fandomtownies | Turtle & Canary; Tuesday [08/28].

Summer was at the counter with her laptop, making sure she'd successfully transferred some of the things from the computer in the back office, since she didn't like the idea of having to hole herself up back there if she wanted to work on some stuff. This was what it was all about, being there front and center to meet and greet and offer excellent customer service and all that crap, really put a face to the business. Of course, she was pretty sure that Amaya had only touched the computer in the back once in a blue moon, so most of the stuff she needed to transfer where actually written ledgers and accounts, very neatly written, she'd give Amaya that, but, come on, woman, get out of the Stone Age already.

And since she was so busy getting all her stuff in order, she barely noticed what was going on until Apu was already halfway into it when she looked up and blinked. "Uh, Apu?" she asked, marveling a little at the elaborate display that seemed to have sprung up out of nowhere. "What's that?"

"Didn't you know?" he asked. "It's Bow Tie Day."

"That is a made-up holiday," Summer stated after a moment, "that you just totally made up."

"I assure you, Miss Summer, it is not."

Summer was feeling pretty doubtful about that, but, since he really had done a pretty good job of putting together that giant Christmas-tree like display of more bowties than she'd have ever imagined they'd had in stock, she wasn't going to press the issue, and got to work on a sign.

Welcome to Turtle & Canary!
50% off all bow ties...I guess.

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He wasn't exactly standing outside the door pacing until it opened. Not exactly. He was leaning against a wall nearby, arms crossed over his chest, looking for all the world like he was bored straight out of his skull. He saw the sign go up in the window, heard the click as the door lock disengaged. Pushing himself off the wall, he gave it a whole few seconds before he walked over and went inside.

Spotting the not-Amaya lady who'd put the sign in the window, he offered her a brief smile. "Hi, would you be the new management?"

Summer looked up from her spreadsheet at the chime of the door opening, ready to launch into a greeting, and faltered.

Oh, shit, it was that guy!

...and he was somehow even cuter up close.

So there was a nice bonus to this job that she hadn't thought about before. Everyone needed groceries and toilet paper. All the cute guys would just...come right to her.

But what did she say? Did she let on that she recognized him because she's asked about him? No. No, Summer, don't do that. That'd be weird. And creepy. And you don't want to make it weird and creepy with one of the few people on this island that it wasn't already kind of awkward with because they knew you back when you were still in high school.

...a whole three months ago...

Thankfully, he made things easier for her by kicking things off himself. She smiled. "Hey," she said, "yeah, that'd be me. Name's Summer. Summer Smith. And you are...?"

Wasn't it just as weird and creepy to pretend she didn't know who he was when she did? Whatever, it was too late now, she already said it, no take-backs now.

Summer wasn't a terribly common name, and it was one he'd heard in the fairly recent past. He offered her a more genuine smile, "Would you be Kanan's Summer? Hi, I'm Kaidan, the newest person who's taken to kicking Kanan's shins when he needs it."

He's about to be 36, Summer. Just, y'know, so you realize he's old.

"I need to pick up a bunch of groceries and some other random stuff to ship through a portal later today. Kraft Dinner, frozen fries, brown gravy mix, cheese curds, milk, butter, bunch of other stuff." He frowned a little, "Might wipe out your stock on some of it, depending how much you have." It was sort of an apology. About as much of one as he could muster at the moment.

Oh, so still younger than the presumed age of her ex-husband, then!

But, more importantly, BDG had mentioned her. Looks like someone was definitely getting that caf in stock, even if she had to murder someone for it, plus about a bajillion BFF points.

And shin kicks, apparently.

"And you're Kanan's Kaidan," and that was a bit of a tongue twister, wasn't it? Summer grinned a little. "Nice to have a face to go with the name."

Which she totally, one hundred percent hadn't had before, really.

But she pushed away that buzz to quirk an eyebrow and tilt her head for the rest of it. "Wipe out the stock? Well, let's go see what we've got on the shelves already, and if that's not enough, I'll see what we've got in back." She moved around the counter, gesturing for him to follow as she headed toward the not refrigerated stuff first. "You sending supplies back home, or something?"

