Appointment Post / Voicemail ((IC))

[doubleppk]

--- I'm out doing something boring and not at all something that will get me into trouble, leave me a message for when I get back, no doubt it will much more interesting! ---

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[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

Hey. Uh, you gotta come over and meet my father tomorrow. Cat's out of the bag. He's all pissed at me and crud.

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[doubleppk]

And by meet your father you mean...?

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

I dunno. Come over and talk to him. Convince him you ain't a serial killer.

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[doubleppk]

Oh. Oh, thank god.

You scared me.

I ... uh... never met anyone's parents without them wanting to kill me. Or worse in Lupin the 2nd's case.

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

What!? Why the heck do you think I'd let that happen!?

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[doubleppk]

I didn't say willingly.

What time?

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

We're done trainin' at two, so sometime after. Unless you wanna come after dinner. I know Mikey wanted to stick around and watch a movie.

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[doubleppk]

After dinner sounds fine then. Shall I just stop by?

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

Yeah. That'll work. I'll let him know.

[Can you hear the tension in his voice? He's nervous already.]

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[doubleppk]

Okay. I'll be there.

[Damn it Raph, she's already nervous enough to run away and disappear into the mountains for a bit.]

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

[And he knows it. This's huge. There's a good chance that if Splinter doesn't approve of her, Splinter will forbid him from seeing her. Not that it would actually stop him from seeing her, it'd just make things pretty damn unpleasant.]

You gonna be okay?

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[doubleppk]

[If she knew that was the only thing to worry about, she'd be a lot less concerned. But she tends to overthink things she shouldn't and not fear the things she should.]

Mm-hm. [The obvious tension in her voice says otherwise, but she'll be there. Best she can do.]

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

You sure? I could give you some pointers, I guess. Though I ain't exactly a good person to talk to 'bout impressing Splinter. Spent half my life grounded.

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[doubleppk]

Um, okay. That's a start. Things not to do.

[She will happily take any and all information please.]

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Just don't talk back to him. Not even if you got somethin' to say. That's what always gets me in trouble. Just gotta stay respectful. Probably don't gotta explain that.

I dunno. Part of the problem is he don't trust humans. But you ain't the only human he's met, and we got some close human friends at home. He's just tryin' to make sure you ain't some kind of assassin or mad scientist or somethin'. Stuff like that.

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[doubleppk]

.... Right. [Except.... what if she is? Because, hey, not like she's going to tell people all the assassination jobs she's done, nor all the times dealing with mad scientists or trying to rob them like with Poon. Still, it's just someone protective of Raph. No big deal. Except, of course, it still is. Because she can't even get along with Jigen and/or Goemon due to their protective feelings of Lupin.

Oy vey.]

And if he decides I am...?

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

Then we'll take it from there.

[He lets out an audible breath, swallows hard at the sudden tightness in his throat.] I... I don't wanna lose you. Okay? If he says no, we'll figure somethin' out. But I'm not gonna let you get away, all right? No matter what he says.

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[doubleppk]

[Blinks. That wasn't the reaction she'd quite expected.]

Raphael. Relax. [This calms her down a bit. The reminder that Raph isn't so used to having a girlfriend or woman.] I'm sure everything will be fine. He just loves you right? And if I'm a bad influence, I'll do better. Or something.

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

You're not, trust me. I've known worse.

[Way worse. His best friend from home is an ex-violent maniac vigilante, and in Luceti he had the likes of Goroh introducing him to alcoholism, smoking, and womanizing. Good times.]

And I like how you are. If Splinter don't like it, just do what I do and put on an act for him. He knows I do stuff he don't like, but he's cool 'long as I'm sneaky about it.

[Which, he wasn't very sneaky about you. He sort of forgot to shower after being all over you last night. Damn rat noses.]

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[doubleppk]

Sneaky. I can be sneaky! [Surge of confidence there.] Okay, I'll just play nice.

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

You'll do great, babe.

[You can practically hear his smile. Yeah. It'll be just fine.]

Oh yeah, play up the Japanese thing too. He loves that stuff. Asked me which prefecture you're from.

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[doubleppk]

Yamanashi and Tokyo, I traveled a lot. My name is for Mount Fuji though. Not hard to remember.

All right, Japanese manners, got it!

[Just hopefully, he's not too familiar with the yakuza and underground world there.]

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he'll like that. He's from Osaka, and he's crazy about anything from Japan.

Or, well. Anything but the Foot.

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[doubleppk]

Oh yeah! I think you mentioned that he was. All right that shouldn't be too hard.

"The Foot?" [In which Fujiko thinks Big-Foot. :|]

[Voice, afternoon of March 19th]

[meanandgreen.livejournal.com]

Clan of ninja the Hamato clan's been fightin' for decades. They're a real pain in the shell.