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[watchingsparrow]

Enter one somewhat scruffy-looking man with a young boy in tow. "So we're now in London. This place is called H D Hollisters." He took a seat at an empty table and picked up a couple of menus, handing one to the boy. "If you like spicy stuff, the chicken wings are good."

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[child_sephy]

He kept close to the man, watching the other people a little nervously, somehow.. he felt this man was safe, better to keep to those few that were...

He looked down the menu quietly for a moment before nodding.

"If you say they are good... then I will try them... Thank you.."

[watchingsparrow]

"Alright, then." He waved over a waitress. "One chicken wings and fries. One peppar-steak, and... two cokes, I think. Yeah, that oughta do it," he told her and she quickly scribbled down the order in her notepad.

"Right away sirs." She scurried off.

"Have you decided what to do?" He asked Sephiroth. He had hated it as a child when people spoke to him like a kid, so he tried to simply talk normally to the boy. "Go back or stay in the Nexus?"

[child_sephy]

He watched Caspar make the order. Strange food things that he had not heard of, but... if he said it tasted good then it should right?

The question took him off guard though, his eyes widening a fraction for a moment, then a half smile curving his lips upwards into an attempt at a gesture he had not seen often.

"I.. I want to stay here... they say He can not get me here.. so.. even if He is here.. he.. he can not harm me.. right?"

[watchingsparrow]

Casper noddes. "As long as you are within the anti violence-field, no-one can't hurt you. But not all of the Nexus has that. If you want, I can show you the safe places after we eat."

[child_sephy]

"Please.." He watched the man carefully for a moment longer, looking in the direction the waitress had gone. Was she really bringing back the food?

He was still waiting for someone to mention how it had all been a trick or something, some small part of him informing him that no one was like this without a reason for it... He tried his best to keep that part quiet though.

[watchingsparrow]

Casper on his side, was already feeling very protective over this boy, and not completely without reason. While he didn't know just what had been done to him, he himself knew about abuse very well.

It didn't take long for the waitress to bring out their orders.

"Dig in." He smiled and eagerly started to cut off a piece of his own steak.

[child_sephy]

Dig in? For a moment he looked puzzled, you dug with a spade.. and why would he want to dig this? Then.. watching Caspar, he realised what he had meant.

Expressions that meant different things were so confusing.

He looked down at the wings, then carefully picked up a knife and fork, gloved fingers gripping the instruments easily despite their leather like appearance, cutting at a piece of the chicken and bringing it to his mouth.

It was... it tasted good! His eyes lit up brightly, a look of pure wonder on his face.

He cut at the chicken again, blinking slightly as it moved away when the knife hit the bone.

[watchingsparrow]

He watched with some amusement, genuienly happy about the way the boys eyes lit up.

"Chicken's one of the things that's perfectly acceptable to eat with your fingers if you don't feel like bothering with knife and fork," he grinned and chewed happily on a piece of his steak before taking a gulp from his coke.

((Any particual reason why you keep replying to the original post? ;) ))

[child_sephy]

He grinned back, this time the gesture definately genuine, there was no mistaking the pure pleasure in his eyes and his face.

"You.. can?" Back home they always told him to use knife and fork or whatever instruments there were.. no matter what.

Carefully he picked up one of the chicken wings.. keeping it tight in his fingers. Closing his eyes momentarily as he bit into it. ! It tasted even better like this!

((it saves the post going all squishy))

[watchingsparrow]

"It's easier to gnaw off the meat like that." Smiling outwardly but practically beaming inwardly, he went back to cutting up his steak. Simple pleasures... but to the boy, perhaps it wasn't so simple after all.

[child_sephy]

((ok to save problems for you *grinz*))

"mm.." he would have answered more except his mouth was full and he was enjoying this immensely!

When the meat on the wing was gone he bit at the bone, teeth scraping against it, tongue licking at the end where it had gone soft. Not that he would have tried to eat the bone of course, but the inside of it was edible as far as he was concerned, and it still tasted better than the stuff his carers gave him.

Yes. This was someone he liked he decided. He would try to stay close at all costs.

[watchingsparrow]

((Ah, 's no problem. Just not used to it.))

"Hey, don't ignore the fries. They're part of the meal too, you know?" There were a good portion of humor in his voice.

Then he got a thoughful look on his face and tapped his fork agains his lips.

"If you're going to stay in the Nexus, we'd better find a place for you to live too."