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and she thinks maybe it’ll get better once shane gets older, once he learns to talk, but then he’s 2 and he’s still not talking, and he’s having tantrums that come out of nowhere and don’t have a common underlying trigger, and the ONLY thing shane likes is sprinting around the house at top speeds (he's in a toddler helmet for sure) or being swaddled and rocked, and he keeps hitting all the other toddlers at playgroup and yuna is LOSING IT and she KNOWS everybody is looking sideways at her and the pediatrician mentions getting him evaluated and she finds a new pediatrician because she isn’t a failure, she ISN’T.

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I think Grigori was the one to give Ilya his mother's cross. Granted, this happened after Grigori got drunk at her funeral and backhanded Ilya across the face when he wouldn't stop crying (the only time he ever hit Ilya in public and the only time he ever struck him across the face), but I do think Ilya woke up the next day after a fitful night's sleep and found the cross sitting in a golden heap on his bedside table.

I also think the day Ilya gets into his first serious hockey fight in juniors and knocks his first tooth out, Grigori picks him up from the rink. Ilya knows he hates being called out from work early, so he's bracing himself for a serious lashing, except Grigori just kinda looks at him with that piercing stare and then says "Show me your mouth," so Ilya does, revealing the bloody crater still oozing blood and Grigori,,, doesn't laugh, but sort of huffs an amused breath, maybe. Cuffs Ilya on the back of the head, but softly. Says "Next time, you duck, huh?" And Ilya feels that weird stomach churning feeling of pride and relief and the adrenaline rush of almost getting clipped by a passing car but it just misses you.

He was never the kind of person who inspired protective instincts, when in pain. Not to anyone other than Charles, but that was far more to Charles’s credit than Edwin’s. Edwin was the sort of person whose pain was responded to like that of an injured insect: an absent, half-disgusted twist of the stomach, with the most mercy that could be expected a swift end to the suffering.

No yeah that's exactly what I was going for

Crystal's like "bro I am literally trying to be protective at you right now, as we speak" and Edwin's like "sounds fake, and also L + Ratio + F to pay respects to your fashion sense, which is evidently not only dead but well into its funeral"

And the kids are like "but they get into our bug traps" and "we didn't catch him he followed us home"

And their parents are like. Please i do not believe that 6 fucking pixies smuggled themselves into our garage on the underside of your bicycle saddle and then set up shop in the old dolls house. These are living beings they're not toys it's not kind to treat them like this

And the kids are like we are NOT treating them like anything you said we're not allowed to trap them and they always get into our traps so we always run away when they see us and then they follow us and get inside our backpacks and stuff

And the parents are like

Stop lying!!!

And then they set up wildlife cams and not only can pixies apparently do all of that and are very desperate to hang out with these human kids (who have fun life-sized toys and are covered in wonderful things like glitter and are a free source of fresh bugs and pop tart crumbs)

But they can also like. Fully just pick locks and shit.

“i don’t know, probably that i can have ilya’s photos on my phone now :).”