fandomtownies | Cafe Fina

Don't bother the boy writing home.

He might need help explaining why he hid under the bed for the whole weekend.

"Lion-o? Heeey!" Momoko popped her head into the cafe and waved. She would probably be seeing him later at club, but she'd said she would visit him at work and she'd been bad about doing that, so here she was, wandering happily over to his table. "Am I disturbing your homework time?"

"Hi Momoko! It's not homework, just a report that I'm sending to the ruling council at home," said Lion-o. "And you're not disturbing anything. I'm kinda stuck."

"You have to send reports home? Ew!" She bounced into one of the other chairs at the table and smiled. "What kind of report? Can I help?"

"Well, the council wants to know what I'm learning about in class and what this place is like," said Lion-o. "That's where I'm stuck, actually. I'm trying to tell them about last week when people started acting all weird, but I missed most of it."

Momoko rolled her eyes. "Last weekend again, ugh. How on earth could you miss it! Or do you just not remember much of it because of who you were?"

"Well, I remember who I was because I didn't change, I think," said Lion-o, looking a little embarrassed. "I hid under the bed for the whole weekend to avoid all the weird people."

Momoko couldn't help it, she laughed. Not harshly, mind you. "Sorry," she managed as a quick wheeze, but that was all.

"It was probably kind of silly," admitted Lion-o. "I was just caught unprepared, and it seemed like a good idea at the time! What about you? did you see anything weird that weekend?"

"It's certainly one way to avoid the weird stuff, but not very effective. You should have tried to at least see what was going on or if anyone was hurt." Momoko was still giggling so her lecture probably wasn't very lecture-y. She pointed at his report. "I got turned into a five year old girl who can shoot lasers out of her eyes! And I flew patrols of the island with my sister Bubbles, looking for bad guys to beat up. We helped stop some cat lady from robbing the bank and we met a talking duck with a weird taste in clothes and a grappling hook. Does that help?"

Lion-o blinked, then he added a few notes to his report. "That's weird! Did you know at the time that something wasn't right, or did you have to wait until it was all over?" he asked.

Momoko frowned, thinking about that. "I was her. I wasn't me thinking I was her. Her thoughts, her abilities, her clothes... we both had a pink hair bow, though, which was weird, but only afterwards, when I remembered." Momoko patted her bow. "I didn't realise I was supposed to be someone else, no. It wasn't until Monday morning that I was back to me and was able to remember all of my memories and all of the stuff she had in her head while she was me."

She blinked at him. "Did that make sense?"

"It does. You didn't realize anything was weird at the time because you were here and it was perfectly normal for her," Lion-o paraphrased as he added to his report. "Lord Tygra will love to hear about this. Hey, would you like a cookie? The staff made some really good cookies today."

"I had a ton of pie in class today," Momoko pouted and rubbed her stomach. "But maybe a few? What kind of cookie is it? I didn't stop to read the sign today, just in case."

"You had a class with pie? Cool!" said Lion-o, grinning. "They're chocolate-dipped cookies. Each one has a different filling underneath the chocolate. I got some peppermint and chocolate ones earlier."

"Oooh. Some cookies and then some black tea! That would be good!" She raised a hand happily. "And yeah, Food Appreciation class, remember? Every week we explore a different type of food! Which of course means we have to eat eat eat!" There was some over eager chomping after she finished her sentence.

A plate and spoon came running over with a tray of cookies and a pot of tea. The pepper shaker was not far behind with cups and saucers.

"That sounds like really fun class!" said Lion-o. "Probably a lot easier than Mad Kings & Queens."

It was totally as if they were just waiting in the wings! Momoko loved the Cafe Fina! She grinned and gave them all a wave hello.

"Well, since all we do is listen to a lecture and then eat the food, I'd guess it would be much easier than talking about angry royalty." She bit into a cookie. "How can you have a class on that anyhow?"

That was the fun part about working in Café Fina. The staff pretty much did all the work for Lion-o.

"I like Professor Atreides, and it seemed like the class would be useful," said Lion-o. "Not to mention it looks more impressive in my reports to the council."

Momoko dropped her head to the table and pouted. "Oh sure, bring up transcripts. How weird are mine going to look: I've taken classes like 'How to Keep you Neck in Modeling' and 'Food Appreciation' and 'Superhuman Physics' and I'm in a gun club." She lifted her head, reaching to pour the tea. "Well, at least I'm getting good grades." She hoped.

"Well, I'm sure 'Superhuman Physics' would look good," said Lion-o. "Seriously, though, anyone who looks at the Fandom High course catalog would see that we probably picked the best options available, right?"

Momoko drank some tea as she waved an arm to negate his statement. "No no no. My parents don't know I'm here! Well, they know I'm at an American boarding school, but they don't know that it's not a normal one that teaches, like, normal stuff. Only my friends and the Professor know what this place is really like!"

[am off to bed, sorry!]

Edited 2009-02-18 06:43 (UTC)

"Hmmm. Wonder if you could have your transcript altered so that the class names were different," mused Lion-o.

"Hmmm. Maybe? Other people had to have had weird classes and I know one person who graduated and went home and got a super cool job as a police officer and he wasn't mad about having come here or saying that it messed up his future," she pointed her cookie at Lion-o. "Which is really the future, by the way! But I don't want to think about that right now."

The future was the future and for someone who's goal was to get married and beat up bad guys, there was little point in worrying about it. That thinking was, of course, what made her flunk her high school exams, but she'd come out of that okay, right? She'd gotten in here! She shrugged and popped the last of the cookie in her mouth. "Who's 'Lord Tygra'? A relative? Is he the one I have to ask about seeing your ship when he comes to visit?

Edited 2009-02-18 17:21 (UTC)

"Tygra is the lead scientist on the council. He's not related to me, though if the lion clan dies out, he's next in the line of succession," said Lion-o. "Panthro is the engineer. He's the one you have to ask about seeing the ship."

"If he's a scientist, he probably gets really confused about your reports, huh? When I send emails back to Professor Utonium and Ken they send me back more questions than you can believe and then lecture me about what I should and shouldn't do next."

"Yeah, he keeps sending me questions, but more often he'll ask if I'm making things up," said Lion-o. "He was really confused last summer when I told him how the island kept moving from place to place."

"I know! And then when we stopped moving and weren't in Virginia anymore? That confused them even more!" She giggled, then raised a finger and deepened her voice a bit, "Momoko-chan, islands don't just decide to swim north or grow to double its size overnight! It's not scientifically possible."

Lion-o giggled. "Maybe you should invite them to crawl through the innards of the island to see how it works," he suggested.

She rolled her eyes and grinned. "They'd never leave the island! And then I'd be lectured at everyday about the place and they'd ask a whole bunch of weird questions in classes and I'd be lucky if they let me out of my room if they met any of you boy students! Ah!" Her grin turned a wee bit evil. "Maybe you should invite Lord Tygra, hmmmm? Think of how he'd react if he came here to see you at work with sentient silverware!"

"He'd probably sit here and talk to them for hours!" said Lion-o, rolling his eyes. "But he's actually pretty accepting of weird stuff. I think he'd move onto something else eventually."

"That's lucky! My scientists would move on eventually, but I'd be very annoyed until then." Momoko took a moment to inhale her tea and relax. "So, have you heard from home yourself? How's your dad?"

"I've gotten a few messages, mostly asking for my latest report," said Lion-o, snickering. "My dad seems to be doing okay, though his letters have been kind of short. It sounds like he's been busy. Tygra wrote to me about some geothermal instability thing, whatever that is, and WileyKit wrote to say that she and her brother miss having me around for council meetings."

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