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Life keeps bringing me back to you
Who: Julian and Marisa + Julian's twins & Jacob (NPCs)
Where: Scarlet Oak Community Park
When: Late afternoon
It was a set-up. It was a goddamned set-up. Julian wasn't entirely sure how a pair of two-year olds could create that level of deception but they managed. While Julian was not quite in the mood to put together a picnic and leave the animal hospital during a very busy day at work, they twins had been screaming about it since before breakfast. Caving - as he always did when it came to Cleo & Chloe - led to him preparing a fairly decent (if simple) picnic basket of turkey sandwiches, apple juice, and cookies. The twins had even insisted they were so hungry that they needed extras. And Julian believed them. He really shouldn't have.
Once they were at the park, the twins practically jumped out of their stroller and made a beeline for a patch of flowers. Throwing their picnic basket into their stroller and chasing after them, Julian realized all too late that his twin sisters had somehow magically put him within two feet of Marisa. Of all the things. Really, the twins probably didn't know better about the situation between him and Marisa and thought that kidnapping the much bigger and much older Jacob was completely all right. He watched as the twins dragged the leopard cub away to climb trees. The twins weren't very good at it because dogs weren't made to climb but they insisted on learning. Even if they could only really crawl onto shrubs at this point.
"Hey," Julian muttered after the silence became strained.
Where: Scarlet Oak Community Park
When: Late afternoon
It was a set-up. It was a goddamned set-up. Julian wasn't entirely sure how a pair of two-year olds could create that level of deception but they managed. While Julian was not quite in the mood to put together a picnic and leave the animal hospital during a very busy day at work, they twins had been screaming about it since before breakfast. Caving - as he always did when it came to Cleo & Chloe - led to him preparing a fairly decent (if simple) picnic basket of turkey sandwiches, apple juice, and cookies. The twins had even insisted they were so hungry that they needed extras. And Julian believed them. He really shouldn't have.
Once they were at the park, the twins practically jumped out of their stroller and made a beeline for a patch of flowers. Throwing their picnic basket into their stroller and chasing after them, Julian realized all too late that his twin sisters had somehow magically put him within two feet of Marisa. Of all the things. Really, the twins probably didn't know better about the situation between him and Marisa and thought that kidnapping the much bigger and much older Jacob was completely all right. He watched as the twins dragged the leopard cub away to climb trees. The twins weren't very good at it because dogs weren't made to climb but they insisted on learning. Even if they could only really crawl onto shrubs at this point.
"Hey," Julian muttered after the silence became strained.