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Birthday Party for Laura/X-23

It's a pretty low-key party, all things considered, and not significantly different than the one Parker or Meg would have thrown in a dorm room for a friend at home, not-exactly-traditional menu not withstanding.

There's music, low enough to talk over (and maybe with a little more folk in the mix than one expects to find a party). Balloons and streamers in purple and blue and red. A place to leave presents. People to meet or catch up with.

And, most importantly, a chance to wish X-23 (or Laura) a very happy birthday.

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"If they're the right six words, that's all you need."

Laura is a good listener. That's the harder part of conversation, anyway, most of the time.

"Are you one of the friends she's taken to see her new place yet?" He's itching to go, but not to push Laura on it.

Meg nods.

"Yes. She took Parker and me. We had a slumber party, last month."

Laura picked her birthday at it.

"It's a very nice apartment."

"Any sense a super-hero with only newly formed connections to reality lives there?" He doesn't know anything about slumber parties.

Meg blinks.

"It feels like a place Laura lives," she says, a little uncertainly.

"Just wondering, is all. She often makes me wonder." His ever-present curiosity has a good outlet with Laura.

Meg nods, slightly.

"It . . . I wouldn't say there was anything about it that stuck me as something I didn't expect to see. I don't know how else to put it."

"Fair enough. I'll have to see about visiting it myself, I guess. Haven't been out that way in a while." Not since he died, certainly.

"Then I hope you'll get a chance to go," Meg says.

She'd never been to California before. Maybe one day she'll go see some part of it other than a friend's apartment.

"It might be nice." Though he does wonder what happened to Natalie Teeger, who was also from San Fran and was interesting in a different way.

"Anyway, I won't keep you. Enjoy the party."

They seem to be running low on root beer, so, yes, Meg had best go see to that.

"You, too. I'm very glad you could come."

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