Close your eyes and think about what you've been missing in your life lately. It could be a person,

[theo_clairfield]

Laying in her bed, she could hear Leo quietly playing in his crib and she just thought about all the things she missed over the years. It wasn't often she let herself think backwards any more. She had so much to look forward too and looking back just made her want things that couldn't be had

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[ex_msg_ina_b653]

Hermes rapped lightly on her door, flowers and easter basket in hand.

Well, he could move back to Olympus tomorrow...Today was for catching up with old friends.

[theo_clairfield]

"One moment..." she called out as she sat up and swung her legs over the edge of the bed. Smothing out her clothing, she walked over to the door and opened it. A real smile blossoming on her face, "Hermes..." she breathed out.

[ex_msg_ina_b653]

"Long time, beautiful..." He said with a smile, offering up chocolater bunnies and the like.

"Not really my holiday and all, but hey...Candy is candy, right?"

[theo_clairfield]

Laughing softly, she accepted the bunny, "Thank you. I was just thinking about you." Looking at the bunny, she tried to drag up the memory that it pulled at, "Easter?"

[ex_msg_ina_b653]

"Indeed...Christ has risen and all the shmuck...I prefer the bunny that brings the eggs and all."

Smiling he kissed her cheek and held up a basket, "for the rug-rat..."

[theo_clairfield]

Laughing again, she waved him into the room and walked over to the crib, "Hey little man, remember the guy I was telling you the story about? Hermes? He came to visit..."

"Mes!" Letting his mommy pick him up, Leo gave Hermes his full attention.

"This is the brilliant little man who you saw get born Hermes."

[ex_msg_ina_b653]

"Mes?" Hermes blinked at stared down at Leo in confusion before looking back up at Theo, "He's talking...Mortal babies don't start talking like that yet..."

Maybe, he was just imagining the kid was speaking.

[theo_clairfield]

"Maybe not where you're from honey, but this little guy has been chatting for about a month now." Bouncing him on her hip, "And he's smart as a whip too. We already have a teacher, don't we Leo?"

"Yeah..." His big brown eyes were still fixated on Hermes, "ous ice."

[ex_msg_ina_b653]

Hermes blinked again, then frowned a bit.

"This, normal?" not that he, was against it...it was just odd to him.

"I should have brought books..."

[theo_clairfield]

"This is normal... for here. If the child has access to what is needed to learn that is." She smiled softly, "I know you are the uncle? to that young man, Bliss? So you'd know Smith, his daughter is the same way."

Putting Leo on the floor, she watched him crawl over to Hermes and pull himself up so that he was standing next to him, holding onto his legs. "He's almost got the alphabet down. At least to move the blocks with the letters on them. He can't say it all yet."

[ex_msg_ina_b653]

"I---eh...wow."

Hermes didn't know what else to say to it.

"It's like having a bunch of mini-mes" he joked, as he looked down at Leo, "I never met Smith's daughter...I suppose I should have."

[theo_clairfield]

Tugging on his pants, Leo looked up at him and smiled a toothless grin.

"Mini-what?" Okay, so she looked a little confused, "Just very smart. There is a school for children like him, but I don't want to send him there. I guess it's just selfish."

[ex_msg_ina_b653]

"Schools aren't bad things, you know."

He bent down and took Leo into his arms, as he smiled at Theo, "They teach them more than just letters and numbers...they teach them how to deal with people..."

[theo_clairfield]

Leo wrapped his arms around Hermes neck and gave him a baby kiss on the cheek.

"Perhaps it's just selfish of me, but he's too young to be going there yet. And I got him someone to teach him." Grinning, "And that little man in your arms has learned the word why, recently. He's been driving his teacher nuts."

She couldn't help but smile at the two of them, Hermes looked good holding Leo in his arms, "Did I ever tell you what his second name is?"

[ex_msg_ina_b653]

"Well, so long as he has someone to teach him..."

But at the question concerning the middle name, Hermes shook his head and eyed her carefully.

"No, you didn't...And if it is Munch, I'll never speak to you again."

[theo_clairfield]

Snickering, "No, it's not Munch, though he did supply this place with a couple of generators." Shaking her head at him, "It's Leo Weiss. I thought it seemed fitting."