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[guppy_sandhu]

"Just leave me alone, I'm not doing anything to you."
"You're in the way Sandy."
"Let's put him out of the way."

The door swings shut - a gym locker door today - with an eight-year-old Guppy with his coat and jumper hooked neatly onto the peg so that his legs dangle. He looks surprised to say the least that he's ended up back in the bar he was in the other day, but right now is more concerned about what his mum will say about the stretched jumper. He squirms, trying to lift himself up on the peg so that he can unhook himself.

And then sighs, because being stuck on the inside of a locker door is just plain embarrassing.

Little help over here?

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[cute_bruiser]

Molly hears the giggling. It sounds suspiciously like the sort of giggling the girls at her home used to indulge in, before she found a frog in her bed or something.

(Not that Molly's scared of frogs - how could she be? - but that's not the point. Stupid girls.)

Milkshake and dinner are promptly abandoned in favour of the little kid hanging on the door.

"...Dude, what happened to you? D'you want a hand?"

[guppy_sandhu]

Going red in embarrassment, the little boy nods.

[cute_bruiser]

It takes her a second to figure out how to achieve this without hurting him.

"Okay, I'm gonna grab your legs and raise you up off the hook-thing, okay? You'll have to push away from the door so the hook doesn't catch again."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Please don't hurt me." he says in a small whimper, but nods.

[cute_bruiser]

"Not gonna hurt you," she says, shocked at the very idea. "Promise. I'm totally a super hero, and we only hurt bad people."

Which is a bit simplistic, even by Molly's standards, but then Guppy's currently even smaller than she is, so that's probably okay.

She kneels, and grabs his legs, supporting him. "Okay, gonna lift you now, 'kay?"

[guppy_sandhu]

Super hero or not, she's a kid, and a bigger one than he is.

He nods and looks at her nervously.

[cute_bruiser]

Her eyes flash pink, just for a second, although she could probably do this easily enough without her powers.

Molly lifts him easily, as though he doesn't weigh anything at all.

"Are you off the peg now?"

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy pushes up and disentangles his jumper.

"Yeah, thanks."

He wobbles forwards.

[cute_bruiser]

Molly lifts him well away from the door before carefully putting him down.

"'re you okay now?"

[the-h-star-r.livejournal.com]

Under a table near Guppy's door is a shaken up looking Homestar.

However, the needs of kids might be able to outweigh his fear.

"Hey, door-kid! You been near any toilets lately?"

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy staaaaares.

Who or what on Earth is that?

[the-h-star-r.livejournal.com]

Homestar crawls a little out of the table.

"I'll take that as a 'no.' Plus your feet don't look particularly giant."

He sits by the table.

"Do you hang around on hooks often?"

[guppy_sandhu]

He looks a bit scared. But then he remembers what his father said. People who look peculiar might be disabled, so it's rude to stare.

"I got put here."

[the-h-star-r.livejournal.com]

Disabled isn't really the word for Homestar. Stupid is a better one.

"Oh! I see."

Even though he doesn't.

"Do you want down?"

[guppy_sandhu]

"Yes please."

[the-h-star-r.livejournal.com]

Homestar stands up and gently lifts Guppy off the hook.

"Man, whoever put you up here musta been tall," he says, still invisibly supporting the boy.

[guppy_sandhu]

"Thanks. May I please go to the floor now?"

[allican-do.livejournal.com]

Poor little guy!

Catching sight of him when the squirming happens, Katara loses interest in her snack at the bar to stare in surprise.

For about two seconds. Then she's Mommying It Up.

"Oh no, are you okay? How did you get up there?"

Don't worry, Guppy - she's heading over to help you get down.

[guppy_sandhu]

"I fell." Guppy replies, that being his standard answer to such things.

Except the part where it totally doesn't work.

[allican-do.livejournal.com]

Yeah, except that part.

Katara's hands pause for a second on their way to helping to lift him, but are on his waist a second later. "How did you fall up?" she asks, in what may be a familiar voice, depending.

It depends on just how stern his mother got when he lied about brushing his teeth.

[guppy_sandhu]

He flinches slightly at the touch.

"With difficulty miss."

Guppy always brushes his teeth. His daddy told him he'd smell and nobody would like him if he didn't.

[allican-do.livejournal.com]

Hands draw away when he flinches, but-- well, how else is she going to get him down?

Sighing softly, she lifts and sets him on the ground with not too much difficulty, taking her hands away immediately to keep him from flinching again. "Well... now that you're here, maybe we can keep you from falling up again." Smiling, she offers her hand. "I'm Katara - you don't have to call me miss-anything."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Thanks... Katara."

He fidgets and smiles awkwardly.

[allican-do.livejournal.com]

Too cute for words.

"What's your name?" she prompts, since he doesn't seem inclined to give. And is also, totally subtly, leading him toward the bar. Growing boys who are bullied and hung on doors need cookies.

[guppy_sandhu]

"Gurpreet miss."

He follows cautiously.