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29 Chimera Court, Saturday Morning
You'd think that by now, Vi and Steph may have started connecting some dots about the school dance and started preparing accordingly. But judging from the clothing flung haphazardly around the apartment, no, they definitely had not.
Still half asleep and looking forward to spending a long, lazy weekend in bed, Vi pulled the blankets in tighter around her, curling in closer to Steph to make up for the brazen theft.
Still half asleep and looking forward to spending a long, lazy weekend in bed, Vi pulled the blankets in tighter around her, curling in closer to Steph to make up for the brazen theft.
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"God, Mom, you're such a dork," Amber said in a perfect replica of Steph's tone when she said (mostly) the same thing.
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Vi shamelessly made eyes at Steph as she ruffled Amber's hair again. "She sound just like you."
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"Mom," she said, looking at Steph, "she's being all sappy again, make her stop."
Steph raised an eyebrow. "And why would I do that, exactly?"
Amber sighed. "Yeah, yeah, I know."
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"No one can stop her," she told Amber. "It just encourages her."
"Yeah, it does," Vi cheerfully agreed.
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"And we love that about her, don't we?" Steph asked as she came over with the plate of fancy breads and three bottles of milk, figuring they could have one for each of the girls and the third one for her and Vi to share until she could run out to the store and get more. "Make room, partner and children, your breakfast and I have arrived."
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Admittedly, she was shifting in closer to Vi.
"I for one, am starving," Vi said, wriggling her eyebrows at Steph.
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"Oh my god Mom," Amber blurted out, horrified and burying her face into Vi's side as Steph handed the plate to Vi and the bottles of milk to the girls.
"You are also terrible," Steph informed her lovingly, though not without a brief grimace because there went those plans.
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"Who wants what?" Vi asked, making sure some of Steph's favourites were put to one side before offering the plate to the girls.
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"You should pick first," she said, managing to keep most of the reluctance out of her voice. "It was your breakfast to start with anyway."
Steph leaned over to kiss Vi's cheek in thanks, ruffled Amber's hair and got a brief token noise of protest for her trouble, and plucked something extremely chocolatey off the plate for herself.
Across the island, Saffron was mentally offering Cerise her paw for a shake of solidarity.
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"You know we won't win with her on this," Cerise murmured with a meaningful glance in Vi's direction. Even though there'd never been a risk of Cerise missing a single meal in her entire life, ever, she was still weird about making sure she ate first.
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"I know," Amber muttered back, glancing at Vi with a fond expression of her own before she picked something alarmingly covered in frosting. "Have to try anyway."
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"Besides there's more than enough for all of us," she said as she picked out a ham and cheese pastry for herself
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"Mine know," Amber said immediately. "They met here just like you did."
A few details were different, so she was starting to suspect her parents weren't the future versions of the ones here, but she wasn't going to say so.
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"I've tried explaining," she said, eventually. "I don't think my mom ever came here." Which made not bristling at Steph a little easier, given the alternatives.
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"Did she get that weird look on her face that people do when you try to explain this place to them and it just makes no sense?" asked Steph, who was honestly just glad to know that some version of Vi might never have come here but turned out all right in the end anyway.
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"A bit, yes," Cerise replied, definitely not volunteering how long exactly it took for things to turn out all right for her mom.
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"It is pretty hard to explain," Amber put in. "Well... Max and Chloe and Alex and Ryan roll with it pretty well, I guess, but everybody else? Oof."
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"They don't think I'm lying," Cerise said while trying to maintain the shreds of her dignity. "They just get hung up on the details."
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Probably in a similar way to Caitlyn, given they were both nerds; at one point she'd used a battle mat to try and piece together the way timelines must have branched, and only gave up because she ran out of room.
"Other you literally tried to do the red string wall thingie," Amber informed her. "And then Mom made her stop because it was stressing her out and also she went through like three balls of string."
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Because, yes, Caitlyn had done something very similar.
"Given how smart mouthed by kids are, guess I do." Because obviously she hadn't had anything to do with that.
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"Yeah, that sounds like us," Steph said, laughing. To Cerise she added, "Looks like your mom likes 'em nerdy. She has excellent taste."
"Mom, ew!" Amber yelped.
"Oh my god I literally didn't mean it like that!"
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"I do have excellent taste though," Vi said mercilessly.
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"Seriously, all. The. Time," Amber added to Cerise, very glad her sort-of-sister could fully sympathize with her on this.
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Vi grinned shamelessly and turned her head to try and catch Steph in a kiss purely to annoy the girls.
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Steph had no qualms about contributing to the girls' distress by leaning in to kiss Vi back, even making a soft happy noise on purpose.
"Mom! Right over my head?" yelped Amber, who was now utterly scandalized.
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