Note: Okay, so I meant to post this yesterday but body decided it wanted more attention so I went and passed out until around noon this morning and then ff decided it wanted to be a raging ass. Anyway, update! Uh, gonna say write now I've never had to really write for a kid or anything so if it seems a little stilted, that's why

Review responses will be at the end!


Timeline: Two weeks later (6 months and 2 weeks)


IX.

After meeting Lily and Myra, Kagome makes it a habit to visit the precinct, and somehow always manages to just miss meeting Sebastian. She might have been able to meet him that day but whatever they'd been called out for kept them longer. 'The situation had escalated. There were casualties. I'm sorry, Myra. Do you need me to call someone for Lily?'

She'd left right after with Myra in her contacts and a promise to get together soon. Myra was easy to get along with, a little intense but nothing she couldn't handle. And Lily was the sweetest kid she'd really connected with since Shippo.

And Sebastian…

Nearly a whole year has passed since she'd come to Krimson City and she still hadn't met the man Joseph hangs around in or outside of work.

It's a little irritating, to be honest

Pouting, she hunches down into Joseph's chair, idling back and forth as she watches the other detectives work. They pay her no mind, used to seeing her drop off food for or meet up with Joseph. Everyone seemed to know her now, letting her through to the back.

Didn't help that most recognized her from one of the nights she had been waiting in the lobby with some drunks. English come-ons still confused her, but they'd been obvious in the leers then they'd gotten close, started to try and touch. Her temper had just about gotten the best of her when one of them had forcefully crawled into her lap. The stink of his breath had hit her cheek before he started spasming, his hand in her hair pulling and yanking her down with him.

She'd been yanked away, pushed behind an officer as she got a glimpse of the two electrical wires sticking out of the one drunk's back and the other that was pinned to the floor, arm twisted around behind him.

After they'd gotten them cuffed and put in the holding cell, the two officers had taken her to one of their desks to see about filing an assault, asking her what it was she'd needed. When she'd mentioned personally knowing Joseph, they'd finished the paperwork up pretty quickly and moved her to the second floor and left her at his desk. Joseph woke her up who knows how many hours later and took her home.

Signing, she does a little spin, letting her mind wander away from those darker thoughts, brows furrowing at the brief, blurry glimpse of something piled up in Sebastian's office and slams a foot against Joseph's filing cabinet to stop herself. It hadn't been obvious before, not wanting to peek into his office and be nosy, but now that she took a look, she could see what looked like take-out piled on a side table.

Kagome checks to see what the detectives are doing, all busy chatting with each other or pouring over files on their desks, before slipping into the room. Her nose immediately crinkles, hand flying up to cover her face, as the smell hit her. Good Kami, how long had they left this to sit! She pulls the trashcan over to shove the whole mess into it, half nearly spilling over from how full it already was.

Over on the table next to the lounge couch were coffee cups, a few even stacked up to make pyramids and she realized with an irritated sigh that a little over half were the missing ones from the apartment. There isn't much she can do besides try and find a bag big enough to hold all of those then it would be hauling them miles across town to the apartment just so they could get cleaned.

"Kagome!"

Lily's excited yell nearly has her tripping back into the trashcan, her little weight ramming Kagome forward and saving her from a smelly fate. "Lily," She laughs, bracing herself on the table, "careful, sweetie." There's a red ribbon tied up into a bow in her hair, a little braid hanging down over an eye. Kagome brushes it away, "It is good to see you again, though." Lily gives her such a bright, wide smile and giggles, burying her face in Kagome's leg. Myra is leaning against the doorframe, wearing regular clothes - a pretty sky-blue dress and white heels, a bag of takeout hanging off one arm.

Kagome can't help but raise her brows at the bag, "Really? Please tell me you can smell it in here."

Myra laughs while Lily continues to cling to her leg, stepping up onto her feet, grabbing one of Kagome's hands so she can hang and swing back and forth. "It gets like this when they have pretty difficult cases, same with the others, don't hold it against them, okay?"

"The few times I've seen Joseph when he's coming off a shift, he smells like a dirty gym bag." She deadpans. Lily lets go of her to scramble up onto her father's desk chair. Her frilly red dress ends up bunched around her stomach, diaper crinkling as the two adults watch in quiet amusement. "And," she says, "I just bought at least a dozen or so mugs yesterday because we had a fight when Joseph couldn't find one for his pre-shift coffee."

"But he was bringin' 'em here."

Kagome . laugh, she doesn't. Very close, though.

"Hmmm..."

A slow smile starts on Kagome's face when she sees the devious look Myra is giving her. "What are you thinking?"

"Lily and I have been wanting to get back at her father for how much he's been ignoring her, wanna join in to get back at Joseph?"

"Ab-so-lutely."

End


Review Responses:

LovelyPolkaDots: Lily is the sweetest and cutest bab. Not all yet- There's just one person missing in the group. Definitely, especially, if you don't really know anyone there and it's during their prime period. Get ready for the prank war (jk, or are we?)

Heaven-water-sister: Thanks a bunch! My vhenan is the best hehe. Lily's too adorable

BunnyW.K - You know our gal! Getting lost at the best moments lol. Hmmm, weeeeelll, when she finally meets Sebastian, coughs Great things will come in time young bun bun. Thank you, mwah!

bluepheonixflame98 - Kids are just the cutest! So innocent and carefree~ Yes, we need to give our girl some friends haha. We have actually thought that before, babysitting Lily


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