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 Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:18 pm
Kisoni underthered  Hatter bounded across the wide open fields which surrounded the Feli house, summer sun glistening off his white fur. It was a wonder he didn't lose his top hat, at the rate he was going. The simple fact of the matter was, though, that he was very nearly late.
Late for tea time of all things.
He chided himself for it in the back of his mind. Why, if he was late for tea time... any tea time... he supposed that tea might never forgive him, and he didn't think he could live with himself if tea hated him.
So distracted was he in his haste that, upon arriving at the Feli house, his velocity led him to trip up the porch stairs and roll straight in through the Feli door. Landing hard on his belly, he picked up his head and took a dazed look around. He wobbled a bit, trying to stand, and called out the still flapping door, "Thank you, stairs!" He staggered a few steps down the hall... then sat, and decided it best to wait a moment for his brain to stop moving before he himself tried moving again. As he caught his breath, he rummaged around in his hat for his watch. Three minutes to four... he still had a few minutes yet.Riddick poked the bundle he had with him in the kitchen, watching in fascination as a little wisp of fire latched onto the fur of his paw before he shook it off. Definitely Tomoko's kid, he thought as he eyed the flame-marked bundle and tried to pretend that his maw and paws weren't singed black from having dealt with the little firebug for the past week. It was about the time that he was staring at it, trying to figure out if he really wanted to breath in smoke while he carried it to the living room that a noise came from the hallway.  Riddick's brow arched as he looked towards the hall, goggles carefully placed over his eyes so that he could actually see in the afternoon light, and sure if there weren't a hassled looking pink male sitting there... talking to to the stairs. Well, stranger things had happened--look at the bouncing blue buffoon that had wandered into their home last week. He shook his head at the memory of dootsie, almost fearing that thought of the creature would send him this way, and decided to concentrate on the task at hand instead. ... Or he could sit here, instead, and wait for Tomoko to come and handle the thing. A part of him was bothered by refering to his own child as a 'thing', but right now he was particularly sick of dealing with this one! Not that he could blame it for being violent--he was too at that age. Riddick shook himself back, trying not to slip down that long, hurtful stretch of memory lane, and did something he almost never did: plunged into conversation with a total, and potentially crazed, stranger. "I don't think the stairs will answer, you know."
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:33 pm
underthered Hatter glanced up from his watch to face Riddick, still a bit wobbly from his dizziness. He tried hard to focus on the other, and saw a stranger sporting goggles, carrying a firey bundle with him. "Really?" he questioned, in response to Riddick's comment. The pink Feli looked back at the doorway and frowned. "A shame. They were ever so helpful." He sighed then at the stubbornness of the stairs, then turned back to his company with a smile. "A pleasure to meet you, though, stranger. Would you care to join me for Tea Time?" He pointed to the kitchen. "I was just about to get started. In fact, on a hot day such as this, I think a nice cup of iced tea would do anyone some good." He nodded eagerly, and found his mouth watering at the thought of iced tea. He glanced anxiously at his watch again--three minutes to four--then popped it back under his hat.
"Well, if you would care to join me," he said, "You may meet me in the kitchen." With that, he bolted into the kitchen and began rummaging around frantically in the fridge for the iced tea. Kisoni Riddick tried not to point out that he was already in the kitchen, in fact sitting on the kitchen table... it worked, after a long moment of silence and he watched Hatter race to get himself some Tea. The pink feli seemed very keen on the entire idea, amazingly so, and Riddicks first thought was a strange one: Xanatos would get along well with this one. The feli frowned lightly, wondering why such a thing had occurred to him.. but it didn't matter. "Tea would be nice." He shrugged and looked at the bundle as if it would move. Of course it wasn't goi to unless he picked it up. And if he picked it up, it was going to burn him. It was going to burn him if he touched it at all, in fact, in front of a total strangers.... and Riddick was actually starting to get sick of being burned constantly by his own son. The male had long since decided that this one had to be a boy, no matter how he feared having sons of his own blood (Xanatos, he figured, had turned out to be a fine young man and that no doubt had more to do with the fact that he wasn't carrying any of his 'fathers' genes), but no girl could possibly be this satanic. ... He attempted not to review the irony in his own statement, and instead got up to help the strange little hatted one with his tea. Jumping up to the counter was an easy task, and Riddick dug through it for two tea... mugs? or glasses? Mugs, he decided after a moment. "It is rather hot out, isn't it?" Small talk had never been his forte. "You're rather frazzled, arn't you." It wasn't really a question, but if the other male took it that way, so be it.
