fabrecation | 007 [Voice]

I'm not trying to serenade anyone! [At least Luke's is more spontaneous than constant. Good thing for the kids he's trying to take care of, too.]

[Awwww, he stopped. Oh well, he could always tease him about this more later. Might as well be somewhat helpful.]

Could've fooled me. [slight pause, then--] Anyway, what did you need help with? Unless you meant your singing.

A lot of things, buuut... ♪

Ever taken care of two kids? One who doesn't like you and one who cries all the time?

[Oh, so Nan and ~~Karol~~ Jonah then. Except he said "kids" not "haughty tsunderes that can kill you and babies". Then again, he's had to look after some of the kids from the lower quarter from time to time, so he knows how to deal with them, generally. Just gonna ... keep the dad thing to himself. So!]

Yeah, I've got some experience there. Why?

W-Well...

What do I do?

Give them something to do, watch them so they don't hurt themselves or run off on you, and make sure they have something to eat. It's not that hard.

I've been trying, but... I don't think I'm doing such a good job. Guy still cries and Asch never likes what I do! And, uh... I'm not really that good of a cook. Usually Guy just does it all the time...

[... Guy and Asch? Wow. That's ... unexpected, but given how varied and long this experiment has been, he's not sure if he should be surprised at all. Although, Luke doesn't sound like he's really good with kids, and if he's not a good cook either, then he ... probably shouldn't be taking care of kids.]

... If that's the case, then unless you've got someone around who could help, you should probably find someone to come by and give you a hand with those two.

There's Natalia, but... she's worse than I am. [Guy's terrified of her, not to mention the fact that, while his cooking is just kind of bad, Natalia's is LETHAL.]

That's why I'm asking for help. I don't think I can do it, do it~ ♪

[Luke, it is so hard for him to take you seriously. Thankfully, he smirks instead of outright snrk-ing about that last singing bit.]

Well, in that case, here's to hoping you'll find someone willing to drop by.

[Because go away he's lazy and finally became a man again, he doesn't want to waste his day playing babysitter for mini-tsun and the chibified bartender. ... Even though he kinda owes the latter for being around at certain points. ... Mrrr ...]

Thanks... [Nooo, Yuri, don't leave, Luke needs your sagely wisdom! He hesitates before he speaks, and it's pretty obvious what he's going to ask even though he hasn't gotten to it yet.]

H-Hey, uh... Yuri?

... What?

[Oh he knows what's coming. He can feel it. And he is already dreading it.]

[There's another awkward pause - oh, how much he wants to say "never mind" so that Yuri doesn't have to bother, but Luke also desperately needs help, if not for his sake, then for Guy and Asch's.]

You... said you had experience, so, uh... Could you help me? I-It'd just be for a little while, and if you really don't want to...

[There's a pause. A fairly long pause. After all, there's possibly meeting Zagi on the way to that house, and that wouldn't be good. Then there's the possibility of having to do everything, and man is he not in the mood for that now. And of course, there's the fact that he used to be a dad, and what if he starts projecting that onto the whole "helping out with kids" thing--]

[... but more than anything else, he can't ignore when someone needs help and he can do something about it. Especially when they ask so damned meekly. Rrgh.

... Sighing.]

... What's your house number?

[Luke was just about to take that silence as a no and apologize and shut the journal, but then Yuri responded.

And he's going to HELP.

OMG YAAAAY]

Yuri...!

I-I'm in House 5! Thank you!

[O-oh geez, he's so thrilled about it too. Man, he can't even complain about doing this if he's going to be that happy about it.]

I'll be over soon.

[... Oh wait.]

... Actually, could you just leave your door unlocked? I've still got a psychopath looking for me, after all. Last thing I need is to be stuck standing in one spot longer than I need to be. [Never mind that said psychopath could be easily listening in on all this, but Yuri has extremely low expectations when it comes to Zagi's intelligence and thus thinks nothing of that.]

A what?! Who's...?! [Luke still couldn't hear at that time, so he really has no idea. But he figures it'd be better to ask later, when Yuri's... at least relatively safe in his home.]

... Okay. I'll go unlock the door now.

[... Huh. He didn't hear about it? ... Maybe he'd explain later, then. Wouldn't want Luke to get caught up with Zagi because he didn't know to avoid the guy, after all.]

All right. Thanks.

[And he should be there in about ... 10 minutes or so. He doesn't live too far away from House 5, after all.]

[Once Yuri enters the house, he might hear the sound of loud sizzling as Luke had left a pot of boiling water on the burner for too long in favor of reading carefully through a recipe book.]

Aaaaah~! ♪ [The yell goes from a low note to a high note as Luke grabs the handle of the pot to put it on a burner that isn't on, spilling a bit of water along the way. Still, he lets out a relieved sigh as the foam dies down almost immediately.]

[Yep, he walks in, hears that ... and sighs, muttering "Looks like I made it just in time, or something like that." to himself before shutting the door behind him. Thankfully, the combination of sizzling and Luke's opera-esque reaction to it make it easy for Yuri to find out where the kitchen is from the entrance ~~wouldn't want him wandering all over the house now~~.

Once he spots it, and Luke, he'll be wandering over.]

... What are you doing? [Because that is not cooking, sir.]

[The kitchen isn't far from the entrance at all, thankfully, so once Yuri speaks up, Luke looks back at him with a flush on his face.]

Cooking. [Because it totally is, sir.]

[Looking over this mess now ... geez. Could be worse, though. Much worse.]

Cooking what, exactly? [Because unless the recipe was for a Royal Mess, it totally isn't. Sir.]

[At least it was just water. :| ]

I was thinking chicken spaghetti, or something... [Well, you... you... Sir. B| ]

[At least. Regardless, Yuri gives him a bit of a look, unsure if he meant spaghetti with chicken or spaghetti made out of chicken or what, but decides to dismiss it either way and just admit that he doesn't know what he's going on about.]

... Never heard of it. [Glancing at the stove and watery mess now. Not that it's bad, but--] And unless the recipe calls for water being thrown everywhere, I take it it's not something you've made in the past, either.

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