Meet The Parents - ~Gilding The Lilly~ Ver. Featuring Apple & Amelie

[onaroll]

Well, it's finally happened. After the Duck connected them to Moon, Amelie knew it was only a matter of time before she would go home and introduce her wife to her parents. She is a little worried about how it's going to go, however - from her perspective, it's been three years since she saw them; from their perspective, it's been a little over a month.

She's pretty sure there aren't many good scenarios where a sixteen year old girl drops out of society for a month and then returns married. However: there's nothing to it but to do it, because there is not a single part of her life Apple isn't a part of. As she throws open the door to her old house, she calls out in a voice she wants to be cheerful but isn't quite up to snuff.

"I'm home, Mama! Can you set an extra place for dinner? I bought company!"

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[onaroll]

Amelie plucks a Pinap Berry out of her bag and very carefully just misses beaning Fletchling in the head with it.

"Even a terrible little thing like you still needs to eat, I suppose..."

Amelie. Your weird tsundere act with a bird is ruined by the fact you still have your tails on display. And they are wagging.

[cidery]

Apple giggles at the sight as she pulls out a chair for everyone before sitting down herself. Pouring the drinks, she said, "Well, we should dig in too."

Amelie's tsundere act is so cute.

[onaroll]

Amelie pauses, puzzled, when she tries to sit down before visibly remembering that she currently has nine fluffy white tails. Sheepishly, she banishes them with a glimmer of light from her gem before sitting down again.

"...for some reason, it doesn't take any effort at all to maintain that one, so I forgot I had it active..."

[cidery]

"Maybe because you're mischievous like the fox," said Apple with a giggle.

[onaroll]

Grace smiles.

“Sounds accurate. Well, let’s dig in!”

[cidery]

Taking a bite of her stew, Apple let out a squeak of delight. "This is so good!"

[onaroll]

Grace and Amelie have an entire conversation with their eyes. ‘Did she just...?’

‘She did.’

‘Is she always...?’

‘Yes.’

‘Adorable!’

‘I know.’

[cidery]

Humming a little, she tried the bread and let out a sigh of delight. "Oh this is top notch, I simply must try more food from Kalos."

[onaroll]

As Amelie nibbles on her own sandwich, she considers that.

“If you want, we could all go to Restaurant Le Wow in Lumiose for lunch tomorrow?”

Grace and Tadashi stop eating and stare at Amelie when this is suggested.

“...Amelie, doesn’t that place cost around a hundred thousand Poke? For one person?”

Amelie stares back blankly, not understanding quite what they’re getting at. Her parents look at each other for a moment before Grace speaks again.

“...sweetheart? How much do you actually make as a Trainer?”

Amelie thinks about it for a moment before answering.

“The average is about 400,000, I guess? 800,000 if I don’t do anything else that day.”

‘That day’. It’s Tadashi that speaks next, his voice slightly stunned.

“Lucky flower...are you saying your annual salary, just from Pokemon battles, is at minimum nearly one hundred and fifty million Poke?”

Amelie nods.

“That sounds about right, oui.”

[cidery]

"I think we're in for a little lecture on how to budget on a budget that is over a million," said Apple with a little smile.

"It's not that I've actually hadn't had to do that before. But you should see how much Ashlynn pays for shoes. I mean, daughter of Cinderella."

[onaroll]

Grace has just. Covered her face with both hands for a little while before looking at Apple.

"A normal Trainer battle will get you enough money for, perhaps...a bottle of lemonade and a sandwich? Professional Trainers like Amelie are apparently so far beyond that we have no frame of reference to teach her how to budget."

Amelie looks confused and indignant.

"I can budget!"

At this, Tadashi turns to her.

"My little flower. You just casually suggested we spend more on our lunch than I make in a month."

[cidery]

"While our combined inter-dimensional wallets could feasibly afford it, we should probably figure out where and when to spend so extravagantly," put in Apple with a little ruffle of Amelie's hair at her cheek.

"But then again, it'll be fun!"

[onaroll]

"What about Restaurant Le Yeah instead? It's much more afforda..."

Tadashi trails off at the Look Amelie adopts the instant he mentions Le Yeah. Grace snaps her fingers in front of Amelie's face to get her attention and raises one eyebrow as she looks at her.

"Le Yeah has two stars because they use avant-garde ingredients to cover their substandard techniques. I would not trust them to produce a croque monsieur properly, much less something I would be expected to feed to my family. If I went somewhere based on price, it'd almost certainly be Le Nah, which is much more worthy of two stars than Le Yeah."

Amelie has very strong opinions about the Lumiose restaurant scene, and it's kind of sad more people don't ask her about them.

[cidery]

"She was like this during the restaurant crawl too," said Apple with a quirky little smile. "At the least, it gave us a good view of food."

[onaroll]

“It took me an entire month to set that up, too.”

The restaurant crawl is one of Amelie’s greatest triumphs, and her mood is instantly improved thinking of it.

[cidery]

"And I enjoyed every minute of it," said Apple with a little impish grin. "There was so much food, I could barely keep up. Even though I could eat that much. Poor Megumin though, she was so full for almost a week."

[onaroll]

“Ah, Megumin’s another friend of ours...she’s a little strange, but a good kid.”

Amelie’s underselling it.

[cidery]

Underselling it is right, Megumin is a very strange kid.

"Still, we should probably all figure out where to go for dinner then," said Apple.

[onaroll]

Amelie hums thoughtfully.

“Ah...I like Le Wow, but...”

Amelie glances up from beneath her lashes, looking almost shy.

“Could I...could I show you my favorite cafe?”

There’s a pause as Grace reaches out, a tender smile on her face...and gives Amelie a light cuff to the back of the head.

“That’s all we ever wanted, you silly Swanna. Don’t try to impress us with expensive places. Just take us somewhere you’re happy. Honestly, where did you pick up that bad habit...”

[cidery]

"I'd be happy with your favorite place too," said Apple with a little impish grin. "You should be happy with everything you do, you know?"