Bunnysitting

[poison_lipstick]

Saffron had never owned a pet. She remembered wanting one when she'd been younger, a pretty little cat in a shop window that had practically begged to come home with her - or at least that's what it had seemed like to Saffron, back when she was young and innocent and her real name was still what she answered to. But her parents had said no, and

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[kingshit_lloyd]

Scott's writing classes never failed to get Lloyd's brain tangled up in knots, to get him thinking in really weird directions (not that he normally followed the straightest thinking path, but the classes sure didn't help any). So when he found Helen sitting with Playboy, he was already trying to come up with a story to match. The femme fatale and the rabbit, now that had a ring to it, didn't it? A classic, brooding detective story waiting to happen. What part would Playboy play, though? A witness, an accomplice, the murder weapon?

Who the Christ knew.

"Hey, thanks for watchin' him," Lloyd said with a smile, landing back in the real world. "Fuzzball give you any trouble?"

[poison_lipstick]

"Not a bit," Saffron replied, returning Lloyd's smile with a bright one of her own. "You know I never mind watching this little cutie. How was class?"

[kingshit_lloyd]

"I think he likes hanging out with you, always does that perky hopping move of his when you're around." It wasn't like Playboy couldn't be left on his own - he often had the whole room for himself - but Lloyd thought he should get to enjoy some good company every once in a while. Besides, Helen was great with him. A regular bunny whisperer.

"Class was good, nothing like back home." He sat down next to them, grinning as the bunny hopped over into his lap, then scratching his head the way Playboy liked. "God, I used to hate school. Teachers talked to me like I was a retard or something." It had grown worse the older he'd gotten, with him being labeled as trouble in addition to plain dumb. High school... now that had been a fucking nightmare. "Hey, what sort of stuff did you learn when you were a kid?" he asked, hoping that at least in the future, schools were a little more interesting.

[poison_lipstick]

It might have been that she was a little biased, but Saffron couldn't help but feel like her Lloyd had gotten a raw deal back home. The more she heard about it, the less she liked how life had treated him before the island.

"Oh, pretty much the usual thing when I was much younger, the three Rs and such," she replied. "Then I started at the Companion Academy when I was thirteen." That was actually a bit late, most having started at the age of twelve, but she'd picked up on things quick enough.