Empyrean Iris Story Collection Vol. 4

Double Date

"Come on, hurry up!"

"Hold on!"

"We should have been out the door five minutes ago!"

"I know that, and I said I'm coming." Adam hopped around the corner still desperately attempting to pull on one of his boots .

Sunny waited at the door tapping her foot, "You take forever to get ready, you know that."

Adam snorted, "Well unlike you, I don't have the luxury of walking out the door naked."

"You could have the luxury if you weren't such a coward.:" She teased, steading him with one hand so he could finish tying his shoe.

Adam just rolled his eyes at her, standing to dust himself off, "Alright. Hijan, we're leaving ok."

The old Drev poked her head round the corner holding Kay in her arms, "We'll be right here." Adam still found it a little strange to hear a human voice coming from her, curtesy of her translator, rather than her rather rough Drev voice , but since coming to Arcadia, she had taken rather well to a life with technology.

Sitting at their feet Waffles and pancake sat their tails wagging slowly back and forth. Sunny leaned down to pat at their velvety ears, "You two girls behave yourselves ok."

Waffles hopped forward, still on her bandaged paw, and licked Sunny's hand once. Pancake barked happily as she pranced back and forth.

Sunny straightened back up and looked down the hall at Kay, "That goes for you too young man."

Kay Grinned turning to hide his face in Hijan's shoulder.

Kay liked himan, though he generally tended to like everyone, He like hijan especially now that she acted as his surrogate grandmother. Hijan had a habit of adopting people into her family, and had readily taken Sunny in as her own when she learned who Sunny's actual mother was. Following that it was only logical that she would take kay in as her very own grandson.

Sunny placed her hand on Adam's arm as they stepped outside, and he turned to look back at the door with an expression of concern on his face.

"Worried about Kazna coming back."

"Aren't you?"

Sunny adjusted the open front of her trailing, white, silk robe, "I mean of course, but I trust Hijan, and now that Conn has moved his satellite office to the tower, its not like we can be taken off guard."

Adam grunted, that was true enough. His mother had already shown plenty of initiative in protecting Kay. They were still digging bits of shrapnel out of the wall from the shotgun blasts. Waffles was on her way to heeling and Dzara was still in the hospital recovering from her own injuries. Krill said she was going to make a full recover.

Adam didn't know if he would. Hearing those gunshots, and running through that door to see Kazna had probably been one of the scariest moments in his life. Kay being in danger had left him shaky and weak in the knees for almost an entire day. Neither he nor Sunny had been able to let their son go while Kay had recovered in a matter of minutes.

It had been a nightmare

And now he was having trouble leaving him alone.

It was partially for this reason he knew Maverick and Ramirez had invited them out. It was sort of a double date, though Maberick hadn't called it that. That's exactly what it was, but Adam was coming to find that Maberick was rather awkward when it came to the subject of relationships. His personal theory was that she had just lived on her own for so long that the idea of relationships weirded her out. It would take some time for her to see them the same way everyone else did.