The Deck, Friday Afternoon

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It was a bright enough day and Adora desperately missed the outdoors, so she put together a pot of hot tea and made her way outside to the deck. Settling down on a comfortable chair, she toyed with pen and paper, hoping to be inspired to compose a few letters home.

"Adam deserves to hear some news from me directly, I suppose," she murmured to herself. "But where do I start?" It wasn't likely she'd figure that out for some time, but at least she could enjoy sitting in the sunshine while she considered her options.

So far, all she had was, Dearest Brother. Not much of a start, no.

[Open deck is open! 45 degrees is not that cold.]

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[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Heading back in after StuCo with a lot of work in her head being distracted by the onset of better weather, Turtle gave Adora a wave, tempted to follow her example of getting some fresh air.

"How's it going, Adora?"

[withoutverona]

It was sunny enough, if a bit cold for Romeo's tastes, and he took his time making his way back to the dorms after class. "God afternoon, Adora. Are you enjoying the sun?"

He hadn't yet connected her with the little girl who had been trying to learn John Sheppard's name the weekend before.

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"Turtle!" Adora smiled brightly at her and set her pen aside. "It is going...well, honestly it's going confusingly, but that's nothing new at all. How are things for you?"

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"The sunshine is so very welcome, even on a chilly day," Adora replied. "How are you doing this week, Romeo? I hope you do forgive me for asking you to be a minion." Maybe if she got it out really fast he would accept her apology and not wonder about the why of the whole minion thing.

[withoutverona]

"I didn't realize that was you," Romeo admitted, blinking a little as he made the connection. "No harm done, in any case. I was flattered you thought I would make a good minion."

He shrugged, leaning against a conveniently modded low wall. "I may have not entirely realized what the word meant."

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"You didn't know?" Oh, well, she'd ruined that now, hadn't she? "Well, I would feel rather bad for not cluing you in, but as a child I was slightly self-important and presumed everyone knew me."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

Hannibal stopped on his back to the dorms once he'd spotted Adora. "Enjoying the start of spring?"

It was officially spring even if the weather was chilly.

[fabulous-secret.livejournal.com]

"Has it begun? Will there be no more snow?" Adora may have been extremely excited to hear this news.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Well, I can't predict the weather but the weather should start getting warmer now," he told her. "Not a fan of snow?"

[withoutverona]

"I fully expected you to know why my family name should matter," Romeo pointed out. "I think all children are self-important, unless they're raised not to be."

Which was certainly not true of either of them.

"Did you work things out with John?"

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"It was fun initially," she allowed, "but it made everything so cold and dead, and it was difficult for poor Spirit. Oh! I shall tell Adam how I miss the eternal spring of the Whispering Woods!" Adora grabbed up her pen to jot that down quickly while it was in her head.

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Romeo's words rang very true for her upbringing.

"With John?" Adora wondered.

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"Congratulations on not being married anymore," Hannibal said, managing NOT to glare amazingly enough.

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"Adam?" Hannibal asked. He might have heard the name before but...well, Adora was a quirky one. "Friend of yours?"

[withoutverona]

"The boy you asked me about -- his name is John Sheppard," Romeo explained, a stricken expression crossing his face. "I thought someone would have told you his name by now."

[fabulous-secret.livejournal.com]

"A very close friend." Quirky was a very kind word. "My twin brother, actually."

[withoutverona]

If a glare passed across Romeo's face, it was only for an instant. He could be civil if Hannibal could.

Not that what he had said was so terribly civil, but it also wasn't actively hostile. Quite.

"Thank you," he replied. "It's a good thing you didn't give us a blender; we would have had to return it."

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"Well, yeah, that'd be close," he said. "Is he back in...Eternalia?"

It was something like that, he was sure of it.

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"Oh!" Had she seen a John Sheppard in the directory? Adora couldn't be certain. "No, I hadn't managed to locate him as of yet, but thank you for that. I owe that boy quite an apology."

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Turtle offered a wave to Romeo when she spotted him, too. "How goes it, Romeo?"

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We should all be glad he didn't ask how close.

"Eternia, yes!" Adora nodded. "He and his friend He-Man are very busy protecting our family's world from a Horde offshoot there."

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"Not as confusingly," Turtle admitted, unable to help being a little amused by that response as she took a seat in one of the desk chairs. "What's got you confused? This last weekend?"

She had to remind herself of a time, long long ago, when all this was strange and unusual to her, as well.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"And that would've been a pity," he said and snapped his fingers. "So, good thing I didn't."

Angela would have probably brained him with it if he had.

"Managed to avoid any other weddings since then?"

It was still sort of civil. In a sarcastic...way. Yeah.

[decoder-rings.livejournal.com]

"His friend He-Man," Hannibal repeated. "Like your friend She-Ra?"

Talented family if that was the case.

[fabulous-secret.livejournal.com]

"You are quite right, Hannibal," Adora grinned. "He-Man actually is the one who came to the Fright Zone and helped me break the Horde's spell."