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The garage door was left open as Galo rode back into Burning Rescue Station 3.
“Hey Galo! Did you find him?” Lucia calls out from her spot. Galo’s lunch break was long over by the time he came back, not that anyone minded. The significant lack of fires didn’t give them much to do as most of them were back here updating their mechs. Can’t fight a Promare-fueled fire without the Promare, after all. Still, there were other tasks around the station to be done.
The Burning Rescue team, as emergency responders, were part of the initial rescue process when all the Burnish were still stuck in their Promatech pods. Once everyone was taken out and transported to hospitals in the untouch part of town, they soon found themselves lacking jobs until the city needed them again to start taking apart the Parnassus.
Remi looks over from manually adjusting his mech. He remembers when Galo first showed up at the station. All energy, a heart of gold, and seeming to have no brain cells whatsoever. Not that it mattered with Lio’s arrival. Despite the chaos the two tend to bring to the table, he was happy for them. He was just a little peeved that they were getting married before he even got the chance to propose to his own scaley beloved. How things do change.
“Yeah! It was just as you thought, Aina!” Galo's voice as booming as ever.
“She’s not here. Just left to grab lunch since you forgot to come back with it,” Varys says as he does deadlifts in the corner of the room.
Galo facepalmed as he forgot that very important detail. “Oh man! My bad! Totally forgot while looking around for Lio!”
“As if that’s anything new.” You can hear the eyeroll in Lucia’s voice. Fingers running over controls as she kept on working. “We kind of figured once you called back on your way here.”
“Varys, do you really have to do that here? Why aren’t you in the workout room,” Remi complains but lacks his usual bite. Eyes focus back on the parameters screen in front of him. The soft clacking of keys adding to the cacophony of the room.
Varys grunts as he sets the weights down. “AC’s busted remember? At least here I get company.”
The chatter is interrupted as Aina returns on her motorbike with a stack of pizzas on the back. “Hey! I’m back!”
“I found him where you said! Thanks!” Galo remembers as she unmounts.
“It’s only natural for him to be there. You remembered to give him his lunch, right?” She asked as the boxes were set in the middle of the table.
“Yeah, though we ended up doing some wedding stuff, too.”
“OHO?” Lucia’s interest is double piqued with gossip over the food. “What kind of wedding stuff? Aww yeah! Aina, you’re the real MVP today! Sooooo hungry!!!” She hollered as she flew out of her chair. Her hand was already inching towards the food as Remi smacked her hand away from the pizza boxes.
“Lucia, wash your hands. We’ve been working for hours.” Remi reprimanded and headed towards the restrooms to do just that.
Galo could only beam as he declared across the room, “Supplies!”
“Like wedding supplies? Ooooh! What are we getting?” Aina, getting invested in her friend’s marriage plans.
“The guys gave me a list but…” Galo reached into one of his pockets and fetched out a crumpled piece of paper.
“Let me see! Let me see!” Lucia snatched it with wet hands and the other noisily rushed over to get a look.
“Hey!” Galo tried to grab her but she ducked under his arm and moved out of reach. “Don’t go snatching things that aren’t yours!”
Lucia stuck out her tongue in response "Ya snooze, ya lose. Hehe-- Mine now!"
Aina spoke up, “Well, after that fiasco a few months ago, I like to think that we’re preventing any more emotional damage before you two tie the knot.” Touché.
“Wow, there’s a lot of fire on this list.” Varys commented with food in his mouth. ‘No kidding’ Galo thought. It wasn't uncommon for some of the former Burnish to have fallen into pyromania with smoking habits or collecting candles. People tend to show their affiliation with flame motifs on property and small triangles sewn onto their clothing. Sometimes when he would pass by a group of former Burnish on the way to work, where they would be proudly displaying their colorful patches and playful accessories. Despite losing the promare, some were not afraid of letting their past be known. Showing off your Burnish pride, huh? Somehow, his thoughts always came back around to Lio.
“What about this colored fire, seems… oddly specific.” Remi, back from the restrooms and looking over the list with the others. Galo zoned back into the conversation.
He was just as confused as the rest of his team, “I am just as out of the loop as you guys. I asked them about it and they said it was very important for the ceremony. We have to combine the colored flames, apparently.”
“Maybe you gotta eat the flame again?” Varys suggested as he inhaled another two slices in the same breath.
Galo huffed and crossed his arms. “That was a one time deal! I’m a firefighter! Not a fire eater!”
“Maybe I can talk to Heris about it.” Aina blurted out in their squabble.
“Huh?” Galo was not expecting that answer. Under court orders, Heris was under watch most of the time when it comes to laboratory work so he assumed that it would be hard for anyone to be in contact with her.
“I’m pretty sure that everyone here is better at putting out a Burnish fire rather than knowing how to start one. If anyone knows about the Burnish without ever being Burnish themselves, Heris would be your best bet.” Aina was confident in her sister’s skills.
“Isn’t she super busy though?”
“I’m sure she can make time for one of the heroes that helped save the world.” She said confidently, “Besides, she makes more time for me now.”
The Ardebit sisters had more time to spend together since Heris moved back in with her sister. As Heris’s apartment was actually part of the Parnassus ship, she wasn’t allowed back onto the location to grab her stuff for the city feared that she would cause more trouble or do anything that could implicate her further.
“You sure this would be okay?”
“I’m very sure! It’s not like we’re planning a coupe or anything! We have better things to do!”
“WHAT? No, we are not getting kangaroos and crocodiles for your wedding.” Remi off-handedly commented with disgust very evident, finally reading further down the list.
“Noted. I’ll tell them they’re on their own for that one.” Galo doesn’t know what to do with that request either.
“We can talk to her today as I go and pick her up! You’re off at the same time as me, right?”
“Yeah! Wait-- for real?!” Galo was getting excited. That would make this whole thing a ton easier. He only lit a fire once in his life and that was an emergency. No clue on where to even get colored fire.
“Of course!” She grins back.
Galo couldn’t help the huge whoop that sprung out of him as he finally dug into his own three boxes of pizza, his worry melting out of his mind. Maybe this wedding stuff isn’t so bad after all.