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[He's still petting this one under the couch, so the words are muffled.]

See if we've got any grapes. Like grapes too.

Grapes. Got it.

[Her voice is a bit distant, coming from the kitchen. She finds the grapes and the apples. She gets the apple slicer out and there's some thudding and slicing sort of noises.]

Ought to be able to bribe 'em to come to us then reinforce it with more fruit. Even if they're brains are pea sized.

Positive re-enforcement! That'll work! [Considering negative re-enforcement is likely to... injure them, or traumatise them horrifically.] It's really either that or neutral re-enforcement, which I'm not really sure you can do. Is that just ignoring someone, or is that negative? I think that's negative. Is there a way to neutrally re-enforce something?

Hrm...don't think so. You can only be positive or negative when it comes to re-enforcement. Mum was readin' baby books 'bout that sorta thing when I left. Tony didn't want to fall asleep in his own bed at night so she thought a book might help. They're all 'bout the positive sorta things now.

[She comes back into the main room, coat agape because she's carrying a bowl full of grapes and apple slices. She kneels down next to him and puts the bowl on the floor.]

Guess we ought to sorta, roll a grape near and then let her kinda follow them out while we call her name?

Books make everything better. Your mother is or the books are?

[He crawls backwards out from under the couch because the rabbit is not cooperating.] Yeah that sounds like a g- uh. Okay. Good plan. Maybe we can pet them too. Scratch their ears. Or leave their ears completely alone if they prefer that.

The books are. Mum is still Mum. She sort of jumps to the negative reinforcement first and then follows up with the positive.

[She's going to gleefully assume the failure of speech is because of her and then move on, remembering there's still a while until midnight.]

'M faaaaairly certain Stormy takes after you and likes his ears scratched. [It's said in the most teasing of teasing voices.]

[He makes a noise, rather feeling that yes, this is true, having received both slaps and then kisses from one Jackie Tyler, and ultimately finding them both distasteful. Negative reinforcement all around.

It was. Beware grapes baring minxes.

And thaaat gets her a look with narrowed eyes but a smirk as he takes a couple of grapes and an apple piece, rolls one under and starts eating the apple.] Oh does he now? Well he's got good taste.

[Well the latter was likely meant as positive reinforcement.

Oh. Midnight really is far too far away right now.

She crouches down beside him, rocking back on her heels a bit as she takes a bite of a slice of apple as well. She reaches over and slowly runs her fingers through his hair just over his ear, scratching lightly with her nails.]

Guess he does then. [That teasing voice has been traded out a bit for a flirty sort of voice.]

[Likely, but the 'Jackie, stop, just put me down' should have been fair indications even while it was in progress that it was being taken rather the other way.

It really, really is.

He's looking at the grape to see if a rabbit comes and takes the bait - they are for the most part annoyingly intelligent rabbits considering how dumb they act sometimes - and her hand in his hair is not what he was expecting but it is lovely just the same.] That's not playing nice. [Which is entirely undermined by the way he reacted to it. It's just... Rose. Too far away.]

[Well, Jackie doesn't exactly listen very well.

It's character building, right? Maybe it'll teach them self control. Nah, they'll more than likely decide they've had enough of the imposed self control and spend the next twenty four hours in the bedroom.

Rose has, for the most part, abandoned the teaching of Stormy. She's just letting him sort of hop around and oh, he's crewing on a bit of the rug over there. She's much more concerned with the current attention she's paying to the Doctor.] Mmmm, don't know, think it's awfully nice right now.

[I don't think either of them knows what 'self-control' is any more than Jackie understands that 'listening' and 'hearing' are two different concepts. It's probably a drawback to living in a time travelling, mildly-sentient, what-more-could-you-ask-for type of 'house'.

Yeah that sounds like Stormy. They are almost unnervingly and unerringly similar to rabbits sometimes. The Doctor has similarly abandoned most attention to the bunnies, although he's attempting to at least make a show of it.] Mhmm. I mean, no, it's not nice. Very distracting. Not that nice things can't be distracting. I don't think the two sets are mutually exclusive. Most sets aren't. Most don't even come with all the right parts. That rabbit is ridiculous. Who wants to eat the carpet when there's grapes and apples? We should have him tested. There must be a way to test a rabbit. Look, see, distracting. Don't stop.

