Neal had spent most of the day tracking down a lead on a bad check case. It was a painfully dull day, and he was glad when 6pm came and he could head home. He headed up the stairs and unlocked the door, but he heard laughing inside when he when he stepped inside. "BB?" He called. It was still a little odd to get home to company, but he was getting used to it. "You home? It's me."

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folleconnasse 2011-12-10 10:44 pm UTC (link)

BB hopped up off of the sofa, cradling a tiny wrapped up bundle in her arms. "Hey, you." She kissed him gently, smiling up at him. "I have one of my many half-relatives over, she's my adopted ... half-cousin." She blinked and squinted her eyes. "That hurt my head. But I thought I'd warn you, just in case you're not in the mood for company, you can escape to your room and we'll turn down the TV." She was just in jeans and one of his undershirts, and her hair was a little messy from sitting on the sofa. (Reply to this)

	classicratpack 2011-12-10 10:46 pm UTC (link)
	Neal smiled, going for a kiss. "Thanks, but I'm okay. I'm just glad to not be locked up in a file room. What do you have there?" The bundle was making a weird ... snuffling noise. (Reply to this)

	folleconnasse 2011-12-10 10:47 pm UTC (link)
	"Lee brought over her pet pi - ack!" The bundle wiggled, and a tiny snout started snuffling in Neal's direction. "Here, you hold her. Are you hungry? Lee brought over enough food to feed an army of rabbis." (Reply to this)

classicratpack 2011-12-10 10:56 pm UTC (link)

Neal jumped, eyes going wide. "I - whoa, that's a ... pig?" He wondered if any of BB's friend's food was pork. BB sort of shuffled the bundle into Neal's arms, and he instantly felt weird. The pig looked up and him and snuffled again - Neal could swear it was smiling. "Friend!" Neal jumped even harder, and almost dropped the piglet. He managed to keep a grip on it, but that had distinctly been English and it had distinctly come from the pig. "Uh ... BB?" (Reply to this)

means_family 2011-12-10 11:00 pm UTC (link)

"Lee's got two of them now, and a kitty, and a dog." She shrugged, moving toward the kitchen. Lilo had hopped off of the couch when she heard Hortensia's cry. Wearing a pair of teeny board shorts and a tank top, she peeked around the corner. "It's the collar," she smiled, speaking quietly so the man wouldn't drop her pet. "It translates her thoughts into discernible human speech. My ex was a genius. I can give you a copy of every book ever written as of two months ago on a flash drive if you want it." (Reply to this)

classicratpack 2011-12-10 11:11 pm UTC (link)

Neal couldn't help but blink hard at her - between her eyes, her clothes and what she was saying, he was just really confused. He tried to focus on the collar. "Oh. Okay." Pig first. He picked up the little piglet, looking at her. If she could understand him, he figured, why not talk to her like a kid? "Hi. I'm Neal. What's your name?" "Tensia!" The pig chirped, looking somehow starry-eyed. "Pretty friend?" (Reply to this)

	means_family 2011-12-10 11:12 pm UTC (link)
	Lilo giggled, folding her arms. "Her full name is Hortensia, but we all just call her Tensia for short. And she's got a crush on you." That made a laugh sound from the living room. "Come on in here, Romeo, I've got supper for you all fixed up, and some nibbles for your new lady." BB was wholeheartedly amused. (Reply to this)

classicratpack 2011-12-10 11:19 pm UTC (link)

Neal blushed. "Hi, Hortensia." He looked over at BB's friend and spoke to her. "Sorry, by the way, I'm Neal. I'm guessing BB maybe mentioned me." Look at her eyes, asshole. "It's nice to meet you, and it's nice to meet you too, Hortensia." When BB called, he just shook his head, walking into the living room. He did notice that his suit was staying clean even though the pig's little hooves were brushing the fabric. Cleanest pig he'd ever seen, for sure. (Reply to this)

folleconnasse 2011-12-10 11:25 pm UTC (link)

"I'm Lilo, but people usually call me Lee. Beebs is the half-sister of my adoptive mom." She shrugged and smiled taking the pig out of his arms and blowing a raspberry onto her stomach. "You smell fantastic, Tensia, did you have a good bath with your daddy this morning?" BB handed over a plate to Neal, heaped with a pastrami on rye, french fries, and a pickle. She also handed him a cloth napkin for his suit. "Yes, Lilo just made those fries about a half hour ago." (Reply to this)

classicratpack 2011-12-10 11:30 pm UTC (link)

Hortensia giggled and flailed when Lilo blew a raspberry on her stomach. "Bath with daddy!" She nodded her little head. "Daddy made Tensia smell like berries!" Neal had to laugh, shaking his head. "I'm a city boy. I've never seen or heard of a pig so small, never mind one so well behaved." He took the plate of food from BB, kissing her cheek in thanks. "Made those fries?" he echoed, raising an eyebrow. "Wow." (Reply to this)

means_family 2011-12-10 11:35 pm UTC (link)

