Marathon!

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Aya had trained faithfully, just like she promised (and despite her period starting a few months after that promise. Really? She didn't need that!). The weights had been added by about the second month of training and she was really, really proud of her stamina!

And the marathon they'd chosen as their first was coming up this weekend, with fund raising as done by Elcy...and yeah. "Don't tell me you have to cancel!" she said into the phone, pulling one foot up to stretch out her thighs. "Don't! I can't go and do this alone!"

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"Mmmngh." Dilan informed Aya, going limper.

"We should both get clean." Little Braig said firmly, "Dilan is all over dirt."

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"Oh, he melts." Aya chuckled and grinned over at Braig. "And how are you doing Braig? I know you didn't run but everyone else got footrubs today. Do you want one too?" Equal opportunity footrubs!

"Alright, bath time then. Let me put this away and we can get your water run. "No, Dilan baby, don't wipe your hands on his hair."

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"I'm good." Braig promised, "Just make sure Dilan's feeling okay, okay?"

"'IZARD!" Braig started heading inside as Lenna turned the camera off.

They also got both Braig and Dilan's first time in the ocean. (Braig took to it like a fish, Dilan clung to his mother's neck and screamed bloody blue murder until Braig showed him it was fun.) Beginning surfing lessons, and a lot of playing. Several birthdays, and a couple of clips from when Dilan was sick and Braig was carefully tending to him.

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"I'm on it!" Aya agreed cheerfully. "Stick a pillow under his head in case he falls asleep?" Because Dilan would get a crick in his neck if he stayed leaning on Braig's leg while sleeping!

"No, Dilan, a fish is not a lizard!" That was a fun conversation to catch on tape wasn't it? Neither was a seagull, a shrimp, a crab...the crab was fun. There was an equal amount of time being chased as chasing! Birthdays, playing, first day of school for Dilan...

"You guys really did do everything together huh?"

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"Got it." Braig stuck a pillow there and then resumed stroking Dilan's hair.

"Yeah." Dilan murmured, "Really did. Still do. The three of us."

The last video in the box had the three of them running around on the beach together, Braig ordering the other two in making a giant sandcastle.

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"Most stuff," Aya agreed. "All three of us! Oh, hey, I remember that castle!" She hadn't been that good, she was six, and her engineering theory had been a little shaky. But giant it had become!

Very giant!

"I didn't know they had a camera on us."

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"Dad got sneaky." Braig said, grinning, "You were so small, monkey."

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"I'm still small." Aya snorted. "Not quite that small but still bitty compared to you both. I could totally still fit in the doorway of the castle we built!"

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"Yeahhhh." Braig looked proud, "It was a good castle...I think that's it, though."

"Mmmmnngh." Dilan agreed. His feet finally stopped hurting!

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"It was okay. We'd totally shore it up better now." Practice made perfect after all! And education. Yep. "And it's alright if that's all. We remember the rest right? Hmmm, don't really want to move though."

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"So." Braig asked, smiling down the couch at her, "Did you enjoy seeing us as little kids?"

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"Yeah, you guys were good kids!" Aya laughed. "And you were sooooo adult! You were like a little Yinsi! Gotta get clean, what if it makes him sick..." she teased happily. "So responsible!"

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"Hey, Aunt Lenna gave him to me." Braig said, "I've gotta take care of him."

"'M not a pet."

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"Not a pet but certainly our kitten." Aya reached out to pet Dilan's leg with a grin and tucked herself sideways on the couch to sprawl on his knees. "And you take good care of him."

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"We've got a good thing going." Braig said quietly, reaching over to pet Aya as well as Dilan, "A really good thing." Love me.

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"We do! I'm glad you guys found me!" Else it would still be the two of them! They'd have a good thing but she wouldn't! "But if Dilan ever drops a lizard tail down my I'm going to smack him."

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"I won't drop a lizard tail down your shirt." Dilan promised, "I was really little!"

"Yeah, now he can stuff the whole lizard in his mouth."

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"Yeah, but now your mouth is way above me!" Aya laughed. "If you were chewing a lizard and it was fighting..." and he was standing over her that'd be an issue!

"Remember that time we tried to find porch lizards because Dilan wanted one when he was sick?" Incoherent mumbling totally translated to 'GET HIM WHAT HE WANTS' with them!

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"Aya, I break their necks." Dilan said, "It'd be cruel otherwise."

"Heh, yeah. Man, that was a lousy year."

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"THEIR TAILS MOVE INDEPENDENTLY ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY COME OFF!" It was a twitch reaction or something! "And yeah, it was, and Elcy wouldn't let us go get a lizard at the pet store. Now that I think about it, he said 'Izard' then didn't he?"

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"Aya, stop yelling." Braig asked, wincing, "We're in the house. Yeah, he did. Can't blame him, can you? He was really sick."

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"Sorry!" she winced and reached up to pat Braig. "Sorry. Wiggly tails." Yeah. Anyway. "And yeah, he was. And when we got back from trying to find lizards he was asleep again. Did we ever let that snail go?" The one they found when checking under the porch and brought inside just in case!

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"Yeah, I put it outside." Braig said, smiling and stroking Dilan's dreads. "We got him to drink soup instead, when he woke up."

"I'm really lucky that I've got you two, to take care of me."

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"Oh good, 'cause I forgot and I didn't want to run into a poor little mummy snail." She'd feel bad about that really! "And hey, we like taking care of each other! You guys took care of me last night! And when Braig gets colds we take care of him!"

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"Yeah. We're a pretty awesome family." Dilan agreed.

Braig nodded and reached over to pet Aya.