Peter yelps and then yelps again as Jamie swats his head. “owe! Jamie!”
He frowns at him. “Your being rude… behave…” turns to Mikey. “Sorry for his childishness. He knows better…..”
Yondu blinks at carlos and grins. “Good to see you again…”
Carlos cracked a slight smile. “Uh, good to see you too,” he said. He gently pushed on Yondu to help him stand up. “You okay?”
Mikey just shrugged at Half-nut and smiled. “He’s a kid – they do that.”
“Watch yourself,” Kraglin growled at Peter. “When Half-nut tells you to behave, then you outta know you’re out of line.”
Peter nods swallowing and actually presses against Kraglin. He knew the rules. Halfnut was a bit unstable but everyone knew when he says stop you stop or he’ll make you stop… and someone ends up dead.
Jamie blinks and goes back to Tullk then looks to Mikey tilting his head in a way that said he was thinking morbid thoughts ten he shakes his head the look in his eyes changingvto the innocent look.
Yondu motions for Tullk to settle Jamie’s mind. He was in halfnut mode and that wasn’t a good mode to be in right now.
Tullk nodded and gently, but firmly, turned to take Jamie back outside. “C’mon… it’s a nice night out. Let’s lookit the trees…”
Mikey was confused, but chalked it up to alien stuff so he didn’t ask.
“Dad’s out doing some last-minute shopping,” Carlos told Yondu with a smile. “C’mon in and sit down, okay? Any of you thirsty?”
Jamie looks to Tullk. He was a bit stiff and his eyes were hard and distant a clear sign that it was halfnut right now not the calm gentle Jamie.
Yondu nods. “Peter behave…. you got halfnut going…. Krags…. relax…. do something fun.” Follows carlos to the couches then hugs him. “Missed you.”
“Let’s go to the kitchen,” Mikey suggested to Kraglin and Peter with a smile. “Tell me what kind of stuff you guys have been up to.” He turned and motioned for them to follow him.
Carlos hugged Yondu back without hesitation. Last time they touched Yondu had just about kissed the life out of him. But any awkwardness that Carlos felt from that wasn’t present as he was just happy to see the other man again. “Missed you too,” he said. “How have you been?”
Peter followed him to the kitchen dragging Kraglin with him.
Yondu smiles nuzzling into Carlos’s warmth. “Been good… well not lawfully… hehe. Just got done with my hybernation… Krags will be soon… peter hates that…. he’ll end up snuggled next to him for a majority of it like he does with me… you know how it is.”
Carlos hummed. “Might be why he’s sounding so grumpy already,” he mused. “Kraglin, I mean. It’s like when a toddler gets cranky when they need a nap.” He leaned back against the back of the couch. “So… how are the space whales? You already talked about them a couple hours ago… I’m just wondering if anything changed, I guess.”
The Perfect Scientist 