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This will not be a relic.

A little after the Shodan attack, Mindy would learn that both Sasami and Negi would be repodded, further darkening her mood after all of the fight: no victory, nothing to be really proud of, just a good, swift win. That was life on Stacy, so be it. What was more, for all intent purposes, "Mindy" had to make sure to look broken up about the death of her father, which was obviously not a stretch. But there was something, in her estimation, that needed to be taken care of first and foremost, which was why Ruffnut would notice that there was no Mindy around the castle for the last few days. In fact, Mindy had spent that time in and out of the Juraian Royal Palace, through the permission of Starfire, of course. This was because she was cleaning out the debris those fucking robots left behind in the one place Mindy was adamant needed to be preserved: The First Tree Cafe.

Or formerly that, anyway. The sign had been done away with, with a new sign replacing it: Negi and Sasami's Diner. Granted, the inside was still a bit of a fixer upper, but the lights were working, the chairs were clean of garbage and robot entrails, and a now dusty but accomplished looking girl was busy inside, busy cooking.

Outside there was another sign: Negi and Sasami's Diner
Under New Management
Alien Burgers
Apple Pies
Soup
Ask for anything else and you will get punched in the face.
More food to be added at a date TBD.

[To Note: Splitting this post in two: for those coming into the restaurant, and Mindy going back to the castle.]

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Silently Ruffnut led Mindy back into their home letting her cry while the older girl walked her into the cool soothing darkness. There were no ghostly giggles, no pranks to walk into right now. Just the lanky blond girl guiding Mindy into the lobby and to a sofa where they could sit and hold one another.

It all felt horribly awkward in it's silence. Ruffnut felt like she should be more emotionally shaken by the revelation, but she barely knew Mindy's father. So instead she was heartbroken because of how sad Mindy was. Sympathy pain was not something Vikings usually did.

So she held firm, could stay strong for Mindy's sake.

Edited 2012-01-06 19:06 (UTC)

Mindy let this happen, because if there was anyone that she could be this honest and herself with, it was Ruffnut. The walk felt like nothing really, and everything else seemed to disappear now, except for the two of them. She held onto Ruffnut tightly though, and barely noticed when they were on the sofa.

Losing dad had been horrible. Losing him AND finding out Negi and Sasami were gone hurt fucking more. She cared very much for those two, and losing them was like a kick in the teeth. The tears didn't stop, but Mindy finally felt like she could manage to say something.

"You...did a good job cleaning the place after those f-fucking robots trashed it. Did Hana help?"

"Yeah, he's been in and out. Spending alot of time with his you know...friends." she was meaning the Ghosts.

The place still smelled musty, but familiar. It was their home now and the more time spent there the more it was comforting.

"It probably doesn't hurt that we've got so many floors above us. If our rooms got trashed we could just move to another one." She offered some half hearted small talk.

"Nah man, my identity is totally in my room," Mindy said, smiling a little despite her tears. "Besides, I couldn't avoid cleaning the place forever, right? I'm just glad they didn't do that much damage to the roof."

Mindy would agree, and right now wanted to spend her time and nowhere else for a little bit.

"Thanks, Ruff," she said quietly. "I couldn't do what I just did with anyone else. I would have probably killed someone in anger."

"Don't worry about it." She mumbled not letting go just yet. "No shame in it." She was digging deep to find the right words but nothing seemed good enough.

Mindy snickered. "Christ, you're as bad with this as I am. Look, don't worry about it, ok? It's bad, but I'll deal with it. I had to before. Now I have you anyway, so its not as fucking sad as it was back then."

"We'll deal with it." She corrected Mindy and brushed cheek to cheek with her instinctively. Then she pouted a little "I thought I was doing pretty good."

Mindy chuckled. "I'm just fuckin with you, Ruff. Out of all the people I had to see, I'm glad you were the one to greet me here. You were the one wanted to see."

She did redden a little when she felt the touch to her cheek, then pulled the older girl closer to her, laying her head on her shoulder. "I missed you."

