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Turtle & Canary; Saturday [ 12/29 ]

Leave it to a girl like Turtle Wexler to, after a week of being away, have the first thing she did when she got back to Fandom Island is go directly to the store. "You're still here!" she declared happily. "You didn't get blown up!" Promptly she put her arms against Turtle & Canary in as best a hug as one could manage when you were a little fifteen year old girl and it was a large building, and then she remembered that she was wearing the smart business suit that her parents had gotten her and Baba had fitted and she just as promptly stepped back. She smoothed out her jacket, brushed off her pants, squared her shoulders, and opened the shop.

She sighed happily as she settled behind the counter. "Oh, I missed you, store!"

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Like you have been all week.

You know you want to.

"TURTLE!"

Jeff came storming in as was his wont. "Sandwiches have returned! And I brought Christmas!"

"Jeff!" Turtle greeted him happily back because, really, he was next on her list of important things to see after she was done with work. Really, he was.

The sandwiches were good to hear of, because she'd missed breakfast for the sake of her early flight. However, she was willing to contest the other part. "How could you have brought Christmas? It's kind of come and passed."

This was enough to throw Jeff off his dash. In fact, it was enough to get him at full stop. "...I said I brought Christmas, didn't I?" he asked, with dawning horror. "Sometimes things sort of pass except they're not passing, like Christmas, or you, 'cos you were gone for Christmas and now you've returned!"

After a week without Turtle, even Jeff no longer had any idea what he was saying.

Turtle blinked. Yes, her family and the residents of Sunset Towers were crazy. But not Jeff crazy. She seemed to have forgotten Jeff crazy while she was away and beyond that radio telephone call. "Um..."

"Did you mean, like, Christmas presents?" she tried, because it dawned on her that they hadn't yet exchanged gifts or anything like that and she did have her gift for him in one of the suitcases tucked under the counter. "Because you can bring those."

Now watch, this is where she'd see another light of horror on Jeff's face because he'd forgotten or something and she'd have to witness him scramble to pretend that he hadn't forgotten at all.

Oh. Christmas presents. Oh. "Right!"

Jeff started rummaging away in his pocket. "Christmas presents! Of course. 'Cos it's Christmas, and then there's presents." He laughed nervously. "'Bringing Christmas', really, what was I, mad?"

Turtle frowned at the rummaging. "You didn't get anything, did you?"

"...I got you some socks," Jeff managed, finally.

Turtle was hard to shop for. He'd just gone on instinct. And now he was a bit embarrassed.

"....Some...socks," Turtle repeated, blinking, and staring at Jeff for a moment. Well, it wasn't exactly the most romantic gift ever, but... "That's very...practical of you..." And a good sense of practicality was an admirable trait to have in life, after all...

"Your present's in my suitcase," Turtle said. "I can dig it out for you when I unpack later. I can help you set it up. It's a new phone. One that has caller ID."

"You're giving me a phone?" Jeff asked, staring. Right as he found the perfectly sensible blue socks - with dollar print - in his pocket. And offered them to her, along with a bag of sandwiches.

"Uh, yes," Turtle said, blinking again, between the staring. "But it's...it's got caller ID. It...when someone calls, Jeff, it says who it is. So you'll know who's calling before you answer it...and that's the whole problem, right? Is that you never know who it is?"

It was going to be a few moments until Jeff would find the right thing to say to that - or rather, probably the wrong thing - so instead he just offered her the socks in a mildly helpless fashion.

Eying Jeff a little warily, Turtle wondered if maybe she should have gone with the tie clip and cuffs her father had suggested ("Every man needs those, right?" "But I don't even think he has a tie, Daddy." "Then maybe a tie?" "...I don't think he has any shirts that would match a tie, Daddy..." And she decided to end the conversation there because she didn't want to try to think of the fact that matching probably wouldn't be a concern). She took the socks with a slight smile, forced through her concern. "They're really cute; thanks, Jeff..."

Jeff nodded slowly. "You bought me a people-recognising phone," he said, at roughly the same pace. His mind was having some trouble processing all of this, but it was kind of winding back up to speed.

He still felt badly about the socks.

"Uh-huh," Turtle said. "You get it to recognize certain numbers, so that when I call, it'll say that it's me, or when Chad calls, that it's Chad, or when your mother calls, that it's her. Or, if she's trying to be tricksy, and calling from a different number, it'll say 'unknown caller,' so you can avoid it."

There was another one of those slow, processing nods.

And then there was Jeff, doing his best impression of a clingy monkey. "You are the best girlfriend ever." Pause. "I'm sorry about the socks."

"Eeep!" Turtle seemed a little surprised at the clinging monkey impression at first, but, soon enough, she eased into it with a little bit of smile, giving a light pat on Jeff's shoulder. "Why? They're nice socks; I like 'em."

Availability may be spotty, due to various elements like still having the plaaaaaaaaaaaaaaague and shopping, but! for the most part? I am around.

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