25 Unicorn Street- Monday afternoon

[throughaphase]

Kitty had brought Lexi to class with her, and they returned to the house a little later than expected, with their hands full of grocery bags. Apparently these things happened when your kid was cute and inherited her dad's habit of doing the whole big ol' innocent eyes thing.

"We brought home ice cream!" Lexi announced the second she was inside, because there were things to get excited about, and then there was ice cream.

[For the dad!]

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[so_hawkward]

"So it's you and me and your mom, and Lockheed and a bunch of dogs. No siblings?" Clint asked, hoping he'd gone about that in a non-grossing out way.

[ahawkwardphase]

"No," Lexi sighed. "But all the dogs are a good trade-off!"

[so_hawkward]

"And your mom doesn't have to do anything to get the dogs," Clint said with a smirk. "Maybe if you come back again, we'll have more dogs here next time."

He'd been good! And clearly it was his destiny to adopt all the strays, sorry Kitty.

[throughaphase]

"Oh, Lexi needs to come back every time but you have a Conversation in your future, mister," Kitty warned, even if Lexi was looking gleeful at the thought of more dogs.

[so_hawkward]

"I haven't done anything wrong yet!" Ah yes, there were the puppy eyes. "I was just putting it under consideration."

[throughaphase]

"No, no, no," she said. "See, this is where she gets it. Also I have no idea how I get anything done in a house with both of you and that 'I'm so innocent' look."

[so_hawkward]

"Because you love us and that means you're willing to give us anything we want?" Clint suggested.

[throughaphase]

"'Anything you want' is a little far," Kitty said. "I am totally the bad cop parent, huh."

Don't ask how she was just now realizing this.

[so_hawkward]

"I... can't see myself being the bad cop, no," Clint said. "You're just so much better at being serious than I am. Did that come out like a compliment? Because I meant it as a compliment."

[ahawkwardphase]

"It's all the teaching she does," Lexi said, trying to help her dad out.