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Turtle & Canary; Monday [11/02].

How exactly the store wound up with so much extra leftover Halloween candy every year was beyond Summer. She knew she didn't order it. Apu claimed he didn't order it. There was no way Shunsui would have bothered to order it, and yet there they were, with so much, when she didn't even bother ordering it because she knew the island provided most of it itself. And it was like the store had tried to compensate for it or somehow best the island on how much randomly generated Halloween candy there could be.

Which, therefor, called for a sign:

Welcome to Turtle & Canary!
Where we dont' have discounted Halloween candy
because we're giving it away for free
(with purchase)

Although, around this place? Summer wouldn't be surprised if everyone considered the free candy and was just all, 'nah, I'm good.'

Today's Squishy Flavors
Cookies
Deviled Eggs
Red

Turtle & Canary is open!

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So. It had taken Jessica almost a week to find this place on a map known as "Fandom". And it was a fucking weird place. There were guys in white armor marching all over. And there were flamingos at the park. And fuck ton of steps.

So naturally the first thing Jessica decided she needed was supplies. After walking around town she wandered into the first convenience store to see if it had what she needed.

What first gave her pause was the selection of Squishy drinks. And then there was that guy in a very elaborate panda costume trying to push cheese on her as she tried to make her way to the liquor aisle. And was that Squishy machine looking at her? So weird. Then again not long ago her city had been attacked by aliens and defended by weirdos in costumes. So maybe not totally weird.

Just weird from her typical bodega experience.

Anyhow she shuffled her way past the panda again and placed two very large and very cheap bottles of whiskey on the counter and started fumbling for her wallet.

And, as she rang up those two very large and very cheap bottles of whiskey, Summer couldn't help taking them into consideration right along with the unfamiliar face and the slightly more familiar expression on that face that generally seemed to go along with a first foray into the friendly local one-stop shop.

"This feels very pro-active," she noted. "I can appreciate that."

Jessica paused for a moment in a bit of confusion. Years of living in New York had left the expectation of her getting ignored and getting judgey looks from the local bodega owner. Not a compliment or an invitation for a conversation. Or if the guy at the counter was younger a question about where the party was.

So this was different. And threw her off a bit.

"Uh. Yeah. Right," she stammered out as she continued to fumble with her money. "I mean... Wait. What do you mean by pro-active?"

"Well," said Summer, "it is only Monday. And yesterday was pretty normal; today feels pretty normal, too, so it's probably not entirely re-active. Although I am going to go out on a limb and guess the whole 'you must be new to Fandom' thing, in which case I guess it definitely could be reactive."

Her head tilted thoughtfully at the other woman.

"Probably a little bit of both," she decided.

Okay. The discussion of why she was buying so much liquor now felt more like the bodegas she frequented. "I'm just visiting," Jessica said shortly. "I'm only here for a few days on business."

She paused for a moment, silently debating whether she should continue this conversation. Then again, the girl seemed to know stuff.

"What's the deal with this place anyway?"

Maybe it was the shortness of it in particular, but Summer's face was going to be just a liiiittle bit skeptical about that whole 'just visiting' part, but, hey, if that was the case? More power to her.

"That," she then answered, gaining a faint grin, "is a question even the greatest minds are still failing to wrap their heads around. But, in short, multidimensional nexus, just on the side of batshit crazy. We're just coming out of Halloween whackiness, so two bottles might be enough to get you through a few days, but maybe we should throw in a third there. Probably wouldn't hurt."

And she had told herself not to pry, but, with that said, she almost couldn't help herself, especially since maybe knowing would probably help her help whoever this was...

"What kind of business, anyway?"

Did Jessica's jaw clench a bit at the words "multi-dimensional nexus"?

Yes. Yes it did. The idea of a multi-dimensional nexus wasn't exactly new to her. After all, her city had been attacked by aliens and giant flying armored space whales and defended by a giant angry green man in tight pants, Tony Stark and a guy with a red, white and blue shield.

