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♦ ♦ 20th Contract - Video/Action For Housemates

[ The feed clicks on to a familiar sight. 'Li' being 'Li' -- placidly preoccupied with cooking. A spread of ingredients -- a slab of dough, grated vegetables, minced beef -- are in bowls on the kitchen counter. But it's apparent that the kitchen isn't his. It's too large, too well-appointed. But Li opens shelves, takes out pots and utensils, as if he's familiar with the setting. Moving to the fridge, he cracks it open to peer inside. ]

[ And scowls. ]

[ Pitching his voice to a yell -- ] You forgot the milk. Again [ -- he reaches inside to withdraw two eggs. ] One simple task. And she can't do that right...

[ Such a sweet-tempered hubby. Whatever dish he's making is surely filled with love. Halfway to the counter, he nearly trips over something lying on the floor. Glowering, he stoops to collect a child's colorful softball. ] ...It's like living in a damn toybox... [ Grumblegrumble. Hopefully he's not this charming all the time. (Spoiler: he is.) ]

[ (Ain't family life grand?) ]

[ OOC: Hit with Family Day! Mad Hatter, July, Yin and Hei are a merry (dysfunctional :|) fambly bunch. Threadjacking is mightily encouraged! Go forth and spread chaos! ^^ ]

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[Hi daddy.

Your son is sitting here on his stool watching you make food.]

[ Well, hello son. ]

[ Pretend you didn't hear Daddy swearing. (Part of him wonders if the wifey sent the boy to keep an eye on him. But it doesn't matter either way.) He schools his expression to something a bit more pleasantly neutral, ]

Did you need something, July? [ Juice? A sandwich, maybe? ]

[Shaking his head. Nope, he's good, daddy.]

[ He puts the softball on the table and returns to the counter, glancing at July over his shoulder as he does. The boy's always like that. Watching everything so quietly. It would almost be creepy. But he's used to it from Yin. (He's used to it in a spectrum that has nothing to do with the curse, too.) ]

[ Anyway. It's preferable to the wife's ever-running mouth. ]

Want to give me a hand with the pelmeni?

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[She was somewhat behind the fridge door, off to the side, more noticeable at an angle, when the door is closed. Yin mostly just watches Hei, but doesn't miss his complaint.]

[It's not the curse that causes it, but she can take some initiative and understand the lack of milk is a problem, because it's a problem for Hei.]

Should I go get some?

[ He glances up at the quiet voice. Oh, there you are. His favorite little angel. (Well, naturally she can't really be his. He'd have fathered her when he was like, 5, or something. ]

It's fine. I'll get it myself when I go out later. [ Want something done right, etc etc. ]

[She goes very quiet - quieter - to that. Rather still. For a moment Yin just looks around, then she puts a can of cat food in Mao's bowl, even though he's not there at the moment.]

[That settled, she seats herself at the table and decides to just watch, much like July is doing. What wonderful things she will learn from watching him interact with Hatter.]

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[ He watches Yin do her thing, and can't repress the rueful thought: Why can't Hatter be more like that? Except it's not a particularly paternal whim to be entertaining. (None of this makes sense. Part of him feels like this is routine, normal and fitting with his life. The other part feels like he's in a weird dream, like Alice tumbling down the rabbit-hole). ]

[ She won't learn anything useful watching Mommy and Daddy interact. Except maybe how to not be like them. ]

Should I drop you off at the Welcome Center later today, Yin? Or are you taking the day off? [ Please say no. He needs the excuse to get out of the house. ]

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[And out of respect for their "guests" and because ne knows it annoys him, ne enters the kitchen before answering. A quick walk behind him, an even quicker pat to his ass...]

Darling, if you had remembered to put it on the list, the delivery boy would have brought it along with everything else.

[ So blissful is their state of wedlock that everything she does annoys him. Especially that pat on the ass. He shoots her a frigid look in passing -- Don't do that. But he doesn't say anything because. Oh, right. Kids are around. (How can they be their kids? She must've acquired them somewhow.) ]

If you'd handle the list yourself instead of putting everything on me, we wouldn't keep having this problem.

[ Yep. Someone has binged on bitchflakes this morning. ]

[What did he expect? He has the libido of a mud puddle and ne's in the prime of nir life. If anyone has a right to be bitchy it would be nem. Ne had to get some form of affection even if it was like this.]

Well, you know how hopeless in the kitchen I am.

[ Prime of her life, his ass. What is she, like a hundred thousand years old? (Part of him still can't fathom the logic of this union. There is none. Which is precisely why it makes no sense. Was he drugged, or is this an assignment gone haywire?) ]

[ At her words, he quirks a humorless brow, ]

I'm well aware of your hopelessness. [ In this, as in all things. ]

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[Sure, Setsuna heard the yelling, and he thinks it's weird that Li guy is suddenly in their kitchen, but he's COOKING. Setsuna can overlook a lot of issues if it means he gets something good out of it.]

[There's July. That's almost normal. But...there's this other person. Still. Quiet. Are they alive? He wants to poke her, but the food! He has to go over to it, first. He'll poke the strange girl later.]

[Some things feel normalish this morning at least, thankfully. Even if it is still sort of weird having the others living with them.]

Good morning Setsuna.

[He gives a beaming smile to Hatter and waves.]

[Then he looks confused and points to the silent, not moving girl. Then he points to 'Li'. 'Why are they here?']

[Sorry Setsuna, ne has no idea what you're going on about this time.]

Yes, they're going out later for milk since it seems it was left off the grocery list someone made. But breakfast should be ready soon.

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[ 'Li' flicks a glance over his shoulder as Setsuna approaches. His disgruntled expression recoalesces into a polite mask, ] Oh -- Good morning! .....Setsuna, wasn't it? [ Inside, he thinks: Not a second's privacy in any room in this goddamn house. ]

[Setsuna can only smile and give a nod. Wow! This guy remembered his name, not bad.]

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[This is what hell is. THIS IS WHAT HELL IS.

He's deformed. He somehow has a blush on his cheeks EVEN THOUGH HE'S COVERED IN FUR.

And Hei and Yin have gone completely insane.

Mao throws himself dramatically on the floor (WHY IS HE THROWING HIMSELF DRAMATICALLY? WHAT IS HAPPENING TO HIM?!) and contemplates fleeing out the front door. Hei and Yin can take care of themselves.]

[For today, Yin mistakenly thinks Mao is their pet. So, of course, Doll or not, she can't just leave him flopped there. She goes over to pick him up, then silently takes him to the cat bowl where she put canned food earlier and shows it to him.]

MRAGH! YIN!

[His traitorous adorable body purrs. This is so undignified.]

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[ Oh, there's that damn housecat. It looks fatter everytime Hei sees it. Whisking eggs in a bowl for the next batch of pelmeni, 'Li' regards Mao sidelong. Quietly, he muses, ] We'll need to see about getting that cat fixed soon. It'll be spring before you know it...

Isn't he already fixed? [Yin was fairly certain he was.]

[Mao had been busy grumbling to himself, but when he notices Hatter looking at him, he immediately meows and begins purring. It's a humiliating act, but he has a cover to maintain.]

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