Fixer-Uppers [Wednesday]

[faithandscience.livejournal.com]

First he'd been a puppy. Then he'd been a girl. It had been a very trying couple of weeks, even if the second had proved quite enlightening from a scientific perspective. Regardless, that was all behind him and he had other things to focus on. Like the possibility of putting all that reading about programming languages to the test.

Fixer-Uppers was open!

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[the_merriest]

It was Wednesday! Rikku was pretty sure she hadn't met her Wednesday-employee yet, so now seemed like the perfect time to bounce into her store, what with it being Wednesday and all. Logic!

"Hiya!" she waved excitedly. "Are you William?"

And if not, did he work here, too? She'd have to make sure to pay him, if he did.

[faithandscience.livejournal.com]

"I am," William confirmed about a million years late because the player was in some sort of post-work coma. "Although I'm afraid I've no idea who you might be."

[the_merriest]

"I'm Rikku!" she said, doing a happy wriggle to punctuate that. "I'm the girl who bought the place! So I guess that makes me your boss? But don't worry, I'm not gonna fire anybody or anything. Pleased ta meetcha!"

... yes. Your boss is the weirdly dressed Al Bhed girl, William.

Doesn't the sign make so much sense now?

(dude it is fine! SP is love!)

[faithandscience.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes it did. William was just going to try- and fail- not to stare, now.

Where were the rest of her clothes?

"I'm relieved to hear that, ah, Miss Rikku," he finally managed, a little weakly.

[the_merriest]

"Rikku's fine," she said, waving a hand easily. "We don't have second names like you people do. I'm just Rikku. So how long have you been working here, anyway?"

Rikku was blissfully unaware of any discomfort she might be causing William. It was like a superpower.

[faithandscience.livejournal.com]

Look, no matter how many people tried to tell him it was "fine", he wasn't anywhere near to breaking that particular habit.

"Oh, not long at all," William informed her. "About a month, now."

[the_merriest]

"You must have gotten here just before I did," she said easily. "It's been just about a month, there, too. Are you new to Fandom? I don't think I recognize you from before. But then there are lots of people so maybe we just missed each other."

[faithandscience.livejournal.com]

"I am. I arrived at the end of August," William confirmed. "Before?" he echoed.

[the_merriest]

"I used to go to school here!" Rikku chirped. She did that a lot. Sorry, William. "I graduated ... oh, it was over a year ago? And I went back home to deal with all this messy stuff, but it's kind of settled and I got bored and Reno was here, so I came back."

She also rambled. Have fun!

[faithandscience.livejournal.com]

William just blinked and processed that. Or most of it, anyway.

"And now you own this shop," William finished. "I suppose I should tell you, then, my own time is not nearly as technologically advanced as this one. I've been doing my best to catch up, however, as invention and innovation has always been a particular interest of mine." Actually, he was catching on to modern technology at a rate that one might describe as 'absurdly fast'.

[the_merriest]

"Oh, that's fine," Rikku said. "I mean, that's why I came here in the first place, you know? My world isn't -- it's not this world's past or anything, but our technology got all messed up and we're starting over in some ways. It's a long story."

And not a very happy one, so hopefully they could skip that.

"Anyway! It's all good. If you need help with things, ask, or if you know how to do cool things that I don't, I'll ask you."