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Karen approaches Liam from behind, signalling "shh" to Megan, and puts her hands over his eyes.

Megan giggles quietly, and Liam laughs and says, "Now I wonder who that could be..."

"Uncle Philip," Karen says in her deepest voice.

"Guess that completes the family here, then." He swings round, laughing, and wraps his arm around her.

"Hi," she says and puts her arms around his neck. "What are you having for breakfast?"

"Hadn't decided yet, although Meggie's demanding one of those cereals with the sugar in. What do you want?"

"Oatmeal, I think." She raises an eyebrow at Megan. "You can have sugar cereal if you drink a whole glass of orange juice with it, okay, babygirl?"

Megan nods, eyes wide, and Liam grins and hoists her onto a bar stool.

"...porridge actually sounds really good."

"Healthy," Karen remarks, rubbing Liam's shoulders. "Hey. Did you--have you--I sang when I came in."

Liam blinks, turning to look at her.

"Sang?"

He remembers the Music With Rocks In, so he's a little worried.

"Sang. And danced. The Barenaked Ladies."

She's wearing a t-shirt and khakis, just to clarify. No rule-breaking going on here.

"...I'm... guessing you weren't planning on it, when you came in?"

Megan watches them over her bowl of cereal, confused.

"You've heard me sing," Karen says. "Talent comes from your side of the family."

"You're not that bad", he chides automatically, looking worried. "That's the first time anything like that's happened, right?"

"Yes. And I didn't particularly feel like singing when I was at home--it was just here." She glances around the bar. 'And you did say strange things happen here, as I recall."

"Yeah, they do..."

He hasn't seen the posters Xander and Andrew put up about the risk of combustion yet, or he'd be even more worried.

"I suppose I should just chalk it up to general weirdness?" She wipes some milk from Megan's chin.

"Yeah, I guess. It might just be one of those things that never happens again."

He still looks vaguely unsettled, though.

"Hey," she says and chucks him lightly under the chin. "Don't sugarcoat things for me, please--or I'll have to get Charlie to tell me the whole story, and we don't want that, do we?"

"...right. Okay, the last time people were randomly singing and dancing, it was some kind of... virus thing. But I thought that was gone. The guy it came in with said it was."

"A musical virus."

She presses her hand to his forehead. Just to check.

"No, I didn't catch it", he says with a crooked grin. "Somehow."

"But maybe I have? I don't feel sick . . . I feel fantastic, actually."

"Or maybe it's something completely different. Like I say, the guy said it was gone."

"I suppose I shouldn't worry, then."

"Not unless it happens again", he agrees with a nod.

"That's terribly reassuring," she says, shaking her head, and then kisses him for good measure.

Megan giggles and says "Ewwie!"

"Sssh, munchkin", he says when the kiss breaks, reaching out to ruffle her hair. "Drink your juice."

"Mommies and daddies like to kiss," Karen adds. "It makes us happy." She grins at Liam.

"It does", he agrees solemnly, though the effect's spoiled by his own grin.

She leans over and whispers in his ear, and straightens up with an even wider grin and hands him a small white stick.

....and you thought he was smiling before? Nothing to now.

He's a little lost for words, really.

Karen continues smiling and hugs him around his neck.

Liam looks at Megan, who's just drinking her juice and ignoring the crazy grown-ups now.

"Too early to tell her?"

"Too early. Let's wait a month or two, just in case . . . anything happens."

"Right." He nods, still grinning hugely.

"Right." She tries to be serious for a moment, then fails and laughs and hugs him again and buries her face in his neck.

He wraps his arms around her, as Megan scrambles down from her stool and insists on being included.

Karen boosts her up and kisses her cheek.

Liam hugs her too, with a smile.

"Hey, Meggie. Felt left out, did we?"

"Yis!" She lays her head on Karen's shoulder.

"Well, we can't have that."

Familyhug.

And more kisses. We likes the kisses.

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[ooc: fine by me :) yaycute]