Hunter had just shot off the last two fireworks from the few she had brought along. She had narrowly escaped the last one exploding in her fist, but everything had worked out for the best, and the blonde was backing up and wiping her hands on the front of her bright yellow dress as she watched the colored sparks exploding in the sky. "This is the best night ever!" she practically screamed, met by enthusiastic noises in response.

With her beer in hand a smile on her face, she almost tripped over Michiko as she was turning to head away from the empty pile of fireworks and head back toward where the bar was still set up. People were thinning out slowly, and she was hoping she could get a blender of mojitos made or something without having to wait in line for an hour.

"Oh hey babe!" she greeted the younger girl cheerfully enough, wincing her eyes shut as Michi threw up again. "Pfft, what a light weight," she teased, unknowingly echoing the other girl's thoughts. Crouching down to her knees, the blonde girl sidled her way up beside her girlfriend and pulled her hair back and away from her face, holding it loosely. With her other hand, she rubbed Michi's face in slow deliberate circles. Long before they had dated, in between dating, and pretty much every party since they had met, they took care of each other at parties. This was just habit, though there was a much more concerned than usual look on the drunken blonde's face.

"Did you drink the worm? Ya never drink the worm.."

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"Right?" she asked trying to avert her eyes from Hunter's as the blonde pulled her hair back. She heaved again into the bushes, this wasn't just like regular drunk puking, there was something wrong she just didn't know what.

"Nah," she grinned into the bushes. "I never drink the worm, that's just a fuckin' slippery slope. I must be sick er something," she reasoned. She leaned into Hunter a little but was only able to stay there for a few moments before heaving forward again, getting violently ill into the bushes once more.

"Ugh, fuck this," she groaned painfully.

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Hunter's eyebrows furrowed a bit, and although she was pretty loaded, there was something nagging and pulling at the inside of her. Something wasn't right here, and she felt like maybe she should get have gotten up and gone to get Mack or something. When it came to serious situations, Mack was always the blonde to go to, not her.

But this was Michiko, and she had every intention to take care of the other girl on her own if she could. That had been part of her promise from the begging. Michi wouldn't need anyone as long as she had her.

"Right? They're gunna gushy anyway.. nobody likes a gushy worm," the blonde murmured, pressing a light kiss against the other girl's temple when Michi leaned into her. Frowning and lifting her hand from her girlfriend's back, she reached into her own hair and pulled the elastic from her ponytail out, using that to pull back Michi's hair better instead. With both hands now free, she rubbed the younger girl's shoulders firmly while she got sick.

"I'm right here, boo. I'll set up camp out here if ya ned me," she half-joked.

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"Thas riiiiigh," she slurred about the worms. "Fuckin rainbow bullshit," she said after puking again. "Is like a god damn pride parade," she snorted leaning against Hunter heavily.

Her eyes felt heavy but she fought to keep them open. "I'm sorry Hunter, I'm the worst girlfriend ever," she moped. "Firs Pas tries to beat us up and now I'm pukin all over the place," she pouted.

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The tall blonde snorted as well, shaking her head as Michi leaned on her again. She waited a few seconds, to see if the younger girl would heave again, before loosely looping one arm around her slumped form. "Knew I shoulda put you in skittles rehab," she teased.

She frowned deeply as Michi called herself a bad girlfriend, quickly tightening up the arm she had around her and holding her against her chest. "Shut up wit' the shit.. you're the best girlfriend, c'mon," she muttered back. "Him beatin' us up was a joke.. he got his an' I'll give it to him again.. and how many things do y'all own that got ruined 'cos I puked on 'em? At least ya found a bush!"

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Michi giggled weakly. "Try to make me go to skittles rehab, I said no, no, no," she sang drunkenly.

She made herself comfortable in Hunter's grasp. "He is a joke, a fuckin' bad joke. I can't believe I dated him," she muttered. She giggled then about the bush comment. "I did find a bush!" she said proudly. "'Sides, you know I don't care, I just make my mom buy me more clothes. All of the clothes... all of them are belong to me," she giggled.

"Ugh, Hunt, my bell hurts," she said wrapping her arms around her abdomen. "Somethin's wrong."

