by PrettyGothGirl
All Disclaimers Apply
Summary: Cid contrives to have Rikku and Gippal spend some Quality Time together. Part Twelve: Rikku and Gippal discuss the new job and continue their childish courtship rituals.
Author's Note: Filler chapter meet public. Public meet filler chapter. Umm, while I
have some ideas, any suggestions that you guys have will be wonderful.
Love scenes from action movies or love scenes that could be from action
movies. (I.E. Kissing while picking a lock. LOL
Rikku glared at her father's back. The kiss on the forehead she could understand, but did he have to pat her on the head like she was a cute little puppy dog that had just done 'beg' well or something. She gritted her teeth. No wonder Pops wanted her to get together with Gippal. They were two of a kind.
Gippal pried the sphere from under her hands. She let it go and he fumbled with it for a few seconds. He ended with it clutched to his chest. He looked at her a long moment. She inhaled, let out a long breath and shrugged.
He raised his eyebrow. "So, you won't bite me if I ask you to sit on my lap?"
She blinked. "Why should I sit on your lap?"
"Because I want you to." He smiled at her. It was supposed to be a winning smile. It wasn't working so well.
She batted her eyelashes at him. "You don't always get what you want."
He considered that for a moment. "Well, in that case-" He reached over and scooped her up and placed her on his lap before she could even squeak. "I won't ask." He settled his chin on her shoulder.
Her mouth opened and shut for a few minutes. She finally closed it with a click of her teeth. She crossed her arms. "Why do I put up with you?"
"Because you like me, because your father asked us to work together and because I'm just an all around winning type of guy." Gippal grinned. "And because you like me."
"You're an arrogant jackass without manners and that question was best left unanswered." She jerked her shoulders. He jerked his chin with her so she wouldn't choke him.
"I'm hurt." He said and put his chin back right where he had it.
"Not yet."
Gippal decided it was better to play the sphere than answer that. They watched it twice and without exactly realizing what he was doing, Gippal rubbed Rikku's stomach in circles. He blinked when it was over and asked. "Would you like to break the sphere now?"
He could hear Rikku grinding her teeth. "Yes." She said. He wasn't sure how, considering her teeth were still clenched shut. He passed the sphere over and she threw it on the ground. He let her go and watched as she jumped up and down on the pieces. All the while his brain worked on what little information they had.
"I hate him. I hate him, I hate him." Rikku muttered as she ground the sphere into a fine sparkling powder. "No name. Here's the crime, look into it. You'd think things would get better the second time but no."
Gippal decided Rikku was extra cute when she was mad. The color rose into her cheeks. Her eyes seemed greener. Her hair tossed catching the light. This didn't bode well for their relationship. He grinned as she took a deep breath, brushed her bangs from her eyes and sat down. She folded almost in half as she tucked her knees under her chin. She wrapped her arms around them and closed her eyes.
He watched her think.
"It just seems so senseless." She muttered. "Who's profiting from this?"
"I don't know." He leaned back and put his feet on the table. "Is it gil that they're profiting from?"
"You don't steal hovers just for the thrill of it."
"Why not?"
"Not at this level." Rikku added. "I mean, why not steal chocobos? Why hovers? There has to be gil in it."
"Or it could be revenge." He paused. "Or they just love stealing hovers." Or Rikku just liked gil.
She sighed and just looked at him. "For which they would have to make a profit from otherwise they'd just have a whole bunch of hovers they can't do anything with because they're stolen."
"Okay, then where are they going?"
"To you maybe."
Gippal blanched. "I wouldn't-"
"I know you wouldn't buy stolen merchandise. I'm talking in parts. You're always complaining you don't have enough parts. You take apartcommspheres because you don't have enough parts."
Gippal flushed now. "That's not me!"
She rolled her eyes. "I mean a part is a part is a part right?"
"Not always."
"But you guys use a lot of interchangeable parts that could be hover parts."
He ran his fingers through his hair. "Why are you so determined to implicate me in this?" He tried to keep from exploding.
"I'm not." Her heels slid off the chair and onto the ground. "I'm just trying to figure out where the hovers are going."
"How about thinking we don't have enough information and going to find some first." He crossed his arms.
"We can do that." She crossed her own arms.
"Fine."
"Fine."
"I just don't see any harm in speculating."
"Rikku!"
"Well, Pops could be getting them or Rin." She narrowed her eyes. "It's not all about Gippal, Gippal, Gippal you know."
He worked his jaw for a few seconds. "You have a point."
She smiled sweetly at him. "You'd rather it be about you though."
"Sometimes."
Her lips twitched.
"But not this time." He added. "It would look really, really bad don't you think, if the person Cid put in charge of looking into this type of shit was actually involved in it in any way?"
"Bad for Pops, not necessarily for you. You'd just be witty and sneaky." She paused, tilted her head. "Unless it was unwittingly and then you'd just look like a fool."
"Gee, thanks."
"But so would Pops."
"And so would you."
"Nope. I'd be smart because I'm the one who figured it out." She grinned and stood up rocking back and forth on her heels.
"Of course, and anytime you come off looking smart is perfectly all right with you." He rolled his eyes.
She stopped rocking and bit her lip. She turned around and looked out the window. "I guess so." She said. She looked over her shoulder. "Wear something sexy and not so," she paused, "Gippalish. We're going to be hanging out with criminals." Her eyebrow rose. "See you tonight." She stalked out the door.
Gippal stared after her feeling like he'd just missed something, something important and for the life of him he couldn't figure out what it was.
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