fandomtownies | Luke's, Wednesday

Try the poutine.

She'll be happy to fill you in on the wonders of Canada.

And some fireworks and more microbrews!

"Holy crap, is it Canada Day? It's Canada Day, isn't it??"

Sparkle had just been visiting, since back home it was, like, September. Mostly he'd been getting twitchy (shut up) in a neighbourhood that was too fancy for its own good. But between the maple syrup rain and the poutine and the fireworks, he could catch a hint, here.

"Goddamn, that's what I call luck!'

"Dude!" Yay, we haz HAZ A SPARKLE! "Imma get you a sparkler, do NOT go anywhere!"

Sparkle just cackled and shot off a salute.

Hey, he came equipped with his own sparklers, but who was he to break that to Kenzi when she seemed so excited about it?

"Sweet! I'll be right here, Kenz!"

Kenzi made her way over with a lit sparkler and an opened microbrew, and also a plate of poutine precariously balanced in one hand. "When did you get in? I didn't even know you were gonna be here!"

"Just, like, an hour ago. It took a while to find a break in the rain before I could wander around without it like fucking up my hair? But I needed to get the hell out of Toronto for a bit. Usually I visit Atton on Coruscant a few times a week, but he was busy last time I headed out, so...?

Shrug. Sparkle made grabby hands for... all of the things. Because they were all wonderful things, indeed.

Kenzi steered him to a bench and handed over the poutine first, and the microwbrew second. Possibly she really liked that sparkler. "Ha, Portalocity does something right for once. Cool! There's gonna be more fireworks before we're done." She snitched a fry and grinned. "So how's Atton when he's off the planet?"

"When he's not around here, you mean? A total hardass," Sparkle laughed, making a reach to pluck a fry from the tray, gravy and cheese curd and all. "But, like, most of the time when I'm visiting, it's for training, these days. He got sick of me getting my ass kicked by like ghosts or whatever, so he's teaching me how to beat things with sticks."

He stuck his fry in his mouth, grinned, and then struck a pose.

He was actually getting pretty fit. He was still slim, but there was, like, muscle definition. Crazy.

"Yeah, I can follow squirrel reporting here and all, when he's not in Caritas." Her eyes brightened. "Cool. Like, martial arts sticks? You can totally use that the next time you're on stage!" She reached over to poke a developing bicep. "As well as if anything happens here beyond syrup rain."

"Ha! Syrup rain is still more my speed," Sparkle decided. "I'm really hoping anything meaner than a maple glaze is going to happen while I'm not around to appreciate it."

He flexed again, just because he liked showing off. And then cackled.

"Anyway, how've you been? Haven't been, like, driven crazy by the Fandom whatever of the week? Miss me?"

"Yes, damnit." Kenzi dropped the now deceased sparkler into the trash, and bumped her shoulder against his. "And it doesn't help that Cecil's taken off for Night Vale for the summer. Too much time incommunicado from his people of the desert."

"Well, he was going like fucking nuts without that scientist boy of his around, wasn't he? Good for him. Distance is awful."

Said the boy who had never been in a long distance relationship, so much as he'd had a terribly inappropriate crush from afar. Not the same thing, Sparks.

"Yeah, Carlos kept telling him stuff was fine, but it was a complete blackout on talking to anyone else, and he just had to know what the hell was going on." She sighed and took a swig of her own microbrew. "I'm just hoping it's nothing too bad. Or that he at least calls, damnit." She shrugged and grinned. "Nothing else too terrible's been happening. The students got sent to yurts." YURTS. YURTS YURTS YURTS. "Kinda makes the bouncy castles look classy."

"Yurts? Like what the hell even are yurts? Sounds like some kind of orthopedic footwear for buffalo or something."

... What.

"Mongolian hide tents!" Kenzi looked thoughtful. "I wonder if they still smell like yak or whatever?"

Schadenfreude was fun for Canada Day.

