MHA #1, AKA Reno-and-Rikku-Land, Thursday Night

[the_merriest]

It felt weird using a key, because she'd been gone for like a month or so (... she thought? Really, she'd lost track, oops) and that seemed rude to just burst in? But it also seemed weird to knock at a place where you lived since you lived there.

She settled for using the key but jingling it really loudly, like, thumping it around in the lock a

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[raspberryturk]

Reno's feet? Propped up on the living room table. Reno's hands? Clasped behind his head. Reno's attention?

Firmly on the door when Rikku opened it, regardless of those other outward signs of ambivalence. There weren't many people who had the keys to the door, after all, and there were even fewer that he was expecting to see come home any day now.

Give him a few more moments, and he'd relocate the small menagerie of housepets that were sharing real-estate on his chest, trying to sleep. You know. Once the burglar with keys opened the door and he was absolutely certain that it was Rikku at the door and that he didn't have to beat up the landlord or something.

[the_merriest]

Okay! Enough fiddling with the lock. She swung the door open and was greeted by ... her favorite Reno ever, propped up on the couch. And oh! The housepets, snapping to attention at various speeds!

Uh-oh.

Mako woke up first, and scrambled off Reno's chest, diving towards her toes because they were obviously something new and interesting and had amazing smells going on. Petey dove after him, still half awake, not entirely aware that Rikku was home. Nor that he was digging his claws into Reno's chest in order to get a good head-start. The important thing was that he had to chase Mako. Duh.

And that was when Bob the duck began bleating and flapping his wings into Reno's general face-and-torso area. Because the others were being noisy and he didn't like it.

Well.

That was certainly ... uh.

".... Hi?"

Oops?

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[raspberryturk]

See Reno. See Reno get off his ass. Go, Reno, go!

... While grabbing hold of the duck by the body and trying for the life of him to not be flapped half to death. The bloody Petey-streaks down his chest, he could ignore. The feathers up his nose, not so much.

"Missed you," he intoned, from behind a violent blur of angry bird. "Yep. Missed-" Pbbth. Ugh, feathers in the mouth. "-You bunches, sweetheart."

[the_merriest]

Rikku managed to shut the door before it became too obvious that she was choking back a grin. She hoped. Petey had flopped onto his back and was wriggling in a way that suggested he had finally realized that she was home!!!!!!!!!!!! and might even have processed that she had been away for a couple of hours or something, and so she had to nuzzle the shit out of him while she got herself under control.

"You, too," she said. "Sorry I didn't c-call more? The satellite was cranky and --"

She had just about managed it when she stood back up, cradling Mako in her left hand and tossing her bag to the floor with her right, when she spotted Reno, standing behind BOB THE VERY CRANKY BIRD RIGHT NOW OKAY BOB WAS NOT HAPPY AND BOB WANTED YOU TO KNOW THAT.

And at that point, she burst out laughing so hard she almost dropped Mako.