Tag Team Typo Fic with Kate
"You should get him a new door, too, just in case he and the palm tree-"
"SHUT UP."
Priyanka shut up.
But again, she was trapped.
"Isn't there... some way we can work this out?" Priyanka asked with a nervous laugh after a moment of silence, finally un-shutting-up.
Amalia, the bright bulb she is, asked "W-work what out? The room? I-I'll have that covered, no need to worry!"
"Uh, actually, I meant him-" she pointed at Sebastian "- not killing me. (He can eat Ciel if he wants, though.)"
"He will not." Ciel stated loudly.
(What, kill me or eat you?) "If you say so."
"We have a contract. He is not to have any part of me."
(Not even your-)
"NO!"
(Forgot about the thought-reading again...)
"Um, please refrain from killing anyone! Blood's actually quite hard to get out of the carpet," Amalia chirped.
"What is going /on/ in here? Do you have to be so loud all the time?"
(Jin!) Priyanka thought. If any of the people in charge here was competent enough to send her home, it would be Jin. That is, if she was in a good mood (which she hardly ever was).
"What do y- oh, figures. If ANYONE was to make more of a mess out of the hotel, it was bound to be you three again, wasn't it? Amalia, why haven't you fixed the hole downstairs yet?"
Amalia pointed at Priyanka. Priyanka tried to pretend she wasn't there.
It didn't work. "Who the hell is she, anyway?"
"Well, I'm not /entirely/ sure, but her name's Priyanka."
"And she /broke my room/."
"I t-told you I'd fix it..."
"But you HAVEN'T."
"There's a hole in the building, short stuff," Jin snapped. "There are more important things than your room, you know."
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING SO SHORT THAT EVEN CHILDREN LOOK UP TO-"
"Yes, yes, we get it; you're short."
"I- Uh.." Priyanka piped up.
"What is it?"
"It's- well, really, it's nothing but-- How would I get home?"
Jin thought about this for a minute.
"Well, I've got to fix what you did to the hotel, not to mention I'm already /ridiculously/ busy. It would take a day, at the /very/ least."
Ed and Ciel's following "NO!" could be heard throughout Erro.
(If Erro's timeline is just as up to date in here as it was back when I was back in my own world, then maybe Ulquiorra and Mokona have the wishlist still and can ask for another bed?) She wondered.. (But... maggots. M-maybe I was being over-imaginative! That must be it! I trust he doesn't have maggots... r-right?)
"Mokona probably wouldn't mind you staying with him - it - whatever that thing's pronoun is." Jin paused. "... if you're not particularly against a few maggots here and there."
Priyanka shivered. Maggots... “I- yeah.” (Just a part of my imagination, just a part of my imagination...)
"Well, that's settled then."
"Good," Ed muttered, "just keep her away from me."
Jin frowned. "I trust you know what room they're in?"
(Trust me, I don't think I could forget something like that.) "Yes."
"Good." Jin quickly shoo'd her out of the room after that, voices of 'no, you cannot follow her and kill her', 'yes, we still get it, shut up', 'um please don't kill her!', and 'I'll get to it, Jin, I will! I promise!' following her down the hall.
Only moments later, Priyanka stood outside Mokona and Ulquiorra's room, knocking on the door cautiously.
"...Mokona doesn't know this person." A voice came, and Priyanka whipped around, glancing down both ends of the hallway. Mokona wasn't in the hallway, just as she thought.
"Er. I'm... Jin told me that I could stay the night here."
"The scary accountant lady needed to put this person somewhere to sleep?"
Priyanka nodded.
"Oh." The voice fell silent for a second, shuffling behind the door and opening it. "Sorry that Mokona was checking the hole in the door. Mokona just didn't think anybody in Erro knocked. Oh, and Mokona's name is Mokona. Who is this person?"
"I'm Priyanka. Nice to meet you." She couldn't help but feel a little silly saying that - this didn't feel like the first time she was meeting him at all.
He mouthed the name. "Mokona's never heard of a name like that. Priyanka's not from Japan, is Priyanka?"
"No. Unfortunately." She peered over Mokona's shoulder, trying to get a good look at the room. Where were the maggots? Or, more importantly, where weren't the maggots? She'd need to find an un-infested place to sit down and catch her breath after all that had happened.
