Confounded Christmas Cookies
The warm aroma of gingerbread: spiced, aromatic, fragrant. The expansive kitchen is full of this delicious scent, beckoning and enticing. Decorated men sit in tidy little rows on cooling racks.That is, that's how it would be if any good smell like that weren't masked under the layers of burnt-to-a-crisp. Ami takes out yet another batch,
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"Ami-chan!" She cheerfully calls out, as if this is just any regular encounter. "What are you baking?"
She turns her head and sees the pile of rejects. Oh, hey, she's familiar with this! They could start a talk group for it! "Wait, did you make those?" No, Usagi, they obviously. just spawned out of thin air.
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Patience, Ami. Patience. This, too, shall pass. And if they multiply, you can put down poison.
Ami turns towards Usagi only after a moment to gather her thoughts and arrange her expression to carefully show Usagi the face she wants her to see.
"It's been awhile, Tsukino-san!" She doesn't even bother with the taunting Usagi-chan anymore. She also wouldn't bother answering the obvious question, except that it is a good way to taunt Usagi about the failed friendship: "I'm making gingerbread cookies for my friends!"
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"Gingerbread cookies?" By now Usagi is already jumping all over the kitchen to look around in every single spot. Perhaps she's looking for a hidden succeeded cookie. "Uwaah, that's so nice! Oh, Ami-chan, can I help? Pleeeaaase?"
How can you resist that face, huh? The answer is you don't.
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"You can bake?" This comes out bluntly skeptical, but surprised enough to forget to be mocking. She gives the younger girl (suddenly it's so obvious she's younger) a look that has a lot to teach about disbelief and lack of confidence.
Well, she knows Usagi likes burning things. It's a measure of Ami's resolution to try to be a little kinder and more tactful again that she doesn't make the sarcastic remark aloud.
Instead, she says, "Why not make it interesting? If you can bake a batch perfectly, I'll let you help with the rest." This can only end in fire.
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Usagi grins widely, now she seems very excited about all this. "Fine! You're on, Ami-chan!" She's already starting to gather supplies from the kitchen, because Usagi can focus on something when she makes up her mind.
... That isn't saying anything about the chaos Usagi will create, though. Heh, fire is the least of your worries there. Complete obliteration of everything in the closest four miles is more like it at the very least.
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Ami casually finds a seat on a tall stool, dangling her legs over it to give herself a higher perspective from which to watch the unfolding chaos. Usagi's really taking her up on this?
"Go ahead - if you can."
The kitchen, fortunately, is very well-stocked, and Ami has the necessary ingredients (all labeled) out on a side table anyway. Even Usagi can make these cookies, right? Right. Right? Right.
Don't worry about obliterating everything, Usagi; she's used to that.
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Okay, okay, so fine. Usagi will prove that she can make cookies and they will be yummy and godly and all kinds of stuff! Of course they will!
Making the dough seems to be pretty good, especially considering it's Usagi. Actually, pretty much everything seems to go fine so far! Sure, the shape is a little bit off, but close enough, right?
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And then Usagi notices it.
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Does she need water? Should she transform for it?
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