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Town Hall, Saturday

"I can't believe I'm actually here, and I don't have any lab equipment," Emily said. She was wearing some of Jesse's clothes, and honestly, it was a little weird to see her out of the uniform. Or in something that casual.

Like she's wearing clothes from another world.

"I'd love to run some tests on you once we manage to get you back out of here, about the influence of a multiversal-- Island of Power like this on you, especially after exposure to, well..." Emily continued, grinning at her. "I mean, if you're okay with it, of course."

"Let's just add it to the long list of things you want to test me for," Jesse said wryly, but she realized she'd inexplicably found herself smiling.

Emily's enthousiasm was a special kind. Rare. She'd missed it.

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"And things slip through the cracks from time to time and affect whatever is in the lipgloss?" Emily guessed. "Maybe it's caused by quantum entanglement on the multiversal scale..."

"And," Summer added brightly, still ridiculously proud of this one, "just like lipgloss cracking in your purse, it can be a real bitch to clean up afterwards!"

Or you just had to get an entirely new purse, which...did not always work as well as you hoped, because apparently those purses you got rid of could show up suddenly in your closet again on a rando Parents Weekend! Fun!

"Oh, I get it, that's very funny," Emily said encouragingly.

She was interrupted midway by the loud snort Jesse had to bury against her arm. "...Sorry."

Emily tossed her a surprised, if delighted, look.

Okay, seriously, you two! But Summer was kind of loving it, because, yeah, nothing quite helped you ignore any sort of issues in your own love life quite like projecting one onto other people!

"But yeaaaah," she ventured, tampering down her own smirk, "I definitely subscribe to the idea that there's no way you can have a convergence of so many wildly different...and sometimes exceptionally similar dimensions in one place without things going a little crazy every one in a while..."

Behind them, Jesse's assistant bustled over and held out the papers for Summer to take.

"That's a reasonable assumption," Emily mused, grinning. She looked at Jesse. "It might explain why it's apparently so easy to trip from the building we were in to this place," she said. "They are two locations with an unusual amount of, well. We'll call it 'multiversal activity'?"

Jesse nodded. "It's the best working hypothesis I've heard so far," she said. "Maybe they even make each other worse?"

"MVA, for short," Summer snorted a little to herself, digging out a pastry from the bag. Look, a sandwich made a better lunch, sure, but she could use the sugar comfort right now. "I actually don't know a whole lot about where you guys come from, Jesse's usually pretty cagey about it, but that sounds about right, from what I do know.

"Soooooo," she ventured after that, "this building you were in before, is that where you two met?"

Whaaaat? Multiversal theories were great and all, but there were far more interesting things to delve into here for Summer.

Jesse and Emily had had a long talk about what was, and wasn't, information they should share with the island. And yeah, Jesse had some mixed feelings about the fact she was now actively buying into the idea that classifying things was sometimes better for everyone, but, well...

Either way, it gave Emily the confidence to smile and say, "Yes. I was conducting research there when this hostile force decided to attack the building. Jesse was quite effective in shutting it down. Extremely effective, actually. It was impressive."

For the most part, but she wasn't adding that.

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Summer nodded along with that, because that was good. That was a damn good meet-cute in her book, this flag was getting SO much glitter.

"And how long," she wondered, "between that and Jesse ending up here?"

"A couple of days," Jesse said.

Look, she'd walked into that building a wandering solitary paranoiac and then Emily had basically just adopted her on the spot.

Summer's brows shot up a little at that.

"Wow, okay," she said. "So kind of a whirlwind."

In both the effectively handling hostile forces straight into small town weird-island mayor and the romance elements.

Thought the woman currently, fervently trying to ignore the guy she married within a week of meeting him...

"That definitely puts a few things about when you first got here into perspective."

"It's... been kind of a crazy rollercoaster ride," Jesse said, laughing self-consciously. "At this point I figure the best thing I can do is just roll with it, right?"

Sometimes I wonder if you knew about the island when you brought me to the Oldest House, she thought quietly. Did you plan for me to find it?

Emily beamed at her. "I'd say you've done more than roll with it," she said.

Okay, Emily, stoooop. Summer could not even with this cuteness

(False. SO false. She was loving this so much she might have to send Nina a friggin' gift basket or something for really planting this seed in her brain when it was so, sl fertile).

"Good to know we got you for more than just a couple days, Jes," she said, grinning, "although I almost feel bad keeping you this long. It's nice that you still got to drop in, though, Emily."

And as much as she needed the break, Summer was thinking she probably shouldn't eat up too much of their time back together, either.

"It was unexpected," Emily said brightly. (To say the least.) "But it's been good catching up."

And strategizing.

"Don't leave on my account," she added. "The more the merrier! I should actually go get one of those sandwiches..."

"Grab me something too?" Jesse asked her, as Emily walked to the desk to pick up a sandwich or two.

"Oh," Summer waved a dismissive hand, "I shouldn't stay too long, I'm supposed to be keeping office hours today in case any of my students' parents," and fake dads!, "want to come talk about my class."

And, she added to herself, with a rueful glance at the documents Nina had gotten her, wade her way through some super fun looking paperwork!

"But the break has been nice. And I'm really glad I got to meet you, Emily."

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