Jason's Flat, Brighton, UK -- Saturday Morning

[palestshadow]

Of the many things Naminé might have expected to see on the living room floor of Jason's flat, very high on the list would be Bojangles, the puppy that she and Valentine had taken home from the shelter just three weeks ago

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[dojima_hime]

A phone in a flat in Brighton was ringing.

Dōjima had taken Alea outside with her for a walk, which wasn't unusual. She saw nothing odd about taking her cat outside to play.

What was unusual was the fact they were outside because her cat was a girl. A very curious girl who kept getting into everything in Dōjima's room. Hence the phone call.

Whomever picked up the ringing phone would be greeted with. "So. Anything you might have forgotten to tell me about Alea? Anything? Think hard."

[palestshadow]

There was a very long pause, from the other end. Naminé was still eying the young child as if he presented some sort of trap, and were she to scoop him up, someone would lecture her very sternly for stealing their child.

Of course, the alternative was that the baby had been left here with no one else in the world to care for him, which sounded bleak, indeed.

Her mind was made up when the boy cooed at her, while attempting vigorously to get his toes towards his mouth. Lecture be damned. She knelt down next to him and rubbed a hand lightly over his adorable toddler-belly.

He laughed, tiny fists grabbing at her fingers, and she decided that he was the most wonderful thing in the world. She was keeping him, and Valentine had better not argue the point.

"I'm sorry," she said finally. "Dōjima? Is everything all right? I'm a bit ... distracted. I seem to have a baby that I didn't have last night."

[dojima_hime]

"Hai, onee-san, it's Dōjima," she agreed, reaching out to yank Alea back by her shirt from attempting to stalk a bird. "You know, anything odd? Like, say, not mentioning that she's a complete ditz of a human?"

Alea's head whipped around at the 'onee-san' comment and started trying to steal the cell phone. "Is that Naminé? Gimmie the phone, I am not a ditz!"

"No."

"Yes!"

"No! You are a cat. Cats do not use phones!"

[palestshadow]

"Alea is --" Naminé's jaw dropped. "Is that --"

She had seen a young blond girl, in the Count's shop, thanks to his strange abilities. She hadn't thought about that day in ages. But Alea had been a cat, even then.

Naminé was going to close her eyes and attempt to make her head stop hurting quite so much. "Alea is ... a child? Is there ... is Fandom ..."

She stared at the adorable, tiny little boy again. He was now trying to suck happily on her finger.

"Bo?" she asked gently.

Deep breaths.

"Is Fandom having all of us on, again?"

[importantman]

"Whatever it is, I didn't do it," Valentine called from the other room. He peered around the corner shortly after saying this. And blinked. And squinted. And blinked again.

"No, no, I most definitely didn't do that," he confirmed.

[palestshadow]

"Neither did I," Naminé said, pressing her lips to the baby's temple. "It seems to be Fandom's doing. As to how it found us here, I've no idea. But ..."

She held out Bo, who cooed happily and reached for Valentine. "Our ... puppy's gotten a bit taller," she said uncertainly.

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