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Sonico Seeks Sleep - Closed Action - For Cassian, Later Kay

Who: Sonico, Cassian, Kay, assorted Pokemon
Where: Holly Ridge Apts
What: Sonico can't sleep, so she seeks help
When: Stupid o'clock
Warnings: Nopes

Cassian and Kay had both responded to Sonico's late night audio post, and they had both been very good and kind to her. She usually lived and slept alone no problem, but since recent events, she's really found it difficult. The result is a sleepy, and rather vulnerable-feeling Sonico, who goes to visit her newfriends. In her arms she carries a cardboard box that is full of snacks and sweets and fruit, some of the loot that her well wishers had sent to her, and which she now hoped to share with them. Sonico turns up at their apartment at a rather unsocial time of late night/early morning, so her knock on their door is very light. She hopes they can hear her...

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Even though Sonico had told him she would be visiting tonight, Cassian had half expected her to change her mind. He's all the more surprised by the tentative knock on the door at a time when nobody else could possibly be visiting.

As he opens the door, properly dressed once more now since he had prepared for her visit, Sonico is going to be greeted by the ruckus of various pokemon. Bespin, the blue bird with fluffy white cotton wings, is once more perched on Cassian's head and chirps a happy Swablu!

"Sonico. Come in. You're..." He blinks at the box in her arms, but instinctively reaches out for it. "Let me take that for you. What...?"

Kay was awake as well, a book in his lap and Galantos -his vision- floating near his shoulder as the robot tried to teach the Pokemon to read. He isn't exactly successful yet but Galantos and Stardust, the tiny joltik clinging to Kay's chest, seem entertained enough by the book's pictures.

His audios pick up the soft knock without the problem but Cassian beats him to the door. In no time Kay closes the book and goes to greet her, Galantos floating after him and Stardust still sticks to his frame like some sort of fuzzy, yellow accessory.

"You two will get cold is you stand there, come and sit on the couch. Do you want something to drink? We have milk but it's a bit ...weird looking. White."

Sonico isn't wearing her usual outfits - she heard from Cassian about clothing, but lately she has been wearing a much longer skirt and a long sleeved tshirt to hide the stitches and the long horrible cuts on her arms and legs. She smiles when she sees Cassian, giggling very quietly at the sight of the bird on his head - it was funny and pretty cute.

"Oh. It's some snacks and sweets and things. I wanted to say thank you but...I don't know if Kay can eat..." She blushes, looking a bit embarrassed about it as she lets Cassian take the box. She looks up when Kay appears and bows in greeting, "Thank you, something to drink would be nice but...isn't milk supposed to be white?"

"Of course not!" Cassian announces, looking highly offended at the mere thought. "It's supposed to be blue; we normally drink bantha milk, that's most common."

He puts down the box on the living room table and takes a look inside. "Either way, thank you for bringing us this. You didn't have to, but we appreciate it."

"Exactly. It's blue in our world but here it's the wrong color. Fest, our cat, doesn't seems to find any issue with it." Because, why yes, they do have a cat too. Because a small flat with already to persons and four more pokemons is not enough people in one single place. Kay returns the bow briefly, trying to be protocolary.

"I can't not eat but thank you still for the presents. I can smell them, however, and they seem really well cooked." Which is the closest he can give to praise when it comes to food. "I could get you some juice...ah...yes, thanks, Galantos." The green, floating pokemon had moved away and returned to them holding a blanked for Sonico.

"Blue?" Sonico is mystified at such a thought as she follows them inside. "Oh, that's just the least I can do. You have both been so kind." She looks from Cassian to Kay, smiling awkwardly at his comment about the smell. "Well, yes, it was all made by people who are good at these things."

When Galantos brings the blanket, Sonico accepts it graciously and reaches to touch the Pokemon on the head. "Thank you so much. That's so kind." She smiles brighter at the creature then looks to Kay again. "Oh, anything you have. Please don't go out of your way on my account."

Edited 2017-04-08 13:59 (UTC)

"I'm sure it doesn't just smell good, but tastes good as well. Thank you." He picks a package out of the box and opens it, offering it to Sonico first.

But the Swablu on his head is faster than any of them. Suddenly Bespin is no longer on his head, she swoops down and Cassian quickly yanks the package of nuts out of the way. "No, Bes! It's not even berries." He looks chagrined at Sonico. "Sorry. She's very enthusiastic about berries."

Galantos lets out a happy Duosion! cheer and floats away, still hovering near them but trying to give the girl some space.

