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045. [Accidental video/Action for Goldenrod] (forward-dated to Saturday morning)

_{[Given the work week, Heather has not had a chance to really enjoy the snow that much. Whether the Pokemon world celebrates Christmas the same way most 'normal' ones do is up for debate, but one thing is clear: holiday shopping is universal. The Department Store has been going absolutely insane with gaudy decorations and increasingly-frenzied customers buying up everything in sight. Between the exhaustion and the ever-earlier setting of the sun, Heather's been spent by the time she gets off of work.]}

[Friday night was spent mostly-asleep under a pile of blankets and obscenely fluffy winter-coated Pokemon (Arty and Cujo both seemed to have doubled in volume in the past few weeks), and when the gray winter morning light crept in through the snow-lined window, it fell largely upon the same scene. SOMEWHERE under there, there was a human being. ... Or maybe they had just eaten Heather and the tuft of scruffy blond hair and the single disembodied foot sticking out from between blanket and Cujo's tawny belly were in fact the only pieces left of her. Who could tell?]

... MREEP

_{[The alarm on the PokeGear (which was ... poking out of the blankets somewhere, giving a glorious view of the hopeless chaos that was Heather's bed. Of COURSE the alarm function had randomly turned on the video feed, too-- alarms always did dumb shit like that without being told to) had turned on, and-- oh, look at that. A scrawny, pale arm had emerged from somewhere amid the dogpile (literally) and was now groping around in search of the 'Gear. Looked like Heather was alive under there after all.]}

Hmghghh... where're you, dumb ... dumb thing.

MREEP MREEP MREEP

_{[Her hand encountered the roly-poly form of a sleeping Totodile and shoved him to the side unceremoniously before finally getting to the actual 'Gear.]}

Ugh, there you are... _{[Sitting up and making Cujo slide off the bed with an elegant thump, Heather stared blearily at the 'Gear and shut off the alarm. Ugh what time was i-- ... OH HEY IT WAS SATURDAY. FUCK YEAH, SNOW TIME.]}

[The 'Gear was dropped briefly onto the bed once more and the sleepy Pokemon came awake with various stretches and growls as their Trainer hopped around, one-handedly tugging on her (un-eaten) boots and a fresh-from-the-department-store new coat-- yeah, it was finally too cold for her to continue going sleeveless.]

--C'mon, Cooj!

_{[The Growlithe struggled out of the blankets he had wrapped himself in with an excited woof and Heather grabbed up the 'Gear again, turning the radio on as she headed for the door, one mitten in her mouth.]}

Ghotta getd'guys...

_{[Stamping one foot a little harder than the other to get her heel more firmly down into position, Heather clomped over to the door to Liquid and Otacon's room and raised her fist to knock obnoxiously as usua--- .... oh.]}

[Oh yeah.]

[Deflating, she lowered her fist sheepishly. There were already new people in that room and she'd just come preeeetty close to waking them up at like nine in the morning. Aawwwkward.]

--And the weather's just getting colder, citizens of Johto, so us here at the weather department would like to advise you all to stay bundled up indoors instead of trying to go out today! _{[--buzzed the weatherman's voice over the 'Gear's radio. Frowning down at the screen, Heather sank back to lean against the hallway's wall and heaved a big sigh.]}

.... Hnm. Maybe we should just...

_{[She trailed off there to look down at Cujo, who was staring adoringly up to her and wagging his entire body more than he was actually wagging his tail. WALK?? WALK? WALK?! OHPLEASE? circle?]}

.... Ugh, you know what?

Screw the cold. _{[... And screw the absence of Otacon and Liquid. Snake had said their being gone was no reason why they couldn't have a good time back here in Goldenrod, right?]}

[Jutting her chin out stubbornly, Heather pulled on her hat.]

_{[ooc: ACTION FOR THOSE IN GOLDENROD. Feel free to encounter Heather out in the snow if your character is hardcore enough to be trying to be out there on a day like this. Or feel free to try and stop her. EITHER OR.]}

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_{[It's ... probably more the latter than the former. Especially considering that Heather has playing in the snow like an idiot on her mind a lot more prevalently than training.]

[She does skid to a halt, though, her boots sliding slightly in the puddles of melted snow tracked in by other people (wisely coming INTO the hotel rather than out.]}

Huh?

.... Yeah, that's me.

You're, uh... Hayate, right?

_{[Cujo, meanwhile, had noticed Hina and gone bounding right up to her. OH MY GOD IT IS A BIG ME, HELLO BIG ME! OMG OMG]}

Aaa, y-yeah, that's me! *He is chuckling a bit, since oh god did she just have trouble remembering me.* Are you seriously going outside in this weather...? It seems kind of-- er, really dangerous...

*Hina is, unfortunately for Cujo, hardly as interested in him, and is raising a non-existant eyebrow at the tinier dog and giving him a SIMMER DOWN, POOCH. look*

_{[S-SORRY HAYATE. It's nothing personal! She's had a lot on her mind lately and the last time she saw you in person, she had just crawled out of the woods like a swamp monster.]}

Dangerous? PFffchaw.

We have this kinda weather every winter back where I come from, and I still had to walk to school in it. _{[... When she could get out of being guilted into accepting a ride from her dad, that was. Harry was pretty persistent.]

