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Chilly Boulder, Late Sunday Afternoon

If things went as they usually did these weekends, Karla knew there would be a portal opening back up in the park in a few hours. Soon the children would all be gone; back to their futures and their real parents. Perhaps Karla would see them all again. Perhaps they'd disappear forever. She didn't exactly know how it all worked. But she did know one thing.

She was going to stuff these children full of ice cream and candy before sending them home, dammit. Hope their parents were ready for wired kids on a sugar-high after their weekend of peace and quiet.

Seven kids at once. Seriously! What the Hell was that?!

[Open for all! On extreme SP due to holiday shenanigans]

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Scully had been deeply grateful not to have classes today. It meant she could spend time with her 'kids' without having to deal with school at the same time, but on the other hand... they were kind of a concentrated dose.

Giving them ice cream might be something their real mothers didn't approve of, but it would give her a little break.

"Okay. One scoop. What kinds do you guys want?"

"Choklit!" William crowed. The better to smear everywhere.

"Mint chocolate chip with sprinkles," Melinda said, hopping up and down. "And can I have it in a sugar cone?"

"If you're sure you're not going to drop it, then yes," Scully said cautiously.

"I'm sure," Melinda said, nodding hard. She'd try real hard, anyway!

"Okay." Scully got them the ice cream, then shepherded them over to a booth, grabbing a huge handful of napkins on the way.

"Melinda, do you know..." She was only five. But some clue about how the future went that resulted in her might be possible; unlike William who was far too young. "What your mom does for a living? And when she met your dad?" Weird talking about yourself in the third person.

"You work at the FBI as a pathologist." Melinda industriously licked her cone. "You an' Daddy were friends in school. An' you wanted a little girl and when you were done being a doctor you had me!"

That was pretty much all she knew. "An' Daddy comes and visits whenever he can and we have lots of fun."

That was actually insanely reassuring. Because Scully had no wish to be a teenage mom-- and knowing that the possibility of Melinda was several years off made her breathe a sigh of relief.

"I'm glad," she said simply, wiping at William's ice-cream-spattered face. "And I'm glad you could come visit me."

Momoko had promised that if the girls were good during class they could go with her and have ice cream afterwards.

In reality, she just wanted to spend as much time with them as possible, so no matter what had happened in class, here they were.

"And no telling papa we had cookies in class and ice cream before lunch, right?" Momoko held the banana splits (with extra sprinkles and gummies) hostage until she got a nod from both Elena and Sophia.

"Good! Then let's eat!"

William wandered over, having ducked under the table to elude his mom for a second when Melinda's cone inevitably toppled.

"Hi hi. Hi hi," he said, slurping on his own kiddie-sized cones. "You gots gummies!"

Sophia looked over at the voice... "Hi! Of course we gots gummies, it's ice cream! You has to have gummies and sprinkles." Her voice was the same one she used for Mei, cause this boy was obviously little like her.

Well, obviously. "I'm three!" he told the bigger girl. "An Mommy said I'd get cavities." He pouted, then took a big slurp of his cone for consolation. "Can I have one pleeeease?"

"My papa's a dendist so I don't get cavities." Because that was totally how that worked.

She dug her fingers into her ice cream and found a rather large gummie gremlin covered in chocolate sauce to hand him. "You have to chew it slow, 'kay? Or I get in trouble."

"Okaaaay," William said solemnly, TK'ing the gummie to his sticky fingers, and popping it in his mouth to chew chew chew chew chew. "T'ank you!"

Sophia gasped happily. "You did magic!" She dug into her ice cream for another gummy - this time a worm. "Do another magic!"

Delighted at this reaction, William giggled, wiggled his fingers, and pulled the worm to his fingers. "Nom nom nom. Yay magic! Can you do it?"

Sophia giggled back, clapping ice cream covered hands. "Nope! I don't gots magic, but aunt Rikku and aunt Leda and aunt Dinah can! All different magics! Can you do other ones, too?"

Speaking with his mouth full, William said, "Nooooope. This is 'nough. I can get my teddy or a drink if I need it, an' I can pick up my toys with it. It's fun." He grinned big and showed chewed gummy worm. "Magic's fun!"

Sophia wasn't sure if she agreed that it was enough. "Maybe it's cause you're little? Maybe you'll get more when you're five like me?"

"Maaaaybe?" William said, sounding as dubious as his mom. "It gots to be a secret. It's okay here but not at home and I forget sometimes."

Sophia nodded and crossed her heart. "I'm totally good at secrets!" No, she wasn't. "I even have a secret fort at home with my cousin." See?

