Luke's, Sunday

[uncertain_dume]

Another Sunday, another day in Luke's House Of Pancakes, starring the kitchen staff who, to Kanan's relief, seemed to be getting that whole 'waffle' thing out of their system so that Sundays could be pancake days, as were right and proper.

Kanan was still giving the specials board a little bit of a side-eye, though.

Welcome To Luke's!
Today's Specials:
Pulled Pork Pancakes with Whiskey Maple Syrup
Banana Rum Pancakes
Beer and Brown Sugar Pancakes
... And The Kitty

"I appreciate your minimal efforts to keep Kitty from getting upset at the specials board," Kanan sighed, "but this one might still be a swing and a miss. Also, I hate you."

[OOC: Open!]

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[somethingwithturquoise]

Even if the specials board had listed each and every one of Summer's favorite foods, she would almost always find something about it to fuss about.

"Please tell me," she said, sliding onto her usual stool during her lunch hour, "that the Kitty is just a reference to a special made in honor of the bartender and not that you guys have actually started serving cat meat. Not that there's anything wrong with that! Who am I to judge? I consigned a whole dimension to having flies in their ice cream, I've feasted on the charred remains of human flesh, and I put hot dogs in jello. But if that's not just named for Kitty, I'm gonna kinda get bummed out."

Please don't bum her out, BDG.

"Also, hi."

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"Hi," Kanan said, giving Summer a nod and a little smile. "Yeah, the Kitty's named after Kitty. She wanted peanut butter pancakes one day, and since she's a bit of a regular and that became her usual order, they've kind of given it a place of honor on the specials board whenever everything else is something she can't have. When they remember to."

He leaned forward a little. "Between you and her, the staff in the kitchen is pretty much terrified of my pancake regulars."

[somethingwithturquoise]

"As they should be," Summer stated confidently, feeling a swell of pride that her wrath was up there with that of a likely hormonal and uncomfortable pregnant woman. "But peanut butter pancakes sound good; I think I'll have those today. Paired with a chocolate milkshake. Yeah, that sounds awesome.

"Oh, and hey," she added, "if you were to go to a fancy dinner party, what sort of food would you want? No reason, just wondering."

He, of course, should know by now that when Summer said 'no reason,' there absolutely was a reason.

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"One Kitty for Summer," Kanan chuckled, because the streams were crossing, now, apparently, "and a chocolate milkshake, coming on up."

He wrote that down pretty much exact and sent it back to the kitchen, yes. Just because the look on the cook's face could potentially be one of absolute panic at seeing both names on the same order form.

It was beautiful.

"And if I were to go to a fancy dinner party?" He grinned faintly. "Not that I have much experience with those," he noted, "but dessert's always an easy sell for me. I'm not actually very choosy when it comes to food."

Follow up Republic rations with eating out of a few dumpsters for a while, your standards tended to go south pretty fast.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer had seen BDG eat enough of the crap she put into jello to not at all be surprised by that answer.

"That somehow managed to be incredibly helpful, and yet not helpful at all in the slightest," she noted.

[uncertain_dume]

"That's most of what comes out of my mouth," Kanan pointed out easily. "Throw fruit on anything, and I'll eat it. Make a spicy dish and Hera will love it. Combine the two and I'll probably cry but eat it anyway."

Wasn't that helpful?

[somethingwithturquoise]

Actually, it was, a little. Summer felt like she may have known about Hera liking spicy food, but it had disappeared into the muddle of her brain and it was a good reminder.

"You have to know that just makes me want to make a comment about compliments to each other or 'opposites attract,' right?" she said. "But I'll be good and I won't."

By still saying it anyway in saying that she wouldn't.

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Yeah, Kanan noticed that. He blinked, and then he laughed and shook his head.

"You're too kind. You really should swing into Caritas sometime and tell Kitty I told you to ask her about her flags."

Yes, he was fully aware of what he had just done.

[somethingwithturquoise]

There was a pause.

And then a squeal.

A squeal that he might realize a second later was actually made of words.

"Kitty's made flags???"

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan popped by Luke's on his way to the shipyard. "What's a guy gotta do to get a coffee around here?"

