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Buffets and Birthdays

WHO: Tommy Shepherd, Billy Hargrove, Otherwise Open
WHERE: Various Buffets, Station Hydroponics, various in closed starter
WHAT: Tommy eating his fill (and yours), Growing Things because of course, and showing Hargrove a good time (no they aren't dating what are you talking about)
WHEN: Throughout March, March 29th in closed
WARNINGS: None

I. Eating Your Fill

The advantage of places like this was that Tommy could always get as much as he wanted to eat without having to rely in protein paste to fill things out. And, well... There was always buffets. And man wasn't Tommy enjoying them now, getting himself steadily onto 'must pay double' or 'do not serve' lists. Which was fine with him.

One day might find him in an all you can eat salad bar, piling on all the alien vegetables and making notes on his comm device about what things he might want to get seeds or seedlings for. Another is a place specializing in a wealth of soups, where he's again taking notes (this time on flavor combinations for cooking). Or, if you're really lucky, you'll find him on a day where he's got three different mounds of noodle dishes in front of him, happily chomping his way through them while just sitting back and watching the alien species around him.

No matter which buffet you find him at, one thing is sure. The staff is giving Tommy a disapproving look of some variety or other, he's got a stack of dirty plates near him, and he's at his table alone. Maybe go up and talk to him. He'd be happy for a companion.

II. Growing Pains

Of course to keep himself fed and to stock up the greenhouses of the ships requires something important: some form of trading capital. And where else was Tommy going to find it than through the work he'd been throwing himself at for years? Sure, he could work as an extreme speed courier on a lot of planets they have ended up on, but the space station clearly doesn't need that. With the various types of transportation it's clear that he'd not be the best price per pound for transport, and it wouldn't learn him as much. Which is probably why anyone coming to take up Station Operations on the offer to do some work in hydroponics in exchange for seeds and cuttings will find Tommy there, at most hours of the day.

Today he's humming softly to himself as he goes through and carefully clips small handfuls of greens from some salad vegetable, meant for someone's dinner, or perhaps to prune things back for better growth. But he still smiles in seeing another He Row and waves them over.

"Hey, you here to be my new assistant? They said that there was someone new coming in to work today. I'm happy for a familiar face."

III. It's Not A Date, It's A Birthdatey | Closed to Billy Hargrove

Sometimes the best thing you can do for a bro is to make sure they have a good day. No, more than that. A great birthday. And it's something Tommy had started planning the moment they set foot on the station. Sure, he was fitting it all around his work, but he was meticulously planning something out.

And now here Tommy was, showing up at the hammock where he's more than once seen Billy sleeping near he water on the ship.

"Hey, Sunshine," he says, smiling as he nudges the hammock. "Get on your damn feet. We're going on an adventure."

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Billy forgot that he had let it spill when his birthday was to Tommy. Though, in his defense, it was during a night of PTSD triggered by fireworks. Sleeping in that pillow fort was pretty bitchin' though.

Now, he was dozing in his hammock for the time being, surfboard propped up in the sand was he did so. Hearing someone's feet in said sand brought him back to the waking world, so when Tommy gets to him? Blue eyes are fluttering open and he's grinning at the name. Kicks out with one dangling foot at the nudge to his occupied space. "Adventure? I think I had my share of that with the fireworks."

Despite his words, he gets upright and shakes his curls free from being tangled. "What do you have planned, Tomothy Shepherd?"

Tomothy. He snorts in amusement at that one.

"If I tell you, it's not a surprise. Get comfortably dressed, okay? I've got plans. But I'm not ruining the surprise early, okay?"

Just give him this chance to impress you, birthday boy. Because he remembers, even if you might not, just what day it is.

"You didn't say 'surprise', you said 'adventure'," he points out to Tommy while getting up. He stretches, feeling his pop crack and quickly pulls the hem of his shirt down to make sure his scars don't peek out.

"Alright, c'mon. Lemme go change into something comfortable that isn't my beach clothes." Which were just his pajamas, really. Shorts and a covering shirt. He leads Tommy out of the beach area and down to where the living quarters were. "Wait here, I'll be out in a few."

Or don't wait, because Tommy could get from Point A to Point B and back to Point A before Billy could blink. But he goes inside and changes, making sure to fluff up his curls. A simple shirt and jeans, and boots. Always boots. He passes his hand over the vase for a moment. "Be back later, Mom." And he heads back out to meet with Tomothy.

There’s definitely going to be new beach clothes bought, seeing as Tommy won’t be able to get into Billy’s room after they leave the ship, but he’s smiling to himself pretty happily over his plans. He’s pretty sure he’s about to win the title for ‘best birthday provider’ by the end of this. Helped that he could keep it secret by racing back here for the board after they arrive.

“You ready? You want to start with food or the surprise?”

Because it’s best to ask.

"What are you planning, Tommy?" It’s not a mean question, said with a tone of curiosity. Maybe this was a very belated thing to help him feel better and move past the episode he had on the planet? He wasn’t sure with someone like Tommy.

Then Billy makes a show of thinking it over. "Surprise first. I feel like I need one with all the shit that’s happened."

"Well, clearly if I tell you then my adventurous plan is less of a surprise," he teases with a smile. But he is happy to put it first. Most of the rest of the day can be lost to it, he doesn't care. Not if it makes Billy happy.

"Alright then. So it's a long way. Mind if I carry you?"

"Fine, keep your adventurous surprises." He stretches one last time, pulling his shirt down again, before clapping Tommy on the shoulder. "Define 'a long way'. Hours to get there if you walk like a normal person? Or just one boring hour?"

He grins at Tommy. "Sounds like you just wanna carry me around to show off your strength."

"I'm not that strong, Sunshine," Tommy says with a shrug. "But if we took one of those little space shuttle things this place has, it would be one of those, and another hour and a half of walking."

So yes, maybe he does want to impress Billy just a little.

Billy makes a little show of thinking it over, despite already having decided. "I bet you're stronger than you look. But alright, space shuttle and then you can carry me so I can see just how strong you are compared to me."

Because of course he was going to compare someone else to his own strength. Billy knows his worth after all. He pauses. "Nothing I need to bring my axe for, right?"

III. This Ain't a Date, It's a goddamn Boy's Date

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