gotham_knocking | Housewarming

Housewarming

The new apartment awaits its guests. Brand new folding chairs line the walls of the dining room, and the living room is as clean as possible.

Almost everything is ready. Let the housewarming begin!

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"Yup. I bet she knows half of them already." Not like he embarrasses easily. "Just make sure you get the details rights. Embarrassing is one thing. Incorrect? That's omething else."

"Oh, c'mon, it's no fun if I don't get to make bits up to improve the story."

"No fun, but facts are facts. Besides, I am sure that the facts do the trick for a man like me."

Steph grins. "Sure, Al. Sure they will."

"Al? Do I look like an Al to you?" He seems genuinely offended.

Well, not so much offended as merely bemused and surprised.

"You know, I'm not actually sure," Steph says, thoughtfully. "I haven't figured out quite what to call you yet. Somehow 'Allie' doesn't seem to cut it."

"Everyone in the Bar calls me Alex. Most of my coworkers call me Knox. And you don't want to know what my bosses call me." He resists saying "as long as you don't call me late for dinner."

"Allie...I used to suit me fine. Not sure when that changed, but you might be right."

Steph leans back to survey him thoughtfully.

"I guess I could call you Allie. It's just kind of girly."

Her scowls at Steph. "No. Alex. Or Knox. I am NOT girlie.

"Besides," he says with the scowl receding," Raps and I know a kid named Allie and she IS a girl. Ten years old. Raps' sort adopted her."

Steph grins at him. "I know. I wouldn't dare really."

"We all do that a bit here, don't we?" she asks, thoughtfully. "There's this adorable tiny ghost boy, Santi, I'm totally adopting him. Poor kid. And I have family now I never used to have." She's a bit wistful, thinking of Barry, Arithon, Dick. "Everyone moves on in the end, though, I guess."

"Yeah, I guess." He knows well eonugh that sooner or later, Raps would go home, too. "Better to just take what we can get then. And make the family we can." He doesn't quite think of Steph as family, but since she is so attached to Kita, she's at least part of the larger group if nothing else.

Steph grins. "It seems to have worked out all right so far."

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