Turtle & Canary; Saturday [ 05/17 ]

[stocksgrrl]

Waking up and discovering that she was a pony was quite possibly the coolest thing that had ever happened to Turtle and then what happens? She was to be at work. That was okay, because neither heck nor high water nor, clearly, pony-ness would keep Turtle away from fulfilling her duty, even if it was rather difficult to work the cash register with

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Talk to Turtle -- 05/17

[stocksgrrl]

And all her pretty ponyness.

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[scary_jeff]

"Turtle!"

Jeff-- trotted into the store.

"...I need to lift things."

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[stocksgrrl]

"...What kind of things, Jeff?"

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[scary_jeff]

"Things in general," Jeff said, accidentally swatting Apu in the face with his tail on his way over, "I've run out of thumbs."

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[stocksgrrl]

"You can pick things up with your mouth," Turtle offered, and then demonstrated by lightly tapping her nose on the button to open the cash register, and then managing to pull out a dollar bill with her mouth. "See?" she said around the bill. "No' verah sani'ary, but it 'orks!"

She spit the bill back into the register with a slightly grossed out sound, and nosed the drawer shut again. Money tasted like death.

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[scary_jeff]

"Don't things get a bit sticky that way?" Jeff asked, curiously, and he trotted a little closer in some desperate attempt to--

"I can't reach this way," he said, troubled, tried to lean his head over the desk again and-- "I really miss thumbs, Turtle."

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[stocksgrrl]

Turtle looked at Jeff for a moment with a sympathetic pony smile. "This does make you appreciate them a bit more," she agreed, and then resolved to trot her money-marked pony butt around the counter, thwapping Apu (who had been trying to slip away) in the face with her tail unwittingly as she passed. She sidled up next to Jeff, leaning slightly against him.

"You don't have to, see?"

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[scary_jeff]

Jeff attempted a grin. It was a little harder with all the pony teeth and lips and things. "It's still a bit lacking," he judged, finally, as one attempt to lift his hoof in Turtle's direction failed horribly. He leaned back, instead, and that seemed to work out. "But it's better than the dog."

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[stocksgrrl]

"See, that's more like it," Turtle said. "You have to look at the positives in any situation. Like that it's better than the dog. And like that I've always loved ponies, and now I am one. Hey." The leaning paused a little so that Turtle could give an excited little click of all her heels. "I'm going to go find a meadow to frollick in later, when I get done here. Wanna come with?"

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[scary_jeff]

"Frolicking?" Oh, look. Jeff just managed to figure out how to use those pony face muscles to grin in a broad and generally appreciative fashion. "Excellent."

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[stocksgrrl]

Turtle beamed as best she could, and tried to clap, but it ended up just being a little dancing of her front hooves against the floor. Which probably wasn't good for the floor, but she'd worry about it when she wasn't a pony. "Yay! I've always wanted to frolick through a meadow."

The idea would have been with a pony, not as one, but let it be known that Turtle Wexler was not against a compromise.

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[scary_jeff]

They were whipping up some heavy enthusiasm, at this rate. Apu backed off very, very slowly-- and then a lot faster when Jeff's tail started whipping right along with the enthusiasm.

"And I've always just wanted to frolick," he said, still grinning, paused, considered that statement, and added, "...With you."

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[stocksgrrl]

Turtle's light and happy pony prancing was staved off a little with Jeff's addendum, and she paused,frowning slightly. "Jeff," she said, with sudden seriousness, "we are talking about frolicking frolicking, right? Not..." pause, "frolicking," exaggerated wink, sparkle (which she didn't mean to do, it just seemed to happen when she winked), "frolicking, yeah?"

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[scary_jeff]

"Oh, no!"

And that would have been pony recoiling. It was a bit like prancing, except backwards. "I just meant..." Jeff's hooves clapped against the floor in a desperate attempt to gesture, "...Frolicking. You know." He tossed his head a little, and that seemed to work better. "...Frolicking about. In meadows. No beds. Meadows."

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[stocksgrrl]

There was a slightly suspicious glint in Turtle's green gem eyes, but she nodded. "Good. So long as we're clear on that."

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[scary_jeff]

"Besides, I'm already living in your bed, adding the frolicking might be a bit much."