fandomtownies | Caritas; Wednesday [08/18].

Between making her jello, fielding a few texts from her parents about making another (likely disastrous) attempt at the whole 'invite the boyfriend over for dinner' thing like they were in any way, shape, or form some kind of normal family, following the ranty string of updates from Amaya about the whole situation with the Squishy machine at the store, and (of course) shenanigans, Summer had been good and distracted from the weird-ass dreams she'd been having and the apparent urge to go traipsing through the woods for something for most of the day before her shift at Caritas for the evening.

And then when she got in, she was distracted even more by Tino's decision to try to slowly work his way up to breaking the world record for the world's longest Jägerbomb train.

"I feel like I should do something to stop this," Summer admitted to herself, her eyes wide as she shook her head even at Tino's attempt to perfect even just four at a time, "but I just can't."

More like the world's most inevitable Jägerbomb train-wreck, am I right???

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That was sort of why Summer was all for any of this right now, too, tbh. Plus, she knew that if he made a huge mess, he was going to have to clean it all up himself, she'd already warned him that she wasn't going anywhere near the chaos he was potentially going to cause.

Well, near enough to catch it all on video, of course, but beyond that...

"Maybe the performance pressure will make him crack," she mused, "and he'll just give up."

She watched him a moment longer, where it was clear that, even though four had failed, he was going to still go for five anyway, shook her head (she'd be doing that a lot tonight, probably) again and turned her attention more on Rey.

"But before disaster inevitably strikes," she said, "let's get you a drink, yeah?"

"Sure. Just a soda, please," Rey told her. "Feels like it might be a strange week."

And strange weeks meant no alcohol and keeping her head clear.

Summer nodded, going for the Dr. Pepper and feeling a little bit better about the fact that she felt a little weird about this week if Rey was feeling it, too. Because Rey was, by nature, just better about things like that, anyway.

"Yeah," she agreed. "And that tracks. Last week of the summer session. Blah blah blah, I know I don't want to tempt the island to go too off schedule too much, but..." She waved a dismissive hand. "You know the whole thing."

She sighed a little. "I hate when it's like this," she admitted. "Makes me get all....antsy."

And when she got antsy, she usually got in her ship to avoid it and made stupid mistakes, and she'd like to not do that right now, thanks? It had been a while since she barely managed to escape a brutal fate, and wanted to kind of keep it that way.

"Really? I've been feeling really okay about whatever it is."

Which could in itself be a trap but she trusted herself enough to be able to tell if it was.

Summer shrugged a little at that, trying to ignore that fact that her feeling antsy about it when Rey didn't only worked to...make her feel even more antsy.

"That's...hopefully a good thing, then," she allowed. "I think sometimes I get a little...you know...paranoid. Although maybe I shouldn't be. Fandom stuff really usually isn't that bad, and we did just have all that stuff with the holes."

"I mean, Fandom stuff can be that bad," Rey told her. "But... I don't know. Nothing's setting off danger sense. I suppose it's good I trust that sort of thing."

"Honestly," Summer said, "hearing you say that makes me feel way better about it already. I trust you trusting that sort of thing."

Unless whatever it was was doing something to throw off Rey's sense of--

--nope. Nope. Summer was not letting her brain go there. Whatever it was was going to be fine.

"It's fine," Rey assured her. "I don't know what it is yet, though. I wasn't sure it wasn't a Force thing on its own."

"Just out of curiousity," Summer said, her head tilted with genuine interest, especially since it might help her understand some of what she was feeling herself, "what does it feel like for you?"

Rey thought about it for a moment, and said, "Calm. I want to figure out the dreams, but I know I'll find out what they're about. Like I'm anticipating something coming but not anything I need to worry about."

But then, the relationship with her person was fairly straightforward and she'd been in the right on the things they'd argued about, so it was easy for her.

Meanwhile, Summer's was...

...well, it had to do with Summer, and her family life, so complicated didn't seem to even begin to cover it.

But she listened to Rey describe how she felt and she nodded a little. She wished it felt a little more like that for herself, but maybe that just meant that whatever they were each dealing with was actually different and unrelated entirely? Who knew?

"The dreams are a little weird, though," she said, wrinkling her nose. "They kind of....stick around. Linger. Most of the time, I forget that I even had a dream before I've even rolled out of bed."

Besides, who the fuck had dreams about their family? Weird and gross.

"So how do you feel about it?" Rey asked. "Besides antsy?"

And Summer took a moment to really examine how she felt...besides antsy....about it all, too.

"Like," she said, not sure how to explain herself, "...familiar. Like this is something that might have happened before? And then there's the whole, like, need to go out into the woods or whatever and find something? And that's just annoying, it's like, hey, chill, okay, I have a lot of stuff to do, okay, I can't just go running around the woods searching for a feeling. But also, I kind of want to, you know? It's like maybe I should?"

"Oh, I did that yesterday," Rey told her, casually. "It wasn't anything bad, and it didn't take long."

Seriously she'd gotten real matter-of-fact about this stuff.

Summer looked a little skeptical about the whole didn't take long thing, because she was pretty sure that Rey's experience was probably a little enhanced by the whole Jedi thing, but it did...put the situation into perspective a little.

"Maybe I'll check it out tomorrow, then," she said cautiously. "I'm definitely not about to go traipsing through the woods tonight, that just seems to be asking for it to be the opposite of anything bad. But maybe that's why I feel more antsy about it, because you've already gone..."

"Because I've already gone?" she repeated.

Summer nodded. "Obviously, I need to just see for myself. Like you said, it wasn't bad and it didn't take long, right?"

"Yeah. And I think seeing it was nothing to be concerned about made me feel better about all of it."

Not that Rey could remember where it was, now that she was thinking about it.

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