[Excellent point. And really, it's much better to blame it on their lifestyle then on them.

Rose grins a bit at the ramble and the directive to not stop]

See if maybe he's got brain damage? Yeah, ought to be a way to test him. Wonder if they were experimented on 'fore we got them? [She bites her bottom lip around a grin, hand still ruffling through his hair.] Definitely won't stop.

[She is, however, going to sit more properly on the floor, crouching on her heels like that is tiring.]

[Exactly. They are entirely faultless in all this.]

Were they? There's got to be a way to figure for that. I'm not usually in the biological labs but I can take one or both of them to work and see for sure. It would be sort of cool if they made up for being a little bit... daft, by developing cool superpowers later on. [He's just not commenting on it anymore but he's leaned up against her more now that she's more steady.]

[It's brilliant that they both agree on this.]

Don't know. Think they guy was a scientist though. I can go with and help corral and assist. [She's entirely fine with him leaning against her. She shifts a little so that she can put her arm around him, fingers tangling more deeply in his hair, her chin resting against the top of his head. It's really for the best his back is to her and the back of his head is against her chest and shoulder.] Super powers like...flyin' or glowin' in the dark?

[ooc: Also, I had to when rabbits + super powers came into the convo]

[At this rate they'll just wind up sitting here, possibly sleep until midnight, and then she'll wake up and poke him and be like, 'okay, we can sleep now, and you'd goddamn better do it after all that waiting.']

Oh, I hope not. They start flying, we'll never be able to catch them. Glowing in the dark would be neat though. We'd each have our own little reading bunnies. That would be fun.

[After a few moments she shifts again, lying back on the floor and pulling him with her. Much more comfortable for waiting out midnight. Yes, that's precisely what she'll do. Hopefully she'll actually drag him to the bedroom first.

The comment about the reading bunnies makes her giggle.]

Have to teach 'em to sit still on the nightstands then.

[Oh, hey, lying down. That's okay. Nice, even, considering the floor.]

Mobile reading bunnies. Mobile exercise-type reading bunnies - you have to keep up with them if you want to know what happens next in the story. In the dark. This is potentially just an excuse to read with a helmet on.

[She sorts of twists his hair around her fingers as he's talking and laughs a little.]

Who hasn't wanted to read with a helmet on. And while runnin' none the less. In the dark. Might ought to make sure we clear a path though. Just in case.

Maybe it's more of an outdoor exercise activity. Although then they'd need to be on leashes or you might never know how the story ends. Or trained, I suppose. [Three, two, one, snort.] Leashes then.

[yeah, she laughs hard enough at the idea of them being trained that she's making a very jiggly pillow.]

Ought to get leashes anyhow. They might like goin' to the park. They could chew on the grass there steada our rugs.

[The jiggly pillow is an... interesting experience.

He makes a bit of a face she can't see. Leashes? Walking the rabbits? But it is a good idea, really. And would make the rabbits happy. Probably.] Yeah they probably would. Get 'em some nice super durable ones they can't chew through when we're not paying attention, unless we just want to accidentally make an anonymous coney donation to the park. Which, in about seven months time, the park may not actually appreciate.

[Well if he's going to make her laugh, he'll just have to get used to it.]

They'd eat everythin' in the park and we'd end up bored when we're tryin' not to do the sorta things we really want to do.

[Oh no, she hasn't forgotten. She's just resigned to waiting until midnight. She lightly ghosts her fingertips over the shell of his ear when she says it though and then back through his hair.]

Well... I doubt we'd be in the park. For that. With the rabbits. They're a bit distracting.

[Seriously. Distracting. How far away is midnight now.]

Well no and it's a bit...public. Don't mind sorta snogging in public on occasion but more than that...

[She bites her bottom lip and looks about for a clock. Somewhere. It had to be somewhat close to midnight by now. Maybe. Right?]

[I vote it's close to midnight if only because I'm sure he's being lulled into drowsiness between the banality and domesticity of bunnies and petting and lying down on the floor and also because their conversation seems to be petering out a bit.]

You don't? [He hadn't thought about that either. He... isn't sure how he feels about it. Handholding and hugs are about as far as he doesn't think about it.]

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so, guess who massively misread 'he's crewing on the rug over there'

LOL well it helps when I don't typo all over the place

i like typos

You're a happy person when threading with me then

in general and for several reasons, yes

<3

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