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

[the_merriest]

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

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[heromaniac]

Momoko saw Rikku's picture pop up on the caller ID and squeaked with glee as she answered the phone.

"Rikku Rikku Rikku!!! Hi! Your phones are working again! Yay! Oh my gosh! How are you?"

It was really too bad Rikku didn't have a vid phone to see the little bouncing spinny thing that Momoko was doing as she talked. She kind of missed her big sis, yes.

[the_merriest]

"Hi!!!" Rikku laughed. "They are! Well. I mean. The phones back home are still crazy touch-and-go? But I'm not home. I'm with Reno for a while, on a little vacation."

Okay, she was also helping a paramilitary peacekeeping organization train its members. That still counted as vacation.

"I'm good! I'm tired. Oh, wow, my world is crazy as all heck. It's better, though. I mean, it's getting there? I think? What's new with you?"

[heromaniac]

She was dizzy from all the spinning, for one thing. She fell onto her bed and smiled. "Yay, vacation on a world with good coverage! Say hi to him for me, okay? HI RENO! HI! And I'm fine! Bored, though, since everyone's gone for fall break. And I mean everyone! I think there's like maybe five students still in the dorms? And it's been rainy outside, too."

"You sound like you're feeling better, though, I'm glad! So things are doing better with your job, then, right? That's why you're on vacation? Wait. Isn't Reno's world full of monster and dangerous stuff, too?"

[the_merriest]

"It is," Rikku grinned, bouncing a little herself. "But that's okay, 'cause killing monsters is fun. And I'm helping people here take care of themselves. Back home, everyone's fighting with each other, so I have to yell at them to grow up and play nice and it's all frustrating and I hate it. Beating on things is way more cathartic. Hey, how come you didn't go anywhere for break? You could always try taking over the dorms, while they're gone. Declare yourself Queen of your Floor!"

[heromaniac]

"You are so weird, taking a vacation someplace where you have to fight! Although yeah, I can see how it would make you feel better to beat up things when back home you can't."

Momoko rolled to lay on her stomach in the traditional teen-girl-chats-on-phone position (at which point Moshi promptly climbed onto her back to nap) and laughed. "The school trip this time was to some place in the woods and it just didn't sound like fun. I could totally take over the third floor, at least! I don't know if there's anyone still on this floor! Think signs would do the trick or would I need to stage a fake rigged election?"

[the_merriest]

"More diplomacy should involve bitch-slapping," Rikku declared, stretching out on Reno's couch. (Carefully. There were bean plants everywhere.) "What kind of woods? There are woods here that are all blue and crystal. They're gorgeous, and everything sparkles. But if it's just the woods, that's kind of like going to the preserve for a week, right? I mean, it sounds nice, but it might get old unless there are lots of cute boys there."

In Momo's case. Rikku was quite happily taken, though it didn't stop her from looking.

"Don't bother with elections," she said. "You are Queen of the Third Floor, on the authority of Because You Said So. You don't need elections for that kind of thing."

[heromaniac]

"There are way too many cute boys here anymore! Although some are totally as mean as they are cute, which is just sad. And I think they were normal woods; no one mentioned blue crystals! I'm gonna be mad if it was a crystal forest and no one told me. They just said it was like an inn or something." She pouted a moment, but couldn't stop a chuckle as she imagined putting up signs proclaiming her reign.

"I don't need it, but wouldn't an election give me some credibility? It's a coup, after all. And I'm sure the others left in the building will try to challenge my authority."

[sorry, brain-ded and need sleep. SP?]

[the_merriest]

"Oh, elections don't give you credibility," Rikku grinned. "If you want a coup to stick, you need, like, to have your own army. Tell people they don't want to question your rule, because bad things happen to people that do. And I think the crystal forest is one-of-a-kind."

She frowned, abruptly. "If cute boys are being mean to you, then kick them. Preferably in the crotch, so they cry like little girls and can't ever have mean kids."

(SP IS YAY! NIGHT!)

[heromaniac]

"Ah! I didn't think about kicking!" Momoko chuckled. "I guess I'm still too used to people laughing at me and stuff. I just argue back, or do what I want anyway. If I'm not breaking the rules or hurting anyone, who cares if I'm playing with a toy or not? Especially if I'm queen!"

[the_merriest]

"I once strapped a garden-rake to my hand with duct tape," Rikku laughed. "It made an awesome weapon. Queens don't have to take that kind of shit from people."

[heromaniac]

"Queens don't have to take anything from anybody! Except for maybe the king. And since I don't have a king, it should totally be whatever I say! And I can always, I dunno, throw forks at them or something. Forks would make awesome throwing stars. Even if they're not star-shaped."

[the_merriest]

"So long as the tines stuck," Rikku agreed. "Maybe you could strap a few forks together, so that you're more likely to have the tines hit than just the base of it. Set them at opposite angles, and pow!"

[heromaniac]

"Hi, super-strength, remember? They'd totally stick! Or at least hurt really really bad. Ooh, but a two-ended one would be better, you're so smart! Double damage! But would it fly right?" It was proof of how weird Momoko actually was that she didn't wonder if it was normal to be having a conversation like this.

[the_merriest]

"Not if they hit handle-first," Rikku explained, giggling. "The extras would just make it more likely that the tines are what hit, not the handle, because that's not going to do jack. You'd need sharper tines to start, anyway."

[heromaniac]

"You think they'd need to be? How on earth could I get the forks sharper?" Momoko giggle-snorted; she missed talking weird stuff like this with Rikku. "A nail file?! Now, chopsticks I could sharpen!"