Caritas- Tuesday

[throughaphase]

The fun thing about having a baby with a cold was that it meant Kitty was walking into work with the sniffles.

Not that she was sick. Nope.

Tino might be handling making the drinks tonight, though. Kitty was just the i versatile person.


[Open, no OCD!]

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[died8yearsago]

"Well," said Rosa, "you've looked better."

Tact? Not usually her strong suit, and she was mostly just trying to figure out if it was merely baby-related or something that would require her to calculate the best distance to keep that still allowed for a comfortable conversation to happen.

Diazes didn't get sick, sure...

...but even though they didn't, they tended to get locked in evidence rooms when people thought they did.

[throughaphase]

"Hi to you too," Kitty frowned. She'd sounded less stuffed up before.

[died8yearsago]

Psh. Normal greetings.

But that stuffiness was more than enough to answer Rosa's question to the point where she might be sitting slightly further back that usual. Not because she was worried about getting sick, of course. She didn't get sick. But, you know...she didn't like being close to people, anyway.

Extra for when they sniffled.

"Please tell me the only reason you're here right now is because things are worse at home and you're making your husband deal with it."

She still barely knew the guy, but the idea of irritating stuff being foisted on Clint brought her more happiness than it probably ever should.

[throughaphase]

"No, I'm here because I'm not sick and I am perfectly fine to work," Kitty insisted. "We're all good here."

It was cute that she tried.

[died8yearsago]

Oh, yeah. Rosa looked super convinced, too.

"Well, good," she said. "Not that I was worried or anything. Diazes don't get sick. But, you know...other people."

Because, sure, you being concerned about other people's well-being was way more believable, Rosa.

[throughaphase]

"You don't get sick ever?" Kitty checked.

Because she didn't believe it at all.

[died8yearsago]

There was a long, debating pause, the sort that definitely shouldn't exist for a cold, hard fact.

"...nope," she decided. "Never."

Just ignore the whole station of troopers and one Hot Leaf Water that could contest otherwise. Ralph had even subbed for her class.

But they were all clearly lying stupid jerks who couldn't be trusted.

[throughaphase]

"Hmm. Maybe I should have had you watch Lexi while she has this cold. With your immunity and all," Kitty said.

[died8yearsago]

"On the one hand," Rosa pointed out, "it's true. My immunity is amazing. But on the other hand," and this was the important part that had Rosa not at all worried about this supposed threat, "that's me watching your kid."

And that was, like, child endangerment, or something.

[throughaphase]

"You never know, you could be good at it."

It should be said that Kitty didn't trust this enough to let her do it.

[died8yearsago]

"Kitty." Rosa leveled a very 'you're smarter than this' look at her. "I have multiple nieces and nephews. Years of irrefutable evidence that I am not good at it."

[throughaphase]

"But they're all okay, right?" Kitty checked.

[died8yearsago]

Kitty. She'd used multiple because she wasn't entirely sure exactly how many there even were.

"Sure," she shrugged. "Because they only see Tia Rosa for holidays and special events."

[throughaphase]

"Which means you get cool aunt status?"

She didn't know where she was going with this. To be fair, she hadn't slept a ton... in months.

[died8yearsago]

"Well, yeah," said Rosa. "Obviously."

And the cool aunt was never the babysitter aunt.

The cool aunt was the aunt that sometimes showed you bags of hands.

[throughaphase]

"See, this is what I'm saying."

Was it, Kitty?