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Turtle & Canary; Saturday [ 05/30 ].

Turtle was incredibly relieved to find everything in the store in tact and in good working order when she came in, a little sore (mostly her trigger finger) from the fighting yesterday. She settled behind the counter with a sigh, contemplating paperwork and actually, for once, not really feeling up to.

Apu thought it was funny to come out wearing alligator shoes and an alligator handbag and matching jacket and hat from Clothing. Turtle promptly informed him that it so wasn't.

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Thank you, come again!

That's what she's there for!

Jon had been in D.C. since Thursday night, and a person would have to be blind not to have noticed that something had happened.

"What did I miss?" he asked when he saw Turtle.

Turtle looked at Jon for a moment.

"Alligators," she then answered, simply. "Giant mutant ones. They shot bitey goldfish out of their mouths."

Jon blinked for a moment. "Is it sad that not only did that make sense, but I would have rather dealt with that than the idiots in D.C.?"

Turtle couldn't help chuckling a little at that. "No," she said. "Not sad. It means you're totally going to the right school. I'm sorry you missed it. They were kind of nuts, but we showed them one good."

"At least it was okay to take care of the alligators. They frown on people shooting in D.C." He looked around for a second and frowned. "I hear this is the place to go for laptops though. And new phones."

"This is the place to go for anything," Turtle said with a smooth grin. "You're in the market for some tech, huh? Shall we take a stroll, then, toward that aisle?"

"Well, I'm from 2004, so go easy on me," he replied with a grin. "I'm a newbie and all."

"2004 is nothing," Turtle said, waving a hand as she moved around the corner and motioned for Jon to follow her. "My exboyfriend's from the eighties. Not to mention the scores of people from the unfathomable time before TV..."

"Or those from places where there is no TV at all." He followed along glancing at things as he went. "So, who's the Canary part?"

He was assuming that she was the Turtle part of the business.

"That would be Jane Canary," Turtle said, nodding, smiling a little over the fact that Jon had asked. "She owned the place back when I was just a lowly worker, before making me a partner and we changed the name. She isn't here any more, but the name stuck, and it's catchy besides. Currently, my co-owner's a name named G'Kar. Really great partner. He's from space."

"Really? I wonder if I've heard of the planet." The computers were kind of shiny, but he wasn't going to say that at all. It would be unmanly or something.

"I think his race is called Narn?" Turtle offered. "Ring a bell?"

Jon shook his head. "No, I've never heard of it. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist in my world, it just might go by a different name."

"True," Turtle agreed. "He works Sundays, if you ever want to stop in and talk to him about it. Okay, now, Jon, you said you're in the market for a laptop and a phone?"

"Cool." He was still dazzled a bit by the shiny, and still not admitting it. "I'm sure you wouldn't screw over a fellow student by selling him something far too pricey and containing far too many things he wouldn't need. Like say, something that I could play lots of graphics heavy video games on?"

He probably sounded like a kid who had gotten the 'only buy this and nothing more' speech from a guardian type person.

"Jon," Turtle gave him a little that would be stern if it weren't for the smirk on the edges on it, "please. Give me some credit here; I'm a professional, and you can expect nothing but a good deal for precisely what you're looking for from me. And, if you're looking for something for games, might I recommend this ~~blah blah blah handwavey handwavey great product placement suggestion~~?"

Jon was quick to pick up the game and a few others. He grinned and nodded towards one of the higher priced laptops. "That one is cool. And I really don't care about the price, since the Air Force is the one picking up the tab."

Turtle snorted. "Then you should definitely pick up that one. It's not just picking up the price because it looks all snazzy, it's definitely worth the investment."

"And they say that computer shopping is hard. Now the big question. Now for the hard part. Which Blackberry should I choose?" Because that was the hard part for him.

And so, of course, Turtle launched into a very impressive and knowledgeable speech ~~which the mun could no way ever re-enact~~ about just why Jon should purchase the one that also happened to be the most expensive.

The very impressive speech is also aided by the fact that the most expensive model also happens to be very useful. "I'll take it. You're good at this. No wonder you made partner."

Turtle grinned a little. "What can I say? I just like giving people what they need at very good prices, Jon."

Then, there was a pause.

"Not dirty," she felt the need to amend.

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"Mmhmm, yeah," he said with a grin. "I guess I should pay for this stuff and go try and set it up."

Zack probably would have been oozing into T&C today after detention if it wasn't for the fact that Mitchell had given him coffee.

Coffee. And not even decaf!