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Hunter laughed loudly, squeezing her in her arms again. "It's like.. way too soon to be makin' Winehouse references. You're cut off of the hooch," the blonde chuckled, just content to hold onto the younger girl and lean back against her as she giggled and talked about all of her clothes. She had always found it sort a shame that the two of them weren't closer to the same size so that she could take advantage of that wardrobe, but those extra few inches left them useless.

She had been thinking absently about the clothes, about the skirt that she had been suggesting for Michi to wear earlier while they were still getting ready, when the younger girl snapped her out of her thoughts. "Huh?" she slurred, blinking a little dumbly as Michi wrapped her arms around herself. "Somethin' like.. like what?"

Even more now, she was wishing that she had brought Mack over here with her. What if she was really sick? Just the thought made the taller girl feel the color draining from her face. "What do you.. like, what do you want me to do, babe?" she asked, unsure for once in her life on where to begin.

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"I don't know," she curled further into herself and leaned against Hunter. "I wanna go home," she said fighting back tears. "Can we go home?"

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That was really all that Hunter needed to hear. She was usually one of the last people left at a party, or at least one of the last ones to pass out, but just hearing how upset her girlfriend sounded was enough to make the blonde call it a night in a heartbeat. She had her fun, but now there were more important things to deal with. Responsibility always made her feel vaguely strange, but she fell into the role pretty well.

"Ya got it, baby.. no problem. C'mere," she replied, shifting herself around so that she could get a better grip on the younger girl. She was pretty drunk, but she was fairly sure she could carry Michi back to University House no problem without dropping her or killing either of them. So long as she didn't trip or something spectacularly stupid.

"My room, 'kay?" she asked, though it was more of a statement. Unless Michi decided she wanted her own room, in which case she would go there and stay with her instead. Standing slowly but steadily, she lifted Michi with her. "Hang onto my neck, kiddo."

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Michi did just as Hunter told her, slinging her arm around the older's girls neck and leaning into her heavily. "Yeah babe, your room," she took an unsteady step forward, wobbling a little. "I'm a mess," she said as they slowly started making their way away from the party.

They had taken a few steps when she felt the need to heave again. "Rainbow puke!" she warned. Leaning forward she nearly avoided puking on both of their shoes. She steadied herself with her hands on her knees for a few moments. She pulled herself up and leaned against Hunter again.

"My body does not like me right now," she shook her head. "Can we get water?"

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"Hot mess though," Hunter assured her, doing her best to prop the younger girl up and hold her comfortably as they made their way away. She tensed up a bit as Michi heaved again, but the warning saved her boots at least. She was quite fond of them and all.

She rubbed Michi's back as the younger girl hunched over against her own knees. "Yeah, for sure.. somebody gotta have water," the blonde agreed. Leading them over to one of the tables with things laid out on it, Hunter eventually found an unopened bottle of water, cracking it and taking a sip herself before handing it off to Michi. "Checking for poison," she joked. Really, she just figured she might as well start trying to sober up.

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Michi grinned at that. "Gotta look good even when I'm pukin' my fuckin' guts out," she said still bent over.

"Thanks babe," she said smiling weakly. Her face was getting noticeably pale and her hands were shaking but she forced herself to take a good swig of water. "I just..." she rested her head against Hunter's shoulder. "I just wanna cuddle," she pouted up at the taller girl.

She clutched Hunter's shirt tightly as the pain shot through her abdomen. She closed her eyes and sighed deeply. "You're good to me Hunt."

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"Ya do too," Hunter assured her, rubbing her back as she sipped and rested against her. The blonde herself leaned on the table a little bit for support, her eyes just sort of absently wandering the crowd over the top of Michi's head. The place was slowly starting to clear out even more than before. Most of the people still left were in the same boat as her girlfriend, heaving and puking or just generally not looking too good. There were always those people who overdid it.

Hunter was usually one of them, but paying attention to Michi was more important than the bottle of Colt 45 she still had to finish, stashed in the cushions of one of the couches placed around the clearing.

"We'll cuddle then," she replied, leaning down to lightly kiss her girlfriend's pouting lips. She tensed up her arms when Michi clutched at her, beginning to rub her back again and nudging the water toward her again. "Cos I love ya," she informed her quite smugly, tweaking her nose.

