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[bunnyfixation]

WHO: Rukia, OPEN
WHERE: Girls dormitory, Room 101
WHEN: Around dinner time...well... way past that, actually... 8ish.
WHAT: Rukia is debating doing something that she probably shouldn't.
RATING: G (for now, depends on who decides to visit.)

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[sandprince]

Edgar knocked on the door of Rukia's dorm, a hacksaw in his hand and a tape measure on his belt. The door opened slightly and he poked his head in inquisitively; the last time he had just walked into a girls dorm had been rather more than embarrassing, and he certainly didn't want a repeat if Rukia was involved, if only for health reasons.

Looking around, he called out "Rukia? Are you in here, M'Lady? It's Edgar."

((replies will be sporadic at best tonite, but they'll be there.))

[bunnyfixation]

She chucked the dispenser back onto the table, letting out a sigh. "Come in, Edgar-san. How are you?"

((it's all good. :D))

[sandprince]

Edgar ducked slightly at the sound raised by whatever Rukia had thrown onto the table as he entered the room. As he neared the slightly-built girl, he smiled and gestured to the cast on her leg. "Evening, M'Lady. How's your foot? Mash had mentioned something to me about you having an accident at the track field? I trust everything is alright, yes?"

[bunnyfixation]

Her stomach growled and her expression only soured more. Edgar was somebody all right, but she wasn't sure if he was the somebody she really needed to be dealing with in her current mood. "Everything is..." She glanced over at the gikongan and grimaced as Chappy continued to smile at her. "...just fine." Turning back to Edgar she now had plastered a smile on her face. "Did you come about the crutches?"

[sandprince]

Edgar grinned and tapped the saw against his leg. "Indeed I did, M'Lady... Unless you wanted me to take the foot off at the ankle. Although I'm certain Mash would have something to say about that."

Spying the crutches near her bed, he smiled and nodded to her as he pulled the tape measure from his belt. "I'd just need to make a few measurements, M'Lady. I'd just need to measure from under your arm to the bottom of your foot, first."

After a moments pause, he grinned. "I hope you don't take this the wrong way, M'Lady, but I need you on the bed. So that I can measure you accurately, I mean. They'd be no use if they were cut too short, would they?"

[bunnyfixation]

Rukia nodded and did her best to lay down without moving her foot too much or without crushing the kittens. She held her arms up over her head and glanced up at him. "Like this?"

[sandprince]

Edgar grinned and nodded as he knelt beside Rukia's bed. As he laid the measuring tape along the length of her body, Edgar nodded to himself and jotted down the measurement onto a small pad. Absently rubbing the between the eyes of one of the kittens, he stood and nodded to Rukia. "Thank you, M'Lady; that should be all the measurements I need from you. For now, at least

[bunnyfixation]

She shrugged, staring down at the kittens that Luke had left. "I think they should be okay." She didn't know if they would or not, honestly.

[sandprince]

Edgar nodded and took a seat near the foot of Rukia's bed. As he began to cut through the tubular metal leg of the crutch he was holding, he looked over to the dark-haired girl and offered her a mischievous smile.

"See, M'Lady?" he said as the mithril sawteeth cut through the pipe quickly, "I told you wasn't a womaniser. If I were, I certainly wouldn't have let an opportunity like the one I had just now pass me by."

[bunnyfixation]

She just stared at him.

"The fact that you say that only shows how much of a womanizer you are, Edgar-san."

[sandprince]

Edgar laughed and put his hand to his heart. "M'Lady, you wound me again!" he cried, "Whatever shall I do?" he laughed again and smiled at Rukia as he resumed cutting through the crutch.

"You know," he added a moment later, still smiling, "I'm not really that bad, Rukia. Honestly."

[bunnyfixation]

She smirked. "I know."

[sandprince]

Edgar laughed and winked at Rukia as he cut through the leg of the first crutch.

"Well, I'm glad for that, M'Lady," he said, sounding pleased, "I'd hate for you to think I were some sort of emotionally hollow cad. I far prefer to be thought of as roguishly charming."

A few moments later, he grinned as the second leg dropped and made a hollow clatter against the leg of Rukia's bed. Edgar retrieved the rubber - at least he assumed it was rubber - feet from the cut pipes and fitted them onto the newly re-sized crutches. Standing, he moved beside Rukia's bed and offered his hand to her.

"Did you want to try them out, M'Lady?"

[bunnyfixation]

She frowned and sighed as she tried to think of a way to get up without his help but with the kittens there... she was unable. Reaching out she took his hand. She didn't think he was a hollow cad, whatever that word really meant... she just thought he was too forward. He reminded her of Captain Kyoraku. Which was... both a little endearing and a little bothersome. "Help me up. I don't want to hurt the kittens."

[sandprince]

Edgar leaned the crutches against the foot of Rukia's bed and took her hand in his. Helping her to her feet, Edgar steadied Rukia with one hand as he reached for the crutches with the other. He placed the first one under her arm and handed her the second as he took a tentative step backwards.

"How's that? Are they long enough, M'Lady?"

[bunnyfixation]

She nodded as she balanced herself on them, grasping the handles with either hand. "I think so." She tried to take a step forward but she wasn't used to these and so she ended up falling forward with a squeak. After crashing into the ground and the painful feeling of the crutches smacking her she sighed and looked up at him. "I guess I just have to get used to them. I'm not supposed to walk for another day or so, though. It will just have to wait."