Thirty minutes later and Alix re-emerged from the jungle that was Luca's room. Sophie was pretty easy, once you moved past the negotiation phase. Luca however, was a whole different ball game. He brought out the whole show. Tears, requests for glasses of water. Monsters inabiting the shadows.. You name it, and he'd give it a whirl. But finally, after two stories and a ceremonial tour to check for all things scary, he was settled.

By this point, Alix had pulled her rather raucous curls up into ponytail. "I don't know how people cope with more then two." She yawned wearily. When Josh was away, it was pretty exhausting having to do pretty much everything and still attempt to get a decent level of work churned out. Still she couldn't grumble. Well she could, but she wouldn't. 

The blonde plodded into the kitchen and opened the fridge, looking for some sort of chocolately inspiration. "Ooooh, you'll do." She pulled out a bar and sat up on the counter top. 

"What take out are we going to get?"