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Demon Marcus, Monday

There'd been a lot of sad things yesterday and a lot of tears and Alluka wasn't very good at thinking over the things that made her that upset.

Which meant that today, when she'd gotten up, she had borrowed Mabel's wagon for Waddles (with permission!) and stuffed as many of her toys into it as she could and then made the trek to work with them all. It had taken a while, since her toys liked to hop down from the wagon and explore the area (a lot of them had never been outside at all) but eventually she got herself, the wagon, and her pile of toys to Demon Marcus.

They wound up scattered all over the place--they were playing hide-and-seek with each other--while Alluka tried her best to remember all the right ways to open up the store.

Once that was done, she went and found a tiara and propped it on her head, and then went and joined the giggling game of hide-and-seek with her toys.

They never made her sad.

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Or to one of her many, many toys hanging around.

Mondays always come too fast.

Yeah, Dante hadn't actually wanted to spend the first bucks off of Kathy's money on whatever she'd actually intended for him to buy - which was why he'd had a greasy pizza at Pizza Planet before coming here.

He did badly need new shirts, though. Again. So he was just gonna...

... okay, he thought, as he stepped into the store. Maybe he was just going to use his own money. Screw that. "Yo?"

The first thing Dante pretty much had to notice in the store was the near army of stuffed toys today.

Some of them were better at hiding than others. Her flower-baby was invisible behind a rack of scarves, but there was no hiding her dinosaur, though it tried, behind a rack of sunglasses.

Some, like her bunny and Mr. Bubbles weren't even trying. They were holding court on the counter, with tea cups set up between them.

Alluka, who was wriggling along the ground in the formal wear section, looking for her plushie of Killua didn't hear Dante's 'yo'.

... Oh, right. She had shift today.

Dante made the world's most uncommitted attempt not to pull a face, and then just pulled a face.

"Didn't realize we had a freaking zoo on the island," he said, projecting his voice louder. "Alluka, right?"

There was a thump and then a bunch of giggling followed as Alluka scrambled out from under one of the racks, clutching yet another toy. (It looked like one of her brothers, white hair, blue eyes, and everything.)

She heard him this time and, since Sparkle had told her she had to talk to people when they came to the store, she went to see--

Oh.

It was the guy who didn't like princesses.

"Do we really have a zoo on the island?" she asked, missing the part where he'd been talking about her toys. "Hi. It's Alluka."

She was smiling, but it was... not nearly as chipper as she'd been last time. Alluka hadn't had the time yet to stuff all the bad feelings away perfectly again.

Yeah. Dante knew that not-so-fresh not-so-chipper feeling. Some other week, it might've made him soften his tone, too.

"We didn't have one before, but you sure as hell made one," he said, nodding at the toys.

She looked at her toys for a moment, then back at him.

"I have more in my... my room," Alluka shared, since he seemed to think this was a lot. "But they didn't all fit in the wagon."

She'd tried.

Dante eyed her. "Why would you drag all of your stuffed animals all the way up here?" he said.

It was freaking weird.

Hell, it was freaking weird she had this many stuffed animals to begin with. What was she, five?

Her family would have liked if she'd stayed five forever, actually. They were easier to control.

Alluka blinked at him, this time for a few moments, before she said, "I wanted them here."

It was the truth.

"They make me happy."

Not that she looked it right now, not really, which was all the more reason to have them with her.

Right. There'd been something on radio, and Alluka knew-- well, it didn't really matter anymore.

"Right," Dante said. Out loud this time. "Well, you gotta work, too. I need to buy shit."

Ringo. She'd gone to talk to Ringo, too. Yeah, that'd be enough to put anyone in a mood.

Alluka flinched, just a little, because actually working was--well, it was a work in progress.

It was so much easier to play games and Sparkle didn't seem to mind.

"Okay," she said, looking at her toes. "What do you need. Do, do you need more shirts?"

What even did he do with them?

Get kidnapped by demons and have his chest perforated on the regular.

"Yeah," Dante said. "You remember which ones I got last time, right?"

He saw the flinch. He was watching her pretty closely in general. It still didn't soften his tone any.

"Yes," she said, sounding a bit incredulous. "Why wouldn't I? I remember clothes."

And toys.

Everything else was kind of up for grabs, really.

"We have a few new shades of the shirts," she said, since she'd seen them while sticking her elephant under them. "A dark blue and green?"

If he wanted to add some variation to his shirts.

"I'll show you." She didn't really care, but she was… doing her job, turning to lead him down the right aisle.

"I can do blue," Dante said, shrugging at her as he trailed along. "You came by Kathy's yesterday."

Okay, he hadn't meant to just spit that out, but in his defense, he was bad at impulse control and it was on his mind.

She missed a step, stumbling a little, before regaining her balance.

Alluka ducked her head.

"I'm, I'm allowed to go to Kathy's!" she said defiantly, like she'd been caught doing something bad.

"Never said that you weren't," Dante said, eyeing her back. "Everyone's messing around in her shit now."

Yeah, he'd taken the fridge and the money. Ringo had been kicking up the dust anyway. He still felt the place would do better locked up and shoved away somewhere they didn't have to think about it.

They could lock it up and keep it for Kathy.

That would be much better.

"Ringo's stupid," Alluka said mutinously as she continued towards the shirts. "The stupidest. She should stop touching Kathy's things."

Even her papa promising he'd talk to her had not changed Alluka's opinion on that.

"Yeah, she should," Dante said. Agreeably, for his standards, though there was an undertone of pissed in there too. "I don't know what she thinks she's doing, but it's stupid as all hell."

It's okay. Alluka was still upset about it too.

"It's Kathy's room," Alluka said. "So, so Ringo shouldn't be making decisions about it. She should just stay out of it."

Alluka looked at her elephant, hiding badly under one of the shirts Dante liked.

"How many shirts did you want?" she asked, shoulders slumping.

"Just two."

He was doing this with his own money, he'd decided. So there'd be no splurging.

"They should just keep the door shut on that room," he said, "At least until the school comes to clear it out. Everything else is just, uh--" He frowned, racking his brain. "--Morbid."

Alluka paused in the act of reaching for one of the blue ones--she remembered his size too, just fine--to look at him, anxiety in her huge blue eyes.

"But Kathy's coming back," Alluka said, like it was obvious. "She's sick, but she'll get better, and she'll come back. So, so the school shouldn't touch her room either. So... so it's not morbid at all, to leave someone's room for them."

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Dante stopped. He had to.

"Is that what Ringo told you?" he said. Or had Alluka just made that out of it herself?

There were suckers all over this school. There really were.

"No," she said, frowning. "That's what Kathy said. In, in her message. I saw that."

One blue shirt and one... grey. Dante had been okay with grey last time.

That was good, wasn't it?

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