Rewind to the S // He's been old before.... // OTA

[fedorasizesmall]

[Corridors and Philip's room]

Sure, he's been old before, but that was in his beloved Fuuto. Being less than half his original age in a place like this was distinctly more alarming. And so ran a decidedly smaller hard-boiled detective (perhaps more like a quail egg right now) through the corridors. "This is bad! What the hell?!" He was making his way to Philip's room through the guest quarters' hallway. At the fastest speed his little legs could take him, and likely not looking too close at where he was going.

When he got to his partner's door, he reached up to jam on the doorbell and he beat relentlessly on the door itself. He didn't really care if he disturbed Philip's roommate. "Oi! Philip! Open up! This is important!"

[In Ten Forward, contagious as hell]

There was something wrong with his coffee. It tasted awful. Somehow with his tiny kid-sized body went his adult taste buds. But at least he was still dressed the part. So he searched through the Enterprise databases for something sweeter. What the hell was a Frappuccino? Some coffee shop weirdness. Like some kind of coffee milkshake. That'll do. Mocha frappuccino with extra whip creme and chocolate shavings on top. Nevermind this was far from hard-boiled, but it was super tasty. That was all that mattered.

And the caffeine and sugar buzz later was just a bonus.

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[decideformyself]

Mick settled in and started to purr.

Philip returned to his seat beside Shotaro. "I don't foresee that being very likely. If people are becoming children, how much of a threat could they pose?"

[fedorasizesmall]

"It could be anything, with Q involved. Making everyone kids and then overruning the ship with rabid wolves could sound like a good time today." He leaned slightly toward Philip, and just kept grouchily petting Mick.

[decideformyself]

Philip leaned toward him and ruffled his hair fondly. "In that case, we always have FangJoker."

[fedorasizesmall]

He struggled out from under Philip's attack. Mick made a grumpy noise at the activity. "Hey! Not fair!"

[decideformyself]

"Does that bother you?" Philip glanced down at his own hand in confusion. "You can just cover anything up with your hat, you know..."

[fedorasizesmall]

"Just because I look like a kid, doesn't mean you should treat me like one!" Okay he was probably making a bigger deal out of this than he should.

[decideformyself]

Okay, he had a point. Philip sat back and dropped his hand onto his lap. Being treated like a child when you weren't one was not a pleasant experience.

[fedorasizesmall]

Shotaro fell quiet for a while, just sitting with Philip and petting Mick. "Ah, dammit, we should see who else is dealing with this."