Mokona took a step back and opened the door to her, glancing around. "If Priyanka's looking for Jade, Jade's not here right now." He giggled. (Jade went to go get more drinks~. Mokona's glad, too, since Priyanka might be a really good person for drinking games.)
"Drinking games?" Oops - even if Mokona was used to it by now, she didn't want Mokona and Jade's first impression of her to be "nosy mind-reading girl".
Mokona nodded, not even hesitating. "Yup! Like 'I Never', where each person goes in order and says something that person didn't do, and if someone else did it, then that person drinks."
"Mokona, I'm ba- who's this?" Jade had appeared behind Priyanka without her noticing.
"Priyanka is Priyanka!"
"Yes, but what is she doing in our room?"
"...Living with Mokona and Jade." Mokona rushed over for a quick hug, offering a sheepish shrug. "But Mokona thinks Priyanka might be good at drinking ga-- Mokona thinks there should be a party in the bar tonight! Everyone can play drinking games!" Mokona cheered loudly.
Drunk fictional characters. Drunk, /shippable/ fictional characters. Priyanka, as they say, was /so there./
Mokona grabbed one of Jade's hands and wandered out, into the hall. "Let's go~!" He proudly announced, giggling. Priyanka followed behind, closing the door behind her.
"Why are we going that way?"
Mokona blinked. "There's more people this way!"
There was also, as they found out seconds later, a demon butler that way.
A /very dangerous/ demon butler, though really, that goes without saying.
Mokona didn't think twice about this, though, and wandered up. "Come drinking with Mokona, Jade, and Priyanka!"
Priyanka shuddered. Somehow, she just knew that this wasn't going to end well for her. Not one bit…
Seeing what he thought of as "that crazy woman" again - and worse, that crazy woman accompanied by the annoying rabbit-thing, Ciel glared at the newcomers. "Sebastian..."
"Understood." The butler's eyes flashed, and he took a step forward, readying himself.
[Here, we the authors believe that there is no use elaborating upon Priyanka's thought process beyond these two words: (OH, SHIT.)]
This didn't go unnoticed, though. Ulquiorra, already used to such fights from back in Las Noches, pushed Mokona and Priyanka back, standing before them defensively.
Ciel made an odd face.
"... young master, exactly what are you doing?"
"Attempting to read their thoughts, of course," Ciel said matter-of-factly.
"You don't need to do... that," Sebastian replied, gesturing vaguely at Ciel's face. "It takes very little effort. They /seem/ not to have any ill intentions."
"Like Jade said! Mokona and Jade and Priyanka just want to head down to the bar~!"
"Like Jade said! Mokona and Jade and Priyanka just want to head down to the bar~!"
"And we were, er, well, Mokona was wondering if any of you wanted to come too," Priyanka added.
Ciel frowned. "I would rather save the embarassment."
"I'm afraid I'll have to pass as well."
Mokona frowned. This was getting them no new people. He turned around and loudly shouted, "Come, everyone! Come play drinking games down at the bar! Mokona thinks that if enough people come, even meanies like Kuro-Meanie and Short-Eddy-pants might come!"
"DON'T CALL ME THAT! And fine, fine, I'll come," Ed said, scowling. /Besides,/ he thought, forgetting about everyone's accidental telepathy, /that jerk wouldn't be there and I can relax for once./
Priyanka's interest was piqued. "What jerk?"
"N... nobody!"
Priyanka couldn't help but smirk at the irony of Ed denying this in front of /her/ of all people.
Three doors opened in the hallway. Big Kitty wandered out of one. "Ahaha, com'on, Kuro-pii. It'll be fun!" He said, apparently talking to someone hidden within the room.
The reply he got was a /long/ string of grumbled "no"s and other various things of that sort, followed by "/fine/" and Kurogane appearing behind him, not looking all that happy.
Out of the second door, Rena re-appeared. "Did someone say games, I wonder I wonder?"
Big Kitty smiled at her, linking one of his arms with one of Kurogane's. "Yup~! Are you going to come play with us?”
Rena smiled brightly. “Rena will come, Rena will!”
And, finally, out of the third door wandered the Barnacle himself. "Drinking, you say?"
