Lobby: Thursday, All Day (Except Fifth Period): Cookie Table

[the_merriest]

Okay, so: she'd made several dozen cookies last night, and she had actually followed the recipes for once instead of just making things up as she went along. So they weren't, say, Surprise Cookies, but they should be edible, which ... surprise cookies sometimes weren't.

Rikku got a table and set out the cookies - some chocolate chip, some of the peanut butter kind with the fork-marks on top, and some oatmeal raisin - and pulled up a chair. And behind her, she hung the sign she had made.












See, this is why she put the note in the paper. Because she wasn't so great at signs.

She sat down and waited for people to come by. And take some cookies.


[so very, very open! harass Rikku, take some cookies, or both]

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[the_merriest]

"Oh! No, don't be." Rikku shook her head. "I ... it's kind of nice, somehow, knowing that ... other people understand. I mean. What it's like."

She swallowed, hard. "It's harder with him because ... he's not really dead. He's not supposed to be gone, he just vanished. I thought I could fix it. Maybe I just wanted to pretend it's not real, or I could control things, or ... I don't know any more."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Trust me, a lot of people around her understand," Isabel assured her.

"Yeah, I'm sure you'd want some sort of closure. Maybe if you figure out where he went? More research?"

[the_merriest]

"Sometimes I think it's too many," she said, softly. "I'd almost rather it was no one else, you know?"

Rikku nodded. "Maybe. I'm scared to ... I don't want to go back into the restricted area, but that was the only place that seemed to know. But it hurt my head in there. I just wonder ... if he's out there, you know? And what that means."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Oh I know. We're supposed to be high schoolers. Our biggest worry is supposed to be who likes who, or where we're going to college," she sighed. "Not how to keep the people we love safe, or how to save our planet."

"If he's out there, then there's a chance you can get him back. It's just a matter of finding the right way."

[the_merriest]

Rikku nodded. "At least mine's over. I mean, we saved the world. We did it. I know people here who ... still have to go back and face whatever's out there. That has to be harder. It'd kill your nerves."

"Do you ..." She took a breath. "Do you really believe that? He's ... he may not exist. He kinda never did, in one way, but ... I mean, he was here. He was solid, and you could punch him and talk to him and laugh with him and whatever it was that Yunie did with him off in the spring 'cause I so didn't ask but you know. So ... he's real enough, isn't he? Maybe?!"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

It was a bit of a struggle, but Isabel didn't shudder. "People do what they have to do. Even if it scares them to death."

"I've seen friends I thought were dead come back. People I thought were lost forever turn up for coffee in the Perk," she said. "It's Fandom. Anything is possible."

[the_merriest]

"Oh. OH. I didn't mean ... is that ... you, too?" She shook her head. "Man, I'm not so good with tact today, huh? I'm so sorry."

Rikku considered, for a long moment. "Maybe ... maybe you're right. Maybe it is. He was real enough for her to love. He's ... he's gotta be out there somewhere. I just ... maybe I shouldn't give up, yet. Yeah?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"It's okay. There's no way you could have known. I haven't told that many people."

Isabel smiled, "Don't give up. Just don't do anything crazy without checking with people."

[the_merriest]

"I hope ... I hope it all works out for you. When you have to go and finish things. I'm sorry. Do you -- do you need help? I mean, that probably sounds rude. I just ... I can fight. If you need people." Rikku smiled, faintly. "And ... thanks. I won't. Uh, on both parts, I mean."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Thanks. And I appreciate the offer, I really do. But this is something we're going to have to do on our own," she said quietly. "It's going to be long and ugly and I don't want to drag anyone else into it."

"I'm glad. And if you come up with anything I can help you with, let me know. I'll be around."

[the_merriest]

"Okay. I know what you mean, yeah. Oh! If explosives would help, let me know, 'cause I have a lot, and I mean some of them are really good. And good luck." Rikku smiled. "And ... and thank you. A lot."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I will keep that in mind," Isabel smiled. "But for now, I've got some reading to do so I'd better get upstairs and get to it. I'm glad I could help. And if I can do anything else, I'm in 406."

She grabbed one more cookie for the road, then headed up to her room.