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Allie came up to the adjoining bedrooms looking for Alex or Rhapsody once she finished talking to Johnny and Antibus. It made the most sense. She needed to tell them she was back from her other home and that it looked like she was bound

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Alex wakes up first. "Whatzat?" He sees faint light through the door, and a familiar silhouette. "Allie?" He smiles in the dark, thinking she's simply back at last.

He carefully and quietly fumbles in the dark for his robe, not wanting to wake his beloved.

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"It's me," she said softly, making the door so it isn't opened the whole way. She didn't want too much light into the room, since Rhapsody was still sleeping.

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As he puts on his robe and tiptoes across the room, there is a huge smile on his face.

He gets to the door and scoops Allie up for a huge hug. "Welcome back!"

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Allie giggled lightly and hugged him back. It was nice, in contrast to everything, to just suddenly be surrounded by someone who was happy; and happy just because of her.

"I think it will be for a little while this time."

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"Good. We have missed you. Been sorta quiet around here. Raps will be glad to see you. But she's kinda tired. It was a busy day." More like a busy night of the sort that Alex isn't going to share with anyone, especially a kid. "What have you been up to?" He ends the hug and brings her to sit on her bed.

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Allie looked upward, slightly hesitant.

"In my other home we were working with linguistic geometric formations of autonomic consciousness." She said it and then she smiled, with a shake of her head, looking back at Knox. She said the second with a little bounce to it. "Their still trying to by pass the learning curve, mostly."

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"I'll...take your word for it, kid." He can only smile. "Anyone ever tell you you are a little wonder?

"You want something to eat? I can sneak over to the fridge and find something." That's something he learned from his mother and grandmother: always offer kids food.

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That definitely got her attention.

"Can it be something sweet?"

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"Yeah." He's still a bit drowsy, but he's good at getting his mind in focus quickly. He tiptoes back to his side of the door, noting that Raps is still sound asleep (hair spilling off the bed, of course). He heads into the other room, and manages to find what he wants soundlessly.

Two minutes later, he's back with a bowl of something chocolatey, two spoons, two glasses and some milk. "Chocolate mousse. Left from Valentine's Day."

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The big smile and bouncy has to be enough, since she knows she can't make a lot of noise. She grabbed a spoon. "This is perfect."

Taking a bite and grinning. Chocolate, real chocolate something, was a true thing to miss in space. There was a thoughtful look at the bowl. "Valentines Day passed?"

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"Yup. A couple of days ago. Did you have anyone you wanted to send a card to," he asks jokingly, pretty sure she's not growing up that fast. "How long were you out there, your time?"

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"Eww." His joke gets a rueful smile and a wrinkle of her nose. She understands love and relationships and their importance to life. That doesn't mean she about to love anyone like that anytime soon.

She looked up. "Time is harder there. They don't keep it the way we do." Her lips pursed. "A few months, maybe."

Beat.

"I didn't exactly mean to come back. At least I'm not sure if I did."

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He smiles at that Eww. And at the notion that she doesn't seem to be growing up too fast. He seems to like the idea that he'll get to see her grow up.

"What do you mean? Did the Bar sorta just grab you?"

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"Sort of." She had appeared and disappeared from here like that. But usually by tug and a choice. This had neither, and other.

"I was there when I went to sleep, but when I woke up, I was on the floor in the Bar and Persephone was waking me up from a nightmare."

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"Oh. Oh." He takes it in. "Are you okay?" He looks a bit worried. And mildly creeped out, that she could just be grabbed into the Bar like that.

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Allie nodded, twirling her spoon in her mouth before removing it.

"I didn't like the nightmare. Miss Crawford came and took me away again. Except in my dream it wasn't to the government this time it was too a really old abandoned hospital--"

She looked down at her spoon. Then she set it down and scooted closer to Alex.

"I'm not the only one that went there-- to that hospital. There are other patrons in the bar who are having weird nightmares, too. Not everyone is, or, even, will, but it's somehow bigger. I don't understand all of it."

The last sentence strangely enough, for Allie, seemed the biggest problem. Almost as though it was a slight to fear more than the others.