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Caroline continued to stare up at him, and blinked a few more times, her eyes glassy from crying. Yes, he did look familiar. She had seen him around before, but she couldn't remember where.

".... Caroline," she answered slowly, wiping her eyes. "Hello, Michael." She couldn't help but to notice that if she concentrated on the feeling of his aura, it felt sort of similar to hers - like... like.... like maybe he could pass for a dragon. "Do you, um, need to sit down?" She moved over so that there was room on the loveseat next to her for him to sit.

Dabbing at her eyes one last time with her sleeve, Caroline nodded. She couldn't possibly lie about crying, the tears were literally still all over her face.

"Yeah," she admitted. It was extremely unlike her to be this quiet and downtrodden. "I... Thank you. I just really, really miss my brothers." She watched Micheal smile, and she smiled ever so slightly. He looked very kind, she thought. Despite his incredible language, he seemed to be genuinely concerned about her, a stranger.

Caroline sighed, and brushed a few tendril of stark white hair from her face behind her ear. "I don't know when I'll get to see them again..." She went silent, her voice beginning to tremble again.

She knew it wasn't his fault, but Caroline couldn't help but to break into tears again. She all but launched herself in Michael's arms, sobbing.

"That's just it! Cy and Evan are always busy and they're in totally different timezones and Ialo won't ever pick up the phone ever again be-because he's in prison a-and they won't let him ooouuuutt...."

At that point, the girl was just a weeping mess, rocking back and forth in Michael's lap. She didn't even have the breath to tell him that she loved the smell of coffee, it had been Ialo's favorite drink, and it was her father's, and Michael really did remind her of her precious family that she missed so much.

Caroline just sat there, crying her heart out on this stranger's shoulder. She reciprocated his touch, hugged Michael in return. She wanted to tell them she was thankful for him just happening to be there, when she needed someone, anyone, the most. She wanted to apologize for coming onto him like this, a hot sobbing mess. But most of all, she wanted to believe him - she wanted to believe that a stranger could come up to her like an angel, and tell her everything would be alright, and that when she turned around, everything really would be okay.

She nodded slowly, acknowledging, the flower.

((Apologies on how long this took. >.> Finals week kicked my butt and such....))

Love sniffled a little until Doom put away the weapon and scowled. The moment Doom did, Love's eyes immediately brightened and Love nuzzled the hand of the person that had made Doom back off. "Thanksh you," Love said, looking up with Love's adorable eyes. These adorable eyes being more similar to something you might see in a drawing of a chibi than on a real person. Granted, Love had spent a considerable amount of time actually creating a device to turn people into chibis... Love had succeeded, but Doom had hidden it from Love.

Doom crossed her arms irritatedly and huffed again. Her tail was still twitching in annoyance as she looked at her sister and sighed. "I wasn't going to kill her..." she said with a sigh. "She just got on my nerves." She tapped her foot on the ground before biting her lip, "I mean... if you'd spent six hours doing something and then someone had erased all of it without paying attention, you'd be a little more than annoyed too." She figured the girl would probably think she meant homework, and she could think that if she wanted... she could finish most of the homework the school gave her in her sleep.

"That was not Love's fault! Doom did not tell Love that Doom had spent so long on that. Not Love's fault!" Love said indignantly. After a few more seconds Love completely forgot about the entire incident and started nuzzling the girl's hand again without much more of a thought. Love was a bit like that, Love forgot about just about anything bad in a heartbeat, meanwhile if someone did something good for Love, she'd remember it months later. And seeing as Love was still young enough to count Love's birthday in months, that was saying a lot.

"Amber and Kate Drae," Doom said with a sigh, pointing at her sister when she said Kate. "Or, as most people call us, Doom and Love."

Ares wander down the hall aimlessly, having nothing to do at this point in time. After all, he had finished his work for the day. And no classes of interest was happening for him to eavesdrop on. How bothersome.

:3

Doom pulled the goggles off her eyes, putting them in the pocket in the front of the overalls. With them off, it was easier to see that the pair were identical twins. Which was to be expected when your mother was a catwoman... that there were only two of them was a small miracle. If they ever got any siblings there would probably be five of them. Ugh, five little Loves... that would not be fun. Doom shook her head out of her random thoughts, looking back at the girl as Love continued to nuzzle her hand.

"We are. Our mommy is a cat woman, and our daddy is a human, I think. Every generation of our family gets more and more cat-like. Least on mommy's side. Our Grandpa just had fangs, claws, and senses. Mommy had tiger stripes and those, and we have ears and a tail too," she said. She wasn't supposed to talk about their Grandpa since he was an evil evil man who had tried to kill her Mommy... and Daddy had killed him for trying. Her tail twitched as she thought of it, but she pushed it back. "I just take after our Daddy and she takes after Mommy."

Love was mostly was ignoring what was going on with the pair, since Love was in Love's cat mode. Suddenly, Love stopped the nuzzling, starting to sniff the ground a little. Love's brain analyzed the different scents, the scents' chemical formulas forming in Love's head. Love's eyes widened a little as Love licked Love's lips. "White Chocolate?" Love said, looking up at the girl with the super adorable look on her face, someone nearby had the chocolate. Love wasn't sure who though.

Caroline took a deep breath, and wiped away the last few tears. There. She was sure she couldn't cry anymore, not for a while yet. She blinked a few times, just to be sure.

"Well... You did say you work here. You've probably seen me walking around, or maybe I was with some friends who stopped for coffee. I know with the white hair, I really stand out in crowds."