queenoflogs | Poor, poor egg.

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Poor, poor egg.

Characters: Katina and Akiha
Date: April 6
Summary: Katina and her eggbaby look for the other mommy.
Warnings: Ill-tempered women.

Crying is not the thing Katina expected to be woken up by. If it's not an alarm clock, then it's usually a headache - occasionally another person, but half the time she has a headache when that happens anyways. But crying, oh no, this is not what she expected at this point in her life.

It takes her about ten minutes to wake herself up, find the eggbaby, and realize that holy shit she has to take care of a crying egg with a face. The next ten minutes were spent trying to comfort it, and failing miserably until she realized the obvious - it was crying for another 'mama'. If she was wrong, of course, she'd at least get outside, but childcare? Generally seen as a thing couples do.

Her mood was already dark from frustration when she realized what she was heading towards as the cries lessened. Of course. Grumbling as she stomped up to the door of Akiha's mansion, she slammed her fist against it a few times, already at the point where Akiha could jump out the window in full-on demon AKIHA rage and it wouldn't faze her.

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"If she was trying to make any kind of sense, she'd have stuck you with Kris, and me with Excellen or Subaru. I have a pretty good idea of how they operate, and they have a pretty good idea of how I am, so at least we might not traumatize the thing if it can be." She gave it a little bounce.

It really didn't matter much to Katina, actually. Anyone could tell that Akiha was more fed up with the Queen on the whole than with Katina, even if Katina was more routinely annoying. "I guess teatime isn't the best way to make friends with crazy magical kidnappers, huh?"

Akiha's eyes narrowed. "What's that supposed to mean? If I was stuck with Kris and this egg, I would be doing everything while she lazed about like a giant sloth. I might not like having you hear muddying up the carpets, but at least you have initiative and don't do more than the bare minimum to survive if there's someone else around to do it for you."

With that tirade, one would wonder why Akiha puts up with Kris' constant laziness.

"And I'd thought tea and civility would get some answers out of her than demanding them." She waved her hand dismissively. "There was music involved, so don't ask me why I thought there was a chance. You know what she told me when I asked her why she took us? Because we're 'better off' here than in our own worlds."

"Yeah, well, you seem to like her more than you like me, but maybe I'm wrong." It was easy to wonder how Akiha felt about anyone. The girl liked her rants, that much was obvious, and then she turned around and put up with them over and over again.

Katina sighed, letting out an annoyed sigh. "Ha. Yeah, maybe one or two people here really are better off, but she's got a pretty twisted idea of better off. Even if a few people do fall in love, she still took 'em away from their friends and families and lives. There's more to life than cheesy-ass romance."

Akiha snorted. "Only idiots fall in love here." Like her idiot.

"And I'm only going to say this once; you can't compare yourself and Kris. You both irritate the hell out of me in different ways. She just makes up for it. You, on the other hand, have no ingratiating or endearing bone in your body. You're all rough and uncouth." Kris was very sly; she just didn't look like it with all that... simplicity.

Idiots. Lots and lots of idiots. Way to call yourself an idiot.

Katina just nodded as Akiha went off on her little tangent, letting it sort of wash over her. Sorry, but she's a lot less bothered by it this time, for a variety of reasons. "Alright, alright, so there's nothing ingratiating or endearing about not being a lazy bum. Maybe I'll just try dumping this thing in your lap and falling asleep on the floor here."

Akiha was not in love with Kris, thankyouverymuch. She was still in that stage where she believed it was only possible to love one person. And that person, to her, was Shiki. Her heart was his and would always be his... even if she accepted that he wouldn't ever love her back. Kris was important to her, yes, and she did like the magician. A lot. Because Kris ~~has a Charisma of 22~~ grew on her and, well, she'd said it before. People just don't fall in love with girls like Akiha.

"Do that and I'll set it by you and go on my daily walk, leaving you here," she snapped back, picking her book up once more. For a few seconds she ignored Katina, focusing on the book, before adding, "Besides, sleeping on the floor is a good way to catch a cold."

