Quality Time: Interlude 21
by PrettyGothGirl
Summary: Cid determines a way for Rikku and Gippal to spend some quality time together: Interlude 21: Gippal appeals to Cid, Cid appeals to Rikku and Rikku lets loose.
A/N: Welladay, I'm gonna have to start typing up some of the stuff I have completed soon. Please, check out the Rikku/Gippal LJ Comm quitethecouple, right now we have nominations going for the Best of Rikku/Gippal 2008 awards (ending March 1st 2009) going and a First line challenge. We'd love your participation. And I am taking suggestions or requests for this story. Thank you!

Cid stared at his daughter across the table, or mostly he stared at the soles of her shoes. She sat, her legs crossed at the ankles and her chair tilted back. The boy had asked him for a favor and had explained with nothing more than Rikku was mad at him and wouldn't speak to him. Cid repressed a frown. Things had been going well, Rikku's pessimism, which was unlike her, aside. He wanted to work his way up to the subject, give her a chance to bring up any grievances herself. But he shoulda known better.

She glared down her nose at him. "Since the only reason you contact me anymore is about Gippal and," she made quote motions with her hands, "work. You might as well get on with it."

He blinked. "I don't-" He protested. Great, now she was mad at him as well. He loved his girl and he just wanted her to be happy. It wasn't fair that she would take her anger at Gippal out on him. Woman in a rage weren't always fair either.

She pointed at him, "All you contact about, you wanna report, you wanna discuss Gippal. It's all you ever see me about anymore. No. How is your day? How are the Gullwings? Who have names, by the way. No. How are Yuna and her boyfriend? Nothing."

"Well-" He shifted in his seat.

"So, for your information," Rikku bit out the words, chin tucked down. "I'm pissed at Gippal and I'm not working with him. I'm not talking to him and I'm not seeing him again if I can help it."

"The boy-"

"He's not a boy. He's a man. He needs to figure that out and quit messin' around."

Cid slammed his hands down on the table. "Stop interruptin' me."

She crossed her arms. Cid sighed. When had his children turned into such sassy, disrespectful brats?

"Gippal's pretty upset about you not talkin' to him."

Her lips twitched upwards. "Good. I'm pretty upset at him." She jabbed a finger in a random direction before crossing them across her chest again. "He hurts me and lies to me, sets me up with all sorts of expectations. I have had it with his antics. He was mean and cruel. My skills don't matter to him. My feelings don't matter to him." She stopped to breathe. "And you don't get it and he certainly doesn't get it. So I'm done. D. O. N. E. Done." She pressed her lips together and swung her legs down. She stood.

Cid couldn't help but smile. That was his girl. Stubborn to a fault when she was angry, things happened when his girl became angry, things that she might not expect, which could be all to the good in this relationship. "All right."

She stepped backwards. "All right?"

Cid rubbed his chin. "You might be done." He raised his eyebrow. "But I don't think he is."

Rikku snorted. "Sure Pops." She tossed her hair and strode out. "Sure." She drawled out from the doorway. "This I have to see."

The door shut behind her. Cid shook his head. It was a good thing the boy could be as stubborn if not more so that Rikku was. He was going to need all of that bullheadedness.

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