Apartment in Palo Alto- Tuesday Fandom time

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For as much as Jaina was still kind of missing a certain little boy (and his siblings, shh), it was nice to get back to something a little more normal, even if it was entirely abnormal to others. But then again, how many of them got to celebrate a two year anniversary for six days? Technically speaking, between her sped-up time and his sped-up time, it had been much longer than just two years, which was why the Fandom date was the one that really counted: there was really no other way to work out the time. Might as well go the easy way.

Tonight Jaina had gone the simple route. When John got home, he'd find dinner was ready- takeout, but it was on actual plates so it was like she cooked- and music playing, and a girlfriend who probably shouldn't have put this out as early as she did, because it gave her free time to realize that "It's a Small World" was still in her head.

[I totally modded the boy. Mwahahahahaha.]

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"Hey!" John smelled actual food when he returned. ...And music.

...And there was no roommate standing in the kitchen asking Jaina her opinion on who was hotter in some magazine.

"Are we actually alone in the apartment?"

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"I bribed Mitch to head out for the night," she admitted. "I'm that good." And she figured it was worth having to read one of those books from that club thing.

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"You are magical," John decided reaching out to give her a thankful hug.

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"You flatter me. Keep it up," she said, smiling up at him as she wrapped her arms around him.

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"But then you'd start to expect it and then I'd really be in trouble," he answered, smiling down at her.

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"Well, of course. I'd expect you to fulfill quota. So maybe you have a point," she grinned. "So's this the part where I say 'Hi, dear, how was your day?'" Jaina used a fair amount of endearments. 'Dear' sounded wrong even for her.

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"And here I always figured those kids implied I was your househusband," John teased. It was sort of creepy to hear her say dear.

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Jaina made a face. "I really hope we take turns at home there or something," she admitted.

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"Nothing to worry about," he shrugged. "However it is, it works out for them."

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"I don't worry. I go no further than wondering," he promised. She just wondered more when the kids showed. Especially when the tiny one wasn't the talkative type to give tons of answers to all the questions she had.

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He gave her a look that said now she sort of had him wondering about a few things, but he tried to shake it off and move on. "So, what'd you cook today? It smells good."

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"Chinese," Jaina replied, and smiled again. "Like I'd cook on our anniversary. I love you too much to put you through that."

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"You really do love me," he grinned, pressing a kiss to her forehead. "Not that your cooking is bad."

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"I appreciate the fib," she laughed. "Are you hungry?"

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"When am I not?" John teased. Even as thin as he was, the boy never turned down food. "Especially Chinese." Good memories.

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She let go of him reluctantly to gesture to the food. "Especially when I slaved over it. I went to pick it up myself and everything."

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"You did slave," he commented, taking his seat and smelling the wonderful food. "Leaving the apartment is hard."

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"I'm going to have to rest up later," she said, taking a seat. "Or make you do it next time."

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"I leave all the time. You should text me your orders," he pointed out, beginning to happily consume his dinner.

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"Oh, that's a dangerous thing to tell me," she pointed out.

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"It's been a year, I think I can handle a little extra danger." It was July again. So strange.

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Jaina paused. "And I'm reminded that you're almost on our third anniversary." And in his time, adding in all the time they'd spent in her galaxy, it was probably even longer than that. Figuring it out was a headache.

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"Just wait till it's homecoming and I'm nearing our fourth," he said. Because that was just weirder.

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She couldn't help but smirk at that. "You're going to have to tell me how we're doing at anniversary number four then. I can have something to look forward to from two years behind."

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"You'd better be there with me," he warned. "Or there's really no point."