little 'private' bathing (wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more). It's traditional for the baths to take a while. After all, pretty much everybody here has just gotten married! Enjoy!

(Oh. And your clothes are going to disappear. Nothing personal, the Rapa Nui just want to make sure you have something clean and dry to change into when you've bathed. Isn't that nice?)

((Yep, there are public baths in the city. Have fun with it! And Jono's still outside the city. I just want to be able to get notifs after I ask for no notifications on the main post.))

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[bonnypiperlad]

Jamie, meanwhile, is quite contentedly soaking in the water, having finally gotten past being uncomfortable now that he's had a bit to settle in. It helps that he's found a fairly unoccupied spot, and he lets his eyes slip closed. Maybe now he can relax a little and...

...get drenched by a wave of water. Oh, that's just great.

"H-hey!" Sputtering a bit, he wipes at his face to get the worst of the water off before his eyes snap open and start looking for the culprit. It's really not too hard to spot her, either. Have a rather annoyed Scotsman fixing you with a bit of a glare, Lash.

"Do ye mind? Some of us are trying to relax!"

[thewunderkind]

Oh woops, sorry she just grinned, her face half in the water before she moved her mouth up enough to blast him with a small torrent of water.

[bonnypiperlad]

The result is one of Jamie's more impressive 'hrmph' faces, as far as those go, and he folds his arms against his chest. "Now cut that out! I've not gone and disturbed your soak, now have I? Can't a man have a moment's peace?"

It's bad enough he's in here by himself with all the other couples around, but he'd just managed to shut that part of it out. Then Lash decided now would be a fine time to cannonball into his space, so maybe you can't blame him for being a wee bit grumbly. Pulling one arm free, he waggles a finger at her warningly.

"You're lucky you're a married woman now. We have a way of dealing with cheeky wee lasses like yourself where I come from."

[thewunderkind]

Music to Lash's ears. Teasing friends was always one of her favorite activities.

"Ha! I bet I could show then a thing or two at what a wee lass like me could do," she replied, grinning back and crossing her arms over her chest. "So spill it out! Who's the lucky lass that got hitched with you?"

[bonnypiperlad]

She will be thrilled then, very very shortly. "There's no lasers in Scotland in my day, ye know," Jamie points out. "You'd not likely have the time to try and build them, either."

Not that she could likely even find the materials, but she'd be rather busy with the household and the children. Jamie doesn't get a chance to point that out. Oh, he's about to, but then she has to go and ask that question.

Off goes his mouth to the side. "It wasn't a lass."

[thewunderkind]

"It isn't?" First there was a bit of a shock (and admittedly a little of her heart) when she heard that, but she quickly covered it in a small giggle. "I didn't think you liked guys that much!"

Smooth. Very Smooth.

[bonnypiperlad]

"I don't!" Jamie protests, rather nettled by the implication. "I only married the Doctor so we could get in here."

He just won't bring up that clinging thing he tends to do when he's around the Time Lord, because that would not help things at all at the moment. Now that he thinks about it, he's not even sure he's really mentioned to Doctor to any of the team other than Billy. They really should have more Ranger-bonding exercises or something.

"Have I mentioned him to ye before?"

[thewunderkind]

Thankfully, Lash had helped the Doctor so she knew who he was.

"You mean...the guy with the fancy lavatory?" Well, she knew parts of him anyway. "Tee hee hee, and you two passed the test and everything, that's amazing!"

[bonnypiperlad]

"A what? Look, I'll have ye know the TARDIS is no lavatory." Did she actually call it that around the Doctor? Jamie really hopes not. He can't imagine that would go over well at all. Especially given how much he seems to want to show it off lately.

Although...that's a fair point. If Lash had seen the inside of it she certainly wouldn't be thinking of it as anything close to a lavatory. Or maybe she would. Jamie doesn't know.

"It may look like a wee blue box, but it's actually a spaceship." Just for good measure, he adds, "And of course we passed the test. Why would we not do that?"

[thewunderkind]

"Well it's not that I didn't think you could do it, I just didn't know you liked the Doctor that much!" Sometimes it was a wonder Lash had friends at all. With friends like her, who needed enemies? The fact the fancy blue box with the words TELEPHONE on it was not a fancy Lavatory did surprise her. Because seriously, why would you put telephones in a box like that? You didn't need that stuff in the army. Maybe it was a product of its time..

But then he said the word which caught her attention the most and the teasing stopped.

"Spaceship? Now you're just pulling my leg."

[bonnypiperlad]

"He's been a good friend of mine for quite some time, even before I woke up on Stacy," Jamie points out. "Besides, weren't we supposed to pick someone we trusted for this mission anyway?"

Which...makes sense. Trusting someone helps a lot when you have to wind up marrying them. He can't really blame Lash for teasing him about the situation, though. If it had been someone else, he might have very well done the same thing. Still, he's more than a little tired about being picked on because of it, and he's just as glad when Lash switches topics.

"Of course it's a spaceship. Have ye ever seen anything in the Hangar that wasn't a spaceship, or an automobile or some sort of thing ye can use to travel with? Even our Zords could be used for that if they had to."