Room 308, Saturday Night

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Rikku didn't really want to pack. She had to, but she was still a bit mopey on the whole deal. She'd stay in touch with everyone, but it wasn't the same

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"Knock, knock," came a voice at the door.

Reno didn't have much packing to do, really. Reno figured that what he didn't give away, he'd just toss, anyhow. Either that, or it was ferret supplies.

He packed light.

"Anyone home?"

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"Nobody home but us chickens," Rikku sang out, as Petey tried unsuccessfully to wrestle a bra into submission. "Maybe some chocobos. We keep those around to make the chickens feel bad."

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"They're bite sized to a chocobo, ain't they?" Reno smirked and peeked his head into the room. "I never actually met a live chicken. Just the deep-fried kind, yoto."

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"It'd depend on how old they are," Rikku mused. "I mean, if we had baby chocobos, chickens would be bigger. Unless they were baby chickens, too. Hey, you. How was Verona?"

Petey burbled in Reno's direction. He'd go sniff him in a minute. After he was free of the bra.

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Awww, the cat was wearing the bra, kinda. Reno had to grin and stoop over in order to better entangle the feline in his lacy entrapment.

"Verona wasn't bad. Didn't understand more'n three words that came outta anyone's traps, but that's just fine. The boys know how to party, and the beaches are nice, yo."

The view on the beaches was unparallelled, really.

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This meant, of course, that they were playing a game. Hi, Reno! Hi! Petey wriggled free and began jumping up, to try his best to catch the bra. And, of course, eat it. Nom nom nom.

"We were impressed that you guys stayed out of trouble," she said, walking the rest of the way over to him so she could steal a kiss. "Except I wasn't, really. But Dojima and I should have gotten up to something scandalous anyway."

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"Hey, so long as nobody got married this week and there's video footage of any scandal we might'a missed, I wouldn't complain if you did," Reno noted, grinning into the kiss and then taking a little nibble at her lip. "Gotta have somethin' to show for it, yoto."

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"I knew we should have gotten drunk and made out," Rikku sighed, slipping her arms around his waist. "Could've sold the tapes back to you guys. How's Romeo? I mean, did everything go okay?"

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"Romeo's... Romeo. Wants the whole world to play nice and don't know where to start grabbin' at it to make it cooperate, you know? We all came home in one piece, so I'm gonna say whatever went on between him and his old man definitely could'a gone worse."

Reno shrugged. He had been out drinking with Ben and company while Romeo spoke with his father behind closed doors, after all.

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"It's hard," Rikku said, snuggling in against him. "I mean. The world doesn't play nice. It acts like it's its job some days not to. And all you want is for everything to work out. I mean, Tidus and Yunie, they were supposed to get some kind of Happily Ever After. They're still together and all that, but ... you know."

The world was falling apart again. What else was new?

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"But life was busy doin' what it is that life does?" Reno considered that for a moment, and then nodded a little. "I think it's not gonna hit me until I leave this place, how easy we all really had it, here. I was too busy feelin' sorry for myself when I got here to notice that life didn't suck, yo. An' then I got used to high school. And the fact that it didn't suck just kinda settled in along with all the rest of it."

Having a cute cheerleader as a distraction helped, also.

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"I just ..." Rikku shook her head. "If I could bundle everyone up, you know, Romeo and Dojima and Deadpool and Dawn, and bring them all along? I think I wouldn't mind so much. I mean, I keep telling myself, this just means I have more friends out there to visit, and other places to see ... but I'd rather we didn't have to split up like this."

At least their break was only temporary. If she had to lose him, too, she might have gone crazy.

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"I'm gonna blame Fandom," Reno said after a moment. "For pullin' us from all over, like it does. An' then makin' us all split up again. I mean, I know that's what happens in normal places. Kids go to high school, leave, move all over, but usually they're stayin' on the same planet, right?"

It didn't seem fair, dammit.

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"Yeah," she said, nodding. Now was a good time to steer him over towards the bed. More efficient snuggling over there, right? "Except ... I mean. If it didn't, I never would have met any of you at all. I'd rather ... miss people and stay in touch than ... have just spent my life on Spira, not knowing anyone I met here."

... So maybe Fandom wasn't so cruel, after all. Huh.

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"I guess so, yeah." Reno really couldn't argue with that logic. He'd come to Fandom specifically because of its multiple universes, after all. "If I didn't come here, I wouldn't be doin' half as good as I am, I think."

No, that was pretty much a given. Life would suck.

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"You wouldn't have a hot blonde girlfriend," Rikku teased. "Or, if you did, she'd probably know how to dress herself."

Petey had finally pulled himself from the bra, and was now tackling Reno's shoes with abandon. Reno! Hey! Heyyyyyy!