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Michi was completely unaware of anything going on around them, she was just focused on Hunter and the fabric of her dress. "I aint never drinkin' again," she mumbled.

She couldn't bother with the water though when Hunter said the "l word." A silly little grin spread across her pained face and she nuzzled into Hunter's neck. "I love you too," she said sweetly. "Always have you silly bitch."

She finally took the water and forced another mouthful down. "Le's go home honey bear," she slurred.

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Hunter wasn't sure how she felt about this never-drinking-again business, but that would be a discussion best left for another more sober time. For right now, she was totally all right with Michi giving up drinking for the time being. She didn't think the girl's stomach could handle any more at this point.

She saw the silly grin on her girlfriend's face, and pouted sternly at her, though she did tip her head a bit as her neck was nuzzled. "Honey bear? Yeah, whatever ya say, sugartits."

Watching Michi forcing down more water, Hunter took the bottle when she was done and took another big gulp of her own, half finishing it and then putting the cap on. Classy as ever, she shoved the half empty bottle into the front of her dress before readjusting herself to help Michi begin moving again. She kept half expecting Mack to jump out of the bushes or something and rip on her hardcore for all of the sappy stuff.. but it just sorta came out.

It was against her nature to deny things, and this girl was the last person she ever wanted to deny. "Always, huh?" she asked, once they had hobbled a bit further from the dwindling crowd. "And you couldn't of said nothin' bout to to me? Thanks, bitch. You know how fast I woulda been up on you? Faster'n you know, I bet."

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"Yeah, honey bear," she slurred. "Cause yer like a bear but yer sweet too. Honey bear," she tried to explain as they trekked onward. She leaned her head against Hunter's shoulder and sighed deeply.

"Yeah, always," she admitted. "I was bein' stupid... as always," she said looking at the ground, trying to get her eyes to focus on that instead of the million stars above them. "You weren't just my first girl, you were the first person I ever felt this way about. An' tha's hard to talk about when you're young and silly cause no one wants to be sappy like that but sometimes I can't help bein' sappy cause you make me all butterflies and rainbows... but not rainbow puke, never rainbow puke," she tried to explain.

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"Makes me think of a.. a honey badger," Hunter mumbled absently, smiling a little at the thought of her best friend's patronus. "Strong li'l fuckers but ain't nothin' to the majestic coyote! You know it!" she added, puffing her chest out a bit.

She calmed and quieted enough to listen to Michi, smiling lazily and a little crooked, her head ducked down a bit. "I know what ya mean.. it's real hard to explain, specially since I'm a tough guy," she replied, nudging her girlfriend gently as she stopped then to rest again for a moment. Pulling the water bottle out of her dress, she drank again and then offered it to Michi.

"I'd be sappy for you though, like real sappy, it just-- I dunno, feels right. Like we never shoulda broke up. I was so sick of jus' like.. doin' whatever, whoever, y'know babe?"

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"Honey badger don't give a fuck," she giggled. "You're right though coyotes are far more majestic. And not nearly as cute as a cape fox," she said of her own patronus. "It's got dem big ears," she giggled.

Michi accepted the water bottle gratefully and took another big sip before handing it back. She would have held it on her own but she was almost sure she would have dropped it on the way. "Yeah," she said quietly.

"I know what you mean. Never felt quite as right with other people. You're... no one can replace you," she giggled. "Even if they tried. You got some big old cowboy boots to fill."

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"I bet a coyote could eat a honey badger and a cape fox, so I'm obviously the head bitch in charge," she slurred back, smirking a little smugly. It was really a shame that a patronus was a mostly a defensive spell, the blonde loved the idea of it. She had tried animagus studies for just that reason in junior year, but to no avail. She and Mack always talked about illegally learning, but had never gotten drunk enough to actually try.

Waiting till Michi was done with the water, Hunter put it away again and began to hobble forward carefully. A couple of times, she almost stumbled a bit herself, but pulled off excellent recoveries. This wasn't their first time wandering home nicely loaded.

"My feet are pretty huge," she agreed, instinctively wiggling her toes inside of her boots. "All the better for flying Bruce Lee crosskicks though, c'mon! Remember that time I got Mack in the back of the head? Jeez crow, she was some mad.."

