#anctherversion

[nerditudes]

@anctherversion plotted!

It had been five years-- five years since he'd last seen his friends. One thousand, eight hundred, twenty-five days give or take. He was starting to wonder if all of it had been a dream. Kairi, Donald, Goofy--

Riku.

Getting up each day- in his small one bedroom apartment. Munny had no value here-- he'd had to work to afford where he was. There was no time to figure out a way home when everything here was about survival.

He locked the door as he left, making his way down the stairs and following the familiar path to the train station. What he hadn't expected was to hear a voice. A voice he wasn't sure he was hearing. How many dreams had he had-- whimsical wishes to be saved from this mundane life?

He turned around, mouth falling open in disbelief.

"Riku?"

[shrapnelsong]

@anctherversion asked for a [ soft action ] [ APPROACH ] receiver wakes to find sender is already out of bed so they come find them and sleepily embrace them, refusing to let go. - from lea!

The first thing she did upon waking up was realize that her closest source of warmth had changed location. Instead of the solid wall of muscle beside her, it was now a big lump of floof curled up by her legs. Blinking the sleep out of her eyes, Alice patted further across the bed to make sure Lea wasn't there before reaching down to give the puppy a gentle fuss while she gathered the will to get out of bed.

Smiling as the doggo promptly sprawled out along with her to stretch and ask for more pets, she sat up and gave him a good belly rub before looking around in search of something to wear. Finding Lea's shirt half hanging off the side of the bed, she crawled over and slipped into it, pulling her hair up into a messy bun while padding her way to the door. "Come on, baby. Let's go find dad."

As soon as they stepped out of the room, the wonderful smell of breakfast guided them towards the kitchen. Still a little sleepy, Alice made a beeline to Lea at the stove and slipped her arms around him, glueing herself to his back and peppering kisses to his warm skin. "Morning, handsome..."