Old Bones, New Resolve

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Old Pika moves about the room, slowly but surely. She purrs thunderously as she walks, keeping the tribbles and small children out of harm's way, trying to be useful for once. Her age is making it difficult, but she's determined.

- Come off there, little one, - she smiles and untangles baby Pika from some thread, nudging her gently as she gets up and runs off.

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She blinked and turned to focus on him, then blinked again as Jubal let off a string of profanity that she KNEW he hadn't learned from her.

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He blinked also and chuckled. "What's going on?"

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"No clue." She leaned over to look and saw Jubal being admonished by Samuel and Ben as he glared at House. "Oh. 'E noticed you."

She shrugged and returned to her meal, knowing that her excitable and protective boy would get over it.

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"Er... sorry?" he said, looking back at her. "Look, I know the other me fell through with you, messed up badly. But while I greatly resemble him, he I am not. That's a promise."

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"Y'know what, bub? I don't care. I had t' leave 'im, but I still love 'em... or I did till you came around. Yer jes' gonna have t' give us all time t' really see ya. Alright?"

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"That's fine," he said, shrugging. "I'll wait for you."

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"When y' wanna do that dinner thing?" She finished the last of her sandwich and wondered if she wanted anything else to eat.

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"Whenever you want," he said, looking up. "Like I said, there are some good places for families to eat, so you can bring any of the kids who want to come."

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She thought of the one time she'd been to Chucky Cheese's and acknowledged that it wasn't a great place to eat. But there was one thing she'd really enjoyed about that visit.

"You ever play air hockey?"

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"I am the master of air hockey," he said simply, smirking.

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"Think so, eh?" Her eyes narrowed.

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He grinned. "Sure. Care for a game?"

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Logan wondered if she should mention her above normal level reflexes, then shrugged and gave him a toothy grin. "Sure."

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"Alright. But no mutant abilities. If you have them you've got to tone them down," he chuckled.

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"You askin' me t' cheat?" She lifted an eyebrow.

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"If that's what you call toning down, yeah," he grinned.

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"Gotta better idea." She turned toward the kids' table. "Hey, Jubes! Greg wants a game 'o air hockey. Think y' kin do that without knockin' 'is teeth 'er eyes out?"

The boy started with surprise and blinked at her, but then nodded. "Yeah...."

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"Well that's not fair," he grinned. "He's a kid. Of course he's better than me."

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"He's got normal reflexes, 'n 'e just pulled an all nighter." She chuckled as Jubal wandered over with the other kids trailing him.

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"Well, alright then," he said, grinning at the boy. "Ready?"

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Jubal wrinkled his nose unconsciously, but nodded and then stooped to scoop Isha up as she reached for attention.

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House nodded and grabbed his cane, getting up. "Alright. Where're we playing?"

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Jubal pointed to the alcove that held the game tables, and where a pair of elderly men were frowning down at a chess game.

"I play white," he said, letting Isha scramble around to hang from his back.

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"Alright," he said, limping over and taking his place at the end of the table. He quirked a grin at Logan. "Some place you've got here," he said.

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"I'm the best there is at what I do," she said absently as Ben wrapped himself around her leg and she tried to pull him off and hold him. Managing at last, she straightened. "No matter what I do."

-Even messin' up.-