APPOINTMENTS POST

[ledbythewind]

This post can be used to thread with or get in contact with Richard at any point when he doesn't have a post up! Just comment here (please use the format [Action, June 24th], [Voice, March 5th], etc. to make it clear when the thread is taking place and what type of thread it is) for a thread with him; if it's a continuation of another thread or post, please link that so I remember the context of the thread.

GO NUTS.

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[Action, May 24th]

[ledbythewind]

... I'll do it myself.

[He sounds more resigned than anything else at the moment. Given that the other option would be being outright combative, however, this is probably for the best.]

[Action, May 24th]

[musubi]

Good man.

[Isamu will just wait patiently while he does.]

[Action, May 24th]

[ledbythewind]

[And get dressed he will, though it's really more just throwing on a pair of pants and a shirt than anything else. At least he is presentable, okay.

... save for the bedhead, but that's a minor detail.]

[Action, May 24th]

[musubi]

[A minor detail that Isamu will be fixing as soon as he gets his hands on a brush.

Hold still, Richard.]

[Action, May 24th]

[ledbythewind]

[That is slightly unexpected, but once he realizes what Isamu is up to, he'll obediently hold still.

Not because it feels kind of nice or anything.]

[Action, May 24th]

[musubi]

[Finishing up, Isamu pats him on the shoulder.]

There. Now we're leaving. I've got stuff already being prepared for us at 7th Heaven.

[Action, May 24th]

[ledbythewind]

In other words, I don't stand a chance of escaping this without facing Sanji's wrath.

[But there's the faintest hint of a smile tugging at the corners of his lips.]

[Action, May 24th]

[musubi]

Exactly.

[Actually, he hasn't asked for Sanji's help with this much at all, but there's no reason to let Richard know that.]

[Action, May 24th]

[ledbythewind]

I hope you didn't tell him this was a date.

[The fact that he's trying to make a joke is a good sign!]

[Action, May 24th]

[musubi]

I'm not a hundred percent sure he would have gone along with it if I had.

[Action, May 24th]

[ledbythewind]

And there goes my only hope of escaping this.

[Action, May 24th]

[musubi]

Yep. Right out the window.

[Action, May 24th]

[ledbythewind]

Speaking of out the window...

[Action, May 24th]

[musubi]

Yes! [He grabs Richard's wrist.] We should be going.

[Action, May 24th]

[ledbythewind]

[This surprises Richard a little, but he makes no move to protest. Lead the way, Isamu!

... before he changes his mind and decides he wants to go back home.]

[Action, May 24th]

[musubi]

[As long as he doesn't protest, Isamu will be dragging him to the restaurant.

Not letting go of him the whole way.]

[Action, May 24th]

[ledbythewind]

[Protests will only come if Isamu walks too fast or squeezes his wrist too hard. Otherwise Richard finds that contact to be comforting, though he won't say anything about it. He is quiet and obedient for the moment.]

[musubi]

[Eventually, Isamu will tug him into 7th Heaven, where there's a table already reserved for them.

The reserve tag is in Isamu's handwriting, and he'd clearly set it up before going to get his friend.]

[ledbythewind]

[Richard will just raise one eyebrow slightly when he sees that tag, touched despite his bad mood that Isamu has gone to all of this trouble for him.]

Are you sure this isn't a date?

[musubi]

Reserving a table doesn't make it a date. Now sit.

[ledbythewind]

[And sitting obediently! He's more curious than anything else as to what Isamu has planned, but if his friend brings out a band to serenade them or something, he's leaving.]

[musubi]

I wanted to try something, so I cooked dinner myself.

And you're gonna eat it even if you don't like it.

[ledbythewind]

You cooked it all by yourself...?

[He's not entirely sure he heard that right because... it's Isamu. Willingly doing something that involves a considerable amount of effort and isn't either his job or something that will benefit him. That is definitely unusual.]

[musubi]

Hey, I work in a restaurant. I cook all the time. Don't act so surprised.

[Sanji makes sure he does it right, too.]

[ledbythewind]

And you usually have Sanji breathing down your neck while you do so.