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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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"Adah, listen to me," he said, dropping his voice. "You're the reason why."

And now Adah's body had her straightening whether she liked it or not, eyes steadily on him. It took a moment before she could think of what to even say to that.

"Lee," she said, "if we're not going to talk about it, we'd better not talk about it."

The last thing she needed was something like that pulling on the back of her brain. Even worse if she happened to cross the path of this kid before they departed in that weird sway that was Fandom bringing these things in and out, in and out, and she could shake the boys hand and tell him Hi, nice to meet you, I'm the reason you'll never actually exist.

"I didn't mean that like it sounded," he said and winced. "I just. You know the mother, okay? That's the reason you're the reason."

"Lee," Adah said, tightly, although that was more of a reflection of the physical effect this was having on her than the emotional one, "stop, okay, just...stop. I shouldn't have asked, I didn't want to ask, and I don't want to talk about it, anyway."

"Okay," he said, holding up a hand. "Okay, no more talking about it. I promise."

Adah's head jerked slightly, a bit of a nod,and she let out a breath, before her head jerked the other way, swaying a bit this time. "I should apologize," she said. "I'm the one who can't seem to have a conversation with you lately without...without getting like this."

He didn't nod his agreement but shrugged and asked, "Is everything all right? Am I just upsetting lately?"

"You're always upsetting," Adah managed to mutter, deadpan except for the small attempt at a little teasing grin as she looked up at the Eel from her current stooped posture. It softened a little, faded a bit. "I..I think I'm just having a rough time right now, that's all. It's not...it's not easy right now..."

"Rought time?" Lee asked. He could guess at a few things but he didn't realize it was that bad.

"Just...everything," Adah sighed. "Everything with you, with the internship, with graduating, with college, with my mother, with my family, with Africa, with here, with having to be on my own, with having this damn disease, everything." She tried to swallow past the tightness in her throat. "And now this, these two little glimpses at something that I don't know and I don't like staring me in the face."

"Well, not now they're not, but you know what I mean..."

"You need a vacation," he teased lightly. "Some time away from everything."

"I swear, I just had one, didn't I? Taking those bunnies to my mother? And even that I turned into a thing." She slumped again, but this time, head against the counter, she smiled a little up at him. "I'm hopeless. I'm sure it's the disease's fault. Or my parents'. Or my sisters'. Or yours."

"A lot of things are my fault," he said and leaned down to get at eye level with her. "But, I try to make them better when I can."

Adah's smile grew a little, though remaining soft, relaxed, keeping it there so she could just enjoy this exact moment, and not think about what lead to it or what would happen afterwards. Just her, awkwardly bent but comfortable, and him, barely hesitating to lean to her level. "Yeah, you do all right. Keep it pretty balance...Sometimes."

"I do my best," he said quietly, smiling at her. "I try."

"I'm glad you do," Adah said softly, shifting forward a little for a light kiss before settling back. "I think you're slightly insane for it, but I'm glad."

"You think I'm slightly insane for a lot of things," he reminded her with a smile.

"You know," Adah added, "I'm going to be a doctor. That makes my opinion an informed, medical opinion. So it's probably true."

"So, what you're basically saying is you're right?" he asked, smile on his face.

"Well," Adah asked after a moment of faux consideration. "That goes without saying; I usually am right. Basically, I'm just exceptionally right in this case."

"I think I just saw your ego explode," he teased. "Wow."

"Oh, no," Adah lightly shook her head. "An ego as big as mine would make a much bigger mess."

"If it keeps growing, you won't be able to fit in a room," he warned. "You'll be ostracized."

"See, that's the hidden blessing in my disease," she pointed out. "Half-brain, more room for ego. And I'm already ostracized; I like ostracized, so tell me what the problem is here again?"

"You're so contradictory," he said and sighed. "And you like it just like that."

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