The Causeway; Tuesday Afternoon [10/01].

[somethingwithturquoise]

Hopefully no one needed to immediately get down the causeway that afternoon, because there was a small, violently pink spaceship accented with turquoise flames blocking a good portion of it right now. But, come on. There was no way in hell Summer was going to haul all her crap across the island to the scrapyard where it had previously been parked when MHA was right there by the causeway and it was so much closer and she could literally just move it up a little if it was a problem. It was bad enough she had so much stuff to drag down anyway, and Pancakes was already making a racket, not exactly pleased with being stuck in a carrier for the time being to make sure she stayed out of the way of all the last minute loading.

Anxiety was also a big thing right now, but Summer was trying to ignore that, and, though she felt she'd settled everything for the most part, she felt like she might be missing something. She didn't know what, and it was probably just nerves and sadness that she was also trying to ignore, but, either way, she felt she couldn't just up and leave, even if she'd been building up to this for ages, so she sent out a text to some of the more frequently texted numbers in her phone (and perhaps a few not-so-frequent) that went something along the lines of "LAST CHANCE TO BE AWESOME AND HELP ME LOAD MY CRAP! This ship is set to sail in T-minus how is it already go time? -<3, S."

Sure, she had Rey coming to help her out, both here and when she got to Coruscant, but extra hands didn't hurt, especially when it was probably the last time she'd see some of those hands for a while...

[[I HATE THAT I'M TYPING THIS RIGHT NOW BUT IT'S SUMMER'S LAST OFFICIAL ON-ISLAND POST FOR A WHILE NOW. If you think you'd have gotten a text, you totes did! Small OCD and entirely open post! ]]

Comments

Come Help Out/Say Good-bye! - 10/01.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Either are acceptable, but especially that first part, because good-byes kind of suck, you guys.

Gawking at the ridiculous spaceship is also totally an option, too.

Re: Come Help Out/Say Good-bye! - 10/01.

[thatwaslucky]

Rey arrived with her satchel, ready to help.

And uh, maybe she'd avoided telling Kanan that she was going. Because it'd be fine.

She did have to stop, though, and say, "That's what we're going in?"

Re: Come Help Out/Say Good-bye! - 10/01.

[somethingwithturquoise]

It was totally fine!

"It is!" Summer said, beaming proudly over at the ship, which she seriously fell in love with the more and more she looked at it. "Sabine did a great job, you should have seen the thing when I got it. Complete junker, but a lot of love went into her, and now look at her. I can bet you anything no one's going to have a ship like her. She runs like a dream, too, Here and I put in so much handwavy work!"

Re: Come Help Out/Say Good-bye! - 10/01.

[thatwaslucky]

"Good." Because this was definitely going to get attention! "So what do you need help with?"

Re: Come Help Out/Say Good-bye! - 10/01.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Mmmm," Summer went over the checklist in her head that she'd gone over about fifty million times already, "mostly just the heavier stuff that I can't really manage just by myself. Furniture I've decided to keep. Which isn't a lot, but...how in the world have I been here only a year and gotten so much furniture?"

Don't even ask that question, Summer, you knew the answer, and it rhymed with Bile of Bikea.

Re: Come Help Out/Say Good-bye! - 10/01.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan... kind of had to be here, didn't he? Here, and offering a hand where he could?

Here and offering a hand and absolutely not freaking out, see how good a job he was doing of not freaking out? In fact, if he was kind of gaping openly at Summer's ship (look, he'd been avoiding the scrapyard a lot lately), it was possible that was at least in part because his other option was to start freaking out.

"Well, nobody can deny you've got your branding down."

Re: Come Help Out/Say Good-bye! - 10/01.

[somethingwithturquoise]

He didn't have to be there, no, but it would definitely be a big oof moment if he hadn't been.

She hadn't really had too many of those big oof moments lately, either, she'd probably gotten pretty soft to them thanks to not being surrounded by complete jerks her whole life anymore.

"Hey, Beeg," she said, offering a smile and wondering if she should tell him it was okay for him to say that he hated it, although, really, come on! "She's definitely going to get some mouths moving, you gotta at least admit that."

Re: Come Help Out/Say Good-bye! - 10/01.

[uncertain_dume]

"Oh, I admit it," Kanan replied, turning a little smile her way. "You'll be the talk of the whole district, flying in there in that thing."

There was a pause, and then he added, "It's very you, Summer. I don't think you could do this any other way."

Re: Come Help Out/Say Good-bye! - 10/01.

[heroic_jawline]

Did Summer need to take a small collection of weird Jello molds to a different galaxy?

If you were Steve, the answer was yes. And you also needed the "New Joys of Jello" cookbook to go with it. "It's going to be entirely too normal without you," he teased.

