Who: Milk & Cereal What: PUPPIES When: Today Where: A park Status: complete Rating: G
Pyrrha had made a promise to herself to spend more time with Ruby and her team. Especially Ruby, who was usually a joy to be around. But something seemed to be bringing her down, so Pyrrha changed her plans for the day on the fly, and took Ruby (and Zwei) to a park where people were taking their puppies for a Puppy Day.
It was apparently a thing.
Maybe it would help Pyrrha with her own Sense of Foreboding.
Especially with a pack of golden retriever puppies flop running towards then.
Ruby was doing her best to be perfectly fine. There were team things, school, internship. It was almost easy to just throw herself into it all and push past what she’d been told. Almost. Once again, just as she had been after the Fall of Beacon dreams and Grimm attack and everything that had followed though it sometimes was as if she might laugh too hard at something, smile too much. Because it was that or let herself think too much about the fact that Summer was alive but didn’t remember them. That she wasn’t there.
No. She’d rather push on, keep moving forward. At least that’s what she was trying to do.
Still, she would never turn down hanging out with Pyrrha. And she wouldn’t turn down going to a dog park for Puppy Day with Zwei. Though with the pack of golden retriever puppies heading their way, Ruby dropped to her knees to great them. Because puppies.
Laughing, Pyrrha joined Ruby on the ground as they were overrun by the flood. Even Zwei was trying to make friends. Or maybe just negotiate the best escape route, it was hard to tell. “Could you imagine a job just taking care of them?”
One could never tell with Zwei. Though at least he didn’t have the camera or the skateboard her dad liked to put him on. Which okay, was hilarious. But that would be a bit chaotic for her at the moment. A good distraction, but chaotic. “Ohmigod, that would be amazing.”
At least temporarily or sometimes. Ruby was still most at ease when she was in a workroom and tinkering on her different projects.
“It would probably get exhausting fast,” Pyrrha admitted, scritching a nearby puppy behind the ear. To their left were some more puppies of a variety of breeds, and she thought that whoever had come up with this idea? Was a genius.
Though if any of them were up for adoption she might be doomed.
“Yeah, probably… but a good type of exhausting.” Because there were the good types of exhausted from doing things you loved and then the bad kinds from being overworked or overwhelmed or anything like that. Still, she was enjoying the time in the park with all the puppies.
Pyrrha picked up a puppy and spun it around, before sneaking up on Ruby and dumping it into her lap. “Did you ever see those old cartoons where they swam around in money? That’s what I feel like with all these puppies.”
Smiling some as the puppy was dropped in her lap, Ruby just scratched it behind its ears, giggling as she was licked by said puppy. Zwei of course was just looking at all the puppies and deciding if he was going to say they could stay near her or if he was going to be a possessive dog. “I have! And yeah, I definitely can see that! So. Many. Puppies.”
It was certainly better than any sense of unease Pyrrha felt, or worry for her friend’s state of mind. Maybe they could spar later, but for now Pyrrha was going to enjoy the puppies and try to convince herself not to adopt one.
“Is it bad I want to name them all?”
Ruby would take anything to try and not feel the numbness and confusion and migraines. And puppies definitely were the way to do that. They were just so happy and full of life and it was hard not to feel the same when surrounded by them.
“Nope!”
“That’s good. That’s great.” Pyrrha was falling in love with one in particular as it rolled onto its back for more belly rubs. They were so excited and happy and they loved people. True innocents.
She was going to end up with a puppy and Diana might kill her.
Ruby doubted that Diana would kill Pyrrha. One, she didn’t see Diana capable of killing anyone - or if she did, it’d be someone who really deserved it and that definitely wasn’t Pyrrha. That and adopting a puppy really was no reason to kill anyone to begin with.
“Do you have a name in mind for that one?” And a nod to the puppy rolling on its back.
“I’m screwed.” Pyrrha didn’t sound particularly bothered by it, as she rubbed the puppy’s belly, “I think she’s a girl. So Artemis.”
“She definitely likes you.” Because getting coerced by a puppy to adopt it really wasn’t the worst thing to happen. “But Artemis. I like it!”
“You should get one of her brothers,” Pyrrha teased, lifting Artemis up and burying her face in her tummy.
Yeah. She was totally taking her home.
“I mean, I could, but Zwei is more than enough. Isn’t that right, Zwei?” With that, said dog came over and plopped right on Ruby’s lap as if to tell all the other puppies that this human was spoken for, thank you very much. Nuzzling her face against his head, Ruby just hugged him. “Let’s go make it official and get things for Artemis now!”