Room Number (Handwavey), Arms Hotel, Saturday Morning

[the_merriest]

(The part of Rikku will be played by Kristanna Loken, for entirely shallow reasons.)

What a lovely morning it was, even if she did feel a touch sick to her stomach. Really. She wouldn't lie about that! She'd never lie about the horribly, terribly important condition she was in, and the repercussions it might have for her and her soulmate, Reno

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[sarcasm_guy]

Sokka stumbled down the hallway, not entirely sure how he'd gotten there, or where he'd come from. Intermittent amnesia was, unfortunately, one of the symptoms of the final, most terminal stage of the particular type of terminally fatal braine canser that he had.

He knocked on a door at random. "Mel? MEL?"

[the_merriest]

"Sokka!" Rikku was going to greet him with a very enthustiastic hug! One that had absolutely no sexual tension in it! Because she would never betray her love for Reno. Never ever. She had moments of weakness, but they were just that, moments, and weakness. She was only human. (So far as she knew. What was that strange piano chord???)

"I haven't seen Mel," she said, giving him a squeeze. Her heart panged. Mel! They had betrayed her! No one must ever know. "Darling, how is your brayne cancer?"

[sarcasm_guy]

Sokka hugged her back, clinging with the cling of a clinging person who didn't want to fall over from braine canser.

"It hurts," he told her. And then he swooned.

[the_merriest]

Rikku tried to catch him, for a moment, then let him drop to the ground.

"I'm so sorry," she said, kneeling next to him. "I ... I was concerned that ... in my condition, I shouldn't be ... straining myself."

[sarcasm_guy]

"That's okay," Sokka sighed. "I have a thick skull. It's just what's INSIDE the skull that's... fragile." He sighed again, more dramatically. "What condition are you in? Do you have canser, too?"

[the_merriest]

"Be brave," she said softly. "No, dear heart, I'm not ... sick, exactly. I'm ... blessed."

As Reno was out, it was safe to continue. She lowered her voice.

"We're ... blessed. My darling."

[sarcasm_guy]

Sokka's canser hurt some more. "Blessed?" he asked. "Are you... an angel?"

[the_merriest]

"No, you idiot," Rikku said flatly. "I mean that I'm pregnant."

She hoped the baby wasn't his. It might be born stupid.

Then she remembered she wasn't really pregnant anyway, so ... that helped.

[sarcasm_guy]

Sokka wasn't STUPID, just brain-damaged. In his braine. By canser.

"You ARE? That's WONDERFUL! Have you and Reno decided on a name?"

[the_merriest]

"Not yet," she said excitedly. "But we're getting married tomorrow! We're going to be so happy, for the rest of our lives. And nothing can ever come between us again!"

She paused, giving him a Meaningful look.

"It ... is his baby," she said.

Really.

... Probably.

[sarcasm_guy]

Sokka gasped. "It's NOT his baby, IS it?!?!?!? Oh, NO!!!!"

The excitement made his braine canser hurt.