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"I can't believe we're so close to her first birthday! It's going to be brilliant," Alec grinned. "Better than our birthday!" "As long as our eighteenth is the best birthday ever, she can have all the second best birthdays she wants," Xander said with a little nod.

Dark made eye contact with Xander and then shook his head slightly, knowing exactly what he was getting at. Ivy wasn't aware they were all talking about her, she had fallen completely asleep, holding tight to her favourite toy--a little grey stuffed rabbit. "I can't wait for her birthday...

"It is really hard to believe!" Alec gasped. "She's so old now!" Xander snickered, glancing at Dark. "Indeed. Really old." He looked at Ivy in her stroller. "But, yeah, it is hard to believe she's that old already."

"We have all summer," Dark said as they began the walk back to their home, "and as she gets bigger, there are only more things we will be able to do with her. Because she is getting to be a very big girl." Daizi did the math in her head, "She's only about four months away from being a year...

Alec and Xander dutifully clapped and cheered with Alec being, admittedly, the more enthusiastic one. They then helped to pick up and pack everything up with Xander doing the final check to ensure they hadn't forgotten anything. "That was awesome," Alec said, holding Ivy's hand lightly as they...

"Well I... guess I could have," Daizi commented, Alec's version of events not having occurred to her, "I just thought she'd like to be held." "We should do it now before she totally falls asleep," Dark said, helping them both up and then leashing Enkidu, since he didn't love letting him off...

She felt the heat in her cheeks for brief moment before the knock came. Color drained from her face as she sat up straight, alert. "It's Lyam." She let out a breath she didn't realize she had been holding. She'd been jumpy lately, more so than normal since the fight. Once the dialog between...

"Oh, I thought you were going to do that thing I've seen some parents do where they hold onto their kid from the side and guide them down," Alec said, demonstrating with his arms. "Hold her and slide? Cool," Xander said, impressed. The idea wouldn't have occurred to him, though he didn't know...

"Even if it was metal, I'd hold her in my lap," Daizi explained, "I'm not sure I'm ready to let her free fall. What do you think, Ivy?" She turned to her baby and stroked her cheek with one hand, "Do you want to go down the slide with Mama?" Sleepily, Ivy cooed something, and Daizi couldn't...

"You might he able to get one good slide," Alec suggested. "And it's a plastic-type slide, so it won't burn her," Xander added. "She might have enough left in her for one more! And we can take pictures!" Alec grinned.

Daizi turned, throwing his ball to Enkidu one more time, "How was it?" "She loved the swing," Dark said, sitting down on the blanket with Ivy close to his chest, "We should take her here more often, now that she can do much." "That would be nice," Daizi replied, taking the ball from Enkidu, "I...

"Oh, the others are coming back," Alec reported to Daizi. "Like you guessed, Ivy looks very tired! But happy."

Dark chuckled lightly, "I have to hurry." Then he pushed Ivy again, but she seemed to be tiring out, so he gently stopped the swing and scooped her up, rubbing her back. Enkidu scrambled happily for the ball and then hurried back and dropped it for them, and then Daizi lifted it and tossed it...

"Great, then you have a few months to do whatever it is you'll be too old to do when you're thirty," Xander said cheerfully. He waved to Ivy and started wandering off back toward Daizi and Alec. "Nice throw!" Alec praised, watching the ball fly. "And... nope, it hit nothing but grass."

"Heh," Desmond chuckled. "That might be so. But your company would do me good too," he added as Chloe settled in next to him. A knock came from the front door and he frowned. "Who is it?' he called out. "It's Lyam," the reply came. "Ragenard said to meet him at the warehouse." "Tell 'im I'm...

Marcellus stared at Grisham with an utterly deadpan stare. "Are you fucking with me?" he asked bluntly. He didn't seem upset at the question, but neither did he seem to take it seriously.

"I did not love thirty either." Dark answered, "but forty feels different. It feels very old. But I am some months from it, yet." "Alright," She replied, and then took the ball and threw it, letting Enkidu ring after it.

For the most part, Aimée was able to keep certain emotions from being read on her face, but when Grisham mentioned that wolves made Lutetia a better place to live as opposed to other places, surprise momentarily flashed across her face before she managed to shove it away. Blame the alcohol and...

"I thought it was thirty that was supposed to give you pause," Xander remarked. Then he paused. "Or is that for women, and with guys it's forty?" Alec looked out then took Daizi's arm and turned her just slightly. "There! Absolutely no chance unless someone runs over there right as you...

Dark nearly replied with I already broke a rib, but he stopped himself to just enough time to say, "I already have grey hairs in my beard. But I also believe I am probably older than other people my age, because I had to grow up more quickly. You may understand that, when you are staring down...