#nemesis x kettu

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Locating it in the novelties section of a little mini mart, Kettu had to bite her lip to keep from laughing. She pocketed the item quickly until she was not in Nem's sight, before she carefully laid it out on the window ledge. She had found one of the eyeglass wipes made to look like another realistic item. This one, a chocolate chip cookie. It stood out against the grey cement, and she knew he would not miss it. Then she simply stepped back to wait for her victim to fall for her prank. "Hey Nem! I'm done o'er here!" She called to him, doing her best to not giggle.

Nemesis had slowly perusing the wares of the store, if the dust-covered and picked-through leavings could still be referred to with such dignified words as wares, when he heard Kettu's voice. His head lifted and he began clomping off in her direction. The tiny woman was an unstoppable forager, whether in a forest or a marketplace. She was pretty much unstoppable at everything, really, for Nemesis really had to watch to make sure she didn't go running off inadvertently into trouble.

When he found her - he was never very far from her if he could help it, so that he could properly protect the accident-prone and trouble-seeking woman - Nemesis saw what looked like a huge cookie on a shelf nearby. "COOOOKIIIEEE!" he exclaimed, pointing at it, but he quickly realized it was just a cloth of some kind with a very realistic image of a cookie on the front of it. "Awww..." he said, disappointed, but then he held it against his leather outfit. "Could sew this here... and then... I'd de a coo-kie... nonster..." he said, proceeding to laugh loudly.

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"Hey, Cookie Monster," Kettu purred affectionately as she crawled up into his arms after waking, though she had sat still for a while in thought. There was still a blurry half asleep look on her freckled face, "If... when me crystal finally charges, do ye, would ye loike.. I mean, when I can leave here, would ye come wit' me?" She peered up at him, bright green-gold eyes looking directly at his own, "Who's t' say we couldn't foind a cure elsewhere? I know more places wit' advanced science. I mean, tis a risk we may miss it here, but..." She shrugged slightly. "We ne'er know what could happen."

Nemesis simply moved his arms, let her get settled, and held her after she'd crawled onto him, so used to the way she was unafraid to touch him. He didn't feel like a monster when he was around her, and he owed that all to the way she treated him. Being called the Cookie Monster, however... he rather liked. In fact, he laughed a little, with a low rumbling sound that made his whole chest vibrate.

Her question gave him pause, though. Could he leave? Should he? Nemesis still felt a weird sort of responsibility for this world, to try and help it, fix it. Maybe that was because he was there on the night everything began to go to hell, and so he still harbored some guilt that this entire apocalypse was partially his fault. But... it was clear this world was done for. Or if it did survive somehow, it would never be the same again, never be ethe world he remembered and loved. So was there any point in staying?

"Would I de... a helt to you... or a hindrance?" he asked. "Isn't it ea-si-er... for you to tra-thel... on your own? I'n slow... and large..." He didn't want to hold her back from anything, and yet, if she left, he'd miss her terribly. "There isn't... any-thing... thor ne here, though," he admitted. "You're all I hath... right now. Ith I wouldn't de... too nuch to hantle... I want to stay... with you."

Thinking about a cure hurt sometimes. Nemesis wanted to believe that there was something out there that could cure him, but it just didn't seem very likely at all. But if Kettu knew of other worlds with more advanced science... "I'd de will-ing... to try," he said, lifting his hand to gently and affectionately pet her wild, curly hair.

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“Happy Valentines, Nem!”

“COOOKIES!” he boomed. They were so pretty, he almost didn’t want to eat them. Almost. He did, though, try to take his time a bit more than he usually did, seeing as how these were special cookies from Kettu, instead of just scarfing them now. “Gooood…” he said after eating the first one.