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[resident_alice]

So. Things on the island were back to normal. For the time being, at least. Alice had no doubt that something was going to happen come Valentine's Day, and she wasn't looking forward to it at all. In fact, she had resolved to stay in her hut the entire day, regardless of whether anything happened or not. If it didn't happen to her, it'd happen to

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[flyboy_shepp]

While John hadn't exactly convinced Rodney to try out his new paintball gear yet, John had played around with most of it, getting himself familiar with the guns and the other tools. He knew Ronon would probably go along with him if he asked, but John would be lucky if he got one shot at Ronon before being pelted with paint himself.

He'd tried out each gun on a few trees, and was still spattered with bits of blue and yellow paint as he went along with his day. There was probably even some in his hair he hadn't caught yet.

When he came across Alice near the waterfall, he was unsurprised by what she was doing. And a little wary, too - he was pretty good with a sword now, but something about her kukris made John extremely uncomfortable.

It was probably the potential of losing a limb. "Hey."

[resident_alice]

Alice looked up, and even as she smiled at John, her hand kept moving. The rhythm of the schk, schk, schk of the stone moving across the blade barely changed.

"Hi," she said. "I was just thinking about you." Hopefully he wouldn't take that the wrong way, but - huh. Something was different about him. It took her a second to realize what it was, and when she did, she stopped sharpening the kukri.

"Why are you covered in paint? Are you renovating your hut or something? I never pegged you for an interior design kind of guy." She hiked up an eyebrow.

[flyboy_shepp]

The confused look John was giving Alice at her greeting kind of melted away into a smug and purely happy grin. "Got some paintball gear the other day. Was trying it out."

[resident_alice]

Alice gave this piece of information due consideration.

"An ATV would have been cooler," she said loftily, and resumed her sharpening, hiding a grin of her own.