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>TQ
shit, he's running late. He thumbs through his library of books, throwing things around looking for that one cook book that came with a set of other books from a garage sale.
He finds it, he opens it to a random page- how hard could Paella be?
Fuck. He has no idea what he is doing. His glasses end up in the pan as he struggles, and tosses them out and across the room as he startled himself, but has a schizo moment, he needs to get serious.
He tosses his first attempt, and tries again- he's got time. He imagines Gordon Ramsey yelling at him, calling him an idiot sandwich because he needs the motivation to do his best.
He's not happy with it. Time crunch, he can start over right? He turns up the heat, but ends up catching the pan on fire.
You knock, you hear him shout "just a sec!"
You hear a fire extinguisher and get concerned.
He laughs nervously, opening the door a bit and steps outside explaining that he got caught up in work and failed to make something tasty. You point to his lab coat which is on fire.
help put it out and go out for some street food instead, having a lovely walk around Mesagoza, and there are fireworks for some reason, because Jacq is a lucky son of a gun and says he planned it all along.
You remind him about the fire on his lab coat and he just hugs you and tells you he doesn't remember it that way,