MCA #3, Monday Morning

[uncertain_dume]

After his radio broadcast, Kanan dragged his feet all the way back to his apartment. Up the stairs. Through the door, tripping over an enthusiastic dog along the way.

... Taking the leash from Stance. Putting it onto him, taking him outside for a walk to do his business...

And then back into the apartment again, managing to kick off his boots somewhere in the middle of the living room so that he was in sock feet by the time he hit the bedroom, and kind of oozing back into bed, muttering.

Razzumfrazzum time change. Arg-bargle. And so on. And what was even up with the squirrels beeping out that one particular kind of music during his broadcast, anyway?

"Earth's stupid," he announced around the time his head hit the pillow. "Stupid Earth."

He needed more sleep for this.

[OOC: Open for she who lives there, or anyone who wants to wake up a cranky Kanan at not-as-early-as-he-thinks-it-is in the morning!]

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[futurespacemom]

"Mm?"

That was Hera's super helpful half-asleep question.

[uncertain_dume]

"They broke time an', I dunno, jizz is illegal or something," Kanan muttered. "Squirrels don't make sense."

He needed way more caf to be able to process what had gone on at the radio station that morning. Or sleep. Actual sleep.

[futurespacemom]

"Broke time and huh?"

Neither part of that was computing, Kanan.

[uncertain_dume]

"Every clock we have is an hour wrong now, and the radio censors even the mention of jizz," Kanan grumbled. "I don't even know. I need more kriffing sleep."

[futurespacemom]

Hera flopped a hand at him. "Sleep now, worry later." It didn't seem like an actual problem, so it could wait until sleep and caf.

[uncertain_dume]

And Kanan made an incoherent sound in return as he shifted around a bit, trying to get comfortable again.

...

Nope. He was Awake Now.

"Next week, I'm going to trap the squirrels under an upside-down garbage can if they show up early again."

Kanan. Kanan, honey. It wasn't early. This is just your life now.

[futurespacemom]

"Chopper'll help," Hera muttered. "Sleep."

She was going to trap you under a can in a minute, Kanan.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan made a grunt of agreement, and then managed to shut up for another... maybe thirty seconds. At which point he made a disgruntled sound, sighed, and slipped out of bed again.

"Nope," he muttered under his breath. "Already awake."

Dammit. Maybe he would've been able to get back to sleep if he hadn't had to walk the dog, too. Not that he was blaming Stance for having to go, but uuuugh.

[futurespacemom]

Of course, now Hera was up, too. She shifted, gave up, and threw a pillow at Kanan.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan took that pillow to the back of the head with dignity, grace, and a little grunt of general annoyance.

"And this," he announced, gesturing grandly to the bed as he turned around, "is exactly why I was going to sleep on the couch."

[futurespacemom]

"Because you knew you were going to be annoying too early in the morning?" Hera asked.

[uncertain_dume]

"I'll be the first to admit that before caf, I'm insufferable," Kanan declared. "Speaking of, I'm going to go put on some caf to brew. Do you want any?"

Since they were awake, now.

[futurespacemom]

"If I don't get caf, there's another pillow where that came from," Hera threatened.

She slid out of bed, yawned, and rubbed her eyes. "Why so early?"

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan shook his head as he made his way out of the room toward the kitchen.

"Some weird Earth thing," he sighed. "Apparently it's supposed to save the daylight, or something. As if changing your clocks somehow mysteriously makes the sun shine for longer. Which it doesn't, by the way. I checked."

You couldn't be too sure around here, okay? Earth was stupid and Fandom was crazy.

[futurespacemom]

"Of course it doesn't." Hera gave him an odd look. "They change the clocks? To what?"

[uncertain_dume]

"To an hour from the time it was a couple of days ago," Kanan muttered. "Which is why the squirrels were trying to beat me awake with acorns before the sun was even up this morning."

Seriously. Garbage can, upside-down, over the top of them.

"Apparently they go back the other way in another six months. I feel like I should introduce them all to Gorse."

[futurespacemom]

"This island just gets stranger all the time," Hera said. She followed Kanan into the kitchen, blinked, sighed, and went to clean a couple mugs.

[uncertain_dume]

At least a couple of mugs were all they had? It wasn't as though the dishes were piling up on them, so that was a plus?

"Whenever it finds something like this that I didn't even see coming, I start to wonder why the hell I thought coming back was a good idea," he admitted. "And then I remember that the troopers in town are idiots, and the actual Empire is in a different galaxy. That helps."

He filled the perk with water, measured out the caf into the filter, and hit the button.

[futurespacemom]

"True. But...changing time?" Hera waved in disgust. "This is what happens when you have one planet and no Galactic time."

[uncertain_dume]

"Look, if I'd known they'd pull something as crazy as stealing an hour of sleep from us, I would've suggested somewhere different," Kanan said. Which might have been an honest enough statement, at least before he'd had his caf. "Like I said back on Gorse, there are plenty of resort planets and the like that I'm sure you'd love."

... Okay, so he'd just been thumped with a pillow. Like that was going to stop him from being a casual flirt, here.

[futurespacemom]

"Thanks," Hera said dryly, thunking the mugs down on the counter. "Weird as it is nobody knowing what a twi'lek is here, I think I prefer a place I won't get grabbed ten times a street."

[uncertain_dume]

"So," Kanan drawled, "this place isn't so bad?"

Now he just wanted to hear it.

[futurespacemom]

Hera rolled her eyes. "When it's not doing stupid things with time. And what was...you said something about jizz?"

[uncertain_dume]

"Yeah," Kanan said, wrinkling his nose. "I mentioned it on the radio and the squirrels censored it. I wasn't even playing the music itself. They censored the name."

And that... that was weird.

[futurespacemom]

Hera gave him a bemused look. "What?"