However she was beginning to understand why a certain someone had been interested in this island now.

And that's when Jessica realized she was probably going to need a third bottle.

"There was a person of interest. He was planning on making an escape to this island," she said taking out her phone. "I wanted to find out why."

Opening the phone she then accessed her pictures and then turned it around to show to Summer. "Does he look familiar at all?"

Well, that was more than enough to sell Summer on the 'business' aspect of things, as well as make that part of her brain that had been here as long as it had spark with more than a little bit of interest. They had just finished Halloween whackiness, and sometimes, this island forgot that it was nice when it took breaks before the Next Thing...

With that in mind, she leaned in for a good look, taking her time, too, just in case her memory needed a little jog. But she pulled back shaking her head.

"No," she admitted, "not really, but I'll keep an eye out. And it won't hurt to ask around. It's a small island, so we're pretty quick on new faces." If she couldn't tell already. "Maybe you just beat him on getting here."

"Yeah. He won't be coming here," Jessica said in a flat tone before turning around and marching past the panda who tried to push some Gruyere at her.

"Seriously," she growled at the bear. "Back off."

Grabbing a third bottle she went the long way around to avoid the panda. "Thanks for the advice," she said putting her money down on the counter. She paused for a moment thinking a bit at what the clerk had said and ventured another question. "You mentioned wackiness and batshit over the weekend. Exactly what kind of batshit are we talking about?"

"Honestly," said Summer, "it's easier if you just take the cheese with him. Half the time we won't even ring it up, but he doesn't notice. And there was about two weeks of lead-up with a different Halloween-themed shenanigan every day, but the real kicker came when it did that thing where everyone turned into what they were dressed up for Halloween after sunset. So that was fun."

Honestly, she'd been a special-ops Amazonian warrior and spent the whole night ducking for cover and scouting for bad guys, so it really hadn't been so bad! But her sympathies definitely went out to a few people over it...

She considered what might be the best highlight of the Halloween-specific ones, but then realized there was a much better example in there than any of that stuff.

"Oh! And the weekend before that, homecoming weekend, there was a whole thing where people, like, lost their powers and stuff? I don't really have any, so I only witnessed that one second-hand."

There was a long pause as Jessica silently judged Summer for any kind of insanity. The whole thing sounded crazy but again living in New York these days made Jess realize that cheese pushing pandas and Halloween weirdness was strange and different but not on the whole as bad as alien invasions. Or people who could control your mind.

"Right."

Okay then. This place was truly strange. No wonder Kilgrave wanted to come here. Which led Jessica to her next question.

"There are bars on this island right?"

Yeah, Summer did not even care what she sounded like, because she knew it was the straight up truth, and there were few things better in life than knowing someone would eventually think to themself damn, Summer was totally right.

So her response was bright and cheerful and self-assured. "Two, actually! You've got the Devil's Nest, which goes for kind of a club vibe, and Caritas, which is more local water hole, plus zombie karaoke. I actually tend bar there on Wednesday; if your couple of days holds over that long, I can hook you up with a few free jello shots. Or regular shots."

Her eyes drifted to the bottle before bagging them up.

"If you need them."

With all the confidence that she would.

That was a long answer for someone expecting a simple "Yes." Honestly Summer had said more words in the last five minutes than Jessica usually utters in a week.

Normally that would push Jessica away.

But there were the options for free shots.

"Thanks," she said awkwardly. "I... We'll see. Depends on what I find here."

Summer did pride herself in being helpful if she could!! She gave n agreeing sort of nod, a faint smile.

"Good luck," she offered. "My name's Summer, by the way, if you need anything else. And please....please..."

She shoved a small and moddable pile of bags of candy forward in the counter.

"For the love of god, take some candy."

That actually made Jessica smirk in amusement. She picked through the candy dish and took out several Hershey Special Dark chocolates. Because kids don’t deserve them anyway. “Thanks. I’ll see you around,” she said taking her purchases and heading to the door.

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