fandom_clinic | Fandom Clinic; Thursday [12/08].

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Fandom Clinic; Thursday [12/08].

She knew she was a little odd for it, but Libby didn't actually really like Coca-Cola. Or any soda pop, for that matter, but she did like big friendly polar bears and would honestly still be in the park being fascinated by them if she didn't have to be at the clinic today.

So, instead, she was at the front desk, trying to do her lessons and working her way through a bottle of Coke very slowly, while the nurses exchanged stories of treating various bear attacks they'd had to deal with over the years. Which made Libby wonder if she should be paying more attention to them, just in case the bears turned out to be not so friendly after all.

They were so kind, though! They were giving everyone Coke, in the fancy glass bottles and everything! She really couldn't even imagine them taking a turn for the worst, but she supposed they'd be pretty prepared just in case they did.

Stabby, meanwhile, just seemed content to have a new medium to work with for his art.

The Clinic is oopen!

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Where you can share your own bear attack stories, if you want!

Kurt, on the other hand, LOVED soda, especially coca-cola! So when he came through the front door he was carrying several bottles in his arm. Turned out the polar bears really liked the cookies he had made and had traded several bottles for some of them. Thankfully he had made enough, and he still had some left.

"Hey Libby," he greeted with a smile. "See you got your cola too!"

"And you've apparently been collecting them," Libby noted, lifting her brows a little at that armful. "Are you planning on drinking all of those?"

Don't mind the slightly chiding tone; it couldn't be helped.

"Sure! Why not?" Kurt asked as he set the bag of cookies down and then carefully set the bottles on the desk so he didn't drop them. "Soda doesn't affect me the way it does the Littles," he said with a playful smirk, noticing that tone. And it totally did affect him the same it just didn't last as long thanks to mutant metabolism and all that. "How are you though? I see you met the polar bears already."

"That's still an awful lot of sugar and caffeine for anyone," Libby countered, a little reproachfully, "even if you do burn it up right away, Kurt. It's just not very healthy."

And she cared about his health! Not even just because it was kind of her job, either!

But she also didn't want to be a nag, so, once she'd said her piece, she was mode than happy to shift the focus. "And I did meet the polar bears," she confirmed, her eyes brightening with a big smile. "Oh, aren't they just the sweetest? I know you should probably never get that close to a normal polar bear, so this is just amazing!"

Kurt gave a slow nod at what Libby said. Maybe he should cut back on the sida bit. He considered it as he set tge other bottles aside and took a small and much slower sip from the bottle he had been working through.

"Yeah, it was so cool getting to see them!" Kurt agreed. "Tge only other time I was that close to a bear was when we visited a nearby village and someone there had a bear they had raised from a small cub. It was like a pet almost!"

"That sounds dangerous," said Libby, her eyes going a little wide. "Some animals are really not meant to be pets..."

That said, however...

"A little bear cub would be incredibly cute, though."

Libby would totally still have tried to keep a bear as a pet, it was true.

"Mutti and Vati always said the same thing too whenever I wanted to adopt the animals that would come and play with me in the woods around our farm," Kurt said fondly with a small grin. "They let me feed some of them at least."

Libby had to smile a little at that. "We'd have had a whole zoo on our hands," she mused, "if I got to keep every animal I came across back home, but Daddy was always pretty strict about that sort of thing. Even the dogs were hunters, not pets, but I think I've told you about that before..."

She trailed off, just a little, before suddenly moving to pull up Kurt's usual chair so he could join her at the counter.

"How was your day today, so far?" she asked. "Anything interesting besides the bears?"

Kurt gave a small smile and then the grin grew as he took a seat and pulled the tin of home made and decorated cookies over.

"Couldn't come empty-handed," he said, sliding it a little farther toward Libby. "They are polar bear-approved though, so hope you like Christmas cookies," he said.

"And today's been amazing! We had a field trip with Palenteology class!"

Edited 2022-12-08 12:51 (UTC)

"Is there a really big difference," Libby wondered, leaning in to have a closer look at the contents of the tin before reaching in to pluck one out, "between Christmas cookies and regular ones? And where did you paleontology class go?"

"Are they different?" Kurt looked at Libby with a look of mock horror. "Hand-decorated cookies are always better than regular cookies!"

Kurt grinned to show he was teasing her a bit and opened the tin to show a variety of decorated cookies in fun shapes.

"The class went to see Professor Cutter's research lab in London. It was really cool all the tech and stuff that they have there. And we got to see some live dinosaurs ~~possibly~~ while we were there too!"

"Is that it, though?" Libby asked, with maybe a touch of frustration and a little bit more of embarrassment, that what was an honest and genuine question about something she didn't know much about would just be regarded with a joke. She knew Kurt hadn't meant it like that, of course, but it still kind of stung a little. "They're just hand decorated and around Christmastime?"

And to try to smooth out that sudden spark of defensiveness (over cookies, of all things!), she smiled much easier as she said, "I wonder how a dinosaur would be as a pet."

"It's just a tradition some people have," Kurt said, softening his tone a little and giving a small nod to Libby. "We used to make and decorate cookies several times leading up to the holidays and would take them to friends in the neighboring villages."

Kurt now realized that Libby's family probably didn't do that much if at all and he felt bad for joking around about it. He hesitated for a moment, debating whether he should invite her to help out with the next batch he planned on making sometime next week. But he thought better of it and let it go, for now, and focused on the other question Libby asked.

"Depending on the dino it could be really cool or really really bad," he said with a small grin as the image of having a T-rex, velociraptor, or Dilophosaurus as a pet hit him.

"They're probably something you'd make with your mutti and vati back home, then, right?" Libby asked, the smile a little easier now. "It sounds really nice, actually..."

She was quiet for a moment before her brows lifted and she asked, "If you could have a dinosaur as a pet, which one would you want?"

"I think a Coelurosauravus would be cool! Professor Cutter's friend, Connor, has one! He brought it to the class one time at the start of the semester!"

Kurt thought for a moment and then grinned as he looked over at Libby.

"If we could find dino-shaped cookie cutters we could make dinosaur Christmas cookies!" And yes, that was a 'we' in there.

"I don't think I even know what a...a...colorosauraus?" Libby was pretty sure she didn't quite have that right. "Even is!"

The most she really knew about dinosaurs was that they didn't make it onto the Ark, so they weren't really worth learning much about.

"But I think that's be nice, some dino Christmas cookies. If we found some before next week, you could even bring some to your class!"

"We could probably find some at T&C or at least have Summer special order some for us," Kurt offered after a moment's thought. "Could get all the baking stuff there, too so we'd be good to go!"

For if you are currently the protagonist of your own bear attack story!

*just leaves this here*

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