Yeah, sure. Deny it all she wants, Katina's quite convinced that it's an extremely strong crush at bare minimum, and probably some kind of love. Then again, she'd object to the idea of people not being able to fall in love with her, whatever her own feelings about Akiha are.

"Yes mom," she said in a mocking tone. "Don't worry, I'm not gonna dump this off on you now that you've actually let me in. Just because I'm kind of an asshole doesn't mean I'm a complete one."

"Just most of the time," Akiha quipped back. "And don't call me that. I'm not even accepting being that thing's so-called 'mother'. You can be its mother. I'll just be... Oh, there's an American term for it, but I can't remember what it's called. Something-sugar, maybe."

Not that Akiha was sweet. Okay, sometimes she was; she did make a small copse of trees for Kris since she wanted to see the momiji turn the color of Akiha's vermilion hair in the autumn.

"The one with the money."

"Oh, yeah, sure. You get to sit around being rich, while I'm an eggmom." Katina sighed, setting the egg on the table facing Akiha. It looks peaceful, doesn't it? It isn't even judging you Akiha. It just wants your love. And Katina wants you to at least put in some kind of minimal effort.

"Not that having money means a damn thing here though. What if I go make my own mansion?" Not that she'd want a mansion, way too much effort to keep it looking nice inside and out. But she totally could.

"Would you even be able to make one that wasn't a copy of mine?" Akiha raised an eyebrow. They could only make things they remembered, after all. Had Katina even been in a mansion prior to hers? She sincerely doubted it.

"Besides, you're bizarrely more fitting to be an eggmom; you grew up with a mother," Akiha replied. She then looked down at her book for a moment before sighing. "Look. I'll... tuck it into bed before I retire for the night. Will that suffice for now?" It took Akiha a while to warm up to anyone. Or anything.

One. One mansion, and that had been a pretty hectic situation, but she could at least remember some pretty big parts of the palace at Riksent! It was bigger than Akiha's too, what with being the royal palace of an extremely wealthy ruling family.

Katina leaned against the table, looking across it at Akiha. Of course coming from a traditional family would give her a little more experience. "Hey, I'm older too. A lot of women my age are intentionally having kids." As opposed to teenagers accidentally having kids. "So it'd be great if you could just do that."

"Yes, yes, something about biological clocks ticking or some nonsense like that," Akiha mumbled. "I'll have Lam-- I'll see to readying a guest room for you. It'll be on this floor, West Wing. That's where all the empty rooms are."

Akiha's room was on the second floor, West Wing. Far more than fifty feet away. Seems someone forgot about their invisible no-cry zone.

"Yeah, I don't get it either, and this is just making me want a kid even less, but I guess it's pretty natural." Katina probably qualifies as one of those stressed out, career focused types they make romantic comedies about, only thirty times more likely to break an arm and less likely to have some silly change of heart.

"Uh... you can try, but remember how this thing started crying just from you walking away a little bit? I think those rooms have to be farther apart than that." Maybe they should get out a tape measure.

Akiha pauses with her tea halfway to her mouth and just stares at Katina for a moment. Yes... all the rooms in the mansion were father than that apart, especially with the way Akiha's room was set up and being at the end of the wing's hall. Which meant, in order to not hear crying all night, Katina and the egg needed to be...

"...you are not sleeping in my room."

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She could almost see Akiha's mind screeching to a painful halt at the realization, and part of her felt a little smug about remembering something she'd forgotten. "So, maybe we can shove a bed up against your door overnight. Sure, you'd be trapped inside until I woke up or you felt like busting down the door, but we might be able to just barely keep close enough that way."

Katina patted the top of the egg. "Otherwise, I'm gonna be in your room one way or another."

"There are no other beds upstairs. My room is the only one up there." A lie as the room she'd made for Shiki was up there, but it was in the other wing. Akiha's room was the only one in the West Wing.

"And even if there was, my bed is still too far from the door. We're not moving my queen-sized mahogany four-poster canopy bed into my anteroom." Akiha ground her teeth and glared at Katina. She did not want the pilot anywhere near her bed. For several reasons. Mostly the privacy and pride reasons, though.

