Home Again

[Clint Cross]

"I think I could be... just need to grab the needed ingredients." Clint said as he nodded his head and smiled. "Maybe tomorrow night. I had no idea Cece was that big of a fan."

"I have it so seldom... of course I am." Cece replied and winked at Selene. "You know there's a ton of things I can corrupt this Selene with. I'm guessing our sheltered assassin never had an herbal body wrap?"

[Liara]

“A what?” Selene inquired with a raised eyebrow.

[Cece Ryder]

"They're amazing. You get wrapped in these warm herbal soaked towels and then they wrap you in plastic wrap and then you sit in a sort of sauna for an hour or so and when you come out, it's like all the toxins and stress and everything just flow out. Plus you lose a couple of inches, so you look even more amazing in that painted on mission suit you wear." Cece chuckled. "I've been trying to get Selene to go with me, but we never could get the time to just take an afternoon for ourselves, either I was getting called to some crisis at the Compound or you had an Intel thing or Kaitlyn was sick or something." she leaned over and whispered. "I hope you learned your lesson about licking railings."

[Liara]

“Hard no.” Selene said with a shake of her head. “I have a thing about being confined.”

[Cece Ryder]

"That's something I have to remember." Cece nodded her head. "Well you can always just lay in a nice open room but the extra sweating kinda helps. Mud bath maybe? Similar deal but it's more open. Never tried it, but Kassie swears by them." she hummed. "So how confined is confined for you? I had a secretary in the correspondence pool that couldn't even take a turbolift."

[Liara]

“I’d rather not talk about it especially with the kids here.” Selene said as she nodded towards Kaitlyn and James.

[Cece Ryder]

"Understood." Cece said softly and nodded her head. "In any case we'll still figure out some kind of 'girls' outing', if what Victoria and I have planned works, I'm going to need some serious decompression after it, but once that's done. I'm done with her and I think after mediating on what I felt after I saw you last when... Noonian and Khan fought. I think my place is here. Both as a friend and to help with Kaitlyn. And given that I'm going to live off my savings, since I decided that I'm not going to retake my old jobs... we'll have plenty of time together. Maybe we can do that zoo school thing, fourteen days of animal... stuff at the zoo. Meant for kids Kaitlyn's age."

"Yeah I wanted to do that, but I couldn't commit to two weeks, even if it's only three hours a day." Clint replied.

"Feel bad that she's been just around the Calhoun kids, not other kids her own age." Cece said and sighed. "I never had a childhood, friends my age, was always adults. Thought it was ironic, mother was treated like my father's slave, but I had the run of things with Selene, but even so... no one my age."

[Liara]

“What about Bella’s orphanage?” Selene inquired. “You could do something there and take Kaitlyn if it’s okay with Clint. There have to be kids Kaitlyn age there. Take James too.”

[Cece Ryder]

"That's not a bad idea." Cece nodded her head. "And James is sort of an adoption success story."

"True enough, after all... the goal has always been for those kids to find families. Can be lonely when the only other people they see are others in the same spot." James replied and chuckled lightly. "And for the older ones, the idea is for them to at least have some skills and be well rounded enough if they stay in the system until they reach 18. Lots of little ones, but there's a lot of kids my age, not exactly babies or really young and cute that most couples want to really adopt. "

"I nearly adopted an older kid, but they found some family eventually and she went with them. Was a little older than James, I kinda liked the idea of having an older child." Cece said with a slight smile. "Her name was Aiaisha, Betazoid. Very smart, very feisty, Mildly telepathic. Met her when Bella and I were doing some work there, her mother was killed during the Imperium's psionic purge. Thought her entire family was killed, but then she found an Aunt that was hiding out on Risa and went with her. Even had some of the paperwork done, Bella never really knew about it. Before I really got serious with RJ." she chuckled lightly and shook her head. "I had figured out how old I really was, accounting for my time traveling and I was feeling like... I was not getting younger and I knew that I wasn't going to be able to have a child naturally. Even if I was seeing someone." she pointed to her side. "I took two phaser blasts and a knife to this general area, I do have some eggs in cryo, but it was decided that I should have the tubes removed since the injuries kinda messed up things there. If I got pregnant I wouldn't survive, field surgery was such a hack job."

[Liara]

“Seems to be a very common situation.” Selene said and shrugged. “I can’t have them either not a the moment anyway or so I’m told.”

“Cece... we fix RomRom?” Kaitlyn asked as she got up from the table and walked over to Carly. “RomRom broken.”