Room 501, Wednesday Afternoon

[raspberryturk]

Packing.

It was much faster a job than one would expect, given how much crap Reno had amassed since coming to Fandom. But he had managed to stuff everything that he had come to the island with into the same duffel he had brought initially, and most of his booze stash even managed to get crammed in there as well. This left a box with a model helicopter to be carried under one arm, and he was good to go.

Turks, after all, knew how to pack light.

Reno, who was thankfully far less blue than he had been last night, looked around room 501, smirking faintly. If there was one thing that could be said for the school office, it was that they worked decently quickly. Even if they couldn't spell to save their lives.

Room 429. A single. Tseng would be sated, anyhow, and it meant that Reno got a room all to himself, which wasn't half bad, either.

[Establishy-ish? I'm leaving for work in half an hour, but it's open if anyone wants to ask Reno what he's up to-- if you're okay with not being pinged back to until later on this evening.]

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[the_merriest]

Rikku ... stopped short, raising an eyebrow at Reno walking down the hall.

"You, uh ... you goin' somewhere?"

[raspberryturk]

"Kinda," Reno slung the bag over his shoulder and grinned. "Got a room transfer, yo. Got to haul all my crap down one floor."

All his crap wasn't really much at all.

[the_merriest]

"Thought maybe you were skipping out of town," she giggled. "Dear Boss: I'm bored, the rum sucks, screw this town, I'm comin' back to ... uh." Give her a second. "Midgar?"

[raspberryturk]

"Midgar's rubble. I'd be headin' to Edge. Or probably to the Healin Lodge. Nice little sanatorium out in the middle of freakin' nowhere." Shrug. Grin. "Nah. Fandom ain't that lucky yet. You're stuck with me for a while, I'm thinkin'."

[the_merriest]

"Sorry," she said, shrugging a little. She was close, partial credit maybe? "We'll just have to figure out what to do with you then. Need me to carry anything?"

[raspberryturk]

"Think I got everything. You offerin' to walk me to my room?" He wasn't asking. Really. At all.

[the_merriest]

"You sayin' you need an escort?" she laughed. "Whole floor, yoto. You might get lost."

She fell into step beside him. "How's, uh, your week been?"

[raspberryturk]

He kicked what used to be his door shut behind them as they left, and gave a shrug of his shoulders.

"The usual. Get interrogated by the clerk at the clothing store, painted blue, mocked by squirrels, my co-host tries to cook my brains, I'm told I gotta move, and it's only Wednesday. I figure the world's gonna end by Friday night, or somethin'. Yours?"

[the_merriest]

"What'd you do to the pixie?" she giggled. "Ugh, the blue finally came off, I was so pissed about that. Why do you have to move, anyway?"

[raspberryturk]

"Wasn't the pixie," Reno chuckled. "I met Romeo, yo. I got most of the blue off. Rum doesn't work as nice as I'd hoped. And why am I movin'? It's a Turks thing, yo. No big deal."

[the_merriest]

"Turks ... don't play well with others?" she asked, tilting her head a little. "Did you really think rum was gonna get your face back to normal? And Romeo's in a couple classes of ours, I thought you knew him alr--"

Oh.

She put it together, and facepalmed.

[raspberryturk]

"Mmmmhmm." Reno smirked at her for a bit. "I warrant bein' mentioned to the guy friends? I'm flattered, yo." His grin was a smug grin. "You tell me if Turks play well with others, you met half of us already. And I'm never gonna pass up the chance to wash my face in free booze."

[the_merriest]

Rikku stopped facepalming long enough to glare at him. "He asked if I was seeing anybody," she said dryly. "I said no, I wasn't, but our whole ... whatever ... came up. He did the whole, 'I'll talk to him' deal and I tried telling him it wasn't like that, but, you know."

She shrugged, switching topics. "I dunno, you and Rude hung out at the convention and you bugged him a lot, why does that mean you can't have a roommate?"

[princetragique.livejournal.com]

Tamaki, who did not have classes on Wednesdays, was sitting on his bed studying his notes. He was rather perplexed by Reno's gathering of things.

"What are you doing, roomie?"

[raspberryturk]

"Ex-roomie," Reno said, ever-so-casually as he poked around to make certain that he had gathered everything up. "Had to transfer rooms, yo."

[princetragique.livejournal.com]

This was a bit unexpected, to say the least. Of course, Tamaki had to assume the worst! He was naturally dramatic.

"What? Why? Was it something I said?!"

[raspberryturk]

Eyeroll. Epic eyerolling.

"No, Tamaki. It wasn't somethin' you said. Boss just would rather I be in a single, is all."

[princetragique.livejournal.com]

Blink. Blinkblink.

"Boss?"

[raspberryturk]

Aha! An errant bottle of tequila under the bed!

One mouthful left. Waste not, want not, right? Mmmm.

"I'm sure you know how it is," Reno was sure Tamaki had no clue. "One moment, you're sittin', mindin' your own business, the next you got a threat about your salary sittin' in your inbox, yo."

[princetragique.livejournal.com]

Tamaki didn't have a clue, but he did realize that this meant his own room.

"Ah," he said slowly, "Well, if the Boss says so..."

His face reflected his loneliness for but a moment before he smiled, hiding that part of himself away. "I wish you all the best, then, roomie. I hope I'll see you on Sundays."

[raspberryturk]

"Wouldn't miss pimp club for nothin', Tamaki." Grin. Wink.

[princetragique.livejournal.com]

It seemed Reno knew how to get a rise out of Tamaki, who leapt to his feet and flailed.

"Hey! It's not that kind of club!"

[raspberryturk]

Reno couldn't help it. He laughed. It was better seeing Tamaki in a flailing rage than it was looking at him being all down over something neither of them really had any control over.

"If you say so, man. Just so long as I don't get hit on by another guy this week, I'm there, whatever the heck you wanna call it."

[princetragique.livejournal.com]

Tamaki seethed for a time, then, as Reno laughed, he couldn't help but laugh too. Grinning from ear to ear, he offered a handshake.

"Maybe ex-roomies, soon, but still friends, right?"

[raspberryturk]

Reno shrugged, grinned, and took Tamaki's hand to shake.

"Damn straight." Smirk. "Maybe this means you'll actually start usin' my name now."