Voicemail.

[chef_chocobro]

"You have reached the voicemail of Ingis Scientia. I am unavailable to take your call at this moment, but if you would please leave a message, I will assuredly get back to you as soon as possible."

**BEEEEEEP**

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Wacky Phone Day!

[badassprodigy]

So. After a nice moment last night, Barry had come to a decision. He weighed out all the probabilities and decided this was the best course of action. At the very least he'd get a snarky response from Summer.

So... I know you've been patient with me and I'm not the easiest person to get along with. But I love you and I'm ready for the next step. Please take this in the spirit of which it is intended:

You up?

Too bad Barry hadn't been paying attention to the phone issues this morning.

Re: Wacky Phone Day!

[chef_chocobro]

[[ one to here and a second to here! ]]

Wacky phone day!

[designateddadfriend]

[from here]

"Wow. You are not my mom, so you don't get to drag me by my ear anywhere. I don't care what kind of badge you carry. Also, if I'm blowing something up, it's for a damned good reason."

Wacky Phone Day!

[thedadalorian]

"..." You know what? Din was just starting to think everyone had gone crazy here. "I don't want to assume anything, but I think you might want to address some things about your relationship with birds. Just based of that message."

Re: Wacky phone day!

[chef_chocobro]

[[ and it went here, and spawned this and this! ]]

Re: Wacky Phone Day!

[chef_chocobro]

[[ aqui! ]]

[grenadesandohana]

I don't follow-up on booty call requests from random people since that thing in Singapore, so that's a hard pass on both railings and delicate lovemaking, thanks.

[chef_chocobro]

[[ to here! ]]

[bookbeltof_love]

Soooooooo...

Like, she and Prompto had talked and since Iggy was both a friend and her apparent brother-in-law and sure he was off working and probably burying himself in the minutiae of all the things Noctis needed done and had no idea how to do...

But. Still.

You okay????????????????

[chef_chocobro]

Well, the return to Insomnia had been a bit delayed thanks to the presence of a certain unexpected child and probably would continue to be delayed at least until well into tomorrow when Prompto had some time handle sending that child off in a spectacularly handwavey fashion because omg what is brain???, but all the same...

It was actually kind of nice that Nina would think to check in with Ignis over all of this, as well. Dealing with a child was not exactly new ground for him, since he'd been doing that since he was a child himself, but this visit was certainly not without its own...disturbing prophesies for him, either.

It has undeniably been an interesting few days, but, yes, thank you. I'm fine. I believe your concern is best focused on your brother, though; I believe it has hit him quite hard.

Would he have said the same thing if he hadn't been fine?

Did it really matter?

[bookbeltof_love]

Igs whens your next office hours????????????????

And, sure, Nina could've elaborated on why but, like, curiosity was a powerful tool.

[chef_chocobro]

Since it's the summer, I wasn't planning on holding any, to be completely honest.

Besides, he was pretty sure that, during the whole semester, there had been all of one occasion where anyone had even bothered to stop by.

And between taking two classes and teaching one, he was finding it difficult to balance his duties as well this session.

But Prompto has insisted I check out this Wednesday event with him this week, so I should be available tomorrow, if need be.

Why?

You honestly didn't expect him to not ask, did you, Nina?

Is there something the matter?

Considering she hardly needed to go to his office to get I touch with him. Clearly.

[bookbeltof_love]

Realistically speaking Nina could get in touch with anyone on the island with basically zero effort.

wanna run something past you in person without other people around

Especially her brother!

Also she didn't answer the whole 'is something the matter'.

[chef_chocobro]

Well, then. Consider him intrigued.

And significantly more at ease over the concern that Nina had machinations to do something to it while he wasn't there.

Tomorrow, then. Would before or after the event work best for you?

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina hesitated.

Before was useful as an excuse to end the meeting if she felt it wasn't going anywhere productive.

On the other hand, she didn't know how long it would take either.

After, I think?????????

And she'd just hope tomorrow wasn't anything gross as the event.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Don't mind Summer! Just oh-so-subtly shooting off a perfectly innocent text for no reason at all, doo-doo-doo!

Hey, I need you to do me a favor and text something to your boyfriend real quick.

[chef_chocobro]

And here Ignis was thinking he was about to have a nice, quiet evening at home, not even having to clean up any messes made for the sake of his own birthday, too...

He heard his phone buzz, picked it up to look, and then sighed.

I can't tell if that was supposed to be a joke regarding the closeness of the companionship I have with my compatriots or an actual substantial presumption on your part regarding my personal romantic pursuits, but what I am quite certain of is that, whichever it is, the answer is no.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Boy, it was going to be difficult to be subtle about this exchange when Summer could only roll her eyes hard at a response like that.

Come on! It's a social experiment! It's for SCIENCE!

[chef_chocobro]

That was far from the convincing argument you seemed to think it was, Summer, and Ignis regarded his phone with skepticism and reluctance before responding.

Do not mistake this for concession. I am merely asking because curiosity will eventually get the better of me and I wish to nip that in the bud so I can return to my nice and quiet, peaceful evening.

But what, exactly, is it you want me to send?

[somethingwithturquoise]

Here it was, boys! The moment of truth!

u up?

[chef_chocobro]

Gods dammit, Summer.

Somehow, Ignis was honestly wondering why he was even surprised.

Absolutely not.

[somethingwithturquoise]

There was, Summer felt, only one response to an answer like that:

🙄🙄🙄

[chef_chocobro]

Ignis sighed, knowing full well that he didn't owe Summer any sort of justification or explanation, and yet there he was, giving it anyway.

Even in the slim chance that he understood the full cultural context of such a message, there is the simple complication of the fact that I am currently on an entirely different planet in a completely separate dimension right now.

Hardly the ideal situation for a mere booty call, Summer.

[somethingwithturquoise]

And now Summer had to try SO HARD not to smirk at her phone right now, she was trying to be sneaky and stealthy here!

So what you're saying is, she texted back, that if you weren't at home right now, you'd totally consider it

[chef_chocobro]

Could you side-eye at someone through a phone? If you could, that was precisely what Ignis was doing at that moment.

Eventually supplemented with:

Don't you have a bar you're supposed to be tending?