noir_canary (noir_canary) wrote in newalliance, @ 2012-06-01 22:49:00 |
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Entry tags: | arsenal, black canary |
Who: Dinah Lance, Open to Roy Harper
NPCS: Lian Harper
What: Dinah pads the nest for a visit from her chicks. Lian stays over. Roy comes to pick her up. Roy and Dinah have srs bznz to discuss.
Where: Gotham Towers Apartments, Gotham City, NJ
When: Tuesday, May 29th evening through Friday, June 1, morning.
Rating: SFW- be warned of feelzies.
When Dinah picked Lian up from Ollie's, the little girl was already half asleep. She kissed her Daddy goodbye and didn't seem the least bit bothered by this sudden change in plans-- she liked sleep overs at Dinah's.
She was asleep before they even made it to Gotham. Dinah threw Lian's pink Dora the Explorer backpack onto one shoulder before picking said sleeping child up and held her against her hip, guiding Lian to lay her head on Dinah's shoulder and neck when she started to fuss. Lian gripped her shirt absently and snuggled in closed, giving a relieved, restful sigh when she heard Canary shhhing her back to sleep.
While Lian slept peacefully, Dinah had been on guard from the moment she'd taken her surrogate granddaughter from Ollie's house. Cheshire was around-- and that was enough to put Dinah on edge in general, but when Lian was involved (which she always inevitably was when it was Cheshire), Dinah didn't relax. She regarded every car on the road as suspicious, each unfamiliar sound as a threat, each new face an enemy. While they were riding the elevator up (alone. Dinah had waited an extra four minutes downstairs to be sure they were not in an elevator with anyone else), she looked down at Lian and rubbed her back affectionately, pulling some of the stick straight strands of black hair out of her mouth.
Once they were inside the house-- and Dinah had walked around the entire apartment four times, checking every rooms, closet and cabinet without ever putting Lian down-- she was able to relax just a little.
Thankfully, she didn't have to wake Lian much to he her changed into her PJs, though teethbrushing was a struggle (Lian did not want to brush teeth and was grumpy about it). Dinah decided to give her a break when it came to face washing and instead simply put Lian in her bed and tucked her in. Dinah didn't bother to change or to even take her boots off. She lay down beside Lian and wrapped an arm around her.
With her chick tucked protectively beneath her wing, the two nestled in for the night, though Dinah slept with one eye open.