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Turtle & Canary; Saturday [ 05/31 ]

Today was Saturday, which meant that tomorrow was Sunday, and there was candy falling from the sky. This...was not a good combination. The first meant that Turtle was at work, the second meant that she was nervous and fidgety, and the last meant that she was settling her nervous fidgeting by eating way too much candy, and it didn't take long before it started to have an adverse affect.

"Oh my God," Turtle muttered with a slight groan, hand to her stomach. "I feel like I'm going to ralph."

Apu very helpfully handed Turtle a bucket.

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Who has many buckets on hand because he does not want to clean that up.

Who might be a little grumbly. But she just...couldn't...stop. Sweet...candy...goodness...

Murdock was a man on a mission. Looking for a certain someone. So with his jacket pockets stuffed with candy, and a licorce stick dangling from his lips, he made his way to the store.

Sure enough, there was a girl behind the counter. Chewing the licorce a bit, he made his way over and leaned against the counter a bit. "You Turtle?"

"Yup, that's me," Turtle said, not nearly as brightly as she normally would have. "May I help you?"

Murdock chewed his licorce a bit more, drumming his fingers on the counter. Frowing a little and just looking at her. He didn't seem particulary happy about something.

...Great. Turtle sighed a little, because she had had way too many pieces of candy to feel okay with dealing with a difficult customer right now. "...May I help you?" she tried again, with a little impatience. She usually prided herself with excellent customer service, but, really. She couldn't provide that if she didn't know what the guy wanted.

He continued to stare at her, his fingers drumming a little harder on the counter. Narrowing his eyes, he spoke one single word.

"Duncan."

Turtle frowned a moment. "Dunc--"

"OHHHHH." Yeah, she caught up quickly. "Duncan! Right. Well, I mean, you're welcome to suggest something else, sir, if you'd like, but I hope you can understand the need for a slightly different titling. It's just really weird otherwise. And Duncan's a nice name!"

"How 'bout Murdock?" It was his name, dangit. That other Murdock could dang well call himself something else.

"But that's Jeff's name," Turtle reminded him. It all seemed pretty clear to her. After all, Jeff was here first.

"No," he replied sternly. "I met him. And his dog. Told me he usually goes by Jeff. That makes *me* Murdock. I can't be anybody else." Besides, Jeff might have been at Fandom longer, but Murdock was older. Age before youth and all that.

"Yeah, he goes by Jeff, but he's still a Murdock and it's a whole association thing," Turtle explained, sighing, because she had a feeling they might be on this for a while. "I can't be thinking about my boyfriend when I'm reporting on a teacher; it's just weird."

"So think about something else." Seemed reasonable to him. "He's *a* Murdock. I'm *the* Murdock. I've been Murdock far too long to go by anything else." Oh yes, they could surely be here a while.

Turtle let out a small groan; it was only partially due to all the candy.

"...Do you have a patent?" she charged, knowing full well that he didn't because you couldn't. That she knew of.

"I can get one." A quick phone call, and Face could have him hooked up with a lovely forged patent for the name Murdock.

"You can't really get a patent for a last name," Turtle pointed out, sighing. She took a moment to rub her forehead; all that sugar and candy wasn't good for her head, either, and this wasn't helping. "Do you maybe have a title or something? I mean, we have Doctors and Lieutenants and Agents and Sheriffs and Detectives. I don't think we have a Captain yet. You could be that. There's also Murdock-who-is-not-my-Boyfriend-Because-He's-a-Teacher-and-that's-Wrong, but that's a little on the weighty side."

"Actually, I *am* a Captain. The Army says so." He considered this for a moment. "Well... I suppose you could call me that. I've got a friend who calls me that fairly often. And I reckon Captain Murdock is better than The-Murdock-Who-Ain't-Your-Boyfriend."

"That would be a lot to say."

Turtle nodded in agreement. "And Jeff would never be a captain, so you should have just mentioned that at first and we've have saved the both of us a lot of trouble."

He glared at her a bit. "Correction, if you'd have not gone changin' my name, we'd not had this problem. Tis impolite to go messin' with folks names." So what if he a was still a bit sour. Messing with his name was like messing with his identity. And he had enough problems with that as it was, thank you very much.

"You know, I've been doing radio for a long time and this is the first I've ever had a problem with it, Captain," Turtle informed him. "You might be taking it just a mite bit too seriously. Especially seeing as, now that you've mentioned it, I'll be changing it."

Especially since she could keep doing it out of annoyance and spite for the whole hissy-fit about it; luckily, though, Turtle definitely did understand what it was like to be stuck with a name you didn't like.

He drummed his fingers a bit more, then abruptly stopped. "Maybe. I just don't really care for people messin' with my name. It kinda...throws me off." It was important for him to remember who he was. Since every once in a while, he couldn't. "Captain will work just fine from here on out, Turtle." He thought about that for a second. "How'd you wind up with Turtle?"

Turtle shrugged. "My sister gave it to me when I was born. She thought I looked like a turtle, the way I'd stick my head out of my blankets, and it stuck."

"That's kinda cute, then. What do you go by when you're not Turtle?"

"All official legal and business documents have me as T.R. Wexler." Which was as close to telling her real name as she was going to get.

"The initial thing," he nodded. "I gotcha. Mine's HM."

Turtle grinned a little at that, admittedly. "Safe to assume you don't like talking about what it stands for?"

"Uhm..." he shrugged a little. "Wound up with it meaning Howling Mad. Otherwise... Don't talk about it much, no." Probably because ~~it was never given in canon. cursed writers!~~ he didn't know.

"That is...so cool; why couldn't you have asked me to call you that?"

"I...didn't think of it. I don't use much, really. I guess you could use that if you wanna. Captain Howling Mad Murdock." He grinned a little.

"That'll give me lots of options, then," Turtle said with a bit brighter of a smile. "So that I have a lot of angles to work, depending on the narrative. And you can call me T.R., because then we can support our whole initials solidarity. And stuff."

"Alrighty, T.R." he smiled a bit. "Glad we got this whole thing cleared up." He chewed his lip a little, glancing down. "Sorry about coming off so hard about it. Some times, things seem to bug me more than others, you know?"

"Nah, it's okay," Turtle said. "If someone ever called me by my real ma,e they'd be suffering, let me tell you, so I can sympathize. I've just had way too much candy so I'm not in the best of moods right now."

"I can understand that. There has certainly been a lot of candy today." He dug through a pocket and fished out a tootsie pop. "I've been stocking up for later use."

Work until evening, so if pings are delayed until then, now you know why!

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