Eerie, Indiana fanfiction: Vacation

[froodle]

Written for Day 5 of the 31_days October challenge. The prompt was "Nature, schmature."



"I can't even look at you right now," Howard said in disgust.

"Why?" asked Wally, looking hurt.

Howard gestured to their surroundings. To their left and right, white sandy beaches stretched away into the distance, and immediately in front of them, cerulean blue water shimmered with gold highlights under the tropical sun, warm and inviting and so clear you could see that the seabed beneath was miraculously free of stones or seaweed or unpleasant marine wildlife. Further out, dolphins were leaping in the surf, and on the shore, palm trees laden with bananas and coconuts provided shade from the tropical sunshine.

"How do you not know that Indiana is a landlocked state?" Howard snapped. "This is ridiculous! You can't just summon up paradise on a whim and then say, 'Oh, this is what the town of Eerie looks like now' just because you want to get a tan."

"I'm on holiday," said Wally reasonably.

"Indiana is not Hawaii!"

"Of course it isn't," said Wally. "Except for this part of it. This part of it is, for the next two weeks."

Howard put his face in his hands and moaned.

"Coconuts and bananas don't even grow on the same tree!" he whimpered.

"Want to help me build a fire pit?" asked Wally. "I'm going to roast a pig in it later."

"You're vegetarian!"

"This pig is made of vegetables, but tastes exactly like bacon."

"This is worse than the ghost train. This might be the most unscientific thing you've ever done, including the night you created a thunderstorm because you were watching Frankenstein and needed the right ambience."

"So, you don't want to help me build a fire pit?"

"Of course I'm going to help build it!" shouted Howard. "Otherwise you'll probably decide it cooks the meat by voodoo magic or something equally ridiculous!"

Wally grinned.

Comments

[froodle]

im totes headcanoning that they met in college, because eerie would want its weatherman to have scientific training even tho he never actually uses it because eerie, and now howard is just super grumpy cos hes all like I KNOW YOU KNOW THIS ISNT SCIENTIFICALLY VALID and wallys like... "but, its happening anyway, so...?"

[eviinsanemonkey.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I think that's how Carlos feels in Night Vale.

He's like.

"THIS IS SCIENTIFICALLY IMPOSSIBLE! WHAT THE FUCK?!"

and then he's like "I"ma go study it for awhile"

[deifire]

I was just thinking how these two and Carlos and Cecil need to meet in some reality for a double date...

[froodle]

howard would be so. grumpy. it would be amazing!!

[eviinsanemonkey.livejournal.com]

Carlos would be like "dude, relax, just roll with it."

and Wally and Cecil would enjoy discussing the weird.

[froodle]

"...and now the weather..."

[eviinsanemonkey.livejournal.com]

AND HOWARD WOULD FLIP HIS SHIT

Like.

the weather would start and Howard would be like "WHAT THE FUCK?!"

[froodle]

and wally would be like, oh, interesting!

and then there would be drum n bass during eeries next thunderstorm

[eviinsanemonkey.livejournal.com]

omg yes.

and Howard would just be so pissed off. And Wally would come home from work and be like "SO What'd you think?!" and Howard's just like "Don't talk to me."

[froodle]

lmao YES EXACTLY LIKE THAT!

[froodle]

then he just derps out staring at bunsen burners inside a condo for like hours...