Realizing she had sort of gotten off topic, Hunter shook her head and squeezed Michi in her grip again. "You ain't replaceable neither so don't be.. like real sick or nothin'.. ya gotta be okay," she informed her, patting her back again.

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"A coyote could eat a honey badger and a cape fox but she never would," Michi smirked. "Coyot's are just big softies at their core, you know that," she snuggled closer into Hunter's side.

"I do remember," Michi laughed. "You fuckin' sniped her! I thought she was gonna beat your ways four ways from Sunday!"

"Maybe I caught the flu. Fuckin' Pas is always snifflin' like a little bitch," she sneered. Not meaning to sound so mean, her cheeks began to flush. "I aint leavin' you like that so don't worry. It'll take more than some fuckin' rainbow puke to take me down. Stubborn as an ox."

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"Well," Hunter began slowly, snuggling back up to her and kissing the top of her head. "Coyote mighta ate that cape fox later, but not in a bad way!" she suggested, eyebrows waggling. "And only if there was less.. y'know, vommin' and stuff," she joked, laughing heartily her own double entendre. She sure was witty when she drank.

"She woulda had to catch me firs' and it took her long enough to haul her sorry ass up off that field," the blonde grinned manically, enjoying the memory. She and Mack had been doing damage to each other for years, and it was almost like a game or competition to them. Albeit a rather dangerous and painful one. They were sort of like the long lost sisters of Jackass most days.

She smiled as they were getting closer to campus now, making their way steadily past the Quidditch pitch and Quodpot field on their way. She rubbed Michi's back again, mostly something to do with her hand, as she nudged the younger girl with the side of her head. "If I catch this shit, y'all better hold my hair," she murmured, pouting playfully. "An' I want that elastic back too, ya greedy bitch," she joked.

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Michi giggled. "That would certainly be welcome when we're like... not a hot mess," she grinned, trying her best to wink.

She snorted and shook her head. "Yeah, that's true. And by the time she did catch up you woulda found a damn hiding space like the ninja you are," she teased. "It woulda taken another three years to find ya."

"I will, I will. And hey, if you do get sick we can have a snuggle in bed, movie watching day," she smiled. "That was always my favorite way to play hookie," she admitted. "This hair band?" she said trying to point to the one in her hair. "Nah, you're gonna have to wrestle me for it," she teased, a silly smile pulling at her lips.

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"Plus she's real shit at playin' hide an' go seek.. if she never had Kia with her, she never woulda found me even one damn time in her whole life! That bitch ain't go no game!" Hunter added, laughing lightly at the thought. It had been a long time since she had hid somewhere and really did Mack in. That would be her plan for the next party, she decided, laughing harder and storing it away mentally with her other schemes.

Hunter's eyes lit up at the prospect of a day of playing hookie, and she quickly nodded her head up and down with furious agreement. "For sure! Even if I don't catch it or nothin'.. shit, I'll still stay home with ya," she informed her proudly. Hunter was never opposed to missing a class, even if auror training was providing her with subjects that better held her interest than her core classes from high school. School work was still school work.

"Can we watch Remember the Titans? Oh shit, how about Friday Night Lights?" she suggested. If it was a football movie, Hunter pretty much owned it.

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"She told me that earlier, but more or less that you were a damn menace to society when you played hide and seek," Michi giggled.

"Yay," she cheered weakly. "We can have chicken noodle soup and fuck it, we can watch both," she grinned contentedly. "Watching inspirational football movies sure as fuck cheers me up," she grinned.

"We can have tea too. I fucking love tea. Mom sent some white jasmine. Bitch must want somethin' cause she knows I fuckin' love white jasmine," she mumbled.

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"She's a damn menace to society period," Hunter giggled back. When Michi agreed to both movies and chicken noodle, which was her absolute favorite other than beef stew, the blonde practically burst with drunken joy. "Hell to the fuckin' yeah!" she chimed in, quickly showering the side of the younger girl's face with quick kisses.

"Best girlfriend ever," she reminded her happily. "But I dunno about that tea business.. don't you got no sweet tea or nothin' like that? I only like sweet tea," she pouted. She tried not to generally tense up at the mention of Michi's mom. She had never liked the woman, and as far as she knew, the feeling was mutual.

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