fandomtownies | Turtle & Canary; Monday [ 08/03 ].

Turtle knew she had a lot to catch up on from being a turtle all last week, but she couldn't bring herself to actually focus on it much. Her conversation with Maron last night was sticking to her like superglue and she couldn't shake a lot of it. On the one hand, she felt glad that whatever had happened had skipped her since she was a turtle, but, on the other hand, something really big happened and she wasn't a part of it because she was a turtle. It was good to know that she may have skipped some really scary stuff, like Maron had described, but, at the same time, she hadn't done anything to help, either.

She was mostly just trying not to think about it, and trying to think of ways to at least make everyone else feel better. So she very definitively claimed it:

FREE SQUISHY DAY!
Come on in and get a free Squishy today!
No purchase necessary (although it would be nice)

The sign was extra glittery. People might need a little extra glitter today.

Today's Squishy flavors: Red, Grape Judas, Clover.

Turtle & Canary is open!

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Thank you, come again!

Who is now also distracted by the fact that she can't seem to convince Bob to change the third flavor to anything but clover. She'd had enough clover, thanks.

Zack needed to buy Oreos.

Lots, and lots of Oreos. For just about everyone on the planet, ever. Because he had a lot of comforting and apologizing to do all around the map, and Oreos seemed to be very handy for that, considering how much he was failing at words, lately.

He offered Turtle a tired little grin and a tired little wave as he walked in.

"You guys wouldn't happen to have, like, cases of Oreo cookies, would you, Turtle?"

Turtle returned the wave and the smile with something a little more sheepish than tired. "We've probably got a few in the back," she said. "Should I get Apu to check?"

"That'd be awesome," Zack replied with a nod. "And thanks. They're not all for me, honest. Even I can't stomach that much sugar all at once, you know."

Fidget. Awkward rocking on his heels.

"So... How's things?"

Turtle bit her lip, fidgeted a little herself, and then directed Apu to check the storage room for Oreos over the PA system because that seemed a little less awkward, but then she was awkward for another moment.

"Well, you did put through those Pixie Stix pretty easiy," she said, "and things're...okay. I, uh, sorry about the date...thing. And I haven't been avoiding you or anything, I've just been a turtle. Like, an actual turtle. With a shell and...stuff."

"Oh, no, don't worry about it," Zack said, reaching up to rub at the back of his neck. "It's been... A week? Your turtle-ing actually had really good timing, all things considered."

This was where he proceeded to take errant memories of the week as a whole and the stomp on them. A lot.

Cookies would be good for that. And stuff.

"So I heard," Turtle muttered, drawing in a little bit of a breath. She shook her head.

A long gone debate about the benefits of turtling vs. how it's cowardly that she'd had with Jeff once came into her mind. Sure, they'd been talking about football then, but it seemed apt here.

"Is that, uh, what the cookies are for?" she wondered. "Or is that some other great ingenious plan?"

"It's what the cookies are for," Zack agreed. "They're... Kind of the easy way of giving people a picker-upper, after all of that."

A beat.

"And apologies, and thanks. And stuff."

"Want me to throw in some free ice cream to go along with all that? Maybe some chocolate chip cookies to go with the Oreos?"

Zack offered her a weary grin.

"I'll settle for that Squishy, maybe. And chocolate chip can't hurt, right? Maybe people like variety?"

A beat.

"Sooo..." And then he was swaying on his heels again. He still hadn't slept yet, no. "Are you still up for maybe just hanging out sometime?"

And there was Turtle, biting her lower lip again, and trying to focus on the fact that she was making a charitable contribution here by throwing in free cookies for everyone, and that would be really good, but she found it hard to focus on that part of the conversation, shockingly.

"Well, sure," she said, "if you don't..."

And then she realized that that swaying might not actually be nervousness on Zack's part.

"Err, Zack?"

Aww, Zack was totally planning on paying for that stuff, honest.

"Mmhm?"

And he was so, so totally awake, too. Really. You could tell by the fact that his eyes were still open.

... He didn't want to go to sleep again.

"You wanna go get some coffee or something?" Turtle offered. "I mean, Apu can watch the store; I'm overdue for a lunch break, and you look like you could use some."

And that was weird, thinking that Zack needed coffee.

Zack was now giving Turtle the most grateful smile he could possibly muster.

It was actually impressively grateful, yes.

"Coffee would be amazing, Turtle. I can worry about cookies when I'm not dozing off where I stand, anyhow."

Turtle gave a light smile back. "How about this, then? You and me, we go get coffee, my treat, and then I'll bring the cases of cookies back to the dorms with me when I get off and drop them off at your room, so you can just get your coffee and not worry about them at all until it's time to eat them."

"That would make you just about the most awesome person in the universe right now," Zack decided, digging in his pocket for his wallet. Paaaying. Paaaaying!

Keeping his eyes open!

Turtle held up her hand. "We'll cover payment," she said, "after caffeine."

Boo, dreary weather. ;_;

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