After finish his cookie, Luke himself also grabbed at the spaghetti, though his was a much slower process. He refused to ask for help, the boy was a big boy now that he was ten! Luke's shortness made him pouring his tomato sauce and getting the noodles that much more difficult. And... while Alver had gone so far as to mention vegetables, he knew just from looking that he could never reach them on his own. Save them for after the pasta would be best.

Luke knew all too well about his 'shell'. It would always show up whenever Micah would have a bad dream. The boy knew if his Papa's old friends hadn't showed up that day, after coming home, Papa would end up sitting in the corner and daydreaming again. The fantasies always really scared Luke, because no matter what he did... he couldn't get Micah to come out of them.

Back when he was younger, Mikaela's daydreams were always of other made up worlds and happy things. But, ever since the last time... [i]he[/i] came, they would sometimes turn sour. Micah himself could never pull himself out, he had no resistance because he never wanted to stop. But these would just pull up old memories.

That's why Luke was so scared of them. He would just see his Papa staring off into space, and turns would start falling down his face without making a sound. When it happened, Luke would sit on in his lap and pull Micah's unresponsive arms around him, hoping that his father would come back to reality.

Luke's expression seemed to get sadder and sadder as he thought about it. This person seemed really really nice and Luke had actually started trusting him almost immediately... even though he hadn't wanted to at first. After having sat back down in his chair, the boy had just swirled his fork around in the pasta. [color=f6989d]"If... you won't take Papa away..."[/color] He didn't finish his seconds, trying to deliberate what he was going to say next.

[color=f6989d]"What were um... Papa's fantasies like as a kid? He won't tell me what they are like now... b-but he's always crying whenever it's happening! I don't know how to snap him out of it... And I was wondering... if maybe you had a way to..."[/color] Tears started falling down his face. 

[@Silver Fox]