Library, Sunday

[genesishero]

If anyone needed Evan today, they would have a little bit of spelunking to do. He'd come in to the library and immediately made his way into the stacks. He was going to hunt down mis-shelved books, that was what he was going to spend his way doing. Just looking over books. Alphabetizing. Mindless busywork.

And maybe hiding. A little.

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Re: Talk to Evan!

[genesishero]

"He was sleeping when I found him," Evan sighed. "I think he's harder to worry than anyone I've ever known."

That wasn't going to stop him from cuddling up against Sholeh and Wade and clinging for dear life.

"Bet your dad doesn't get worried easily either though, huh, Wade?"

Evan was still not completely convinced that he was going to be whoever that guy was. It wasn't that he didn't want to be, but wow, he really didn't seem to be off to a good start.

Re: Talk to Evan!

[3kidsalltrouble.livejournal.com]

"Umm, well, kinda?" Wade said, looking up at his dad in complete earnestness. His dad seemed all...sad and not at all Dad-like. "You do kinda worry a lot. There are lots of bad guys that come and attack the school and even when they're not trying to hurt us, you and Pop go off and fight 'em sometimes, and you worry that you're reaching your students because it's tough to be a mutant sometimes, and you worry when we're off visiting Uncle Lee and Grandma when you can't come with us, and..."

He trailed off, realizing he could keep going on and on. "You have lots to worry about because you have so many people to love. That's what you say, anyway."

Pop had a different take on it, but Ma and Pop liked to pretend they weren't worried even when they were.

Re: Talk to Evan!

[genesishero]

"Oh." That was both reassuring, in that it meant that some him actually went on to continue to care, and depressing in that it meant that he kept being afraid, too. Evan sighed, gave Wade and Sholeh both one more little squeeze, and then leaned back to look at them both. "Well, that's what love means, doesn't it? That you worry about the people you care the most about."

Re: Talk to Evan!

[3kidsalltrouble.livejournal.com]

"That's what you always say!" Wade replied cheerfully. "And you love us lots and lots. We're the luckiest kids at the school. Most of those kids don't have any parents and we have five and Uncle Lee."

Seriously, the a Wade Tryad totally lucked out on the parent lottery.

"And no one in the whole school is as cool as you and Pop. Not even Ms. Munroe!"

Re: Talk to Evan!

[genesishero]

"Ms. Munroe is pretty cool," Evan allowed, nodding a little. And then, because it was driving him completely nuts, he had to go out on a limb and just ask. "So... your mothers and I all look different than you're used to, right? Is Pop here? Does he look different at all?"

It might be an easy way to figure out who Pop was, was the thing.