Oh those lovely lawsuits

[mitochondriaaya]

Aya reached out to slap her alarm clock and pulled the covers over her head. She really didn't want to get out of bed today. The very idea of going into the courtroom scared her. Yes, she'd have to get over that eventually, but suing...suing just gave her the creeps. It felt like things were out of hand. Out of control.

She hated that feeling.

That meant she wanted to stay in bed. Sadly, she could smell coffee. And the snooze button wasn't where it was suppose to be...in fact, her alarm wasn't where it was suppose to be. "The hell?" she muttered from within the blankets.

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[mitochondriaaya]

"Let's hear it for air conditioning." she lifted her arms in a victory cheer and held the front door open again. "Worried about what Braig will have waiting for us?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Nope." Dilan says, smiling, "For all his...eccentricity...he loves us."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Love does not prevent 'Night of the rabbit' or the like." she pointed out wisely, locking the door behind them soundly.

[sliceitwithwind]

"True. But it allows us to noogie the hell out of him for it."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Him being family keeps his punishment light." she laughed, pounding down the stairs instead of taking the elevator again. She had some excess energy to get a handle on now that the trial was over...

[sliceitwithwind]

Dilan pounds after her.

...

It honestly doesn't occur to him what a large man in a lab coat running after a what appears to be a child might look like.

[mitochondriaaya]

There were reason Aya hated dressing young? It led to so many problems.

...

Did it help any that the man pounding after her was only a year older?

[sliceitwithwind]

Not when he was that much bigger and looks way older!

He swoops her up and hefts her so that she can sit on his shoulder after about two blocks. Best part about being huge: she fits on his shoulder.

[mitochondriaaya]

She'd been completely annoyed when they learned she was as wide as one of his shoulder...but she'd come to some kind of terms with it since then. It helped that it was fun. She was laughing and clinging to his head with one hand by the time they pounded into the restaurant.

[sliceitwithwind]

He laughs, deep and joyful laughter that just...rings. "Good afternoon!" he sings out to the front desk, "We'd like to place a to-go order."

[mitochondriaaya]

Aya had to flop down backward on Dilan's back in order to avoid the emergency exit sign, but after a few false starts she managed to sit back up and grin at the hostess. "Fried noodles and an order of spice beef for me, every other appetizer and shrimp noodles for Braig?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Yup." Dilan agrees, "And three lemon-cilantro chicken for me."

What? He's huge!

[mitochondriaaya]

Any guy who carried in a girl, even a little girl, and had yet to put her down wasn't going to get any guff about a large order. Nope. He could have what he liked, he'd earned it. "You're so getting a sucrose headache today." Aya grinned and patted the to[p of his head.

[sliceitwithwind]

"Am not." he says, grinning, "I like this place 'cause they don't add any of that crap to the lemon-cilantro chicken."

"Indeed we don't!" the clerk says proudly, "No need to, it's a family recipe since before our country knew about sugar cane."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Well, okay, but you're headed for a fructose crash too." she teased. "It's really good to know though, I'll remember that." she beamed at the clerk and at least her smile wasn't a little kids!

[sliceitwithwind]

"Totally planning on a fructose crash." Dilan agrees happily, "And you two nuts are going to have a sucrose crash."

The clerk beamed back and then went to get their order started.

A five year old girl is staring at Aya with jealousy. Her brother never does that for her.

[mitochondriaaya]

"Tomorrow is going to suck." Aya agreed cheerfully "Headaches and sleeping on odd positions all around!" then she noticed the little girl and poked Dilan's chin in the proper direction

[sliceitwithwind]

Dilan smiles down at the little girl and kneels because, face it, he likes kids. "Hey, there. I'm Dilan, and this is my baby sister Ayay."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Ay-a" she corrected with a light slap to the back of Dilan's head. She didn't mind the nickname but introductions should be done properly! She almost added the 'I'm an albino' line but she didn't want to confuse the kid! "He's got another shoulder if you want to sit!" because she could totally offer it!

[sliceitwithwind]

"If your mom says it's okay." Dilan says, instantly, smiling up at the mother, "I'm Dilan, one of Ansem's apprentices. This is Aya Brea, my adopted little sister."

The mother looks the two of them up and down, then nods. Dilan is good at setting people at ease when he wants to.

"Up and at 'em...?"

"Kelly!"

"Up and at 'em, Kelly! Grab my dreadlocks like Ayay is, okay?"

"She says it's Aya!"

[mitochondriaaya]

"Welcome aboard Kelly. If you tug a little he turns!" Aya grinned again and offered a handful of dreads as the girl half-clambered up. "It really is Aya, he just likes my nickname."

[sliceitwithwind]

Dilan grins, "Hang on tight, I'm standing up, okay? And I've had Aya since she was six. Back then she had these giant blue eyes and surprised little face, and she reminded me of an Ayeaye. So it's been Ayay for ten years."

[mitochondriaaya]

Aya snaked an arm around Dilan's head and around Kelly's waist as an additional safety measure as he stood, then let go. "He thinks I look like lemur." she sighed in a classic little sister tone. "Do you still have that magazine picture in your wallet Dilan?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Yup!" He reaches slowly and pulls his wallet out, passing it up to Aya. "Got the Ayeaye near a picture of baby Aya, the black lemur next to a picture of Braig, the yawning Fossa Braig found to put next to his own, and family pictures.

[mitochondriaaya]

"Okay, our other brother looks exactly like that lemur." Aya admitted. It was why they snipped that particular picture "But my hair is never that bad." she grinned.

"And Dilan totally has that many teeth."