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[goingtodorking]

Some children are born completely without imagination. They may look like they imagine, but what they're actually doing is going through the motions and following in footsteps. They make no discoveries of their own

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[my_potpie]

"I mean, I know you bitches are starting really early, these days, but aren't you a little young to have a baby," Eric said, amusement coloring his voice, that was otherwise overly inflated with self importance.

He had no use for babies, and he'd hated it when Kyle brought his stupid brother around. Babies were supposed to stay with their mothers, for chrissakes.

[goingtodorking]

"Firstly," says Karen, very primly, "you shouldn't call me a bitch because it's a nasty word and anyway, I'm not a lady dog.". She rolls her eyes. "And Josiah isn't my baby. He's my brother.". She thinks about it for a moment. "Bitch."

[my_potpie]

"Shouldn't it be with its mother? I mean, babies are like, supposed to have supervision or whatever. You might drop it on its head or let it watch R-rated movies or something," he pointed out. By the looks of things, she didn't seem like a goddamn, babysitting genius.

Then, just to even the score, he said, "Slut." He couldn't let her stand there calling him a bitch, and ninety-percent of women were goddamn sluts, anyway. It was a proven fact.

[goingtodorking]

"He hasn't got a Mom," says Karen, with a little shake of her head. "Like me. We haven't got a Mom or a Dad. We've got Rollie."

She rolls her eyes.

"Now you're just saying bad words because you think it makes you sound clever. And it doesn't."

[thedevamper]

"For the love of- I am trying to work! Important scientific research and you're-" Nikola said scowling at the empty room before he looked down. Ah, children. Wonderful. First, Helen was involved with the concubine and now he was getting disturbed by children. Nikola put his hands on his hips, pushing the lab coat behind him and glared down at the pair. "Were you never taught how to be quiet?"

[goingtodorking]

Doctors are supposed to wear white coats but Rollie never does and Paul kust wears scrubs. Karen and Josiah study him for a moment. They might not be related by blood but the look is eeriely similar.

"They don't teach you that in school here," she says. At her old school, the teacher used to make you put your finger on your lips. "And anyway, we're just playing. Are you a doctor?"

[thedevamper]

"Perhaps they should then. Do I look like a Doctor?" Nikola replied. Nikola had certainly studied enough medicine and genetics to be a Doctor but well, his beside manner was lacking to say the least. Nikola looked at the children staring at him in an unnerving identical manner before he looked for parents he could scold. Nikola sighed when he realised it was just them. "I'm a scientist. A very important one doing very important... things."

[goingtodorking]

"You're wearing a white coat. Doctors wear those," reasoned Karen as she continues to study him. Rollie says that she reminds him of a lizard when she pulls that face.

"What kind of important things?"

[start_a_rumpus]

Max is bored. Joe is at work and Jason is off somewhere and he's clearly got to be really, really bored if he's willing to play with a girl. Karen's not that bad really, but still.

"What're you doing?" he asks after hanging around and watching for a few minutes.

[goingtodorking]

"We're trying to decide what to play," explains Karen. For a boy, Max isn't so bad when he's not being mean about the island; he reminds her of Ben a bit. "You could play with us, couldn't he, Josie?"

Josiah, for his part, just regards them both placidly. Sometimes, he really reminds Karen of Shadow.

[start_a_rumpus]

Max doesn't really want to play with a baby, but that's probably mean to say so he won't.

"What can you play with a baby?" he ask gingerly. "I mean, he can't really run or anything, right? What does he do?"

[goingtodorking]

"Well, we can play anything, really," says Karen, hands on her hips. "He doesn't really play. Usually he just sits there or crawls around on his own and ignores me."

[leftwithmybones]

"Josie?" McCoy remarks as he wanders into the room, glancing around to look for a parent and, finding none, wondering just how responsible the older girl is. "If that's your little brother, you're setting him up for a world of pain. And hey, if it's a sister, then godspeed."

[goingtodorking]

"We're going to start calling him Joe when he's older but he's a little bit little for that," says Karen, and, for his part, Josiah doesn't look particularly bothered either way.

[leftwithmybones]

"Yeah, he does look little." McCoy's done a pretty good job of not thinking about his Jo, but the mere name from a child's lips is enough to send him reeling back, at least a little. "But you look little to me too. It's one of those things that happens when you're really big, like me. Everybody looks..." He makes a show with his hands, appraises it, and then shortens the distance between his fingers.

[goingtodorking]

"I'm not little," says Karen, sniffing. This is like when Rollie insists that Edmund and Charlie need to baby sit her. "I'm nearly nine."

[dumbassbastards]

Rollie doesn't feel like he needs to interrupt right away. It's enough that he knows where the two of them are, and knows that they're safe. He can't keep an eye on them every moment of every day, but god knows he tries. So he just crosses his arms and stands in the shadows and makes sure their lives go on as little kids' lives should, as much as they can.

[goingtodorking]

She's aware that he's there. She's always aware that he's there. She has perfect faith in him. After a few minutes, she looks up at him.

"I don't suppose you're going to play with us?"

[dumbassbastards]

"Wasn't planning to, no," he says without moving. "I'm pretty sure it's a lot more fun without grownups in the way. Carry on." Then again, Karen's always had room for everyone.

[goingtodorking]

"We can fit you in," promises Karen, and, for his part, Josiah just looks up, gaze level. "You could be the villain!"