El Paso, Texas [Monday evening]
Dec. 19th, 2011 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The mission had been a success. It had been long, and busy, and incredibly demanding. He'd barely had time to sleep, worked himself into exhaustion every day, and managed not to think about anything but fighting alien invaders for a whole week.
Oh, and they'd actually beat off said alien invaders. That had been good too.
But mostly the distraction had been what Jaime had been going for. And while he felt a little bit guilty for his priorities, he was still grateful. And as his feet touched the ground in his back yard, he knew that tomorrow that distraction was gone, but that all that exhaustion from fighting would thankfully keep that from happening for at least another night.
And he'd be glad to see his family again.
Even Milagro.
So Jaime de-armored, sighed in relief at the breeze blowing across his skin, and headed for the back door.
Oh, and they'd actually beat off said alien invaders. That had been good too.
But mostly the distraction had been what Jaime had been going for. And while he felt a little bit guilty for his priorities, he was still grateful. And as his feet touched the ground in his back yard, he knew that tomorrow that distraction was gone, but that all that exhaustion from fighting would thankfully keep that from happening for at least another night.
And he'd be glad to see his family again.
Even Milagro.
So Jaime de-armored, sighed in relief at the breeze blowing across his skin, and headed for the back door.
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Date: 2011-12-20 02:45 am (UTC)"Ooof!" Momoko stumbled and grappled with the bag. Wait... "Oof?"
Something was in the way?
SOMETHING HAD BEEN TRYING TO GET IN THE DOOR?!
She pushed the bag of trash forward and took a step back into the house.
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Date: 2011-12-20 02:48 am (UTC)Because, obviously, his mom had used her special mom-powers to detect his arrival and decided that Jaime should do some chores.
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Date: 2011-12-20 02:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-20 03:01 am (UTC)Momoko?
Jaime didn't actually manage to say the name. He was too busy staring and trying to get his brain to start working again.
...
No luck so far.
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Date: 2011-12-20 03:17 am (UTC)Wha--?
And now there was an ex-girlfriend-current-awesome-friend was hugging him. At least Jaime's arms seemed to know how to respond to that. As he hugged back, some part of him was kind of surprised that she didn't disappear like a ghost or something.
His brain still hadn't caught up, of course.
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Date: 2011-12-20 03:25 am (UTC)Okay, she couldn't hold it any longer: she bounced up and kissed his cheek.
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Date: 2011-12-20 03:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-20 03:28 am (UTC)"You're..." Alive? Here? Thingy.
"Both of you?"
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Date: 2011-12-20 03:33 am (UTC)Okay, tonight she'd made the salad, but it totally counted.
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Date: 2011-12-20 03:34 am (UTC)Dinah snickered at Jaime, and tugged on his hand. "C'mon, c'mon. Did you not even check your messages, goofy boy? You need food to be thinking with."
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Date: 2011-12-20 06:44 pm (UTC)"Uhm. I just want to apologize. For coming here without asking you first, I mean. And for staying while you weren't here. I totally didn't think about it when I came, that you'd be gone."
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Date: 2011-12-20 07:05 pm (UTC)Because that stuff she'd just said didn't sound like the sort of thing you apologized for doing.
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Date: 2011-12-22 02:26 am (UTC)"Hey, you showed up at my door, right? There's no way my mom was going to just let you leave, you know." He shook his head with a fond grin.
"Besides," he said more softly, "you needed somewhere to stay for a bit, didn't you?"
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Date: 2011-12-22 03:31 am (UTC)"She pulled me into the house. She's awesome; you're totally lucky." Momoko grinned. "But yes. I didn't know anywhere else to go."
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Date: 2011-12-22 03:45 am (UTC)And then, more somberly, "No one in your world remembered it, did they?"
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Date: 2011-12-22 06:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-23 01:40 am (UTC)"Then I'm glad you came," he said softly.
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Date: 2011-12-23 02:20 am (UTC)"I wish you'd been here," she admitted. Although the time spent talking it all over with his parents had helped more than she'd ever thought possible.
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Date: 2011-12-23 02:27 am (UTC)"I'm sorry," he said softly. "I just couldn't..." Stay. "You were..." Gone.
"Well."
He didn't know how to say it, really.
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Date: 2011-12-23 02:45 am (UTC)Momoko wasn't going to complain at all about how he was holding her: she'd told him goodbye. She just wished she could ask for more. Instead, she gave him a small grin. "And you came back before your curfew. I totally didn't want to be here if you were late."
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