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Fourth floor common room, Friday afternoon

It was Friday the 13th. Which meant that Jude had to preempt the bad Friday the 13th mojo, combined with reality-breaking girlfriend, with a movie marathon of horror flicks so bad that if they didn't already have their own episode of MST3K, they really, really should.

He had popcorn. He had one of those hats that provided a constant supply of cream soda from two cans. He had leftover Easter candy. He was totally set. No bad mojo here, nuh uh.

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Jude chuckled. "Totally." He tried to swallow his own disappointment, hand running up and down her arm. "So you'll be going away for a bit?"

Rikku nodded. "Just - a week or so. Should be enough time to get across to Zanarkand. That's where the really good fiends are."

She laughed a bit. "You can't get the stuff I need in stores. I just gotta travel around and steal myself some goodies."

"Oh. Cool." Jude played with the end of her ponytail. "I'll miss you."

"I'll miss you too," she said quickly. And tried for a playful laugh. "Sometime when I'm not going fiend-hunting, you ... you should totally, you know. Come with me. If you wanted, I mean. You don't have to."

Jude ducked his head to kiss her. "That would be totally awesome."

Kiss first, then bouncing. "Really? You mean it? You'd ... you'd have to see the Moonflow, it's so pretty with the pyreflies ... and a blitzball game, at Luca, and ... we could ride Chocobos, on the Mi'ihen Highroad, and Macalania! It has entire paths that are just made out of starlight and sphere patterns that weave through the trees, and ..."

She shook her head. "Man. Maybe I ... I could always get more smoke bombs later, I guess? I'm not too low." She bit her lip.

"I can still tag along," Jude suggested, knowing that this was what she did when she was home and even if he was a pacifist, he had to accept that part of her . . . yadda yadda. "I'm like totally useless in a fight, but I am awesome at carrying stuff."

"You ... really?! You mean, you'd want to? And you so wouldn't need to be, I'm a Guardian, remember? Yunie was a White Mage. She couldn't fight at all. I mean, her Summons could fight, but we didn't like using them too much, when we could do it ourselves. So she hung back and did her healing stuff, and we kept her safe."

Rikku shook her head quickly. "... But I don't want to bore you. With all the monster-killing." She cleared her throat and sat up importantly. "And just so you know, the monsters are totally all undead souls trapped in this world making up armor for themselves with pyreflies that only look like bodies and we'd be freeing them for the Farplane so it's not like killing and stuff 'cause I know you're not into that."

Jude listened to her spiel and nodded like he followed along.

"I think it'd be kinda cool to see where you come from. I mean, I've been to Coruscant and New York and stuff, but nowhere else, really."

"I want to see Toronto some time. And your friends. Oh!" Rikku stopped short. "Not sure how to, uh. Explain to Pops. Can't exactly hide you in my luggage, can I?"

"Explain what to Pops?" Jude asked uncertainly.

Rikku blushed. "You coming back with me. If you do. Will you? Come with me to Spira?"

"Of course I will. You haven't told your dad about us?"

Rikku fidgeted a bit. "Well ... not exactly? I mean, I kinda told my brother that boys don't even go to this school."

"Oh."

Jude was quiet.

"Uh, they aren't, like, going to go all Professor Deadpool on me?"

"I hope not? That's kinda why I didn't tell them, just in case they're stupid about it. But seriously, my brother's dumb, I'll just hit him. It's fine."

She chewed her lip. "Did ... you tell your parents? About me?"

Jude nodded. "Yeah. When I went home for spring break."

"Really??" Her eyes lit up. "What ... what did you tell them? What did they say? Do they know I'm an Al Bhed and all that, I mean, they're okay with it?"

Jude chuckled. "Bra, my parents don't even know what 'Al Bhed' means," he told her gently. "I told them that I'd met this great girl, she was really nice and seemed really smart, and that she makes me happy."

Rikku blushed. "Yeah? That's ... that's so great."

She leaned forward to nuzzle his nose, giggling. "Yunie thinks you're cute."

Jude kissed her lightly. "You sent her a picture?"

Rikku kissed him back, then smiled. "Yeah. The hockey one? I've told Yunie a lot, and Lulu some, too, but ..." She looked down. "It's hard. 'Cause I want to write her and just giggle like crazy and ramble on and on about you and us and then I remember that he's gone and ... that seems so mean. So I end up saying that you're awesome and we're great and don't tell her the rest."

"Good. 'Cause I'd feel kind of weird if you were tellin' people a bunch of stuff about me," he said, embarrassed. "'Specially 'cause you totally exaggerate how awesome I am."

"Hey, just 'cause your awesome-detectors don't work, doesn't mean there's something wrong with mine." Rikku grinned.

"Mine totally work!" Jude protested. And then, like a total dork, began to make sonar ping noises until he had homed in enough to kiss her again.

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