First Floor Rec Room [Sunday, Afternoon]

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There was no way even Chuck could manage to remain oblivious to a weekend like this. He loved kids, so entertaining his little maybe-future-niece for the day was kind of an awesome way to spend a Sunday.

Which did not mean he wasn't thanking every god he could think of that he didn't have to deal with the fact that somehow, somewhere, he had a kid with Morgan again. The thought still weirded him out a year on.

Being uncle Chuck to little Clara was a way easier way to spend a weekend.... Even if she had just squashed him flat with her Mario Kart.

"Oh hey, that is... cheating. Definitely. So much with the cheating." It wasn't.

[[It's a common room-y place, so open.]]

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[babyawesome.livejournal.com]

"Did not!" Clara said, giggling. "I promise! But we can play again, if you want. Maybe I will let you win."

More giggling. Yes.

[knowsnokungfu.livejournal.com]

"I see you laughing at me," he warned her. "You don't tone down the awesome, okay? I will get you next time. You just... no distracting me with the giggly, because that is-- It's completely throwing me out."

Yeah, blaming the kid. That wasn't wrong, was it?

[babyawesome.livejournal.com]

That was encouraging her to continue the giggling approach. "I'm only good at this game because of you. So it's all your fault!"

[knowsnokungfu.livejournal.com]

Chuck had to grin a little wider at that. At least he apparently wasn't so different. "I trained you too well, young'un," he said, pulling out his best meta Jedi master voice.

"But I know that now," he said, breaking back into himself again. "So better watch out, sabotage is coming your way." Actually, secretly kind of proud he'd passed on some skills there. "Can you handle the pressure?"

[babyawesome.livejournal.com]

"Uh huh! Victory will be mine! Again!" Clara replied, preparing for the next battle with her war face. Well, her adorable, very non-threatening, war face.

[knowsnokungfu.livejournal.com]

"Alright. But this time I'm going all Wario, and it'll be me crushing your little princess kart," Chuck decreed. "Look at the guy (http://sonic.brorssonsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/wario.jpg)," he added, pointing at the screen. You really want to mess with that?"

[babyawesome.livejournal.com]

"He doesn't scare me," Clara grinned. "And I won't let you win like I said I would. I only let Uncle Morgan win sometimes."

That was the truth.

[knowsnokungfu.livejournal.com]

"I can't believe your mom lets you socialise with Uncle Morgan, ever," Chuck admitted. Just think of all the awful habits he could be teaching her? Even he knew that was on the cards.

[babyawesome.livejournal.com]

"Mom doesn't mind Uncle Morgan that much," Clara said, shrugging. "But it's Daddy who really lets me. He gets along with everyone."

[knowsnokungfu.livejournal.com]

"He does, huh?" Sounded like Ellie had found herself one of the good ones, and Chuck's smile curled a little wider as he changed a few options in the race menu before setting the starting sequence running. "Sounds pretty awesome. Got any brothers or sisters or anything?"

[babyawesome.livejournal.com]

"He is awesome," Clara said, beaming. "No brothers or sisters, yet, but I want some! Maybe someday. Is Aunt Sarah here anywhere? Or is she like my dad and didn't go to school here?"

She had to ask.

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"Uh." Yeah, that was the full extent of Chuck's ability to answer that one for a few moments. Somewhere in the back of his mind, the flare of a memory of Theo talking about his mom kicked in.

"I'm gonna go with option two. Pretty sure I haven't met her yet." But kind of neat to know there was more than one universe where he got a girl. The same girl, even.

[liliceflakes.livejournal.com]

Bobina had taken her mother's command of, "Run along and play" to heart and had decided to go exploring. Just her luck to find a video game system and people to play it with! Her little iron hands were heavy but dexterous and no scion of the house of Drake would be ignorant of video games!

"Ooooh, whatcha playing?" Bobina asked. "Is that Mario Kart? Can I play?"

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"It is and you can," Chuck replied, not even hesitating in reaching for a spare controller and miming throwing it her way (and then hoping the kid could think fast enough to catch it).

If she knew what it was, clearly she was cool enough to be playing with them.

"This girl," he said jerking a thumb at Clara, "needs to be taken down, and I will take all the help I can get." Kidding, he was kidding... Mostly. The needing help part might well be completely true.