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fandomtownies2021-12-13 05:14 am
somethingwithturquoise) wrote in fandomtownies2021-12-13 05:14 am
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Turtle & Canary; Monday [12/13]/
One of the biggest issues with teaching a Monday morning class, especially in the second period, was that it game Apu plenty of time without anyone to hold him back to set things up for whatever bullshit he was on that day. Summer was pretty sure he'd just given some chickens in capes an exestential crisis by letting them wander into the meat department, and he'd also, apparently, been trying to learn how to play the violin.
Emphasis on trying.
What was even more interesting was that he'd set up by the Squishy mahcine to busk and solicit tips with a violin case open at his feet as he tried to work his way through what Summer thought were supposed to be modern pop classics, but, honestly, it was really hard to tell among all the clearly wrong notes and unfortunate screeches of strings.
She was half tempted to go tell the cheese panda that she'd overheard Apu insulting French cheeses just to spark his ire or, conversely, trying to figure how much it would take to just pay the man to stop.
Welcome to Turtle & Canary
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Emphasis on trying.
What was even more interesting was that he'd set up by the Squishy mahcine to busk and solicit tips with a violin case open at his feet as he tried to work his way through what Summer thought were supposed to be modern pop classics, but, honestly, it was really hard to tell among all the clearly wrong notes and unfortunate screeches of strings.
She was half tempted to go tell the cheese panda that she'd overheard Apu insulting French cheeses just to spark his ire or, conversely, trying to figure how much it would take to just pay the man to stop.
Free Earplugs Today!
It's the least I can do!
Today's Squishy Flavors
Ice Cream
Cocoa
Red
Turtle & Canary is open!
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Well. It's canon thing. If you know Barry's canon you know what it looks like.
And a few seconds later a grumpy looking young man in a Space Battles t-shirt and wrangler jeans flew through the portal and hitting one of the clearance endcaps.
Barry stood up and glared through the portal. "And the next time you want to fucking chat, send a fucking text you fucking ape asshole!"
His phone then pinged and he looked down to register it was saying. "Jesus fucking Christ. That long?"
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...but...since it wasn't...
The excited gasp was going to be the only warning Barry would get before a very excited girlfriend was launching herself at him.
"Ohmygod! You're back!"
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Thank you, Apu. That's going to be going through his head for the next couple of days.
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"But not much else," she added, "as far as I can tell. You did miss the Christmas rager, and," excuse her a moment while she preened proudly, although it should be noted that she was absolutely putting both these things on the same level of importance and magnitude, "I did also single-handedly destroy the New, Not-So-Improved Galactic Federation by opening up a portal into a dimension made entirely out of Wranger brand denim."
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Barry paused a moment to watch as a few chickens wearing capes walked by before shrugging and turning back to Summer. "What was the Federation up to this time?"
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Like, duh. Obvs. It was mega-super easy and stuff.
"And, I don't know," she continued, just sort of shrugging with the next question. "Flailing, I guess? We really fucked up their shit by taking Tammy and Birdperson...I'm sorry, Phoenix--" oh, you better believe there were sarcastic fingerquotes with this one,"--person...out of commission, apparently, and they were scrambling to put shit back together on the other side of the galaxy and pick on planets that didn't come with interdimensional portal-hoppers with bad blood and vendettas. Thankfully, we got to them before they managed to do too much more damage, and it should be a while before they get the chance to try anything again now that I'm sure they're definitely going to think twice about getting into bed with corporate fucking sponsors."
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Which she had not minded at all, because she was a badass for Halloween that year, but, you know, people turned into bats and shit, too, so she got it.
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“We’ll, then I’m happy nobody had anything traumatic happen to them while I was gone. Thank the odds for small things other people would call miracles,” Barry said looking relieved. “And that none of my unattended experiments exploded or worse.”
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Then opened it again to say something about 'unattended experiments' that might explode, thought better of it once more, and closed her mouth, and just sort of gave Barry a look.
"Is that," she said, once she finally did decide to speak, "uh...maybe something you should go check on?"
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“If something was going wrong, I would have gotten a notification already,” Barry said as he pulled out his phone and showing Summer his notification screen.
Which currently had a rolling number of TikTok’s sent to his phone from Jeremy.
“Probably the bigger danger is the leftovers that have been sitting in my refrigerator.”
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But then her nose wrinkled at the thought of those leftovers and how there was a good chance something might have come out of it that would suck Barry right back in. In more ways than one.
She half-wondered if her dad's lasagna was still lurking in there somewhere.
"So proceed with caution," she noted, "and possibly armed. But," she grinned over at Barry as she reached for his hand, "the more important thing is that it's nothing that can't wait for...you know...at least a little while...."
Months. It had been months now, and he wasn't covered in anything gross or disgusting, soooooooooo...........
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“Wait for wh-“
Let’s give Barry some credit. He figured out what Summer meant before he finished the sentence.
“Oh!”
There it is. Sorry Jeremy. Those TikTok’s were going to have to wait.
“Right! Uhhh. Of course! You still have that really good catnip for Pancakes right?”
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"I'm pretty sure she'd have murdered me in my sleep by now if I didn't," she assured him, and then she had both his hands and was backing up to lead him out the door as she called out over the screeching sounds of what might have been the start of a certain Kansas song if you squinted at it from the violin. "I'm taking a long..." She flicked a grin over to Barry, "....very long lunch break, Apu! You...totally got this, right?"
It was not a question.
She was not going to stick around long enough even if it had been, anyway.
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"Extremely long lunch break," Barry emphasized as he was willingly dragged out the door. "Keep practicing! You really suck at Kansas songs!"