Kaidan had all but sat on him and pried the name of other people Kanan trusted out of him. Summer's name had been on that list.

"That would be me, yeah," he answered with a lopsided smile, "Nice to meet you finally."

"Not to my home, no. They haven't figured out the portal there yet. A friend's in another galaxy right now and could use a care package. He's another Canadian so I'm going for comfort foods from our country, enough to feed him and the kids he's taking care of." Because it was slightly more productive than barreling through the portal and ..hovering, worriedly, over Sparkle and a bunch of kids who could feel what the people around them were feeling.

If she wasn't on that list, Kanan would have been in some deep poodoo, too. It wasn't like she'd saved his life before or anything, geez.

But for now, there'd just be no small amount of gushing, because awww.

"Awww, that's amazing!" 'Decent guy.' Ha, Kanan Jarrus, master of the understatement, strikes again. "Yeah, totally, clear us out if you need to, if anyone needs any of that after you've got it, the mainland's not that far away. Maybe we can get you a discount on it, too."

Because she was the boss, and she could do whatever she wanted, dammit.

Kaidan's lucky he got as much as 'decent' from Kanan just now.

"Do you have Kraft Dinner, or just Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?" Kaidan was interested in the answer, "They taste different, but either one would do."

Canadian snobbery at its finest. It also happened to be true - they did taste different.

"The rest is standard. Frozen fries, cheddar cheese curds, beef gravy packets - the terrible kind that you mix with water and heat. Gallon of milk, pound of butter." He checked the list, "Gallon of white glue, if you have it, and liquid laundry starch."

"Uh," he added after a moment, "Those are craft supplies, for making slime. Not, y'know, to eat. I have someone else out buying toys, and I'll hit up the Perk for the coffee ..goop."

"Oh, we've got it," Summer said with a nod, searching the shelf for a moment before she found it and snagged a box to prove it. "Plenty of Canadians coming through to keep it on the regular order list."

...she assumed. She didn't know. She'd literally owned the store for, like, a week, so she was generally just guessing there.

"Good thing about a store sitting right smack dab in the middle of an intergalactic, interdimensional nexus. We kind of have a little bit of everything."

Except duct tape, for some reason that not even Apu could explain to her at this point.

"And I'm glad you clarified on the glue, because I was just about to give you the weirdest look. But, yeah, we got that, too. Let's maybe get a list to Apu, he can get it all together for you, how much do you think you'll need of everything?"

And, after a small pause, she felt compelled to add, "This sounds like a really great thing that you're doing, by the way. That's a lot of effort, but I bet it's going to mean an awful lot to those kids, too."

Kaidan spent a moment doing some mental math before responding, "12 boxes Kraft Dinner, 20lbs frozen french fries, 10lbs cheddar cheese curds, 20 packets brown gravy mix, gallon of milk, pound of butter, gallon white glue, half gallon more or less of liquid starch. Peeps, if you have them in, probably 10 packages of those, couple boxes of Oreos, probably some other smaller packages of treats to use as packing material."

He ducked his head a little at the compliment. "The effort's not much, really. It's all I can do from here, so.. it's what I'm doing. Keeps me from climbing the walls. Nice of you to say, though."

Summer had one brief second of panic in wishing she had a notebook to jot that all down, but the moment passed quickly the second she had her phone out because it wasn't much for her to keep up a flurry of thumbs that logged that all on her phone as he rambled them off. And nice thing about that, was once he was done, she could just shoot it over to Apu through a text. Despite him being literally just two aisles away.

She snorted slightly, though, looking over the list. "Peeps? I do think we have a few cases of those in the back, but those are probably from last Easter and stale as hell by now. You're still good to have 'em if you want 'em, though."

Those Peeps were probably stale as hell even before last Easter, if they were honest.

"Do Peeps ever actually go stale?" Kaidan wondered, "I thought they just had a half life of a few centuries before they just solidified."

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