Room of Handwaviness, Arms Hotel, Early Saturday Morning

[the_merriest]

Today? Today was Reno's birthday. He wasn't a teenager any more. She was going to tease him a lot about being oooooold.

When he woke up. Because they were celebrating in Fandom this weekend, since his home was kinda depressing (no offense) and her home had everybody in everybody else's business (downside of living in a commune of sorts) and neither would allow for a nice, relaxing weekend spent cuddling and not ever getting out of bed, ever.

Rikku was mostly asleep, and trying to convince herself to go back to all asleep. And wondering if Reno was up. She'd trade "back to sleep" for "morning gropey times" if he was. She was flexible like that.

(Reno modded with permission. THIS POST IS FOR: Reno, and anyone who might call Rikku or Reno frantically to panic about their AU sprog. Nice, relaxing weekend? Fandom laughs at this idea! Wait for ze OCD!)

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Room Handwavey Itself!

[the_merriest]

Ain't no phones in this crew! Just for Reno, here, since no one else even knows they're in town (yet)

Rikku's Cell!

[the_merriest]

RIIIIIIIIIING!

Reno's Cell!

[the_merriest]

RIIIIIIIIING! BUT IN A MORE TURKS-Y KINDA WAY!

OOC!

[the_merriest]

Behold! The Os, the other Os, and the C!

Re: Room Handwavey Itself!

[raspberryturk]

See, Reno almost didn't want to wake up. Because waking up meant that Reno was officially old. Or something. Nevermind that Reno didn't think Rude was old, and Rude had at least a few years on him.

On the other hand, there was a Rikku in the room with him. That was always a wonderful change of pace, especially when you lived in freaking Edge, and the trade-off for being old was having a hot girlfriend in your arms, wasn't it?

Oh, to hell with it.

"You sleepin'?" Reno cracked open one eye and looked Rikku's way.

Re: Reno's Cell!

[bitchprince]

There was ringing. Eventually, yes.

There was a question. A very important question.

Re: Reno's Cell!

[raspberryturk]

Hey, the very important ones were totally the kind that Reno was most likely to pick up the phone for. It was scientifically-proven fact.

Well, the very important ones, and the ones that involved getting him into trouble with the boss in some form, and then there was anything that had to do with gossip, and...

"Yo!"

Re: Reno's Cell!

[bitchprince]

"Reno," Arthur greeted, congenially. "So if I grew a beard, I think we can all agree it would look stately and appropriate."

Arthur, has anyone ever told you you pick the strangest things to get insecure about?

Re: Room Handwavey Itself!

[the_merriest]

"Mayyyyyyyyyyyyybe." This came with a thorough wriggle underneath the covers. "I'm fast asleep and dreaming about this awesome guy, zoto. And how ooooold he is."

Oh, that was going to be a recurring theme, today.

Re: Reno's Cell!

[raspberryturk]

... Reno was now trying to picture Arthur with a beard.

To his credit, his laugh was a very silent one.

"Completely stately, zoto." A beat. "Jury's still out on the 'appropriate' part, though. Why you askin'?"

Re: Reno's Cell!

[bitchprince]

"And manly as well," Arthur added, just to finish the whole thing up. "It's one of those weekends. I found myself... pontificating." Beat. "About beards."

Re: Room Handwavey Itself!

[raspberryturk]

"If you start pickin' out my grey hairs, Rikku, I'm goin' back to sleep," Reno threatened, rolling his eyes and then ever so gracefully worming about so that he could say good morning with a kiss. Morning breath and all.

Ah, romance.

Re: Reno's Cell!

[raspberryturk]

"Pontificating," Reno echoed, twitching an eyebrow up. "Must be a special occasion, if its got you pontificating."

He said this as though he knew what the word meant. He was totally going to be looking it up later.

"Some people can wear 'em, some can't. You should see my buddy Rude when he shaves, man. It's kinda sad."

Re: Room Handwavey Itself!

[the_merriest]

"You have gray hairs?" she giggled, wrapping her arms around his neck and tugging him closer. "Are you gonna call people whipper-snappers? Should I get off your lawn?"

Mmmmm, morning breath! Amazing how you could ignore things like that when you hadn't seen your booooooooyfriend in a while. Which she hadn't. Which sucked. Which was why they were here. That, and a birthday. Because he was oooooooold.

Re: Reno's Cell!

[bitchprince]

"I could wear one," Arthur argued. He wasn't sure who he was arguing with, exactly, but see above re: the logic of his insecurities. "But I choose not to so far. Cleanly shaven is more fitting right now, but that may change in the future. And I would do well."

Re: Room Handwavey Itself!

[raspberryturk]

"I'd wave my cane at you, but that'd involve swappin' in my EMR." And now they had reached that part of the morning where there were just words going on, with very little thought behind them.

Thought was so completely overrated, anyhow.

"Unless it means I have one for each hand. I can live with that."

Did canes come slotted for materia?

Re: Reno's Cell!

[raspberryturk]

"Maybe. Or you could be the anti-Rude," Reno smirked. "Lookin' as bad with one as he does without, yo."

And now, Reno was just being a dick because it was fun to hear Arthur get up in arms about hypothetical facial hair.

Re: Reno's Cell!

[bitchprince]

Arthur rolled his eyes.

At the phone, yes.

Sometimes, mobile communication just didn't work.

"Please," he said, "I could manage. With ease."

Re: Reno's Cell!

[raspberryturk]

"Well," Reno mused, "you could always find out the scientific way, yoto. Just take a photo of yourself, an' then take a pen to it."

Reno, personally, would take great joy in giving Arthur one of those curled villain moustaches from bad Western melodramas.

Re: Reno's Cell!

[bitchprince]

"Oh, that's hardly realistic!"

A very fair criticism, Reno. Let's see you field that one.

Re: Room Handwavey Itself!

[the_merriest]

"Would one of them be your pimp cane?" Rikku asked, looking suitably impressed. "I'd be your ho. We should go pimp-and-ho-ing sometime. You could just add sparkly things to your EMR. And get a hat. Pimps need hats."

Zero thought. Just words. And cuddles. And stealing kisses now and then.

She'd missed him, dammit.

Re: Reno's Cell!

[raspberryturk]

"Trust me, man. Whatever you can scribble onto that picture is gonna be a hell of a lot more flattering than what I got pictured in my head right now, yo."

Yep. Reno was totally a dick like that.

Re: Reno's Cell!

[withoutverona]

There'd been a box of awesome if totally handwavy stuff shipped to Edge, but Romeo was inclined to follow with a phone call. He wasn't going to mention what Ino had told him; it seemed as if it was all so far over his head the only sane response was staying out of it.

Ring, ring

Re: Room Handwavey Itself!

[raspberryturk]

"I'd wear that blue suit I picked up for Halloween that time, if I didn't get rid of it to move back to Edge," Reno grumped. It was not a very grumpy grump at all, of course. "Guess you're gonna have to take me pimp-suit shoppin', yo."

Re: Reno's Cell!

[bitchprince]

"Oh, you're hardly an authority," Arthur shot back, "You couldn't grow a beard if your life depended on it."