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Character(s): Rikku (

greeneyedmecha), Gamzee Makara (

subjuggloco) and Nepeta Leijon (

bestmoirail)
Location: Their respective dorms
Rating: Buuuh PG for language possibly? Nothing big.
Open/Closed/Finished: Closed
Summary: Two threads. In one Nepeta and Rikku bond a bit after studying together, in another Nepeta finally

For Rikku: [To say that Nepeta had only just barely passed her remedial math class was an understatement. Between barely having ever bothered with math before coming here, and missing so many classes, the only reason she managed to scrape by was because of Rikku. The same could be said for Maria who had helped her in some of her other classes.

Right now she was once again with Rikku, now that she was in the regular Mathematics class. These quarters seemed to pass by so quickly. She felt like she had only started getting the hang of the basics, and now she was being thrust into something more difficult. Well, perhaps it was only to be expected what with this being a military school. Buh. She just wished there was some other way she would stay here and help with the war effort without all this.]

I think that's the last problem. [Small groan and she flops over the table]

For Gamzee: [Nepeta had been lingering outside the door to his dorm going on ten minutes now. There had once been a point where she could barely even think about him without going into a panic attack, and now here she was to do....she wasn't even sure what. It's not like she could talk to him what had happened, since technically nothing had yet to happen in his timeline. She just wanted to some sort of sense of where she stood with him, what to expect from him.

Yet she was still scared, still nervous, half expected when he opened that door it would be not the sweet troll with the lazy smile she had once considered her friend, but that creature that had given into instinct, the one that existed in her nightmares.

But she would never know if she didn't act, would she? So at last, from somewhere she drew courage and knocked on his door.]

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[And from within the door...

HONK HONK. HONK HONK. Both noises came from the actual bike horns littered around the floor of Gamzee's housing and the cheery toned voice that came from he himself. In a pleasant twist of fate for Nepeta, this Gamzee is far from the sober maniac hellbent on using his friends' blood to make beautiful subjugglator art. The one who essentially brought about Cal and creepy chuckle-voodoo antics. No, this is the happy-go-lucky, lax, life-is-beautiful-and-nothing-hurts Gamzee, and he has answered the door to greet her.

Needless to say, he seemed surprised. Joyfully so, but still.]

Oh shit. When did my whisker-sister decide to pounce up into this motherfucking academic hive?

[Nepeta feels her spine stiffen at the sound of those honks and she takes a couple steps away from the door before steeling herself. She can feel the hairs on the back of her neck standing but she's not going to run and hide.

She has to double her resolve when she finally sees him, but it is helped by a sense of confusion and surprisingly enough, loss. Somewhere she had still expected to be greeted by that Gamzee with the mussed makeup and manic grin. Instead she sees the adorable, friendly boy she had known for so long. It through her for such a loop, and only know did she realize how much she had missed that smile.

She returned it with one of her own, albeit forced]

Hey, Gamzee! Nothing in purrticular. It just seems like fur..furever since we've talked. I wanted to see how you were.

[If Nepeta notices the area behind Gamzee, she may catch sight of a healthy supply of slime-filled pie tins. He's full of it, more than enough to help him last a while, although he honestly hasn't figured out what to do when he starts to run out. Hm.

No matter! He'll figure that out when he gets closer to that issue. For now, he has to focus on the purriest one amongst his group of friends.]

Haha, I'm SO motherfucking tight right now! [He reaches over and pats her on the head.] How long you even been hanging here? If I knew, I would've come around, come and given you a visit, you know? Would've been sweet.

[She tenses a little, but manages to keep from backing away, though she does flinch somewhat.]

I've been here fur a purrty long time. A couple months now, but I've just been super busy. You purrobably now know how busy they try to keep you.

[Gamzee doesn't regard the flinch in the slightest. In fact, he hardly even notices.]

Sounds just about how long I've been digging around, my invertesister. [Honk.] Though I sure don't motherfucking know what you're meaning by busy. Been having nothing but all kinds of wicked fun since I fell down in here. It's been a motherfucking blast, hahaha!

[... He is probably doing terrible in his classes.]

Fun? Well you're going to haveta show me what you do fur fun around here! 'sides going to the training center I haven't found too much to do. [Start off nice and easy]

[Patpat, Nep]

See, that wasn't so bad.

[She wrinkles her nose]

Easy fur you to say! You're good at this stuff.

Not really. I'm just good at faking it.

[She smiles]

Anything else left to do?

[Nepeta laughed a little, and shook her head, closing up her notebook and textbook.]

That's it fur today, thankfully. The stuff furrom my other classes I think I can handle. Anything fur you? [Not that she thought she would be of much help, but you never knew.]

Tailoring, but it's just review, and I wanna try out some of the stuff from photography. [A pause as she thinks] Oh, and physics, but I was doing that stuff when I was, like, six without knowing what it was, so I can do that tomorrow.

[She stretched her arms above her head. Man, feels like they had been sitting for a long time]

What things are you doing in photography? [It was an interesting choice. She had never really thought much about it, or taking pictures for that matter.]

Right now, learning basic stuff. [Rikku pulls out her photos. They're nothing spectacular, but there's a few candid shots of instructors doing dorky things]

[She looks at them curiously, sifting through each and giggling at some]

How did you get these?

I tripped, mostly. Tripped, got left behind, ended up snagging those because they thought they were alone.

That so? [Then teasingly] I'm pawfully suspicious. This seems like the kinda stuff Ms. Tattler would try to dig her claws into. Yooooou aren't her, are you?

[Rikku laughs and throws up her hands]

No! I'm not that mean!

[She grins]

I do wonder who it really is though. Do you have any clue?

Nope. Whoever it is, they're either popular or really really sneaky.

Popular? [Nepeta hadn't quite thought that but...if someone was popular, then they would be privy to quite a lot of things, wouldn't they?]

I never thought of it that way. They're purrobably both.

Wouldn't it be funny if it was someone like Marco or that redhead with the frisbees? Someone really super noticeable.

Lea? Haha, it would be! Maybe one day when we aren't super busy--like in between quarters or something we should do some investigating!