hot_guitarist (hot_guitarist) wrote in btvsal, @ 2011-01-05 14:13:00 |
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Current location: | The Food Mart |
Current mood: | sad |
Entry tags: | jack delany, ~piper delany |
Family Reunion
Who: Piper and Jack
Where: The Food Mart
When: Friday Afternoon
Piper had extracted an extreme promise with the whole pinky swear bit from her dad that if she cooked up dinner for them that night his presence would be a definite. It was due to that that the teen was in the food mart doing a little bit of shopping. After bagging up a few veggies, Piper gave her cart a little push and then hopped on as the four wheeled cart rolled down toward the end of the aisle. Though before she could get the cart stopped, Piper rode the shopping cart straight into a man coming around the corner from the next aisle.
Jack hated shopping. When you got famous, wasn't this something that you could pay someone else to do? And yet, here he was, shopping for prepared dinners, because he couldn't cook. He'd never learned. Kinda sad, really. He didn't mind, though. He had been a little distracted when he accidentally bumped carts with someone else. "Sorry," he said, looking up...and stopped. He hadn't seen Piper in person for years, but he remembered what she looked like. He was just a little stunned for a moment.
A sorry flowed from the teen's lips about the same time after the collision of carts. Though when Piper looked up as a foot stepped down from the cart to steady it the teen's eyes went wide. She was more then a little stunned by the sight before here. He looked older then she had remembered, but her uncle was still instantly recognized. "Sorry." Piper murmured again, and now with both feet planted on the ground the girl tried manuevering the cart around and past Jack in a hurry.
He sighed. "Piper...wait a second," he said, walking away from the cart and catching up with her so that she couldn't get away so easily. He wasn't sure what he was going to say to her, but he couldn't just let her walk away, right?
"I have shopping to do." The teen offered lamely to the guy when she found her path blockd once more by him, though this time it was intentional. Just as it had been with Meredith, Piper really didn't have much to say to her uncle.
"Give me five minutes then I'll let you be on your way, OK?" he asked simply, hoping that she'd listen to him.
Piper gave what amounted to a defeated sigh to her uncle's request. "Fine." She breathed out looking up at the guy standing at the end of her shopping cart.
"How are you doing?" It was the first thing that he could come up with. "I thought you were going to school in England."
"I was. Father finally was persuaded to let me come home and finish my schooling here." Piper told her Uncle Jack, not that she felt it was any of his business. In fact she felt none of her life was any of the man's business.
She was right. None of this was any of his business, really. The two brothers didn't exactly get along, after all. Jared was just...so DIFFERENT from the rest of the family that none of them really knew how to relate to him. "How's your father doing?" he asked finally.
"Father's doing quite well." The teen answered shortly. Piper knew how little the brothers got along, which was why she was finding it hard to keep up a civil conversation with her uncle. At least she was able to refrain from being outwardly rude or hurdling hurtful words at the man.
He sighed. "Look. I know your dad and I don't get along that well. It's...no actual dislike on my part." He hated where he worked, though. "We're just...completely different."
"You're still family." The teen pointed out. And that should account for something, no matter how different the brothers were from each other. "But instead you all chose to treat him like an outcast instead of just trying to accept him for who he is."
"None of us treat him like an outcast." Only in the Delany family would a successful lawyer be the weird one. "That's not how it is at all. Is that what he told you?"
"That's how you make it appear." Her father had never said as much to her. It was just how Piper perceived things to be within the Delany family.
He sighed. "It wasn't on purpose," he admitted. "Your grandparents are hippies and I'm a musician. What do we talk about with a lawyer? Really? It's no malice or anything on our parts, or even his...I think. We just...have little in common."
"Then you find what little you have in common... " Piper sighed lightly before continuing. "I really need to get my shopping done. I'm making dinner for father tonight and want to have it ready when he gets home." It was really just a lame excuse for the teen to try and escape her uncle's company. If Jack had little in common with her father and not much to talk about then it was taken by the teen to be the same with her as Piper was every inch her father's daughter.
"You may have a point," he admitted, finally stepping out of the way. "Continue your shopping, kid." However, he was making a point to himself to call his damn brother tonight, since apparently he was actually going to be home. They really *did* need to be a functioning relationship in there somewhere past Christmas cards, right?
"Thank you." Piper said appreciatively with a slight nod when the man stepped out of her path. And as she started wheeling her cart away, Piper glanced back with some parting words. "Tell Meredith, Piper says hi." She could only imagine the look on the girl's face when Jack relayed that message to her and Meredith made the connection and wished she could be there to catch her cousin's expression.
"OK..." Jack said, obviously confused, because mainly he wasn't aware that Mere and Piper even knew one another, or at least would recognize each other.