Groovy Tunes, Tuesday

[tigerundercover]

Raven didn't much feel like being at work today, but she didn't have a good enough reason not to be, so here she was.

The stereo didn't seem to much feel like being at work today, either. It wasn't playing anything out of the ordinary, except that it usually played all sorts of things out of the ordinary, so its ordinary playing was totally extraordinary in and of itself —

And now Raven's head kind of hurt. But not really. Only kind of.

Anyway, here was Groovy Tunes.

[open! Raven's mood today is maybe a little bit me. . . .]

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"Lunchtime!" Kathy announced, walking into Groovy Tunes with takeout bags in her hands. "You've got some time, right?"

Look, nothing was getting done at Dite's, either. The least she could do was spend some time with her roommie.

[All the SP, just didn't want to not ping you!]

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"I have so much time," Raven said. Wow, that came out sounding a little depressed without any emphasis on the "so". "Is it just me or is everything you say coming out sounding vaguely sarcastic today?"

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"Or really flat, yeah," Kathy said, coming up to the counter and putting Raven's bag down on the counter. Today was veggie paella. And milkshakes, because Kathy had wanted chocolate, dammit. "Fandom thing, you think?"

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"Don't know what else it would be," Raven said. "Even the stereo's kinda doing it." She leaned forward a little to sniff at the bag. "That smells really good. From Luke's?"

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"I should be glad that the stock at Dite's doesn't seem to have enough personality to be affected by weird island stuff," Kathy declared, handing over one of the milkshakes. "And yep. I stopped by to get more lotion for my tattoos and figured I'd put an order in."

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"And then share it. Best roommate ever." Odds were good Raven would have forgotten to eat lunch otherwise. It had happened before. "How are those healing anyway? The tattoos."

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"Pretty well!" Kathy said, sliding her sleeve down to show Raven the one on her shoulder. Raven would recognize the size and location of the tattoo for what it was. "Putting lube on this one by accident was fun this morning, but no harm done. Other than I still sorta smell like artificial strawberry."

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"I wasn't going to say anything," Raven said with a small smirk. She reached up to rub at the healed over bullet hole in her shoulder absently. "It really bugged you, huh. That it didn't scar."

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"Yeah," Kathy said quietly, rubbing at her shoulder again. "Yeah, it really did. It seemed so wrong that something so life-changing--" she snorted at her own ill joke "--leave no trace behind. It should have scarred. It should have scarred."

She sighed. There should also have been inflection there.

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Raven rather wished hers hadn't, personally. Both the one on her shoulder and the ones that weren't on her skin at all.

Time for a change of subject.

"So. Strawberries for tomorrow's class ingredient?"

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Kathy could happily give up all the invisible scars she carried, but she wanted one on her skin. "Hmmm, you don't think that would be too close to cherries?" she asked, poking at her paella. "I was thinking of something else, like a vegetable?"

No, she didn't have a specific one in mind, no.

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Raven shrugged. "Yeah, I guess. If you don't want to be thematic with your tattoo lube." The joke fell a little flat with the lack of emphasis, but Raven figured Kathy would get it anyway. "Vegetables. We should make it something weird this time. Not like carrots or tomatoes or anything."

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"I'm hoping to be showered by then," Kathy said, flashing Raven a wry smile. "You thinking weird like eggplant or zucchini? Or really weird, like daikon or kimchi?"

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"We should totally do kimchi," Raven said, the only indicator of her excitement her widening eyes. "I have no idea how that could be a dessert but I love it."

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"I love that," Kathy said, wishing that she could actually emote that a little bit. "Ten dollars says someone tries to make ice cream."

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"Twenty says it's Pinkie," Raven said. "Ooo, who should our guest judge be? We've run out of the 'our mentors and their girlfriend' category."

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"Maybe we branch out to other mentors?" Kathy suggested. "We both have teaching buddies?" Hmm, might be too late to ask either of them. "Your boss? Ohh, wait no. That's Mr. Starsmore, so nooooo."

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"Not the best judge of a food-based challenge. Unless we let him use his telepathy." Raven bit her lip, thinking. "We could kidnap a random townsperson right before class?"

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Kathy laughed. "Are you just going to grab whichever one is closest to the school?" she asked.

Guess who was going to be a little surprised when Jenkins was brought into class.