Musebox: 6 1/2 Verse: Shopping with Holiday

[wise_lil_wolf]

Who: Rafe and Holiday
What: Shopping for clothes post lift from Abysus and a few exams later.

When: A week after arriving at Providence
Where: Providence HQ/Holiday's Car/Shopping!
Warnings: Possible mention of slash and MPREG
Rafe sat, arms wrapped around himself in his room.  All things considered, there wasn't much of his in this room.  It was all white and sterile.  It was more like a hospital than a young boy's room.  Still, this was his assigned living quarters for the next well...until they figured out what to do with him. 
He sighed, blue eyes looking over the door that connected his room to his mother's apartment.  His mother wasn't there of course, he was still in intensive care where he needed to be.  Getting better slowly, but surely.  It gave Rafe a lot of time to himself. 

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[doc_holi]

... If she wasn't driving, she'd give him a big hug right now. For now, he'll just have to settle for her hand on his arm.

"I do like you. Don't worry about what other people think of you. Their opinions don't matter."

She loved him before he was even born...

[wise_lil_wolf]

He took her hand and squeezed it very hard. Her aura was warm and comforting and it was exactly what he needed. It was calm and loving and supportive. With his father back in Abysus, and hurt, and his mother in the hospital wing at Providence, he needed somebody.

"Thanks."

It is all he can manage to say. It is choked and strained.

[doc_holi]

She didn't say anything back to him. Just squeezed his hand back until they got wherever they were going.

Holiday knew this entire thing was hard on him, especially with Six out of commission right now. She wanted to use this trip as a way of distraction from his problems.

[wise_lil_wolf]

He suddenly latched onto her arm and hugged it tightly.

Her arm might be a little damp now.

"Thank You. I know you love Mum. I'm glad you do. I was scared we'd be alone, but we're not. I don't know a lot about things here, but I'm not scared with you around. You feel nice. Your feelings."

[doc_holi]

... Okay. That's it, young man. She is stopping this car. She can't resist not hugging him right now, when he obviously really needs it.

Even she's a bit... shocked at the... loving his mom part...

Holiday still stops on the side of the road, right before wrapping him in a tight hug. Six might not like hugs, but she's not skipping out on him.

[wise_lil_wolf]

He latches onto her, accepting her hug and squeezing her tightly back.
He sniffles into her. Rafe likes hugs.

"I'm sorry."

For making you stop. For accidentally invading your privacy without meaning to. For everything. It isn't fair, all of this. Everything is so complicated that he doesn't know what to think. He definitely needed this shopping trip.

"I didn't mean to look or to feel it. It just happens."

[doc_holi]

She shakes her head, holding him. "No. No. Don't be sorry. It's okay. I have no secrets from you."

She understands that a power like this should be controlled or kept under wraps, but she doesn't want him to feel like he has to do that around her, too. She wants him to know that it's okay and that it's going to be okay...

[wise_lil_wolf]

He sniffs and hugs her.

"Okay. You don't have to keep secrets from me either. Okay? I want to know whatever you want to tell me."

He wipes his eyes.

"It's going to all be okay, right?"

[doc_holi]

Holiday wonders... but she snuffs that down before she can think on that and just smiles.

"I know. Everything's going to be okay."

[wise_lil_wolf]

He nods.

"Okay. I trust you."

His stomach growls audibly then and he blushes a little.

[doc_holi]

She pulls away far enough to look at him, getting some of that hair out of his face.

"Come on. You'll feel better once you eat."

[wise_lil_wolf]

He looks at her, too.

He likes her eyes. They are kind, sweet, understanding, loving.

He blows a loose tuft of hair out of his eyes and wipes his face with the back of his hand.

"Yeah. Thanks."

He squeezed her hand one more time for good measure.

"Where do you want to go? I don't really know any places around here."

[doc_holi]

"Not sure," she answered honestly, about to pull out on the road again. "Anything in particular you hungry for? A burger or pizza or something?"

[wise_lil_wolf]

Rafe shrugged.

"Pizza is good. Pizza can have anything you want on it. Can we get that?"

[doc_holi]

"Sure. Pizza sounds good."

She started making their way to the nearest pizza place then. Hopefully, this entire trip will make her understand him better.

[wise_lil_wolf]

Rafe continued to stare out the windows. He sees all the signs and store after store after store. So many new things. He hopes he isn't too much of a noob.

[doc_holi]

"We're here," she announces, pulling up to the pizza place. The last time she had been there they had good food, but that had been a while back... She doesn't get out too much.

"Ready?"

[wise_lil_wolf]

"Yeah."

He is back to looking curious and interested. He's really relieved he siesn't bother her. Rafe undoes his seat belt and hops out of the car, closing the door behind him.

[doc_holi]

He isn't a bother to her at all. In fact, she likes his curiosity. Signs of a smart mind under all that dark hair.

She gets out of the car, too, headed inside the restaurant to be seated.

[wise_lil_wolf]

Rafe followed her like a lost puppy. He stayed right at her heels without clipping them.

He watches everything she and the other people do with a quiet intensity. He' s seen this scenario before in media, so he sort of knows what to expect.

When the hostess seats them, he slides into the booth's seat across from Holiday and pauses briefly before taking the menu that the hostess offers him and thanks her quietly. He looks over at Holiday, looking for a sign he did it right.

[doc_holi]

She smiles to him when he looks to her. Holiday can imagine that even this is new to him, but he's doing really well with the public so far.

She glances to the menu, before looking back up. "Anything in particular you want?"

[wise_lil_wolf]

Rafe shrugs.

"Something with a lot of meat on it. That stuff in the hospital wing is for the birds."

Blue eyes look up at her.

"How about you?"

[doc_holi]

"Meat wouldn't be half bad, to be honest," she smiled, looking back at their menu. While it was good meals, hospital food was never the greatest. Not compared to a good pizza anyway.

"I think I might get some peppers and olives, too. You want any? We could always split it in half."

[wise_lil_wolf]

His father was a nanite fueled cyber wolf. Rafe was many things, but a vegetarian wasn't one of them.

"You can do that? They put different things on different parts? Yeah! I want to do that."

[doc_holi]

She laughs. "Alright then."

Holiday isn't surprised by his no viggies thing. He is, after all, a ten year old boy.