Title: Bath Time
Drabble: #17
TK's prompt: Rubber duck
Randomly selected pairing: Takimi
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.
Notes: We all know Mimi likes her baths.
When Mimi bathes, she likes to relax. If she's in a regular bath, she'll fill it with oils and bubbles and dissolving confetti, surrounding herself with candles and playing some good music. If she feels like it, she'll read a book too. She could just let herself soak for ages like that. Or, if she's in a hot tub, she'll turn on all the bubbles so that it almost feels like a massage and she'll sit with her eyes shut, enjoying the feel of the steam rising up from the water.
Relaxing, however, is completely out of the question when Takeru has insisted on joining her.
When it's a regular bath it's ok, because there's only so much he can do to annoy her due to the bath being too small to fit two people in at the same time. So he'll just sit at the side and mindlessly talk to her about nonsense, and she'll close her eyes and try to block it out. Unless it's something she's going to need to reply to, in which case she leaves one ear open so she knows when to murmur in acknowledgement. If she didn't, he'd either bite her head off about it or sulk until she felt guilty.
But at the moment she's in the hot tub and not a regular bath, so there's nothing she can do to stop Takeru bathing with her. With the amount of noise he's making, it's almost impossible to relax. She's turned the bubbles on, so that's helping a little bit, but it doesn't drown out the sound of Takeru playing like a child.
Annoying as it is, she can't help but smile. It makes him seem like he's nine years old again. He has a rubber duck and he's playing like a kid, sound effects and all, pretending that the bubbles are monstrous waves causing the duck to have difficulty swimming and consequently he keeps going under the surface. Then he'll fly back up, spraying water at both Mimi and Takeru, but Takeru is too wrapped up in his game to apologise even when Mimi glares at him.
So she leans back and tries to block out the noise, making a mental note to deprive him of the things he likes later.