Lost in the Woods, Monday Night

[the_merriest]

So Reno had humiliated himself fabulously and now Rikku and Reno were off for some good-old fashioned dirty time, involving that abandoned shack out in the woods. They'd made it there once and then completely screwed up having dirty time. But this time? They were totally going to the abandoned shack, and there was going to be dirty time

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[raspberryturk]

"Is it just me, or is Fandom just freakin' out to get us?" Reno looked around, raising an eyebrow at the surroundings.

Yep, plenty of 'in the woods,' not so much 'abandoned shack' to go with them.

"Guess we keep wandering. Can't be too hard to get to from here, or nothin'."

... Right?

[the_merriest]

"It's the woods," she sighed. "I mean, how much woods can there even be?"

Said the girl who had never watched that meta for Blair Witch movie.

She looked around again. "You know, maybe we try going that way. And if all else fails, there are plenty of trees out here, right?"

[raspberryturk]

"Plenty of trees," Reno agreed, smirking. Hey. Treesex was just as hot as wallsex. They'd make it work.

While they walked, Reno decided to make small talk. Because he'd been too silent for too much of the day. He had to fill the dead air.

"Remind me never to go within ten meters of a tutu again, okay?"

[the_merriest]

That brought another round of the giggles. "You looked so cute," she grinned. "Especially as a chocobo! I should have asked for a chocobo-ride! And what kinda blackmail of doom did John Sheppard have on you, anyway?"

Look, it was the most logical explanation.

[raspberryturk]

"Wasn't blackmail," Reno replied smoothly. "Was more of a dare, thing. He's gotta pretend at some point that he's been gremlin-bit, because of somethin' that happened in Destiny class while Ghanima was out, zoto."

Leave it to Reno to not back down on something that could very well be a dare.

[the_merriest]

"You know you're insane, right?" she said, conversationally. "At least I taped it. I got yelled at a lot for not showing your chocho-self off sooner. Ooooh, did Romeo see you? And D-- ... oh. Wait. Yeah."

Dojima: still probably a bunny, all things considered.

[raspberryturk]

"See me bein' an idiot, or as a chocobo?" This was important to clarify. Because they had, in fact, seen him as a chocobo. And also, had put him into women's jewelry.

Ugh.

"Romeo saw me. I dunno if Doji's gonna remember, though. Seein' as she's a rabbit and all. How long's she been like that?"

[the_merriest]

"Idiot," Rikku clarified. "I mean, I let them borrow you while you were a chocobo. I kinda had to, you and Petey and Mako were all trying to eat each other. I think you were all just playing but I was starting to run seriously low on sleep."

Nobody wanted to wake up to see a half-eaten dead baby chocobo boyfriend. Really.

"That, uh, that was ... Friday? That was kinda my fault? Alea got out and I knocked but nobody said anything and the curtain was open and I was just gonna leave her in there and I didn't mean to be looking or anything, honest?"

The way her voice was getting more and more panicky and her hands were starting to flail might tip Reno off as to what, exactly, Rikku had accidentally walked in on.

[raspberryturk]

Reno blinked. And... Reno nearly laughed.

"Rikku, I'm not gonna blame you of bein' some kinda voyeur or whatever. Don't worry about it, if they're not freakin' out at you."

Well. Doji was a bunny. She wouldn't be freaking out for a while anyhow. Clearly.

[the_merriest]

"They did freak out!" she squeaked. "And I didn't knock! I mean, I knocked on the outside door but nobody said anything? And Alea was rubbing on my legs and the curtain was kinda open so I thought I'd put her back? I didn't mean to and they freaked out and then FOOM! Bunny! And I was just going to check on them to make sure they were okay 'cause of what happened and all and they were okay, I mean obviously, they were really okay and now: BUNNY."

Flail: On.

[raspberryturk]

"Okay. So, uh. An oops and apology when Doji ain't a bunny is in order. It really ain't a huge deal, I'm thinkin'."

Says the guy whose credibility is in question since dressing in a tutu.

"Ain't like you broke Doji. What were you checkin' on 'em for?"

Reno had heard Radio a few nights back. Reno had a few guesses, really.

[the_merriest]

"Have you ever -- !" Rikku gaped. "I mean -- they were just -- and they're my friends and they were all -- and they were so embarrassed and --"

Okay, that was probably not going to help. She couldn't picture Reno walking in on sex with anything more than a "Oh, hey, wrong door, my bad" and leaving again. Or possibly "Hey, can I join?"

Cue facepalming. "I was worried 'cause he proposed," she said. "Something bad's going on with her and he proposed and I was worried she was gonna freak and I was worried he was gonna take it bad, being let down and apparently they were just fine, you know, except for the whole me walking in and her being a bunny."

[raspberryturk]

Yep. Radio hadn't lied to him, after all.

"I don't think her bein' a bunny is your fault, Rikku." It was important to get that out of the way, up front. "The island is just weird."

Case in point, they'd walked by that same damn tree about seven times now, he was sure. Because he'd kicked it a few times on their fourth pass-by and now there was bark missing from the lower trunk.

Weird.

"How was she supposed to take it? I mean, why would Romeo go and do somethin' like that, anyhow?"

[the_merriest]

Rikku stopped, looking around again. Didn't he kick that tree? That was ...

"Okay, one of us has to have a compass. Right? We pick a direction and we go that way until we find the edge of the woods." So much for the shack. There were other places to have sex, ones that didn't involve walking in circles.

Hotels. Hotels were pretty nice.

She fished through her leg-pouch, frowning. "I just meant -- you know. He was being sweet. She probably got all panicky, 'cause ... that's huge. She didn't even want to say they were dating for a while, you know? I think they took longer with that than we did."

[raspberryturk]

Reno nodded, scrounging in his pockets. His phone had a map-thing going on, there. If nothing else, it might be able to point them in a different direction. Variety while lost was nice, at the very least.

"Well, yeah. That's Romeo, though. Bein' all romantic. I'm just wonderin' what he was tryin' to accomplish with that. 'You had a shitty day, let's get married,' just don't seem like the best way to help Doji outta a mood."

Really, what Rikku had walked in on, that seemed like the more sensible way to do it.

[the_merriest]

Okay, now she was going to stare at him. "I don't think he proposed to cheer her up," she said dryly. "It could've helped. Her dad was -- I don't know the details, but her dad was trying to do something awful and she has to listen to him, 'cause he's her dad, and it's gonna be bad, later on, and so Romeo was saying, hey, marry me and let's run away together. It's impulsive and crazy but ... it's really sweet, you know?"