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Boo watches ~~sneakily~~ carefully to Kate as she heads upstairs.

She waits about two seconds after Kate's disappeared at the top of the stairs and theeen? She hops down off the barstool and oh, look.. there is a almost naked, very pink and sticky Boo runnnnnnnnnnnnning towards the other side of bar with a high pitched squeeeeeeal!

Bill has a mouthful of cake when this happens and so his shout of protest is mostly muffled. He drops his fork and gets up quickly, setting after her.

"'ay! 'aif!" He calls after her, chewing quickly as he moves.

Did Boo disappear again? We fear she might've.

Of course, if the area around where she disappeared is exaimed closely, someone might notice cake crumbs and pink hand prints sort of..all over.

As a sheriff, Bill, posesses mad tracking skillz.

Or not. But the hand prints and crumbs are pretty hard to miss.

"Boo?" He calls out, now that he's swallowed the cake. "C'mon out. Kate's gonna be back any second now. Don't want her gettin mad at you, do ya?"

Not that she would be of course but it'd be kind of nice for Bill to have Boo with him when Kate does come back down. It would certainly help with the proving he's not a complete screw-up.

He tries to follow the hand prints and bends to look under a table.

The thought of Kate getting mad at her makes Boo a very, very sad panda.

And thus? She ignores said line of thinking.

There might be the noise of straw slurping coming from... is that behind Bar?

Not there.

He sighs and starts looking for more hand prints. That's when the slurping sound catches his attention.

It takes him a moment to recognize and identify it then he smiles and edges over towards Bar, following the sounds.

On the other side of the counter he waits until he's pretty sure he's got her pinpointed then leans over quick and looks down hoping to catch her.

"Gotcha!"

Silly Bill.

There is a cup with pink hand prints on it and what appears to have been a milkshake there.

But there's no Boo.

There might be giggling coming from that direction though.

Shoot.

Well, the milkshake and hand prints prove he's getting close at least. And he hears giggling so a Boo must be around here somewhere.

Following the laughter he tries to be sneaky and sly in his pursuit.

"Hey Boo, where'd ya go? Don't you want anymore cake an ice cream an stuff?"

He wouldn't want her to have any more. She's never going to sleep with all of this sugar in her system.

He miiiight notice that the prints and crumbs seem to be vaguely leading toward the back door.

And that the back door has those hand prints all over the place.

And that the door is slightly ajar.

Perhaps naked Boo decided it was time for a bath?

He walks along the trail slowly, peeking under tables, behind chairs and perhaps even behind a few people, searching for the girl.

When the trail leads him to the open back door his jaw drops.

"Oh, shit." Forgive the lapse into profanity but Bill has just lost the toddler he'd been watching after all of five seconds!

"You didn't go outside. She didn't go outside." He says, pulling open the door and giving a quick look back and forth and then closing the door and doing the same on the inside. "She didn't go outside. She couldn't have gone outside..."

He opens the door again and steps out, "Boo? C'mon Boo, no more games. Okay?"

Shit. Shit. Shit.

She went outside! Bill knows all about outside and all of the VERY BAD THINGS! that are out there!

Leaving the door open he steps out and starts searching like mad for her hoping she didn't get any farther than the porch.

"What the hell am I gonna tell Kate?"

Well.. the gleeful sounding Boo noises coming from the outside might indicate that she did, in fact, go farther than the porch.

It's hard to tell which direction the gleeful noises are coming from, only that they are coming from outside.

His head lifts quickly at the sounds of laughter and he clomps down the porch steps in a hurry, standing on the lawn and turning this way and that trying to figure out which direction they're from.

"Boo! Hey, come back!" He calls out, looks one way, then the other and picks a direction and heads off in it quickly.

"Stay away from the bunnies Boo! An don't mess with any cookie dough you might find!"

Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit.

Come back.

Yeah. That's gonna happen.

The gleeful noises miiiight be coming from the vague direction of the woods.

Or perhaps the lake?

It's really hard to tell. Everything seems to be echoing.

When Kate came back downstairs, dressed in a fresh tank top and jeans (she'd somehow missed the icky that had stained the pair she'd been wearing), she'd approached the bar, only to find no Boo and no Bill.

And abandoned Bill cake, a sure sign of Something Ominous.

Then she'd heard what she thought was Bill's voice through the open back door.

So now, she's stepping onto the porch and looking for a certain toddler and a certain sheriff.

She wasn't even gone for ten minutes; they couldn't've gotten into that much trouble, right?

Bill starts heading towards the woods, takes a step or two towards the lake, then makes for the woods again.

"She better not be set on fire. Or drown. Or lost. God, what if that tofu thing is still out here?"

With this positive thinking Bill steps into the tree line.

Oh, but look, Bill. Hear the sound of splashing.

Followed by the sound of Boo squeeees.

Lots of splashing and squeeing.

"Bill?" Kate calls uncertainly, stepping off the porch. "Boo?"

Maybe she wanted to look at the fish again.

Kate starts walking toward the lakeshore.

Hearing the splashing sounds Bill's head snaps around, and straight into a low tree branch. He battles off the leaves and limbs and with much noise, and a muttered curse or two, comes crashing out of the woods.

He dashes towards the lake, pulling off leaves and twigs and hurrying towards the splashing noises.

"Boo!" He doesn't take the time to notice how much fun she's having because HOLY CRAP SHE'S IN THE WATER!

With a splash he's in the lake, sloshing over to Boo and picking her up quickly.

WHUT?! As soon as she is picked up she starts to wail. Loud and with lotsof tears. She was having so much fun! SHE LIKES THE WATER AND THE MEAN MAN TOOK HER OUT OF THE WATER LIKE THE MEAN MAN TOOK HER PAINTS MEAN MAN EVEN IF HE DID INTRODUCE HER TO KITTY!BILLS!

Her wet and almost naked self starts to flail and kick and squirm and try very hard to get down INTO THE WATERS OF FUN!

And this is wail-filled, flail-filled scene Kate walks into.

" -- everything okay?"

It's ... obviously not.

It's all so very far from okay.

He panics when she starts to cry, thinking that she's hurt and he tries to look her over for injury only she's squirming and kicking too much for him to do it.

"Boo! Wait...you gotta...let me see..." He struggles with her as he starts trying to slog back to shore.

At Kate's voice he looks up quickly, slips on an algae covered rock, and falls into the water.

Somehow he manages to turn so he's landing on his back with his arms up, holding Boo out of the water.

DUDE. THERE'S FALLING, which causes freaking, and THEN THERE IS STILL BEING OUT OF WATERNESS! All of this causes the wailing to become more frantic and upset and the failing to continue MORE and.. this is going very downhill very fast.

Kate rushes forward, not sure who's hurt more here, and crouches in the shallows beside them.

"God, Bill — "

She takes Boo in her arms so Bill can sit up, and starts checking Boo over for scrapes.

"It's okay, sweetheart ... Bill, are you all right?"

Bill comes up sputtering and quickly turns to Kate and Boo.

"She okay? I'm sorry Kate! She got away from me an I couldn't find her and she came out here an is she hurt?" He wipes water from his face and tries to catch his breath back, looking over Boo with worry.

Boo puts her head against Kate for a minute - smearing the pink ice cream and cake all over Kate and her clean shirt as she does so - slowly calming, and then wiggles to get down.

"Wad'r iisss!"

Wigglewiggle.

DOWN!

"iisssss!" Whiiiiiiiiiiiine.