Creative Problem Solving, Tuesday, period 3

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"We're wiped out. We were dealing with children smaller than you all week." Parker was wearing pajamas with flying pigs. Appropriately.

Eliot: was not wearing pajamas. Just some very comfy clothes. ". . . weekend. It just seemed like a week."

"That. Right." So they hadn't remembered they'd had a class to teach until very, very recently.

"So I'm sure some of you have had someone tell you that they hope someday you have a kid just like you so you know what it feels like. And some of you probably found out what that feels like this weekend." Eliot was looking a little haggard around the edges. "So today. . . . Nap. Draw quietly. Play with legos. Do yoga. Whatever you do to relax and recover."

Parker got an obstinate expression. "There's cartoons. I'm watching cartoons." She added, "If you want more of a class, create it and solve the problem yourself."

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Like you've been babysitting for a week.

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Kathy Li

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Flick

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Just. Do it quietly.

Play/Yoga/Watch Cartoons with Parker/ NAP

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Zzzzz.

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Flick's kid hadn't really warranted babysitting since she'd been older so he wasn't exhausted. Still, he'd nap in class if he had to. Twist his arm, why don't you.

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Normally, Kathy would jump at the chance to do some yoga. It required enough precision and balance that she could focus on that and ignore whatever thoughts and worries that were nagging at her--usually schoolwork or her parents or normal things like that.

Today, however, she was just going to curl up with a blanket and stare at the TV, hoping it counted as 'watching cartoons.'

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[vdistinctive]

Eliot noticed. Kathy had absolutely never struck him as the "curl up and stare" kind of kid.

After finishing his tea and managing to read exactly none of his novel, he made his way over. "Hey. You holdin' up alright?"

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The last time Mr. Spencer had surprised Kathy, she'd lashed out with a kick towards his solar plexus. Today, she just jumped--literally--a foot in the air.

Stupid bounciness.

"Who, me?" She really needed to stop asking that question when it was patently obvious she was the one being spoken to. "Just...bummed. I don't know. I don't even have a good reason for it."

She'd had a good weekend and she understood why the kids had had to leave. So why was she still all depressed over it?

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The less said about last time, the better. This time, Eliot simply rocked back a step, giving her plenty of space to land.

"You have any kids show up this weekend?" he asked.

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She nodded. "Two. Carys and Zeke. Five and ten and both of them far too cute for their own good."

Or hers. Especially hers.

"I saw you with yours at the park," she added. "They looked pretty adorable."

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"They were." He shook his head. "Are." They still existed out there, right? They didn't cease just 'cause they weren't in Fandom? Ugh. This was exactly why he didn't sleep last night. "You're missin' 'em, huh?"

See? Good reason for being bummed, kid.

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"Yeah, but...it's just dumb. I only knew them for the weekend. They're never going to happen. Being this sad about it is just...over-indulgent."

How to explain it right?

"It's not even that they're gone, exactly? It's more that after they left, I felt so, well, lonely."

Stupid, right?

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Hey, Eliot had had to be dragged home by his two best friends who were bound and determined to be his boyfriend and girlfriend, and he still managed to feel pretty lonely after the kids left. So, no. Not so much with the stupid.

He as not going to say any of that out loud. He wasn't an idiot.

"Been a rough couple of months, huh?" he said instead, remembering that she'd ended up cursed by Gaunt last month, too.

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Kathy glanced over to where Minako was aggressively doing yoga and deflated a little further. "Yeah," she admitted. "I've had better."

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Eliot nodded. He could only imagine what all the crap Fandom threw at you looked like when you were seventeen, instead of in your late thirties.

"Wanna get some ice cream after class?"

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Minako was going to go with yoga, thank you. Normally she'd take any excuse to watch cartoons, but Kathy was over there and Minako was still upset.

Yes, she had been right and Kathy had been possessed, but she still hadn't even gotten an apology, so she was going to resist the urge to check on the catatonic-currently-former-friend and get out her energy through an increasingly physical workout.

Talk to the Teachers

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Parker is eating cereal out of the box again. There are pop-tarts ... and some nice muffins that Eliot made. Plus leftover ginger-pear star scones!

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Eliot grabbed himself a spot right by Parker, with a thermos of tea and a few scones and the novel he'd been reading to the kids Saturday night. And his glasses. Contact lenses were for people who hadn't been up all night pondering the future.

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Those were really good scones.

OOC

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We did not forget. This post is here, right? Right.

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DAMMIT CHRIS!

I had just stopped obsessively listening to this on repeat. WELP!

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*innocents*