fandomtownies | Turtle & Canary; Wednesday [04/15].

There were several expertly pyramids and towers of canned and boxed goods throughout the store that day, which had, apparently, been up since later in the day Monday. Apparently, Turquoise Smith-Sith had a real gift for stacking, and Apu had been so impressed that he couldn't bring himself to take them down quite yet. Besides, Canary-chan had made quite a game of it for herself to flit about from one stack to another, trilling out a little song and careful not to disturb all these new perches before fluttering off to the next, and that was just adorable.

Shunsui was just mostly bewildered about something else, it seemed, and that was the fact that Summer-chan apparently had a kid? And then Apu just sort of looked at Shunsui, realizing that he couldn't tell if he was just that good at playing dumb or if he really, truly, actually was that oblivious. He honestly wasn't sure, but, whichever way it went, it was almost impressive.

Almost.

But what was actually impressive was how Shunsui always seemed to sweep incredibly close to all those stacks whenever he moved around the store, and even though Apu was certain he was about to have a clean-up of tumbled cans in Ailse [Handwavey], he never actually did knock them over...

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Octavia showed up a little later than she tended to, not that Shunsui was very likely to notice that.

She also looked like she would potentially commit murder over fallen cans if she had to hear it happen, even though the very worst of her hangover had passed. Enough that she'd made it out into town and into the store, anyway.

... She was wearing sunglasses indoors, yes.

It was fine. Shunsui knew people who never took off their sunglasses. He certainly wouldn't judge.

He was, however, going to quirk an eyebrow.

"Rough morning, Octavia-chan ♥?" he ventured, reaching for his jug.

"Long weekend," Octavia retorted, her voice extra raspy.

Yes, even though Tuesday was far more directly to blame for her current state than the weekend was.

Shunsui's smile in response to that was soft and sympathetic and, yes, underneath all of that, if you knew where to find it, just faintly amused.

"Well," he stated, cups in hand, very ready to double up on his own intake should Octavia not be so willing to fight fire with fire that afternoon, as he began to pour, "I'm not sure of the size or the breed of the dog that bit you, but I always feel a little bit of this helps ♥."

In...any situation, really. Not even just hangovers.

But especially hangovers.

"And a listening ear," he offered out, along with the cup itself, "if you need one. Always ♥."

"It was brandy."

The weekend was a lot to unpack. Yesterday's drink menu, not so much.

Octavia reached for the cup as usual, though the soft brushing of fingers against fingers felt perhaps a little less deliberate and a little more careless this week.

"Ah," Shunsui had his soft smile on his face at that and, if his fingers were anything in the usual hand-off, they meant to be some sort of reassuring, "not exactly a favorite of mine, but that will hardly surprise anyone, and it will get the job done ♥. Sometimes a bit too well ♥."

[[ one million years later....]]

"I don't know," Octavia muttered. "It seemed necessary."

Of course, it had led to more things to process and unpack later ~~and that were still being played out~~. But the hangover was doing a good job of keeping her thoughts off those, too.

"How was your weekend?"

"I can't really remember it very well, to be honest ♥," Shunsui admitted, in a sort of pleasant, dreamy tone, a fond, far-away glimmer in his eyes, as he lifted his own sake up in a bit of a toast to such missing weekends, "so it must have been a good one ♥."

"So I'm guessing no kids."

Just a hunch. She didn't doubt Shunsui's ability to just float through a weekend like last one even with a kid or several clinging to his robes, but she figured it would still leave some kind of an impression.

They would have been the most spoiled rotten, over-indulged curly-haired little robe-wearing monsters ever in this world and his own.

Shunsui's smile grew with an impressive tilt.

"My good fortune and luck continues to hold strong after all these years ♥," he said, and that deserved another lift of his cup, even though he also may have had a small theory about the fact that in was merely a matter of logistics, that one simply could not fit that many potential children belonging to just one Soul through a single portal at once without some sort of world-breaking event to go along with it. "Don't tell me that's the reason for your long, brandy-inspiring weekend, Octavia-chan....♥."

"We had two," Octavia replied, her tone going softer whether she wanted it to or not.

She would not entertain the idea that she'd had one and Duke had had two, no.

"Well, that doesn't sound so bad ♥," drawled Shunsui, basing this entirely on the math that went into how many he'd assume he'd have if that particular bit of Fandom weirdness ever did decide to catch up with him.

"Maybe not, if it was just taking care of two kids for a weekend," Octavia replied, on a sigh. "And there weren't glimpses into two different possible futures. Whether either will actually ever happen or not."

"The future," said Shunsui, with that particularly poetic lilt to his dancing voice, and a small wave of his hand to accompany it, "is one of the most emphemeral and swiftly changing things there can be, more fickle than an autumn wind or a tempermental mood, Octavia-chan ♥. What will be, will be, and if one is not careful, one may miss the joys of what is for being too distracted by the possibilities of what may..." He trailed a little, as if putting in a poignant pause for emphasis, "...or may not be... ♥."

The sip he took from his sake then was particularly sage-like, he felt.

Octavia's dry look didn't seem to suggest she agreed. But, it was also severely hampered by the sunglasses.

"I know that, Shunsui," she drawled. "That doesn't make it easier."

"But the brandy does?" Shunsui asked, with a lift of his brow that matched the lift of the corner of his mouth.

As he poured himself a little more sake.

"The brandy works for a distraction, anyway." Now she just sounded tired again. "Sometimes that's good enough."

Especially when you picked the right company to go with it.

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