MCA #3, Wednesday Afternoon

[uncertain_dume]

So... it was finally Kanan's turn to inherit the singing monstrosity. Which was almost fitting, in away. After all, he'd 'won' the thing by singing. Monstrously.

Kanan's time with the fish started, probably predictably, with a round of The Song That Doesn't End blaring directly into his mind, followed by a small fireworks display and a sudden vomit of glitter and confetti.

It had gotten worse from there.

He was looking slightly irritated by the time he made it to the door of his apartment, with the fish screaming Sabotage and stinking like pumpkin spice from under one armpit. He'd tried shutting it up by smashing it against a brick wall on the way - a move he'd never admit to - and the fish had healed from the damage.

So. Day one of his week with the fish had officially begun.

He could already hear his dog crying on the other side of the door.

[OOC: OPEN. COME VISIT. WHAT A FISH.]

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[spectre_alenko]

After closing up, Kaidan was still too restless to sleep. He texted Kanan.
You still up?

[uncertain_dume]

Can't sleep. Fish will eat me.

Yes. Yes he was up.

The fish stared at him with one glowing green eye.

[spectre_alenko]

Want company? I can bring a gun.

Kaidan was the best of friends.

[uncertain_dume]

Already armed but yes, please. Stance needs all the big strong protectors he can get right now.

The fish spat off another firework.

[spectre_alenko]

OMW.

Having this ridiculous excess energy, Kaidan decided to do some free running on the way there. The trip took less time than it should.

[uncertain_dume]

Which was fine. Kanan was already sitting outside waiting.

With the fish.

It was screeching Sabotage again.

"Kaidan, I'm not supposed to actively hate things," Kanan said, by way of greeting. "But this, I loathe."

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan eyed the fish with amusement. He could - it wasn't his. "At least it looks better than the last time I saw it. Maybe it exists to let you test your patience?"

[uncertain_dume]

"I don't think the Force has such a wicked sense of humor," Kanan replied, scowling at the fish. I think this is something else. Probably something evil. Look at the way it stares."

With that one beady, dead, green-glowing eye.

[spectre_alenko]

"But can you ever really be sure?" Kaidan teased, "It doesn't seem so evil. The fish, not the Force. Annoying, sure, but evil?" He see-sawed a hand.

[uncertain_dume]

Wordlessly, Kanan simply reached out to where the fish was floating in mid-air nearby, and turned it around so that it was staring at Kaidan instead.

And then he raised an eyebrow.

The fish belched pumpkin spice scented confetti and continued to stare.

[spectre_alenko]

The eye didn't really bother him. He'd seen worse. Reaching for it, he pulled it closer and looked at the scales. "Huh. Hernando did a good job of that soldering. Very neat. I like that he made it a rainbow."

Turning it, he gently bopped it back toward Kanan. "And you get it for an entire week all to yourself!"

[uncertain_dume]

"Lucky me," Kanan sighed, holding out a hand and stopping the fish before it could bump into him. "Stance already hates it and if Hera hasn't moved back into the Ghost and fled the system before the week is through, I'd be surprised."

[spectre_alenko]

"You're not planning to keep it in the freezer at work again?" Kaidan asked, arching an eyebrow.

[uncertain_dume]

"I think it's starting to give the bear ideas," Kanan sighed. "And I swear I'm not just being paranoid when I say I think it was giving me a dirty look earlier."

Because... the freezer.

[futurespacemom]

Hera heard the cacophony and came to open the door. She caught view of the Fish.

"Oh, no."

[spectre_alenko]

"You kept it in a freezer," Kaidan pointed out, echoing that meta. "I'd give you more than a dirty look. No wonder the poor thing is set on mega-annoy right now."

[uncertain_dume]

"Skywalker has some kind of vendetta against me," Kanan announced.

And then paused.

"I... think."

They were going to fly the thing to the moon tomorrow. They'd had a good conversation about it. Kanan was seriously confused at this point.

[uncertain_dume]

"It shouldn't even be sentient," Kanan complained. "Maybe it's just thawing out now. Maybe it's always this irritating."

Or maybe it was nursing a grudge.

[spectre_alenko]

"I think it's been anthropomorphized enough that it's started to believe it," Kaidan said with a shrug of one shoulder, "Stranger things have happened, so I hear. Mitsutada's a sword, Peridot's a stone, maybe it's only a matter of time before the fish turns humanoid."

Best. Friend. Ever. That was sure to make Kanan's ability to sleep improve.

[uncertain_dume]

"Kaidan, if I wake up and some rainbow-scaled guy with a glowing eye is staring at me, I'm blaming you."

You, personally.

Angrily and with a vengeance.

[spectre_alenko]

"Send him my way. That sounds hot," Kaidan said in a perfectly normal tone of voice.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan slowly tilted his head.

You could practically see his brain start to melt.

The fish kicked in with a holo of one of the students being chased by a roomba and started screaming again, and Kanan damn near jumped out of his skin, wheeling on it and shoving it into a wall.

[futurespacemom]

"He does know you don't live alone, right?" Hera asked. "What did I ever do to him?"

As opposed to all the things she was thinking of doing to him now.

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan opened his mouth to ask 'what', when Kanan jumped and slapped at the fish. The word turned into a rather sudden fit of laughter. He couldn't help it. The look on Kanan's face..

[uncertain_dume]

"I mean, it isn't exactly a secret that we're living together," Kanan agreed, grimacing. "I don't know if he realized just how bad this thing has gotten since he got it out of his house. I threatened to put it on the moon, and once it started singing, he actually agreed with me about it."

So now his one big mistake was waiting until tomorrow to do it.