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mnt_mikeMike is in his element: Surrounded by happy family.
It doesn't matter that he's elbow-deep in dishwater with a stack of plates and flatware nearly taller than he is to his left, his family is here and safe and happy, and that's all that really matters.
It doesn't matter that he's elbow-deep in dishwater with a stack of plates and flatware nearly taller than he is to his left, his family is here and safe and happy, and that's all that really matters.
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Date: 2014-01-07 12:50 am (UTC)"Bad time?" Is all she starts off saying.
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Date: 2014-01-07 01:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-07 02:21 am (UTC)The enormous bag Mike uses as furniture puts Sallie off now and then. Today she toes off her shoes and sits down near Mike's perch.
"What did you think about what. I told you?"
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Date: 2014-01-07 04:22 am (UTC)"What? Oh about you making an honest man of my father?"
Now he's just playing with her.
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Date: 2014-01-13 12:32 am (UTC)"Always hated that phrase."
It's nothing Sallie talks about overmuch, but the whole making something 'honest' never worked out well in her world.
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Date: 2014-01-13 10:04 pm (UTC)He takes one final sip from his straw before holding the glass out for Sallie.
"Want some?"
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Date: 2014-01-13 11:09 pm (UTC)Eventually, "I haven't talked to him about any of this. Not really. So there is probably nothing for you to worry about."
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Date: 2014-01-14 07:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-15 12:54 am (UTC)"The first was more an assumption, then? And the second...some awkward-ass mix o' uncertainty and concern for looking a gift horse in the mouth."
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Date: 2014-01-15 01:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-15 01:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-15 02:13 am (UTC)Right?
Ehhh?
Okay, fine.
"You think he'd say, No?"
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Date: 2014-01-15 02:19 am (UTC)Or that he wouldn't understand why I would even ask.
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Date: 2014-01-15 02:32 am (UTC)I just think he'd be weirded out by the level of normal involved."
Glod knows I am.
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Date: 2014-01-15 02:36 am (UTC)"I know that he would understand the concept. But he can't be beholden or somethin', sayin' yes without meaning to and such."
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Date: 2014-01-15 02:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-15 02:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-15 03:09 am (UTC)So instead he snaps his jaw shut.
He loves you.
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Date: 2014-01-15 03:13 am (UTC)Except for how, now that Sallie's thinking about it, isn't she? In worrying about Splinter having some sort of bad reaction to her even bringing up the idea?
That's uncomfortable, she thinks at herself.
"Would you have a problem with it?"
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Date: 2014-01-21 12:03 am (UTC)No.
I don't know.
"It's...complicated," he says finally, trying his best to keep his thoughts under the tightest of control.
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Date: 2014-01-21 12:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-21 12:31 am (UTC)Touché.
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Date: 2014-01-21 12:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-21 12:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-01-21 01:04 am (UTC)Or a million other things?
And then, faded and gray, is an image of Sallie and Splinter, walking around New York City.
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