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"Ooo. Brownies! I love brownies, you're the best."

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"Thank you."

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"At some point we probably have to start going to the nearest Gemini school, don't we? Would that be Port Angeles?"

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"At some point. If they don't give us a-at least a week then - then I'm giving me a week, anyway, but at some point yeah."

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"I think they're going to give us more than a week," says Adana, softly. "If for no other reason than for the - people in school who lost family members."

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"They'd better. I'm - Alli, twine me when brownies are ready, I'm going to go - for a - run. I've barely taken a step all week."

And she lets herself out the front door.
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"I'm going to go sleep. Is the couch fine? I don't - want to deal with setting up the air mattress."

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"Couch is fine."

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"Thanks," she says.

And then she flops on the couch and sleeps, and tries very hard not to think about the people she couldn't save.
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Alli goes up to her room.

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Bella comes back before the brownies are out of the oven and flops into a chair, softly out of regard for Adana's snoozing.

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She is probably not going to wake up for a very long time. So it's okay.

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Savannah's up and about, though. She's not zipping around, though, she's a bit more sedate. She is looking at her sleeping twin, silently.

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Brownies. The occupants of the house can between them easily eat the entire pan less one saved for Adana for later. Bella goes to sleep too after she's had hers.

There's a call to the house the next morning from the Seattle Gemini school - it turns out Port Angeles does not have its own. They talk to Charlie, who confirms their report from the Junebugs about the Sanders crashing with him, and say that school will go back in session after what would ordinarily be the Christmas vacation and not before. The kids are encouraged to study on their own until then. When school starts again all four of them will have medals from the Gemini Guard waiting for them and there's going to be some kind of ceremony about it.

Charlie writes down all of this information and leaves it by the phone for people to read at their convenience.
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Savannah is pretty damn pleased that they're getting medals. She thinks that they kind of deserve more, though. A medal's nice and all, but Adana - and possibly Bella, Savannah's not sure - nearly died. What's a hunk of metal in comparison to that?

(She wonders, if Adana had died, if Savannah's only consolation would be a hunk of metal. If so, she thinks she'd leave the country. And possibly throw herself into the ocean.)
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Adana is a bit more sedate. She doesn't feel anything in particular about the medal. Just - sorry that she didn't manage to save more.

(She's done math, over how many people she saved. It's somewhere near three million, she thinks. Probably more, she's rounding down.)
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(Bella's done math, too, and her total's about half that, and she could have been faster -)

Forks is more crowded than usual. A lot of families have people of their acquaintance one way or another staying with them, who managed to drive or fly or already be out of the danger zone when the news came.

There's ash falling, but everyone here owns an umbrella already. People bring in their produce gardens early and learn to can and pickle things. The stores are picked over, but they're open, for now.

There's ash in the sky and the sun is blocked even more than usual and it snows gray snow.

Bella runs her errands in Canada sometimes. If it gets bad in Canada she'll do the grocery shopping in Bangladesh, whatever, they're going to be fine, but she could have been faster -
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