Bad Wolf Day

Monday, June 03, 2013: Bad Wolf Day.

I had completely forgotten that today was Bad Wolf Day until Aranel reminded me. I spent most of the morning hunting up my chalk. Now the boys and me were sitting out in the road out front of the house with Aqua drawing Bad Wolf signs while Zelda runs circles around us. Luckily our street is relatively dead most of the time, so are risk of getting hit by a car are slim to none. Besides very few people drive cars anymore. If they don’t own a motorcycle they have an airship. There’s the occasional Chocobo and some bigger vehicles like moving vans and trucks, but you don’t see many cars outside of Midgar.

And now I’m rambling, I do that a lot.

“Didn’t know you were a Doctor Who fan,” I say to Aqua coming out of my thoughts.

“Terra is too,” she said. “As a matter of fact today is a big day for us.”

“How so,” Yazoo asked.

“Because of how me and Terra met. It was at a con in Midgar. He was cosplaying as the Tenth Doctor and I was Rose. It was love at first sight.”

“Blech,” Kadaj groaned.

“He even proposed to me on Bad Wolf Day last year. He had memorized the monologue The Doctor gave to Rose from the end of Doomsday.”

Oh gods! All the feels… right to the hearts.

“But The Doctor never finished what he had to say,” Yazoo pointed out.

“When it got to the part were the transmission cuts out in the show is were Terra asked me to marry him,” Aqua said.

“You landed yourself a keeper,” I said holding back tears. Seriously, how lucky could the girl be?

“I like to think I am,” Terra said walking over to us and sitting next to Aqua.

“Yeah yeah lovey dovey blah blah blah,” Yuffie groaned. “Remember that when you’re chasing little versions of yourself around the house.”

“I said I was sorry,” Axel whined. I hadn’t even noticed him until her spoke. Which is hard to do seeing the kid’s got his dad’s flaming red hair.

“Twelve times,” she sighed, “He’s said sorry twelve times.”

“What did he do,” I asked.

“He spray painted Bad Wolf on the walls,” She yelled. Loz, Kadaj and Yazoo started laughing. I couldn’t help but smile a little myself. I was kind of the one who introduced Axel to Doctor Who. Now that the boys were Whovians, it’s kind of hard to walk into my house without The Doctor being brought up at least once.

“I’ll go get that materia. It should get the paint off,” I said.

“You made us scrub the paint off the walls,” Kadaj protested.

“That was to teach you a lesson,” I respond. “Plus that was Acrylic paint. Spray paint is a bit different. And if you hadn’t noticed, I had to use that materia anyway cuz you ended up scraping some of the finish and the original paint off the floors and walls. Not to mention Zelda.”

The puppy looked up at the sound of her name and rushed over.

“Thanks,” Yuffie said, “But I’ve got Reno and Rude working on it.”

“Surprised my sister isn’t there,” I retort.

“She was for a bit,” Yuffie responded, “But when Rude wouldn’t talk to her she left. Something about meeting up with Isdela.”

“Speaking of… How’s Vincent doing,” I ask.

“Cloud talked to him yesterday. Said he sounded happy,” She said. “Which freaked Cloud out a bit. Freaks me out too! Vincent doesn’t do happy.”

I bit my lip to hold back the laugh. “Well, Izzy must be doing something right.”

“I guess,” Yuffie mutters. “But could you please do something about your sister? Rude’s driving us all crazy. He’s even been staying with us cuz he’s too spooked to stay at his own place.”

All four Loz, Yazoo and Axel start laughing while Kadaj sticks his tongue out with a discussed look on his face.

“I’ll try,” I sigh. Truth be told I didn’t really see what I could say or do that would get Aranel to leave Rude alone. I’d been putting it off.

“Thanks,” she said. “Also… would you mind watching Axel and Zexy for a few days? I’m going to visit my dad and I can’t leave them alone with Reno. He’d let ‘em get away with murder.”

“Yeah sure,” I sigh.

“Thanks,” She said handing Zexion to me. “All their things are in this bag. I’ll be back in two days promise.”

“And if Reno comes around for them the answer is no,” I recite. “We’ve been though this.”

“Thanks again,” She called running off to her car.

“You… Stay,” I say to Axel. He sits down next to Loz and starts doodling. I turn pick up the bag and head into the house. I can already tell this is going to be an interesting two days.

Later

After the kids got bored with the sidewalk chalk, we went inside to marathon the Rose years. It kept ‘em quite, which was a good thing considering Sephiroth was driving me crazy. I had tried to convince him to let me call Cloud or Reno or somebody to help him move stuff from my office to our room, I even volunteered. But no, he has to do it all himself. Wants his little princess to know just how much daddy loves her. It’s really starting to scare me. Makes me wish he were out blowing something up or killing people. I had reached that point.

It was about that time that there was a knock on the door. I got up and walked over, opened the door and…

“I’m back bitches!”

“Izzy…” Gods the fates love toying with me don’t they?

“Isdela,” the boys screamed.

“Yes yes you all love me,” She said pushing past me. Vincent stood outside the door grinning, actually grinning. “Ooo, new girl.”

“I’m Aqua,” she introduced, holding her hand out.

“The name’s Isdela. Famous sky pirate,” Izzy said. “Perhaps you’ve heard of me?”

Aqua looked confused, “Sorry… I haven’t.”

“Don’t feel bad,” I inform her. “She’s not quite as famous as she makes herself out to be.”

“Oh I am beyond famous.”

I roll my eyes and rejoin Aqua on the couch. “So just where were you two anyhow?”

“Um hello,” she mocked. “Where does anyone go when they’ve got a hottie they’ve just napped? Costa del Sol.”

I turn and stare.

“Okay maybe we were a few hundred yard out hovering over the ocean. You really think I was going to let this one get away.”

“From what I hear you could have taking him anywhere and he wouldn’t have left,” I say.

“Yeah well when you’ve got talent like I do,” she teased. Vincent said quite, his eyes on Izzy the whole time. Something told me he was going to be a permanent fixture on the S.S. Love Ship. Gods that was bad, why isn’t my brain working today?

Aqua gave a nervous laugh.

“Don’t worry,” I tell her. “You’ll find Izzy’s a pretty cool person once you get to know her. She crazy, but what would life be without a little crazy am I right?”

“Duh,” Izzy answered. “Now where’s that first mate of mine?”

“Try Reno’s place,” I say. “If she not there then asks for Rude. Where you find him you’ll most likely find my sister nearby.”

“Again? That little creeper can’t leave her alone for two seconds.”

“Her,” I say surprised. “And what about you?”

“Oh I’m in a commented relationship now,” she says “BTWs how do you and blue hair know each other?”

“Aqua and her husband Terra are our new neighbors.”

“You should meet him,” Aqua insists. “He loves stories about sky pirates.”

“Your dude's name is Terra,” she asks.

“Damn it,” I mutter.

“Was he a chick who got a sex change?”

“And with that Isdela is leaving,” I insists. “She has a first mate to find and a boyfriend… say goodbye kids.”

The boys whine has Izzy tries to talk her way into staying.

“Sorry,” Vincent says. It’s more for Aqua than me.

“Just do me a favor,” I say pulling on his sleeve. “When you find my sister… put her on ice for a few days, bring her down from whatever crazed high she’s on.”

Vincent bows his head and starts pulling Izzy back toward the ship. I hear a crash upstairs, “And would you mind dropping by tomorrow. Anytime’s fine… just you know, before Sephiroth kills himself.”

“Why would I do that,” Isdela asks. I just shake my head and close the door. Oh yeah, the next two days are going to be fun…