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[beforetights]

Who: Cu Chulainn, Diarmuid, and everyone else.
Where: All around the city
When: After 9/20
Summary: Cu Chulainn is a fussy little boy because he doesn't feel good
Warnings: Sickness, whining children

1. Various places; open

[Cu Chulainn felt sick. It wasn't anything new either. Ever since he had come to the city, his unsupervised diets of sweets, junk food, and meat constantly gave him stomachaches. However, this was the worst stomachache yet. Every step he takes, he feels like he wants to puke.]

[He would lie down, but Diarmuid isn't in his room and he dislikes staying home sick by himself. Especially since there seems to be something exciting going on in the city. Therefore, he was trudging around, looking for his friend.]

[Maybe you can find him lying down on a bench, pouting. Or maybe you can find him sitting on the beach, throwing a shell up and down in the air. Maybe you can find him at network monitor, poking at the touch screen. Or, perhaps, he has his nose pressed against the glass window of a random shop, seemingly staring at something inside. No matter where he is or what he does, he seems to lack his usual energy.]

2. Outside District 4, locked to Diarmuid

[Cu Chulainn was already irritated from feeling sick. It's worse because he can't find his friend. And it's much, much worse when he realizes he can't enter the new district that everyone is having fun in. Not without feeling faint and almost passing out. So he's standing right outside the district. Glaring daggers at those people bustling around within. Especially one little boy passing between the various structures.]

[He had finally found his friend, and now he's not very happy that only one of them gets to be in the new district.]

Comments

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He did it because he really likes you, and he is happy you are taking him home!

[Diarmuid giggles as his puppy licks his face as well.]

See! Both are puppies are happy they get to come with us. We all are going to be one big family of boys and puppies!

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[He giggles and takes the puppy's paws, making it clap.]

Yay! A family! We're a big happy family!

[smallspot]

[Diarmuid gathers his puppy up into his arms and dances around in front of the bench with it. The puppy excitedly licks his face as he does.]

Yay, a family! The best family ever!

[In fact, the only way it could be better was if he father was here.]

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Wait! Don't we need a Mommy and a Daddy to be a family?

[He tickles his puppy on the chin, making it lick him more. He's a little too tired to do anything but sit with the puppies.]

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[Diarmuid dances with his puppy for a moment more before tiredness catches up to him too and he sits down on the bench by his friend, shaking his head.]

There are all kinds of families and not all of them have mothers and fathers. Father tells me the Fianna is like a family and they are all men. They are just a family of brothers!

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But we're not even that!

[He snaps, prompting a whine from the puppy.]

I don't have any brothers! And we're just friends!

[He pouts.]

I wish we could be brothers...Then we'd be a family...

[smallspot]

Why can't we be brothers?

[Diarmuid isn't phased by his friend's harsh tone.]

My father isn't my father by blood, but he's still my father! We don't have to share blood to be brothers. We just have to decide to be brothers!

[He crawls over closer to Cu Chulainn.]

You want to be my brother, right? So lets be brothers!

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[His eyes go wide and his mouth drops open.]

Really? We can be brothers? Just like that?

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[Diarmuid nods his head excitedly.]

Just like that as long as we want to be! And if anyone says differently, they are liars!

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[He has his arms full of puppy, so he can't exactly hug Diarmuid right now, but he nuzzles against his new brother.]

Then you're my new big brother! And I'm your little brother!

[smallspot]

That makes me the luckiest big brother ever!

[Diarmuid's arms and lap are pretty full of puppy too, so he just returns the nuzzle, settling closer to Cu Chulainn on the bench. For a moment he closes his eyes, the statement causing something to feel odd in his head, but the feeling passes quickly enough he doesn't really dwell on it.]

So what will we name our puppies, brother?

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And I'm the luckiest little brother in the world.

Hm....what about Grey and White? Since they're gray and white. Or maybe Giant and Fluffball? Because yours is big and mine is fluffy.

[smallspot]

I like Grey and White! They sound like good Druid names!

[Diarmuid suddenly starts giggling.]

Our puppies are magic puppies then!

[beforetights]

Yes, they can be like fairy puppies! And they'll come to our aid if we whistle and seize chariots all by themselves!

[smallspot]

Yes! They will!

[Diarmuid cheers.]

But once they are bigger. They are just like us now. They have a lot to learn!

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I'll teach the puppies! Just like you'll teach me! But who'll the puppies teach?

[smallspot]

They can teach each other! Or other puppies! How's that?

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That sounds great! They should teach other puppies so all the puppies can be magical!

[smallspot]

That would be great, wouldn't it? Everyone having magical puppies!

[Diarmuid reaches down and pats Grey on the head.]

You will make me proud when you get big. I know you will. And you will help me practice to be a good knight!

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[Cu Chulainn, meanwhile, scratches White on the ear.]

And you'll make me proud too. Don't lose to Grey over there!

[smallspot]

And don't you lose to White! Okay, Grey?

[Diarmuid gives his puppy a kiss on the top of his head.]

Do you want to go a little farther now? I can try to carry the bag...or maybe we can drag it a little way? One of us on each side and one puppy for each?

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That's a good idea.

[He hops off the bench. His stomach seems fine right now.]

I think it would be better to drag it since you're not as strong as I am.

[smallspot]

[Diarmuid nods, gathering Grey into one arm and then grabbing a hold of one side of the bad.]

Just tell me if you start feeling bad again and we can rest. Oh! And we have to be careful not to tear the bag!

[Thankfully, it seems to be a pretty strong bag.]

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[The bag really is strong. Strong enough to last until they're almost home. Only then does it fray. Cu Chulainn notices it when White struggles out of his arms to go much on the food.]

Hey! There's a hole in the bag!

[smallspot]

Oh no! And we were so close to home too!

[Diarmuid looks at the bag sadly as Grey wiggles out of his arms to go munch on some food too.]

Do you want to run to the apartment and get something to cover the hole with? I can watch the puppies!