Room 308, Saturday Morning
Rikku didn't want to wake up yet. It was warm and cozy under the covers, and just the sort of morning where you wanted to snuggle and be lazy and stay in bed all day. Or at least until it was early afternoon
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He would have said something, but really, he got his expansive vocabulary from his taller, balder father, and he figured the hug just about said it all anyhow.
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She recognized that wee mop of hair and and and Rikku was trying very, very hard not to start crying.
She dropped to her knees to stare at him for a few seconds, brushing the hair out of his eyes, and okay, so much for not crying, because she could feel the tears welling up in her eyes.
"Rede?" she asked, her voice shaking.
And then she was going to wrap her arms around him and squeeze like he might disappear if she let go.
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Knock at the door? Reno could ignore that. Bah, doors. They were stupid anyhow. He'd roll over, and hide under the covers, and the door person would go away. Yeah.
Or Rikku could get it. Yeah. That'd wor-
"Rede?"
Oh, you had better believe he was sitting up like a bolt, just then.
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Turks didn't sniffle. Not even if his Reno and his Rude had told him it was okay to, sometimes. He was pretty sure they were just saying that to be nice.
"Hi," he said, because he really couldn't think of anything else to say.
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The one kid that wasn't hers at all, last time, but had called her Mom anyway. Because he'd needed a Mom and he'd gone back to the lab with a gun and a prayer and he was alive.
Rikku pulled back so she could swipe at the tears with the back of her hand. And then give him a firm kiss on the forehead and smile at him.
"Hey, kiddo," she said gently. "Good to see you again." She couldn't say how much.
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Well, at least one of the Turks in the room wasn't going to sniffle. Because Reno was failing horribly at holding back the waterworks.
"Oh, shit, kid..."
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Rede managed a little 'oof' as Reno joined the group hug, and then glanced between Rikku and the redhead, wide-eyed.
"The portal came back," he explained. On the off-chance that they hadn't somehow realized this. And then he snuggled up against Rikku some more. "I wanted to say hi."
And he had. See? Mission accomplished.
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There wasn't really a good way to ask, 'so, how did you survive, anyway?'
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"Reno never changes his phone number, ever. Rude says it's bad form for a Turk, but it meant that I got through to him, after..."
... Well. He wasn't going to actually go into detail about...
He squeezed his eyes shut and snuggled some more. That was better, anyhow.
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"After you did what you had to do," she said gently. "Just like a Turk."
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Rede was alive. He could sleep at night, not worrying that he'd sent his own blood off to get killed by Hojo or worse.
And, just as important, Rede was alive and he seemed okay.
Reno wasn't going to get many words out while he was having this revelation, really. He was going to just hang on for dear life.
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Reno was still sleeping, wasn't he? No, wait, he'd thought that last year. The day after prom. Well, duh, then.
"Ruba!" See, he was capable of putting his sniffles away in the blink of an eye. Turk Power. And hug pile power. Hug piles were pretty potent things, after all. "Been a while, kiddo!"
Well, to him, anyhow.
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Obviously, if she had seen him, he had seen her. Four-year-old logic at its best.
Ruba was now going to wrap her arms around Rede's back, as well. "Hiiiiiii."
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"Hi," he said, kind of shyly, as he craned his head around as best as he could manage in order to see his mysterious assailant.
Puddle-girl! "I missed you, too," he decided. If only because she was the best puddle-splasher that the world had ever seen.
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Without letting go of Rede, dammit.
"I missed both of you," she sighed.
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