The Cheesecake Factory - Wednesday Evening

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So something was definitely happening with Fandom and it seemed that it was going to be going on for longer than a few days because once she had tried to make a reservation for Cafe Fina for Prompto’s birthday, she had been redirected to the Cheesecake Factory instead.

It had been a weird couple of days, on top of finding out that the Photo Hut had turned into a Staples as well.

She still wanted to celebrate Prompto’s birthday and Noctra was being looked after for the evening, so her and Prompto could enjoy his birthday.

“I don’t know what happened to Cafe Fina,” she said apologetically as they arrived, “I hope the Cheesecake Factory will be alright?”

[for the Husband!]

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"Well, I mean," said Prompto, chuckling faintly, because this was fine, everything was fine, this was definitely the most fine birthday he'd ever had, in fact! Really! Everything changing and the town being fully staffed by weird faceless dudes with TV screens for heads that didn't at all remind him of the mindless mechanized soldiers he was specifically bred to be was absolutely, 1000% totally fine!! "Who doesn't love cheesecake, right?"

He may also be mildly confused about the restaurant's concept.

But the thing that mattered was that it was his birthday, and his wife wanted to take him out to eat, and his besties were babysitting so they even had some time to themselves for at least a few hours, so he was leaning in to give Liz a kiss on the cheek.

"Thanks for coming out with me tonight."

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"You're welcome and happy birthday again," Liz smiled at the kiss as she leaned into give him a hug.

"And I'm sure there'll be quite a lot of cheesecakes to choose from," she tried to think on something positive to focus on and not the fact that their go to restaurant had seemingly disappeared along with a lot of other buildings.

Someone had not actually been to a Cheesecake Factory before either.

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As Liz leaned in to hig him, as they started to move into the restaurant to their seat, Prompto slung his arm over her shoulders to give her a little comfortable squeeze. "Now what's really going to be impressive," he mused, "is if they actually have kupoberry cheesecake!"

Doubtful! But it would be a pretty great birthday surprise. A guy could dream, right?

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"I mean, it could happen?" Liz smiled fondly as she leaned in to Prompto as he put his arm around her, "I've never actually been to a Cheesecake Factory before but maybe this one could have it?" she considered.

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"I guess so," Prompto allowed, with another squeeze as they got to their table, and he of course took a moment to pull out a chair for her. "There has been....all sorts of wild stuff popping up all over the island, after all..."

But none of them really felt great, and he might actually have some mixed feelings about Eosian stuff starting to leak in through it all.

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"Thank you," Liz smiled softly as Prompto pulled out her chair for her and she sat down, "its definitely been a weird few days," she admitted, "even by Fandom's standards, especially with the store even changing into a Staples,"

That one she still couldn't wrap her head around.

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"Staples," Prompto stated, firmly, but with just as much bewilderment as he'd had when the store first changed yesterday, as he settled into this own chair, "is a really dumb name for a store, anyway. Like, why would you just call it Staples when you sell so much more?"

Said the guy working for Turtle & Canary, and it was not the shelter he worked for, too, actually. But that was different! That was a history!

Well, and technically, T&C was now something called a Whole Foods? But that did make sense.

"And has nothing to do with photography. And what did happen to all our stock?"

Great, now he was hyperfixating on the logistics again and getting a little irritated about it.

"That stuff's not cheap, and, what? Now it's all just gone? And we have...copy paper and office supplies as far as the eye can see now?"

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“I don’t know,” Liz admitted, which she had been wondering about a lot as well, “I don’t even know how I’m supposed to even cover this in the reports, I mean I know Professor Broom is used to weird things but I still don’t know how to explain that the store he owns randomly changed to another one,”

She paused, “do you think this will permanent?” it was Fandom after all, you never knew how these things tended to go.

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Prompto frowned, as he picked up the massive menu and thought back to his experience earlier that day at Furnad--errr, PetCo.

"I really, really hope not," he said, now opening the menu up. "I hope it's just one of those things that'll be over by next week, like, there was one summer where the island kept moving around to a bunch of different places, most of them horrible, but it did go back once it realized it sucked, so....hopefully....that's what's going on..."

He blinked, his attention now shifted to the menu, and he flipped through it a little.

"There are...not nearly as many cheesecakes on this menu as I was lead to believe," he noted.

But....wow. This was...this wasn't a menu, it was practically a novel.

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“Hopefully it will all be back to normal next week, whatever is going on,” Liz didn’t want to think savour the idea that this could be permanent.

She shifted her attention to he menu as well, “there’s a lot of different options here,” she blinked a bit, “what were you thinking of having!” she asked as she looked over at Prompto.

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"Well," Prompto sort of snorted a little, "I was thinking cheesecake,obviously, but now I have...no idea!"

Choice paralysis was a thing, people!!

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“I know, I wasn’t expecting so many options,” Liz admitted as she looked at the menu, “maybe one of the burgers or sandwiches or even pizza? Maybe we could have cheesecake for dessert?”

There really were so many choices.