"Hell if I even know," Sparkle laughed. "I've been living it up in a big fancy house on one of those streets that's named after the kind of trees that grow down it, you know the type? God, I feel like royalty there it's insane."

This was not strictly true, but it was a very impressive house.

"Dude! So, details, details! What are your housemates like? Is Louis still chill? What are you doing while you're there, are you doing the school thing, do you have a job?"

"Lewis is so chill," Sparkle proudly declared. "Like, even if we come under fire because the neighbours hate teenagers - they're all stuffy rich assholes - he is loaded for bear. I have this new roommate? Her name is Raine and she's okay, I guess. Gullible, though. God so gullible, like, I can put together three random words all 'purple monkey dishwasher' and she'll decide there's some great meaning behind them and take me at my word? I'm going to break her of that sooner or later, anyway. And, pff, the government still thinks I'm like just eighteen, sooo I have to 'finish high school.' Because timelines are stupid."

"Are you kidding me?" Kenzi demanded. "So, what, you have to repeat your senior year? Aw, mannn.... And how can anyone in the system be that naive? Seriously."

"No kidding, cross my heart," Sparkle replied, wrinkling his nose. "And the shittiest part is that it's, you know, real freaking high school, with math classes I'm failing and English classes I'm only kind of sucking at."

Actual high school was hell. He'd decided as much sometime over the past little while.

"And Raine is... like... she's knew. She has such a new car smell all over her, like a little lamb just trotting into the middle of a wolf pack it's a wonder the other kids haven't eaten her oh my god. Her mom just died or something, doesn't talk about it much, I don't know about her dad. Pretty sure he's one of those useless types." He shrugged. "We get along better than we did, anyway. She used to haaaate me, like, when she first showed up, but then, she was mad at the whole damn world, and since I'm a part of that world and all..."

He shrugged again.

"I'll get it out of her sooner or later, though.

Edited 2015-07-02 06:41 (UTC)

"Crap. So not fair. I mean, you graduate from our kind of screwed up school to another kind of normally-screwed-up school... ugh." Kenzi made a face, then cocked her head to listen to him talk about Rainne. "So how many others are there? Aside from her. And how old is she, anyway?"

"There's like, a dozen of us?" Sparkle shook his head. "And not all of them are super approachable or anything. We're all the fucked-up type, you know? Even the littler kids. Our youngest is twelve. Raine's sixteen. But, like, she's a really young sixteen. She gives this impression like she's way more used to the kind of neighbourhood we're living in than anyone else in the house, even Lewis."

"Weeeeird." Kenzi frowned. "For her too, probably. That house, though-- are we talking like Doctor Lecter's house? Which will someday be my house? Or are we talking really nice family-style house with a yard and stuff?"

"More like Doctor Lecter's place," Sparkle replied, shrugging. "Like, there are over a dozen people living there, and we're two to a room, except Lewis, he gets his own and his office on top of that, this place is huge. And it's got this big sugar maple that's great for climbing in and out of windows by..."

"Whoa." Man, when she'd been on her own, that would've sounded like heaven. "Nobody's giving you trouble, are they? I mean, that sounds like a sweet set-up, as long as your housemates aren't dicks."

"There are a few who likes to pocket things, and some are just shitty people in general, but they're angry and they have every right to be, you know?" Sparkle tilted his head a little. "But I've been living with that kind of thing since I was six. I can handle them, you know? Anyway, it's not all that long before I'm on my own anyway. I'll survive."

"True that." Kenzi leaned into him and snitched another fry with some curds on it. "And you've got places to go, and a life plan and all. Also, biceps." She grinned, chewing on the fry. "You didn't miss much around here. A couple days of weird weather off and on, and a movie marathon with Cecil or two, but other than that... it's been quiet." She paused, and dropped her voice. "Too quiet."

DUN DUN DUNNNNN.

"... If the syrup starts materializing into giant sticky glob monsters, I'm out of here, you know."

Sparkle felt it was important to be up-front about that.

This seemed easier, since my day got away from me, rather than trying to put up two posts at once. :>

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