We Can Share My Mood [Closed to Tadashi]

[ghost_bait]

Who| Miku & Tadashi
What| A reunion that may or mayn't include real(tm) Shoujo Bubbles
Where| Observation Deck, Legion World
When| After this here.
Warnings/Notes|


Miku's chest felt equally tight and full to bursting. She was glad that, despite the time had passed, despite everything, some things here hadn't changed a bit. Miku hadn't heard from Pidge, or Gwen, and that was a little worrying, but she knew it was probably fine.

Wherever her friends were, they would be OK.

What wasn't OK was trying to find her way back to the Observation Deck. It wasn't a place Miku visited often, between bouts of panicking and trying to find a way to integrate herself and seem Normal. She would've given her eyeteeth to deal with that instead of what had awaited her in her dreams-that-weren't-dreams.

Still, shortly after she promised she'd come to him, Miku arrived at the Observation Deck, smoothing out an imaginary wrinkle in her skirt and making sure her hair pin hadn't come loose as she hurried through the halls. Tadashi hadn't gotten taller, and she hadn't gotten (that much) older, but things still felt like they'd changed.

"Tadashi?" Miku hesitated, then swallowed and put her best foot forward, approaching him. "It's so good to see you again."

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[ghost_bait]

"It was not fun, not at all." Miku breathed out, and let a nervous little chuckle escape her lips. "You and Mafuyu would have been very well within your rights as older brothers. Sometimes grief is terrible."

Miku gently elbowed him, "Now, it is your turn; something good that has happened while I've been gone."

[the_civilian]

"I'm not saying that it's easy to be the one left behind, but it's better than the alternative," Tadashi agreed. He tilted his head back and thought for a moment.

"All right, I'm going to tell you something I walked in on that, as far as I know, no one else knows about. It's hilarious, but you'll have to keep it under your hat, okay?"

[ghost_bait]

Miku put her finger to her lips, "Your secret is safe with me."

[the_civilian]

Tadashi glances around theatrically to make sure no one's listening in, then leans in to tell his story.

"Not too long after you went home, I hit the lab early one morning, only to hear Brainiac 5 laughing so hard I thought he might actually hurt himself. I mean, he is howling. So I go and take a look to see if he's okay, and he's just collapsed into a chair while Invisible Kid is standing there, bright red in the face and sputtering incoherently.

"I don't know exactly what was said, but I worked out from the conversation after that Invisible Kid had been freaking out about how to help co-parent Brainy's kid and had finally gotten his head together so that he was emotionally prepared to go all-in...except he'd never asked Brainy if he wanted his help co-parenting. He'd just assumed he was going to be helping out and had no idea how to react to Brainy laughing at him."

Tadashi shook his head. "It was pretty cute. I don't know how it shook out, exactly, since it occurred to me that spying on a guy who could turn invisible was probably a bad life choice, but I did see Invisible Kid towing Brainy's kid around a few times after that."

[ghost_bait]

Miku looked mildly horrified at the notion of the very person who scared rational thought from her (though he'd never needed to even raise his voice I her direction), had a child. In fact the notion made her head ache. "He has a baby?! How? Who? What??"

[the_civilian]

Oh yeah, context.

"Uh, genetic engineering?" Tadashi said. "Basically, Colu's government had some of Brainy's DNA handy and decided to combine it with other DNA to make a kid. Who we rescued. This was right after you left, I think."

Maybe this story hadn't been the best choice. Though it had definitely seemed to distract her.

[ghost_bait]

"Well, I'm glad the baby -- is it a baby? Or is it bigger? -- is alright," Miku said after a moment of trying to reconcile her image of Brainiac with a more domestic filter.

"Do they need a baby gift?" Well, Tadashi was right, it had really distracted Miku.

[the_civilian]

"He's a toddler," Tadashi said. "His name is Merl, you'll probably see him around -- he and Cub seem to be hitting it off pretty well."

He scratches the back of his neck. "I'm not sure what baby gift would be appropriate for a toddler smarter than everyone I know back home combined, but we could ask around and see if anyone has any ideas."

[ghost_bait]

"I think that I would like that," Miku nodded and smiled at Tadashi. "It would be expected, because we're technically co-workers..." She trailed off and elbowed him, "But that is nice. I'm glad for Brainiac."

A pause, "What else?"