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[angela_edmunds]

[ooc: at some point after this...]

Angela comes downstairs with a book, an Ex-Acto knife, and a picture frame, and sits in the kitchen, flipping pages. She's been debating about doing this for some time now and even though she decided for it, she's still not entirely sure if she should really cut the picture of her family out of the book her

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[transbender]

"Whacha doin?" Says the head over her shoulder. The rest of him is coiled up in the rafters.

[angela_edmunds]

She's gotten very good at telling when he's around, but right now is not one of them. She jumps slightly. Thank goodness her hand with the knife in it stays where it is.

"Oh, hey," she says, grinning up at him. "Just cutting out a picture of my family to put in a frame."

Her eyes follow his neck up to where he is coiled around the rafters. That's Thomas. "Hey, come down, I need a hug." Or at least his arms. It works either way.

[transbender]

He drops to the ground, then wraps himself around her. "What's wrong?"

[angela_edmunds]

She cuddles in. "Just missing my family. I try not to think about it too much but...sometimes it just...happens."

Sometimes she just wants to talk to her Mom or target-shoot with her Dad or play with her little brother.

She kisses his cheek and sighs.

[transbender]

He kisses her back, sighing. "Well, we have to be each others family now."

[angela_edmunds]

She grins at him, hugging him closer. "Yeah. I don't know what I'd do without you." And the rest of her friends.

"I met some one on my way home who showed me my family back home--just, you know, seeing them. It was...well, really weird."

[transbender]

His brow furrows. "Who?"

[angela_edmunds]

She opens her mouth to tell him, then realizes that she doesn't know.

"Wow, I never did get his name. That's not like me. Well, he said he was living at the farm so he probably wouldn't be too hard to find. Long grey hair, older guy."

[transbender]

"Ah, all right." Thomas shrugs. Odd stuff, this place, match made in heaven.

[angela_edmunds]

"Anyway...he showed me what my family was doing now. I wasn't sure whether I'd be upset or not. I guess I sort of am." She shrugs. "But...at least they're safe and stuff. Not being eaten by dinosaurs or chased by zombies..."

She paused. "I guess they'll stop looking for me eventually." She hopes so, anyway. Or at least they'd declare her dead and go on with their lives. She tries to seem like that thought doesn't hurt.

[transbender]

Thomas wraps himself tighter around her. "We'll find a way back."

[angela_edmunds]

Angela hugs him back. "You give the best hugs," she murmurs quietly.

"I'm not gonna look to go home. I mean...how many people get to go home? I just...I got to see them, saw that they're all together and they're sad but they're holding together...and I think they'll be okay." She cuddles him a little closer. "You're my family here. We'll take care of each other. I think I'm gonna be okay now."

[transbender]

"We're family." It sinks in, a bit more. This is for good.

[angela_edmunds]

She smiles a little bit and leans forward to kiss him softly.

"Yeah, we are."

[transbender]

Okay, way too serious here. Thomas goes for the obvious, sexy times attempt, and lets the bits of his body that are caressing her breasts give a good squeeze.

[angela_edmunds]

She squeaks a bit and giggles, then grins and wrinkles her nose at him.

Angela is fine with a change of subject.