Snippet - Hot or cold
Fandom: Final Fantasy X-2
For: Gippal/Baralai get together fic
Quality: Barely checked
Characters: Gippal, Rikku
"I tell you what. I guess, and you tell me if I'm hot or cold? How does that sound?"
"Splendid," he said, as sarcastically as he could manage. She accidentally on purpose kicked him in the shin and smiled angelically when he cursed at her in Al Bhed.
"Naughty, naughty. If you swear like that again I'll have to wash your mouth out with soap." She swung her legs again, tilting her head to one side as she thought. Gippal eyed her for a moment and then grabbed some more papers from his piles, apparently at random, and started scribbling on them in his neat, though rather spikey handwriting. "Let's see... girl troubles?"
He snorted. "Cold like Shiva's ass."
"Quit being coarse," she said, kicking him again, but only gently because he was being a good boy and getting some of his work done. "Though I suppose girl troubles is a dumb place to start, they have more trouble with you than you do with them. Hmm. You're not hiding a crazy machina in the basement or anything?"
"That's more Baralai's style," Gippal said, and then something odd passed over his face, like he'd swallowed a lemon. Rikku narrowed her eyes.
"Have you argued with 'Lai again?"
"I had no quarrel with him in the first place!"
"Well, it's something to do with Mr. Fancypants Praetor, isn't it?"
"Cold. Frigid like High Summoner Yuna."
"Yunie's not frigid!" Rikku said, and then looked at him closer. "Gippal, you're blushing."
For: Gippal/Baralai get together fic
Quality: Barely checked
Characters: Gippal, Rikku
"I tell you what. I guess, and you tell me if I'm hot or cold? How does that sound?"
"Splendid," he said, as sarcastically as he could manage. She accidentally on purpose kicked him in the shin and smiled angelically when he cursed at her in Al Bhed.
"Naughty, naughty. If you swear like that again I'll have to wash your mouth out with soap." She swung her legs again, tilting her head to one side as she thought. Gippal eyed her for a moment and then grabbed some more papers from his piles, apparently at random, and started scribbling on them in his neat, though rather spikey handwriting. "Let's see... girl troubles?"
He snorted. "Cold like Shiva's ass."
"Quit being coarse," she said, kicking him again, but only gently because he was being a good boy and getting some of his work done. "Though I suppose girl troubles is a dumb place to start, they have more trouble with you than you do with them. Hmm. You're not hiding a crazy machina in the basement or anything?"
"That's more Baralai's style," Gippal said, and then something odd passed over his face, like he'd swallowed a lemon. Rikku narrowed her eyes.
"Have you argued with 'Lai again?"
"I had no quarrel with him in the first place!"
"Well, it's something to do with Mr. Fancypants Praetor, isn't it?"
"Cold. Frigid like High Summoner Yuna."
"Yunie's not frigid!" Rikku said, and then looked at him closer. "Gippal, you're blushing."