A Room at the Arms Hotel, Saturday Morning

[vanillajello]

Dorian Owens was a pretty resourceful and brave little boy. So, when he couldn't locate his parents at the big building he'd found them last time, and he heard someone mention an awful lot of people would be at the hotel this morning, he set on his way across town

Lots of bright persuasive smiles, a rickshaw ride, and a helpful hotel employee later he found himself at a door behind which he was supposed to find his parents. So, he knocked. Enthusiastically.

Inside the room, in bed, it made Kate frown lightly. "Did you order room service breakfast or something?" she mumbled, still half asleep.

[ooc: For the two pale dudes, and masses of SP!]

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[vanillajello]

"Aww. Well you are about as cuddly as a teddy bear, I think." And this was making her remember something. "Uh, hey, Dorian? Do you still like double hugs?"

Also know as that thing that had absolutely destroyed her poor, poor heart last year.

[puddingordeath.livejournal.com]

"Yep!" Dorian said, pulling back, eyes bright. "Does that mean I get one nooooooow?"

[vanillajello]

"Well, I don't know," Kate teased. "Think you're gonna have to check that with your dad."

[therewaslife]

"Daddy!" Dorian asked, spinning around. "I wanna double hug! Mum said to ask you!"

"Double hug?" Bod asked before realization dawned. "Oh, like last time?"

"Yep!"

"Very well," Bod said, moving closer to the pair of them.

[vanillajello]

Kate gathered Dorian up closer to herself again, and smiled at Bod over the boy's head.

"Nothing like last time," she mouthed at him so Dorian wouldn't hear.

[therewaslife]

Bod smiled at that and slid closer, putting his arms around Kate and pressing himself gently against Dorian so they were pretty much hugging each other and the little boy was caught right in the middle. It was a good double hug. It wasn't fraught with tension and sadness like last time.

[vanillajello]

Kate curled her fingers into his shirt and sighed. She remembered barely being able to breathe, last time. Yeah, this was different.

"This is comfortable."

[therewaslife]

"S'warm too," Dorian said from between them. He was pretty comfortable too. "Dun fall asleep, Mom!"

But, he'd fallen asleep in these before so he couldn't blame her.

"At least no one has a potato chip in their mouths if they do fall asleep," Bod added.

[vanillajello]

Kate snorted, giving Dorian a little squeeze. "Yeah, that's not gonna happen right now," she assured them. "I love you. Both of you. You should remember that."

It had very little to do with chips but she felt like saying it.

[therewaslife]

"I love you both too," Bod murmured, pressing a kiss against Dorian's hair and sighing.

"Love you too!" Dorian chirped happily. "And will forever and ever and ever!"

[vanillajello]

"So will we," Kate sighed. "We so will, Dorian. Us here and the us you have at home, you can count on that. Forever and ever and ever."

[puddingordeath.livejournal.com]

"Yay!"

Dorian wiggled around in the embrace and giggled.

"I feel like I'm inna fort again."

[vanillajello]

Kate snickered. "Like a parent fort? Well, I guess we are keeping you pretty safe right now. Like, it's not like you can escape or anything."

[puddingordeath.livejournal.com]

That sounded like a challenge to Dorian.

"I could too escape!" he said. "Could could could could!"

[vanillajello]

"Oh, I don't think so," Kate replied, teasing. "No, I think your daddy and I have a pretty good hold on you. Don't you, Bod?"

[therewaslife]

"I've gotten fairly strong since the last time I saw you," Bod said agreeably. "I don't think you could do it, Dorian."

Dorian wiggled a little more, trying to see if he could use his size to squirm out.

[vanillajello]

He might've been all small and wiggly, but Kate was totally going to try and wrap her arms a little tighter around him, though.

Hah.

[puddingordeath.livejournal.com]

Giggling, Dorian kept squirming and wiggling before trying to find some of his mom's bare skin so he could give her a raspberry!

His dad had taught him that one.

[vanillajello]

And predictably, Kate's hold loosened as she laughed, surprised.

"That is not playing fair, Dorian!"

[puddingordeath.livejournal.com]

Dorian wiggled out of the hold and rolled around on the bed, laughing. "Is so! Daddy taught me how to do that and it aaaaaaaaalways works, Mum!"

[vanillajello]

Kate gave Bod' shoulder a playful little push. "Your fault."

[therewaslife]

"I can't help it if he's resourceful," Bod said, laughing. "And I can't help it if it does really work all the time. It just means you're predictable, Cuddle Bunny."

[vanillajello]

"Oh shush, English Muffin," Kate retorted, waving a hand at him, dismissively. "I'm not that preditable."

Yes she was.

[therewaslife]

"Yes, you are," Bod said, laughing.

"You are you are you are!" Dorian joined in even if he didn't really know what they were talking about. "Let's go play somewhere!"

[vanillajello]

"Somewhere like where?" Kate asked. "Like to the park, or –– is that my phone?"

Yes, it totally was her phone, ringing in her bag.