Kiddie AU - Post growth spurt

[sliceitwithwind]

It'd been a week, but Dilan...was nowhere near used to his new size. He kept banging into walls, doors, low hanging objects. Anything dangling from the ceiling, and he kept forgetting how wide his shoulders were as well. It was driving him insane.

Not to mention the fears that his size and new, distinct lack of "cuteness" meant that he was hideous looking. He wasn't ready to go back to college, not while still recovering from the agony of the growth spurt, so he was curled up at home trying to get used to himself. Braig had needed to go back and pick school work up for the two of them, trusting that Aya would take care of Dilan until he got back.

Dilan was curled up on the back porch with a couple of blankets and a book. And a protein shake the size of a monster slurpee cup.

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[sliceitwithwind]

Dilan floundered around in the shallows, cackling like a madman. Eventually, though, he got his hands on what he was looking for...and started chasing Aya with an octopus.

[mitochondriaaya]

...which led to a whole new game of 'help or hinder Aya'! Why did she run from the octopus? Why?! Because they had no camera right now that was why! That and, well, Dilan was chasing her with it.

Chasing her around walls of people and between people's knees who tried to stop her and right into the surf again where the 'hinder' party had arranged a net of arms. Curses!

[sliceitwithwind]

Eventually he managed to slap it to her head, where the poor thing gripped for it's life's sake.

[mitochondriaaya]

Yep, octopus on head. Aya crossed her eyes to watch one tentacles slap down and grip her nose, but then straightened up and mooooaaaned. OCTOPUS ZOMBIE! Octopus zombie who was slapping sea life on anyone she could catch. Mainly starfish and poor little hermit crabs because that was what she could grab!

[sliceitwithwind]

Which caused a new game, of running from Aya until assaulted with sea-animals and then slapping critters on other people.

Dilan ended up with hermit crabs all over his dreads.

[mitochondriaaya]

Best zombie game ever! The last survivors against the marine plague were being backed slowly into the surf when Dilan's watch beeped. That made most of the group freeze and look at each other, chagrined, then there was a general call of 'Help me get it off!'.

Aya was going to try the 'duck under the water and hope the octopus ran for it's life' tactic!

[sliceitwithwind]

The octopus totally ran for it's life. It was NEVER COMING HERE AGAIN! So did most of the rest of the sea-life, although Dilan needed some help with a couple of the poor crabs.

"That was awesome, I wish Braig'd been here."

[mitochondriaaya]

"We'll just have to play again Saturday night!" Aya laughed, helping to disengage one of the hermit crabs. "HEAR THAT?! SATURDAY NIGHT AFTER DARK GUYS!" Aya announced to the general crowd. It would probably be a slightly different crowd, and it might not evolve into marine zombie tag until later if the octopi were warned away from the beach but...

...yeah, it'd be fun. "Swim all day in other places and come here after dark!"

[sliceitwithwind]

The crowd waved and dispersed, Dilan passing Aya a towel and starting to rub himself down. "I'm glad we got big towels." he noted.

[mitochondriaaya]

Aya used her towel to squeeze Dilan's dreads before draping the fabric over her shoulders. "Yeah, and a bathing suit for you. You wouldn't have had as much fun trying to drag hakima through the surf!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Yeah, that would have been awkward." he agreed, ambling back home. "This was a good idea. I'm glad you had it."

[mitochondriaaya]

She wandered next to him, stretching her legs a little to keep up but certainly not complaining! "Eh, we're beach kids! It's what we're suppose to do when we're feeling down and stuff!" Really, it was in the rules! "And I bet you guys don't take enough time to chase people around at college. People are probably being too busy with school stuff or adult stuff."

[sliceitwithwind]

"Yeah." Dilan agreed, "And people get more weirded out since they're not used to Katzu. They don't get chase games like people here do."

[mitochondriaaya]

"I think everyone wants to chase things sometimes, a lot of people just don't admit it." Aya confided. "It's good for everyone! And especially you because katzu get extra doses of the chase things brain."

[sliceitwithwind]

"Probably." Dilan agreed, "I could maybe go out for football? Although I'm bigger than all of them. I wouldn't want to hurt anyone."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Track," Aya countered. "Lots of running and jumping and stuff? You don't necessarily get to chase things all the time but when you're running in relay you can!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Ooh, that's a possibility." He nodded, "I'll look into it! Maybe take up marathons as well..."

[mitochondriaaya]

Yes, Aya was beaming! She liked being a useful person to bounce ideas off of! "I'll come to events and scream until I can't talk!"

[sliceitwithwind]

Dilan wrinkled his nose, "Or you could also take up marathons, monkey. Humans do have it all over Olia in the long-distance running. Braig could scream."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Yeah, maybe, but I can't try out for your college team! So I would still be in the bleachers when you went running!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Yeah, but marathons aren't college related." Dilan said, "So...we'll both train for those, and I'll see about joining track."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Okay! I look up how to train for those properly and add the exercises to my week." And she would too! It would also be another way to keep her out of trouble as she got older really. "And Braig will think we're both crazy."

[sliceitwithwind]

"Well, yeah." Dilan agreed, "But he's lazy. It'll be fun!"

[mitochondriaaya]

"Yeah, he is," she agreed. "You'll outpace me now! Even in long distance stuff! So we'll have to take two places in a marathon!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Well, yeah." Dilan admitted, "But where you finish isn't important in a marathon. It's that you finish."