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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Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[prayer-and-wing.livejournal.com]

"Mom doesn't seem to mind!" she chirped. "Dad's the one that went all white went Angeal brought up the buuuugs."

It helped, though, that Ino was a lot more used to the idea of small children blowing things up.

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[the_merriest]

"Your dad might be in shock," Rikku explained with a light smile. "We weren't expecting you guys to be here. It's a nice surprise, but that still a lot to adjust to. I mean, what if younger-us came and replaced your Mom and Dad for a weekend? That'd be crazy, right?"

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[prayer-and-wing.livejournal.com]

"That wouldn't happen," she said, a bit mutinously. "Mom and Dad wouldn't go through a portal like that."

A beat.

"Unless they were in really good moods before that..."

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[the_merriest]

"Sometimes," Rikku said wisely, "Moms and Dads get in really good moods."

Please, do not traumatize the girl by elaborating, Rikku?

"Besides, we used to be all wild and crazy before we settled down and had kids. Maybe it was those Mom and Dad that came through the portal, looking to raise a fuss."

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[prayer-and-wing.livejournal.com]

"Did you go on adventures?" she asked, tilting her head. "Mom and Dad don't talk about their work too much."

That would be because confidentiality rules worked that way.

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[the_merriest]

"I saved the world," Rikku said, posing for that. Well, she did. It wasn't like modesty was going to do much for her. "But that was a long time ago. Before I even met your Uncle Reno, and way far away. It was more scary than adventurous, but we made it out okay."

... most of them, anyway.

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[prayer-and-wing.livejournal.com]

"Does it make for good stories now?" she wondered, arms behind he r back. "Or is it one of the ones that doesn't get told?"

Re: A PICNIC OF GREAT IMPORT

[the_merriest]

"I could totally tell stories, if you wanted to hear them," she said honestly. "It's not all that cheerful, though. You see movies and people save the world and that's it. In real life, you lose people, ones that matter to you. And once it's saved, you have to start over and rebuild."