Rey's warehouse- Friday afternoon

[thatwaslucky]

Aside from visions that Try was trying to blame on weirdness, she'd had a fairly normal couple days. Well, also aside from finding out how many people was shipped with in fics, but she was repressing that. But still. Fairly normal time of it.

Till she got to the warehouse and found that the woodchucks had been replaced by shirtless NPCs.

...Yeah okay.


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[sith_happened]

Help help I'm stuck as a barista help, Anakin texted.

At least he wasn't being needlessly dramatic...

[thatwaslucky]

When you say stuck...

At least he didn't think he was a barista, which was... better...?

[sith_happened]

Cannot leave the kriffing store, Anakin said. I also have a man bun. Everything is terrible.

[thatwaslucky]

I'm sure it looks good on you! Do you need anything? Besides out?

[sith_happened]

It does not, Anakin said, but thank you for trying. I need to learn how to make a decent latte and then maybe I shall be free. Jaina is around too, on a quest to get me out.

Or find love. Possibly both!

[thatwaslucky]

Both!

Does it have to be a latte? Can you make a decent black coffee?

[sith_happened]

I can! The store seems to want that stupid foam art, too.

[thatwaslucky]

Foam art?

Pumpkin spice lattes were like, exotic to her, even when she got them to go.

[sith_happened]

Those leaf things on the top of the drinks, Anakin explained.

[thatwaslucky]

Oh.

Then, You might be there a while, then

[sith_happened]

I might just live here forever, yes.

[thatwaslucky]

Not forever. Just until whatever this is goes away

Was that better?

[sith_happened]

That's not better.

[thatwaslucky]

Jaina's on it. I'm sure she won't let you down

Maybe!

[sith_happened]

Hopefully!

Ahsoka's around too!

[thatwaslucky]

how's that going?

[sith_happened]

Weird. Anakin said. Very, very weird.

[thatwaslucky]

Weird how?

[sith_happened]

She's in love with me?!

[thatwaslucky]

Rey started typing fur a while. Then stopped.

Then started typing again. Abd stopped.

This went on a few times before she sent ????

[sith_happened]

I don't knooooooooooooooooow

Could you hear the whining from here, Rey?

[thatwaslucky]

Shes not stuck in there too, is she?

[sith_happened]

Thankfully no, Anakin replied.

[thatwaslucky]

Good

And then she sent a link to a YouTube tutorial on making lattes.

[sith_happened]

THANK YOU

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer wasn't sure what it was shirtless NPCs that compelled her so powerfully to swing by and check in on Rey and her warehouse and her training that day shirtless NPCs, but there she was, knocking on the door because she definitely didn't do this enough to know if it was just cool to waltz right in.

"Reeeeeeeeeey~!!" she called out through the door. "Are you iiiiiin there?"

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm here," Rey called, wincing as a shirtless hunk threw a big chunk of wood somewhere behind her.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Can I come in?" asked Summer. "Or is it, like, too dangerous, super secret special Force training stuff you're doing in there?"

With your shirtless NPCs.

Maybe Summer was even DATING some of them!

[thatwaslucky]

"You can come in," Rey smiled. "The dangerous things I tend to keep to the course and the mats."

The course was ridiculous. Of course.

[somethingwithturquoise]

And so, with a caution that seemed oddly familiar for reasons she couldn't quite figure out, Summer opened the door to step inside the warehouse and it only took about two seconds for her to stop and appreciate the...uhh....set-up.

"Whoa."

Her eyes swiveled toward Rey, wide and impressed and a little betrayed as she asked, "Is this what you do for your training these days?"

She clearly needed to visit Rey during her training more!

[thatwaslucky]

"They're woodchucks," Rey said flatly.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"More like woodhunks, am I right?" said Summer, who could not help herself.

But a second later, she blinked and gushed out, hand over her mouth in shock, "Ohmygod, please don't tell Stark I said that!

[thatwaslucky]

"Why would Stark not need to hear that?" Rey wondered.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Well, you know," said Summer, wrinkling her nose a little awkwardly. "How he can get sometimes. I mean, like, I get it, he is my BOYFRIEND, and he's got, like, mega abandonment issues, but also, like, come on, sorry I have eyes, I guess? It's not like it means anything to just enjoy...art, obviously that doesn't mean I love him any less."

[thatwaslucky]

"Oh!" Well Rey had been kind of busy with her own stuff the last few weeks! "I didn't even know you and Barry broke up."

[somethingwithturquoise]

There was an odd, fuzzy tickle of recognition in the back of Summer's brain, but it was fleeting and brief, and she tilted her head a little in confusion before she asked, "Me and who?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Barry? I thought you were just seeing him," Rey said. Maybe she was wrong?

[somethingwithturquoise]

Give her a moment; there were a lot of relationships to shift through.

"Oh!" Summer realized. "That guy!" Then she frowned, shaking her head. "Yeah, no, we broke up ages ago."

Right around the time the actor went on hiatus. Or maybe they hadn't renewed his contract? Or maybe he went to jail or rehab or something, but, either way,clearly just having him being written off-screen was a complete waste of romantic potential for Summer, and someone was definitely compensating for it.

Her expression lifted, though, into a soft and moony smile. "I'm with Stark now." Or at least she would be for the duration of this conversation. "I thought you knew? It was after Faye left and we had that sangria night, and things got...well...a little personal...if you know what I mean."

Summer's grin and waggling eyebrows should help if you didn't, Rey!

[thatwaslucky]

"Uh," Rey said. "I'm surprised I didn't hear about that."

Especially since then Summer would have been expected to share at their sangria night like a week later.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer squinted a little.

That did sound like a pretty big gap in the details, didn't it?

"I could have sworn I told you," she said, almost a little warily. "Or at least that one of us would have mentioned it..."

There was another moment, thoughtful frown deepening, before an alarm on Summer's phone started to (oh so conveniently) go off.

"Oh, shit!" she realized. "I'm going to be late for work!"

[thatwaslucky]

"You work today?"

Rey was going to need an update on all this stuff, Summer!

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer herself wouldn't mind a few updates here and there, either!

"Yeaaaah," she sighed, digging her phone out of her pocket to turn off the alarm and check her texts while she was at it. "Yeah, I'm at the coffee shop today. They're going to kill be for being late again."

[thatwaslucky]

"We obviously need to hang out more," Rey realized.

No seriously. There would be a sangria night just to untangle stuff Rey believed now.

[bb8_dad]

And then there was a familiar set of whirrs and beeps as BB-8 rolled in.

[thatwaslucky]

"BB-8! What are you doing here?"

Not that Rey wasn't glad to see him, but she was a little concerned. She was still kneeling down to say hello and check him over though.

[bb8_dad]

BB-8 didn't know! But he was here! And he was supposed to be on a mission so Poe was probably freaking out.

[thatwaslucky]

"I'll call him and tell him you're all right," Rey promised.