Marathon!

[mitochondriaaya]

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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[mitochondriaaya]

"Who's the best?" Aya asked curiously. "I mean, besides you guys? Will you have to leave the country? Can I come?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Nah, we'll be staying in states." Dilan said, as Braig rattled off a list of other people in their fields.

[mitochondriaaya]

"Well, maybe you had to go work with guys in wheelchairs in Hong Kong or something!" Aya laughed to Dilan's assertion. She was relieved though. "Are they fun?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Yeah! Everyone is really great about how young we are...it doesn't matter, you know? All that matters is that we can do the work."

"It's awesome...just what I always wanted."

[mitochondriaaya]

"So they want your brains and it's okay you're not all the way grown yet! Awesome!" she grinned. "You still get to play games and stuff though right? You don't have to act like adults all the time?" Because she wouldn't like that for them.

"I'm glad you're happy. You get your labs and science and get to talk all in elements if you want?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Yeah, of course." Dilan said, "We get to play all the time...it's just...science is like playing. It's fun, as well as useful."

"It's not just a job, babe."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Huh," Aya sighed, thinking that over. "It's fun when I do science with you guys? But everyone else thinks it's just...schoolwork?" she offered. "You guys think different! It's cool!"

"I hope I love my job like that when I'm grown up."

[sliceitwithwind]

"I know." Braig said, "Dilan and I are different...but I bet that when you find the job you love, you'll love it as much as we love science."

"Yeah!" Dilan agreed, "We won't let you settle for less."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Different fun!" Aya asserted. They were! They were a lot of fun! "Does this mean you'll kidnap me or something if I end up doing fast food or retail or something like that?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Yup." Braig said, "Unless you've decided to do it while in school for the experience. No living your life like that."

All of them have had summer jobs.

[mitochondriaaya]

Well, summer jobs when they weren't in the territories! And even this summer they might pick up a week or three with a carnival or something when they got back! "Okay, if it runs longer than a summer kidnap me and figure out who brainwashed me!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Will do." Dilan promised.

Braig said, "Yeah...you're just not cut out for retail."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Hey, I could sell stuff if I really wanted!" Aya laughed and poked Braig's side. "What if I wanted to open a store?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"If you wanted to open a store you'd have a lot more work than just selling things." Braig said, "So you wouldn't get nearly as bored."

[mitochondriaaya]

"I guess that's fair," she laughed. "But I wouldn't know what to sell so that's not going to happen." She was going to be a cop!

[sliceitwithwind]

"Yeah...and you're going to be an awesome cop." Braig said, petting her again.

"Yeah!" Dilan agreed.

[mitochondriaaya]

"I'll have to get training and beat experience outside of town here, so I'll have to live somewhere else for a while, but then I'll be a cop here!" She'd been researching! It was just what one did when making big decisions! "I promise not to get tempted away by the big cities or anything!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Better not." Dilan said, "'Cause then we'd have to move there with you, and that'd kinda suck."

[mitochondriaaya]

She wrinkled her nose at Dilan and shook her head. "What are you talking about? You guys will move you know. There's no real labs here, and Ansem doesn't live here so you have to be near him!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Yeah, but that won't be home because you won't be there." Dilan pointed out.

Braig just nodded.

[mitochondriaaya]

"But it'll be where you live," duh. "It won't be healthy if you guys don't have a home you can stay at all the time! Home is where you're safe, and where you relax! It's your territory!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"You're home." Braig said, "Where we'll be living will be our house."

[mitochondriaaya]

Ehhhhh?!"A person isn't a home! And you can't come to me all the time! You guys would go nuts with traveling and lack of sleep!" IT WASN'T HEALTHY FOR THEM!

[sliceitwithwind]

"Just accept it." Braig said, poking her nose.

"Yeah. It can't really be home without you."

[mitochondriaaya]

"You guys are going to go crazy!" And they did just fine before Aya was there! They did! "Then I'll go crazy! And we can't get locked up together they segregate asylums!"