Ok, I don't own Final Fantasy 10 2 or the characters, blah blah (so don't sue!)

Rikku stared at the machina. Why did it have to leak like that? It had already ruined her skirt. It had ruined the bottom of her scarf. She hoped it wouldn't ruin her top. The only good thing about it was that Gippal hadn't seen what a loser she was. She was sick of this one. She kicked it, and decided to leave it to Gippal to finish up. She had been working for Gippal since they defeated Vegnagun. She never thought she would be the first to leave the Gullwings, but she had to follow her heart. At least that's what Yunie said. (A/N I call Yuna Yunie too) But Yunie had known Tidus loved her. (They live together happily). Rikku didn't know what Gippal thought of her. She started to go back to her room when a familiar voice called out, "Hey Cid's girl, I got a job for you." Rikku's turned round to face Gippal, and gave him her best smile. "I have a name you know." He grinned at her. He looked at the machina. "What, you couldn't even fix that? Maybe I've got the wrong person for the job." "No! I can do it! I can do anything!" He grinned again and led her outside.

Rikku stared at it. He actually expected her to fix that! It was twice as big as her! It was going mad at the moment. Sparks flew everywhere, and its arms (A/N does machina have arms? Well in this story they do.) were flailing about, threatening to take her head off. He had offered her a bonus if she did it. But she didn't care about the money. The only reason she was here, was for him. Didn't he realise that? He may have lost one eye but that doesn't make him blind! (A/N does anyone know how he lost his eye? I would like to know.) She walked around to the back of the machina and studied it. "Ok, a twist there, a pull there and a couple of tweaks, and there!" She actually fixed it! She couldn't believe it! She was feeling pretty good about herself. Right up until it exploded. "Oh poopie! I cant do anything right!" she threw herself on the ground and tried to stop herself from crying. "You can do lots of things right. Don't cry." Gippal's voice made her jump. She rubbed her eyes and tried to hide the fact that she had been crying. But he already knew. "I wasn't crying!" Gippal stared at her, eyebrows raised. "Alright maybe I was, but I cant do anything right! You know I cant!" "Here I'll help you." Rikku mumbled a thank you and stood behind him, while he tweaked at the machina. "Here, if you go round that side, and do what I'm doing, we'll finish in no time."

No time turned out to be a couple of hours, but Rikku enjoyed every second of it. Gippal was doing his best to cheer her up, and Rikku liked that he was paying so much attention to her. "There. You see, you can do things right Rikku." She smiled at him. Then she realised that he had just called her Rikku. She gave him a hug, and he didn't have a clue why. "What was that for?" "For calling me by my name!" "Then I should call you Rikku more often." He smiled at her they went back inside together. He looked like he wanted to say something to her, but didn't know what. Rikku opened her mouth to say something but a blonde Al bhed man interrupted her. (A/N are all Al bhed blonde? Buddy's not is he?" "Gippal we got a big problem!" he said in Al bhed. Gippal sighed and said goodnight to Rikku. Rikku said goodnight back. Before he left he bent down and gave her a kiss on the cheek. "You can do lots of things Rikku." Her heart raced. Did this mean he liked her too? She skipped back to her bedroom and dreamt about her and Gippal.