Enter a doctor.

[ofthefamily]

Alice and Jasper left on their vacation. Rosalie is still frustrated, but Emmett is doing a decent job of helping out in that regard.

Carlisle will never admit it; he could use a break.

Apparently, Milliways thought to provide one when Carlisle headed towards his home office.

Milliways, Carlisle Cullen. Carlisle?

Welcome to the end of the universe.

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[hapan-heiress.livejournal.com]

Well, well.

He catches the attention of a little girl, standing near the door with an Ewok clutched to her chest. He's a very handsome man...handsome enough to be Hapan.


She's got a feeling he's not though. He gets a timid little finger wave.

[ofthefamily]

Why are there such children here?

Carlisle smiles to the young girl -- can't be older than five at the absolute -- and approaches very cautiously indeed.

"Hello." Carlisle takes a knee in his best bedside manner. "Do you know where I am?"

[hapan-heiress.livejournal.com]

"Milliways." Amelia tells him, mumbling the word into her Ewok toy before smiling at him. "Are you new?"

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

There's something about his smell and posture that reminds Jenny of Alice and Edward. Which would explain why, sometime shortly after leaving Ryan's happy hour, she's studying him closely.

And curiously.

[ofthefamily]

"Yes I am, dear. My name is Carlisle."

One pale finger extends half the distance between himself and the stuffed animal. "And who is this?"

[ofthefamily]

It's hard not to notice.

"Am I so distracting?" his quiet tenor voice tries very hard to conceal amusement.

[hapan-heiress.livejournal.com]

She lets him touch the animal, watching his hand. "I don't know yet. I'm Amelia. Welcome to the Bar."

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

"Interesting," she replies with a small but genuine smile. "You're interesting."

[ofthefamily]

"Thank you very much, Amelia. What a pretty name."

Interrogating a five year old about the end of the universe is never really a good plan.

"Are you here with anyone? A mom or dad? Family?"

[hapan-heiress.livejournal.com]

"No." Amelia says roughly. "I stay wif Miss Sawah if I have to stay here long."

[ofthefamily]

"My first night here and I am found 'interesting'."

He'll have to ask Edward and Alice if they were also found...interesting.

"Forgive me. My name is Carlisle."

[ofthefamily]

Miss Sarah. A caretaker.

"Okay." A smile regained across Carlisle's face. "Do you want to help me? I do not know Milliways at all and could use a guide."

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

Real family makes Jenny want to run. But, apparently, meeting the adopted father of the two vampires she considers adopted siblings makes her beam.

"Did Edward and Alice finally tell everyone about Milliways? Because you're not acting like a normal first timer." Beam, beam, beam and only then does she remember, belatedly and awkwardly, that humans and human-impersonators like to greet each other by holding out hands. "I'm Jenny."

[hapan-heiress.livejournal.com]

"Yes!" She almost seems to have been waiting for this moment. Helping is fun!

"There are wules." She tells him, pointing him to the bar, making him follow her. "I don't 'em all, 'cause they're don't weally appwy to me."

Bar, however, provides Carlisle with a list of these rules.

"And this is Bar," Amelia lisps. "She's alive. Kinda."

[ofthefamily]

His two children never mentioned anything about the Bar being alive.

Even 'kinda'.

Reading the list of rules is a short affair. An eyebrow raises at one of them.

"Thank you...Bar." Talking to planks of wood is somewhat difficult for Carlisle, but he plays it up for Amelia's sake.

[hapan-heiress.livejournal.com]

Bar gives a faint air of welcome as a milkshake appears, for Amelia. Her eyes light up. She stands on her tiptoes to grab it, reading the Aurebek note that arrives with it.

"She's weally nice too. 'A fwee milkshake to make up for the bad days.'" She reads the note with a tiny bit of stumbling over the words. She looks back up at Carlisle. "Your first drink is fwee too."

[ofthefamily]

Carlisle inclines his head, smiling apologetically at Jenny's hand. It'll take him some time to get over the whole tactile-avoidance problem.

"Carlisle. And...I suppose Alice and Edward telling me about Milliways warned me somewhat." Looking around the bar, "I confess to being still confused."

[ofthefamily]

"Oh thank you, but I'm not thirsty," Carlisle replies, practiced and quiet. Instead he finds himself thinking about the note Amelia received, even though it's in a language he has never seen before.

He can't ask. It's not his business.

"I wonder if you have ever met my children. Do you know anyone named Edward? Or Alice?"

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

Jenny glances down at her hand and back up at Carlisle, confusion on her face as well. "Am I doing it wrong? The hand shaking thing?"

[hapan-heiress.livejournal.com]

She crumples the note and slides it into her pocket, shaking her head, her brown curls bouncing around her head. "No sir. Sowwy."

[ofthefamily]

"No. I just...don't. You didn't do anything wrong."

Something about the way Jenny explains herself makes Carlisle ask, "Are you not human?"

She smells human. Almost. Unusual. Very confusing.

[ofthefamily]

"That's alright. I'll have to tell them what a nice girl I met when I get home."

[hapan-heiress.livejournal.com]

Amelia smiles with dimples! "If I could tell my famwy, I'd tell them 'bout you. But they don't know. Least not in my time."

[bitunlikely.livejournal.com]

"I'm Gallifreyan," she answers in response with a slight grin. Jenny tugs on her sweatshirt (the one stolen from her very human boyfriend), pulling the sleeves further down in her fists.

"I have two hearts if you don't believe me," Jenny continues. "I can also keep Edward out of my head when I want to. And I have a space shuttle - I took Alice shopping and Edward to a theme park. Definitely not human."

[ofthefamily]

The sweatshirt and the entire newness of MIlliways throws Carlisle off in a way he will definitely have to get used to.

"I've never heard of Gallifrey, but I suppose that is to be expected." Out of Jenny's explanation, Carlisle seems most impressed by her talents with regards to Edward. "I don't suppose that's a talent you could teach someone? I could certainly use it every once in awhile."