Luke's, Sunday

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan came into work today and almost immediately just kind of paused and squinted at the specials board.

"... Really, guys?"

The cook looked up at him with wide eyes, trying to look as innocent as possible.

"It's festive!"

Welcome to Luke's!
Today's Specials:
Pancakes
But With Sparklers In Them

"It's lazy."

And possibly a fire risk. But, hey, what did he know?

[OOC: Open!]

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[biotic_psychotic]

A cranky, groggy Jack stumped her way into Luke's and just sort of oozed her way onto a stool at the counter. "Kanan, coffee me."

A beat.

"Please."

Another.

"It's too goddamn early in the fucking morning for me to be awake and functional."

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan, perhaps wisely, didn't ask any questions until after he'd reached for the pot and filled a mug for her, pushing it her way.

"Squirrels got you, huh?"

[biotic_psychotic]

She was reaching for that coffee and slurping some down immediately. It burned her tongue and the roof of her mouth and she didn't care at all because she could feel the caffeine rush through her system like nectar of the gods.

"Furry little fuckers," she answered with a growl. "Kaidan was right there in the other room and that asshole enjoys being up at that fucking hour of the morning but no, they wanted me. They do it again and I'm reading out squirrel stew recipes before I read their fucking notes."

[uncertain_dume]

"I hope you have some of those in reserve," Kanan noted. "I've found that when they start doing this, they generally don't stop for a while, at least until someone new and shiny catches their eye."

He'd been doing the radio since almost about the same time he'd arrived on the island.

... Monday was going to be very weird for him.

[biotic_psychotic]

"Squirrel meat can't be that different from rat," she glowered, "I have several of those all in my head."

She figured Kanan wasn't going to be shocked by that.

"You haven't heard the radio yet today have you?" She was amused as she drank her coffee. Jack figured he'd have at least a couple complaints at her if he had.

[uncertain_dume]

"Managed to catch a little bit of the start of it on my way out the door," Kanan replied, "but there's a dog who'll never forgive me if he doesn't get a walk before I come to work, and nobody does puppy eyes quite as well as Stance."

For obvious reasons.

[biotic_psychotic]

"Watch it or I'm going to assign you 'puppy-whipped goo monster'," she smirked at him. "I dunno, man. Tali wears a mask and she still might give him a run for his money. She has puppy eyes you can feel. Makes my skin crawl."

It was weird to care. Feelings other than anger were just.. weird.

[uncertain_dume]

"Well, then I suppose I should count myself lucky that I haven't had to worry about falling victim to them yet," Kanan mused. "Stance is bad enough, after all."

Stance was a weird rainbow-spotted force of nature that Kanan never could have foreseen.

[biotic_psychotic]

"Yeah, well, if Kaidan weren't being a duck and run little shithead you already would've. I get why he doesn't want to sit down for the bitch of a debrief he's got coming to him, but once he comes outta that he's gonna have the entire crew breathing down his neck," Jack said.

Then she grimaced, "Nevermind, that made it make all the sense in the world."

Her lips curved in a smirk, "Maybe I'll threaten to drag you home myself. That'll get him going."

[uncertain_dume]

"I'm sure he'll love that," Kanan mused, smirking a little bit sideways. "Though I do have to admit I am a little bit curious about all these people from home that you two keep bringing up."

Like that guy who had a voice with an uncanny resemblance to his own.

[biotic_psychotic]

"They're going to be dead curious about you," Jack said with a toss of her head. "I mean.. You've never seen the asshole at home. You don't know how weird it is for him to have friends. That's not something he does. Shocked me right out of my thong."

You're welcome.

"Might be why he hasn't yet. Dragged you back." Probably it was still Kaidan ducking the debrief. Possibly it was due to the Balak shit going on and trying to keep Kanan safe from it.

Dumbass.

[uncertain_dume]

Like Kanan hadn't dealt with some pretty intense shit himself. Honestly, now.

