Ice Cream Shop

[Raven]

Kat rolled her eyes, but she was grinning. "Well, first off, we did stop," she told him, laughing. "I don't suppose you got me any?" she asked.

[FoxTrott]

Rhyme grabbed a napkin from a dispenser on the table, and tried unsuccessfully to get the ice cream off of his shirt.

"Sorry, but no," he replied, focusing on the stain, "I didn't know what flavor you'd want. Most people don't like mint, but..." He looked up, and smiled. "You can have some of mine, if you want."

[Raven]

"Hmmm... Well, since you offered it wouldn't be stealing." Kat stuck her tongue out at him, then came over and licked his ice cream. She kissed his cheek and was going to kiss him when her alarm went off. Doing her best to look surprised, she pulled her phone out. She frowned, then pressed the button to make it be quite and held it to her ear. "Hello?" she asked, then she paused for a minute.

[FoxTrott]

Rhyme was prepared for another kiss, so when he didn't feel Kat's touch, he frowned.

"Who is it?" he asked, licking his ice cream where Kat had.

[Raven]

Sai, Kat mouthed. "What do you mean? Why wouldn't I be okay?" she answered to some unheard and nonexistent question from phone. A longer pause. "What?" she said, feigning disbelief. She glanced over at Rhyme. "Well, I'm okay." She paused again. "Bye." Then she hung up the phone, walking to stand over Rhyme, her hands on her hips.

[FoxTrott]

Rhyme stood, and held up his hands in bafflement.

"What?" he asked, "I haven't done anything..." After seeing that Kat clearly wouldn't believe his bluff, he slumped back in the chair, and sighed. "Look, I just wanted to make sure he didn't do something horrible to you, you came back looking so depressed, so I went to see if I could find out what happened, and Blue and Velvet tagged along... Not to mention, he nearly killed me!"

[Raven]

Kat glared. "It's none of your business, first of all. Second, giving you a bloody nose because you broke into his house doesn't count as nearly killing you! He thought you guys had beat me up to get my key!" she said quietly, so as to not disturb anyone.

[FoxTrott]

"We didn't really break in, per se," Rhyme explained, "All we did was open the door... And I swear, he was wearing steel-toed boots, so I thought I was going to get a concussion!" He exhaled, and put his head in his hands, elbows on the table.

"I'm sorry, Kat," he apologized, almost using her real name.

[Raven]

Kat sighed. "I forgive you, but I can't exactly tell Sai I know you. He'd trace you to a wammy. That was just really stupid, Rhyme... Did he see your face?" she asked.

[FoxTrott]

"People do stupid things for love?" Rhyme offered as an explanation. He shrugged. "I... I think he saw my face... God, if he gets the eyes, I'm dead..." Again, he held his head in his hands. "When I die, I want my headstone to read 'Here lies Rhyme, stupidity killed the idiot.' Ugh."

[Raven]

"I'll probably be in jail by the time you die... Unless, of course, Sai gets the eyes and bothers trying to kill you," Kat said sullenly.

[FoxTrott]

Rhyme bit his lip, thinking about Kat's comment.

"Well," he finally said, "nobody lives forever, so we might as well do what we can now, right? L knew that, and so did Near and Mello." Rhyme casually licked his ice cream. "Just... Hope no one's hurt because of my idiocy. Including you, Kat."

[Raven]

Kat grinned. "I'm sorry to tell you this, but I'm in the least amount of danger, until Sai gets the eyes, at least," she told him.

[FoxTrott]

"Small amount is still an amount," Rhyme replied. He scooted closer to Kat as he neared the cone of his ice cream. "Well... What should we do next? Go back to the orphanage? Do some breaking and entering?" He anticipated a glare from Kat, and quickly added, "Kidding about the last part."

[Raven]

Kat only rolled her eyes. "Back to Wammy's. We still need to work on that excuse... Before we go back, though, I want to talk to you about something," she hedged.