Vice AU - Vacation

[sliceitwithwind]

Dilan needed a break before the others did, although not by much. He needed to recover from having been ill, and he REALLY needed a good workout or seven. Spending the time in Aya's apartment wasn't bad, and after his first trip to Nara's gym he came back to spend some time watching TV and doing his hair.

Which is why when Ben got in there was a seven foot tall fluffy Katzu wearing a towel and a hell of a lot of piercings lounging in front of the TV with wax.

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[mitochondriaaya]

"Can you proof read?" Ben called down something like half an hour later. "I did it, but I may still have missed somthing!" He was a kid after all!

[sliceitwithwind]

"Sure. Want me to come up there or are you bringing it down here?" He called back.

[mitochondriaaya]

"You can come up if you want! There's room even though you're tall!" The livingroom area had a vaulted ceiling after all so the ceiling was a bit up there even in the loft area. "I'll finish a math problem I forgot okay?"

His room was...someone's damn best effort to give the boy a room that was his. Screens, a desk, a comfortable bed. The loft area was larger than a lot of kids could boast for their rooms!

[sliceitwithwind]

Dilan was careful not to knock anything over, not that it was messy just that Dilan was big and accidents happened. He settled in to read the essay, making notes about this or that bit of grammar or mis-used punctuation, "It's a good essay! There were a couple of things, but they're minor."

[mitochondriaaya]

"I usually catch the big stuff!' Ben was proud of that fact! "On like the second or third read but still I catch it!" Little stuff was harder to see.

"I'll type it tomorrow, and it's due the day after that!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Sounds good to me." Dilan agreed, "I grabbed my photos out of my wallet, so when you're ready to come down again you can go through them while I see what games you've got."

[mitochondriaaya]

"They're in the cabinet downstairs!" Ben laughed cheerfully. "C'mon!" It was a big, thin cabinet of bleached wood that held the thin television and associated systems. That way it could be closed off when anyone in the room just wanted a little indoor garden instead.

Ben was...going to open the doors for Dilan then collapse on a boulder pillow to go through photos. "Hey, there's kids in here! This one looks like you!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"A lot of 'em look like me." Dilan agreed, "The little purple-eyed kid is me, the rest of them are my bio-kids." no shame there, he was Katzu and they did this, "I've got pictures of most of the clan, actually, but all my bio-kids from all three clans that I've had kids in."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Oh, hey!" He flipped between kid pictures, comparing. "You've got a lot. That's good right? Do any of them live with you when you're not working?" Because Ben understood kids? He was one!

[sliceitwithwind]

"Nope, they're my bio-kids, but they belong to their parents. Braig and I want kids at some point, but not yet. Not as long as we're both doing this kind of work, you know? So these kids live down with the Clan and their parents. I see them once a year, the non-Dahnil ones for a couple days and the Dahnil ones for a couple of weeks."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Ah, okay, like adoptions right?" Not Dilan's but still his! He could get that! "And yeah, being a cop is hard I know." After all. Yeah.

"So this guy is Braig? What are you guys doing here? I can't tell...is that a house you're...tearing apart?" MASTER OF CHANGING SUBJECT!

[sliceitwithwind]

"Yup, that's him...back when he had both eyes. That's his parent's cottage, we renovated it the summer between high school and college." He liked talking about that, "It was fun."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Renovating means fixing right? How do you fix that pile of rubble?!" He held up the picture and laughed as only a twelve year old could really. "Oh, hey, pick a game yet?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"With a lot of work." Dilan said cheerfully, "How about this one? Looks like it's a two person game."

[mitochondriaaya]

"And glue. I bet there was glue!" Ben hopped off the couch to look at the game case, then grinned. "Space marines! And you can design your own armor!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"A little bit, when we were putting the woodwork back together." Dilan popped the game in, "Okay, walk me through this...I haven't played it before."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Okay, well, you hit start first and you'll be first player okay?" Ben passed a controller as a matter of course. "Then go allll the way over, yeah, that way, new profile! It's easy from there!"

...

"There was wood in that pile?!"

[sliceitwithwind]

Dilan followed Ben's instructions, building himself a nice Katzu Space Marine!

"Yup. Lots of wood on the inside, floors and staircases and walls."

[mitochondriaaya]

Katzu had nice trade offs! Physical and Stamina additions, but a lack of psionics. That was alright, their starting weapon was a heavy weapon! "Okay, first level we're gonna start out on our training planet. We're recruits but something goes wrong!" In fact the supply transport with the next month's supplies exploded and they had to find out why!

[sliceitwithwind]

Dilan could deal with that! A lack of psionics suited his play style. He picked things up relatively quickly, not super fast but quick enough.

[mitochondriaaya]

It was a...romp. That was the best way to describe it. A fun story about trying to get off a planet being taken over by an evil corporation that wanted trained goons.

Though they could go along with being goons if they wanted.

"...and that was lava. Yep. Lava." Oops.

[sliceitwithwind]

"Whooops. Sorry." Dilan said with a snort, "Didn't mean to fall over."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Hey, I fell too so you couldn't even respawn with me!" It had been kind of funny actually, respawning near each other as they fell, leapfrogging to the lava! "It happens when you run away from grenades. Play again tomorrow?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Sounds like a plan." Dilan said, "I may wander around in the first level a couple of times to try to get the controls better."

[mitochondriaaya]

"That's cool, I gotta go to school so you can do anything you want!" Because a good host let guests have fun without pouting! "You can even beat the game if you want, it's still different in multiplayer because we can give different answers and get different scenes per person!" And end up against each other even!

"...Aya arrested me and sent me to a penal colony."