when stars are gone, dreams will be cast out.
Paul is settled in the common room, finally. It's taken him a ridiculous amount of time to actually adventure out away from Toby's room, but here he is. He's sitting upon the couch in the common room, carefully tuning his violin
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But now something's caught his attention and he's on the trail of a rather interesting smell.
Or rather, a smell that he certainly doesn't smell when he's outside, the smell of the hotel, of people that shouldn't be outside.
He catches sight of the thing giving it off, a man he sometimes sees. Usually he looks bored, like he's got other places he wants to be besides where he was, Grover always found that strange but neer strange enough to investigate it further.
Until now anyway.
Trotting up to him, he'll fall easily in-step witht hte man, occasinally glancing up to him, head tilted just slightly. "You're in the hotel a lot," he remarks. "Behind desks and things. You don't look very happy when you're there." There's a slight bit of concern in his voice but mostly he's just being a nosy little pup.
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"I have a lot of work to do, lots of papers. Paper isn't very fun, I'm afraid." He smiles down to the boy, always gentler with those whom appeared younger.
He stops and crouches down a little, looking to the boy, "Shouldn't you be there, too? Wandering about isn't very safe."
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He kicks lightly against the pavement with bare feet, Grover never could get used to the concept of shoes nor did he ever want to. "You shouldn't go walking alone though, s'what eeryone's saying. You should go walking walking with other things. And I'm good at keeping people safe, I keep Toby safe and RObby and Tabby and Paul too."
It's the one thing he's still got in this strange new place, his ability to protect people, keep hem out of harms a and he has no intentions of giving that up now.
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Ianto smiles a little before looking up at him again, "Oh, are you? Well, that's good. I bet they're happy you do."
He has a feeling the Toby and Paul mentioned might be the two he's seen stumbling about before, but he can't be quite sure.
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A pause. "Unless you wanna walk alone. Some people like doing it, I hink but it seems awfully lonely."
When he speaks of Toby and the rest of the group, Grover nods, a proud smile upon his face. "Yeah, they like it a lot. I like doing it too, so it's okay. Everybody wins."
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Really, he's made acquaintances with many of the people about the Hotel, but none to really go about and do things with.
"And here, now we don't have to walk alone at all. If you'd like to walk back to the Hotel with me, anyway. Maybe get some cocoa or tea?"
He's trying, Grover, he really is.
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Also, it might be est to ignore the fact that he's started nuzzling Ianto's hand just a little. He likes him is all and he likes getting pets from the people he likes.
"You're good," he states matter-of-factly. "Tea is good and if you have tea it means you're good too."
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Chuckling softly, he looks to the young boy again, "Then would you like to go back to the Hotel and get some? I can make all sorts for you."
He's never really had to be very good with children, but he's trying. At least give him that.
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"Mmhm, I'd like that lots." He's grinning a little and looks up at Ianto. "D'you you think it matters what I get now? Cause before Toby always said I couldn't drink some stuff cause it would make me sick but...But things are different now."
It's alright Ianto, Grover's just happy because you pet him and give him tea. He's a very easy individual to win over.
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Patting the boy's head again, he leads him back to the hotel, walking at the other's pace.
"What's your name?"
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