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FTEC -- Sunday, April 27 -- Evening.

Adah wondered if perhaps she should feel just a bit bad about having just sent the twins off to entertain themselves, but, hey. They were clearly smart kids and it wasn't like there was traffic that they might accidentally play in. Or lions and snakes, for that matter, so, already, she considered herself a better parent than her parents, since they didn't seem to have too much of an issue with letting their children play in the jungle, let alone on a restricted island with lots of actually trustworthy and responsible other people on it.

So she just settled in behind the front desk, sighed deeply, and closed her eyes to enjoy just a bit more time to herself before they inevitably got tired of their ice cream and came back to find her here. Maybe she could think of little things to make them do around the clinic once they returned, too.

And then maybe she could figure out what the hell it meant when Emily had been surprised that Adah limped.

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And, eventually, as expected, the twins bored themselves out and went to go find their mother in the clinic.

Of course, given free range of the day gave them the chance to come up with ways to entertain themselves.

And now Emily was bursting into the room, dragging Edgar in behind her, covered in something red and blotchy all over his skin.

"Mama! Mama! The ice cream was a bad idea! I think Edgar's allergic to Rocky Road!"

Adah really hated the sharp, visceral wince that that cry was starting to inspire in her, closing her eyes tightly for a moment as her peace was interrupted, especially when she considered what she was being interrupted for. She let out a groan. They've got to be kidding...

Of course, the second Adah opened her eyes and saw her two devil children standing in front of her at the desk, she took one look at Emily, barely holding back a smirk, and then a glance toward Edgar and those red splotches, and then back to Emily.

"...It looks like you took a mixture of woodglue, cottage cheese, and ketchup, put it on his face, and then tried to pass it off as an allergic reaction..."

Dog, her kids were weird. Inventive, but weird.

"Told you she'd figure it out," Edgar sulked through all the crap slathered on his face.

"Oh, shut up," Emily snapped back with a sigh.

Since Lee hadn't opened the library today, he figured he'd stop in at the clinic and just peek in, just to see if everyone had kids. He'd dropped William off earlier with his now calmed down mother so he was alone when he wandered in.

When Adah glanced up and saw someone who wasn't pint-sized walking through that clinic door, she only had one thing to say, "Oh, thank Dog you're actually older than a decade and don't share my genetic structure."

Which, really, she would have said to anyone who wasn't the devil twins, but, out of the possibilities that weren't, this was one of the nicer ones. Hopefully. It would all sort of depend on how the Eel would take news of this sort.

"And hi to you too," he laughed as he came inside. "Having a fun day?"

The look on Adah's face made it clear that she wasn't too fond of the idea that it might be a laughable situation. "As fun as one can have under these circumstances," she muttered.

He smiled again. "Don't glare at me. I didn't escape the effects this time either."

"I'll glare at you as much as I want," Adah said, sending another firm glare towards him and that smile before it shifted into just a cool lift of her eyebrow. "You know about the kids, then?"

"Yup," Lee said, nodding. "I found one in a hallway calling me daddy and wanting to fly Vipers."

Vipers. Nice. Despite herself, Adah grinned, just a bit, a wry, sarcastic little thing as she rolled her eyes and commented, "I have twins," she said. "I sent them into one of the exam rooms to go play with some rusty needles." She jerked her head toward the door to the rooms where she knew the twins were in actuality coloring on some unused test charts and probably sucking on too many lollipops from the nurse that offered to keep an eye on them. "One of them is sharp as a tack and doesn't shut up, and the other one tries to eat his hands."

"Two for you?" He grinned. "Only one for me and he just wants to fly and throw bananas."

Adah nodded slightly. "Two for me. It's those damn twin genes. And, I have to admit, the throwing bananas seems a little random..."

"He threw it at Lieutenant Kerrigan," Lee said, grinning. "I told him he could."

Adah took a second to really, really picture the Eel with children, and it just came out to be two little brats, one of which just happened to be older and bigger than the other.

"Oh, I'm sure she just loved that..."

"Well, she didn't yell at me so I take it a victory," Lee said, smiling. "Probably because I had a little boy on my shoulders but still."

"Using a child as a shield against consequences," Adah commented, tsking slightly as she shook her head. "Have you no shame?"

"Hey," he said and shook his head, "I didn't use him as a shield. Merely as a distraction."

"Mmhm," Adah nodded. "And using him to act out your innermost desires of throwing a banana at the Lieutenant."

Adah paused, blinking, straightening slightly.

"And, wow, did that sound Freudian..."

"Yeah, that sounded weird," he said and made a face. "I might have bad dreams about that one."

Adah couldn't help chuckling just a bit. "Sorry about that."

"I don't think you are," Lee said and made a face at her. "You like doing that to me."

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