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Boo more or less falls into Kate's arms, burying her face into Kate's shoulder. She still cries, but less hysterically.

Bad Bill still broke her toy. (nevermind that she has a dozen just like it scattered all over the floor)

Kate wraps Boo in a hug and rubs her back.

"What'd you do?" she asks Bill in a tone that isn't accusatory, just curious.

"I was walking by and didn't see her stuff. I stepped on this an it broke." He holds up the toy to show her and then starts trying to get it back together again.

"I'm sorry, Squirt." He says to the little girl in Kate's arms. "I wasn't lookin, I was..."

OH CRAP WHERE'S THE ENVELOPE?!

Bill's head starts to dart around quickly.

"No oooooooooooooook" Boo says sadly, pointing accusingly to Bill. "Bad B'll no ook."

She sniffles, the crying mostly over, and puts her face back in Kate's shoulder.

Kate's still rubbing Boo's back, surveying the toys scattered on the floor.

"At least she has more — "

She glances down at the top of Boo's head.

"Right, half-pint? You have lots of them. And Bill didn't mean to break one, he's just ... "

A little accident-prone.

Her eyes move to Bill again, and then she spots the manila envelope just visible behind his hip.

"Looking for that?" she asks, inclining her head toward it.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry." He keeps saying as he searches about.

When Kate points it out Bill turns quickly and snatches it, quickly pushing what ever fell out back in.

"I'll buy you another, girl. Promise." He says distractedly as he puts things back.

Boo starts to cough a bit.

She might look a little green.

Looks like she worked herself up more than we thought.

"See?" Kate says to Boo. "Bill didn't mean to, and he'll fix it — "

The sheaf of papers rustling in his grip grabs her attention, but then Boo coughs; Kate looks at her closely.

"Grace?"

She looks a little ... green. That can't be good.

Bill may not have much experience with kids but he knows what someone looks like green around the gills.

His eyes widen and he stands quickly, forgetting the envelope in favor of moving swiftly.

"I'll be right back! Hold on!" He hurries off towards Bar, carefully stepping over and around the scattered toys.

When he comes back it's with a small trash can and towel that Bar provided him without asking.

As Bill moves to put the trash can on the floor, Boo's green color seems to suddenly peek and there is Boo throw up all over the place.

Then Boo starts to cry again - more of a whine really. Because throwing up feels terrible and there's icky stuff everywhere and her nose and throat feels like it's burning and..

She does not approve. No approval at all.

Kate stiffens and tries to ignore the vomit soaking the front of her black tank. And the vomit on her forearm.

Because it's not important — Boo's upset and Kate knows how awful it feels to throw up.

"Oh, Boo — I'm sorry ... "

That's a hundred percent sincere sympathy in Kate's voice.

She looks over at Bill, thankful he had the foresight to bring a towel with the trash can.

Ew.

He got the trashcan down infront of her, for all the good it did.

Looking at the mess on his shirt front and arms he starts to wipe it off then notices Kate and Boo and offers the towel to Kate instead.

"She gonna be okay?"

Boo sort of continues to whine and points to her nose, which has icky coming out of it, and her pants, which have icky on them and whines more.

Now there's icky EVERYWHERE, even on Kate and Bill. Boo feels bad. She doesn't like the icky!

But, on the plus side, she doesn't look green anymore!

" -- thanks," Kate murmurs, reaching for the towel while taking careful inventory of Boo.

"I know, sweetheart, I see ... "

She begins to wipe the icky from Boo's nose and mouth.

"She looks better."

I think.

Bill reaches over to a table to grab napkins to try and clean himself up with while studying Kate and Boo.

"Yeah, she don't look green anymore. There anything I can do?" Kate seems to have the cleanup part handled.

Boo seems to be calming down somewhat. She sniffles, then grimaces.

She perks up a bit and presents her shiny Hello Kitty bracelet for Bill's inspection. She points to the Hello Kitty charm.
"B'll!"

"Actually," Kate answers, wiping the last of the gross from Boo's pants, "would you ask Bar for a clean — "

'Change of clothes for Boo' is the rest of that request, but it gets lost in a laugh when Boo displays her bracelet.

Bill looks down at the bracelet, blinks and then looks at Kate who's laughing.

"Bad influence." He accuses.

Boo seems pleased that the mood has brightened up somewhat.

She points to Bill.
"Shit!"

She looks expectantly at both of them for a reaction.

"It wasn't me," Kate protests, still laughing. "I only asked Bar for this because she had a Hello Kitty sippy — "

She stops short and looks from Bill to Boo, then back to Bill.

"Bill."

Bill's eyes widen at Boo's word and he looks from Boo to Kate and takes a quick step back.

"I'm gonna go get more towels." He says as he turns and heads back towards Bar.

Boo smiles sort of to herself and touches Kate's icky shirt.

"Ewww."

" -- and clean clothes for Boo," Kate calls after Bill's retreating form.

She turns back to Boo and gives her a (somewhat) reproachful grin.

"That's a word you shouldn't use, half-pint. Not till you're older. Much older."

She looks down when Boo touches her shirt.

"Eww," she agrees, toweling Boo's hand, then wiping the vomit from her forearm. She'll have to tackle the stains on her tank when Bill gets back with fresh towels.

Bill returns, taking perhaps a bit longer then it should have, and holds out more towels and clothes for Boo to Kate.

"Here ya go." He keeps a towel for himself and works on getting himself cleaned up, frowning as he decides this is the last time he's going to wear this shirt.

Boo grins at the non-icky nametag shirt just like the one she's been wearing. She points to it. "Boo!"