"Tch." She tossed her hair over her shoulder and walked over to look out the window. After a long moment of glaring at her own eyes in the glass, she came to a barely acceptable solution. "You can sleep on the davenport in my anteroom. It's marginally better than the floor."

Hell if she would drag that bed all the way over anyways. Katina simply sat there taking the tirade in stride. It was pretty obvious that Akiha didn't want her in the same room, and mostly obvious why as well - for a number of reasons. Not that Katina was thrilled about it either, but she sure could make the best of it. "Even if you don't have guests very often, it's a good idea to have guest accommodations, you know?"

She sighed, accepting that for now, though. "So I'm getting put on the couch. I haven't even really done anything yet..." Honestly, after all her time in the military, even on a fairly comfy ship like the Hiryu, she could sleep anywhere. That didn't stop her from bitching about it though.

"I do have guest rooms. On the first floor," Akiha snapped. "Don't sit there and accuse me of not being hospitable. The upper floors of the Tohno Mansion are not meant for guests but for family members. It's not my fault this egg is forcing me to let you in my room. I don't have to like it. For all I know, you could snore."

And then how would she get to sleep? Between a fussing egg and a snoring Katina, Akiha was worried she'd get very little.

"Alright, alright, you're a gracious host who doesn't want anyone on the same floor as you. It's not like you're gonna get more than one, maybe two family members here, and even that much isn't too likely." A little harsh, maybe, but having an entire floor to herself isn't helping anyone.

"And I don't snore, so you won't miss out on any beauty sleep. I'll just curl up on your little couch and try to get comfortable."

"After the amount of extended family that freeloaded off my father when he still lived and the constantly around fiance, allowing for barely any privacy save for the sanctity of my bedroom, I fully believe I'm within my rights to enjoy it here," Akiha snapped. "Until now, there's never been a need for there to be anyone else on the floor with me, so no such rooms were ever made."

Besides, if she made a room next to hers, Kris would want to move into it. Akiha wanted her privacy and distance.

"You'll make do; you're a soldier. Aren't you supposed to be able to sleep on rocks in the dead of winter with nothing but a think blanket?"

"Right, yeah, I guess everyone needs their privacy sometimes. Maybe I'm just too used to being crammed into a tin can floating around in an infinite vacuum to have much of an idea of personal space." Privacy was largely the domain of officers, and she at least had to share her room with someone else. Maybe one more promotion would do it.

Katina grimaced at the suggestion. "This isn't a war zone. I'm gonna take what comfort I can get, while I can get it, because if this place is good for anything it's the beds and the food."

"I'll never understand a Spartan lifestyle," Akiha replied. "There are people out there with money that don't ever spend it on anything. Or even invest it. The other day, I had to explain what a bank was to Kris." She almost rolled her eyes. "I'll never try to explain anyting financial to her again. I swear, she thinks there's a vault in the basement of my mansion in Misaki full of gold ingots."

"I can actually kind of agree with you there. Even with all my time spent living like that, if I've got time and money then I'm gonna enjoy myself." Katina shrugged.

"Anyways, Kris comes from a different kind of society as far as I can tell. I only know a few swordsmen, and magic's even rarer, whereas Kris talks about those things like they're normal. Of course... on the other hand it is her." But damn, a vault full of gold would be pretty sweet. Why doesn't she have one?

Because smart people invest their money, Katina. Akiha, as young as she is, does own a very lucrative American pharmaceutical company. That's where a bulk of the Tohno fortune is. Oh, there is a vault - just not that big or full of gold ingots.

"I can't even imagine what life is like where she's from. At least she managed to learn a trade and isn't a beggar on the streets anymore. Though she still acts like one. Maybe teaching her how to read English will do her some good."

Akiha waved her hand then, tired of talking about Kris. "Do you have to go get anything from whatever hovel you normally live in?"

Curses.

"Neither of us could really handle living like that, but it's not like society doesn't change all the time. Imagine if either of us were whisked off five-hundred years in the future." But she could accept an end to that conversation, if only to keep Akiha from getting into a worse mood.

She shot Akiha a frustrated look. "Unless you've got a bunch of spare clothes, I need to get some. Just a few days worth should be fine, it'll be a quick trip."

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