Deck | Afternoon | Sunday | April 17

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

So, there were kids running around the island again. Nathan could only guess that since none of them had found him and called him 'daddy' that this wasn't a repeat of what happened a few months ago. Nathan, for one, was damn fucking glad of that. He'd been a dad, fake or not, too much lately.

Since it was chillier than previous days, Nathan had the hood of his hoodie yanked up and a pair of sunglasses across his eyes while he had himself a lazy smoke on the deck. He'd thought about going up to his room to...well, he didn't know what he'd do but it didn't matter because he didn't go up.

Earlier this morning, he'd sent his mum a quick text with his answer about coming home this summer. He hadn't received a response but he wasn't too worried. She was probably off spending Jeremy's money while he had graphic fucking thoughts about his --

Ugh. He made a face and shook his head, trying to get back to just sitting there and not thinking of a single goddamn thing.

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[vanillajello]

"No, duh," Kate said, laughing. "'M seven, I dun have a boyfriend. But I like him!"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Hey, when I was seven, I had about five girlfriends," he lied, smirking. "You're falling behind."

[vanillajello]

"But I dun need girlfriends!" Well, he'd just talked about girlfriends, it wasn't her job to deduce she was supposed to compete with a slew of boyfriends. Or, she might have misunderstood on purpose. "Imma queen, and I'm independent. Mebbe I jus' need a king?"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"And who'd you pick as a king if you had your choice?" Nathan asked, just letting her train of thought go without argument. He remembered how he was as a kid, it'd be pointless to argue.

[vanillajello]

Kate pondered that for a while, like it was a serious question that warranted serious pondering. And well, for her it did. "Prob'ly Bod," she admitted finally. "He'd let me have ice cream for breaffast."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"I could never be your king?" Nathan wondered, having expected that answer which helped him confirm who this was.

[vanillajello]

Kate tilted her head and squinted, thoughtfully. "You could mebbe be my advi...sing person?"

Because that would certainly end well.

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Would I get paid a lot of money?" Nathan had priorities.

[vanillajello]

"Dunno." Kate's priorities were sadly elsewhere, and she shrugged. "But you'd get ice cream for breffast too!"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"I don't like ice cream." That was a lie but he wanted to see how quick on her feet Kate was when she was this tiny. "So, what would I get instead?"

[vanillajello]

"Pudding cups!" Well, it was the next logical step if you were her. "But not the vanilla ones cuz those are mine."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"What about beer?" Nathan said, trying to barter even if he knew it was fruitless. "You got any of that?"

[vanillajello]

"Nope," Kate said, shaking her head. "The beer's all Daddy's and sometimes Buck's and you can't have any."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"What if I steal it?" Nathan asked, raising an eyebrow. "You gonna stop me?"

[vanillajello]

"Yes," she replied, and even folded her arms over her chest. "Stealing is wrong."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"That's not gonna stop me, kid," Nathan said, smirking. "I don't care if shit's wrong or not. If I wanna do it, I'm gonna do it."

[vanillajello]

"Then you're dumb," Kate decided. "And Buck's gonna punch you."

Nothing new there.

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"You think I haven't been punched before?" Hey, he'd just recently gotten over a damn black eye. "Please, that don't scare me one lick, kid."

[vanillajello]

"Not a kid!" Kate insisted again. "It's Kate. Kaaate. Or Katie. But not kid."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"I don't care," Nathan said, shaking his head. "To me, you're a kid and I know how much you like to give nicknames so I'm giving you one of your own."

[vanillajello]

"But kid isn't a nickname!" Kate scoffed. She was prone to doing that. "It's just a word!"

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"That sounds like a personal problem, kid," Nathan said, shrugging. "You should go cry to your mum about it."

[vanillajello]

"I'm not a crybaby." Not that he'd actually said she was, but it was best to be sure and explicitly state it. "And Mom's not here, anyway."

[tripledmyself.livejournal.com]

"Aww, so maybe go cry to Bod?" Nathan suggested like the jerk he was.

[vanillajello]

"I'm not gonna cry to anyone." She was going to pout, however. "I only cry when'm sad, and I'm not. You're mean."