"Well yeah, it's my tower of course I'd be here to greet you." She smirked playfully.

She offered a soft shy cheek kiss and gave Mindy a gentle squeeze. "Missed you too. Was worried when I didn't hear from you when the powers came back on. And worrying about stuff feels weird." Because she doesn't do it much.

When the hell had she been starting to think of it as their castle, instead of just Ruffnut's? Jesus, this was all so weird. They were just dating, after all.

"Sorry man. I just wanted to...try and get away from myself from a little while. Seeing him go again, and me not being able to do anything about it was shitty. When I got back here, I wanted to be able to deal with it."

"You woulda been fine." Ruffnut managed a warm soft smile, "Because you don't have to deal with crap alone anymore."

"I mean..." She shrugged awkwardly, "I know that's how you always do stuff, but maybe next time just come to me. We can deal with it together you know?" Not that she had the faintest idea how they would deal with it. But she'd do her best.

"Yeah, I know," Mindy said quietly. "I was stupid. I just didn't really know how to react at the time. I was losing my shit all over again, and I just didn't know how to deal with it all over again. I blew up the fucking robots, and after that there was just...not knowing."

She had to be truthful. She honestly didn't know how to say what she was feeling. "I'd like to give that a try. You just make me change a lot of what I do."

Ruffnut nodded and listened as Mindy spoke. She knew the younger girl had seen more combat then Ruffnut had, killed far more people too and as such endured far more pain. She was like a grizzled old veteran but without the years and years of emotional growth.

"We'll do whatever you wanna do."

"Good," she said. "The first thing I wanna do is take a nap with my girlfriend, because I'm stressed as fuck. But after that, I want to start on cleaning the castle of robot parts. We can give them to Lash to actually be useful, but its abut time we get this place looking like our version of creepy and spooky, damn it."

She was at least grinning now.

Ruffnut grinned right back and unceremoniously threw Mindy over her shoulder carrying her like a sack of vegetables. "Aww someone is sweepy!" Ruff mocked Mindy using a "Talking to babies" voice before cackling knowing what was coming.

If Ruffnut was expecting a particularly rough hit to the back, that was exactly what she got. Being thrown over someone's shoulder was bad enough, but to mock her too?

"You don't have to be willingly asleep, you know!" Mindy said darkly.

"Ahhhhh shadduup." Ruffnut called back over her shoulder and began racing up the stairs and through the halls, even jumping over a hole in the floor before throwing open the door to Ruffnut's room which had somehow survived the attacks in tact. Mindy would find herself thrown onto the bed only long enough for her to see Ruffnut flying through the air to land on her.

"I won't shut up you fu-ahhh!" And Mindy goes flying, from one place to another, hitting the baseboard harder than she figured and then having Ruffnut promptly land right on top of her.

"You douche! I said a nap, not molestation!" The last part was in jest, of course, which she was hoping Ruffnut felt at least embarrassed about, as her head was still ringing.

She wasn't holding her breath though.

"I can't hear you I'm taking a nap!" Ruffnut sang teasingly as she locked her arms around Mindy and nestled herself into the bed as if Mindy was some kind of teddy bear.

If nothing else Ruffnut was good at distractions.

"You're such an idiot!" Mindy said, though not with much vigor. She actually WAS really tired at this point, and felt like she could sleep for days. In fact...she sort of maybe didn't mind this position so much.

"Don't think you're gonna keep me like this," Mindy said through half lidded eyes, yawning loudly.

"Uh huh." Ruffnut grinned wickedly behind Mindy and yawned back to help her feel even sleepier. "You're the strongest most badass ever. We all know." And a little ego stroking didn't hurt. Sometimes Ruff proved herself more clever then even she was willing to admit.

"And don't you forget it," Mindy said, and the yawn was definitely not helping. Without thinking about it, she nodded off in Ruffnut's arms, clutching the girl close, kicking with her leg a moment.

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