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Summer Smith ([personal profile] somethingwithturquoise) wrote2023-07-08 07:29 am

MHA #4; Saturday [07/08].

As Summer had suspected from all the dreams she'd been having and that stupid urge to go traipsing through the woods to find some dumb rock, Morty had shown up at her apartment last night after getting ice cream for himself (you'd think, wouldn't you, that if you were going to come back from the dead temporarily to crash at your sister's place for a weekend, you could at least bring her some ice cream, too, but nooo~oooo), and they ordered pizza and she totally schooled his ass at Italian Plumber Franchise Racing Game, and she had to ban fighting games because he was such a button masher, and now it was Saturday, and she was just trying to figure out what to do with him now.

"Like," she said, as he sat on her couch, legs folded underneath him, tongue slightly out of his mouth as he intently button mashed against the video game itself since Summer refused to deal with it anymore, "what do you even want to do? Should I, like, take you to the park or something?"

"I'm fourteen, Summer, you don't need to take me to the park."

"I don't know!" she argued back. "It's been a while. Like, a really long time, you're practically a baby to me at this point. I don't know. There's an arcade at the bowling alley. I'm friends with the guy who runs the place, I can probably get you some free play in exchange for some weed, or something?"

There was a pause, filled with a clattering of buttons on the controller, before the computer totally demolished Morty, the fatality screen came up on her TV with a booming voice reminding him of how much he sucked, and then he sighed and set the controller down in his lap and looked up at Summer.

"We don't need to do anything, Summer," he said. "Maybe I...maybe I just wanted to come...and...and...and, you know, hang out with my sister again."

"Morty," said Summer, "we never hung out together."

Morty looked down at his hands and the controller in his lap for a moment, before looking over at her hopefully. "Sometimes we did!" he insisted. "Y-you know, not...often, or anything, but sometimes we did! And...and it was really nice, when we did and we got along, and I thought, y-you know, it's pretty cool, having a sister like you. You...you weren't perfect, and you're....you're definitely a bitch sometime, but you're not bad, either, and maybe....maybe I just wish...we could have spent more time just...just hanging out, you know?"

And Summer looked at Morty for a moment, and she felt a little twinge of guilt for all the ways in which she'd made either of her Morty's life a living hell, and how it was kind of nice, wasn't it, that even despite all that, he still just wanted to come visit and hang out?

"Yeah, okay," she said, reaching over to ruffle his hair as she moved passed him on the couch and plopped down to pick up the other controller, "but I swear to god, if you just button mash again, we're switching back to a shooter."

"But I'm not as good at those!"

"Explain to me again how that's my problem."

He totally did start button mashing again, but Summer, for now, decided to let it slide.

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thirdscrewscrewed: (droopy lips dead morty)

[personal profile] thirdscrewscrewed 2023-07-09 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
"She definitely did do that when I knew her," Morty confirmed, shaking his head, having trouble even conceiving of such a thing. "She was grossed out by everything...."

He went a little thoughtful for a moment, considering what a leap their experiences in things took even in the short time between when Grampa Rick came back into their family and when he died.

"Guess she....I guess she sort of grew out of it, huh?"
stykera: (little smile)

[personal profile] stykera 2023-07-09 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
"She delights in grossing others out now," Stark told him. "In grossing me out. Perhaps she grew into that? Did she always enjoy the jello?"
thirdscrewscrewed: (droopy lips dead morty)

[personal profile] thirdscrewscrewed 2023-07-09 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
"I definitely didn't know anything about Summer and jello," Morty admitted, shaking his head. "No idea where that one came from."
stykera: (side view)

[personal profile] stykera 2023-07-09 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
"She's been doing things with jello since I've known her," Stark said. "Sometimes very terrible things. You're not planning on purchasing terrible snacks, are you??

They'd ruled out fly ice cream but there were so many other options.