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Who: Amy and Song
What: Surprise!
Where: Rainbow's End
When: Wednesday June 6th, morning



Amy paced back and forth in front of the closed bathroom door, sparing a glance at it now and again and scowling. It was nothing. She'd used too much magic fighting, that was all. So she was still feeling worn out. Why shouldn't she? Mabry was off trying to save the world (or at least two small parts of it), she herself was trying to be a mom to an extra kid - and Song - she banished that thought before sighing. She'd made sure Jalen had taken Eli and Ashlyn down to breakfast before she'd gotten started on this. She didn't want him to know...not yet. A quick glance at the clock on the nightstand confirmed it was time, and she took a deep breath before going back into the bathroom. It'd be negative, no big deal, things would go on as they had been...Not that she wouldn't be thrilled, it was just...bad timing.

"When is it ever good timing?" Amy muttered to herself. She bit her lip and picked the stick up from where she'd left it on the counter, stared at it, then dropped it in the sink with a clatter.

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?"

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"The hell are you yelling about?" The response was a dull mutter, only just audible from outside the bathroom. Song was known to appreciate certain eloquent applications of swear words, but she had the sense to be quiet about it with Eli and Ashlyn in the house.

Why she was lurking outside Amy and Jalen's bathroom, she chose not to say. (the fact of the matter was that she'd come to talk with Amy about her latest... encounter... with Medrau, but apparently that would have to wait).

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Amy's first response was to fling the door shut again, and she started to, before she caught herself and tugged it back open. She peered out at Song, half-wondering when she'd acquired a stalker.

"Surprises. Surprises that have no sense of timing."

She ducked back in long enough to grab the stick and wave it at Song.

"THIS IS NOT A GOOD TIME."

Shock, what?

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Song blinked wide eyes at the object in Amy's hand. It took her a moment to recognize it, what with Amy waving it around so much.

"Oh."

A pause.

"That's fun."

Somehow, this was said with a completely straight face.

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"Oh, it will be. When I'm done freaking out. How did this happen? And don't you dare say, 'When a mommy and daddy love each other very much-'"

Amy tossed the stick back in the sink before going to drop down on her bed.

"I'm gonna have to make sure Jale's sitting down this time, he might hurt himself otherwise."

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Song's expression remained bizarrely calm. This was actually due to the other matter on her mind, but she could at least appreciate the humor of the part she was playing in this scene.

"Well, I picked a good day to brood outside your bedroom door." She idly joined Amy on the bed, perching on the edge and twisting half-way around to look at her.

"I wonder what Eli will think."

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"Brooding? I thought that was stalking." Amy let out a half-laugh, shaking her head. 'Song needs poking at' was a definite feeling tugging at her, but at the moment she pushed it aside in favor of getting the rest of the OH MY GOD WHAT NOW feeling out of the way.

"'Take it back', I bet you. By the time the baby's actually born, I mean. Right now, I'm not sure."

"Awiergan's gonna be pissed. Not that I care what she thinks. But she likes Eli, and what if she hates this one the way she hates Jalen?"

Yes, that was part of the freaking out.

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"Tch," Song said expressively.

"Awiergan loves babies. She likes Larkin, even, doesn't she? I'm the one with the dark side who enjoys ripping unborn children out of their mothers' stomachs and turning them into pet Heartless, just for the freak-out factor of it." There was a flash of something like bitterness there, but Song was still far too calm.

"You're just not evil enough," she joked tastelessly. "Even the incarnation of your heart's own darkness can't hurt babies."

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Yeeeah, that right there shoved all the panic over a surprise pregnancy right out of her head. Amy frowned, resisting the urge to glomp Song. There was something else going on here, and she didn't want to get bitten.

"So why were you brooding outside my door?"

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Song stared back at Amy calculatingly, silent just long enough to be ominous. Then she offered a smirk.

"Oh, it's not important. not as important as planning how to tell everyone the news."

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Okay, she did not like that look. Her alarm bells weren't quite going off, which was a little weird. Amy found herself standing up and wandering over to the door, leaning against the wall next to it.

"Naw, I think it is. I'm not planning on telling the others until I've talked to Jale anyway. Even then it'll just be a frantic post of 'Oh my god, guess what you guys?!' We should really be talking about you."

