Dorm Grounds, Then Out & About -- Sunday All Day

[intraspective]

Ino?

Ino had not had a particularly restful night. Even after they'd managed to get the kids to sleep, she'd dealt with the fact that… she really wasn't sure what to do about Zack, other than pretend she hadn't known he'd been faking sleep.

She hadn't really gotten much sleep and had called Reno early that morning to ask him to please take them, just for a bit, and that bit of news had effectively distracted the kids from paying too much attention to the things that were wrong.

They thought sleeping outside was great fun! That seeing Uncle Reno would be awesome. Inori reluctantly confessed that she'd called and talked to Aunt Rikku and that maybe she wouldn't be in trouble for that…?

Most importantly, though, they weren't paying attention to the way Zack wasn't himself. Inori especially had to be watched for that. Angeal—and why, she thought, had he had to show up now with that name, but Ino couldn't bring herself to get angry, just tired—was a bit too young to pinpoint the exact causes of anything wrong.

Now, after breakfast of pastries and milk and Ino spending a lot of her time as a distraction without trying to seem like one… they were waiting for Reno to show up and give them space.

Ino's fingers tightened around Zack's hand as she ruffled Angeal's hair. Inori bounced excitedly on the other side of Zack.

[For them that know who they are, yep. Modding done with permission! The OCD shall likely be a shiny growing thing. XD ]

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Ino & Zack

[intraspective]

Once Reno picks up the kids! FEAR, RENO. FEAR.

Re: Ino & Zack

[raspberryturk]

Reno... kinda did fear. Reno was fearing this whole day spent with a pair of kids that he knew couldn't ever exist, for the sake of... well... for the sake of the whole damn world. He was fearing the possibility of actually liking the fucking kids.

Shit, he was fearing a lot of things. But you'd never be able to tell just by looking at him. Not with that smirk on his face as he sauntered onto the grounds and up to the more or less happy family that was standing there.

"Someone ask for Uncle Reno, yo?"

Re: Ino & Zack

[prayer-and-wing.livejournal.com]

"UNCLE RENO!" shrieked an excited, dark-haired very blue-eyed girl as she tugged her hand out of her father's and flung herself at the aforementioned uncle fully expecting a hug.

... Well, she was fully expecting to give him one anyway.

"Hiii!"

Give her a second...

"Where's Uncle Rude?" Big hopeful eyes stared at him. Uncle Rude was awesome. And normally with Uncle Reno. "Have you lost him? Did you know Aunt Rikku said we can maybe do explosives?"

That wasn't entirely how the conversation still in progress had gone . Inori was not above twisting things for her own benefit.

"And Uncle Rude has the best explosives!" See? She had a point!

Ino was just going to sigh. And try not to giggle as Inori chattered at Reno.

Reno & Inori & Angeal

[intraspective]

Because this can totally go well, yes!

Re: Reno & Inori & Angeal

[prayer-and-wing.livejournal.com]

Inori waited until they were out of sight of The Parents, Angeal doing most of the talking while she clung to Uncle Reno's hand and chewed on her lip.

Then:

"Spores?"

That was indignant, yes.

Re: Reno & Inori & Angeal

[raspberryturk]

And it was met with a laugh, because... Yes, Reno did think he was funny.

"It was either that, or puppies," Reno replied, cracking a grin her way. "But that's too damn cuddly for anything that's half Ino, if you ask me, yo."

A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[intraspective]

Because we thought the playercest here had to be exploited for all it is worth. Also, we think we're hilarious.

... Don't judge.

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[the_merriest]

Right, so: Reno was all weird about the picnic for some reason. He said it was complicated and she'd get a better explanation later, which was fine by her. She'd offered to come up with a convincing story about a bizarre flesh-eating disease if he wanted to skip out, but he didn't. He wanted to go. Okay, then!

Something about timelines getting thoroughly screwed up. And his rookies having babies. Rikku wasn't sure why Ruba hadn't shown up this weekend -- maybe since they weren't supposed to be here, the island didn't think to fetch her.

Anyway. It was a picnic, and it was going to be the best darn picnic ever. Really. She brought a basket, and food, and a blanket, and a small pile of explosives. Because Inori had asked Auntie Rikku about blowing things up, and every situation was made better with some explosives.

