Library, Wednesday

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Peridot had been planning on bringing her notes in from Jenkins' class today in order to go through the library to research some of the terminology he'd used during whatever spare time she had.

As the day progressed, it became fairly clear that Peridot wasn't going to have spare time. A few of the books had taken to running down the aisles, and then a few more, and before Peridot could rein in the first few runners it had spiralled out of control into a whole book stampede.

She might have gotten trampled.

It wasn't pretty.

[OOC: Open! Mind the books!]

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"Duh," said Summer with enthusiasm. Because, in the great wide multiverse, she could easily imagine everyone else existing as different versions or variations. Another Shiemi, another Hyacinthe, another BDG. But she could never imagine anyone quite like Peridot ever existing anywhere else.

"So," she said, straightening back up, "my robot self didn't act, like, super weird around your or anything, did she?"

BDG and Shiemi had spoiled her; surely, they weren't the only ones to figure it out, so Peridot must have to, right??

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Peridot paused for a long moment at that.

And then made a little 'O' shape with her mouth.

"THAT'S why you didn't have your phone upgrades!" She paused, and then added a little more sedately. "And kept stressing how much you liked me over the radio."

Ow.

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And somewhere off in another dimension, as Rick was decommissioning the robots to reuse their parts, he found a little purple smartphone in robot Summer's pocket. It had obviously been tampered with, so, fearing a recording or tracking device, he decided to check it out. Discovered it did holograms. That it could hover. And that...was about it. He snorted. "How *brrp* cute."

And promptly demolished it with a single swing of a hammer.

Whoops.

Meanwhile, in this dimension, Summer was not at all surprised that Peridot hadn't noticed. Acknowledging that, though, didn't seem to take away the slight sting of it.

Until something else tickled the back of her brain.

"Wait, hold up," she said. "Radio?"

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Peridot nodded.

"Radio broadcasts, Thursday mornings, every week. So you... she? Would be reporting on what I did here every Wednesday, and..." She fidgeted. "Always said how good a friend I was."

It had been nice. It was entirely possible that Peridot had been willing to ignore any strangeness in exchange for that much adulation.

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That fidget definitely took some of the murderous rage out of Summer. "Well, she wasn't wrong about that," she said with a faint smile. "You are a good friend. You're one of my best friends. But she was totally wrong in thinking that I would want to do radio. But at least I'm finding out now instead of in the morning when they bust into my room to drag me down there or whatever and scare the crap out of poor Shiemi."

Shiemi was now certifiably a delicate flower who must be protected at all costs after Monday. Especially against squirrels, which she'd always felt were pretty creepy.

With good reason thanks, new canon!.

Summer sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose, as if to fend off the blossoming headache she felt stalking her in the distance.

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"I believe your broadcasts will be superior anyway," Peridot decided. Partly because it was likely to be true, and partly because she was totally sucking up now, after realizing that maybe it hadn't been a good thing that she couldn't tell the two Summers apart. "Being delivered by the original, and all."

She paused, and then added, "And you're likely to use fewer pointless interjections."

Like like like like ohmygod like totally whatever.

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"Ohmygod," Summer groaned, "like, I bet they're just, like, totally..." But she didn't know, and she couldn't help wondering if maybe the robot really might have been convincing if Peridot hadn't noticed. The whole idea was a rabbit hole she wasn't ready to tumble down. "I almost kind of want to look them up, but then another part of me is like, that is a road you can't turn back on. Ignorance is, like, so totally bliss."

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"Now I don't know if you're doing that on purpose," Peridot muttered, bunching up at the shoulder a little. She stayed that way for a moment, and then smiled tentatively at Summer. "It really is good to have you back, though. You, you. I maybe didn't know you were a robot, but that didn't mean you made complete sense to me, either."

Which was about the best that she could say, really, without lying or something.