"It's no trouble at all." Kay assures her, already opening the fridge to get the juice. By the time he returns with a glass, Bespin and Cassian are are already making a scene. "Never a boring day around here, you see, Sonico."

Sonico shakes her head when Cassian offers her the box. Maybe it's the lack of sleep but she doesn't seem to have much of an appetite. When the Pokemon swoops in, though, Sonico giggles quietly again, amused. "She is enthusiastic. And she seems to be very haooy with you."

Then she smiles at Galantos again, enjoying how busy and happy it seems in here. Sonico takes the glass from Kay gratefully with a small nod of thanks, "It doesn't seem like it. I hope I'm not making things too...busy or crazy. I won't stay for long." Because between the two of them and their Pokemon, they seem to have a very good set up. It feels much better than being in her apartment on her own.

"You're not. It's... good like this." He chews thoughtfully, looking around and taking in the scene. "It's peaceful." Cassian's eyes linger on Sonico. "Better than laying awake in bed, for sure."

He's glad for the distraction, he knows that much. When the Mudkip he still hasn't named climbs into his lap, he doesn't even try to shove her off. "We don't mind." He looks towards Kay, though he is certain he doesn't mind their late-night visitor either. "I think Kay might be happy that he's not the only one up for once."

The droids nods at his friend, confirming what the Captain already know.

"Cassian's right. I don't need to offline to recharge and lately I've been teaching the pokemons to read." Or he had been trying. They seemed to like listening to him reading them fairy tales, at least. It was a start.

"We are awake very often at night, if you want to come over some other time feel free." They will just have to be careful not to wake up Cassian if she comes over one night where he is sleeping without trouble.

Sonico smiles bashfully at Cassian when he looks at her, silently admitting that he's right about that. She realises here how lonely she had been in her own apartment. She turns to Kay then and nods, "Then maybe this is a nice change for you, rather than a nuisance. I don't think I've ever visited anyone so late at night. Or so early in the morning." She giggles a little awkwardly.

She was doing her best to settle and feel comfortable, but there was so much to focus on between Cassian, Kay, and their Pokemon. But she slowly shakes her head, glancing at them both shyly, "Oh, no. That is very kind, but I wouldn't want to intrude..."

"We won't mind," Cassian chimes in. He grabs hold of his Mudkip before she can get any funny ideas of flinging mud at their guest, and puts her firmly back on the ground, telling her to stay there and behave. "Honestly, neither of us is even used to working regular hours like we do now. I don't think I'll ever be able to adjust to a normal sleep schedule."

He watches her thoughtfully for long moments. "I can't say we get many guests, of course." Or that he is normally all that welcoming to guests. "But you're the first friendly face I met after my arrival. I appreciate it."

"Oh?" Sonico thought about this as she watched him with his Mudkip. "Did you work in strange shifts in your home world?"

She looks back at Cassian and smiles a little awkwardly, but it brightens with that last thing that he says. "Well, I'm very glad for that. I like to make people feel that they are welcome and that they can be happy here. Or...as much as possible." She lowers her eyes, looking quietly at the floor after that.

I’m sure Sonico’s the only one we had beside Bodhi, and we knew Bodhi from home so he probably doesn’t count.

[After hearing Kay mention reading before, Kay's Duosion decides it wants to go get the book and show it to Sonico. However, because Galantos has two brains and the other one wanted to turn towards the girl, the pokemon ends floating straight into a wall with a loud thud. His little eyes turns into spirals as he floats to the ground a second later, looking dazzled.

Well, that’s a way to break the awkward silence.]

Uh, sorry about him. He’s working on…well, something. I’m not sure yet.

Edited 2017-04-18 21:00 (UTC)

Cassian snorts in amusement at the sight of Galantos making a fool of himself as he so often does. "You say he's working on something, but I still say he's just confused about everything." Having two brains must be hard, he can understand that, but the entertainment value has only lasted for so long.

"And yes, we work odd hours at home. Our field of work doesn't follow office hours." Cassian looks a little bit awkward at that, unsure how much Kay has told Sonico about their actual field of work.

The pokemon's movements catch Sonico's attention and she watches it with a smile. When it bumps into the wall like that, though, Sonico gasps before she starts giggling at how funny that was. She soon makes a noise of sympathy though and reaches out to it, "Aww, you poor thing. Are you okay?" She is almost motherly in the way that she speaks to it.

