Boys Night Out (locked to Bliss)

[mistersmith_tm]

Mister Smith couldn't have asked for anything more out of life. In fact, he was amazed at his good fortune and still, even now, half expected to awaken from this incredible dream. A dream that took him out of his post-apocalyptic world of the Big Death and gave him a home, friends, and a loving family. A loving, beautiful wife and three equally beautiful children. His days were full and rewarding, spent with his family, his hobby of photography, and his duties as high priest to the god of Happiness and Joy. So busy, in fact, that it took him some time to begin to realize that there was something missing in his perfect life.

His best friend.

The realization struck hit him with startling clarity late afternoon while he was watching a group of children having a water balloon fight on the greensward outside of the temple's main doors. Their laughter and squeals, accompanied by the frequent "SPLOOSH!" of impacting water balloons, made him think of a time not so long ago when he and Bliss had enjoyed a similar pasttime. And that made him realize that it had been a very long time indeed since he and his best friend had spent any real time together, just the two of them. Just enjoying each other's company.

He missed Bliss. Even though they saw each other every day, it wasn't the same. They were both so very busy, what with their individual duties and the new addition to their respective families.

Mister Smith wondered if Bliss felt the same way. He suspected he did, even if the young god didn't quite understand what that feeling was. Like Smith, it probably hadn't yet occurred to him what that peculiar little nagging emptiness was.

So Mister Smith went off in search of Bliss. Not as his high priest, but as his friend. To tell him how much he missed the time they'd once spent together. And to propose that they do something about it . . .

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[mistersmith-tm.livejournal.com]

"A self fulfilling cycle, and a good one at that," he nodded. "Besides which, when we're done with it, our playhouse is going to be a tourist attraction. You just wait and see."

[littlebitobliss.livejournal.com]

Laughing softly as he sat down in the grass and tossed Smith one of the lunchable containers, "Temple kids first and formost though... this really is for them." He was going to have to find some more people to work here, perhaps some teens, fresh out of school who needed a safe home.

[mistersmith-tm.livejournal.com]

Catching the prepackaged lunch, he sat down on the grass beside his friend, facing the temple. "Temple kids first, absolutely," he agreed. "The more the merrier." He pulled off the plastic covering and absentl slipped it into a pocket. "You've still got plenty of room to expand the tample," he observed as he looked at the open spaces still available.

[littlebitobliss.livejournal.com]

"And if we run out of room we can always start building up...." of course the temple inside was a whole lot larger than it was on the outside. Eating one of the crackers, Bliss noticed a couple of the children peeking out at them again, "I think we're gathering a croud..."

[mistersmith-tm.livejournal.com]

He chuckled softly as the children, realizing they'd been spotted, seemed to hurriedly confer with each other. "Daring each other to come out and see what we're doing," he guessed, putting a slice of pepparoni on a cracker before popping it into his mouth. "How long do you think before they can't stand not knowing and come running out here?"

[littlebitobliss.livejournal.com]

"I give it another ten minutes before we're swarmed... by at that bunch there, if not more." Grinning, "You think you're up for a game of tag, or something? We can always come back out here later tonight and set everything up... once it's cooled down some."

[mistersmith-tm.livejournal.com]

Watching the childish conference going on in the distance, he smiled and said, "I give it five. Shame we don't have any water balloons just lying around," he said innocently.

[littlebitobliss.livejournal.com]

Giving Smith a grin, he motioned with his head behind their backs where a large bucket filled with water balloons appeared. "Who says we don't?"

[mistersmith-tm.livejournal.com]

Smith chuckled. "Better range than water pistols," he said of the water balloons. He had a pretty decent throwing arm. "But I think we should give them first strike." All of the children had disappeared back inside the temple. "I think they're getting ready for that full assault." Then, looking around them at the land that would soon give birth to a playhouse, said, "We should probably make the rooms waterproof."

