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Factor 5 Nova gets scooped by a slightly older mutant runaway
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She watches contently, eating a little slower than she had previously. When they're done, she takes the dishes to go wash them.

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Cassie lets her handle the dishes, although she doesn't look any more comfortable about it than she did before dinner.  When Blaze gets back, she's pulled the blankets off the bed and arranged them on the back of the sofa, ready to be pulled down into a two-person nest.

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Blaze hesitates for a moment, and then settles down next to Cassie again, knees nudging together.

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"Thanks for taking care of the dishes."  Cassie goes to tuck the blankets around Blaze, then hesitates.  "Anything you need?  You okay to just keep watching?"

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(There's a sense she's a little bewildered by the thanks.)

"I-no, I'm okay, thank you."

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"Mmkay."  Cassie hits play on the laptop and continues tucking the blankets around both of them, ending up with one arm around Blaze along the back of the couch (inside the blankets).

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Blaze cuddles a little into Cassie's side.

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Cassie cuddles back, very gently, and Bill Nye uses a stadium to illustrate how small the nucleus of an atom is.

There is quite a lot of Bill Nye available, so the limiting factor is probably going to be when Blaze starts getting tired.

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Blaze has slept a fair bit, and better than she ever really remembers, that's going to be a little while.

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Cassie will probably fall asleep first, then.  Her head tips back against the wall this time so it's a little harder to notice immediately, but she'll probably be out for a while.

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-Well, Blaze will eventually fall asleep on Cassie in turn, her head leaning on the other girl's shoulder.

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Bill Nye continues on, unaware that he's lost his audience. 

Sometime well after dawn, Cassie wakes up and tries to scoot her arm out from under Blaze without waking her.

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Blaze wakes, with a slight start and-

"I didn't mean to oversleep!" It's a reflexive response, automatic, she couldn't have stopped the words if she'd tried.

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"Buh- s'okay, you don' have a bedtime."  This is perhaps not quite what Cassie meant to say.

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-That gets a confused blink, because she's not sure it makes sense. "O-okay?"

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Cassie pats Blaze's shoulder.  "Or- no, I mean- not bedtime.  Other thing.  Wake-up time?"

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"-Oh." She looks down, twists her fingers together. "I- sorry .That's- I'm used to-"

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"Yeah, s'okay."  She extricates herself the rest of the way from the blankets and scoots over to her chair.  "We can talk about it in a bit if you want, but I gotta run to the bathroom first, okay?"

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"I- okay. Yes'm."

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"Okay."  Another gentle pat, and Cassie transfers into her chair and clicks off at a rapid pace.

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-She isn't entirely sure why she takes so much comfort from those pats, but she does. She folds the blankets while she's waiting for Cassie to return.

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Cassie's back in about five minutes.  "Okay, so, um... d'you want to talk about- things?  It's okay if you don't."

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"I- I'm not sure I know--how to?"

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"Well- like, it doesn't have to be a big huge Talk, we could just take one thing at a time- like, if you'd rather have more of a regular schedule, we could..." she glances around at the warehouse and its notable lack of interior walls, "...figure something out?"

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"I- no- it's- it's- okay? I'm just- I used to- always used to- have to be up?"

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