fandomtownies | The Park, Friday Morning

So, Sparkle had been a bit upset to hear this morning's radio broadcast, to say the least. Just as he was wickedly planning to tease Ada about those kigurumi that he'd ordered, Atton had read off the news about Alluka.

He'd spent a good twenty minutes just kind of staring at a wall, arguing with himself. He was no hero, and the rescue party seemed to have already left anyway, but he had to do something.

And that was why he was in the park, scouting around until he found the site of the abduction. A tea-stained blanket, teacups, some toys...

Anyone who came to that particular part of the park that morning would find him slowly and carefully packing up the blanket and everything on it, folding things and neatly tucking them away in his backpack so that he could take them home and clean them. The stuffed toys he picked up last, pausing to offer his condolences to each one and to tell them it would be fine. Fandom rescue parties almost always succeeded at what they did. Sure, it was more for his own benefit than theirs, but they still nodded and each offered him a hug, which he accepted, before he moved on to the next.

He'd keep them all safe until Alluka's return. This was fine. Yeah.

[OOC: Open park! I kind of had to.]

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"Sure. Uh... What aisle are those burritos in again?" Atton asked.

He knew.

"They're the frozen ones," Sparkle replied, shrugging his shoulders and starting to shuffle stuffed toys around so he could pull out his keys to the Demon Marcus. "They're in the freezer."

Where the frozen stuff lived.

"Right, I keep forgetting," Atton said, "The giant cold lumps of coal repository."

He reached out to try and pry some of the toys away from Sparkle to make it easier.

Sparkle was quite happy to let Atton handle the large dinosaur and the bunny, at least for a few moments. He pulled his keys from his pocket, rummaged through them for a moment, and then he was pulling open the door and nodding a sort of 'after you' to Atton as he held it with one foot.

"Coal repository and really shitty cheese," Sparkle corrected. "It's really important you don't forget the cheese."

They were terrible. He loved them.

Atton slipped into the shop, giant plush animals and all. "You know what my feelings are on that cheese," he said, "That cheese should not be allowed to exist on this planet. I know there are people who can't afford glow-in-the-dark jackets and probably need that cheese to spruce up their outfits, but no."

Was he deliberately prompting his own tangents to distract Sparkle? Yeah.

For what it was worth, Sparkle kind of figured that was what was going on. And he appreciated it.

"Just on this planet, huh? So there are other planets that this cheese would do more good on?"

He slipped behind the counter and started unpacking the rest of the toys he was carrying. A little crocheted flower, the plush sheep he'd gotten Alluka for Valentine's day, an elephant with heart print in the ears...

It was probably just him, but they looked sort of sad just sitting there without their owner.

"Hey, they might like it on Manaan," Atton said, setting the toys he'd been holding on to down next to the ones Sparkle'd been lining up. "You know, deep underwater in the dark, creepy deadly fish... you can use it for lighting and then fling it at something as a defense mechanism."

Sparkle watched Atton set the toys out, and then, mostly for something to do with his hands, kind of shimmied them a little closer to one another. There. They didn't have to look so lonely, that way.

... Shut up.

"Cheese that bright would probably attract all the most vicious predators," he decided. "Like, the JAWS of Manaan. That planet's probably got some nasty things with really big teeth, there."

But then, what life-bearing planet in that galaxy didn't?

Hey now. Hey now. That wasn't true. That wasn't... strictly... true... all the time... everywhere...

... it was totally true here, though.

"Yeah, but it's like poison," Atton argued. "No self-respecting big-teethed anything would eat that stuff."

"True enough, I guess," Sparkle decided, taking the elephant's paw thing and arranging it so that he looked like he was holding hands with the bunny. There. Good. "It'd just serve as bait to let the self-respecting big-teethed things know that there's some self-loathing tasty dumbass looking to eat something quick and greasy."

"Underwater," Atton added, "Which is a whole new level of stupid right there."

He leaned casually against the counter.

"Hey," Sparkle protested as he dusted his hands together and pulled himself to his feet, "sometimes you've just gotta eat shitty food."

Apparently frozen burritos. Underwater.

"Funny you're the one making that point."

Atton shook his head.

"Anything else you need?"

"You eat the shitty food and the good food together, instead of just eating the crap stuff all the time," Sparkle countered, sticking out his tongue before looking around. "We're basically done here, I think. We might need more, you know. Whatever. Milk. Broccoli. Pop-Tarts..."

Atton didn't have to eat the broccoli.

"You're going to make me buy broccoli?" Atton asked, pushing away from the counter with a theatrical groan. "You're a monster, Sparks."

"It's for me," Sparkle replied, smirking the tiniest bit as he made his way back toward the door. "I'm going to need something to balance out that radioactive cheese with."

"You're going to stick the worst of all vegetables in radioactive cheese," Atton said, walking after him. "I don't get you, Sparks. I really don't."

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