IT'S A BABY-BONANZA!

[paradisamods]

Good morning, residents! Did you sleep well? You're going to need all the energy you can muster because congratulations: You're parents! Again! The Paradisa Stork has paid some very lucky residents a visit last night, and even moved them to a more kid-friendly environment.

Some of you may already recognize your little bundle of joy and--my, how they've grown! Others will have to get acquainted with their little rugrats. You may not know them, but they certainly know you. By they way? They're bored. And hungry! And they want all the attention you could possibly give them.

It's going to be a long week.

(ooc: Use this as a catch-all post! This will be the only mass post for the Sunny Skies Retreat, so you may use it for any day that you'd like. Feel free to make your own posts and/or sections whenever you'd like!

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[dorkwonder]

I want the time we have together to be enjoyable. [Lifts her hand, giving her knuckles a kiss.]

[secondchances]

So do I.

... though if you ever suggest a break again, I break your hands. [Said with a tiny smirk, but she's serious in some regard--a break would not be a break, with them. It'd be the end.]

[dorkwonder]

You got it. No more mentions of breaks. [Even though he chuckles, he catches the undercurrent of what she's saying.]

[secondchances]

Good. I want you around. [Even when things are crappy and even when not too long ago she wanted to kick him off a rooftop.]

[dorkwonder]

[Glad she didn't punt him off one!]

I thought about how taking a break could mean losing you, and I knew right away the answer was no break.

[secondchances]

[And the people she'd run to would be Cass and Ezio...]

No breaks.

[dorkwonder]

[Leans in for a kiss.]

No breaks.

[secondchances]

[She kisses him, though briefly. Why can't he be so sweet all the time? :( ]

[dorkwonder]

[Is mindful of this being a family place, so he doesn't go all out. He does kiss wih enough intensity to hopefully leave an impression.

Because he has a lot of opinions on things. ]

[secondchances]

[At least she doesn't doubt that Tim cares for her.]

You okay?

[Constant question of the month.]

[dorkwonder]

I will be. [He can tell the events of the EH have taken their toll on his mind and it might be another month or so until he really starts to recover. For now, he's fully functional which is a big step up. ]

[secondchances]

[She really wants to at least partially blame today on residual EH stress. Maybe she'd have been calmer, and maybe he wouldn't have pulled the Lucrezia card.

She leans against his shoulder, watching Jack.]

Let me know if there's anything I can do.

[dorkwonder]

[In Tim's defense, in the past month Tim has been trapped under a building, headed a recovery effort, been without his lady, lost his mind, beaten up, and shoved inside of a closet. That wasn't even the first earthquake he has been through. Worst month ever. ]

Just be patient with me. I'll work the rest out.

[secondchances]

I have the patience of a saint, on most days. [Maybe not today, but even so she's already thinking of things she can do for him. They still haven't gotten around to their silly anniversary--by the time they do it'll already be the next month's anniversary, probably.

Maybe she'll take the reins and surprise him.]

[dorkwonder]

You do. Sometimes I forget how long you've been here. I've almost been here for six months, which means you have almost been here for three and a half years. That's a long time.

[Life here is so much different than life in Gotham. Paradisa doesn't really need the Batfamily. There is very little crime. Powers and skills only mean so much when they can be taken away at any moment. They need people like Alvin Draper who want to help with the recovery effort. Who will comfort people after the fact.

Again, he knows this logically, but fully processing it is something else all together. ]

[secondchances]

You've had a rough six months, even by Paradisa standards.

[She crawls behind him to wrap her arms around him in a hug, chin on his shoulder. Sometimes hugs like this just feel better.

Poor Tim, always with the bad luck.]

I know it's been really hard for you to adjust, but you've been trying. I see that.

Also, I'll take it as a compliment that you forget how long I've been here sometimes. Means I'm still me and not totally castle-crazy.

[dorkwonder]

[Steph is right, this is a nice hug. Leans back into her and holds his arms out to Jack, who wants to join in on the hug fest. This is a lot better than the tension from earlier. ]

You remind me more of you here. What I mean is you're more like Stephanie Brown and less like Batgirl. Sometimes I feel more like Tim Drake than Red Robin, but the instincts are all still here.

[secondchances]

Is that good or bad?

[dorkwonder]

Mostly good. We probably wouldn't argue as much if you were more like Batgirl. Then again, you and I have always seen certain things differently. The same with Cass and I.

[Tilts his head, looking at her with a playful smile. ] There's a reason why the two of you were never Titans. I probably would have driven the two of you crazy.

[The Titans have always turned to Tim for leadership and they actually want him to call the shots and be the one with the plan. Not so much with Cass and Steph. ]

[secondchances]

You think, hmm?

[dorkwonder]

I can only theorize since it never happened.

[secondchances]

As much as I have a thing for masked heroes, Tim Drake isn't too much of a step down.

[dorkwonder]

Tim Drake has also been thinking about masked heroes since he was a child and how important Batman and Robin are.

[secondchances]

I guess we have something in common.

[dorkwonder]

We do. We're both part of the same legacy. [Studies Jack, wondering if he'd grow up to be a Robin or a masked vigilante of some sort like them.]