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:59 pm
Kisoni underthered ((...whoops. xd Missed that he was already in the kitchen... but that is dazzlingly appropriate for Hatter's character anyway, soo... we'll go with it!)) Hatter climbed, nimbly up the shelves of the fridge. Some sicko had apparently placed the iced tea all the way at the top... but no matter! Hatter knew he would get it one way or the other. He clasped the bottle in his mouth, climbed halfway back down, then leapt onto the counter. He kicked the fridge door closed, then, upon setting down the bottle of iced tea, leapt back to the floor and pulled open the freezer.
As he scaled the freezer, he called over to Riddick on the counter. "Quite hot! Unpleasantly so," he declared. "I requested that the sky cool off a bit, but it has yet to comply... I don't think we're on speaking terms any longer." Which was a shame... he had had such a good relationship with the sky previously. He frowned a bit at Riddick's next question though. "Frazzled? No, I don't believe I'm frazzled at all. In fact, I think my fur is quite smooth right now." Then, with a delighted grin, he discovered what he was looking for. "AH-HA!" He pulled out the ice cube tray by it's plastic edge in his teeth, being careful not to get his lips stuck in the cubes. "CATCH!" he hollered at Riddick, then flung the ice cube tray across the kitchen at his companion. After all, you couldn't have iced tea without ice!Riddick's eyes went wide for a mere second at the order. He'd been vaguely listening, as was polite, but more had started to drift off when the shout had come. Looking up to see the little cubes of frozenness flinging across the room, riddick immediately grabbed the mug. It was hard to maneuver the object, what with the lack of thumbs and all, but with a great feat of acrobatics he somehow managed to catch them all... save one that flew across the room to hit his bundle quite soundly. There was a hissing noise as the liquid promptly turned to steam. Well, at least the kid actually had a reason to hate him now. It was flawed logic, at its core, but logic still. With a sigh he poured half the ice into the other mug and set it down. Another hop put him back on the kitchen table where he leaned into inspect the wet spot, only to find that it no longer existed and the baby burnt his nose. Wonderful. Turning back to his impromptu companion, he stated (and tried very hard not to sound exasperated), "Well the sky can be pretty testy..." It was hard to figure out WHAT to say to the lunatic, but he tried.
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:31 pm
underthered Hatter leapt back down to the floor, kicking the freezer shut behind him. He didn't really pay any mind to Riddick's fantastic feat of catching the ice cubes--it all seemed pretty natural to him. But he did see one... seem to dissapear into the bundle. Hatter smiled cheerfully. "Somebody likes ice cubes!" he said. He looked to his company. "Yours? Or mine?" He wouldn't have been surprised if it was his... the last set of bundles had just kind of snuck up on him and Ryuki too. He figured it was his turn to find the kids, if they were in fact having more.
Hatter leapt back up to the counter and grabbed the iced tea, then tiptoed around to the mugs. "That's too bad... I hate tests," Hatter said in reply to Riddick's comment... except with the bottle in his mouth, it sounded more like, "Aaah oo ah... ah aye ehh." He then set it down, popped open the top with his paws, then poured each mug full to the brim. "All set!" he cried. He reached up into his hat to check his watch. "And with three minutes to spare!" Kisoni "No, its mine," Riddick sighed lightly. He loved his kids, he loved his kids, he loved his kids... it was like a mantra anymore. How he wished Tommie were here! He frowned then, fullly catching what the insane one meant and realizing that this hatter actually reminded him of someone. What was her name? It'd been so long since he'd seen that amazing little cheshire that he couldn't quite remember. That memory once triggered, however, brought back the fact that had he not been so annoyed already he'd likely like this curiosity. In fact, his mood already seemed to lighten a bit and Riddick finally chuckled at the ice cube comment.
"Is there a time limit on tea now?" He had to ask, it was impossible not to ask, as he settled down a very slight distance away from his bundle. "And you might want to watch out for this one, it burns."
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