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[thegreat_ashby]

There was a chicken on the table. At least he assumed it was a chicken. From where he was standing it mostly just looked like a ball of yellow fluff inching along the table top

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[asher_talos]

Short of holding the chick the entire time, the table was just the safest place for it to be right then. Celia -- dressed like cotton candy bubblegum puke, thanks to her mother -- stood just beneath the table, pointing upward and tugging at Asher's pant leg. "Cheek!" she screeched, clomping her feet up and down.

"Chick," Asher corrected.

"Tick," she repeated back up at him, still pointing and dancing around excitedly.

"...yeah, tick. Close enough." Asher sighed, then took a sip of his coffee. He didn't want a chick. While he was more than accustomed to not getting what he wanted, that didn't mean he had to like it.

[vvdanicavv]

The mocked gasp of excitement was as pleasant as Danica had any intention of being. Clasping her hands together, she looked down at the little girl, tone like she was talking to an imbecile.

"Can you say go fuck yourself? No? Let's try it. Go. Fuck. Yourself." She tilted her head up to her brother; anything to save herself from the eyesore that was the child. "I think her fake daddy should hear that every day, don't you?"

[asher_talos]

"I already do." Heard it. Read it on Dani's face on a daily basis. Same difference really. "But fake? As far as I know I'm still a real boy."

"Cheeeeeek!" Celia whined up at Danica.

[vvdanicavv]

"One more time won't hurt. And while we're at it, you can tell your little cop friend to go fuck himself too." The last thing she'd expected once she'd sent him off to Asher was to have him come back to her. Dealing with the police definitely hadn't been her job back home and she wasn't about to make it hers on the island either.

Now she actually had fangs to bare, Danica had no qualms about doing so, and paired with the growl, it was all aimed right at Celia.

[asher_talos]

"I have told him. On more than one occasion. And he's not my friend." The rules of friendship weren't exactly Asher's area of expertise, but he was almost positive that friends didn't arrest friends for no good reason. Maybe not even for actual good reasons. They probably just turned a blind eye. Or the ones worth keeping around for any extended period of time did, anyway.

"Are we going to have to have you fitted for a muzzle?"

[vvdanicavv]

"Only if you don't want me to sink them into that next," Danica snapped, shoving a sharp fingernail down towards the little girl.

Celia stretched up to grab her finger, an 'eeeeeeeeek' on her lips.

Danica snatched her hand away and took a step back, eyes wild and wide with incomprehension. "Tell it," she sucked in a breath to regain her composure, "never to try that again." Touching was not permitted.

[asher_talos]

"Never do that again," Asher said, once he'd finished off his coffee, little to no emphasis behind the words. He was told to say it, not that he had to mean it. "Otherwise your aunt will have to overreact all over again."

Celia didn't seem the least bit interested in what either of them had to say and simply went back to trying to get her hands on the chick.

[vvdanicavv]

Danica suppressed a shudder at the title, lifting her chin, stubbornness winning through. The children wanted to make her angry and she knew she shouldn't rise to it.

"I think you're jealous," she said with utmost confidence.

[asher_talos]

"Of... you overreacting? Yeah, you got me. If only I had the luxury of overreacting over absolutely nothing." Sadly, he'd just have to settle for being the sibling with an overabundance of sarcasm instead.

[vvdanicavv]

Danica narrowed her eyes curiously, studying her brother for a moment before moving next to him. "You'd think I'd have bitten you..." she mused aloud, lifting a hand to leisurely rub the side of his neck with a fingertip. Maybe she should have. It had been a long, long while since she had and there was one thing Asher had never tasted and that was bad.

[asher_talos]

"A little louder," he hissed, twisting out from beneath her hand. "I don't think they quite heard you across the hall in the IPD office."

[vvdanicavv]

"I know you've always been a worrywart but giving the IPD that much credit is really going too far," Danica drawled, a sour look gracing her features when Asher pulled away from her.

[asher_talos]

"Why? One's got a giant nose, so why not one with giant ears and bat-like hearing? Either way, that's not the point." Explaining what the actual point was would have been pretty pointless in and of itself when Danica was concerned. "Just don't go out of your way to give anyone reason to be more suspicious than they might already be. Try."