The Park [sunset]

[heroic_jawline]

It had been a weird odd possibly traumatizing fun weekend, but the portal had opened back up in the park.

Sorry, kids. Grab one last snack and head back to your home dimensions. It's time to say goodbye.

[OOC: For all the SP, of course!]

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[lackingmaternalguidance]

And if you thought Jessica wouldn't be the first parent to drop her kid off, what kind of drugs are you on people?

"Told you it would be here," Danielle said giving her mother a smirk.

[superjoanjett]

"Yeah. I know. You're very smart."

Was she giving the kid a compliment? Possibly. And irritated compliment.

"Is it safe?"

Oh. Look. She wasn't completely lacking in maternal instincts.

[lackingmaternalguidance]

Danielle rolled her eyes. Because clearly twelve year olds knew everthing. Much more than her parents at any case.

"Come here," she said pulling Jessica down and pulling out her phone. "Let's take a selfie."

[superjoanjett]

Jessica sighed and kneeled down so she was more at Dani's level. "I'm doing this in protest," she snarked.

[lackingmaternalguidance]

Danielle leaned back against her mom and pushed her hair out of her face and gave it a big smile.

"Don't worry. I know better than to ask you to smile," she said after taking a few pictures.

[okteiviakom]

Here they were.

Octavia had survived the weekend, minding this impossible kid all by herself. She thought there should have been some relief in that thought, in the knowledge that this was going to be over in a moment. Hope would go back to her mom and her Aunty O on their weird little planet somewhere, and everything would go back to how it was supposed to be.

But she didn't feel that. Didn't really feel much at all.

(That was a lie she was telling herself.)

But she was crouched down at Hope's level, trying for a small smile. "No more random portals 'less your mom says it's okay, right?"

[skyringgirl]

Hope shook her head. "No!"

A beat.

"Not even one that looks like it goes here? I like it here with you, Aunty O."

[okteiviakom]

Octavia's smile wobbled. She wanted to think that was a lie, but Hope looked so sincere.

"But you like being home, too, right? On... Skyring?"

[skyringgirl]

"Yeah," Hope replied with another earnest nod. "Can't I like both?"

[okteiviakom]

"Of course you can, strikon," Octavia murmured. She reached out, gingerly, to brush Hope's bangs out of her eyes. "But I'm sure your mom and -- I, they really miss you. And they'd rather have you there with them than here with me."

[flourish_or_perish]

"Off you go," Faye said once they were relatively close to the portal, gesturing broadly to it.

Nope, no hug, no goodbye. Get a move on, kiddo.

[offkeysong]

Lucia considered the portal, looking back up at her mother for a moment. "Aren't you going to miss me?" she asked plaintively.

[flourish_or_perish]

"No," Faye assured her. "Not really."

Though the kid had kinda grown on her, a bit. She liked how she could see herself in her, in odd little ways.

[offkeysong]

Lucia pouted, holding her arms up. "Can I 'least have a hug?"

Her other mother hardly ever hugged her. It might be nice.

[flourish_or_perish]

Faye sighed heavily, rolling her eyes before taking a knee and reaching out to wrap her arms loosely around the girl. "Be good. Or don't."

Hey, the version of her that had had a kid with Spike probably deserved a bad kid, if she was making choices like that.

[stykera]

Stark loved having these impossible children appear. Stark hated having to let them go.

Said impossible children were holding his hands tightly as they approached the portal. They both knew similar enough versions of their father to recognize when he needed his hand held.

[glowyfacebabies]

Réaltín looked up at their Dad, then tugged his hand. "Daaaaaad? You need a hug? Lotsa hugs?"

Maybe Dad needed a hug from Dad too. Sometimes that helped!

[stykera]

"A hug might help," Stark agreed, kneeling down because otherwise it was difficult to hug small, glowy children. "How did you know?"

[glowyfacebabies]

"'Cause you're Dad," Réaltín said. Obviously! "Sometimes Dad needs hugs. Sometimes Dad does too! And me too. I like hugs."

[stykera]

"Sometimes I do need hugs," Stark said. "Like now."

He was just going to hug this small impossible person very tightly for a moment. Maybe longer than a moment.

[grayskollar]

It wasn't that Adora wasn't sad at the idea of Kit leaving, she was an adorable kid and a glimpse of could have beens and maybes,but she was also overwhelming relieved, for pretty much the same reason.

"C'mon, Kit, time to go home."

[floofandtrauma]

"No," came a voice from the bushes.

She wanted to go home to her moms, but now that it was time to, she also wanted to visit her other other mom too.

[grayskollar]

Adora sat down next to the bushes.

"I'm sure your moms are missing you." They'd better be, after how stressed Adora'd been this weekend.

[floofandtrauma]

Luckily, Kit hadn't grown into her mothers' stubborness yet. The bushes sighed. "I guess."

She clambered into Adora's lap. "Love you, Mom."

[grayskollar]

"Love you too." Adora hugged her fiercely as she stood up. "You ready?"