Day 56: Callahan's Grocer (Morning)

[boketa]

Goku was stuck against against the windows of the Doyleton grocery store. It was likely the young boy's face was fused to the thick glass now that he'd been standing there for about ten minutes, transfixed by the amount of food that was sitting in one location. What were the odds?! It was a chance too good to pass up. Honestly, when would this food

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[doneinthree]

"Acquaintance," Kirk echoed, not even bothering to hide his smile now. Trust Spock to treat even a child with all the cool detachment of a taxidermist. Granted, being a child in Landel's still put you in the exact position as anyone else (which was to say, hell on Earth and a hundred other planets), but it was a little hard to view the boy with such gravity when he was scampering around like an overexcited yellow duckling - and with Spock overseeing the situation like the put-upon mother duck.

Oh, how Kirk would've liked to see the two of them work together. "Any friend of Spock's is a friend of mine," he announced brightly, stepping forward to trigger the automatic sliding doors into the store. "Goku, right? I'm Jim." He couldn't say that he had any more experience with children than Spock (any at all would still put him above Kirk), but how hard could it be to pay for a single apple?

He let the other two pass before him before going through the doors himself, which put him alongside Spock again. Kirk glanced over to him, suddenly serious again. "Are you alright?"

yessss, how hard could it be?

[boketa]

"Yeah, I'm Goku! Nice ta meetcha!" He answered with childish zeal.

Everything was going rather smoothly until this new person named Jim exhibited signs of witchcraft. Goku jumped back from the sliding glass doors as if they were a giant maw, ready to pulverize him. He took a fighting stance, but the monkey boy seemed the only one cautious of the strange monster. Both Kirk and Spock entered without consequence. So, mustering up the courage (because that apple needed to be his right now!), Goku leaped over the threshold unharmed. Yes! Goku: 498, Monsters: 0!

Taking quick steps, he caught up with the two adults. He didn't mind picking up the rear since it gave him plenty of time to gawk to his heart's content. There was so much food! It was almost overwhelming. Goku had to come up with a plan to tackle this paradise.