{ota} all those years

[eucre]

The quiet day.

According to Declán, this day where she wanted to sit very silent and just listen to the world was special. Something about it being the day she was born oh-so-many years ago. The day they were born.

Piper will be soft, out of the way as she always is on this date. Yet those looking for her won't have to look long to find her.

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[spysinspades]

"Good day, little sister." It felt right, calling the other Jokers siblings. And searching their most special Joker out on this day, just to sit quietly, that felt right, too.

He'd come back to protect, right? So that he could do, in the little kinds of ways that had used to help his favorites.

[eucre]

"S'my birthday," she murmurs, looking up at him. "Did you know that?"

[spysinspades]

He fussed as he settled next to her, partially as a way to give himself time to think.

Did he know? The old him had known, but he hadn't come out searching for her knowing. He remembered, but hadn't thought about the day. Did the new him know?

"I know that," He decided was an answer. "Something said you might be distressed." David didn't over-think these almost-new instincts he'd been obeying recently. They seemed right, and fit like an soft, old coat.

[eucre]

"Not... quite... balanced," she decides, looking away from him again. "S'only half a birthday, really."

[spysinspades]

"Half is enough." He decided that just now, and says it with enough authority and conviction to make it true.

[eucre]

"Half isn't a whole me," she protests. "Half's a part. Part isn't a whole. Only a whole is enough. Is it Piper's birthday or Felicia's?"

[spysinspades]

"Such a thing is meant to be shared, hm? It is both." He'll hold out his hand of her, though. Company during a quiet hour. "And it's the you that's here to have it, and that's enough to count."

[eucre]

"But-- what'f we're both here? Whose's it really?"

[spysinspades]

"It's both of yours, I would think. A day to remember."

[eucre]

"S'not... not a very celebrate-y day, though. Not at all, Sharps."

[spysinspades]

"We don't have to celebrate to do that, hm? It could be a little as a doodle to remember."

[eucre]

"Methinks... birthdays are meant to be celebrated. But... Piper- Piper and Felicia just... don't feel... birthday-ish. Or old."

[spysinspades]

"Then you must still be young." Perfect logic, there.

[eucre]

She shakes her head immediately, reflexively. "21. 21 years's a long time. Not short."

[spysinspades]

"Long enough to drink, sort enough not to regret it yet."

[eucre]

She wrinkles her nose. "Piper doesn't like that."

[spysinspades]

Wel... he hazards a guess. "...Fruit punch?"