So, as it was, he was walking in more or less normally, though a little wiped after all of the running around that he'd done yesterday, and the cleaning that he'd done this morning.

He really, really needed those Pixie Stix.

"Hey, Turtle. How are you holding up after yesterday?"

"A little bruised," Turtle said. "A couple of cuts. But not too bad. I kept out of the way as much as I could."

Though not in any trees, thank you.

"How about yourself? You seemed to have enjoyed it, if the broadcast was any indication."

Zack gave Turtle a bit of a sheepish smile, there.

"Yeah, I had fun," he admitted. "Though I think I could still shower for a month and not be satisfied that all the gross stuff is gone. And then I wound up with detention today, and I don't know why."

But they made him clean things and that had been awful.

"Good to see you're in one piece."

"I'm glad to be in one piece, too," Turtle said with a grin back. "Plus, I have something for you....Maybe it'll help take the sting off of random detention off a little."

At which point she produced a box from underneath the counter and slid it over. It was a nice box, simple, and, inside, there would be a medal on a red, white, and blue ribbon, peppered with rhinestones and shining with glitter, with his name written on a piece of construction paper glued to it.

"Aw, thanks, Turtle!" Zack's mood was picking up already as he made a reach for the box. And he couldn't help but laugh as he opened it up to peer inside, and then pulled it out to tack onto his shirt. "This? This is great. I'll wear it with pride!"

He would. It was totally a 'surviving Fandom weird' medal, and yesterday counted as Fandom weird just as much as the day he'd collected all of that glitter had.

And it was sparkly! The rhinestones were an awesome touch.

"And it looks great!" Turtle said, laughing.

Great, of course, in this context, clearly meant great for something that looked like a puked up arts and crafts failure.

...Well, okay, it wasn't that bad.

"Now I feel you should have a mutant alligator survival one, too, but if I made you a medal for every Fandom catastrophe, I'd run out of medals before I could blink."

"And I already gave you all of my glitter," Zack agreed, nodding a little as he reached back to scratch at his neck. And then he blinked. And then he pulled a dislodged alligator tooth from the knit of his turtleneck.

... Huh.

"This'll do. Oh, hey! You mentioned that you would maybe cut me a deal on Pixie Stix, back at Fight Club. Any chance you've been able to wrangle some of those up, yet?"

Turtle's eyes widened a little as he dislodged the tooth, and then she grinned. "No way," she said, "that would be too cool to make something out of. And of course I've wrangled some up for you. There's a variety pack in the back room with your name written all over it, Zack."

"I happen to be a huge fan of variety!" Zack was getting his bounce back already as he plopped the tooth down on the counter. "You might want to wash that off before you do anything with it, though. It came out of the mouth of a sewer monster, after all."

No, he couldn't just call it an alligator. That would suggest that it had been in some way a normal creature. This place clearly didn't do 'normal.'

"....Ew," Turtle said, scrunching up her nose as she looked down at the tooth. "Um. Apu! Come get this and go clean it off for me. Thank you!"

Apu was amazingly helpful like that. She smiled as Apu shuffled away, muttering things (probably curses) in Hindi.

"Whoever said good work is hard to find these days clearly never met Apu. But, anyway, give me a second, I'll pop back to the store room and get your Pixie Stix for you. The whole case'll only be ~~Handwavey price that is totally a deal, omfg~~."

Zack still didn't completely understand the concept of dollars and cents, but he trusted Turtle, and so that totally had to be a deal, right there!

"That sounds good to me! I'll be here when you get back!"

Duh.

Ooooh. There was candy by the till... Zack was already distracted by it. Shiny. Sugary. Eeeeeee.

And then Turtle returned with a very big box of bulk Pixie Stix. She still wondered if giving Zack a box of basically sugar was ethically wrong, but she helped curb that a little by not getting the biggest, but the next one down.

"Ta-da!"

No longer distracted by the candy at the till!

"It's beautiful," Zack decided, reaching into his pocket to pull out a small wad of the weird green paper currency. "Thanks for grabbing that for me, Turtle. I might end up coming back for more, depending on how I like those ones!"

He was going to share them with Dinah, after all... Which not only made this sale ethically wrong, it made it two bounces and a wiggle shy of a complete international incident, really.

Turtle sorted through the money a little and dutifully gave Zack back the proper change.

"You just let me know, Zack," Turtle said. "And I'll make sure they're here for you."

Today just went PPPTTHHHH on me, so SP = LOOOOVE.

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