The Outskirts of Edge, Saturday Midday (NFB-distance)

[the_merriest]

Could Portalocity please suck less? She'd never known it to be this backed up. Apparently, there were a lot of portals heading to Fandom. Must be some kind of special event.

Rikku hoped she hadn't missed Homecoming. That would suck

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[raspberryturk]

Booored. Booooored bored boooooored. Standing here for two days now, with Rude in tow because apparently there was stuff to haul back, and they were going to be days behind their work, but to hell with it. Tseng could shove it if he had any issues when they got back to Edge a day late, and...

"Rikku!"

Oh, the big guy was totally eating Reno's dust as he made a bolt for the girl. Hiiiii, girl.

There might be people staring at the really, really fast guy and the girl who dressed as though her clothing was one big acid trip. And Reno didn't give a shit.

[the_merriest]

"Reno!!" This tackleglomping, it was epic. "I'm so sorry, I got bounced here and there and then I had a layover in I-don't-even-know-where and I tried to update you but only half of my texts were getting through!? Everything is crazy and clogged and then and then and then they lost half my luggage so I had to miss one of my connections while they found it because I said they had to find it right now or it'd be lost forever and --"

Rikku took a huge breath before she hyperventilated. "Hi, you," she said.

[raspberryturk]

Reno was just giving her his most lopsided grin while Rude caught up.

"Yo."

And then he was kissing her, because that was easier than making words after however-the-fuck-long of sitting in the stupid terminal waiting. Seriously.

[the_merriest]

Kissing: absolutely required. Breathing wasn't. Standing wasn't. Nothing else was.

"I love you," she managed. After much of the kissing. "I have way too much shit that I brought. I don't know if all of it's gonna fit in the apartment."

[raspberryturk]

Mmmm, that there was some fine kissing. Reno approved. And then blinked. And then blinked some more.

"What all did you bring?"

It kinda had to be asked. If she brought as much stuff as he figured she'd brought, then it was a damn good thing he'd brought Rude along.

Rude, who was kind of making a grunt sound as he eyed the luggage. He had his work cut out for him, here.

[the_merriest]

"Well, I had to bring a lot of shoes," she teased, before grinning and nudging him with her elbow. "Only like the duffel bag is actual luggage-stuff. I mean, for me and all. Those suitcases over there have food, and this pile is weapons, and there's armor around here somewhere."

There was a distinct mrowling from a cat carrier by her feet.

"Oh! And Petey! I had to bring Petey, yeah?"

[raspberryturk]

Reno just gave his head a shake, grinning to himself.

"Well, of course you did, zoto. Can't leave Wakka to watch him every time you leave town, after all. Ain't that right, Petey? You're here to save the friggin' world?"

Rude was now eyeing the luggage and rolling his eyes. Not that anyone would ever be able to tell, really.

[the_merriest]

Petey yowled happily. Reno! He knew that voice! It was Reno. Hi, Reno! Hi!

"Not yet," she sighed. "I'm not letting you out of your cage until we get to the apartment, okay?"

Otherwise, he would never get to the apartment.

She put her hands on her hips. "Rude, you had better not be making faces after I brought helpful and useful stuff to your world and all you have to do is lug some of it."

[raspberryturk]

Rude was now making the same face at Rikku. Yes, from behind his shades. Where nobody would ever see. He was safe.

"You've been... around Reno too much."

Reno, for his part, was going to just laugh. Laugh, and take Rikku's hand, and then, when the laughing was finished, he would grin like an idiot.

"The big lug's good at luggin' luggage, zoto. Ain't that right, Rude, ol' pal? I'll even help, maybe!"

[the_merriest]

"So generous," she laughed. "I'll help, too. But I'm a little unsteady. Too many layovers and too many stupid people yelling at each other and I might be the boring kind of girlfriend that sleeps for a day and a half before I get around to anything else."

It was really hard to sleep during layovers, especially when your cat was cranky and they kept changing your plan and you were in a scary sort of terminal-place.

[raspberryturk]

"Hey, sleepin's good, too. We been standin' here since yesterday. I think I could handle the rest, yo." Reno smirked and then nodded toward the luggage, which Rude was already starting on. "We gonna have to make trips with this?"

[the_merriest]

"It was all chained together before," Rikku said. "I managed to get it all through the portal, more or less. Ooooh, and the bottom ones have wheels on 'em."

Said wheels might have popped off under the weight of the higher boxes, though.

[raspberryturk]

Rude now had a crate on each shoulder, with some smaller luggage heaped on that, with Petey at the top somewhat like the star at the top of a decorated tree. He had complete faith in his balance, thank you.

"Wheels came off," he reported.

Reno? Reno was not about to stop snickering.

"This is why we keep him around, yo. I think he was a movin' guy before he joined the Turks, and he just ain't gonna never admit it."

[the_merriest]

"So what you're saying is, he's way more useful at dumping bodies than you are?"

Look! The girl was joking about hits! This was progress, wasn't it?

[raspberryturk]

Reno leaned forward, smirking that smug little smirk of his.

"Only because he's gotta. There ain't nothin' left to dump when I'm done."

Okay, Reno. Let's not push this, here.

[the_merriest]

Blink. Blink. Blink. And there, the girl was a little green around the gills.

"That's gonna go on the list of things I don't want to know," she said, smiling a bit weakly.