Room 206, Early Saturday Morning

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine stretched, yawned, and rolled out of bed, taking a moment to be very pleased indeed that he currently had a bed, and then went straight to work, grabbing an orange ball from the floor and throwing it into the air, trying to catch it again.
He was young and inde-in-independent! He had to work to feed himself, like everyone else, because he wasn't allowed to go back home.
So he was going to learn to juggle, because nobody else really knew how to juggle really well. He'd be really good at it, and then people would give him money and he could be a very important man because of his juggling!

Except... he was pretty terrible at it, he decided as he looked up at the light fixture that his ball had landed in.

About thirty minutes later, staring down at the heap of chairs and books that had fallen all over the floor, he was less worried about the ball that he had successfully retrieved, and decidedly more worried about how in the world he was going to get down from his new perch within the light fixture.

"Haaaaaaaalp!"

(OOC: I'll be up a while longer if anyone wants to come to wee Valentine's rescue. The door isn't open, but it's not locked either! I'm blaming Hammie for the light fixture.)

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[the_merriest]

Dragging a kitty and taking the long way to detention, Rikku heard the yelling and opened the door with her free hand.

"Whatcha doin?"



I missed you, is SP okay? :)

[dark_slippy_thing]

"I'm bein' stuck!" Valentine peered down at the funny-face and her sphinx who also had a funny face. "My ball came up here an' now I can't get down!"



SP is awesome! I work this evening, but I'll be back for a while before my dad abducts me away to the land of cows for the remainder of the weekend. And even then, I'll have the internets, but all offy and onny. :O

[the_merriest]

Rikku giggled. "You're silly. You could just jump! You'd get down fast."

Probably way faster than intended, for that matter.

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine gaged the drop from the light to the floor, cringed, and then shook his head fervently.
"It's a long way down an' I don't like heights an' I wanna actually live to be a juggler someday an' the stuff all fell and the books are sleeping and yelling mean things at them won't make them fly! I think they're broken."
He pouted a little.
"I don't wanna be stuck up here."

[the_merriest]

"You're silly," Rikku said, giggling again. "If you don' like heightses, why're you up so high?"

[dark_slippy_thing]

"I needed ta get my ball," Valentine explained, showing the shiny orange thing to the funny-looking girl below. "It's a very important ball. It has a glowy."



Sudden attack of the slowplay- I'm feeling for my dollar-store shift now. Thanks!

[the_merriest]

"I got 'splodies, but they don't glow," Rikku announced.

Actually, her 'splodies were in the weapons locker and were now harmless shinies, but she didn't know that, right?

"How'd you get up there?"



Not a problem! Catch you later! :)

[dark_slippy_thing]

"I climbeded," Valentine explained, pointing to the chair and the pile of lifeless books strewn across his floor. "Gettin' up was easy. Gettin' down is gonna hurt."



It's aliiiiiiiive!

[the_merriest]

Rikku giggled. "Fall on somethin' soft! Like my kitty! But you can't land on him 'cause you'd squish him 'n he's my kitty and you're not 'lowed."

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine frowned a little. "I don't wanna fall on him anyhow. Five of his six ends are sharp." He looked over to the bed. "Maybe some sheets an' stuff would be good to fall in, but they're over there an' I can't get them."

[the_merriest]

"He's not sharp! He's a nice kitty 'n I like him lots so there!" And with that she stuck her tongue out. "Can you swing over so's you land there?"

[dark_slippy_thing]

"Nuh-uh! I'm a juggler, not an acrobat!"
Well, perhaps he wasn't the greatest of jugglers...
...
"Think I could make it?"

[the_merriest]

"I 'unno," Rikku said, shrugging. "C'n always try 'n if you fall, least you're down!"

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine pouted, and maybe even sniffled a little.
"I'm gonna be up here forever an' ever an' I'll never learn how to juggle," he said, wiping at his nose. "Maybe could you put some blankets under me or somethin' instead?"

[the_merriest]

"You're not gonna be up there f'rever 'n ever," Rikku said practically. "'Cause you'd starve first."

She looked down at Judekitty. "I don't got any blankets."

[dark_slippy_thing]

Yeah, that was about the point where Valentine realized how absolutely hungry he actually was.
"Could you grab them off of my bed, maybe? And stick them down there, where the books an' things are, so that I can go eat?"
He was starting swiftly to see the error of judgment that he had made in coming up to retrieve his ball.

[the_merriest]

Rikku looked at the blankets and then at the floor. That seemed like a lot of work, honestly. "If I do, what'll you do for me?"

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine was starting to not like the way this girl's mind worked.
The ceiling made a funny creaking sound, and he decided that he liked being stuck in the light fixture even less.
"Anything, anything, just let me down from here!"

[the_merriest]

Rikku giggled. "You're silly." And then set Judekitty down carefully and instructed him, "Don't go nowhere."

She began pulling blankets from his bed and piling them up ... generally underneath him.

[dark_slippy_thing]

Generally underneath was close enough, Valentine decided, as the ceiling gave another rather dissatisfied groan. Apparently, light fixtures weren't made to support the weight of ten-year-old boys. Silly, that. Ten-year-olds and light fixtures went together like bread and butter, green eggs and ham, sphinxes and large novels...
"Almost done?"

[the_merriest]

"Don't rush me!" Rikku announced, putting her hands on her hips. "'M goin' as fast as I can!"

And finally piled a few more pillows in place and sighed. "I guess it's okay now, Mr. Hurryface."

[dark_slippy_thing]

Mr. Hurryface decided that what was down there would have to be enough, as a piece of plaster fell and clonked him on the noggin.
"Alright then, outta the way, I'm comin' down!"

[the_merriest]

Rikku giggled at the plaster, and joined Judekitty in the safe region away from Valentine. "Are you okay, Juuuuuuuuuude? You were a very good boy! You din't run 'way!"

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine tried to pointedly ignore the girl and her kitty long enough to convince himself that he wasn't going to die a terrible death if he fell into the pile that was mostly below him.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
Piff!
And he was alive!

[the_merriest]

Rikku clapped her hands. "That was funny. Do it 'gain!"

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine blinked and pulled the pillow off of his head.
"Again?" Little girls, he decided, were all officially insane. If only because this was his first run-in with one in his entire life. "If I do it again, the light fix-churr will fall out!"

[the_merriest]

Rikku giggled. "Yeah! That'd be funny." And clapped.

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine pondered this for a moment.
He was getting applause. This was a good thing.
He pondered a moment more.
...
And then he got to work, setting up the chairs and dead books so that he could climb back up into the light fixture.
Whatever one's audience wanted, right?