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The walk home from Caritas last night was very nice. Summer had spent the first part of the evening in the warehouse poking around at various experiments and projects asking questions. Which had led to chatting and then at one point Barry realized he was just talking to himself as Summer had fallen asleep on the couch.

Making sure she had a nice comfy blanket on her to keep her warm, Barry then went to work.

Barry had been up all night as usual, working on yet another project which was somewhat derailed when he noticed other abnormalities that had been popping up. And it appeared to have gremlin involvement.

Which of course was just fantastic news.

"Rube, do another round of analysis on the spandex carbon fiber polymer taking into account bio-electric charges as well as obfuscation of the visual light spectrum," he said quietly to his AI so as not to wake the girl who had fallen asleep. "And then forward all the gremlin analysis to the mayor's office via fax.

Jesse would be thrilled to have another 100 fax pages to read.

[Open. Summer modded with permission]

Date: 2020-10-01 12:51 pm (UTC)
somethingwithturquoise: (satisfied look up)
From: [personal profile] somethingwithturquoise
When Summer did eventually wake up, there was a small jolt of panic and confusion as she blinked her eyes open slowly, because her first thought was that this was not her bed, and then her second thought was that she wasn't quite sure where she was, and the third thought was of rifts and portals, her fourth thought was shit!, but then her last thought was remembering last night and the walk over to the warehouse and everything that followed until things got a little fuzzy somewhere around asking about something that looked vaguely phallic that she didn't want to say anything about that...that must have been around where the late night finally caught up with her.

So she was just going to sigh in relief for a moment, and then grin to herself as she snuggled a bit in the blanket and just took a little while to revel in this moment.

She could only revel so long until the sound of that fax machine got a little intrusive in her whole attempts to keep pretending to be a sleep so she could just have a moment.

So she pushed herself up, taking a second to try and smooth out her hair which was probably a mess and re-do the ponytail, before looking around to find where Barry actually was.

Couldn't keep the grin off her face to save her life once she did.

"Hey."

Date: 2020-10-01 01:40 pm (UTC)
somethingwithturquoise: (scheming face)
From: [personal profile] somethingwithturquoise
"Mmhm," Summer hummed a little with some of the sleepiness still clinging to her, and then she had to mkae the very important decision of cute guy first or coffee first. Cute guy definitely won, and she padded over with the blanket wrapped around her until she got to him to wrap her arms around him from behind as she peered over to look at what he might be working on, even if she knew she wasn't even going to try to comprehend it until she got around to the coffee part. "Did you sleep at all?"

Date: 2020-10-01 02:19 pm (UTC)
somethingwithturquoise: (just so happy right now)
From: [personal profile] somethingwithturquoise
Maybe, just maybe, that big brain of his would be eventually able to pick up on the fact that she was kinda super into things like touching him and being near him...

But, yeah, it didn't take long at all to confirm that coffee would be needed to deal with any of this stuff, and her own brain was already distracted by the smell of it.

"It's been a busy week," she pointed out, pulling away a little, but lingering to give him a brief massage of his shoulders before the lure of the coffee had fully overtaken her. "And trust me, I have a ton. I've been trying to calculate the coordinantes based on a bunch of crap pulled from Portalocity and Grampa Rick's dimension database, but it's starting to make me go cross-eyed just looking at it anymore. I was waiting for a good chance to dump it on you, see if you could at least run an algorithm or something on it."

With hopefully much better results than the last algorithm...

Date: 2020-10-01 02:42 pm (UTC)
somethingwithturquoise: (cocky with OJ)
From: [personal profile] somethingwithturquoise
"I'll go get all of it in a little bit, then," said Summer, with a faint smile, because right now she had coffee cradled between both her hands as she leaned a little on the table, and was not about ready to stop soaking in those sweet totally crashed at his place vibes any time soon. "But honestly? Not really. Kind of leaning on the whole way this place seems to make cell phones mysteriously work in all sorts of dimensions, even where they shouldn't," s'up, texts from the Apocalypse?, "but considering how hard her dimension seems on lockdown....actually having the portal gun and knowing the coordinates are probably the best way to go at that point."

Date: 2020-10-01 03:13 pm (UTC)
somethingwithturquoise: (sweet cute smile)
From: [personal profile] somethingwithturquoise
Summer liked Seivarden, and she was pretty up there on her list of friends now, but putting her anywhere near Kanan and Hera was grossly overestimating things by a lot.

"It definitely won't hurt," she said, "especially if things go badly for her out there, but I think she's going to be alright..."

And now all her insides were going to go back to feeling all warm again, in ways that had nothing to do with the coffee. "Sorry I fell asleep." She didn't sound very sorry. "But you're right. It was really fucking nice..."

She didn't want to say that maybe they should do this more often, but...she really wanted to say that maybe they should do this more often.

Date: 2020-10-01 04:39 pm (UTC)
somethingwithturquoise: (i'm just trying it on for fun)
From: [personal profile] somethingwithturquoise
"I'm pretty fucking adorable when I'm not sleeping, too," Summer reminded him, especially as she subtly wiped a napkin at what was probably at least a little bit of drool that would have been inevitable in an exhausted crash at the end of a long but productive day like she'd had.

"And maybe I might," she said, with a small grin that just might seal the deal, because now you might never fucking get rid of her, Barry, and you had no one to blame but yourself. "Definitely less cat hair than my place, anyway."

Especially now that she was going to have two of them...

Date: 2020-10-01 05:07 pm (UTC)
somethingwithturquoise: (smug summer is best summer)
From: [personal profile] somethingwithturquoise
"Oh, no," said Summer, Very Seriously. "Don't do that. She's very sensitive about it, it's probably best if we keep it on the down-low. You don't want to make her jealous or upset, do you?"

Date: 2020-10-01 07:04 pm (UTC)
somethingwithturquoise: (uh well...)
From: [personal profile] somethingwithturquoise
"Oooh," said Summer, following the point after picking out a pastry for herself now, too. "Whenever you want to bring it by! I think that'll mean a lot, if she knows it's coming from you, you know?

"Aaaand we maybe might need a second one," Summer ventured, almost as if she afraid she should even mention it, like at this point it would be a deal breaker, "because guess who's taking Seivarden's cat once she heads back to Radch space..."

Date: 2020-10-01 07:37 pm (UTC)
somethingwithturquoise: (happy chatting)
From: [personal profile] somethingwithturquoise
There was a small sigh of relief, followed by a triumphant grin as she tore a piece of pastry off and popped it into her mouth, as if she'd actually done anything to stop that deeply seeded concern that gaining a second cat would be the first step down a path she did not want to wind up down.

Well, second step. Getting Pancakes at all was sort of the first step, and that had been a whole thing.

"Oh, no," she said confidently. "Pancakes and Issa are totally cat besties already, they've had play dates and everything, and if either of them act up, I can just threaten to take them over to Furnado, and neither of them wants that."

Date: 2020-10-01 07:55 pm (UTC)
somethingwithturquoise: (brow arched grin)
From: [personal profile] somethingwithturquoise
Hey, now, one of those things wasn't exactly a even conscious choice!

But she would absolutely crush it.

His choice of words made Summer's grin go slightly wry. She treated her cat way better than family.

"Yeah, but," she said, "a few days in there just to scare 'em straight or whatever probably wouldn't hurt them any."

Date: 2020-10-01 06:08 pm (UTC)
weirderthanthou: (jesse - focus)
From: [personal profile] weirderthanthou
Yeah, Barry could expect to get a fax back any minute now, since Jesse was actually in the office--

WTF, BARRY printed five times in neat print on an answering fax.

... look, it was cathartic.

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