A/N: A little pre-IR moment
Despite all of Kyrano's reassurances, Jeff had still been worried the first time Kyrano brought Tanusha over to the ranch to meet Lucille and the boys. All things going well they'd be sharing the same organisation and base, wherever that would eventually be, so it made sense for the kids to get to know each other early.
Jeff knew his boys, his rough and tumble boys to whom 'scream if you wanna go faster' was taken as a challenge. He didn't know Tanusha. The first time he'd met her she'd been a tiny seven year old taking part in a play for Hari Merdeka -National Day- in Kuala Lumpur. To Jeff's eyes she'd looked the size of a kitten, at eight she wasn't much taller, and he'd worriedly expressed such to Kyrano as they approached the ranch.
To Jeff's eternal gratitude Kyrano hadn't taken offence and understood that Jeff's worry stemmed from not having had personal experience with an apparently quiet and demure girl and a lot of experience with his rambunctious boys. He had simply smiled and remarked "Kittens have claws, my friend."
When his boys had descended on the visitors like a pack of overexcited puppies (even John was eager to meet her), he'd been encouraged when she stepped forward to meet them and let them sweep her up with them to the games room upstairs.
The afternoon passed quite swimmingly to the muffled sounds of the children playing as the adults discussed plans for the future of Tracy Industries and the infant concept of the rescue organisation. They'd just turned the conversation to dinner plans when almost as one the adults noticed that things upstairs had gone silent. The kind of silence that triggered every parental instinct that the kids are up to something they shouldn't be.
In retrospect it was funny how they'd all assumed the same intent expression of concern, looking up and around and falling silent as they strained their ears to listen to what their offspring were up to.
Jeff had just been about to suggest they go looking for them when there was a body-hitting-the-floor kind of thud from upstairs, a moment of ominous silence, then laughter.
Kyrano was quick, Jeff was reminded as the tall Malaysian led the charge up the stairs, himself in second place and Lucy trailing third. He got to the open door first, smiled proudly and stepped back so Jeff and Lucille could see what was happening.
Tanusha had a struggling Scott pinned face down to the floor of the games room, sitting on him with one arm pinned behind his back and the smug satisfaction of a job well done as the others laughed at the eldest's plight. "Told you I could do it." She said to him as she hopped off.
"And as I told you, there is nothing to worry about." Kyrano told Jeff with that same smile.