[For Will, Lilo] welcome to my silly life
When they get close to Will and Magnus's place, Kate puts her fingers to her lips and whistles. Both Lilo and Bonny come scampering back to her side. Lilo's got her face tilted up and Kate has to arch her eyebrows and cock her head toward the path to keep her from tripping and falling. Bonny's not much help, running around them in circles, jumping up for pets and nudging at Lilo's hands with her nose. She's getting better, though, with Lilo around to give her lots of affection.
They're all getting better. Better enough that Kate's laughing at Lilo asking if Elvis can ever come to the island, even though she's asked every day since she learned. Better enough that Kate's gut's not twisting even knowing what she's coming to talk to Will about. It's a bright good day, and maybe they'll go to the beach and Lilo can surf later.
She whistles again when they get to the hut. This time for Will. It's kind of handy that they all come to the same call. "Hey, Willmeister! You home?" That's just so he doesn't feel like a kid or a puppy.
They're all getting better. Better enough that Kate's laughing at Lilo asking if Elvis can ever come to the island, even though she's asked every day since she learned. Better enough that Kate's gut's not twisting even knowing what she's coming to talk to Will about. It's a bright good day, and maybe they'll go to the beach and Lilo can surf later.
She whistles again when they get to the hut. This time for Will. It's kind of handy that they all come to the same call. "Hey, Willmeister! You home?" That's just so he doesn't feel like a kid or a puppy.
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"Behind the house!" Will shouts when he hears Kate calling for him, and then goes around the corner to meet her. She has a little entourage with her, and though he hasn't met Lilo yet, he's heard all about her. Cute kid.
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"Good call, kiddo," she says when Will's finished introducing himself. "I've been dying to ask Detective Matchstick that for years."
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Then she remembers her manners. "Yes, I'm Lilo. You're Kate's ohana. Like Helen."
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"Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. Stitch is my dog. He's the best dog in the whole world. He's blue and fuzzy and he can talk. I was mad at him when I ran away but now I miss him. He's part of my ohana too."
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"It's not and that's why she quit. Also because Stitch tried to eat a lady's head. But she was okay." Lilo still feels a little bad about that. "But then Nani didn't have a job and that wasn't good either. And she was trying to find a job but it wasn't easy and then aliens attacked and I called Cobra Bubbles and he came but then he tried to take me away!" She takes a deep breath, having hardly stopped for one that whole speech.
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She nudges him with her shoulder. "You're going to be a great dad. Don't even worry about it. If I can do this, you can."
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As far as he knows, Magnus is perfectly healthy. And it isn't like the island has a history of maternal-fetal morbidity--as far as he knows, the maternal death rate here is zero. But also, as far as he knows, none of the other mothers on the island were on the other side of a hundred and sixty, and Magnus no longer has whatever it was in her blood that got her to that age.
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She waits a few beats, just to let the tease rest, and then: "She's going to be fine, Will. Even without the immortality, the Source blood made her strong. Physically, she's probably not older than you are."
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"We were in a sub once in the Bermuda Triangle," he says, trying to explain. "This parasite got in her brain and made her homicidal. I figured out how to save her. When she took that ozone beetle to hide from the Triad, we all figured out what she'd done. Right before we got here, I pulled her out of an air vent in an oil rig. That stuff, I can do. But this... I can't do anything but wait."
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Thing is, she's pretty sure that's not doing much to help with the fear of losing her. Kate bites her lip and puts a hand on his arm. "I know she's, like, your whole world. And... I don't really know how that feels, but when you guys are out on retrievals and I should be there and I'm waiting to hear... it sucks. There's nothing you can do. You just have to believe."
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She sobers a little to say, more quietly, "You know I suck at all this feelings and talking stuff--" Even if she's getting better at it by the day. "But you're not doing this alone. When you can't believe, I will." And if anything does happen to Magnus, she'll be here.
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