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Guppy's 30th Birthday Party

Having collected everyone from the bar, Guppy leads them back through to the house, where they enter through the kitchen.

The living room furniture has been mostly moved out of the way, and that's where the most of the party has been set up. The sofa and some chairs are around the edge of the room, and there's music playing. The kitchen is a bit small so the food is being taken through into the dining room. Also a little on the small side, but enough for purpose. All of the baby gates are open on the ground floor, but not on the stairs.

Upstairs, the spare bedroom has been set aside for any little people at the party. It's a bit quieter, with baby-sized food, some toys, and a DVD of Pingu playing.

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"You go to Sprite School?" Frogspawn asks, offering him a Party Ring biscuit (the kind that are on the LS icon).

The theme tune from Pingu signals the end of the episode, and Fry looks around at Enzo.

So that's what they're called.

"I go to the Guardian Academy," Enzo declares a trifle smugly. "There you are, Fry!"

"Oh wow, that sounds cool!" Frogspawn says, sitting cross-legged on the floor. "How long does it take to train to be a guardian?"

Fry crawls over and tries to take Enzo's biscuit.

"Fry, you can have this one." Frogspawn says quickly, dangling a purple on in his direction. "That one is Enzo's."

"Six years, if I pass all my exams first time. It's a big function. I'm starting my third year." He takes a hasty bite of his biscuit.

"So you get like weapons training and stuff?"

She breaks Alex's biscuit into smaller bits.

"Alex, you have to chew these."

"Weapons, unarmed combat, tactics, system repair, Game studies, all kinds of things. I'm gonna try to get some medic training as an elective."

Yes, your husband is to thank for that.

"Ooh, sounds action packed. I'm a physiotherapist."

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"Oh, yeah, I think Guppy told me that. That and something about kittens?"

"Oh yes, I raise those when I can but it's voluntary. But the evil overlord won't let me take them to work at the moment."

"Evil overlord?"

She's joking, right? 'Cause he's from the kind of world that actually has those; that's one reason there are Guardians.

"Dr Sharpe. He's a..."

"Meenee." Alex puts in.

"Yes, he's a meanie."

Enzo relaxes, and tries to stifle a laugh at his own contribution to Alex's vocabulary.

"Yes, I don't know who taught him that word, but I caught him saying it to Granny the other day. She wasn't very pleased."

"Granny meenee."

"Eh heh heh. I bet."

Enzo does not have the very best innocent look.

"Eh, she deserved it, but don't tell him that."

Alex crawls over to Enzo, wipes the crumbs off his hand down Enzo's trousers, then goes back for more biscuit.

"Alex, dirty! Sorry Enzo."

Enzo grins in relief.

"Don't worry about it, User clothes need to be washed all the time anyway."

"BOGIES!" Alex suddenly shouts, putting his finger up his nose.

"No! Ew! No bogies!" Frogspawn says, but in a gentle way. "Bogies are icky!"

"What is it with little kids and bogies?"

As a worldly-wise twelve-year-old, Enzo knows that for nasal secretions to be the height of hilarity requires the proper context.

"That one is cousin Megan's fault." Frogspawn says, with an eye roll.

She gets a tissue and holds it out to Alex.

"Wipe it on the tissue please."

Alex does so.

"Good boy. Now don't do it again."

"Yeah, Guppy told me about that." See, that one was funny.

"I don't think he understands the differences in context."

"He'll learn."

And then, code help us all.

Frogspawn laughs.

"He's good at learning."

Alex gets up and goes to the door.

"Woop?" he asks.

"What's that?" Frogspawn asks him.

"Woop!"

"Hm. We can't let him go downstairs, we've moved the furniture."

"He doesn't like that?"

"No, he'll completely freak out, that's partly why we've kept him up here." Frogspawn says. "They moved the furniture at nursery once before we knew it upset him, and he cried continuously for four hours."

"Woop!" Alex requests again.

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