Rey's warehouse- Friday afternoon

[thatwaslucky]

Still an exceedingly normal day at the warehouse. The biggest thing was that the woodchucks had decorated their little area for Halloween, which was a little weird, but tis the season.

And then when one threw a plastic pumpkin at Rey while she was running the course, she actually stopped in her tracks and called, "You're back to normal!"

This is where she was now. Nearly getting pelted in the head with a $2 dollar store find was a sign nature was healing.


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[sith_happened]

"Rey?" Anakin called as he came into the warehouse.

[thatwaslucky]

"They're throwing things!" Rey called.

Don't sound so happy, Rey.

[sith_happened]

"Oh, good!"

What a pair of weirdos you were.

[thatwaslucky]

"Don't mess with the decorations, though," she warned.

[sith_happened]

"I wouldn't dream of it," Anakin said. "They'll escalate."

[thatwaslucky]

Rey paused. "Have we been doing this too long?"

[sith_happened]

"I think we just have a lot of stored-up wisdom," Anakin decided.

[thatwaslucky]

"Which is a yes?" Rey said.

[sith_happened]

"Which is a yes," Anakin agreed with a sigh.

[thatwaslucky]

"But at least we can stop waiting for the other show to drop," she said.

[sith_happened]

"This is an excellent point," Anakin said. "We can get to work without worrying."

[thatwaslucky]

"Yes," she said. "Anything in particular you think we should work on?"

[sith_happened]

"Sparring," Anakin said.

[thatwaslucky]

"No holding back?" she said.

[sith_happened]

"No holding back," Anakin promised.

They'd terrify the woodchucks.

[thatwaslucky]

"Okay," she said, unclipping her lightsaber. "Don't cut off my arm."

[sith_happened]

"How do you feel about legs?" Anakin teased.

[thatwaslucky]

"I have an idea of how to deal without them but I'm kind of attached."

Ba dum bum.

[somethingwithturquoise]

There was a knock on the warehouse door, before it opened and Summer popped her head in.

"Heeey, Rey! You in?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Yeah," she called from where she was grabbing her water bottle. "They're decorating!"

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Just as long as there's not an excess of spiderwebs, especially in doorways," said Summer, who could at least clear the main door with no problem as she walked in to join Rey where she was, "good for them."

She shot her a grin. "You helping with the decorating, too?"

[thatwaslucky]

"No, mainly because I think they'll get angry and I'll let them have this," Rey said. "They've been calm for way too long."

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Worried that you'll 'do it wrong?'" Summer asked, putting that last part in heavy air quotes,with a roll of her eyes, but she was grinning. "Their loss. I mean, couldn't you just use the Force to get things moved around and up in hard to reach spots? But maybe they like making it harder for themselves!"

[thatwaslucky]

"I think they're just selfish," she said. "But I'm more of a Christmas person anyway."

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Maybe I'll have to keep that in mind," said Summer with a faint grin, "when it comes time for the Christmas ~soiree~."

That's right, it was being upgraded.

"Especially since Annie's going to be too busy juggling babies by then to be juggling ornaments and tinsel, too. But we've got plenty of parties before then to get through first."

[thatwaslucky]

"Do we?" Rey asked. "I haven't heard of any, I think."

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Well," said Summer, "there's the room party for the school trip, and someone's got to do a Halloween one. If no one is, I will totally go in for that. And Thanksgiving's more of a dinner party, but that still counts as a party! Especially if it's, like, a Friendsgiving potluck or something. And then your winter holidays, your Hanukkah, your Christmas, maybe even a few birthdays here and there...

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm not going on the trip, so I'm out for that one," she said, and mused, "I've never done Friendsgiving."

Which she was pretty sure was made up.

[somethingwithturquoise]

All holidays were made up, Rey.

"Well, now I'll definitely have to have one," Summer decided.

Especially if it got her out of actual Thanksgiving with her family.

[thatwaslucky]

"I could be really into that one," Rey admitted. "It's calm and based around food."

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Calm?" Summer snorted. "Wooooow, you really haven't dealt with many Thanks/Friendsgivings before, have you?"

[thatwaslucky]

Oh no.

"Nooooo?"

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Granted," Summer said, trying to look apologetic and encouraging, all at one, "my family is pretty on the extreme things of things, I mean, last Thanksgiving involved alien turkeys and the President of the United States, soo....actually, you know what? Compared to holidays with my family, even a standard Fandom invasion in the middle of Friendsgiving would still be calm comparatively."

[thatwaslucky]

"And I think our friends here are pretty calm?" She said that so hopefully. So, so hopefully.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"...for the most part," Summer agreed, after a long moment to think of it and coming up with maybe a few combinations that might not be so calm, really, but not enough to really, like, worry about it, or whatever, "yeah, you're right. Fandom weirdness notwithstanding. Knowing my luck, it would probably land on one of those weird days where everything changes erratically every two seconds or everyone's literal emotional baggage is following them around and crowding up the table...or one of those days where it's like you can't stop telling the truth no matter how hard you try..."

[thatwaslucky]

So much jinxing. You were doing so much jinxing here, Summer.

"Or becoming ponies," Rey said, making it worse because she'd brought it up last week. "There's really no shortage of things."

[somethingwithturquoise]

Was jinxing the word we really wanted to go with here, and not, you know, just keeping things interesting?

"Oooh, though," said Summer, face brightening with the thought of it. "Ponies would make food pretty easy, though, we could just have oats and barley and, like, hay. But I guess that would be kind of a bummer when the whole point of Thanksgiving is the food."

She paused, amended.

"And sugar-coating colonial genocide, obviously, but that goes without saying."

[thatwaslucky]

"And also that," Rey nodded. "I like celebrating the friends and food part. Even if it means eating out of buckets."

But how would you even serve that?

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Oh, man," said Summer, shaking her head, "just serve me up a whole bucket of mashed potatoes and gravy, and that sounds like a pretty successful Thanksgiving."

A very opposite-of-successful following day, though, like, goodbye, last two weeks of time at the gym...

[thatwaslucky]

"I've seen on TV people complain if there's no turkey," Rey said thoughtfully. "We can think around that."

Putting the cart before the pony, as it were.