Fifth Floor Common Room, Late Saturday Morning

[not_in_the_book]

"There's some orange juice in the fridge," Ronan said, as he pulled two tumblers out of the cupboard. "D'you want to pour us some?"

He started assembling items for breakfast -- eggs, bread, bacon, sausage...

[Open! And there will be lots of food to share, oh yes.]

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[weetinymiracles.livejournal.com]

"Thank you, Daddy!" Rachel said, beaming at him. "Can I have some juice?"

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"Sure." Marco said and poured juice for all three of them. He totally understood why people drank now.

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

Joan was beginning to understand that as well, after meeting one daughter with wings and one son who seemed determined to spill her secret.

When she spotted Marco sitting with TWO kids, she nearly passed out.

"Uh, morning?"

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"Oh good." Marco said, shoving another waffle at the girls.

[weetinymiracles.livejournal.com]

"Hi, Mommy!" Rachel grinned up from her breakfast. "Daddy maded me and Jadie breakfast cause there's no servants here."

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Jadie frowned. "You're not my mommy." She said with a pout.

Marco sighed. "No, your mommy isn't here. Hi Joan. Help." He somehow tried to sign over Jadie's head that her mommy was kind of dead to Joan but it probably just looked like a lot of flailing.

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

Joan totally didn't understand his flailing. But that was okay because she was doing some flailing of her own. Hopefully Marco would be so distracted by the kids that he wouldn't ask why she disappeared from prom last night.

"You look like you have breakfast under control," she said.

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"That's...not the most accurate interpretation of events." Marco flailed some more.

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"What's wrong? What can I do to help?" Joan asked.

[weetinymiracles.livejournal.com]

"You should give Daddy a good morning kiss," Rachel offered helpfully.

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEW." Jadie said. "Grooooooss."

"Um." Marco said.

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"Um," Joan echoed. "Maybe later."

Or possibly never, if he knew what happened last night.

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco could really only deal with one thing at a time. "Waffles?"

"YES!" Jadie shouted, glaring at Joan for good measure.

[weetinymiracles.livejournal.com]

"Yes, please!"

Never mind that Rachel had already eaten like four.

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco figured that as long as he was shoveling food towards the kidlets they would be unlikely to do anything insane. Er. Insaner than just showing up.

"So uh, any more show up for you?"

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"Um, yeah, two others," Joan said, her cheeks flushing. "Who does Jadie belong to?"

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"Um...Rachel?" Marco tried to convey 'my dead teammate' with hand gestures. "She's a ... friend from home? Sorta? It's really, really complicated."

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"Your friend that we apparently named our daughter after?" Joan said. Oh OH. His frantic hand gestures actually kind of made sense then.

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco nodded, a lot. "UH HUH!"

Jadie glanced up and glared at Joan. "Why'd you name Rachel after Mommy?"

Marco flailed.

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"Because she's Daddy's very good friend," Joan said. "And she's special, just like our Rachel."

It sounded good.

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco nodded along with that explanation. It was totally better than anything even close to the truth. "Right. Exactly. More waffles?"

[weetinymiracles.livejournal.com]

"YES!"

Joan looked at mess in front of Rachel. "Um, I think maybe you've had enough."

Oh dear lord, she was turning into her mother.

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Jadie pouted up. "I'd like some more."

"Um..." Deer in the headlights have nothing on Marco right now. "Yeah, I think Joan has a point, right?"

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

"Why don't I take you girls to the bathroom and get you cleaned up?"

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco nodded. "Yes, good call thank you."