25 Unicorn Street- Saturday morning

[throughaphase]

Unlike previous years, Kitty wasn't really expecting anything today. She'd had a year to come to grips with the idea that there wouldn't be any more Lexi visits since they had a Lexi now, and it'd been a while since she or Clint has other kids. So she was treating today like any other day, waking up too early because baby, and she was downstairs with her when the doorbell rang.

...uh oh.

[For two, and all the SP!]

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[so_hawkward]

Clint looked her up and down, and his eyes went wide. "Oh god, I thought I had another decade before this. Why aren't you still tiny?"

[ahawkwardphase]

"I haven't been in a long time. And you guys weren't supposed to be in this timeline," Lexi pointed out, stepping inside past Kitty, who closed the door. "Or... I'm in the wrong one. But you know what, it's fine. I can work with this."

[so_hawkward]

"I thought by now you'd outgrow going through portals, but I guess not," Clint said. "Do you still hug or are you too old for that?"

[ahawkwardphase]

"Of course I hug," Lexi said, because no one was watching.

She gave Kitty a hug, then went over to Clint for a hug there. "Has it been a while since you saw me?"

She didn't know how this worked now.

[so_hawkward]

"Well, it's been about a year since we've seen you," Clint said, emphasizing the portal-hopping version. "But there's a tinier version of you upstairs. Much tinier."

[ahawkwardphase]

"...How much tinier?" Lexi asked. Warily.

She wasn't new to things getting weird, but...