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Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part II

The weather was still lovely, of course. And there were all these neat tables of ~~moddable~~ snackies to help break those awkward silences that were so common with teenage get-togethers.

So... yeah.

Enjoy!

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Jono tried not to look a little hurt that Didi had taken what he'd said quite that way. He even more or less managed it, at that.

//I just meant that most people around here aren't th'sorts to be easily made nervous,// he replied. //I didn't know about... other things that she could do. I mean, there were the butterflies, and all, yes, but...//

Well, it was difficult to be intimidated by butterflies.

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Didi's smile was tight. "We can do what we want to do," she said. "Normally, anyhow. There's always a price, so most of us are careful with it. Del ..." How to explain Delirium? "... can't always manage that."

She thought about it some more. "It could be worse," she admitted. "It could be Desire. It's malicious, sometimes. Del usually means well."

//Ah...// It was moments like these that Jonothon tended to realize exactly how out of his depth the situation that he was in could be, at times. His eyebrows furrowed a bit, and he looked toward the ground, burying himself in thought for a moment. //But yer worried that she'll get out of hand. That someone... will get hurt?//

"Yeah." Didi almost did Del's small-voice thing on that admission. "I'm worried somebody will decide to poke the crazy girl and she'll -- overreact. Guess there's no point worrying about it until it happens, huh?"

//It's like worrying about havin' the potential to explode, and so not ever lettin' yerself live,// Jono agreed, //only this isn't you, it's her, and worrying about it and making it yer responsibility here means that every last moment you have will be nothing but running damage control over a maybe. And maybe it'll never be a problem, right?//

Hopefully? Knock on wood?

Jono said most of that while feeling like an absolute hypocrite.

"Maybe," Didi acknowledged, letting herself feel somewhat mollified (even as the hypocrite thing did not pass her by). "She is my responsibility, though. Not all the time, not when we have a whole universe. But when she's around me, I have to look out for her."

She didn't entirely expect Jono the only child to understand.

//Family,// he agreed, as though that made the sort of sense that Jono could gather from reading books and watching how things were supposed to be on television. It was there in a practical sense, but it wasn't exactly something that he had any great amount of experience in.

It was something he doubted he would ever have any great deal of experience in, for that matter. But it was a word that apparently meant something, and so...

//People look out for their own, and all.//

"Especially when there are only seven of you in the universe and one of you is MIA," Didi agreed.

Not that this had ever stopped Desire from picking at the others, but Desire was a law of its own.

The way Jono had phrased his statement made Didi smile, albeit weakly. "Delirium might think it's funny if you call her people."

//And where I'm from, people think it's funny if they call me people,// Jono noted. //I prefer to give anybody I can talk to th'benefit of the doubt.//

Being seen as a human was a demotion for Del, but Didi understood what Jono meant.

"Does that mean people who don't understand English are out?" she asked, just to be a brat.

//And most Americans,// Jono replied without missing a beat, before offering her his best attempt at a smile. It was falling a little short, somewhere around his eyes. Which was a shame, because his eyes were about all there really happened to be to his smile, anymore. //But I call them people regardless, for simplicity's sake.//

"Well, that's nice of you," Didi said, and she would have kissed him there, for listening and because she could tell he wasn't really happy, but he'd have to settle for the light touch of her fingertips along the line that separated bandages from flesh. "Thanks for being so generous."

//I aim to please, luv.//

Right now, he was also aiming to cradle her cheek in his hand. For the warmth under his fingertips, yes. And also because... Because he wanted to be close to her, damn it. Something about learning that her sister was on the island made him want to just wrap his arms around her and never let her go.

But that would be childish of him.

Maybe it was childish, but the contact encouraged Didi to give him a nice, long hug.

It was restorative.

It was, wasn't it? Okay, Jono was never again going to doubt the healing power of a good hug from Didi.

... He really wasn't about to let go, anytime soon.

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