[video]

[im_a_leg]

[LOOK WHO'S OUT OF THE CLINIC AT LONG LAST]

Hey, so guys? I totally do not recommend eating wild berries. Tasty though they look, gentle on your stomach they are not. Oh, man. It was like being on the test team program all over again. Ship going backward sand forwards, up and down, side to si--

[He goes a little green and cups his mouth. When he speaks again he sounds strained.] Alright, okay, cool. So enough of that. That is officially all of that that's gonna happen.

So, yeah. No berries. Bad plan. Don't do it.

Comments

[video]

[im_a_leg]

Me too, man. I really, really miss doing ... anything, honestly.

Sounds like a blast! What for?

[video]

[pidge_out]

Well... We kind of realized we've missed a lot of people's birthdays. Probably. It's hard to tell when we don't know what the date is.

[video]

[im_a_leg]

Oh! Yeah, I got here right after mine. I think we missed Shiro's and yours, yeah? And Lance's is coming up.

Okay, friend confession: I have no idea when Keith's is.

[video]

[pidge_out]

Wait, you knew when Shiro's was?? And when's Lance's? And--

And... I don't think anyone knows when Keith's is.

[im_a_leg]

Well, yeah. They were in the cadet files at the Garrison. Besides, Lance is my buddy. Of course I know when his birthday is.

Dude. We have to find out.

[pidge_out]

[She just kind of stares for a second. Birthdays were literally the only thing she didn't look at in all the Garrison files.] ... Okay, so Shiro's is February 29. Mine's April 3rd. When are yours and Lance's?

I'll just text him and ask.

[im_a_leg]

Mine's January 13! Lance's is July 28. So we have about a month left if my calendar's right.

[pidge_out]

Wait, how long have you been keeping a calendar?

[im_a_leg]

Since .. I got here? I still had my planner on me, man. It's how I keep track of my days on shift at work and stuff.

[pidge_out]

Huh.

[She looks thoughtful for a second, and then she looks somewhere off-screen to start typing at her laptop.]

Okay. So what's today's date?

[im_a_leg]

[Hunk thinks about it for a second.] I'm off, so it's gotta be a Monday. June 19th.

[pidge_out]

Got it. [And now she's got the date logged into her system and all is well with the world.]

So we've missed three birthdays and we're coming up on a fourth. And then Darin's just happened, apparently. So I guess we should do something pretty big.

[im_a_leg]

I mean I can cook something obviously. Not with red berries.

We totally need to build a drink robot.

[pidge_out]

We'd need like, ten cakes. All different kinds.

Huh. We could do that. Shouldn't be too hard, right?

[im_a_leg]

Can do, buddy!

And oh man, it's gonna be the coolest robot. It can fly around and ask people what they want to drink and then go and fetch it from the kitchen.

[pidge_out]

[Pidge grins.] I knew I could count on you.

Yes. Then I could stay focused on work when I need to.

[im_a_leg]

[A-aw, Pidge, you're filling him with warm fuzzies. <3]

Totally! We could have some kind of call word, so as long as you're in hearing range it shows up. Yeah?

[pidge_out]

[The duty of a bro, bro.]

Or we could link it up to our comms so that we can flag it from anywhere in the house. Maybe set a perimeter for its functionality.

[VIDEO]

[forgeabettertomorrow]

I TOLD HIM NOT TO TELL ANYONE!!!!

[pidge_out]

[Oh look, it's Darin. Look Darin, this is Pidge's sweetest, most innocent face.] Told who not to tell what?

[forgeabettertomorrow]

I told Shiro not to tell anyone about my birthday!!

[pidge_out]

Why would you think Shiro told me? For all you know, I could've read it in one of your diaries.

1/2

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Because Shiro is the only person I told and of course he would tell you because yo--

2/2

[forgeabettertomorrow]

--ooOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUU DID WHAT?!?!

[pidge_out]

[She doesn't even react. She looks completely and entirely nonplussed.]

Yeah, I was trying to find your notes on the Ingress. It was a long time ago.