by PrettyGothGirl
All Disclaimers Apply
Summary: Interlude 6: Cid finds out that Gippal took Rikku to the club and reacts.
Author's Note: Someone wanted to know and I forgot to put this in LOL. So, whoever it was, this is for you.
Rikku calmly told Cid where they had captured the criminal he had sent them after. She kept her eyes on the window past his head. It was a close enough approximation to looking at him so that he wouldn't know she was omitting things. She got to the second or third sentence of her dry report before he interrupted.
"You went where?!" He roared at her.
Rikku bit her lip and was glad of the table between them. "It was that club Gippal went to." Her eyes narrowed. "You know, the one you told me he investigated on his own." What had he expected them to do? It had been a successful find. They'd caught him.
Cid's fists clenched. "I didn't say that-"
"All I want to know is if you had Yuna or Paine on our tails. They walked in the middle of the investigation and could have ruined everything."
"I would not send ladies to a- a-" It hadn't mattered when it was Gippal and the boys his age. They were there for a job and could keep their heads, but his daughter…
Rikku crossed her arms. "Pops, we aren't ladies."
Cid glared at her. "I did not say you could go there, young lady. I am your father."
Rikku's jaw jutted out. She hadn't asked his permission to do anything since she was fifteen years old. He should know by now that she was an adult who could make her own choices. Gippal, her father, her brother, she was going to go insane. "Did you have any better ideas for catching that idiot?"
"No."
"Then stop shouting about the means!" Rikku blew a deep breath out her nose. "Yuna, Paine, do you know anything?"
"No."
She growled. "And I can't ask because I would have to admit I was there. Great." She stood up. "Just, could you keep them busy too? You've done so well with Gippal and I. I'm sure your scheming could find something for Yuna and Paine to do while Gippal and I are out doing our, whatever this is supposed to be." She waved a hand. "You aren't still the Al Bhed Elder for nothing." She stalked out.
Cid ground his teeth. He should turn her over his knee. Damn fool girl took after her mother a bit too much. He pushed away from the table. He had some yelling to do at a boy who should know better, taking his little girl to a strip joint.
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