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Laughing, she fetched Orion's Yankee's. " Well our favorite team is the Yankee's, so you're stuck in Yankee blue. The Giant's is only when I got back to California." Gently placing it on the girls head, she asked. "Knowing baseball and liking baseball is different. Do you like baseball, Annie? Have a favorite team, been to a game? "

Smiling, she made a sign of crossing her heart. "I won't, promise." Orion had been the same way the last she saw him. Wanting independence and learning how to do things on his own. She didn't know if that came from wanting to prove to his new parents that he wasn't a burden or wanting to be self-sufficient but nonetheless gave him the space and skills he desired. "Can I just give the belts a tug to make sure it's all good to go?"

Of course, Annie was smart enough to figure this out independently. "Yeah." She said softly thinking back to all that had happened. "I helped him on that, a lot happened but I don't think I should be the one to tell you any of it. I'll never keep anything from you Annie, but your uncle and his missions are his to share, okay."

Settling into the driver seat, she sighed as she looked at the girl in the rear view mirror before starting the car. "We're going to the bank first," she turned her attention back ahead of her and began to drive. "I have to get some money. Then I'm going to talk to an acquaintance of mine, who has an ear on all things that happen. Have them tell whoever knows anything about your uncle to meet me somewhere and then talk. We're just gonna talk." And bribe, but that was neither here nor there. As she stopped at a red light, she sighed. "I'm pretty sure you know quid pro quo, right Annie?"

The girl's question was just as complicated as the ones her uncle would ask her. Leave it to these two to make her have to revaulate the way she thought about people. "I do care about and for him, he's a friend and he's helped me through a lot of things. We've been there for each other and I just want him to be okay." That was the best she could come up with for now. Parking into a space in front of the bank, she smiled at Annie. "Alright, first stop."

The question of the cap had her snap her up in a quick motion. "Yes, please. As long as it's not the Giants or Angels cap." She made a face not liking either of those teams. "I know baseball," she giggled. "I've got many uncles who love different things and I get to soak it up." She stood there and gaged if she could do it. "I can do it." Annie had the same independent spirit of her mothers. "I'm a big girl! Just don't tell my mamas they'll get sad."

Her reaction to Canary's had her know that she was onto something. "No. He doesn't know I know. He doesn't talk about his missions with me. I overhear sometimes. But that's not important, you were there with him. So you were the one who helped him?" Her voice was hopeful and grateful. Here she was thinking he had done it all alone. Then wondered why he didn't say he had her help. "Something happened didn't it?" She was intelligent and unlike most kids her brain could calculate things with a look or in this case, silence.

"So, you have a plan. What is it?" Annie was sometimes a tiny little woman inside when she asked questions. She wasn't concerned with cartoons, what interested her was having her mind be stimulated. This was one of those cases. "Do you care or do you care for him. They're very different."