A/N: Some Jason/Janet. To feed your soul.
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"Thank you for helping me fix the car, Jason."
"Thank you for telling me what to do," Jason says with a smile. The whole time, he had no idea what they were doing, but Janet was smart-brained and patient and the job was over in what felt like no time. The car hadn't even blown up.
"I'm sorry I crashed it," Janet says ruefully. "I really can't stand not knowing things."
"That's okay. If I had a nickel for every vehicle I crashed, I'd have enough to afford even one of the vehicles I crashed."
Janet smiles at this and they walk into the hotel with arms linked.
At first, it seems like they might just go inside and have a quiet night, but the doors to their hotel are lined with posters for local events happening downtown.
"Trivia night!" Jason exclaims, his face lighting up as he points at one of the posters. "We could DESTROY!"
"Jason, it's late. We have a big day tomorrow."
"But I'm not even tired!" Jason whines. "I fell asleep in the car and then we all almost died again, so I'm wayyy too awake to go to bed right now. Plus, what a great chance to show off how you know everything!"
That got Janet. "Well… Okay. We'll go for the first round. But then we should get to bed. Well, you should get to bed. I'll get to idle mode."
The bar is popping, which automatically gets Jason even more excited than he already was. He's had some of the best nights of his life start in bares like this. Well, not bars exactly like this. There are no boa constrictors or loose bathtubs or dead swamp hermits. But still, who knows what the night will hold? Maybe he and Janet will discover an underground alligator rodeo or see a swamp hermit compete in a fatal belly-flopping competition!
But first, they need to win trivia. Janet needs to be reminded that she's the smartest not-a-lady on Earth.
Turns out, winning doesn't just have that effect on Janet. Jason, too, is flying high after Janet tells him that Kentucky Fried Chicken was the first fast food restaurant to use sporks.
"I feel like the smartest man in the universe!" Jason crows as the first round draws to a close. "And look, we're in the lead!"
The high of winning is intoxicating, even to Janet, who agrees to let them stay for the second half.
Jason doesn't think the world can get much better until the final question.
In 2017, the screen reads, the Supercharge Cherry flavor of Dementia Energy Drink was quietly discontinued after what was found to be an ingredient?
Janet frowns; the question is about an event of the last year, but Jason knows.
"It's battery acid!" he whispers excitedly so no other teams will hear. "My boy Battery Acid was hospitalized after he drank like seventy of them in a week! That's how he got his nickname."
They both erupt into cheers when they're revealed to be the night's winners, and the bartender approaches them with a smile. "Free shots for the winners?"
"Thank you, Jason," Janet says, sliding her shots over to Jason since she can't drink.
"We make a good team!" Jason says triumphantly after he's done pounding the shots.
"It was fun knowing things with you."
"It's fun not knowing things, too! I know the least out of everyone I know, but I know I have more fun than everyone I know. I think."
Janet laughs politely, and something inside of Jason warms. You must have to be really funny to make a robot laugh, he decides.
"Okay, now we should check out and go back to the hotel for real."
Jason frowns, but he pulls out his credit card. It's still wild to think it has tens of millions of dollars on it. It probably won't even get declined.
"Do you think I'm being a bad husband? Is that why we have to go back?" Jason asks, looking down at the card. "I've never been a husband before, so I'm not entirely sure how to do it. I feel like maybe once I heard that staying at bars until closing time is a bad husband thing. But maybe that was for wives."
Janet suddenly looks like she isn't having so much fun anymore. "I thought you didn't have any romantic or domestic responsibilities to Tahani… right?"
"I guess not. She said it was just so she could give me a lot of her money, but I don't understand she couldn't've just given me her credit card."
"That would have been easier," Janet says. It sounds like she's gritting her teeth, so Jason tries to think of other fun things they could do that might cheer her up.
"Janet?"
"Yes, Jason?"
"Can we do karaoke?"
"I have heard 27 years' worth of your thoughts, and I'm still not sure how your head works a lot of the time." Janet says this with a smile, and Jason suspects he's helping his case.
"And isn't it fun to be surprised?"
"With you, it definitely is." After a pleasant beat, she adds, "You know, if I had my powers, I could play karaoke music out of my mouth."
This is indisputably the coolest thing Jason has ever heard. "Could you play songs with words, too?"
"I could."
"Could you play 'Suck E. Cheese'?"
"I could."
"Could you play 'Cotton Eye Joe'?"
"I could."
"Could you play the whole Songs That Get White People Turnt playlist? Or would it get you too turnt?"
"I could play whatever you wanted to hear."
"Dope."
When the waitress returns with their receipt, she chirps that she's happy to head home, get back to the baby.
"You have a baby now!?" Janet asks in complete disbelief. Then, realizing that her reaction was too overexcited for a total stranger, she corrects herself. "Um, I mean, that sounds nice."
"See?" Jason doesn't want to let it go now. The world is so full of fun surprises. "Wasn't that more than just knowing everything about her?"
Janet hesitates, but then nods.
"Janet. I have the best idea."
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A/N: Seriously, though, could you imagine these clowns at trivia night?