"Drinking~!" Mokona agreed cheerfully, once again grabbing Ulquiorra's hand.
He started off again down the hall, passing Ciel and Sebastian, who were waiting in the rubble for everyone to pass. Priyanka couldn't help but feel welcome here, despite the fact that almost everyone here had someone they were with, which made her the odd one out.
They all headed down the stairs into the lobby, about to turn to go downstairs again into the bar, when Big Kitty stopped. "Riza! You look like you had a rough day! Do you want to come drinking with us~?"
Riza thought about it for a minute. As long as she didn't drink /too/ much, things should be fine... "I suppose so."
"Yay~! More people~!" Mokona cheered, once again leading the way down the stairs.
They all entered the bar, talking amongst themselves, where they found Erika and Fay. The pink haired girl spoke up. "What're you all doing down here?"
"Drinking games~!"
"Aren't some of you a little too young for that?" Fay asked, looking at the group - Rena and Ed in particular.
"I AM NOT SHORT!"
"Nobody said you were."
"H-HAWW?! I d-don't think I'm too young!"
"Well, if you say so... Mind if I join in, Mokona?"
Mokona nodded. "Mokona wouldn't say no to more people!"
Fay smiled and thanked Mokona for allowing him to join, and everyone pushed a couple of tables together, making a big enough place for everyone to sit around. "Mokona thinks everyone should play 'I Never' so everyone can meet Priyanka better!" Mokona announced.
There was a general round of "yeah"s and "sure"s and "if I HAVE to"s from the participants. Priyanka couldn't help but smile a little - they'd been so welcoming, even though she was the insane outsider who'd nearly demolished half the building. Well, except for Ciel, but that was /Ciel/...
"Erika, could you get everyone a bottle of... hm. Shall we have sake, everyone~?" Fay asked, leaning back in one of the chairs that were distributed around the tables.
"Sake~!" Mokona cheered, and the decision was made. "Who should go first? Mokona votes not it!"
"Not it!" everyone chorused, Rena chiming in just a few seconds late.
"It seems Rena's the unlucky one, this round." Big Kitty laughed, looking over at her.
"H-HAWW? R-Rena's first?! Well, um... Rena's never.. kissed someone!"
Priyanka watched as the rest of the table took a drink, and hesitantly took one herself, although if she took one because of not wanting to be the odd one out or because she was actually following the game rules was not something anybody ever found out.
"Jade~! Your turn." Mokona smiled at Ulquiorra, sitting next to Mokona and expressionless as always.
"..Alright. I've never... Been to Japan."
Mokona, Fay, and Kurogane all drank. Ed and Riza looked rather confused, not knowing what exactly Japan was or why one would go there.
Rena hesitantly took a sip as well, the other Fay watching her carefully as he took a drink himself.
Priyanka, meanwhile, frowned.
"Is something wrong with Priyanka?" Mokona asked her, slightly concerned.
She jumped. "I- No. Nothing's wrong- I mean, I'm fine."
"If Priyanka says so..." but there was a hint of doubt in Mokona's voice. After realizing he wasn’t going to get anymore of an answer from her, no matter what he did, he turned his attention back to the game. "It's Mokona's turn now, isn't it~? Hmm... Mokona's never.. lost an eye!"
'Big Kitty' and Ulquiorra frowned and drank. Rena glanced nervously over at the person next to her, Kurogane, who looked like he was going to punch a baby if he had to sit through five more minutes of this, and then back at the other Fay, who looked more disturbed than angry or upset. She wasn’t sure she understood how both Ulquiorra and Fay had managed to lose eyes and still have them, but from the looks of things, she quickly decided that was probably for the best. Priyanka, meanwhile, was unsure what to do next, so she readjusted herself on her seat and waited for the next person to go.
"I've never..." It took Riza a moment to think of a question that wasn't too suspiciously unincriminating. "I've never played a drinking game before."
Mokona, as expected, cheered loudly and drank. Fay, 'Big Kitty', Kurogane, Barney, and even Ulquiorra followed suit. Priyanka smiled. Maybe she could get used to this, if it meant she could just play drinking games all day…
"Haha, so it seems the odds are in my favor now." Barney laughed. "I've never… gone celibate for more than a year."
