Luke's, Sunday

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Kanan stepped into the diner today for his shift and immediately had to duck, lest he take a flying pancake to the face.

He stood up slowly, one eyebrow raised.

The staff all froze.

"Who did that?"

The staff all pointed at one another.

Kanan looked around the room. Pancakes. Everywhere.

"Well, you'll all clean this up before any customers arrive, or I'll be burying you under them."

"There aren't enough pancakes for you to bury us all under them, you know," the busboy pointed out.

"I meant they'll be used to mark a shallow grave out back."

The staff quickly got to work cleaning up the mess.

Today's Specials:
Pork Chops with Caramelized Apple Cream Sauce
Green Fiddlehead Fern Salad
Meringue Roulade with Rose Petals and Fresh Raspberries
Pancakes available upon request!

Kanan eyed the specials board, not completely trusting it, but settled in for a day at work all the same.

[OOC: Open!]

Comments

[somethingwithturquoise]

It was Sunday, so, duh, of course Summer was going to pester Kanan with texts. They couldn't let tradition die due to distance.

What up, BDG? u busy?

A question she should have perhaps considered last week.

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Less busy than last weekend! What's up, Summer? You hanging in there?

It was good to hear from her, okay? Busy or not.

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Truth be told, Kitty didn't actually have a taste for pancakes today. But she was driving herself crazy watching her phone for calls she knew weren't coming because her doctor wasn't open on Sundays, so she was getting out for a while.

"Is it me or does everything smell like pancakes?" she asked.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Yeah. First week of classes, yaaaay. instead i guess in college, its going over a million syllbuses instead of a million introductions. syllabi? idk. but right now we're in the dimension that released a ballfondlers movie franchise, because they just made a sequel. we're getting ice cream before the movie, even though it all still has flies in it. its not too bad if you just get it blended up in a milkshake tho.

You could almost pretend it was chocolate chips or seeds from fresh strawberries or something.

How was your first week? Still mad at u for finally going back to teaching AFTER i leave.

Followed, of course, by a string of angry face emojis and a few crying face ones, too.

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Well, I didn't know you were taking off until AFTER I applied to teach.

In his very limited defense.

One of these days I'm going to have to see this ballfondlers thing you keep talking about.

He was afraid to, but he was going to have to.

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"See," Kanan called into the back, "people know!"

There was a muttered 'Sorry, Kitty,' from the kitchen, and Kanan gave a satisfied nod of his head before looking back at her.

"I think they were either having a food fight with very limited resources or they were trying to do some kind of extreme frisbee thing with them before I came in. I don't pretend to understand them."

[somethingwithturquoise]

whatever you do, dont just go an google it!!!

Or...go ahead. Summer wasn't his boss, and maybe he might be pleasantly surprised. He just wouldn't likely find anything about the greatest television show in about a hundred different dimensions.

im pretty sure grampa rick has some bootleg files I could send you. not nearly the same as seeing it in theaters, but, you know, better than a fondler-less world entirely

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There was a good five, ten minutes before Kanan texted back.

I SHOULDN'T HAVE GOOGLED IT.

Kanan Jarrus, you knew better.

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Really, if it was the latter, Kitty might've participated, but helped clean up.

"I think you're missing a prime opportunity here to suggest pancake frisbee as a summer camp event," Kitty pointed out.

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Kanan paused for a long moment at that.

"... I really need to run that one by Eliot," he noted, "But it sounds like an amazing, terrible idea."

They would absolutely get mobbed by seagulls.

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It would be carnage.

"I'm here to help," she grinned. "Are there any pancakes left?"

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"Available on request," Kanan replied, dutifully. "I'm not letting them stock up more ammunition today, but they've got the batter ready to go if anybody places an order. Looking for the Kitty today?"

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"Sure. With blueberries." It was healthy. "I'm never going to be able to eat sugar again after this kid."

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"Then again, you might need to in order to keep up," Kanan mused. "Not that I have much experience with kids, beyond the ones I grew up with."

And out of all of them, he'd been the handful.

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"If it's Lexi-" Not that she was worried! "-she's pretty calm, but I also don't know what she was like when she was little. Luckily we're a big coffee household?"

Less so right now.

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"So what you're saying is, gift you with all the coffee as a congratulatory gift once your little bundle of joy has arrived," Kanan surmised, sending Kitty's order to the kitchen. "I've heard things about toddlers being terrors, but again, everything I've got to work with there is pretty anecdotal."

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"I've got decent experience with babies. Less so with toddlers," she admitted, making a face. "I'm sure you just kind of get used to it, right?"

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"If not, they do at least stop being toddlers eventually," Kanan offered. Because it was his job to be Mr. Optimism today. Which was something he was terrible at, for the record. "So long as you survive it, it's just a matter of waiting it out."

[somethingwithturquoise]

I WARNED YOU NOT TO!

Granted, he'd probably gone and entered it in before she responded like a dingus.

But Summer was able to find a link from this dimension that might be way more helpful than Google in his current dimension and sent it his way.

THIS is what I'm talking about, not...whatever you found.

Or maybe he did find this and just really needed to calm down.

[throughaphase]

"Which, you know, only takes years," she said.

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I APPRECIATE THAT MUCH MORE THAN WHAT I FOUND.

So yeah, no, he hadn't found it.

Ooops.

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"Only, what, two or three out of how many?"

Yeah, Kanan knew full well just how long 'only two or three' years could be.

"And I'm sure you know plenty of people you can shove a kid at if you need to take a few hours to go for dinner with Clint or something."

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"What do you charge for babysitting?" Kitty teased.

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"That depends entirely on whether or not it's okay to let Chopper help," Kanan quipped. "He could teach your kid some wicked cursing in binary."

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"I'm pretty sure you're joking but that actually sounds like a good life skill," Kitty said.