"Oooooo," William said, impressed by the big girl. "Secret fort! No telling!" He slurped more of his ice cream, and grinned at her. "Can I come visit?"

Sophia preened and picked out a gummy of her own to eat. "I hafta ask Sin 'cause we don't have a password yet and you can't come in without one."

"Okay! I bring cookies when I come to see!" William promised.

There were always cookies to be found somewhere, right?

When you were five and three? The world was full of cookies.

"Okay! You're nice."

~~And you're totally too young for boys, young lady!~~

"Momoko! Hi!" Robin carried his triple choco sunday in both arms to the table, and managed to wrestle it onto the tabletop. He had a lot of practice with this sort of thing.

"Can I join you?"

[As I said in e-mail about to go to bed, so, SP. Feel free to have the kids know Robin if you like.]

Elena nudged Sophia with her elbow. "Sophy, look!" she hissed, totally loud enough to be heard.

"Hey! You almost messed it up, what?" Sophia looked up from her ice cream sculpture.

"Look, look! It's Mister Frog! From the pictures! He's real!"

There were stares, and Momoko facepalmed. "Hi Robin, sure! Sorry, but I guess my girls from the future haven't met you in person. This is Elena and Sophia."

"Hi Elena. Hi Sophia." Robin waved. "I'm Robin. It's nice to meet you."

"You're in momma's pictures!" Elena said, a bit awed. "And you sing 'cause we have you on CD! But you're not where we live. Hi!"

Sophia couldn't stop staring, though, and a sighing Momoko had to reach over and tap the table in front of the poor girl. "Sophia, stop staring; it's rude. Say hi to my friend, Mister Robin."

"... Hi."

"Ooh I'm on CD? Cool!" Robin was pleased that his future self was doing well, even if he hadn't gotten to meet these two yet. "What's that your making Sophia?"

Sophia blinked, not surprised at a talking frog, but because she still liked that CD the bestest and there he was!

"My fort," she said, quietly.

Momoko looked at her a bit oddly. "I totally have no idea why she's acting so strange, Robin, sorry! But they're from a possibly different future, remember."

"Oh it's okay. Lots of people are surprised when they meet me. Or other Muppets. Even in my own world. It's getting better but still..." he shrugged.

"Do you girls like music?" he asked Elena and Sophia.

"Yes!" Elena cheered. "All kinds!"

Sophia... nodded, but her eyes widened at the possibilities that question offerred.

Robin thought she was still wierded out by meeting a talking frog. "Would you like me to sing something for you?" That, might not help if that were the case Robin.

"REALLY?!" Sophia nearly spilled her ice cream in her excitement. She clapped her hands to her cheeks. "Really really?!"

Success! "Of course! I'd love to." He even had a song in mind. Taking her reaction as assent, Robin cleared his throat.

"Moving forward, using all my breath. Being friends with you was never second best..." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCFN8_Xgh8E)

It wasn't Sophia's favourite and she didn't understand the whole song, but she loved it, clapping when he was done.

Elena joined in. "That was pretty!"

Momoko smiled in agreement, "Totally awesome, Robin!" Although she was fairly sure she had heard the song before with different lyrics.

There was a slightly more grown up version yes. "Thank you." Robin said, bowing. "That one's one of my favorites. Do you have any favorite songs?" he asked the girls.

"'I'M FIVE!'" Sophy may have that track memorized.

Elena's face fell. "Not that one! No no no!"

Robin giggled. "Oh wow, that was one of the first songs I ever learned!"

"Me too! Listen!" Sophia clapped eagerly, as Elena covered her ears. "I'm five, I'm five! I'm a big GIRL now, I'm five! I can dress myself I don't need MOMMA to help me anymore! And when I sit in PAPA's chair my feet can reach the floor! I'm five, I'm five! Got a muscles and I'm five! And when I wrestle with my Uncle PACO in a second he's on the ground..."

She may not have the melody quite right, and may have ~~internalized~~ changed a few words, but it was kind of obvious she knew the song. And Elena's tortured groans and eye-rolls probably told how often it was heard.

Elena's reaction just added to the performance.

The new words were amusing as well.

When Sophia finished, Robin applauded. "Yaaay!"

~~Somehow this got posted in the wrong place. But now is fixinated.~~

Robin never seemed to have any tadpoles visit him on these weekends. He wondered what that said about his future. Maybe he'd be too focused on his career to start a family.

Enough of those deep thoughts, it was time for ice cream!

"I'd like a triple scoop chocolate sunday please." One overly sugared frog, coming up.

"All right!" Karla said gaily, grinning down at the crowd of munchkins. "Who wants ice cream?"

Unsurprisingly, "I do!" was echoed in unison, with childish hands raised in the air.

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