"Might be," he allowed. "I mean, I can handle a little bit of curiosity." He raised his eyebrows. "Met a few of the Krogans, seem to be surviving you so far."

Even met Ashley. That had been an experience.

[biotic_psychotic]

Please tell her you met Ash. She never did but that didn't stop her from disliking the space racist.

"Pfft, Krogans," Jack waved that away like smoke. "Krogans are easy. They're big and loud and blunt and those four testicles make the males aggro challenge monsters, but they say what they mean and they're honest as hell with their words. Might be some blunt force trauma, talking to one, because that kind of honest is hard to take sometimes."

She drank some of her coffee and looked at him over the rim. "Liara's the one who'll take your head apart and it won't even hurt. You won't even know she's done it until you think back on it later. She's going to want to know everything. And you'll tell her. You'll find yourself saying things you've never told anyone ever in your life. Things you didn't even know you remembered. Shit you never thought you could even ever have thought."

Took another drink, "It'll all come out in the course of a normal and pleasant conversation and you won't even realize until later. It's not magic or mindfuckery or anything like that. It's just Liara. She's just.. If trust were a person, it'd be her. If I didn't love her like family, I'd kill her."

Liara was the worst.

Jack loved the hell out of her.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer came in around lunchtime, as usual, and looked right at the specials board, as usual.

"I have....questions," she said. As...usual.

[uncertain_dume]

"Please," Kanan said, "don't hold back. Maybe your questions are the same as my questions."

Like, 'WHY?'

[somethingwithturquoise]

"First off," Summer began, "In the pancakes? Or On? I'm not a grammar Nazi by hardly anyone's margin, but I feel it's a pretty important distinction to make."

[uncertain_dume]

"I haven't ordered them yet," Kanan noted. "I'm guessing they mean they're stabbed into them. But the bit that throws off sparks is over the top?"

Seemed about right, anyway.

"... Now you have me worried, though."

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Do you think," Summer ventured, "that ordering them just to see would only actually wind up encouraging them in the long run?"

[uncertain_dume]

"... Probably." Kanan paused. "Want to do it anyway?"

The curiosity was going to kill him.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer sucked in a deep breath as if trying to hold herself back from Bad Choices, but it didn't do a whole lot of good.

"Yes!" she said, emphatically, excitedly. "Yes, yes I so totally need to see this, and, like, now."

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan broke into a little laugh at that. Hey, her excitement was infectious, and so help him, he kind of wanted to know, too.

"Okay, one order of possibly-a-terrible-idea pancakes coming up. What kind of milkshake is it going to be, now that eggnog season is past us?"

[somethingwithturquoise]

Oh, Summer was ready for that question. Smirking, she reached into her purse and pulled out a small packet of rainbow colored glitter, smacking it down on the counter like her ace in the hole in a game of poker. Or sabacc or something.

She should really learn how to play that one of these days, really.

"Boo-yah! Told you I was going to do a New Years milkshake. Toss that baby in with some vanilla, please! I wasn't sure what you guys had here, so I brought my own, and now I'm glad I did, because I don't think I trust those guys not to just put sparklers in it instead."

[uncertain_dume]

Hey, if she asked Kanan nicely, he'd be happy to teach it to her. He happened to be pretty damn good at the game himself, after all.

"Is that... glitter?" He squinted at it speculatively, but put in the order for a vanilla milkshake and the sparkler pancakes into the kitchen anyway. "Edible glitter?"

[somethingwithturquoise]

"You're damn right it's edible glitter!" Summer declared with a laugh. "I have no idea if it'll just be a big mess or not once it's all blended up, but I figured, hey, let's try it anyway! Last milkshake of 2018, or, at the very least, this particular timeline and dimension's 2018! Gotta make it special, right?"

[uncertain_dume]

"Have to at least try," Kanan agreed with a smirk. "If nothing else, you might end up with rainbow streaks through your drink. That sounds pretty neat in its own right."

Or it could end up looking like slightly sparkly mud. Kanan was holding out hope for the streaks, though.