Groovy Tunes; Monday [ 07/14 ]

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Coming into the shop and looking around, Chad drew in a deep breath. He...it looked like he had a lot of grunt clean-up work ahead of him. But that was okay. If anything, he was glad he came in after the dinosaurs because it was better him who could do a lot more lifting and tossing and clean up than Charlie or Melody. He set Prince Oscar Pedro on the counter; he curled up immediately because hanging out in Chad's Potpourri class had worn him out. Chad started looking for the other cats. Not finding them, he was a little worried, but there were no signs of dinosaur feasting that he could really notice, so he'd assumed they'd found somewhere safe to chill.

Hoped, anyway.

Today's music: Classical. He didn't have time to make a dino mix before today, and he figured this was close enough to their time period to work.

Groovy Tunes is open!


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[the_merriest]

Rikku stepped into the shop uncertainly, still thinking this was probably dumb and it wasn't real anyway, right, and -- Oh, hey, Chad!

She waved. "Hiya. Whoa, the music sounds all fancy today."

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Chad lifted a hand back in response to Rikku's wave. "Hey. Sometimes I like the fancy stuff. Plus?" He nodded his head toward the slumbering Prince Oscar Pedro. "It helps him sleep better."

[the_merriest]

Rikku peered at the counter and immediately awwwwwed. "Whoa, kitty!" she grinned. "Oh! Sorry! I'll be quiet so I don't wake him!"

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Chad shook his head a little, though his shoulders were straightening with pride at Rikku's admiration of his baby. "I think he could probably sleep through an earthquake right now. So, what's up, Rikku? Just stopping in to say hi, or did you need help with something?"

[the_merriest]

She giggled. "That's adorable. Crookshanks is all grumpy when he wakes up. Uh, I think Crookshanks is maybe grumpy all the time, really."

She bit her lip and bounced a little nervously. "So, uh, on the radio-thing Thursday night, they mentioned ... that people had, like, music going? That, uh, that wasn't just me, right?"

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Chad stiffened a little, his eyes a bit wide. "Uh, yeah," he coughed, adjusting the already loose collar of his shirt as if it were suddenly restricting him. Thank God for dark skin to hide blushing. "That, uh....was definitely not just you..."

[the_merriest]

She gave him a nervous glance at that. "Oh. Uh, sorry? I didn't mean to, uh, if I'm ... like, that wasn't supposed to be nosy or whatever, I'm sorry." She flailed a little. "I just ... I didn't think mine was real except other people heard them and ... if it was, I kinda ... I mean, maybe mine was just in my head anyway 'cause things are weird lately, but, you know, if it was, I'd kinda ..."

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Chad rubbed his eyes a bit. "Yeah, no, definitely other people heard stuff, too," he muttered. Thursday would have been a hell of a lot easier if it were just in his head like he originally thought. "Damn bots. But, anyway....you'd kinda what?"

[the_merriest]

Rikku bit her lip. "I ... the song I heard was beautiful and kinda ... it didn't seem real. I mean, I'd believe it if it wasn't real, kinda thing? It was all sort of half-there and the voice was just ... sweeping around and ..."

She shook her head quickly, interrupting her misty train of thought with a blush. "I don't remember most of it, now. I just ... I wanna hear it again, you know? If it's out there, and maybe it's not. I don't know."

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"Well," Chad said, giving Rikku a small, encouraging smile. "Do you remember any of it? If it is out there, maybe I know it?"

[the_merriest]

"Oh," Rikku said, nodding quickly. "Yeah. If you work here, maybe you, uh, you know a lot of stuff, right?"

She thought for a minute. "There was ... lots of piano, and it kind of ... the speed of it kept hiccuping, almost? And then halfway through it all changed anyway and it was the same song but totally different, and ..." she cleared her throat to sing the only line she remembered properly, "'and we all went to heaven in a little rowboat ... there was nothing to fear, nothing to doubt."