"Then this must be quite different for you." Sonico looks between the two, aware of some awkwardness, and tries to steer the conversation away slightly, "Where are you working now, Cassian?"

Duosion! "The pokemon answers a little weakly but mostly okay. He shakes himself like a wet dog and floats to the couch, this time both brains are focussed on reaching a soft place to rest.

"He will be fine, the gel around his body is very soft. I'm sure it's on purpose so he doesn't hurt himself bumping into things all the time." Kay gives Cassian a look and if he had a mouth he would be pouting.

"Galantos is trying his best. At least he doesn't freeze the kitchen, like certain someone's ice pokemon. And yes, Sonico, this is quite different from our..uh...usual life." The droid will not go into further details, it's better that way. "Cassian laughed at my work's clothes but he never let me see the ones he wears at his own work. It's really unfair."

"Because there's nothing interesting about my work clothes," he says, maybe a little too abruptly to be believed. He tries for a glare, but while glaring at Kay is easy, turning his ire at Sonico is much harder. He sighs, and runs a hand through his hair. "I work as a security guard at the welcome center in Nova City... and as for my uniform, it's just a regular security guard uniform, nothing exceptional about it."

And if Kay thinks he's going to model it for him he thought wrong. There's a reason he gets dressed at work, and that is avoiding Kay's retaliatory mockery.

"Galantos will be fine, he's sturdy enough... and there's nothing wrong with Hoth, she only froze the kitchen once or twice!" Or more often, but these don't count. "She can't help her breathe being so cold it leaves frost everywhere she goes."

Sonico continued to watch the pokemon worriedly, but as Kay spoke a little more she became more reassured. She looked back up at him and nodded. "A protective layer of gel would certainly be a good thing."

She turned from one to the other, listening to them tease each other and smiling at the obvious friendship the two of them had. Or was there something more than that? She wasn't sure. "So you are both hiding your uniforms. I don't think you should be embarrassed. I bet you both look very handsome."

"There's nothing interesting about me wearing an holographic suit, either." This time Kay doesn't sounds convincing, even to his ears. Droids don't usually wear clothes, holographic or not, but it was required for his job as a security guard in the Casino. "And Hoth froze the bathtub too when your mudpkip was in it too, what a day we had."

His head turned to Sonico and he nodded. "I asked those who know more about pokemons and they told me this is normal. If he evolves, eventually, he will stop having so many issues. And we...eh..handsome?" Now, that's not a word he gets to hear often.

"Handsome?" Cassian echoes, brows arching up and making him even forget his outrage about Hoth being slandered. "Looks can be part of a deception every now and then, but... that's not the..." He cuts himself off before he can say that's not the kind of spy he is, he doesn't think he's ever mentioned to Sonico that he's a spy at all and it's easier if it remains that way. "Looking handsome or not in that blue uniform doesn't make a difference to my work." He thinks for a moment. "Although I guess they did spring for a nice one, I've seen security guards wearing uniforms worse than mine."

He grabs himself another handful of snacks, and lets his gaze rest on Sonico's own clothes. A lot more covered up than usual tonight, he recalls that observation now. "What about your work clothes? I guess for you looking nice is important. When we first talked I didn't realize you're a celebrity."

Sonico smiles at the mention of their pokemon and the silly things they have been up to. Then she smiles wider as Kay describes his uniform, "A holographic suit? Oh wow, that really sounds like something. But of course, handsome. Why not?"

She looked a little mischevious as she glanced between the two friends, clearly feeling more comfortable now. "Maybe being handsome doesn't make a difference to your job, but it might mean that you two don't have to be so nervous with each other about your uniforms." Sonico seemed a little surprised by Cassian's question, glancing down at her covered arms and legs, mostly to hide her cuts and bruises. "My work clothes? Hmm... At the diner, I think it's cute. Modelling...I don't know." Sonico blushed slightly at first, but looked more embarrassed at the mention of celebrity. "I'm not...I mean, it's nothing too important."

Kay head turns to Cassian, slightly to the side as if in alarm, at what he almost said. He hasn't mentioned the Sonico what they used to do back home, except that he's a security droid trained in combat. Thankfully Sonico doesn't find Cassian's reply odd.

"You are too nice, Sonico. And if you want, I can show you the holographic suit then."

Kay recalls now how the first conversation he ever had with Sonico also involved talking about what she was wearing. or rather, what she wasn't wearing at the time. now he felt a bit bad that she was feeling embarrassed about the subject. "You always look nice, don't worry too much about it."

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