“Yes, bed time.” Helping to get the other off the counter top, since they were rather small and it was a bit of a leap down for them, Ian set them on their feet. He’d clean up in the morning, for now everything could safely stay on the counter top, he wanted to get to bed and not fiddle with putting things away in the bathroom.

“Come on, let’s get up the stairs and into bed. I’d like a few good hours of solid sleep before morning and work.” Especially if they’d be going to space tomorrow evening, once they’d had dinner, he really wasn’t sure how long they’d wind up there for and how tiring that would be…because it was boring enough that it was tiring and made him want to sleep. Hadn’t he actually fallen asleep there once? He was certain he had…