(Does it count if you never really weren't celibate?) Riza thought.
"SHUT UP."
Priyanka shut up.
But again, she was trapped.
"Isn't there... some way we can work this out?" Priyanka asked with a nervous laugh after a moment of silence, finally un-shutting-up.
Amalia, the bright bulb she is, asked "W-work what out? The room? I-I'll have that covered, no need to worry!"
"Uh, actually, I meant him-" she pointed at Sebastian "- not killing me. (He can eat Ciel if he wants, though.)"
"He will not." Ciel stated loudly.
(What, kill me or eat you?) "If you say so."
"We have a contract. He is not to have any part of me."
(Not even your-)
"NO!"
(Forgot about the thought-reading again...)
"Um, please refrain from killing anyone! Blood's actually quite hard to get out of the carpet," Amalia chirped.
"What is going /on/ in here? Do you have to be so loud all the time?"
(Jin!) Priyanka thought. If any of the people in charge here was competent enough to send her home, it would be Jin. That is, if she was in a good mood (which she hardly ever was).
"What do y- oh, figures. If ANYONE was to make more of a mess out of the hotel, it was bound to be you three again, wasn't it? Amalia, why haven't you fixed the hole downstairs yet?"
Amalia pointed at Priyanka. Priyanka tried to pretend she wasn't there.
It didn't work. "Who the hell is she, anyway?"
"Well, I'm not /entirely/ sure, but her name's Priyanka."
"And she /broke my room/."
"I t-told you I'd fix it..."
"But you HAVEN'T."
"There's a hole in the building, short stuff," Jin snapped. "There are more important things than your room, you know."
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING SO SHORT THAT EVEN CHILDREN LOOK UP TO-"
"Yes, yes, we get it; you're short."
"I- Uh.." Priyanka piped up.
"What is it?"
"It's- well, really, it's nothing but-- How would I get home?"
Jin thought about this for a minute.
"Well, I've got to fix what you did to the hotel, not to mention I'm already /ridiculously/ busy. It would take a day, at the /very/ least."
Ed and Ciel's following "NO!" could be heard throughout Erro.
(If Erro's timeline is just as up to date in here as it was back when I was back in my own world, then maybe Ulquiorra and Mokona have the wishlist still and can ask for another bed?) She wondered.. (But... maggots. M-maybe I was being over-imaginative! That must be it! I trust he doesn't have maggots... r-right?)
"Mokona probably wouldn't mind you staying with him - it - whatever that thing's pronoun is." Jin paused. "... if you're not particularly against a few maggots here and there."
Priyanka shivered. Maggots... “I- yeah.” (Just a part of my imagination, just a part of my imagination...)
"Well, that's settled then."
"Good," Ed muttered, "just keep her away from me."
Jin frowned. "I trust you know what room they're in?"
(Trust me, I don't think I could forget something like that.) "Yes."
"Good." Jin quickly shoo'd her out of the room after that, voices of 'no, you cannot follow her and kill her', 'yes, we still get it, shut up', 'um please don't kill her!', and 'I'll get to it, Jin, I will! I promise!' following her down the hall.
Only moments later, Priyanka stood outside Mokona and Ulquiorra's room, knocking on the door cautiously.
"...Mokona doesn't know this person." A voice came, and Priyanka whipped around, glancing down both ends of the hallway. Mokona wasn't in the hallway, just as she thought.
"Er. I'm... Jin told me that I could stay the night here."
"The scary accountant lady needed to put this person somewhere to sleep?"
Priyanka nodded.
"Oh." The voice fell silent for a second, shuffling behind the door and opening it. "Sorry that Mokona was checking the hole in the door. Mokona just didn't think anybody in Erro knocked. Oh, and Mokona's name is Mokona. Who is this person?"
"I'm Priyanka. Nice to meet you." She couldn't help but feel a little silly saying that - this didn't feel like the first time she was meeting him at all.
He mouthed the name. "Mokona's never heard of a name like that. Priyanka's not from Japan, is Priyanka?"
"No. Unfortunately." She peered over Mokona's shoulder, trying to get a good look at the room. Where were the maggots? Or, more importantly, where weren't the maggots? She'd need to find an un-infested place to sit down and catch her breath after all that had happened.
