AN: It's short but the next ones should be a bit longer!

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James is sitting innocently – maybe too innocently – on the couch when Alice stumbles out of the cold and into the warmth of the apartment.

"How was school?" he asks.

"Okay," comes the response as she unwraps herself.

"What did you do today?"

"Stuff."

"And what kind of stuff was that?"

"Maths and stuff."

"Ah. What are your classmates like?"

"Okay."

Bond can feel his eyebrow twitching. Blood from a damn stone. "Anyone interesting?"

"I guess." She stands at the door to her den, the dog vigorously thwapping its tail into her leg.

James nearly sighs. Nearly. "Dinner will be ready about six." Alice takes that as the dismissal it is and disappears.


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