hold it together, birds of a feather [active / locked for now]

[9th_stitch]

Characters: 9, 6, and Nina
Setting: The Greenhouse
Time: Night 14
Summary: The stitchpunks discover the greenhouse, and 9 is amazed-- he's never seen a living plant before. Nina soon joins them for a downright party of adorable.
Warnings: Lots and lots of cute? Possible mention of a horribly violent apocalypse? Undertones of slightly gay

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[6toleadus]

6 missed 5. And 2. And really anyone who could have fixed him properly. Humans just didn't know how to. And when you mess with something you don't know much about, you can do more harm than good. But he had 9, and 9 was very good company. 6 felt safe with him. Which was why he followed eagerly on their little journey even though this place was big and kind of scary and had not-humans in it. And this time at least, his trust was rewarded.

" ... plant."

Green. All green! None of them withered and dying. As it should be, really. There was no poison here. That's why the humans were okay. Well, most of them. He ran to one, well half-ran anyway, excited to see it again.

"They're alive. They're alive! Thought they were all gone forever ... "

He held onto a flat green leaf and ran one hand gently down it, like how a person would pet a dog or cat. Because it was a living thing. One he'd never expected to see again. And it had such nice color.

[imtoocutetodie]

Nina had just been going to the glass of water. Really it made perfect sense, Mr. Chaos had been sleeping and she was thirsty. She knew where the kitchen was, no need to wake him up.

She'd peeped into the greenhouse when she heard voices, wondering who was exploring at nighttime.

She'd been expecting to find another grownup. Not dolls.

"You can talk? Is Mr. Break making you talk?" She hugged Mr. Bear in her arms, crouching down to get a better look. "You're dolls aren't you?" It was curious, but Nina was only four, and she'd seen quite a few weird things in her life.

Talking dolls did not seems THAT weird.

[9th_stitch]

9 had been wandering off on his own, staring around the wide room and the endless color unlike anything he's ever seen before-- and then that little voice interrupted his train of thought. A child...?

He turned quickly to look; to his reassurance, it was just what appeared to be a young human girl. She seemed sweet and curious; something about her curiosity reminded him of the twins. He smiled a little at that thought.

"Dolls? No, we're not dolls, we're, uh..." He just smiled a little, lacking a real answer. "I'm 9, and this is 6."

And in response to her second question, "A-and I don't know who 'Mr. Break' is, so.... no."

[6toleadus]

6 half-hid behind the leaf. A real, living human child. He'd never gotten to talk to one before. But there was something about her that he liked. Something in her voice ... it was familiar. In a way that he couldn't quite figure out.

" ... h-hi."

He left his little plant hiding spot and approached very slowly, curiosity winning out over caution like it did so often.

[imtoocutetodie]

Nina beamed, offering her hand to the not-dolls happily. "Hi! It's nice to meet you both! I'm Nina. You'd like Mr. Break, he has a doll named Ms. Emily and she can talk too." She nodded happily. "How come you're hiding under the leaf?"

Nina was at heart a friendly child, and if 6 and 9 said they weren't dolls, even if her eyes said they were doll, Nina would accept that they were telling her the truth. She tucked Mr. Bear and little closer, dropping to her knees so she could look closer and wouldn't be towering above them. Most adults did that so she wouldn't be scared of them.