Duke Crocker (
betterthanaplan) wrote2019-12-01 01:37 pm
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The Cape Rouge, Port of Fandom, Sunday evening
The joys of sailing in from 2008, Duke was not dealing with a giant winter storm as he made his way down the coast from Maine. The weather had in fact been perfectly fine until he crossed into Fandom waters and the first of the white flakes hit the boat. He'd had some warning about this, sort of, thanks to Octavia's voicemail, but it still took him a couple minutes to work out that it really was powdered sugar falling from the sky instead of snow.
He managed to get his boat docked without getting too much of a contact sugar high, and paused on the deck for a few moments to just watch it drift in the glow of his string lights. It didn't sparkle quite the same way a good snowfall would, but it was pretty enough in its own way, and with the hood of his slicker pulled to protect his hair, he could let himself relax for a minute and just enjoy it.
A porg landed on the deck, liberally dusted and practically buzzing like a hummingbird as it rolled around in a small sugar drift. He was going to be cleaning up tiny sugar porg prints for days. Duke watched it for a moment, then turned his face back up towards the sky, tasting sugar on his lips.
"Home sweet Fandom."
This couldn't possibly be good for the fish.
[can be open, sure!]
He managed to get his boat docked without getting too much of a contact sugar high, and paused on the deck for a few moments to just watch it drift in the glow of his string lights. It didn't sparkle quite the same way a good snowfall would, but it was pretty enough in its own way, and with the hood of his slicker pulled to protect his hair, he could let himself relax for a minute and just enjoy it.
A porg landed on the deck, liberally dusted and practically buzzing like a hummingbird as it rolled around in a small sugar drift. He was going to be cleaning up tiny sugar porg prints for days. Duke watched it for a moment, then turned his face back up towards the sky, tasting sugar on his lips.
"Home sweet Fandom."
This couldn't possibly be good for the fish.
[can be open, sure!]
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"Ah, but if you'd knocked me out, you wouldn't get you sandwich."
Also, he already had a head injury here, he'd really appreciate not being knocked out right now.
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"Not without a fair amount of extra effort, anyway." He poked at her leg with his foot. "Eat your sandwich. Tell me what you think."
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And also, she was hungry. With how rotten she'd felt for half the day, eating had kind of not been as much of a thing as it would have been on a regular day.
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"Not telling," Duke said, picking up his own for a large bite. "Warning." He tilted his head. Another porg hopped up onto the back of the bench, and was making wide, puppy eyes at the food.
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That came out only a little bit sandwich-y. Her table manners still weren't the best, though.
"What, eat it before the porgs do?"
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It'd been his own fault for feeding them pizza. In his defense, he'd had so much of it left after wee!tiny weekend.
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Which, yes, meant he deserved his too. And she didn't even know it had been his fault!
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"Not only do I think that, you just told me so."
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Okay, definitely a smirk, now.
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And trigger the argument that activated both Nathan and Duke's troubles. He was wishing he'd used a different example.
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"... Luck?" she offered, slowly.
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. . . There were also secret escape hatches in basically every room on the boat, though. And porgs were very small.
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She was actually halfway through with it already.
"And it's a good one."
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There were four sugar-dusted legs under the table, what was a porg supposed to do?
"Not sure that's evidence in your favor."
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"True. And that's a first."
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"That's... not a first, really," she replied. "But it's been a while."
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His was an all-encompassing sort of flirting.
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