MHA #1, Monday Late Night

[intraspective]

It was the night before class and Reno was out…

But, well, there was a lot more than a mouse stirring about his apartment. Sneaky little blondes with clever little hands and mischief on their minds.

... and a truly terrifying amount of mayhem planned. That was, of course, what one got when Rookies got ideas and had the nerve to execute them.

"Right," one little 'mouse' murmured, as they got the door open and lugged their boxes of supplies in. "Where did you want to start?" She set her box down on the couch with a thump and grinned at her co-conspirator. "I think we should start with the dye—we can do other things while the dye sets."

[Apartment pranking done with permission/enabling of the faaabulous raspberryturk. For the other mousie! NFB, please!]

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"Santa," Ino said helpfully. What? She had three years in Fandom, she knew that much.

She leaned over the back of the couch. "Want to start doing that now?"

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[findingelena.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, him," Elena nodded. "He starts laughing if you plug the lights in. It sounds creepy. If I were a kid, I'd be scared he'd take my toys."

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Ino made a face as she fiddled with the wrapping paper.

"And then you beat him up," Ino said lightly. "Old fat guy--can't be hard to take down."

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"Now that is a holiday I could get behind," Elena laughed. "Some fat guy tries to steal your toys in the middle of the night -- so you kick his ass. And maybe steal whatever he's got in his sack. Finders keepers!"

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"He wouldn't get very far, I don't think, if all the kids were trying that."

No, really. A group of kids could take down anyone with a wee bit of effort.

"Tree?" she said hopefully. "Or else I'm going to go and wrap things."

And hide them. As you do.

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[findingelena.livejournal.com]

So long as Santa wasn't packing heat. That might even the odds in his favor.

"Tree," Elena agreed, pulling the closest box out of the way so she could frown at the mess. "Do you think we have room here to set it up?"

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Ino gave the room a considering look.

"I think so," she commenting, flipping herself over the couch to poke at the garland. She was sometimes five, yes. "I mean, it's not like we're leaving the furniture where it is. If it's in our way--totally easy to just move it."

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[findingelena.livejournal.com]

"Good call," she nodded. "Okay. Tree, take one. I've never tried to make a tree before. Do you think they packed instructions?"

If not, they were going to need more duct tape.

She slid the box over in front of herself and worked on cutting it open. "I'm not so great with instructions," she admitted. "I get bored on page five, try to do it myself, and then fail, miserably."

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"I think they're pretty simple?" she said, a bit dubiously. "I mean: stand, tree trunk, fake branches..."

That couldn't be too hard, right?

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[findingelena.livejournal.com]

"So long as it's big and placed somewhere inconvenient," Elena smiled. "It's not like we need to worry about aesthetics, here."

Not that she wanted to make an ugly tree, but sometimes, it was good to remind yourself that it was okay to be less-than-perfect.

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"Shhh," Ino laughed. "The garland'll cover our mistakes."

That was what garland was for after all. She shoved the couch over a bit. "Just do it here and then move it later?"

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[findingelena.livejournal.com]

"So long as the ferret doesn't try to make that its new home," she agreed. Box: open! Success. And now ... lots of branches of varying lengths.

"They seem to be color-coded," she said, noting the little marks at the base. "Apparently, they want this to be idiot-proof."

She was not complaining, on that point.

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"That's helpful!" she said, leaning over to snag a branch... or several as the one she had seemed to want to cling to a few others. "I mean, not everyone has done this before, yeah?"

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"I sure haven't," Elena said, shaking her head. "I mean, trees for the holiday season, sure, but there was just one big one. You didn't put fake ones up all over the place."

Not that Midgar's holidays had been all that much like this world's, but the tree part at least connected.