Re: Come Help Out/Say Good-bye! - 10/01.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Was Summer going to be totally stoked because the more weird Jello molds the better, but also a little disappointed that there was no casserole to be seen? Maaayyybbeeee.

But it was okay, maybe Steeeeve just knew he couldn't outdo the new master.

"Well, that's the biggest load of bullcrap," yes, she kept it PG just for you, Steeeeve, "I've ever heard. This place wasn't normal when I got here, and it's definitely not going to be normal once I leave, either."

Re: Come Help Out/Say Good-bye! - 10/01.

[heroic_jawline]

"A fella can dream," Steve said, grinning, "but then I come from a place where aliens invaded New York and I fought with the god of thunder..."

Re: Come Help Out/Say Good-bye! - 10/01.

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden wasn't going to load crap, but she did send a text:

Good luck with the jello business.

She told herself it was just because she wanted to stay on good terms for practical reasons.

Re: Come Help Out/Say Good-bye! - 10/01.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Which, honestly, was a whole lot more than Summer would have expected, and she appreciate it, too.

Good luck with the plant, she texted back, smirking faintly as she referenced the oh-so-handwavey parting gift she'd left behind for her latest unexpected customer in non-jello-related enterprises.

And, after what felt like as much of a dramatic pause as one could get via text, add:

And Tino

With at least a few of those laughing-crying emoji, because seriously.

Re: Come Help Out/Say Good-bye! - 10/01.

[1000yearstoolate]

Tino? I thought someone would replace you?

Seivarden might have added some irony emojis here if she had actually figured out what they were.

Re: Come Help Out/Say Good-bye! - 10/01.

[sharp_man]

Hannibal wouldn't miss this. Though if that pink monstrosity scratched his Bentley, they would have words.

Still, he was here, bearing a parting gift (a number of good cookbooks for aspic and gelatin) and willing to help one of his more enthusiastic students.

Re: Come Help Out/Say Good-bye! - 10/01.

[somethingwithturquoise]

His Bentley would be fiiiiiine, geeeeeez. This wasn't even her fist spaceship, okay?

But any thoughts along those lines were strictly narrative, as her face lit up for a moment and then dimmed just slightly as it was wont do in at moments like this that reminded her why just slipping off into the night was a million times easier.

"Dr. Lecter!" she lifted a hand in greeting after nestling a box in with the others. "Hey."

Re: Come Help Out/Say Good-bye! - 10/01.

[sharp_man]

"Hello, Summer. Or should I say 'good-bye'?" Hannibal asked. He handed her the books. "A parting gift."

Re: Come Help Out/Say Good-bye! - 10/01.

[futurespacemom]

Hera showed up, shook her head at the ship - hey, hers was designed to be subtle - and smiled at Summer. "All ready to go but the packing?"

Re: Come Help Out/Say Good-bye! - 10/01.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Yeah. Summer was definitely going for something entirely different there.

"And even most of that's already taken care of," she said with a wry sort of smile back and a glance back at nearly every available space on that ship being utilized to the best of its capacity. "Plus, I've got Rey to help me out when we get there, so, yeah, everything's....pretty much set."

Set and sealed and then that was it...it was weird. She was ready, of course, but at the same time...

Re: Come Help Out/Say Good-bye! - 10/01.

[futurespacemom]

"Be careful, okay?" Hera wasn't going to fret like Kanan, but she was still going to worry. "Good luck. And if you need anything, just let me know. I'll talk to my contacts and have someone get in touch with you if they can, but you can always call here."

And She's Off! - 10/01.

[somethingwithturquoise]

And this one's for Rey, because once all that shit is in that ship, these two have got a whole city-planet to tear uuuuuup!

Re: And She's Off! - 10/01.

[thatwaslucky]

"I haven't actually been in a ship that was in the air for a while," Rey said.

It'd been like two months.

And she'd missed it.

Re: And She's Off! - 10/01.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Oh, yeah?" asked Summer, getting settled behind the wheel and being all good and studious about checking her specs and all that stuff, while Pancakes behind them let out a little disconsolate yowl over her stabalizing equipment, but, hey, that stuff worked, there'd be no cat puke on this trip, thank you very much. "If you find my driving's not up to snuff, you can blame Kanan on that, he's the one who taught me."

Even though she already knew how to fly a ship before any of that, but details, details.

Re: And She's Off! - 10/01.

[thatwaslucky]

"I might tell him that anyway, if he needs the distraction,"'Rey said, taking her seat and watching what Summer was hitting just to see how it might be different or similar to what she was used to.

OOC - 10/01.

[somethingwithturquoise]

On the one hand, I finally can use all these spaceship icons I've been sitting on.

On the other hand.....noooooooooooo