Mokona took a step back and opened the door to her, glancing around. "If Priyanka's looking for Jade, Jade's not here right now." He giggled. (Jade went to go get more drinks~. Mokona's glad, too, since Priyanka might be a really good person for drinking games.)
"Drinking games?" Oops - even if Mokona was used to it by now, she didn't want Mokona and Jade's first impression of her to be "nosy mind-reading girl".
Mokona nodded, not even hesitating. "Yup! Like 'I Never', where each person goes in order and says something that person didn't do, and if someone else did it, then that person drinks."
"Mokona, I'm ba- who's this?" Jade had appeared behind Priyanka without her noticing.
"Priyanka is Priyanka!"
"Yes, but what is she doing in our room?"
"...Living with Mokona and Jade." Mokona rushed over for a quick hug, offering a sheepish shrug. "But Mokona thinks Priyanka might be good at drinking ga-- Mokona thinks there should be a party in the bar tonight! Everyone can play drinking games!" Mokona cheered loudly.
Drunk fictional characters. Drunk, /shippable/ fictional characters. Priyanka, as they say, was /so there./
Mokona grabbed one of Jade's hands and wandered out, into the hall. "Let's go~!" He proudly announced, giggling. Priyanka followed behind, closing the door behind her.
"Why are we going that way?"
Mokona blinked. "There's more people this way!"
There was also, as they found out seconds later, a demon butler that way.
A /very dangerous/ demon butler, though really, that goes without saying.
Mokona didn't think twice about this, though, and wandered up. "Come drinking with Mokona, Jade, and Priyanka!"
Priyanka shuddered. Somehow, she just knew that this wasn't going to end well for her. Not one bit…
Seeing what he thought of as "that crazy woman" again - and worse, that crazy woman accompanied by the annoying rabbit-thing, Ciel glared at the newcomers. "Sebastian..."
"Understood." The butler's eyes flashed, and he took a step forward, readying himself.
[Here, we the authors believe that there is no use elaborating upon Priyanka's thought process beyond these two words: (OH, SHIT.)]
This didn't go unnoticed, though. Ulquiorra, already used to such fights from back in Las Noches, pushed Mokona and Priyanka back, standing before them defensively.
Ciel made an odd face.
"... young master, exactly what are you doing?"
"Attempting to read their thoughts, of course," Ciel said matter-of-factly.
"You don't need to do... that," Sebastian replied, gesturing vaguely at Ciel's face. "It takes very little effort. They /seem/ not to have any ill intentions."
"Like Jade said! Mokona and Jade and Priyanka just want to head down to the bar~!"
"Like Jade said! Mokona and Jade and Priyanka just want to head down to the bar~!"
"And we were, er, well, Mokona was wondering if any of you wanted to come too," Priyanka added.
Ciel frowned. "I would rather save the embarassment."
"I'm afraid I'll have to pass as well."
Mokona frowned. This was getting them no new people. He turned around and loudly shouted, "Come, everyone! Come play drinking games down at the bar! Mokona thinks that if enough people come, even meanies like Kuro-Meanie and Short-Eddy-pants might come!"
"DON'T CALL ME THAT! And fine, fine, I'll come," Ed said, scowling. /Besides,/ he thought, forgetting about everyone's accidental telepathy, /that jerk wouldn't be there and I can relax for once./
Priyanka's interest was piqued. "What jerk?"
"N... nobody!"
Priyanka couldn't help but smirk at the irony of Ed denying this in front of /her/ of all people.
Three doors opened in the hallway. Big Kitty wandered out of one. "Ahaha, com'on, Kuro-pii. It'll be fun!" He said, apparently talking to someone hidden within the room.
The reply he got was a /long/ string of grumbled "no"s and other various things of that sort, followed by "/fine/" and Kurogane appearing behind him, not looking all that happy.
Out of the second door, Rena re-appeared. "Did someone say games, I wonder I wonder?"
Big Kitty smiled at her, linking one of his arms with one of Kurogane's. "Yup~! Are you going to come play with us?”
Rena smiled brightly. “Rena will come, Rena will!”
And, finally, out of the third door wandered the Barnacle himself. "Drinking, you say?"
"Drinking~!" Mokona agreed cheerfully, once again grabbing Ulquiorra's hand.