[Cujo, meanwhile, has no idea how to take social cues and he's just... play-bowing and play-bowing and play-bowing in front of Hina, butt wiggling in the air and tongue lolling out in an enormously-happy stupid doggy grin. HI OMG I LOVE YOU AND I HAVE JUST MET YOU]}

*Better than WHO ARE YOU AGAIN? he might have cried*

S-seriously...? I've had to deal with bad snow before, but never this much at once... It's the amount you get when you're supposed to be trapped in a remote area with a killer on the loose nearby.

*Man Cujo you are barking up the wrong tree, as Hina is just watching him bound back and forth, up and down and the look on her face practically screams YOU ARE SO IMMATURE. However she is letting out a rather loud bark down at him, since she should at least greet him properly. Manners and all.*

_{[IT'S OKAY HAYATE SHE DOES REMEMBER YOU.]}

Well, yeah. I mean-- we get blizzards in Maine in the winter all the time. It's crazy. This is nothin'! _{[... Well no, it was most definitely something, but since when did Heather NOT make things out to be less than they were?]}

_{[Cujo pretty much just barks up every tree he meets, because clearly they are all his best friend and all of them love him. He's the Growlithe who got DROPPED as a pup. He goes into positively JOYFUL spasms of wriggling when he's greeted and he sort of just... flops to the ground and writhes around there on the floor for a moment before rolling back to his feet and barking incessantly. :D :D :D :D]}

Maine...? That's, um... Somewhere in America, right? *tilting his head a bit. WHAT IS EDUCATION ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES* I had no idea blizzards were so common over there...

*At this point, Hina is idly glancing over to Hayate who she realizes is conversing so there is no HELP ME OUT HERE option. In that case, the giant lion dog is raising one of her front paws to... bat at Cujo in a semi-playful manner. Lord knows she is big enough to easily knock him back and forth a bit in a hopefully-not-menacing way.*

Yeah, in the northeast. Not everywhere in America gets blizzards, but-- well, Maine is practically a part of Canada, it's so far north...

_{[Gleefully, Cujo skitters backwards from the batting, but he's clearly overjoyed at the play attempt. He makes a few play-pounces at the giant paw (which is like. Almost as long as one of his legs), himself, still barking, his ponylike tail whipping around spastically.]

[A few dirty looks are being sent in the dogs' direction-- largely because of the racket Cujo is making. HE DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE LIKE HINA. WHAT IS TRAINING??]}

Heee~h... It must be useful to be used to this kind of weather in a situation like this... I just hope the people who are out traveling during this are making good use of any fire-types they have. *There is a hint of worry there, since OH GOD Hayate knows people who are traveling during this. Though they are tough so hopefully not popsicles.*

*It is hard to tell if Hina is enjoying herself here, but at the very least she doesn't look bored by the pouncing at her giant monster of a paw. Instead she is just raising it up again to see if she can land a bop on the bounding about Cujo's head.*

*Hayate is also giving the two dogs a quick glance, though his is accompanied by a quiet chuckle, since awwwww antics and Hina not being completely anti-social.*

_{[As flippant as Heather IS about the weather, she DOES kind of share Hayate's worry, and her expression turns a little more pensive as she looks out the window at the ever-piling snow.]}

Yeah... same here. _{[At least Otacon and Liquid had Huan with them. The Houndoom had to be at LEAST as good as Cujo was at spouting bigass flames, it not better.]} I wouldn't be going out if I didn't have Cooj here. _{[That... was probably a lie, but OH WELL. At least she DID have him.]

[Cujo doesn't seem to mind being bopped on the head at all-- it just makes him jump around even MORE-- like some kind of mildly dysfunctional Whack-a-Mole game. The whole thing probably looked hilarious-- it doesn't help that the glossy tile floor keeps making his blunt claws skitter and slide. He falls over more than once.]}

Yeah... If I didn't have Hina, I definitely wouldn't go outside as much as I have over the past few days... But I need to go out tomorrow or the day after, since I have to meet up with some traveling friends and help clear the way for them.

*This is looking like it should be posted on PokeTube, as Hina is proceeding to paw at Cujo a few more times, going for a few more light bops as Whack-a-Mole happens to be one of Hina's favorite games. Only she's usually whacking down Rattata with fire, not a member of her own (former) species.*

Wellp, it's not THAT cold out! At least not if you have a fire Pokemon. You should be fine.

_{[Cujo is just... impossible to make angry. Every time he's bopped down, he just sort of springs back up again, tail a-wagging. NEW PLAYMATE NEW PLAYMATE OMGFGGGGGGG yaaaaayyyy]}

Compared to what it usually it is though, it's kind of a ridiculous change... At least it's seasonally appropriate and there aren't any strange Pokemon lurking in the snow.

*If Hina still had her original puppy enthusiasm she might be wagging her tail at this little bop game, instead it is just getting a few veeeery small flicks back and forth after the boppin'. If nothing else the smaller dog sure is amusing in a way!*

Hm... well, there MIGHT be... _{[YOU NEVER KNOW.]

[Cujo is quite amusing, at least in the sense that he's sort of like one of those bouncy punching bags that couldn't fall down. No matter how many times you hit it, it'd just bounce back upright and wobble. Now he's just frolicking in big circles around Hina.]}

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