She found herself tugging at her bracelet while she watched Song, and forced herself to stop. She'd have to check on that in a while, too.

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Song's expression tensed to a point somewhere between dismissive and impatient. "Well, you know I love to talk about myself, but I don't see how its relevant now." She twisted her own newly acquired bracelet. "I'm not going anywhere. So," she stubbornly hopped back to the more exciting topic, "I bet you already have some names in mind. I know you plan that kind of thing before the fact."

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"You're acting weird, that's how it's relevant."

Another tug at the bracelet before her hand drifted down to rest against her stomach. Bad, bad timing.

"Yeah, but you already know what I'm going with. I mean, we've talked about it before."

Yep, this was wrong. Song knew what she was gonna call her next kid. Assuming it was actually a girl, anyway. Amy almost snorted at that. It might be too early to tell, but she herself had no doubt.

"Though I was kinda thinking if it's a boy, maybe Isaiah...but maybe I should let Jale pick."

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"Elena, wasn't it?" Song asked innocently, choosing to ignore the comment on her behavior. "Like you said, though, only if it's a girl. Isaiah's an interesting one, but he'd need a nickname, and if you don't give him one first, it'll be Izzy." She grinned, savoring the silly name as a sort of threat.

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"Yes. After my paternal grandmother. A variation on her name, actually. They both mean 'light'."

Maybe if she stopped trying to get to the bottom of the weirdness, the disturbing feeling this conversation was giving her would go away.

Oh, right. And Awiergan's actually a sparkling fairy.

"Ugh, no. I'd keep picturing that computer geek from Digimon. Maybe just Isa."

Amy shifted a bit against the wall. She kind of wanted to sit down, but at the moment liked the potential safety of the nearby door better. The fact she couldn't get a better grip on what was going on with Song through her vibes was grating on her. Maybe the bracelet was interfering? Though she didn't think it had the first time. Hell, maybe Song's bracelet was the cause of the weirdness. Yay for experimental magic and Darkness Incarnate.

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"Call him Isa, I'll have to hunt down the former Number Seven and tell him he's someone's namesake. Come to think about it, it'd be nice to see him anyway. I miss the semi-aggressive banter." She sighed wistfully, but was unable to keep a completely straight face.
"And there was that one time Xemnas threatened to fight him if he barged in on us during the Three Days. I almost wish that had happened, just for the show..."
Nostalgia was at least something ordinary for Song. Then again, she might have been putting on such a display specifically for that reason.

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It felt like her stomach was twisting up in knots, and all Amy wanted to do was flee this parody of Song. But she forced herself to remain where she was, though her hand came up to twist the wedding ring on her finger, as she often did when she was nervous.

"Song," She said softly, watching her friend, "Tell me what's going on with Medrau."

Please. She added silently.

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Song gave Amy a deceptively bland look at the change of topic, blinking mildly a few times before responding.

"I beat her."

Of course she would leave a statement like that unexplained, going directly against her passion for exposition and detail.

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Yes, and if you had, you wouldn't be acting like this.

But instead of that, what came out was, "You're making me sick."

Not the most polite thing to say, and she didn't mean it in a cruel way, it was literally the truth. Whatever she was sensing from Song, coupled with her strange behavior and just un-Song-ness, was making her stomach turn. The thought had crossed her mind of adjusting her shields more, just closing them, but then she'd be effectively blind, and she didn't want that.

But it doesn't really matter now, does it?

"You can quit acting now."

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Now she honestly did look surprised. "I'm... not acting."

It was easy, of course, to guess at what Amy suspected. "Amy, it's me." she waved the bracelet under her friend's nose, sounding hurt. "Seriously. I didn't beat her, beat her, but I... kind of... took the offensive, and she wasn't expecting that. She couldn't defend against it, because of this," another wave of her wrist. "So I just... took back what was mine. Some of it, anyway." She rolled her bottom lip between her teeth, as she always did when she felt uncertain.

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"Oh."

You really are an idiot sometimes, Amy.

"Sorry. I'm just- things are messed up, and I don't know which way is up right now."

Amy pushed off from the wall and went back to the bed, dropping down next to Song before throwing an arm around her.

"Sooo, Larkin'll have a playmate close in age, that'll be neat...and poor Ladybug really will be surrounded by girls, watch."