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And there is Lucca again... dressed in a similar way as last time.

he grins.

"Good morning."

"Morning! How are you? I hope I did not make your brain melt... because I did not even start on the mess that time-travelling can be..."

He grins.

"Nah. Sounds incrediblwe to me, but my world is kinda like that too. A lot of incredible happenings."

He smiles.

"I am doing good this morning. How are you?"

"I am fine... stayed here lest night, taking a little vacation."

He nods.

"Sounds like a good thing. I bet you work hard back home."

He smiles, finishing stretching and sitting down, sipping some water.

"It's a good thing to have a purpose, I think."

"Sometimes its not... sometimes I feel like just being lazy..."

'Nothing wrong with that. We all need time down and days off. A vacation is a good thing. I mean that's why most worlds end up with a work week with days when laziness is encouraged."

he grins at her.

"Oh, but I work on a royal stipend... and the king's administrators think I must work nonstop." She makes a face.

Billy frowns and shakes his ehad.

"Well, I hope you can at least get here now and then. Bar is nice. If you ask her, she might bve willing to let you come through regularly. That way you wont burn out or feel too bad about working."

"I do come through on my own..." She grins

he grins and nods.

"Good. Cause I like having friends adn seeing 'em now and then."

He smiles full out.

"Hopefully today will be a quiet day."

"I just wish it was warmer... I feel like sunbathing a bit. It is autumn back home too."

he blushes.

"Some of the rooms have balconies... um... you could always invent a heating unit? Maybe?"

"We have heating, but its not the same as the sun..." She does not notice the blush.

He nods.

"What about soemthing to reflect and enehance the power of the sun's rays?"

he shrugs. he knows nothing about it.

"I could, if I had some mirrors, and a heatsensor, and some radiation shielding... but would take a lot of work. No work for me today..." She flops down on the grass, arms behind head.

he chuckles.

"Rest is good too."

I plan on spending some time doing that too."

"How that saying goes... lazyness pays now?"

"Something like that."

he smiles.

"I hope your day of rest goes well. I still have homewotrk to do, but I am sure I will see you again and rest some myself."

"Dont homework yourself too much... see ya" She giggles...

He grins and waves as he heads back towards the bar.

"See ya later!"

"Hi, you." Catherine is weary and sad today, but manages a smile as she sits down on the rock nearby.

He smilesat her, seeing her sadness and then does what most kids like him would do. He hugs her.

"Hello, Catherine. You okay?"

She's surprised momentarily, then touched, and hugs him back.

"I'm fine. Just... a lot of things are pretty weird at the moment." She draws back to look at him, grinning. "And you? How was last night?"

He smiles a little.

"I'm okay. Wish I knew how to make things better for the Bar, but I'm okay."

He makes a face.

"Life can really be dark somedays."

"That's why we need our superheroes." Catherine touches his shoulder gently. "People like you, working out and doing your homework and keeping normal things in the world going. You're making things better for the Bar just by being here."

He smiles.

"Thank you. I just wish I could do more. But thank you. I heard Doctor McCoy got tangled with a curse too. Are you two okay?"

Worry shines from his face.

"He's--okay." Catherine bites her lip. "He lost his mutant powers and became completely human--but that's the worst of it, and it could have been a lot worse. I'm just grateful it stopped there for him." And more worried than she wants to admit, but let's not go there...

Billy gently hugs her again, then siots back, watching her.

"I'm sorry, Ma'am. I hope he gets better soon. I know how much that meant to him, being a mutant."

"He will." Catherine's voice is firm, even if her eyes don't quite meet his. "They'll find a cure, come hell or high water. They're too smart not to."

She draws a deep breath, attempts to change the subject. "Where'd the Superman costume go?"

he smiles a little at her determination.

"Ah, it was only for Halloween. This is me as I am normally."

he grins crookedly.

"Too bad, it looked good on you," she laughs softly, folding her legs up onto the rock. "Do you get to keep it?"

he blushes a little.

"Thanks."

he smiles just a little watching her.

"Nope, but I can prolly get one if I ask Bar. She is nice. What have you been up to?"

"yes he rambles a bit.

What, you think Catherine minds? "Helping Lindsey through her math assignments and working on this new case, a theft from a museum... nothing really special."

She tilts her head, swinging one leg idly. "Are you up to anything special next Wednesday?"

he smiles.

"She sounds cool! A lot like her mom."

he smiles.

"I dont think so, what's up?"

Catherine laughs again, her smile wide. "She's adorable and sweet and she runs me ragged--all these gray hairs, they're her fault." Her voice is full of fond amusement.

"Nothing for us, in particular." She winks at him. "That's why I was wondering if you wanted to make your visit to the lab, then..."

"You? Have grey hairs? Perish the thought. You are as true and constant as the Northern star."

his voice rises just slightly as he quotes an old poem.

He cocks his head at her, then grins.

"I would love to!"

he hugs her again and then bounces on the rock.

"This is cool!"

Funny, that phrase seems oddly familiar to her. Wonder why.

She blushes at the compliment, though, her smile dazzling. "That's incredibly sweet of you," she replies laughingly, her eyes bright. "Completely untrue, of course, but thank you, all the same..."

"Just meet Sara Sidle--that's my coworker--and I in the bar about... five o'clock sounds okay?"

Hmmm. no idea why...none at all.

"Bah. ", is his answer to that.

"You are too, even if you wont admit it, amd hank agrees with me, so there!"

he chuckles as he winks at her.

"Sounds good to me. I will be there. Should I dresss anyway in particular?"

Rather puzzling thing, that...

"Well, I can't argue both of you at the same time," she gives in, with another of those genuinely sweet smiles. "No, anything goes--trust me, one of our lab workers wears Hawaiian shirts on a regular basis. Whatever you want to bring is fine. I'm working on getting you cleared to watch a field operation from the boss..."

Maybe because while the mun doesnt think the character on Tv is played that way, he thinks you do play her that way here? Maybe...

Billy smiles back.

"Coool! That would be awesome! You're the best, Catherine!"

Mun is quite touched, and thanks other Mun profusely...

"Not by a long shot, hon," she says dryly, stretching out and getting up. "See you then?"

"Of course! and yes you are! And thank you! See you then!"

He's practically bouncing with enthusiasm. Such a great kid, she thinks to herself all over again, shaking her head with a wry grin. "Later, Billy..."

She waves to him over her shoulder, smiling back, as she heads into the Bar.

[ooc: And tagwrap! *snogs*]