OOM: Moving Day

[ami_imperfect]

It's a bittersweet day as, with the help of her new family, Dani moves all of her belongings out of her Milliways apartment and into her new quarters at Fenton Works. Each possession she uncovers and packs away brings back memories, mostly happy but some sad.

And then, of course, are the ones that she's not sure she'll be able to explain to Jack and Maddie...

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[ami_imperfect]

"Oh, that! It was a birthday present, from AndrAIa."

Don't you love how blase she is about some of this stuff?

[passthefudge]

"Who's Andrea?" And can she hook him up with one?

[a1enzo]

"My sister-in-law."

Enzo will, if permitted, take the wrist-'poon from Maddie and place with the other digital items.

[notjustcookies]

"And...why would she give you this as a present?"

He'll be permitted; Maddie's still a bit too gobsmacked to do otherwise.

[ami_imperfect]

Dani's response is a shrug. "'Cause she didn't need it anymore. And in case I was ever in a situation where my powers weren't effective. I know how to use it," she adds, almost defensively.

[a1enzo]

"She's really good," Enzo puts in with pride.

[amity_npc]

Danny picks up a couple of action figures, inspects them, and carries them over to the digital pile.

It's getting quite large.

[ami_imperfect]

And what, praytell, is wrong with that?

"Those had better not find some way into your room, Danny," Dani teases as she helps Jazz go through her closet.

[amity_npc]

"Relax, I'm not gonna steal your cyber-toys. Tuck might try, though..."

[passthefudge]

Jack has crouched down to poke at the pile. "Is this all computer stuff?"

[a1enzo]

"Yeah. It's gotta be turned into matter before you take it home or it'll fall apart."

[ami_imperfect]

"Hey, too bad we don't have time for one last race around the lake," Dani remarks as she pulls her zipboard out of the closet.

[a1enzo]

Enzo smiles at her, possibly a little too warmly. (At least, too warmly for here and now.) "Why's it gotta be 'last'?"

[ami_imperfect]

Dani bites her lip and shrugs, not wanting to give voice to her ever-present fear that once her door closes, it's closed for good.

Now, as long as she doesn't start to cry, they're good.

[a1enzo]

Enzo sees her expression and tries to push down the lump of fear in his own stomach. Averting his gaze from her face, he stares at the zipboard.

As he does, the familiar pattern on the disks jolts his brain into action. Everything's been happening so fast, he almost...

"I have something for you!" he blurts.

[ami_imperfect]

"Oh? What?"

Fear is temporarily forgotten in favor of curiosity and anticipation.

[a1enzo]

"Just a nano, Bar's keeping it for me..."

Enzo bolts, footsteps receding down the hall, and returns quickly with a small leather pouch.

"I, uh. I had it made a while ago. At the forge. So I'd have a gift for you, when it happened."

Shooting nervous glances at her family—but it's too late to put off, and they'd see it later anyway, might as well get it over with—he shakes out the content of the pouch and presses it into her hand.

[ami_imperfect]

Eagerly (but not too) Dani opens her hand - and her mouth forms a little 'o' of surprise. It's a pin, designed to look like an icon.

"Enzo...it's beautiful!" she gasps. "Thank you!"

She leans over and gives him a quick kiss on the cheek.

[a1enzo]

Enzo tries not to react too much to the kiss, as they're being watched, but the effort just makes him blush harder.

"'M glad you like it."

[amity_npc]

Danny leans over to see. His eyebrows vanish into his forelock.

"Is that real gold?!"

[a1enzo]

"Um... yes?" He coughs and tries to act as though this is no big deal. "It's matter and everything, so you don't have to get it converted..."

[amity_npc]

Danny swears under his breath, but the emotion behind it is unclear.

[ami_imperfect]

"Whoa." Real gold? Dani looks at the pin again. "Enzo, how...?"

She wants to ask how he could afford to have it made, but the words don't come.

[notjustcookies]

Maddie has no such problems.

"And how were you able to have such a...nice gift like this made, young man?"

[a1enzo]

Enzo doesn't care for the sound of 'young man'. 'Young man' never bodes well.

"Wrapping presents for people at Christmas," he answers promptly. "And Bar asked me to tend, too."

He doesn't mention that before he discovered these lucrative enterprises, he fully expected to be paying it off for months.