[ENTRANCEWAY] IC CONTACT

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You've reached Peridot, leader of the Crystal Gems. I can't get to your call right now, but you can leave a message, and if I'm not too busy being a great savior and all-around wonderful gem, I'll get back to you.

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...Is that all I do? When does it- [BEEP]

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Thank you!

[It takes Peridot a moment to realize what she has just wrought and her eyes go wide as saucers behind her kamina glasses, and then, with haste, she scrambles to the corner of the room where she's been stacking paint cans for use in 'morp and possible projectile weapons.] The paints can are mine!

[She slaps a post-it with her name down, and begins to frantically look for anything else she wants to stake her claim to.]

[ssmisery]

[Lapis hangs back and watches just a brief moment, then casually trails after. With a firm pat into place, she applies a post-it with her name onto Peridot; the nearest flat surface with proper structural integrity being the slope of her hair, however that works.

Anyone other than Peridot probably could have seen this coming.]

I win.

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[Peridot freezes in place, mid-run, as she processes the utter audacity that is Lapis right now. Her cheeks flush indigo and, after a moment, she finally manages to get both feet on the ground, and pivot to face her.]

That was.... smooth. [Heck yes, it was, but what ABOUT THIS. She slaps her own post-it note on Lapis's forehead, and it is not nearly as smooth, but SHE WILL NOT BE OUTDONE.] Ha! And now we're at an impasse.

[ssmisery]

[In all fairness, it's easy to be smooth when you genuinely do not care about any material possessions, to an arguably unhealthy degree. No matter! Lapis chuckles and gamely does her best to shoot Peridot an amused look, given that the label is low, askew, and thus kinda in her eye.]

Oh no, what an unforeseen twist. I hope you're ready to handle what you're getting into.

[Incidentally, Claude has finally followed along after his people to wind around their ankles hopefully. He doesn't care about this sappy nonsense, but he does like murdering post-it notes.]

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[Peridot looks down at the cat as he shreds the post-it notes, feeling smug about her retort and definitely feeling she won.] He seems to be enjoying it too.

[It's always nice when the kitten is happy. Bored now with this turn of events, Peridot tugs on the second drawer.] Maybe if we go to sleep right now, we can unlock the next box. We could fool this thing into believing a day has passed easily! It's not like time actually moves here.

[ssmisery]

I guess there's nothing stopping us from just sleeping 24 hours through.

[But she's pretty sure Peridot would lose her mind trying that. Also, the eagerness to reach tomorrow, itself, is likely to hinder sleep, an ancient holiday season dilemma known to children everywhere. It is a shame that they can't simply skip to the next scene like fictional characters, isn't it?]

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[BUT THEY CAN...

Well, no. They can't. Inevitably, their plan to trick the magic box fails and they end up spending time doing whatever else they do before eventually either trying to sleep or getting absorbed in something that occupies all of their time.

The end result is when December 2nd rolls around, Peridot has managed to awkwardly straddle Lapis in the hammock with her face close to hers as she snores. This would be a very attractive way to wake up if Peridot were the least bit smooth and had plans to kiss her awake.

She is not. She's a dork. So instead of a smooch, Lapis gets an overzealous, "HEY LAPIS!"

dawn of the second day

[ssmisery]

[Lapis accepts this in the way any civilized person should: she yelps and flails, kicking Peridot in the abdomen and dumping both of them to the floor.

Gemsus crust why.

She can't skip ahead to the part where she's already collected herself off the floor either, so she just lies there stunned for a moment, torn between feeling bad for kicking her girlfriend vs burying her face in her hands and questioning her life choices. Peridot is resilient, though, and alas so are Lapis's affections. She sighs and splits the difference: expressing concern in an exasperated, perhaps even accusatory tone.]

You alright?

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[Peridot makes a strangled cat sound, flails her arms like she can fly and ends up only managing to land, improbably, on her face, as she is wont to do. She is still laying like that groaning when Lapis addresses her.

And then she quickly sits up, like YEP. SHE'S FINE.] I'm fine. I, uh... May have miscalculated how deep asleep you were.

[No, Peridot. It's just REALLY WEIRD to get in someone's face like that when they sleep.]

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You startled me.

[As if that wasn't dramatically obvious. Well, dumb shenanigans and Peridot falling over are both very common features of life in these quarters, and while Lapis does not like being startled, she at least doesn't have a pulse to set racing. Her nerves will settle quickly enough. She gathers herself off the floor, once again having a mind to help Peridot up if there's any chance Peridot doesn't beat her to it, and if she's a bit more tense that's also rather normal for her.]

Not that I'm not glad you're excited and all, but please don't ever do that again.

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[Peridot extends a hand for Lapis to help her up, which she smoothly uses to pull her into a hug.

Sometimes she can be the smooth one. Sometimes.]

Sorry about that. I just got excited. Who knows what's gonna be in that box today?

[ssmisery]

[Aww. Lapis successfully relaxes a bit more into the hug and gives her what might be a headpat or a hairtousle if Peridot's uncanny hair physics really allowed for either of those properly; in any case, it's fond and not forceful enough to run afoul with said physics.]

Then I guess we'd better find out.

[Although that means they have to proceed on over there and pay attention to that instead of getting any more affectionate. Oh well, Lapis still likes watching Peridot enjoy things.]