Room 308, Thursday Midday

[raspberryturk]

The girlfriends had classes. The baby needed to be protected. That was the mission. That was the job.

Hunkered down in Rikku's room. Surrounded by diapers and baby food and a smiling yellow teddybear crib. Watching the baby.

The mind-blowingly adorable baby. With the little red pigtails and the big green eyes and the wiggly toes. Very cute wiggly toes. Reno was resisting the urge to make up his own version of "this little piggy," because he didn't actually know how it was supposed to go.

Yep. Alone in Rikku's room. With a baby.

And Madrox.

"If she craps herself, you're on diaper duty, yo."

[For that guy, but the post is open! If you want to make the boys freak out good, just knock. :D]

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[raspberryturk]

"It was either that, or Jamie's way of doin' it? With the baby upside-down, yo."

Well. Reno figured that made sense, anyhow.

"At least she's wearin' 'em. I was gonna suggest we wrap her ass in a towel an' see how well that works, but then I got to thinkin' we'd probably run outta towels."

[the_merriest]

"I bet you would," Rikku cooed, placing a light kiss on Janice's forehead. "Alllll my towels would be icky! Uck! Poo! Did Reno and Jamie take good care of you? Did they? Were they good to you?"

"Bah," Janice declared, bouncing a little on Rikku's hip.

"I bet that was a yes," Rikku grinned.

[raspberryturk]

"She has toes," Reno clarified. "Ten of 'em."

Because, you know, this was odd for a baby and all.

"This little piggy went to Midgar, an' that other one went on a hike in the modeo mountains an' found Tseng's chopper, an' did you know how freakin' hard it is to come up with stuff for piggies to do while tryin' to keep a kid from suckin' on your stun baton?"

[the_merriest]

"Did you count?" Rikku laughed. She felt giddy, dammit. "Oh my gosh, please tell me the baton is switched off? And is Petey behaving himself?"

... Petey never behaved himself. But Petey and Janice seemed cozily fond of each other.

[raspberryturk]

"She got to play with my Materia for a bit. The baton ain't on until I need it, and Petey never behaves himself."

Which is why Reno had stuck Petey into the crib. It kept him off the floor, where the baby was.

"She threw the Materia, I gotta go diggin' under your bed sometime soon to get Pyramid back."

[the_merriest]

"I bet she drooled on it," Rikku laughed. "I'll make sure you get Pyramid back. That one's fun. Can't be too hard to find under the bed, right?"

... In the mess of wires and coils and whatever else was down there? Oh, well. They'd find it eventually.

Petey, for his part, liked the crib. There were interesting things to chew on!

[raspberryturk]

"Maybe Materia works better with a little drool," Reno mused. And then shrugged and grinned a little. "It's... Kinda weird. Sittin' in your room, watchin' a kid."

[the_merriest]

"Yeah?" she asked, taking a seat next to him on the bed. "It ... feels weird. Having her, and ... I dunno."

Red hair, green eyes. Adorable little bundle.

[raspberryturk]

Reno nodded, watching Janice intently for a moment before leaning over to steal a kiss.

From Rikku. Not the baby.

"Weird, yeah. But she's cute. Even if she stinks now an' then."

[the_merriest]

"So do you," Rikku teased. "I keep you around, anyway, you know."

"Mmm-bah," Janice contributed helpfully.