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Post by Skyfire on Sept 21, 2010 6:45:52 GMT -5
King Nova arched an eyebrow and shrugged. “If you insist, I suppose…” Although it certainly was fun playing with her without her getting into a truly bad mood.
*** Buzz stared at her. “Whaaa—yeah, right, Mira! He’s not going to want to spend any more time in the same house with me than I am with him!”
*** He smirked as she quickly fell asleep and shook his head. Good grief, life was just getting crazier and crazier. He toyed with the idea of checking in on Cora and the King and decided against it. He really was still pretty sleepy, and he didn’t want to fall asleep on Cora’s bed with his future father-in-law right THERE…
He was out in five.
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Post by cherryproductions on Sept 21, 2010 6:57:30 GMT -5
Mira nodded. "Of course I insist. And even though I adore that you want more grandchildren, you would be only visiting them. I would be the one taking care of them 24/7. And Buzz," She put in as an after thought.
**** Mira couldn't suppress her giggling fit anything longer, and fell onto the chair laughing. "You two might not be able to handle each other for that long, but for the rest of us it'll be the best comedy of the year."
She laughed at his scowl, enjoying the change of mood for the moment.
***
Mira woke herself up by nearly falling out of the chair. Before her face made friends with the newly waxed floor, she steadied herself on Buzz's bed first.
He was fast asleep too, the drugs and the day taking its toll.
"Hey, Buzz," She shook him lightly, taking a look at the clock. 7:43. Boy the slept longer than she thought.
"Come on, Cora might go into surgery soon."
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Post by Skyfire on Sept 21, 2010 15:32:13 GMT -5
“Ah, yes,” the King said, rather sardonically, “imagine that: the Great Galactic Hero handling two half-Tangean Royal toddlers. The comedic potential is simply enormous.”
*** “Yeah, a regular riot,” Buzz muttered sourly, folding his arms.
*** “Mmmph?” Buzz blinked his eyes open, and came to full awareness a second later. “Oh, Cora! Right!” He sat up and peeled the covers off, pulling on the jacket that lay nearby before standing. He stretched for a moment before heading to the door. “Let’s go.”
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Post by cherryproductions on Sept 21, 2010 16:41:43 GMT -5
Mira glared, biting her lower lip in order to stop a very malicious retort that would have normally slid off her lips with ease. However, with how well he was acting around Cora she couldn't take this moment away from the two of them.
"So another reason is just to bug the heck out of Buzz, huh?" Buzz adored kids, and he loved spending every minute with Cora as he could. Mira had no doubt in her mind that he would make a wonderful father, but seeing the images of him trying to control two screaming toddlers who were on the verge of their first complete sentence had her smiling too.
"Y'know, I really want to see that now."
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Mira smiled, tilting back into the seat. "Yep," She nodded with glee. "But it has it's good sides as well. Father could play babysitter and we could have more nights to ourselves." She looked at him mischievously, a simple glance to the side as she bit her lower lip to stop from laughing.
****
Mira snorted before looking up at Buzz. "Um, hun I think you're forgetting these." She lightly kicking his shoes that were sitting at the side of his bed.
"Unless you want to create professional hall skating as a new national sport."
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Post by Skyfire on Sept 21, 2010 19:46:36 GMT -5
King Nova arched both eyebrows and couldn’t help saying, “Seriously?” He glanced down at his granddaughter. “Cora, that has to be the first time in years your mother’s agreed with me. It’s a historic family moment.”
*** Buzz just stared at her, then felt a laugh threatening to bubble out of him. “Y’know, you’ve acquired a distinctly… suggestive brand of humor, Mira!” A short laugh escaped. “I don’t know that I like that!” He grinned, though.
*** He made a face and picked up his shoes, slipping into them and lacing them up. “Ha-ha. I’ll have you know that I am a terrific hall skater.”
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Post by cherryproductions on Sept 21, 2010 20:42:54 GMT -5
"And you know what, Cora." Mira sneered. "This is another historic moment. Your grandfather found his sense of humor."
**** Mira smiled again, leaning forward in her seat. "Well, when you spend a few years waiting for a certain someone to make a move, you have to make one yourself."
**** "And you said you wanted to keep your dignity earlier?" Mira laughed, playfully slapping him on the arm. "And the only time you skate is when you have seconds left to punch your time in."
She was down the hallway before he could reply. "Come on, father's probably asleep in the room and the doctors might be in any minute."
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Post by Skyfire on Sept 22, 2010 7:16:36 GMT -5
“Oh, I’m wounded!” The King pressed a blue hand to his heart, then straightened and shrugged. “I’ve always had a sense of humor, Mira—you just haven’t noticed.”
*** Buzz’s shoulders sagged, and he just shook his head.
*** Was there no winning with this woman? Buzz shook his head and followed Mira. “Right behind ya.”
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Post by cherryproductions on Sept 22, 2010 7:27:02 GMT -5
Mira shook her head. "Maybe I was just causing too much trouble for you to even show your humorous side?"
She cast a glance over at Cora. "Just show it more to this generation then."
**** Mira cocked her head to the side, not understanding why Buzz didn't give her a witty comeback. "What's wrong, Buzz? Cat got your tongue?"