"Oh, I'm not exactly from a farm myself - I was born in Hawaii, but I've lived all over. I got Hortensia when I went kosher to stop myself from eating you know what." She grinned and cradled the pig, lightly stroking her stomach how she knew she liked. BB smiled, curling up and turning down the volume on the movie. "Yeah, Lilo's a good cook, her whole family is. Her brother's Brendann, you remember him." (Reply to this)

	classicratpack 2011-12-10 11:38 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah, I do." Neal smiled. "His food is amazing." Hortensia made a happy humming noise, snuggling. "Mommy," she murmured, "pretty friend?" Neal blinked, blushing faintly. (Reply to this)

	folleconnasse 2011-12-10 11:42 pm UTC (link)
	BB had to bite her lip hard to keep from giggling. She was proud of LIlo for just nodding and smiling. "He is pretty, isn't he?" Lilo grinned and nodded, kissing the pig's nose. "I think he'd be happy to be your friend." (Reply to this)

	classicratpack 2011-12-10 11:51 pm UTC (link)
	"It's true." Neal chuckled. "Hortensia's very nice." Weird, maybe, but he wouldn't say that. It'd have been like kicking a puppy or telling Peter he couldn't go undercover. (Reply to this)

	folleconnasse 2011-12-11 12:02 am UTC (link)
	BB stole the pickle off of Neal's plate, crunching it daintily. "Lee's married to a rabbi, technically. Have you converted yet, Lee?" The tall girl nodded, stretching her legs out so they hung over the edge of the couch. Her head went into BB's lap, and Hortensia flopped onto Lee's stomach. "Yup. And thanks to Uzza's son, I know Hebrew and Yiddish fluently. It helps." (Reply to this)

	classicratpack 2011-12-11 12:10 am UTC (link)
	"A rabbi?" Neal echoed, chuckling. "That does make sense as to why you can't eat pork." He hoped the pig didn't know what that meant. "Are you ... sorry, what were you born as? You don't look like someone who grew up where there were many Jews." (Reply to this)

	means_family 2011-12-11 12:13 am UTC (link)
	"He's uh. Not just a rabbi." Lilo blushed brightly and continued stroking Tensia's back; soon tiny piglet snoring was audible. "I was born in Hawaii. I met Gabey when we were both trying to do this pancake challenge on the big island - it was six pounds or five pounds of pancakes in an hour, I forget." (Reply to this)

	classicratpack 2011-12-11 12:27 am UTC (link)
	Neal laughed. "Okay, that's too cute." The little pig snuffling and snoring was adorable. He polished off one half of the sandwich. "And I didn't mean to be offensive or anything, just, you're very pretty, but you don't look Caucasian." He was going to shut up and eat now. (Reply to this)

means_family 2011-12-11 12:31 am UTC (link)

"Oh, none taken." She smiled, glad that he liked the food. "I'm just happy that pastrami isn't too sweet for you. I think the mustard helps, though." She smiled, looking in her phone for a picture of Gabriel and herself. "I did, however, marry the paragon of Caucasians. I can't wait to see what our kids are going to look like." "Me either," BB chimed in. "Will they ... how will that even work?" (Reply to this)

	classicratpack 2011-12-11 12:35 am UTC (link)
	Neal laughed at how fond she sounded of her husband. And the guy was awfully Nordic and white. "I'm pretty much a born and raised New Yorker; I know good pastrami, and this is it." Jewish deli was a secret pleasure of his; he was a sucker for a good reuben. (Reply to this)

	means_family 2011-12-11 12:52 am UTC (link)
	Blushing, Lilo shook her head and shrugged at BB. "I don't know. I'm a loa now, and Gabriel's an angel, I don't know if it means we can procreate now. I don't know if his choir can at all. But I know MIchael's talked about having them with Kabie?" Absently, Lilo nicked a stray piece of pastrami off of Neal's plate. "Yeah, I'm going to make this again." (Reply to this)

	classicratpack 2011-12-11 12:55 am UTC (link)
	Neal didn't entirely know who she was talking about, though BB had told him about angels. Kids made him nervous. More nervous than angels. "So," he said instead. "Where did you find Hortensia, Lilo?" (Reply to this)

means_family 2011-12-11 01:00 am UTC (link)

"Well, Gabe and I were starting to get serious, and I wanted to be kosher for him. But like I said, I'm Hawaiian - heck, our afterbirth is part Spam." She smiled to herself, remembering the food and trying not to drool a little. "Oh, god, and bacon. I love bacon. I like bacon more than most people. So I thought I'd get something to remind me not to eat it, and I was by a pet shop... " Her voice trailed off and she lightly rubbed one of the piglet's ears between her thumb and forefinger. BB smiled, leaning against Neal. "And she found your other piglet, right?" Nodding, Lilo smiled. "Do you guys want to go visit the zoo?" (Reply to this)

	classicratpack 2011-12-11 01:12 am UTC (link)
	"Zoo?" Neal echoed, finishing off the sandwich. "And oh, you have more than one pig?" That kind of made him laugh. Hortensia made her happy noise when Lilo rubbed her ear. "Mommy," she murmured sleepily before turning back over. (Reply to this)

	means_family 2011-12-11 01:14 am UTC (link)
	"We've got a dog and a cat that I had before I met Gabey. Then I got Tensia, and one day while I was walking her - yes, I walk her - she practically ripped my arm out of my socket. Turns out our walking path took us past this piggy rescue, and she just started screaming 'friend!' over and over." BB smiled and kissed Neal's cheek. "See? It's kind of like how we met." (Reply to this)

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