Hap-py? What is? [Open, but expect slowish tagging]

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

After the holiday planet, someone's gotten a cheering up. It seems that Jaime Reyes is finally turning his bad mood around, finally recovering some from the bridge run, finally coming to terms with everything.

It's helped that he's taken time to grieve, but having taken time on the mission to just help others has helped even more.

In fact, Jaime's used his spending money for presents. Some of it for people he knows, but he also picked up stuff he could give to just anyone on the ship, and he intends to just...give them stuff to cheer up whoever needs it.

So, Meatship, there is short Latino teen going around the ship giving random people presents. Enjoy!

"Who wants cookies?"

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[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

"A delicious snack food you should eat."

He shoves a bag into her hands. Chocolate chip.

"Sometimes they're mass-produced by cheerful elves in hollow trees."

Okay, he's messing with people again. Good sign. He's definitely almost himself again.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"Huh?" Katara took the bag, observing it a moment. These...brown things, with black things in the looked weird. She grabbed one of them, rubbing them through her hands, and was startled to see it crumbly. She finally picked one up and started to nibble on it. She crunched, then looked thoughtful, and smiled.

"Hey, these are good! Tell the elves I said thank you?"

She started to eat a few more. "I don't know why, but it feels like I have ore energy because of this stuff!"

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

"I was just joking about the elves--long story--but the energy would likely be the sugar, annnd probably the caffeine in the chocolate."

She's likely used to a high-protein, low-carb diet what with living in the South Pole back home, and Stacy probably had been giving her the same.

Super-refined future-sugar that was even more sweet than what he had in his time and world was likely very, very new.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Yes, tasting this was definitely doing strange things to her stomach, and she suddenly began to understand how Aang felt when he'd tried that drink to induce the Avatar state.

"Wow! This stuff is great! Isn't this stuff great? No wonder you guys from other worlds are happy all the time, you just take one of these and whoooo, you're awake and alert and happy! I mean, this even tastes good, WAY better than that alcohol stuff, yuck! This is great, really great! What other ones do you have?"

Katara was bouncing on the balls of her feet now, a deleriously happy look on her face.

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

"...No more sugar for you."

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara rubbed her head. "I haven't really had this kind of stuff before. It's...whoo!"

She did several cartwheels and made a flip in the air and touched down lightly, panting. "But I don't think I'll do it again anytime soon!"

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

"...Yeah, definitely no more sugar for you. And probably no red food dye. I bet you'd be worse than my sister," he jokes.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara laughed and did a somersault. "If you say so! I don't think I've had food that made me feel so zippy! Is there a down side to this?"

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

"The inevitable sugar crash--and I swear, I have never seen someone hit a sugar high that fast. How did you even have time to digest it?"

A pause.

"Might be the caffeine in the chocolate, though."

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"It isn't often that I get to sit around and have sweet things all the time," Katara replied. "More often than not, we had to gather what food we could, and ration when we weren't sure when we'd get to eat again. That means eating food that is going to have to give us strength for whatever lies ahead: sugar wasn't an option."

Caffeine? She'd have to look in to that too. So many terms she had to remember. "Where do you find caffeine?" she asked.