MHA #12- Saturday morning

[solo_sword]

As soon as Jaina had clued in to what was happening this week, she'd taken off. If the town was going to go crazy like that, she'd decided she would rather spend the time with her boyfriend, for reasons, and that turned out to be a smart decision. And all right, she'd gotten in too early yesterday to bypass the weirdness completely, but she had nothing to complain about today, so she wasn't even going to worry about that.

This morning it was all about getting back to routine. She'd spent the very early part of it training, and now she'd designated a corner of her living room to doing some upgrades on Rowdy. She was also thinking maybe she was a little too time-lagged to be snarked at this early, but really, that was all her own fault.


[For the kid!]

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[namedfromikea.livejournal.com]

There was an insistent rapping at her door at a height much too low to be an adult. "//Let me in!//" a little boy's voice insisted in Swedish.

He knew Basic too, of course. He was just being a pain in the ass.

[solo_sword]

This was what, the fourth? fifth? time Jaina had had this happen? She glanced at the door, muttered, "You're kidding me," and got up to answer it.

And then she was looking down at a little blond boy. "Hello."

[namedfromikea.livejournal.com]

He smiled up at her. "Hello," he replied, switching to Basic. "I want breakfast."

[solo_sword]

"In a second," she said. First things first. "Did you come through a portal?"

[namedfromikea.livejournal.com]

Sel'je gave her a "duh" look.

"Breakfast?"

[solo_sword]

"In another second," Jaina said. "You know I have to ask your name then, right?"

It was always awkward having to say something like that.

[namedfromikea.livejournal.com]

He sighed. "Sel'je," he replied finally.

[solo_sword]

That struck her as a totally normal name.

No, really. Oh, GFFA.

"And I'm going to take a wild guess and say your dad is Eric." Because look at him.

[namedfromikea.livejournal.com]

He nodded. "But he's not awake yet."

[solo_sword]

"Yeah, I know," she said, even if she had no idea how there was a kid here then. She just wasn't going to think about it. "Okay, I hope you're good with cereal. It's a little early to burn down my apartment."

[namedfromikea.livejournal.com]

Sel'je thought about that. "Cheerios?"

God help you if you don't have Cheerios, Jaina.

[solo_sword]

"I have Corn Flakes. They're really flat Cheerios."

No they weren't, Jaina.

[namedfromikea.livejournal.com]

"CHEERIOS," he repeated. Louder. In case she had misheard him.

[solo_sword]

"I heard you the first time, and I don't have them," Jaina said. "You can put extra sugar on the Corn Flakes."

[namedfromikea.livejournal.com]

While the idea of extra sugar was appealing...

"CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERIOS!!!!!" he wailed.

[solo_sword]

Oh, great. She wondered if she should feel bad for her poor neighbor.

"You're not going to get anything if you keep on like that," Jaina told him.

[namedfromikea.livejournal.com]

Sel'je got even louder. Your poor, poor eardrums.

[solo_sword]

"Okay, I know you can't get away with this at home," Jaina said, going to get a bowl and hoping if she ignored it, the yelling would stop.

[namedfromikea.livejournal.com]

Oh, but now there was stomping, too, and hysterical hiccuping.

Cheerios were serious business.

[solo_sword]

And Jaina decided she still wasn't ready for kids yet.

"Okay," she said, kneeling in front of him. "How about this. We get something else for breakfast and get Cheerios for later?"

[namedfromikea.livejournal.com]

He thought about that.

"...ice cream?"

[solo_sword]

"Not for breakfast, but you can have some with lunch."

Was this how negotiating worked?

[namedfromikea.livejournal.com]

Sel'je thought that over.

"Waffles?" he tried.

[solo_sword]

"Deal," Jaina said. "We have to go out for those, though."

She somehow feared it might be a bit of an ordeal.

[namedfromikea.livejournal.com]

"Because you can't cook," Sel'je declared.

[solo_sword]

"Can't and shouldn't," Jaina agreed. "You've learned that, huh?"

[namedfromikea.livejournal.com]

"We eat a lot of Cheerios," he said. Pointedly.

[solo_sword]

"Okay, okay, lesson learned," Jaina told him. "How about we go, because the sooner we do, the sooner we get those Cheerios?"

Which she should apparently just keep in her apartment from now on just in case of child invasions.

[namedfromikea.livejournal.com]

Sel'je nodded solemnly. "Okay."