He set his helmet on one of the stools and slid his armor-plated ass onto another, tossing a grin across the counter at Kanan.

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"Go to the Perk, asshole," Kanan laughed, but he was reaching for a cup to fill it up for Kaidan anyway. "Look at you, all decked out. Looking for trouble today?"

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan grinned at him. "No. Liam's taking me to play among the rocks." The ones in space. Those rocks. "New ship, felt weird to not suit up." Just in case.

Was he letting Kanan know where he was going and who he was going with?
Yup.

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Kanan tilted his head a bit, but nodded.

"Same rocks? Different rocks?"

See him be really interested in rocks.

Mostly because it helped to have a starting point if, for whatever reason, he had to fly the Escape in for a rescue.

[spectre_alenko]

"Don't know. We'll probably start with the same rocks, though," Kaidan said, "They're closest. I'll send you a picture if we find some new ones." If cell service can work interdimensionally, it can damn well work in space. So there.

He took the coffee and sipped it. "Mostly it was a chance to hang out with Liam and meet his girlfriend."

Partly it was to get him off this godforsaken antique of a planet so he could breathe. That, he definitely didn't need to say to Kanan. He already knew.

"Also planning to take Sparkle by the bar later, dump enough alcohol in him to float him, then play his sobercab escort home." Casually. While he sipped his coffee.

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Kanan tilted his head slightly, but nodded, taking note of what Kaidan was telling him, and what he was saying by doing so.

"Sparkle in need of a few drinks, is he?"

A quiet acknowledgment. The 'sober' was the important bit, after all.

[spectre_alenko]

"Yup," Kaidan answered, "Expect he is. Did you see his pictures in Hernando's shop? I don't know if they were up before you two started this whole avoiding thing. Naked, naked hands and tea." He sipped his coffee again. "Seivarden saw them."

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Kanan sighed. It was a Thing now. Great.

"Oh, I bet Seivarden loved that," he noted, instead. "How much of a scene did she cause at the tea shop?"

[intraspective]

Ino had been mulling over her weird as fuck conversation with Hernando since Friday and since she wasn't in whatever counted as the Academy around here (elementary? middle school?) she'd decided that, hey, being an adult and asking about it directly was the way to go.

She considered the specials.

"I'm guessin' none of those will ever get people drunk, huh?"

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"Especially not the Kitty," Kanan confirmed. "That one's just peanut butter pancakes. But even with the rest, you'd probably have to drink a hell of a lot of syrup."

He was avoiding them anyway. Didn't want to get the taste in his mouth.

"How goes it, Iris?"

[intraspective]

"Sabine's painting my shop this weekend," she said brightly, sliding onto a stool. "So I'm avoiding it, since I don't want to ruin the surprise of whatever it's going to turn out to be."

A beat.

"What do you suggest I get?"

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"Sabine's a hell of an artist, if her armor is any indication," Kanan mused, smiling a little. "I think whatever she comes up with, you'll like it. Good choice."

He nodded toward the specials board.

"Honestly, if you want pancakes, get chocolate chip with mixed berries and whipped cream. That, I've tried. These ones, I have not. They're probably all great, though. How do you feel about beer?"

[intraspective]

"Not my fav thing," Ino admitted, wrinkling her nose. "I'll go with what you suggested, instead. Just double the chocolate chips, please."

But she grinned.

"I'm excited about whatever Sabine's going to do, not going to lie. I gave her a vague direction and then said 'go wild', so it's going to be awesome."

She... should probably warn Sparkle of all of that.

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"'Go wild' is probably her favorite direction. Anything that gives her free reign to do as she pleases? Probably right up her alley." He paused and reached for his order pad and a pen. "And good choice. Double chocolate is the best way to do it," Kanan whispered, conspiratorially, writing down her order and sending it to the back. "Anything to drink with that?"

[intraspective]

Ino considered that for a moment.

"A strawberry milkshake?" she said, since getting a milkshake here was basically obligatory.

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"Good choice," Kanan replied, "best milkshake. See, you know what's up."

... It was basically what he'd had for breakfast today himself. So sue him.