fandomtownies | Turtle & Canary; Monday [01/10].

Summer usually had plenty to do around the store when she came in on Monday, so she couldn't help giving Apu a slightly disparaging look when he plopped down a very considerable document full of proposals and ideas on how to make things more energy-efficient around the store.

"Since when did you become so energy-conscious, anyway?" she asked, frowning a little as she leafed through the presentation, trying to decide whether or not to mention that the amount of resources alone it took to print all this out (and in full color, no less!)...

Of course, a few moments later, Summer would know that the answer to the real question here was not going to be found from Apu himself, but, rather, instead, from a quick google search.

Shaking her head, she decided to mostly ignore Apu's proposal in lieu of her usual tasks, although, really, it wouldn't hurt to think about adding a few more solar panels to the roof this year.

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Kurt had two classes but with one handwavely done already and the next not till the evening, he was still exploring the island a bit more. He soon found himself attending outside T&C again and headed in, giving Summer a wave as he did.

"Hey Summer!" he said walking in. "Didn't think I would see you here too! You have a job outside teaching?"

Forgive the boy, it was only his second week on the island and the poor dear operated still on the concept of teachers only being teachers for the most part.

Oh, you poor sweet unknowing child...

"Well, I mean, in this economy..."

Said the woman with the super-loaded rich boyfriend living on the island with the most absurdly low cost-of-living in quite possibly the entire multiverse....

She leaned on the counter a little, though, as if to signal that Kurt better buckle in, as she listed them off on her fingers.

"I also sling drinks on Wednesday, have a jello catering business, own a bar in a different dimension, and on-call for at least two different rebellion factions in space..."

And to think, she had once been regarded as an apathetic teen who cared about nothing bit partying and her phone. Amazing what could happen when you were able to break out of the restraints of a tight character box placed upon you for the context of a show that seemed intent on keeping you perpetually contained into a bullshit stereotype to better service a plot!

"Oh," she added, a beat later, "I'm also temporary acting manager at Groovy Tunes while the person who usually runs it goes traipsing after a sentient spaceship that her co-lieutenant is in love with."

Lest she forget.

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"That's an... awful lot isn't it?" asked Kurt, giving her a somewhat questioning look. I mean studying and all was hard enough with all the classes and everything else. That just seemed like a bit overkill to have more than one job.

"I can barely keep up with my classes usually" he admitted with a chuckle.

"I like to keep busy," Summer said, with a shrug, because busy seemed to at least leave no room for, you know, like, the existential dread or whatever...

"Seriously, though?" she then asked. "Even here? There's hardly enough classes to lose track of here..."

"Well, I am taking eight classes this semester... seems a bit much" Kurt reasoned. "I think the Professor may be plotting with Scott and Logan to make my first term here as difficult as possible. Wouldn't put it past Scott or Logan to be honest!"

"Eight?" Summer had to quirk a brow, because, okay, yeah, that was a little heavy for a Fandom semester. "What is that? Practically every class offered this spring?"

No, Summer, it wasn't. It was, however, the exact number of class that seemed to have a particular detail in common.

(Okay, not quite, that was more like seven and a half, really, if we're being honest here).

"Fells like it" Kurt said with a slight huff. "The Professor said he thinks I hve too much free time on my hands... and that I get into too much mischief when I have time to be bored or idle."

Kurt paused for a moment before continuing.

"I mean... he might be right but still... eight classes is a bit much!"

Why was Summer feeling suddenly attacked?

"You'll be fine," she assured Kurt with a dismissive wave of her hand, "eight classes to totally managable and not at all ridiculous and mildly psychotic."

Ahem.

"Anywaaaay," she shifted brightly, "what brings you in today? Looking for anything in particular?"

"Yeah was just looking for some more things for the dorm room. And some more winter clothes" Kurt admitted. "But I unless you have a way to get things custom made and ordered I have a feeling I will have to get in touch with the Professor to get that taken care of." Kurt laughed and shook his head slightly. "Not like regular gloves or boots and all are gonna work for me" he said holding up his hand."

Summer looked at Kurt's lifted hand and met him almost immediately with a wry look of agreement on that point.

"I can still check the database and see what I come up with," she said. "It can't be that hard to track down a dimension or planet with more than enough people with hands like that and a climate to necessitate a market for that kind of thing."

"That would be really awesome if you could" Kurt said with a grin. Then he really thought about what Summer had just said. "So you can what? Travel to other dimensions or timelines?"

"Not timelines," Summer noted, "not often, anyway, but other dimensions? Yeah, totally. I've got a portal gun and everything, it's kind of, like, you know, my thing?"

Among many things.

Then she looked a little conciliatory as she added, by way of explanation, "My grampa has this whole 'mad scientist' thing going on, so it was a whole deal before I even started coming here."

"That is so cool!" Kurt said, eyes wide. "I can teleport. Well, I'm learning to control it better. But I can only port a sort distance and can't do anything remotely as cool as move to another dimension or anything!"

Hi, yes, hello, Summer was still not even remotely above preening over the praise of teenagers saying something associated with her was cool. In fact, now that she was pretty much ancient at 21, the fact that it was coming from ateenager just gave it that much weight.

Sure, sure, sure, he was probably a huge dork and therefor the actual return on this validation anywhere else was probably significantly diminished, but still! She'll take it! Especially after definitely losing cool points with, you know, being kind of a genocidal monster in the eyes of other teenagers on this island right now...

So she grinned a litlte, considered a little false modesty, and then promptly decided...naaaaah.

"It is pretty sweet," she admitted. "We'll probably do a little dimension-hopping for class, actually, but we'll do that through Portalocity. Not that I don't 100% trust my boyfriend's--->he made my portal gun, actually--work, but...portals can get tricky. If something goes wrong, I'd rather have that on their hands than my own, y'know?"

"Makes sense. And I cant wait to see where we end up going! Aside from my short distance teleports I haven't ever traveled via portal before. It's... it's safe right?"

To Summer's credit, she did tell herself she shouldn't...

...for about two seconds...

...before just grinning at Kurt and shrugging her shoulders.

"Usually. Sure. Why not?"

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