( Rikku sucks at dealing with things, and decides not to )

It wasn't the best day she'd had in a while. Hamlet was gone again, and she had no idea how to help him. Or if he'd even be able to stay in touch. And what if he was stuck here, some sort of Unsent? Shouldn't she be asking Yunie to Send him? Except ... she didn't really want him to go. Wasn't that nice and selfish of her ( Read more... )

Okay. So apparently being "Old School" included a bunch of cops showing up and pointing guns at Rikku and Mel while making a getaway in the Deadpoolmobile with an ATM chained to the fender.

Well it was chained to the fender. The fender and the ATM were now somewhere in the city streets of Alexandria and the cops weren't buying the "It wasn't us! ( Read more... )

It was a nice, warm summer afternoon, and Rikku was sitting out in the park, thinking. About Valentine being back. About Karal and avatars and priests. About Gabriel living in the church downtown. About her Jude-dude being awesome. About the bad side effects of caffeine hangovers. About Dawn and her bad weekend. About Hamlet, again, still, always. ( Read more... )

Rikku fell asleep in Denmark, curled around a tiny gray cat, sniffling as the images of cathedrals and tombs whirled in her mind.

It was now early Monday morning, and she jerked restlessly in her sleep, not waking up enough yet to realize that a thin, blonde boy was wrapped around her, holding her tight.

( Jude: not a cat. )

Rikku made a face and stretched out on the bed.

( Two days in Elsinore )

Rikku now had two bags over her shoulder; one with the napping Judekitty, and a duffel bag stuffed with clothes ( Read more... )

Rikku was sitting out on the cliffs over Selkie Cove, a sleeping cat in her lap, thinking about everything Professor Skywalker had said after Flight class. Thinking about how tired and flat Horatio's voice had sounded on the phone. Thinking about the week spent repeating the same words over and over again and crying and apologizing and raging and ( Read more... )

Okay. She'd fed Fish, and Professor Skywalker had been amazing and was gonna help her break the news. She'd cried all over Dawn, and ranted a bit to Deadpool, and even yelled at some guy who was living in the church. She didn't even have any workshops today. Enough stalling ( Read more... )

( Sunday morning snuggles, and then Jude gets kittyzapped )