Flower PSA

[glazedonutholes]

[ The recording opens with Donut standing in front of his bed that's currently covered in an ocean of flower petals. Beside him stands a decorated bike that holds a few bouquets. ]

Hey guys! Private Donut here from the popular Bluehaus with another friendly PSA. 

As you all know, it's February and that means love is in the air! For those of you unfamiliar with Earth lingo, this is the month we celebrate a little thing called Valentine's Day! It's a day when a guy in a diaper named Cupid hits you with an arrow and BAM! Instant love at first sight! Isn't it great?! 

[ He vibrates with giddy delight. ]

Well! I've been hard at work collecting all sorts of seeds in anticipation and now it's time for all of them to bloom! As your friendly neighborhood Flower God, I'll be making fresh bouquets for anyone who wants them! And this month only [ he throws his hands out to show off the bike - TADA! ] - 
I'll be making home deliveries!

You just tell me what you'd like and [he starts reciting the postal service motto ] neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays this Flower God from swift delivery! I got all sorts of bouquets for all tastes! There's your friendship ones, your first date ones, pure love, wild love, going steady, and all sorts of other ones for every occasion! 

So... [ Here he rocks back on his heels, his hands behind his back. ] I was thinking, if any of you have a little time to spare next month, maybe you can help me set-up a real flower shop and help me move-in upstairs? You know what they say, it takes a village. 

[ He keeps rocking back and forth on his heels, buzzing with so many vibrant emotions they spill over and behind him the larkspur flowers start to bloom. Reds and blues. Purples. Whites. A whole rainbow of colors come to life. ]

Either way, I love Valentine's Day, so I'd do this for free! [ He smiles before remembering - ] I'll be accepting orders all month! 

[ He waves at the recording. ] 

Happy Hearts! 

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[glazedonutholes]

[ He stays put but nods in acknowledgement. ]

I can work through the night. You know what they say - busy hands are happy hands. [ He looks down at the weapons. ] Is that why you clean them so often?

[uptightness]

[That is an astute observation, enough so that Carolina finds herself staring at him, before drawing her attention back to cleaning the barrel. She does like to be busy. Keeps both her hands, and her mind, occupied, even if she likely could clean her gun in her sleep.]

Should always be prepared. If you're guns are well maintained, you know they're not going to cause you issues when you need them.

[glazedonutholes]

Oh! That's kind of like what Sarge used to always say - a working gun is a Dirty Blue killer. Sometimes he'd switch it with 'Grif killer'. That's Sarge for you.

[uptightness]

Sarge is... pretty special.

[Not a bad fighter, he just takes on strange things, like gravity. Carolina can admit that sometimes she does wonder if he has taken one too many hits to the head, but she does feel like that about most of them once in a while.]

[glazedonutholes]

That's what I always said. He watched his stories all the time back in Blood Gulch. I would always bring my special pillow, snacks and kleenex for when we'd cry our eyes out. You would never guess how much thought is put into day time television!

I don't know about you but I would never would have thought that Raul was the secret long lost grandchild of the babysitter of Mrs. Maximillion when she was a girl. And that the babysitter was also a long distant relations making Raul's relationship with Mrs. Maximillion's granddaughter a taboo forbidden love! But it turns out that Raul's best friend had plastic surgery to look like him in order to get revenge on Mrs. Maximillion but then he fell in love with his grandaughter and now he's faced with the dilemma of getting his revenge or loving her and he chose her! But before he could tell the grandaughter - Esmeralda - the real Raul shows up and kills Mrs. Maximillion frames the imposter and is now comforting poor Esmeralda who has inhereted the whole estate, except when she's about to sign on the dotted line at the funeral, another secret love child shows up saying that she is the rightful heir and slams down the proof and the real Raul seeing that he batted for the wrong team goes and tries to smooch her up and even though she's already secretly married to the imposter Raul, she's totally into the whole twin thing and sleeps with him in the master bedroom and while they're having a wild time someone sneaks in from a secret entrance and murders them both! They call the cops and suddenly all of the people there are suspect and man they introduced a whole slew of new characters for the murder mystery funeral arc, but it was totally awesome!

[uptightness]

Right.

[Because she tuned out somewhere around when he started talking about the babysitter... She's always had enough going on in her life, or could find something else to do, instead of watching any daytime soap operas. Heck, she has her own opera living with the Reds and the Blues, because no one could think up the things that they all get up to.]

[glazedonutholes]

Sooo~

[ He rocks in his seat looking rather comfortable. ]

What do you like to do for fun? I mean, aside from the whole soldier thing?

[uptightness]

[Soooo indeed. An eye is cast towards him, and she's not going to be able to work in peace and quiet, is she? She leans back, arms crossing under her chest.]

Reading. Exercise. The occassional drink. Card games.

[glazedonutholes]

Oh! [ He perks up. ] I love drinks! And card games!

Heeeey~ Have you ever been to the Vegas Quadrant?!

[uptightness]

[She's not entirely certain that she even wants to ask what kind of drinks, because a thirty second answer could turn in to a five minute speech. Nor is she quite willing to admit that card games also includes the ones from Atem's world...]

Let me guess. You have?

[glazedonutholes]

Yup!

The guys and I went one and time and - OMG! You should have seen Simmons and Grif! [ He laughs to himself, all crinkles in his eyes and happy smiles. ] Oh, and you wouldn't believe what Sarge got up to when we went our separate ways! Lopez and I ran into him in the -- [ he covers his mouth ] Oh! I almost forgot! Whatever happens in the Vegas Quadrant, stays in the Vegas Quadrant!

[uptightness]

No doubt it was something ridiculous that made no sense, and yet it still happened.

[That seems to be their life now.]

[glazedonutholes]

[ A gasp. ]

How did you know?!

You weren't spying on us all the way back then were you?!

[uptightness]

Oh, I've got eyes everywhere.

[Messing with him, since he is interrupting her time.]

[glazedonutholes]

[ He looks mildly terrified. ]

You do??!

[uptightness]

[Good!

Maybe...

Likely not. It will probably come back to bite her in the ass.]

Mhm.

[glazedonutholes]

Uhm.

[ He slips off the bed. ]

I need to go, uhm, [ creeps to the door ] check my diary!

[ And takes off at a full run! ]

[uptightness]

[All this time, that is all she needed to do?

Carolina gives a snort, a smile curling at her lips, and returns to cleaning her gun.]