"Hi!" she said, waving to a huge group of people. Some of whom she didn't know. This would not stop her from being cheery. "I brought pie!"

Pie: it was kind of like explosives, that way.

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[prayer-and-wing.livejournal.com]

"AUNTIE RIKKU!"

Rikku probably recognized that voice as the one who'd babbled at her yesterday, yes, as a little girl flung herself gleefully in Rikku's direction.

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[puppy_fair]

Hey! A person that... Zack didn't actually know. But the kids seemed thrilled that she was here, and so he was going to assume that he was now in the process of meeting the fabled 'Auntie Rikku.'

"Pie is good," he offered, twitching a bit of a smile. "What kind?"

... Sound a little less excited, Zack. You're going to scare people.

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[intraspective]

"Hiii Rikku," Ino carolled. "Do you know how awesome you are for grabbing all of this stuff? Do you think Reno would mind if I kept you?"

She offered the other girl a grin at that.

Reno could have Zack! It'd be a fair trade!

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[shyest-eyes.livejournal.com]

Hinata hovered a bit around the edges of this whole... family affair… thing, rather confused that she'd been invited. But Ino had been very insistent, saying the kids wanted to see their Aunt Hinata, and she... hadn't really had anything better to do.

Except for mull over the fact that, perhaps, she needed to work on that how to avoid children book with Ender a bit more. Funny how they'd been talking about it just earlier that day...

So she was just going to be... awkward. On the side. And wonder what on earth she was supposed to say to the group of people she… barely knew.

This would be fantastic. Truly.

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[prayer-and-wing.livejournal.com]

"AUNTIE HINATA!"

What? It wasn't like Rikku was the only one who was going to end up with a small child being launched at her.

"You came! Hi! Look, there are cookies!" And now Angeal was going to wave one of those cookies at her. "I like this place! There's a beach here, did you see it?"

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[raspberryturk]

Reno wasn't twitchy, he was juts mildly freaking out. That was completely not the same godsdamed thing, thank you very much.

He was remedying this freaking out thing with potato salad.

Lots, and lots, and lots of potato salad. Because if he was shovelling food into his mouth, then he couldn't slip up and say something completely freaking stupid.

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[intraspective]

"You're going to choke if you keep that up," Ino said, plopping down next to him. "Breathe, Reno. It can't have been that bad."

If only you knew, Ino.

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[the_merriest]

And this was Rikku, carefully sidling over to him.

"Hanging in there?" she asked. Her tone was light, but there was a seriousness in her eyes.

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[turklings.livejournal.com]

Oh, this might be a huge picnic, but Veld knew that person. He was hard to miss.

"Eeeeeeeee-no." Big chubby hands were reaching for -- anything they could grasp. Starting with his pant legs.

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[intraspective]

Ino?

Ino was totally going to use this time, being temporarily free of kids as they'd flung themselves at other people, to kinda fall over on a corner of a blanket and stare up at the sky.

This weekend was tiring.

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[puppy_fair]

Once the meat of the conversations were out of the way? Zack was going to shuffle on over to Ino? And he was going to flop over beside her.

"My sentiments exactly."

Mmm, flopping.

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[findingelena.livejournal.com]

Elena was more or less in one piece. Really. And she had Veld with her. Veld: having a much better day than Elena. Also, entirely too adorable for words.

"Can you wave hi?" she asked, softly. Veld dutifully waved, then ducked his head back against her shoulder. Large crowd: time to play bashful.

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[puppy_fair]

.... eeeeeeebaby.

Zack could pull him out of his funk for a moment in order to nod at Elena and the little bundle of adorable in her arms, and then offer a twitch of a smile.

"He's got his dad's eyes," he offered.

The father was obvious, here, after all.

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[intraspective]

"That is the world's cutest baby," Ino said, peering over at Elena. "Seriously. Hiii cutie."

OOC

[intraspective]

To keep the world from ending!

Re: OOC

[findingelena.livejournal.com]

OH SHIT WHO INVITED JENOVA? NOOOOOOOO!

[/thinks she is funny]

Re: OOC

[puppy_fair]

D: THAT IS NOT MY MOM.