[littlebitobliss.livejournal.com]

"Definitly waterproof." Laughing softly, as he watched a little head peek out again, clearly watching them. "I think they're watching for some kind of retaliation." Calmly eating his snack, but grinning at Smith.

[mistersmith-tm.livejournal.com]

"Hmmmm. You could be right." He looked back down at the plastic tray and picked up a small brownie. "Maybe if we stop paying attention to them?" He moved just a bit, turning toward Bliss so that he was in profile to the temple itself. "Or they think we're not looking?"

[littlebitobliss.livejournal.com]

Finishing off the main part of the meal, he then reached for his own dessert, "They'll come either eay, I'm sure. We didn't come out here with more than they can see, and we're easy targets..." laughing softly before taking a bite of his brownie.

[mistersmith-tm.livejournal.com]

"They're probably filling up their water pistols." He began to lick the thin sheen of chocolate icing off of his fingers. "I can come out and help stake the foundation after the babies are asleep."

[littlebitobliss.livejournal.com]

"That sounds good, we can do it once it cools down. It really is too hot to work right now anyway." Watching the temple out of the corner of his eye and seeing a few more heads peak out. "Almost...."

[mistersmith-tm.livejournal.com]

"There will be a full moon tonight, so we shouldn't have to worry about lighting. It's pretty clear out here." He set the now empty plastic container on the grass beside him, carefully preparing to move when the assault of children began.

[littlebitobliss.livejournal.com]

Handing his package over to Smith, "Might as well keep them together so they won't get lost."

"The full moon will help us definitly."

[mistersmith-tm.livejournal.com]

He accepted the receptical, placing it on top of his but being very careful not to reveal the presence of the large bucket behind them. "I hear Mishu barking," he said with a little smile. "I think our time's up."

[littlebitobliss.livejournal.com]

"you ready for the assult?" The puppy was the first to reach them, bounding around in circles. Five children all following from behind, all holding different kinds of supersoakers.

[mistersmith-tm.livejournal.com]

"Roger that," said Smith, laughing as Mishu bounded right up to him and managed to get a sopping wet lick across his face before jumping around Bliss.

The children began to yell their battle cries as they brought their toy weapons to bear on the two men and finally got within range to start squirting.

[littlebitobliss.livejournal.com]

Bliss was covered in water and knocked over by Mishu before he even had a chance to reach for the balloons. Laughing he wrestled with the puppy and watched as Smith got the first volloy off.

[mistersmith-tm.livejournal.com]

"Here! Catch!" he cried happily, turning and throwing a gurgling, brightly colored balloon at two young lads who were in the process of soaking him. He lobbed the missles over the stream of water and saw one burst with a SPLOOSH! against the chest of the smaller, knocking him laughing backward onto the grass. The second balloon caught it's intended target in the shoulder and soaked him from neck to toes.

[littlebitobliss.livejournal.com]

Laughing Bliss crawled his way out from under Mishu and grabbed a couple of balloons tossing them towards the uncoming children. One missed, breaking at their feet, causing squeels and jumping, and the other caught one of the boys right in the middle of the chest, splashimg him from head to toe in a wash of water.

[mistersmith-tm.livejournal.com]

Mishu bounded around, trying to catch the balloons as if they were balls. Smith threw one at a little red haired girl but she managed to sidestep. It fell onto the soft grass but didn't burst. Mishu was on it in a single bound, trying to bring the 'ball' back to them. She got her jaws around it, closed, and it burst, making her yip with surprse and jump backward. Running in circles, she started to bark at the pieces of colored latex that were all that remained of the 'ball'.

[littlebitobliss.livejournal.com]

Bliss just sat back on the grass and laughed at the puppies antics, while reaching out to catch one of the kids tried to slip by and pulled him into his lap, starting to tickle.

[mistersmith-tm.livejournal.com]

Smith caught up two children, one under each arm, and began to spin them around and around until their squeels of delight had Mishu trying to leap up and lick their faces. He finally spun aroudn so many times that the world lurched under his feet and he fell onto the grass in a tangle of small arms and legs and soggy laughing children.