**** Mira knocked on the door lightly, opening it to find the doctor already in there conversing with her father.
"Ah, good morning you two. I was going to send someone in to get you." he flipped a few papers on his clipboard before looking at them again. "We got the blood samples from the Tangeian Royal Palace. That was quick thinking there on your part, Miss Nova."
Mira scratched the back of her neck, unsure of what to say.
"We've been running a few tests and so far only one of the blood samples seem to match with Cora's. Unfortunately it being a sample there's not enough for a full transfusion."
"So what now?" Mira asked after a few minutes of silence.
The Doctor began again. "We're going to be needing more blood from the two of you. Mostly from Mr. Lightyear here since Cora has more human genes."
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Post by Skyfire on Sept 22, 2010 13:29:21 GMT -5
The King shrugged again. “I suppose that depends on how problematic they are. I can’t very well be humorous if I’m irritated.”
*** Buzz shot her a halfhearted glare. “Oh, nothing’s wrong with my tongue. I just don’t want to invoke another nuclear fallout from you is all.”
*** King Nova looked decidedly unhappy with the thought of his granddaughter’s DNA being more human than Tangean. Buzz blinked. “Wait a sec—she looks almost like a carbon copy of her mom, she can ghost, and she’s got more of my genes than Mira’s?”
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Post by cherryproductions on Sept 22, 2010 14:33:01 GMT -5
Mira shrugged. "Irritated or not, it would have been nice to see you laugh once in a while. Or make a joke."
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Mira blew a piece of her hair away from her face, suddenly more irritated now. "Well it would help if you didn't try so hard not to."
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The Doctor gave Buzz a sharp look, putting down the clipboard on the side table."That may be true, but her DNA resembles more of a human's than Tangien. As weird as that sounds, Mr. Lightyear, I do know what I'm talking about."
He nodded, striding over towards the bed. "Appearances could be a decoy of what lies underneath. Hybrids, like Cora, might have looks similar to those of their mother but take on more genetic structures to that of their father's. And the fact that we don't want to screw up the blood binding. If we give too little or too much of the certain blood it might react badly to her body."
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Post by Skyfire on Sept 22, 2010 15:37:12 GMT -5
A shadow fell over the King’s face, as he remembered a time when he hadn’t been able to laugh or joke. “I believe that’s a story for another time, dear.”
*** Buzz “head-desked” onto his covers. “You’re getting worked up over my tactful silence?!” He looked up from the covers. “No, wait—don’t answer that. I don’t wanna get into a fight.”
*** Buzz grimaced. “Craters. Okay, so do you want my blood right now?”
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Post by cherryproductions on Sept 22, 2010 16:15:22 GMT -5
Mira sighed, backing up into the wall. "Yeah, maybe. But for now let's just keep the happy memories going for the time being, k?"
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Mira groaned, rubbing her forehead. "I don't want to get into an argument either. I just want to stop being stressed out for five minutes that's all." She tugged at her hair, combing her hands through it till the knots were all tangled out.
She looked up at Buzz a moment later, her eyes begging for something.
**** The Doctor smiled, extending an arm to the door.
"There's a nurse waiting for you two down the hall to your left. They'll take you behind a curtain and take your blood from there."
Mira nodded, taking Buzz's hand and dragged him out of the room.
The Doctor turned to King Nova. "You can still wait here, but at ten we have to ask you to head to the waiting room."
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Post by Skyfire on Sept 23, 2010 7:10:46 GMT -5
King Nova swiftly re-centered himself. “Of course.”
*** Buzz sighed and slid out of bed, bending down and wrapping his arms around Mira. “Don’t be,” he murmured. “It’s going to be okay.” He wasn’t sure how—he just knew that it would be.
*** Buzz just glanced heavenward and accepted his fate as he let Mira take him away.
*** “Of course,” the King nodded gravely. Very few out-worlders garnered his respect, but doctors had it automatically. “How long do you think this will take?”
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Post by cherryproductions on Sept 23, 2010 7:20:15 GMT -5
Mira smile, crossing her arms. "Then maybe you can tell her about mom?"
She knew it would be hard on him, it was hard on her too. But unlike Mira, King Nova never really moved on after her mother's death like she did.
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Mira snugged into Buzz's chest, enjoying his closeness. The warmth of his body relaxed her. She stayed like that for a bit longer, her head swimming.
Before she knew what she was doing she lifted her head up and kissed him, light and short.
**** "It won't be that bad," Mira said as they traveled towards the designated area. "Might be a little longer with a needle in your arm though." She chuckled despite her best efforts of keeping him calm.
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The doctor shrugged. "We never know when it comes to surgeries. But if you wanted an estimated guess, six to seven hours."
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Post by Skyfire on Sept 23, 2010 13:54:02 GMT -5
The King uncharacteristically looked like a deer caught in the headlights. “Possibly. Sometime.”
*** Buzz’s eyelids fluttered at the brief kiss, his hold tightening slightly. He closed his eyes and kissed her back a little bit longer, savoring the feel of her warm, dry lips.
*** Buzz glanced heavenward. “When did you get to be such a comedian?”
*** King Nova nodded slowly. “Very well. I’ll have to make a brief call to the palace, then, at seven.”
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