firstofitskind | MHA #6, Sunday Evening

The last two days in the Kincaid-Price household had been, uh, interesting. First and most obviously, there was the appearance of some animal but not actually animal visitors. There had been Kestrel, of course, and then there'd been who had shown up claiming to belong to Verity:

"Jack."

"Your name is Jack."

"Yup"

"Jack the jackalope?"

"Yup."

The talking part of which wasn't even as startling as it might be for most. And that was because of the mice. Which led to the other really interesting thing: once they'd figured out that these animals- daemons- were in fact extensions of human souls, two schools of thought had immediately formed: those that believed the new arrivals needed to have names bestowed upon them so they could be properly worked into the canon, and those who believed that, as part of their gods, they were already covered, namewise.

That the daemons would likely disappear either tomorrow or in a few days, as is typical with Fandom, Did Not Matter, as it had been pointed out that They Have Always Been There, You Just Did Not Know It. Therefore, they would continue to exist once they've disappeared.

"For does NOT the Pilgrim Priestess search high and low for he God of Empty Rooms and Cold Regrets with no sign of him nor proof he still lives? Is not our entire life based around the faith of That Which We Feel But Can Not See?" remarked one of the acolytes early on in the discussion.

So that was the background noise as Liam (and Kestrel, who wasn't really much help per se but had Opinions) was in the kitchen, preparing some Ginataang Talong with some Deep Fried Cauliflower on the side. The eggplant had finished simmering and now it was just a matter of waiting for the deep fryer to finish as they waited for their guests.

[ooc: for thems that live here or are coming for dinner!]

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Danny tsked, stabbing ineffectively at Steve's fork with his own in a way that implied he didn't care that much as his focus was on giving Steve an amused look.

"Movie nights are sacrosanct for the snacks."

"Since when?" asked Steve, unrepentant popcorn stealer.

"You just like stealing my popcorn because you think it tastes better," Verity declared.

Oh wait, that was her.

"Funny, that sounds an awful lot like the excuse you gave me," Liam said mildly.

"It should be sacred," Danny grumbled. Because, yes, Steve was a popcorn thief too.

"You make better popcorn," Steve said around another mouthful of Danny's dinner. "I haven't tried Liam's."

"Everything tastes better stolen," Verity said, going for Liam's cauliflower again. "That's just facts."

Ask any Price! They'd tell you!

"You're lucky I like you so much," Liam sighed, after making a token attempt at fending off her fork.

"I don't like you at all," Danny informed Steve seriously. Even though it was a liiiiie. He used the 'L' word and maybe Steve didn't realize that was A Thing yet.

"Yes, you do," Steve told him, beaming.

"I mean, you do seem at least a little--" married "--fond."

"You let him live with you," Liam added. "That's buddies."

Or boyfriends. One of those.

"Because he'd probably take up in the spare room regardless," Danny insisted, shooing Steve's thieving fork away from his plate. "I will stab you."

"I don't need an entire room," Steve said. "I'd crash on the sofa."

Then he added another helping of cauliflower to Danny's plate like a completely normal person.

"Yes, but then where would you crash to watch mindless TV and dance competitions?" Verity asked. "...Or...other...sports...things?"

Verity knew more about e-sports (thanks Artie) than she did about real ones.

“... Football?” Liam supplied.

Steve looked like the football type.

"More of a baseball fan, myself." His team just couldn't seem to win, so there was that. "And there was a room. You don't need to sleep on a couch if there is a room."

Said the guy who would do that at Steve's place for the better part of a season later on.

"Baseball's nearly over, though," Steve said, "then it's football."

Hawai'ian boy had zero need to watch hockey.

"And a room could be for Gracie," Steve said.

"It seems to make more sense to give it to you if you're going to be there more," Verity said, tilting her head. "Our apartment ended up with an extra room this summer, which seems helpful."

... Yes, ‘ended up’. Liam definitely hadn’t taken out a loan of however many bazillion Bells to pay for it. Nope.

“Hey, you never know,” he said mildly, like he didn’t have Street running a planet-wide search for a certain kid with whom he shared a father.

One day Tom Nook would return for the darkest BDE ever: The Predatory Loans/Housing Bubble Collapse.

"I'd rather my daughter not have this place inflicted on her more than necessary," Danny grumbled like he wouldn't kill to spend more time with her in other circumstances. "You guys planning on kids?"

"Grace loved it here," Steve said with a fond smile.

He got called Uncle Steve, so life was pretty great.

Verity looked at Liam and smiled. "We are," she says. "No specific time frame yet, but...yeah."

That's what the surprise kids would do to you. Give you glimpses of the future that you find you can't live without.

Yeah, she was getting that goofy smitten look again from Liam in return.

“This place has a way of making real the things you never really considered possible,” he said. “And I mean that literally. We hadn’t even been dating all that long when these kids showed up for a weekend claiming to be ours. From the future.”

... And now he was picturing a Danny/Steve kid. Don’t even front, Verity, the thought crossed your mind as well.

Junior and Tani. He was straight up just picturing Junior and Tani.

"Wait, what?" That was terrible news for Danny! Because he got attached just as bad as Steve 'let me semi-adopt this kid who stole my car' McGarrett did!

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