Ice Belongs in my Booze, not my Boots. (Rikki)

[Cross Ikon]

I woke up, feeling like something unusual had happened. I had Rikki sort of half-entwined, half-on top of me. That was normal. We were in bed together. Also normal. The room looked the same as normal, but that didn't mean much. I looked at the window, and muttered at it to un-shade. All I could see was the sky. Meh.

Shaking my head, I decided to wait until my golden-skinned girlfriend woke up. Maybe she'd be quicker to understand what was going on than me.

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[Rik'Tani]

"Mmmmmm..." Rikki said in her groggy morning tones. She moved her head a little, slowly opening her eyes. Her head lifted up and turned until her chin was resting on Cross's chest and she was looking at his face. "G'morning," She murmured with a sleepy grin.
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[Cross Ikon]

I reached a hand up, smiling as I put it through Rikki's hair. My other arm slipped around her back, and I slid a little bit so that her face was closer to mine.

"Well, good morning, darlin'. How'd you sleep?"

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[Rik'Tani]

Rikki thought about that for a moment. "Like a girl sleeping on the chest of a red-haired angel. The halo's a bit crooked, though." She smirked.

"So, how about you? Did you sleep good?" She remembered hearing him groaning and grunting a little throughout the night. Maybe she'd been a bit too... passionate...
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[Cross Ikon]

With a smile, I rubbed a finger across a couple of Rikki's horns. The sensation of the points scraping my finger was actually pleasant. I mentally shook my head at myself. My gold-skinned rose was having some odd influences on me.

"Well, I am distinctly crooked as a whole, yeah? My halo, or lack thereof, shouldn't be an exception. Your halo is perfectly sharp, though. A lovely crown of thorns."

At her question, I smiled wider and slid my hand down to rest my arm across her shoulders. My memory of the night before was foggy, but the two of us making strange noises and scratching each other up was a pretty vivid scene.

"I only sleep this well when you're around. The way we practically knock each other out is probably part of the reason."

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[Rik'Tani]

"What can I say? Zabraks have a thing for playing rough." Rikki replied with a chuckle. The feeling of Cross's fingers on her sensitive horns made her practically melt. She turned her gaze to the window. "So, could you remind me why we came to Hoth?" He hadn't really said much about it when they'd landed. That might've been because she'd been kissing him the majority of the time.
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[Cross Ikon]

I looked out the window again. Hoth? How hadn't I noticed it? Eh, whatever. Go with the flow. Looking around, I realized that we really weren't on the Duchess. Honestly, I'd been paying a lot more attention to Rikki than anything else. An occupational hazard of being one of two people in a situation where the people in question seemed to be determined to eat each others' mouths.

"Well, I haven't the slightest idea. This isn't even the Duchess we're on. It's very possible that Romeo or Aedan, or any of a host of other people, stuffed us and this bed into a different ship as a joke. Go figure how we ended up on this iceball, though."

On a sudden whim, I bent my head to put my mouth near my golden-skinned girlfriend's ear, dropping my voice to a whisper.

"Or did you want to get away that badly? Never slept with anybody in an ice-covered cave, before."

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[Rik'Tani]

She giggled. "You've been so busy with your Admiral-ness that we've barely had any time together. So, you decided it would be nice to go on a little vacation. You didn't say anything about coming here, but I thought it was a surprise, so I didn't ask. We took a little cruiser so we'd be a little less conspicuous. You honestly don't remember any of this?" Rikki knew that Cross could be a little scatter-brained sometimes. But for a whole day? "Oh, phrik. Please don't tell me you were spiced when you flew us out here..."
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[Cross Ikon]

I shook my head a little bit, grinning at Rikki as I laid there and held her. Not much else to do, before we figured out what'd happened. All the different ways we might have ended up here ran through my mind, most of them beginning with Romeo's return joke after we'd "kidnapped" him to a bar.

"Well, I remember the vacation, for sure. We were supposed to be going to Rishi. Pirates and bird-people and whatnot. Used to love going there, getting to lie around and watch large animals kill each other to reach the pirates that were trying to kill them. But, we're so far off from there right now. Romeo probably had the hyperdrive reprogrammed to bring us here. A birthday joke to me, as it were."

I grimaced a little bit as I realized I'd let something slip... My birthday. Today. How old was I, even? It didn't matter, really... I stopped that train of thought and closed my eyes as I leaned on Rikki's shoulder a bit.

"But, it doesn't matter much. We're here together, and we can stay in this bed until this stupid iceball finally ends up in some celestial whiskey, for all I care."

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