Second floor common room- Monday morning

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine only had one class on Monday, and she had just planned on getting some caffeine before having to go, except she walked into the common room to find puppies. Random puppies. Adorable, tiny, fluffy baby puppies.

She didn't know where they came from and obviously they wouldn't be staying, but could anyone blame her if she ignored the caffeine to pick one up and cuddle him? (The answer was no, not unless they were a monster.)


[Snow day! You need puppies, come play.]

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[chirpchirpchirp]

"Ohmygosh."

Vette had class to be getting to in an hour or so. And then maybe things to shoot. She hadn't completely decided yet what she was going to do with her day, but she did know that, whatever her plans were going to be, they were getting derailed significantly by overhearing barking on her way down the stairs, and then coming to investigate only to see, "Puppies!"

The one thing she liked most about this world? Earth puppies were amazing.

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"I don't know what's happening here and I don't need to," Sabine told her as the puppy she was holding began licking her glove.

[chirpchirpchirp]

"In my heart, it's totally another heist," Vette announced, picking up a little wiggly puppy with droopy ears that were almost comically oversized for the rest of him. "These little guys are vicious guardians of some great secret. They must be."

And they were totally welcome to utterly maul her. Aw.

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"In that case, they get to keep their secret because I'm pretty happy not getting past them."

What happened if Sabine knelt down to get on their level?

She had several puppies come over, that's what!

[chirpchirpchirp]

"Is it bad to want to just lay down on the floor and let them utterly destroy me like the little wolves they so totally are?"

Vette sat on the floor, which was a good step on the way there, anyway.

"Vicious little attack hounds."

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"Not bad at all. You'd definitely never get up again, though," Sabine warned.

[bookbeltof_love]

"You should keep one of these," Nina teased, watching the way that Vette was swarmed by puppies.

Not that, like, Nina was much better here, but psh, details.

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"Don't tempt me," Vette replied, smiling lopsidedly. "This one has ears almost as long as my lekku were at that age."

She wasn't going to keep the puppy. Was not.

"And that one is sleeping on me. And this one here? He stepped on me, and..."

[bookbeltof_love]

"And how many of them kissed you?" she teased, since Vette being overwhelmed with adorable puppies was pretty darn great.

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"Every single one," Vette replied, her voice an awed whisper. "Nina, I was kissed by every puppy."

So she needed all of them, clearly.

[bookbeltof_love]

Oh! Hrm.

That... that was an awful lot of puppies to need.

"They clearly thought you deserved it!!!!!!!!!!!!" she said, laughing. "Oh no, the tragedy of puppy kisses!!!!!"

[hashtag_chocobro]

It wasn't unusual for Prompto to get distracted by something, usually on his phone, on his way up the stairs, en route to the common room to kill the time he had between Awesome Make-Stuff Class and Who-The-Hell-Even-Knows Class and get some breakfast, to lose track of which floor he was actually on and wind up in a different common room. Not that it really matter which common room he was in, because they were all...pretty common.

But this one also had puppies.

"Whaaaaaaaat?" he said, turning the corner through the door and looking up from his email to find all those adorable, tiny, fluffy surprises, looking very much like a kid who'd just woken up to an unexpected Christmas.

"There's so maaaaaaany!"

Yes, that was nearly a squeal, as his email got swiftly pushed aside for a moment because he needed to swoop up and snuggle with as many of these little fluffballs as he could fit into his arms right at this second.


[[*weeps over lack of snow day despite snow. consoles self with puppies, yes*]]

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"You're doing this right," said Sabine, who only had one, but she loved this one right this second, okay.

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Well," said Prompto, as loftily as one could when they were on their knees, covered in puppies, lifting his chin importantly, which meant getting his chin very eagerly licked, "I am an expert. I'm a certified puppy wrangler."

No. That was a lie, he wasn't, but he knew that if he went to Zack about it, it would be a thing in two-point-five seconds.

...he was totally going to Zack about it.

"I get paid for this kind of thing."

[seriesofbaddecisions]

"Is it like this every day then?" she wondered.

Weirdly, her jobs had never involved many fluffy puppies.

[hashtag_chocobro]

"At Furnado it is, yeah," Prompto said with a big, dopey, puppy-fueled grin. They were so wriggly! But he didn't mind. "And Zack's really cool about people just popping in to play with them, it's actually really good for the puppies, that's kind of how it all started. I was in every week until we just finally decided to make it official, I think when we had that job fair?" He couldn't remember; it was hard to tell. It was almost as if he was always a part of Furnado, in spirit, anyway. "But, either way, I go in, play with puppies, do some work, get paid, play with more puppies. Preeeeetty niiice."

[bookbeltof_love]

"Prompto!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is your fault, isn't it??????????????"

She was laughing, though, as she nuzzled yet another puppy, so he couldn't take that accusation too badly, right?

[hashtag_chocobro]

Prompto gasped. "My fault??"

How could she? He was offended, Nina! So. Offended!

For about two whole seconds, before he started laughing.

"Man," he sighed wistfully, snuggling into his armful of puppies a little. "I wish! If you do find out who did this, lemme know, because that is a person whose hand I need to shake."

...when they weren't filled with puppies, anyway.

[bookbeltof_love]

"Maybe it was, like, your boss from Furnado??????" she suggested, though she really had no idea. "He'd have access to puppies like this, right?????????"

Small, wriggly puppies of bliss.

She was going to leave this room covered in dog fur and it was going to be glorious! Glorious!

[hashtag_chocobro]

"...you know what?" said Prompto, blinking after a long moment of thought. "You might be onto something there, actually. It wouldn't be the first time hes done something like this. Sidon and me oh-so-handwavily helped him move, like, a ton of different animals back and forth to his office at the school for that class that did the heist thing, including puppies."

Especially puppies.

And Zack was pretty awesome, so, hey, that theory checked out well enough for Prompto!

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina's plan for the day involved sticking to her room, reading, writing in her diary, and basically just repeating that until she ran out of things to read or write or daydream about.

But, like many a teenager, she got hungry. So she wandered to the common room, on an epic quest for sustenance.

Only to pause in the door, and make a strangled squeaky noise of glee.

"Oh my gosh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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"I'm not asking questions," Sabine said. "They're just here, and they're great."

[bookbeltof_love]

"They're so cuuuuuuuuuuuuute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina had to, absolutely had to, kneel down to see how many of them she could pet. "Lookit you!!!!!! Lookit your tiny feets and noses and tails!!!!!!!!!"

Food? Food was forgotten.

She grinned up at the other girl. "Who needs a reason for this??????"

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Sabine thought about it, and decided that was about right.

"Good point. I'm just expecting someone to ask, but I don't have an answer because I don't care." How could she care when she was getting to know what a tiny Australian shepherd was, even if she didn't actually know that was his breed!

[bookbeltof_love]

The important part was that Sabine was getting puppy-love from puppies, and everything else was really just less important than that.

Nina took a seat on the floor, spreading her skirts over her knees invitingly. And was promptly granted her wish of a lapful of wriggly joy.

"I haven't been here that long," Nina said, with a laugh, "but my understanding is that, in cases like this, we're to blame the island itself for it, and just nod, like, wisely???????????"

As if that answered everything!