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"Ah, you are a kind sir considering my charging time. So few even acknowledge that a charging time is needed for us lot." It was said in another joking manner. Had it been anyone else but but Wally, or hell, if she had just been in a bad mood, she might had taken the comment personally. There was just something else about not taking everything so personally and letting herself enjoy hanging out with the man that seemed to be in her best interest right now. Not that she didn't enjoy it normally, but she knew that she was guarded, suspicious of his want to be around her. It was natural to her survival, if she let her guard down too much, he might learn the truth of her, which would just be the worst, dangerous. End up with her behind bars and that was the last thing she wanted.

With a sigh, she answered. "Good. They're enrolling him in a new school, closer to their home. Charlie says he seems to be interested in little league, so if there's still time, they're going to try to see if they can get him on it too. So, well I would say."

"Ours?" Her surprise evident in her tone. Something about being included in this scenario of his made her feel happy, it was a strange way though. Chalking it up to just being tipsy, she shook it off. "No, I'm pretty sure she loves you too much to want to just willingly follow me anywhere I go. Maybe a day, but I'm sure she'd miss you after that."

It wasn't that she didn't want to go back, but there were places that just held onto tiny bits of her that she didn't want back. Memories that she rather not have come back, had she been stronger like Charlie, she'd have no issue going back anywhere and everywhere to revisit sites with new eyes, new perspective, but that wasn't her. Always outrunning one things or another. "Yeah, something like that," she muttered in agreement. "I don't remember much," she lied. "So I would just say the lagoon, its where the flamingos were anyway."

There were moments where Elizabeth truly felt like she was someone else. Not the criminal pretending to be a regular person, just another person having a conversation with a friend, in a place that could become a home. These were one of those moments. Talking with Wally about inconsequential things like the mating rituals of animals and going to the zoo made her feel like a normal person. "That's because there's nothing as cute as penguins." She felt the need to defend, what she now knew , thanks to him, was her favorite animal. Her brows quirked at the sound of a head flag, a closed lip smile at his laugh as she tried to hold back laughter herself at the thought of a flamingo just shaking its head around to try to find a mate. Her hand came up to her mouth to keep her from laughing too loud at the image Wally presented of a person doing such a thing. Controlling her laughter, she added. "Penguins are too. They usually don't stray unless their partner dies or never comes back when they go for food, which is a long time, when the chicks are hatched. They build their little nests, rookeries, together starting with that one rock that the mate accepted and that's where they come back, stay, hatch their eggs. Everything."

It wasn't that she assumed she knew him, because that was further from the truth. She only knew what he had shared with her, which was a lot, but not everything. The only thing she did know well was that he always had some quip, fact, remark ready at the go to fill the silence that she always seemed to want to settle between them but he never did let it. It struck her as strange now that she couldn't recall the last moment they shared in silence, and stranger still that she actually had began to enjoy their conversations. To imagine him as anything but talkative seemed farfetched but the way he spoke about that time in their lives just clued her in that the upbringing that she had assumed he had was the furthest from it. Okay, so she might have made some assumptions, but based on her old experiences, it was miscalculated assumption. "It must have been nice to have them there, growing up I mean. And I thank you," she decided to be nice. "For the access to friendliness."

"Oh, you mentioned that during Easter. What's that like?" She was nothing, if not curious. Even if she wouldn't be around to experience a lot of what this place had to offer, she would at least hear about it. "Christmas, so," she took a moment to think before chuckling out. "Predictable." It wasn't meant as a mean thing, but she knew that someone like Wally, with family, would love the holiday. Most of them anyways. More interested on the flower before her, she added. "Not in a bad way, but with the way your family is so close, I can see why you would like Christmas. I bet you guys get all together and do the Christmas dinner thing and wait until the kids go to sleep to say Santa came, huh." It was more wistful than presented as a fact. She hoped that he did, something about him, though the little time she had known him, wished that for him. The kind of families that she read about, saw through windows, an actual family.

She had to stifle a laugh at glow in the dark room, thoughts of an old dealer that ran in the same circles as her came to mind. The darkened room with tie dye glow in the dark, black light posters of psychedelic designs that littered the walls. "Umm." Thinking over how to best answer that, she took another sip from her drink and thought about a time she did laser tag with Orion, that seemed like a better answer. "Does a laser tag room count? From the way you describe it, it sounds like its something that I can totally skip. I'm more excited about this lighthouse." For some unknown reason, she felt the need to show that she took could be filled with useless facts about something they liked. "Did you know Michigan has the most lighthouses and there's even one off Lake Superior that you can see the aurora borealis at but the prettiest ones are in Maine." That was actually a matter of opinion, hers, and it would not change. "But there are some nice looking ones around the world, want to see them all one day."

The amused smile her statement brought out couldn't be hidden. "That's a record with you lot." Wally nodded his head and thought it'd work. "In that case, we'll be sat here for a while. Just so you can really recharge." There were some moments when she let him see her past the wall she set forth, where he saw that little insight to her own family. He'd not mentioned that Charlie and Orion were her family since he could already forsee what she'd have to say about that. But, it was there when she talked about them. "Not gonna lie I kind of want to see that. It sounds like that bet did what it intended to do with entertaining him. How is he? I haven't asked since I last saw him err met him."

"Mmm no. It'd be ours. I wouldn't take full ownership if I'd be asking you to partner up. You've got a fair point there. Animals are better than humans. You're dolly's favorite and you can't even deny that." He wasn't jealous at all over that fact. "For what it's worth I'm glad she likes you. Would be hard to sit and work out cases with you if she spent the entire time barking at you. No lie she'd go willingly."

He took a moment to stare her down not saying anything at all before he settled back into his seat and made an mn sound. "Some places only serve one purpose and it's to go once and done. Well, maybe you can tell me about your favorite spots sometime instead." Wally really only traveled for work and when his entire lot wanted to go somewhere. Usually the hot spots family were from. Other than that he liked being home.

"You're hitting me with adorable penguin facts and it's really making me want to take us to the zoo. Flamingos don't have a mating ritual as cute as penguins but they do." His head was filled with random facts and tonight was the first time they'd come in handy. "These aren't nearly as cute but their mating displays typically starts off with their "head flag" which is just them being loud and waving their heads back and forth." That made him laugh just thinking about how ridiculous it sounded. "Imagine someone calling your name really loudly in a crowd and looking over to see the person just waving their head back and forth. Anyway, then they do their wing salute which has them stretch their necks displaying their back flight feathers by spreading their wings. They show affection by walking side by side spreading their wings and swinging around their outstretched necks. Also they're monogamous creatures which means they are with their mate for life until they die and then find another one."

He chuckled thinking that was a fair assessment. "It was true. I was shy as a kid. Shy wouldn't be the accurate word. I was quiet and kept to myself and sisters. It was a turbulent time in our lives. Kind of didn't have enough spoons for everyone else. Just them." It was no secret he loved his sisters deeply. They came before himself and that was a constant thing. "At Quantico was when I shed that quiet and reserved side. It's still there and it comes out at these functions and galas sometimes." As she talked he couldn't help but clock in her expression after talking about home. She was leaving something out and though he could just ask her, he wanted to wait and see if she'd tell him first. "Only friendly with the ones that deserve it. Not everyone gets this treatment or access."

"In passing once during harvest," he looked up and further explained. "Name for the festival before October. It was from what I saw very pretty. As lights always are. Personally I like the Christmas ones they put only because those lights sing Christmas songs." Was he a sucker for the holiday? Sure was though he ignored the religion aspect of it and it also had nothing to do with his birthday. "These are nice. They kind of look like glo in the dark lights. Ever been to a glo in the dark room?"