She blushed pretty heavily. "I suck at singing but it was, uh, like that if it didn't suck."

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"You're not that bad," Chad assured her. "I think I know what song you're talking about. Meet me at one of the listening booths in a sec, I'll grab the CD and we'll see if I'm right."

[the_merriest]

Rikku blinked. "Whoa. Really!?"

She bounced a little. "Thank you! I mean, even if it isn't, that's ... for trying, you know? That's so great!"

And then bounced for a few more seconds before tearing off to one of the booths.

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Charlie made her way in around noon, with a bagful of kittens, visible stitches zig-zagging across her forehead, then stopped in the doorway. "Oh, God. It really trashed the place after I left, didn't it?"

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"It's not so bad," Chad said, heaving up a big shelf with little to no trouble. "You were here when this started?" he asked, and then frowned a little with concern.

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Charlie put the bag with the kittens in it down, and letting Mopsy, Flopsy and Cottontail escape to talk to Oscar Pedro about their incredible weekend, then started picking up CD's. "Yeah. It was a sabre-tooth." She swallowed, looking around at the knocked-over mess. "Once I had the kitties and a clear shot to the door, I just ran."

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"Good," Chad said, while Prince Oscar Pedro yawned, crossing his front paws over each other as he turned his attention to the other cats. Since he was on the counter and they were on the floor, he was really living up to his prestigious title at that moment. "You didn't get hurt at all or anything, did you?"

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"Just this," she pointed at the stitches on her forehead, "which weren't even from the tiger, exactly, just the splinters when he took out the counter-top there." She gave it a glum look. "And some splinters in my arm. It was going to eat the kittens. And me, I think." She gulped. "But I kind of... set fire to stuff here, and it backed off."

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"So that's what happened over there," Chad grunted. "Huh. Well, as long as you're okay..."

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"Scared out of my mind, but okay," Charlie promised. "Hey, did you see any this weekend?" She went back to get a mop and some paper towels to clean up the water that had gotten all over the floor.

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"Got kicked in the head and knocked unconscious by one," Chad told her, focusing on the heavy things for now, but wishing that Charlie didn't feel like she had to help, because she didn't. "Spent the night in the clinic, but I'm okay. Still a little bruised from being thrown around. And it stole my little plastic dino...."

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Charlie stared, then facepalmed. "I think I saw that one on the horn of a dinosaur in the park. But you're okay? Really?" She pushed the mop across the floor, wiping up some of the mess from the sprinkler system, and gave Chad an anxious look. "I need to find out how everyone else is doing, I kind of spent all of yesterday hiding in my room."

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"I knew it!" Chad's fist pounded on the shelf of the fixture he was helping up...which only ended up ruining the fixture, which was surprisingly fine, adding to the damage. He winced, shoulders lifting, and said, much quieter, "I knew it. I knew he stole it. Dinosaurs are mean...But, yeah, I'm good. Sore, kinda headachy, but Teddy made sure I rested yesterday so I'd be okay."

Chad politely left out the chosen method of recuperation.

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Which Charlie really would have appreciated, had she known about it. As it was, she just chalked up another win in the Good Boyfriend column for Teddy. "Good. And yeah, they are." She shuddered, and reached out to pet Oscar Pedro. "You should be glad you missed them, Your Highness. I think Miss Valentine's kitties are scarred for life." You could tell by the way they played chase-the-CD across the floor.

"We're going to need new posters, but at least the tiger didn't do any *permanent* damage," she said, wiping up the matchsticks left of the counter. "So hey." She grinned suddenly. "I survived my first *real* invasion. Hunh."

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His Highness spent the entire weekend in the closet, surrounded by pillows in case a T-Rex tried to knock over the dorm building. Chad was very prepared to make sure his baby was protected. Which explained why he wasn't too far behind in joining in the game of chase-the-CD.

"Congrats," Chad said, giving Charlie a thumbs-up. "What'd you think?"