A Small Spot on the Beach, Monday Afternoon

[raspberryturk]

There had been kids. Showing up out of the blue, being bloody adorable at them with introductions and some more over breakfast. There'd been worry about two of them taking off to feed ducks, and more worry that morning about what would happen to one of them when he went back home

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[startswithanr]

"Nuh-uh," Ruba insisted. "I can make a huge splash."

She would know, because she'd been making them the whole way down to the beach, galoshes be damned.

[the_merriest]

"If she gets a cold, I hope she tells Mommy and Daddy whose fault it is," Rikku said, smiling a little from her own umbrella.

[raspberryturk]

"And then Mommy can totally blame Daddy's less-than-brilliant high-school-kid self for lettin' her go prancin' in the puddles," Reno agreed with a big grin on his lips.

He was going to demonstrate, now, how big a splash he could make. Show his little girl how it was done!

[weetinyturk]

Rede wasn't going to splash. Rede was going to cling to his umbrella handle for dear life, wondering why the sky was falling and leaving water on the ground.

But people weren't upset about it, so he wasn't going to worry too much, either. He was going to just hide behind Rikku's leg.

Bravely. Like soldiers a Turk.

Turk Instructions

[the_merriest]

For later in the afternoon, when Reno pulls aside Rede for his first assignment.

Re: Turk Instructions

[raspberryturk]

Reno took a deep breath, and stuck his hands into his entirely too soggy pockets, walking up to Rede and looking at him. Carefully trying to keep that balance between 'no really, I'm your dad' and 'senior Turk' at a somewhat believable level.

He wasn't going to freak the kid out by bending over to hug him and telling him that he refused to let him go back to that freaking horrible facility with that psycho fucknuts Hojo. So he was going to pace. Soggily.

"We got an assignment for you, Rede," he said. Casually. "It's an important one. Bigger than securin' Sector 8, if you can believe it, yo."

Re: Turk Instructions

[weetinyturk]

Rede straightened his back. An assignment! He would do very, very well on it and they wouldn't regret making him a Turk and send him back to the facility!

"Yes, sir," he said.

Re: Turk Instructions

[raspberryturk]

Reno took a deep breath. Right. He could do this. He'd done tougher shit, before.

This was going to suck.

"This assignment involves you bein' on turf you... probably already kinda know," he ventured.

Entertaining Ruba

[the_merriest]

Rikku scooped Ruba up and snuggled her close under their umbrella. "Okay, Daddy's gotta talk to Rede for a bit. So you're stuck with Mommy. What do you wanna do?"

She wasn't worried about that. Much.

Re: Entertaining Ruba

[startswithanr]

Ruba tilted her head to the side and scrunched up her face, her tongue sneaking out of the side of her mouth while she thought.

Passing the time with Mommy was, clearly, very serious business.

"We could, um." Very serious, very important business! "We could go splashin' again, or we could play in the sand, or we could look for buried treasure!"

It was common knowledge that soggy sand was the best sand ever to dig in when looking for buried treasure.

Re: Entertaining Ruba

[the_merriest]

"We could do ALL THREE," Rikku announced solemnly. "Splash around in the sand and dig for buried treasure."

She had to follow this up with a nuzzle. It was required. Legally.

Re: Entertaining Ruba

[startswithanr]

Susso nuzzles were the best sort of nuzzles ever. Ruba ought to know, because she was an expert nuzzler. She demonstrated with a saturated hug-nuzzle combo. She'd spent years and years and years perfecting it!

"Oooooooor," she ventured, with a big smile on her lips, "we could hunt down the big, scary fiend-monsters that are guarding the treasure!"