fandomtownies | Turtle & Canary; Monday [03/15].

Summer's chill mood had absolutely nothing to do with the island, because, look, she wasn't here for all that. It had been a weekend back home for her, and while the family session with Dr. Wong had been an absolutely glorious shitshow, her own personal meeting with the good doc had actually been really great and helped her work through some issues that were bothering her last week that she hadn't even known had been bothering her, but now that she'd worked through it, a lot of things made total sense. So, with that perspective and the general feeling of relief that she hadn't almost died again this weekend and in fact that weirdest thing that happened was some bullshit side adventure with her dad and a talking cat, she came into the store that day to get to work and get the week started.

And was not at all surprised to see that Apu had done a great job getting everything set-up for some St. Patrick's Day specials, even if she felt that marking down anything green seemed a little excessive, but, yeah, okay, sure, Apu, edamame and seaweed snacks and matcha tea were totally Irish staples.

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Barry showed up after a nerve wracking weekend with emotional crystals and immediately started grabbing all the supplies he needed for class today. Which included chocolate, deli slices, of turkey and chicken and...

Well basically anything that had tryptophan in it. "Hey, babe," Barry called out from the aisles. "How as the family weekend visit?"

"Well," said Summer, after the briefest of moments to consider her response and reflect a little on some of the things she and Dr. Wong had talked about, "no one accidentally abandoned me anywhere, so that's a pretty big net positive on last time."

That was the very abridged answer.

"Honestly?" she added. "If you just ignore all the family stuff...it wasn't that bad."

It had been mostly family stuff. So....

But at least Barry had a good idea where she was coming from with all that now.

"How were things here?"

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"Everyone was off this weekend. I went from extremely paranoid to overwhelmingly chill in 24 hours," Barry said rolling his eyes. "Be glad you weren't here."

"I don't know about that," Summer teased, leaning forward on the counter with a grin. "You being overwhelmingly chill sounds like kind of a rare treat."

He could definitely keep the paranoia, though, thaaaaaanks.

"You'd think that," Barry said, mirroring Summer and leaning on the counter now. "But I spent the whole day staring at my hands and eating cookies. I wasn't me and it fucking creeped me out. But in a total chill freaked out kind of way. I didn't even do any fucking research."

"To be fair, they are pretty nice hands," said Summer, who would have felt bad about the potential cringe of this comment if it weren't for the fact that it was just an excuse to reach over and take one of those hands in question in her own, "and your brain probably could've used the break."

"Yeah, well if you get in the mood to stare at them for hours, I'll make a sketch of them for you," he teased as he gave her hand a squeeze. "And that would be two breaks now in a year. Any more I might have to give up my life of scientific research and go live on a beach and surf 24/7."

"Just make sure to hammer out a really good waterproof sunscreen before number three hits," Summer mused, leaning in just that little bit further for a kiss, "and that actually doesn't sound that bad. Still..." The snark in her smile softened a little. "I'm glad it seems to have just been One of those Fandom Things. Feeling better now?"

"Much better now," Barry said, after the kiss of course. "But just in case I'm stocking up on food loaded with tryptophan and hoping nothing weird continues."

"I was thinking about asking about all that..." Summer admitted, with her eyes wandering a moment toward Barry's particular purchases of that morning. She figured they'd get around to it eventually, anyway.

"Anything to boost the serotonin? Best to have on hand," Barry said, smirking a bit. "Also a little practical lessons for the kids for class."

"Nerd," Summer accused, albeit fondly. "But that's good, though. Tying something practical into what I can assume is a pretty impractical thing happening over the weekend. I mean, does anyone really know why everyone was feeling...off? I mean, you know, beyond the usual," she waved her free hand, "Fandom gonna Fandom stuff?"

Which still felt like kind of a dangerous question to ask the present company, but...

"Shit. It wasn't science so I wasn't going to fucking go down that rabbit hole," Barry said with a huff and shaking his head. "I mean I already had one full fucking day of paranoia. I didn't need to kick that shit in high gear on my fucking own."

"Good," said Summer, with a nod, reassured that he was still able to be smart about those particular tendencies.

And, eyeing Barry for a moment, she bit her lip and wondered if she could fight her own tendencies toward morbid curiousity about what that full fucking day of paranoia had been paranoid about.

He did have a class he'd be needing to get to, after all.

"Hopefully that means we'll have at least a good weekend coming up, right?"

"One would fucking hope," Barry said with a long sigh. "And if it does... Well, shit. Wouldn't that be a nice break for once?"

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