Room 308, Thursday Afternoon: Packing For a Trip Home

[the_merriest]

Rikku was packing. A little slowly, as she was still a touch sore from her morning's exercise, but the opportunity had been too much fun to pass up.

Luckily you didn't need much for a week in Spira. She had her Godhand and her explosives, and new armor. Jude already had his. Pops was due in any time now, and she'd remembered to thank Jarod with

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[lilpunkinbelly]

Dawn knocked on the door, feeling particularly relaxed and bouncy.

[the_merriest]

Rikku hopped to the door. "Oh! Dawn! Come in!" She almost went for a hug and didn't, slightly unsure of where things stood. "Don't mind the mess, trying to pack."

[lilpunkinbelly]

"You're not leaving, are you?" Dawn asked, looking around.

[the_merriest]

"Ship gets in tonight!" Rikku said with a grin, and then understood what Dawn had meant. "Oh! Just for a week, for break! I'll be back."

[sarcasm_guy]

Cid pounded on the door.

"GIRL! This your room? You in there?"

[the_merriest]

Rikku jumped suddenly. "Pops!" She answered the door and gave him a quick, bouncy hug. "You're here! Did you get in okay? Where's Brother?"

[sarcasm_guy]

Cid scooped her up in a big hug and squeezed her. "Oh, yeah, we got in JUST fine." He rubbed his temples with a pained expression. "If that damn fool brother of yours has any SENSE, he's fixin' the damage he did to your docks. But it's him, so he's probably posing in front of a mirror or somethin'."

[the_merriest]

Rikku giggled and squeezed back. "Did he break anything important? You really think he can find a mirror? I'd imagine he's yelling for someone else to find one and bring it to him, and not using the right words."

She looked around her room. "I started grabbing things I'd need and then I started reorganizing and then everything blew up."

[smartestone]

Hermione's been doing most of her studying away, trying to give Rikku time to pack, but after a while she has to bring things back so she can pack herself.

"How is it going?" she asks, putting her books immediately in her trunk, since they'll end up in there anyway.

[the_merriest]

"Hermione!" Rikku bounced and waved to her roommate. "Oh! I meant to help you study more and I've been ... I'm so sorry!"

She flailed a bit. "I just need to go home and I'm starting to reorganize and it's a mess, I'm sorry. And Tidus is up napping in Jude's room and we can't go until Jude gets back and you don't think Pops is gonna freak out, do you? 'Cause I hope not and I can't believe all this is happening and I think I need way more sleep 'cause I haven't been getting much."

She took a deep breath. "Whoa. Sorry. Uh. How are you? How's the cramming and all that? When do you head back?"

[smartestone]

"Definitely get some rest," Hermione says. "At least a bit. And I leave first thing in the morning. It won't even be light out yet. By my estimations I should get there Friday evening Hogwarts time, but I'm not sure what time it will be here yet. I've given myself enough time that there's no possible way I can miss any exams, though." The dork.

[the_merriest]

Rikku smiled. "Thanks. I'm gonna sleep on the ship. We leave in a couple hours and it's gonna take until morning to get home, so I might just zonk the whole way." She shook her head. "It's hard to sleep 'cause none of this seems real and I'm scared he's gonna vanish or something. I don't think I'm gonna be able to relax until we get to Besaid."

She sat down on the edge of her bed. "Good luck with your exams. And, uh, are we still gonna be rooming together this summer and all that? Dawn mentioned cabins and that's kinda weird, but ... it's, uh, been really nice rooming with you, if we're not. And thanks for not freaking out about ... uh ..." She considered the list, which was long. "All of it? But especially the temporary boyfriend-cat and the reality-hole and me being crazy, which is kinda constant."

[behindeyesonly]

Stretching his arms over his head, Tidus yawned the last of his nap away as he went downstairs and walked up the hallway, wondering when they were going to get picked up today. It was Thursday, wasn't it?

He knocked on 308, hoping he'd remembered the right door as well, and waiting, running a hand through his already sleep-mussed hair.

[the_merriest]

Rikku bit her lip and reached for the door handle. "We're waiting," she continued saying to her Pops, "for our other passenger."

She pulled the door open, hoping there was a sleepy-headed blitzball player standing on the other side.

[sarcasm_guy]

"Now, wait just a minute! You just said there was only -- " Cid stopped and stared.

And looked at Rikku.

And stared.

[behindeyesonly]

Tidus blinked tiredly and sniffled, rubbing at his eye like a toddler. "Hey Cid! Didn't know you were gonna be here already."