fandomhigh | SCIENCE! Club, Monday After Classes

Today when the Science! Club members walked into the Danger Shop, they'd see the place was set up to resemble a biology lab... in the middle of a greenhouse. Every which way they looked, there were plants of all persuasions, from a towering sycamore to the lowly potato.

... Sorry, GLaDOS.

"Hey, guys," Evan greeted, looking about as chipper as always. "Today we're going to do things with plants. Um... pretty much anything you can think to do with them, actually. Since they're, you know, plants and all."

That was helpful, Evan, thank you.

"I am not an expert on biology," Liara supplied needlessly. "But I believe there are several experiments we could focus on. For example, we could use the microscopes to examine the structure of Earth plants." She glanced towards... Evan, yes. Not GLaDOS. Evan. "I also have reason to believe we could turn certain vegetables into batteries..."

"Which we can, um... you know, do." Evan? Was looking at Liara. And also not at GLaDOS. "Because we brought the stuff." A beat. "Or you could poke toothpicks into an avocado pit to try to grow a tree? You know. If you don't want to make a... vegetable battery."

Nondescript vegetable, right there. Yessir.

"Yes," Liara said, looking terribly earnest. "Also, I believe that if you put certain types of Earth flowers in liquid infused with color, the blossom assumes that color. Sometimes even several, if you slice the..." She glanced down at the sheet of paper in her hand. "Stem?"

Seriously! Not a biology expert!

"Stem," Evan agreed, smiling an earnest smile to match. "Or, if you don't want to do any of that, you can just feed bugs to the carnivorous plants for the rest of the meeting. And take one home with you if you want. No, you can't make a potato battery out of those, though."

... Wait! No! He hadn't meant to actually say that!

"Vegetable battery," Liara said ~~very quickly~~ sagely.

Battery of nondescript vegetable.

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And that was about the point where Evan's face fell and he made a reach for his flytrap again.

"I wish I knew," he admitted. "You can't just change everybody. It takes big, sweeping change, and a lot of open minds and... People. People willing to accept that people are people."

"Yeah," Victor said, his face falling too. "Uh, I don't suppose you really, really want to talk about plants instead right about now--?"

"Plants are pretty awesome," Evan decided, holding up his venus flytrap for Victor to see. Because... that was exciting, right? "And this kind is actually sort of cute, if you can get past the fact that they're carnivores. Aren't they?"

Yes, Evan was just as willing to embrace a good distraction as the next guy, after a long, tiring conversation.

"I've always liked the pink part at the center of the leaves," Victor ventured, sounding relieved by the distraction. "Like hi, bug, welcome home -- and now I'm going to eat you."

"I kind of... when I give this one a bug, I keep thinking these 'omnomnom' noises when it claps down," Evan offered. And then blushed, because wow, that was kind of ridiculous, wasn't it? "I got a few, so if you want to keep one, that would be fine. You can get bugs for them at the pet store, and you just feed them once a week."

Way less demanding than his puppy was!

"So it's like the easiest pet ever," Victor said. "Sure, I can keep one. I think that's about my speed in terms of commitment right now."

He smiled as he reached for another Venus Fly Trap, setting down the plant he was holding. "Do I need to give it a name?"

"You can," Evan replied, laughing a little. "I mean, it has chompy leaves and everything, so why not give it a name? He's too cute to not name."

Yep. Evan had decided that Victor's plant was a boy plant.

Victor was welcome to change its gender designation as he saw fit, of course.

"Sure," Victor said, a bit dubious, and held up his plant to get a good look. "I dub thee ... Gomez."

Raul was a good name for a plant that ate bugs, right?

"What's yours called?"

"I haven't decided yet," Evan admitted, looking down at his plant. "My uncle gave me a weird look when I told him that I named my dog Ozzy after one of the musicians he always talks about, so I was thinking of trying something different. It would be weird to name a bug-eating swamp plant after a friend, right?"

Probably.

"Depends on how the friend would take it," Victor shrugged. "Right person, they'd be flattered by it."

"I think maybe Angel would take it the right way," Evan decided. "He finds something good in... kind of everything."

This was because Angel was pretty convinced that he really was an angel, and tended to look at the world as a beautiful place, overall.

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