Fray-Adjacent

After a brief pants-search of his own, Bridge is padding out of the bedroom and towards the entryway to the apartment. "What's going... on?" he trails off as he sees the two of them.

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"DADDY DADDY DADDY!" There seems to be a problem with Bronwyn's plan to run over and tackleglomp same. Something about the other one not letting go of her.

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Which, really, just means that Bridge has to go over there and attempt to pry her out of Xander's arms. "Hey, kiddo."

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Yeah, good luck with that. The best he might get is a turn towards him so that they can share her.

"How comes you two got losted again? I hadda come right back!"

Edited Date: 2008-04-27 03:14 am (UTC)

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"What do you mean, come right back?" Bridge says, frowning a bit as he reaches up to tuck a loose curl behind her ear.

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"Well I was goin' home so I could look for the sekrit unnerground zordbay, member?" she 'splains, just in case they forgot. "And 'cause you're there but after you gots me, not before like now, and Nick went through the swirly thing and then I did and it was all spinny and then was here again. And you was losted!"

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And yeah, that... doesn't make the frown go away. "We didn't mean to," he says quietly, giving Xander a worried look. Because he's... pretty sure that's not what was supposed to happen.

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"You just--" Xander takes in the clothes she's wearing for the first time, lost as he's been in the sound and smell and weight of her in his arms. "You just came from right where you went away before?"

Edited Date: 2008-04-27 04:14 am (UTC)

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"That's what I just said, silly Daddy," Bronwyn says, heaving a dramatic sigh.

Edited Date: 2008-04-27 04:17 am (UTC)

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"Sorry, sometimes I'm slow like that." Xander shoots Bridge a confused look back, over her head. Should he say that'd it's been a little over a year for them?

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Bridge shrugs. She hadn't been too bothered by the time-travel concept when they'd met her for the first time last year, so somehow he gets the impression that she wouldn't be too worried if they said anything about how long it'd been.

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"We got, uh, losted for a while, I guess," Xander adds, with self-described slowness. "It's been a whole year since you went away, for us."

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"Huh," Bronwyn thinks about this for all of two seconds. And then thinks about the fact that *both* Daddies were here when *she* got here. "Does that mean you'n'Daddy lives together now?" she asks curiously.

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Xander shoots another look at Bridge, but this one is more OMG WHAT THE HELL DO I SAY? "Um..."

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"Not just yet, sweetie," Bridge jumps in. "I still haven't finished school yet, after all, so I've gotta stay there." Which, okay, *technically* he was finished with school. But as far as he knew, graduates who were staying for the summer still had to stay in the dorms.

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Bronwyn glances at Daddy's ducky pajamas and tilts her head. "Were you havin' another sleepover party?"

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And now it's Bridge's turn to go "Um..."

"Yes, that's- sleepover. Totally," wide-eyed nod nod nod nod.

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Bronwyn looks out the glass patio doors. "It's not morning time. You musta stayed up real late!"

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"We, um. Yes. Were watching movies," Bridge squeaks. "And totally stayed up later than we should have. Which was... very irresponsible of us."

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"Oh. I just figured you were having sex." Bronwyn wriggles down from Xander's arms, which is a lot easier when one's daddy is staring slack-jawed at one, and zooms over to the dining room table. "Is there luncheses?"

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"You wha huh?" Bridge stares at the zooming child. Weren't kids supposed to be all innocent and clueless about that sort of thing? "There can be lunch," he manages finally.

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"And cupcakes?"

Edited Date: 2008-04-28 01:33 am (UTC)

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"Aaaactually," Bridge says, giving her an apologetic look. "It's Passover right now, so no cupcakes are around."

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"Oh." Bronwyn looks down, and nods a little sadly, because no matter how much they might cheat the rest of the year, she is used to the Passover thing.

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