Growing Pains (Forward Dated to Fiddlesticks 24)

[dredefulchilde]

[Joscelin looks tired and particularly disgruntled this morning. He holds up the beautiful dagger he’d stolen during the goblin mission several months back.]

I will stab the person who got me sick. Understood?

Comments

[internetsexsymbol]

I thought we agreed stabbing people wasn't how we solve problems? What are you even sick from?

[dredefulchilde]

[He’s kind of adorable when he’s annoyed and disgruntled.]

I don’t know! My legs were sore all night and I couldn’t sleep. Aren’t muscle pains one of the first symptoms of influenza? I was around in 1918, you know.

[internetsexsymbol]

No? I doubt you have influenza, no one's gotten that in a while. Muscle pains are usually the first sign of sports injuries more often than that. You're not in baseball, though...

[Reigen frowns in thought, thinking of why a young child might get muscle pain out of nowhere--oh.]

It sounds like you could just be getting taller? You're a real boy now, it happens.

[dredefulchilde]

[That stops him in his tracks. He blinks.]

...I’m growing?

[internetsexsymbol]

Probably? You do look a little taller, now that you mention it.

[Reigen is trying to assess how much taller since the whole space murder mess Joss might be, since it's been over a month. The kid's not quite at the age where boys start sprouting like weeds, but who knows how quickly ex-vampires grow to make up for lost time?]

[dredefulchilde]

Do children really grow that fast? It's barely been a month...

[internetsexsymbol]

Well, you're eleven or something, right? That's not too far off from being a young teenager, that's where most of the growth spurts happen. Heh, keep drinking your milk and you might end up taller than I am in a few years...

...actually, don't do that. I don't want to be shorter than you, that'd just be messing with the balance of the universe or something.