LAX Portalocity Terminal [Monday Night]

[fh-tourguide.livejournal.com]

It was late enough on Monday night that the airport was mostly quiet. A lot of the shops and restaurants were closed already, but the lights were on bright in the Portalocity Terminal.

There weren't snacks this time, but a few boxes of tissues were around the room, in case anyone needed them after saying goodbye to their temporary families.



[post is up early for great sp justice. no ocd. you still have all day to play in today's Disney post though]

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[cobra-kids.livejournal.com]

"Daddy I don't want to say goodbye to Faith." Ana sniffed.

Faith clung to her older sister as well.

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Saying goodbye to the kids would not be easy, but Chris was hopeful that some day he would have them around permanently.

"You guys got all your stuff?" he asked.

[weehalfangels.livejournal.com]

"Yes Daddy," Madison replied. She had so much princess stuff from Disneyland.

Matthew nodded as well. "I'm all set."

[absolutesnark]

Summer smiled despite her sadness. "You two be safe, okay?"

She was trying not to sniffle too much.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

He was taking it pretty well, all things considered; Kayla was a great kid, but what he'd been able to puzzle out about the details of her world were a little too weird and brainhurty (also awkward) for Anders to be terribly broken up about sending her home.

"See," he was saying to the girl walking beside him, who was proudly sporting the Disney-character baseball jersey (yes, baseball, he'd insisted, and besides, they didn't have any rugby style ones in any of the shops they'd looked in) and pilot's-cap mouse ears he'd spent the last of his money on, "there was no getting drunk and being gross in public."

Because wow, no. Not in this world. Weird.

"Oh, shut up, Dad," Kayla said lightly; both of them leaned against the wall in identical poses. Waiting for the last possible second. Typical.

[oncourtandstage.livejournal.com]

"Don't get me wrong," Troy added. "I mean, you're a great kid. But... you kinda break our brains."

He glanced up at Anders. "No offence."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"None taken. I shoulda said that, huh?" Anders realized belatedly.

"Yeah, yeah," Kayla said, rolling her eyes (Anders wondered how she didn't sprain something as often as she did that, then chalked it up to thorough eye-muscle stretching -- yeah, that would be his kid all right) at both of them. "At least it's not like at home, where you still pretend like you're not together."

"Oh, I see you've got the difference down now," Anders noted dryly.

[mike-cannon.livejournal.com]

Mike was surprisingly calm about sending Mandalay back to her home. "Are you sure you've got everything, including those gifts you bought for your friends?" he asked, handing her a Mickey Mouse backpack.

[kiddie-cannon.livejournal.com]

"Yes! I have everything for Mommy and Coco and Eddie and Ashley and Ariel and the new baby," said Mandy, grinning as she put her backpack on.

[solo_sword]

While Jaina completely recognized that there was real life to get back to, saying goodbye to the kids always kind of killed her. Maybe she was just worried they wouldn't come back next time, or they'd grow up too much before they did come back. But she was putting on a good show as they got to the terminal, carrying Jonathyn in one arn, with a full-but-light-enough-for-a-three-year-old bag for him to take back for himself and the twins in the other.

"So, did you have fun?" she asked.

[anakinllkillhim.livejournal.com]

"Yeah huh," was the nodded response she earned. Jonathyn smiled and wrapped his arms more tightly around Jaina's neck.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

After finally ushering his kids into their respective portals, Billy sat in the terminal for a long time.

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John took a seat next to a seat next to Billy. He was silent, looking at the people walking past for about five minutes before he finally spoke. "You gonna be okay?"

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica dragged her four kids to the airport alone. There had been a tearful (on Kaitlin's part) goodbye with Angel and Logan back at the hotel already.

Each of the kids was sporting their Mickey ears and carrying a backpack full of souvenirs to take home. Veronica was grateful that she was Mrs. Casablancas now because those kids had damn near taken her broke.

"All right, guys, give me hugs."

[weespies.livejournal.com]

Vanessa was first. "Bye, Mom! Make sure you give Dad his Mickey ears!"

[wannabelawyer.livejournal.com]

"I need a hug too," Lindsey said, walking up behind Veronica.

[absolutesnark]

Piper decided she really didn't like this part, but she knew the kids had to return to their parents. She'd already taken Tricia to say goodbye to her dad, gave her lots of hugs, and sent her on her way home.

Now it was time for Lynn to leave. "You have everything, right?"

Lynn nodded, clinging to a bag full of souvenirs. "Uh huh."

[wannabelawyer.livejournal.com]

"You sure?" Lindsey asked. "Didn't forget anything? Don't need to rush back to Disneyland for a last minute souvenir?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana tried to put a good face on it, but letting Lily go was killing her. She hugged her tightly. "You be a good girl, sweetie, and mommy will see you on the other side."

Lily hugged back equally tightly. "I'm always good, Mommy."

[the_merriest]

This was always the hardest part of seeing Ruba; sending her back again. But she was going to a happy home, with another Reno and Rikku, so this-Rikku wasn't going to be greedy and keep her.

Probably.

"Susso needs a big hug, cfaadraynd," Rikku sighed.

[raspberryturk]

"Daddy's gonna be needin' one too, before you ship off again," Reno added, smiling faintly. Hey, he'd seen her three times, now. He was pretty certain there would be more.

Rede hadn't been here, this time. But maybe that was because Rede had himself his happy ending, here. Gone back to some other Reno and Rude in some other world, so he could learn to be one hell of a little Turk.

Reno was cool with that.

[stykera]

Stark had been tempted to be late for this. But he knew there was another him, two other hims, somewhere, that would be missing these two children. It wouldn't be fair to them. And he couldn't keep Ziya from her mother.

He'd gotten a camera the first night and had taken a lot of pictures. He had those to keep, at least.

"Are you ready?" he asked softly.

[glowyfacebabies.livejournal.com]

"I'm ready!" Glitz said brightly. "Don't be sad, sorta-Dad. Hey I rhymed! It's ok. I'll see the other you and Bridge-Daddy soon and I can make them be flaily and babbly too and it'll be fun! But this was fun too! And maybe I'll come see you again sometime and maybe we can go to Disneyland again or maybe one of the other parks or something else really fun and maybe my sorta-Daddy will come too!"

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

Savannah didn't think that she would ever get over hating this part of the kids' visits. However, she was less depressed about it because she was quite sure that they would happen for her and Johnny in this universe. They had come to see them three times, and three was always a magic number.

She sat Storm down and then knelt so that she was at eye level with her kids.

"Do you guys have everything you need?" Which, she knew they did, as well as a lot of other things that they hadn't arrived here with.

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe had never liked saying goodbye to anyone she loved, and it seemed like it was harder to do when it was her kids. She was holding Thea and she had Psyche by one hand. Cole was holding Peri and Phaedra was walking between her and Eve.

"Your parents are in for big surprises, aren't they," she said with a laugh.

Why? All four girls had taken to heart what Cole had said about having pirate's blood and they were all dressed up in as much pirate gear as they could wear and carry.