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Alice Carter (hidden_life) wrote in tempus_alt,
@ 2010-08-10 01:44:00

Museum
[OOC note: for Alice and Ianto; time period undecided as of yet]

The school term has ended, and with kids home from school comes needing to keep them entertained. Some parents find that tedious, but it's a relief for Alice to watch Steven herself. They've gone to the museum for the day; Steven pleaded to see the fossils again. Crazy about dinosaurs, that boy. If he knew about her father's pterodactyl...

That's not going to happen, of course, though on the subject of her father, he'd hinted to her in a phonecall that the museum's collection of vintage photography might just contain some shots of him. Studying the pictures is like a more interesting and slightly unnerving "Where's Wally?" She's trying to decide if a background figure is actually her father when she realizes that Steven has wandered off instead of staying at her side.

Silently cursing herself for focusing so much on the display instead of her son, Alice goes jogging through the museum rooms to look for him. She can hear the echoing of him calling hellos to someone.

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	hidden_life 2010-08-11 04:11 am UTC (link)
	Best not to remark on his old workplace's size, for multiple reasons. "I won't be surprised if some Halloween, he gets it in his head to dress up and do that." Steven looks towards the top of Ianto's hair in consideration, then nods. "Yeah! Maybe even as tall as the ceiling!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-11 04:13 am UTC (link)
	"Mmmm..." He thinks about that. "That could be interesting." He looks up. "That is very tall." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-11 04:16 am UTC (link)
	"That coat's practically a cape already, the way he uses it." Steven nods again, then hurries along to get on to the dinosaur area. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-11 04:18 am UTC (link)
	"Mmmm, that's a great coat." He lets go of Alice's arm to hurry after Steven, not wanting him to get too far ahead. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-11 04:20 am UTC (link)
	"... I don't want to know." She's ready to hurry along herself, but since Ianto beats her to it, she lets him. The whole trusting-other-people thing still needs reinforcing and letting Ianto help out with her son is important. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-11 04:36 am UTC (link)
	"No, you really don't." "Hey, calm down there. The dinosaurs aren't going anywhere, and your mum and I want to see them with you." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-11 04:39 am UTC (link)
	Steven pouts some in the childish way of everything being a bigger deal than it is, but he does slow up. "Yes, Uncle Ianto. They're already extinct." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-11 04:54 am UTC (link)
	He gets a little thrill when Steven calls him that. "Right. Although I suppose the skeletons could come back to life..." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-11 04:59 am UTC (link)
	Steven takes that seriously and looks up at Ianto. "Would they be zombie dinosaurs? Or would they not be zombies because they're bones and no skin and stuff?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-11 05:02 am UTC (link)
	He thinks about that for a minute. "I don't think they would be zombies." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-11 05:04 am UTC (link)
	"Okay! I don't like zombies very much. They're gross." Steven heads for the first display. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-11 05:07 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah, what with dropping gobbets of decaying flesh everywhere..." He walks over to the display after Steven. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-11 05:14 am UTC (link)
	Alice calls over to them. "Ahem, can we not talk about the undead, thank you. Boys and gross things..." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-11 05:27 am UTC (link)
	"Awwww, okay. No more undead." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-11 05:31 am UTC (link)
	"Thanks. Not a fan." Brings to mind too many disturbing thoughts for her, and really, Steven's too young for horror films and all of that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-11 05:34 am UTC (link)
	"They're highly overrated. I don't really understand the current fad." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-11 05:40 am UTC (link)
	"I don't, either. I'm sure plenty of people have written essays and whole books about it." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-11 05:56 am UTC (link)
	"'Wow, people sure are writing a lot of zombie books these days. Maybe I could write a book about that.' Some people are so unimaginative." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-11 06:01 am UTC (link)
	"Do you mean writing a book about zombies themselves, or writing a book about other people writing books about zombies? Because either way... doesn't seem very creative, does it?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-11 06:08 am UTC (link)
	"Either. Or both. But yeah, writing a book just because that's what's selling..." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-11 04:40 pm UTC (link)
	"Suppose it's writing for the market and caring about the money instead of the actual writing." Steven cheerfully suggests, "Let's sell dinosaurs!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-11 08:41 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah...That always seems kind of like cheating to me." He laughs. "If you know where to find any..." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hidden_life 2010-08-11 08:50 pm UTC (link)
	"Meanwhile the real writers can't get published. I'm glad I'm not one of them." Steven looks proud of himself. "In diamonds!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notjusta_teaboy 2010-08-11 11:34 pm UTC (link)
	"Well, now, just because something's popular doesn't mean it's not good. Maybe they've been trying to get it published for a long time and then whatever subject they wrote about just happens to become popular." He nods. "That is true...So where do we get those?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

hidden_life
2010-08-12 01:27 am UTC (link)

"Oh, I'm not saying popular means bad, just that it seems like a lot of fad books get published. Celebrity diets and memoirs and the like, or a slew of books all on the same subject. It's strange seeing how Steven's books go through trends. One month the children's section is filled with some particular series, next it's something new. Of course, it looks like the Harry Potter ones don't budge."

Steven considers that while he's looking at a fossil. "Jewelery store?"