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Reno's Apartment (Which is Actually Elena's), Edge, Friday Night

Oct 16, 2009 21:19

Rikku was working on an e-mail. It was going to be epic, if she ever finished it. She had so much to update people on. The conference. Spira maybe behaving itself, for once. Coming to Gaia. Working for the WRO, with a guy who seemed nice enough even if he had a weird relationship with toy cats. At least her WRO outfit was supercuteShe was going to ( Read more... )

i earned this vacation, little sister momoko, places: gaia: edge, reno, reno: we rock the domesticity though!!, fun with: phones, dawn

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lilpunkinbelly October 17 2009, 01:36:49 UTC

"Coming! I got it!"

Dawn streaked - not literally, since she was wrapped in a couple of big fluffy towels that wrapped all the way around her, thank goodness for Rikku and Reno and weetiny whatevers from alternate universes that made her human-sized temporarily, and wow, her life was still weird - across the room and picked up the phone without checking caller ID.

Hey, the phone fitting into her hand was enough to make her happy right now. After the longest, hottest shower ever and her own personal haggis for dinner, she was even better.

"Hello?"

the_merriest October 17 2009, 01:47:13 UTC

"Dawn!!!" That was a happy shriek, right in Dawn's ear. "I thought it was gonna be that Xander-guy! Are you you-shaped!? I'm in Gaia!!! Hi!!!!!"

Abuse of exclamation points: ON.

lilpunkinbelly October 17 2009, 01:49:52 UTC

"OHMIGOD RIKKU YOU AND RENO WIN EVERYTHING AND I WOULD TOTALLY BEAR YOUR CHILD IF THAT WOULDN'T BE WEIRD AND CREEPY!" Dawn shrieked happily back at Rikku. "You guys totally fixed me temporarily, which means I got to have a shower and change my clothes and eat dinner and I can hold the phone, and and and..."

the_merriest October 17 2009, 01:57:33 UTC

"YOU'RE YOU SHAPED!!!!" Somewhere, there were dogs in extreme amounts of pain, at the high frequencies bouncing around. Hopefully Reno had earplugs? "They're working!?? Do you need more? They're not hard to get at all, you can steal them from some monsters and not even scary ones, just some one hits, I hope I didn't rush your shower but I'm here and I've got the internet and the phone and I'm doing work for a peacekeeping group and did I tell you about the conference and how long do you think the Shrivels are going to last!?? Does everything seem HUGE now!??"

lilpunkinbelly October 17 2009, 02:05:35 UTC

"I AM I AM I AM!" Dawn was bouncing on the bed with happiness, not to mention a lot less of a gravitational field than she had a couple of hours ago. "I think I need more, if you can get them without the dangerous parts, because I want to go to Homecoming."

"Wow, that sounds like a civilization, plus all the politics and stuff! You're like an adult and stuff. Um, I don't know and I should probably go outside before it happens so I don't make the roof go all blooey?"

It was probably bad that someone in the back of Dawn's mind was already figuring how to make up the homework she'd missed during the fall semester at school.

the_merriest October 17 2009, 02:19:56 UTC

"I can ask Reno, see if he knows how long these are?" she said, craning her neck for her favorite Turk. (Who was off making beans somewhere that the high-pitched noises would be less obnoxious.) "They're totally safe to get. Heck, I think there's a store that sells them, in Gongaga. That'd be way faster than trying to collect some."

She was bouncing again. "It's neat. I'm helping them fight because the group is doing cool stuff but they suck at fighting, and nobody has any money so the weapons suck? And the guy thought I was a crazy person when I showed up all 'I can help you' and called Security on me, so I just beat up his Security guards."

It made for a nice job application, for this sort of thing.

"Are you in your dorm? Where have you been staying while you were big-and-huge? Outside? Is it bumpy?"

lilpunkinbelly October 17 2009, 02:30:57 UTC

"That would be awesome," Dawn decided, bending over to start drying her hair. Mostly because occasionally heated castles in Scotland in October were cold. Let me know how much they cost, and I'll pay you next weekend? I don't know how long this me-being-gigunda woman is supposed to last, so I probably need lots ( ... )

the_merriest October 17 2009, 02:44:09 UTC

"Don't worry about it," Rikku said, waving a hand quickly. "The conversion rate's all wonky, and this place needs the money, and I have this huge pile that I was going to use for rebuilding Home but the Guado are doing that. Did I tell you!? The Guado are going to rebuild our Home. In Mushroom Rock, which is apparently our ancestral lands? I didn't know we had those. How fucking cool is that!?!"

Mako, for his part, was now honking along with the shrieking. Any minute now, and Petey would start caterwauling, and they'd have a little orchestra going.

"Only three, and they were normal people. I just beat 'em up carefully, I mean, they're just kids, trying to play at being soldiers. And then I said, okay, this is why you guys need training, I mean, you're like the President of this group and if someone came after you, they'd be able to take out these three jokers without breaking a sweat. I never went to the castle. Is Scotland nice? It would be so weird to be supersized. I'd trip on my own feet and then worry that I squashed somebody!"

lilpunkinbelly October 17 2009, 02:49:02 UTC

"You have a Home in a place called Mushroom Rock?"

Now she wanted an omelet with mushrooms and swiss cheese.

"Like, ancestral ancestral? That's so cool! How'd you find out? Have you been there, have you seen it? What's it like?"

Dawn started giggling, happier than she could admit to being able to talk to someone who knew about beating people up carefully. "That's a really good point, though," she stretched out on the bed, "how'd they take it? Do they have problems because you're a girl?"

"It's okay. Kind of blech and rainy, and I can't really do anything, but Xander's trying to be understanding and he and Will help out when they can."

the_merriest October 17 2009, 03:02:04 UTC

"I've been there before," Rikku chirped. "Actually I took Jude skateboarding there? Nobody lives there any more, it's all rocky and there are tunnels in the lower parts, but the Guado are really old and they remember stuff from a really long time ago, and they mentioned it offhand like 'Why don't you go back there, where you used to be?' and didn't realize none of us even knew we used to live there ( ... )

lilpunkinbelly October 17 2009, 03:08:10 UTC

"I still think that's awesome," she decided. "You can go and be, like, an archeologist and write a new history for the Al Bhed, based on what you find."

Yes, she truly thought this was a good idea.

"Short and bouncy's the best kind of fighter. You and Buffy." Not that Buffy really bounced much anymore when she fought, but still. "They're lucky to have you. How's Reno? How thrilled were you to see him again?"

"Yeeeah," she admitted, "and let us not talk about the bathroom facilities that aren't. It's like Gulliver's Travels and Girl Scouts all rolled into one long...thing."

the_merriest October 17 2009, 05:27:28 UTC

"It's where my Godhand was," Rikku said, her voice a bit awed at the thought. "So I guess that's a good tip-off, right? Maybe the Guado know more."

She couldn't believe she was thinking about asking them.

"How is Buffy, anyway? Is she there, in the castle-thing? And there were epic tackleglomps, over here. And then trying to drag all my luggage because I'm so sticking around until Reno kicks me out."

Or, more likely, until something else back home went wrong again.

"The bad thing about growing up in the desert," Rikku said, trying not to giggle, "is that most of the plants you could hide behind are prickly."

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