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

[random_xtras]

"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.

[another-phace.livejournal.com]

"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."

[random_xtras]

"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?"

[another-phace.livejournal.com]

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

[random_xtras]

"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."

[random_xtras]

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.

[random_xtras]

"Think so, eh?" Her eyes narrowed.

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