He started off again down the hall, passing Ciel and Sebastian, who were waiting in the rubble for everyone to pass. Priyanka couldn't help but feel welcome here, despite the fact that almost everyone here had someone they were with, which made her the odd one out.
They all headed down the stairs into the lobby, about to turn to go downstairs again into the bar, when Big Kitty stopped. "Riza! You look like you had a rough day! Do you want to come drinking with us~?"
Riza thought about it for a minute. As long as she didn't drink /too/ much, things should be fine... "I suppose so."
"Yay~! More people~!" Mokona cheered, once again leading the way down the stairs.
They all entered the bar, talking amongst themselves, where they found Erika and Fay. The pink haired girl spoke up. "What're you all doing down here?"
"Drinking games~!"
"Aren't some of you a little too young for that?" Fay asked, looking at the group - Rena and Ed in particular.
"I AM NOT SHORT!"
"Nobody said you were."
"H-HAWW?! I d-don't think I'm too young!"
"Well, if you say so... Mind if I join in, Mokona?"
Mokona nodded. "Mokona wouldn't say no to more people!"
Fay smiled and thanked Mokona for allowing him to join, and everyone pushed a couple of tables together, making a big enough place for everyone to sit around. "Mokona thinks everyone should play 'I Never' so everyone can meet Priyanka better!" Mokona announced.
There was a general round of "yeah"s and "sure"s and "if I HAVE to"s from the participants. Priyanka couldn't help but smile a little - they'd been so welcoming, even though she was the insane outsider who'd nearly demolished half the building. Well, except for Ciel, but that was /Ciel/...
"Erika, could you get everyone a bottle of... hm. Shall we have sake, everyone~?" Fay asked, leaning back in one of the chairs that were distributed around the tables.
"Sake~!" Mokona cheered, and the decision was made. "Who should go first? Mokona votes not it!"
"Not it!" everyone chorused, Rena chiming in just a few seconds late.
"It seems Rena's the unlucky one, this round." Big Kitty laughed, looking over at her.
"H-HAWW? R-Rena's first?! Well, um... Rena's never.. kissed someone!"
Priyanka watched as the rest of the table took a drink, and hesitantly took one herself, although if she took one because of not wanting to be the odd one out or because she was actually following the game rules was not something anybody ever found out.
"Jade~! Your turn." Mokona smiled at Ulquiorra, sitting next to Mokona and expressionless as always.
"..Alright. I've never... Been to Japan."
Mokona, Fay, and Kurogane all drank. Ed and Riza looked rather confused, not knowing what exactly Japan was or why one would go there.
Rena hesitantly took a sip as well, the other Fay watching her carefully as he took a drink himself.
Priyanka, meanwhile, frowned.
"Is something wrong with Priyanka?" Mokona asked her, slightly concerned.
She jumped. "I- No. Nothing's wrong- I mean, I'm fine."
"If Priyanka says so..." but there was a hint of doubt in Mokona's voice. After realizing he wasn’t going to get anymore of an answer from her, no matter what he did, he turned his attention back to the game. "It's Mokona's turn now, isn't it~? Hmm... Mokona's never.. lost an eye!"
'Big Kitty' and Ulquiorra frowned and drank. Rena glanced nervously over at the person next to her, Kurogane, who looked like he was going to punch a baby if he had to sit through five more minutes of this, and then back at the other Fay, who looked more disturbed than angry or upset. She wasn’t sure she understood how both Ulquiorra and Fay had managed to lose eyes and still have them, but from the looks of things, she quickly decided that was probably for the best. Priyanka, meanwhile, was unsure what to do next, so she readjusted herself on her seat and waited for the next person to go.
"I've never..." It took Riza a moment to think of a question that wasn't too suspiciously unincriminating. "I've never played a drinking game before."
Mokona, as expected, cheered loudly and drank. Fay, 'Big Kitty', Kurogane, Barney, and even Ulquiorra followed suit. Priyanka smiled. Maybe she could get used to this, if it meant she could just play drinking games all day…
"Haha, so it seems the odds are in my favor now." Barney laughed. "I've never… gone celibate for more than a year."
(Does it count if you never really weren't celibate?) Riza thought.