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FinerThanFitz · Joined: 04 Mar 2015 Posts: 16101

“Daddy!” Tessa was the first to come running up to her father, hardly giving him the chance to stand up from his seat before she launched herself at his middle.

Griffith stifled a pained groan, though he couldn’t hold back a pained wince that flashed on his face as he caught his daughter.

“Hi, Tessy. Hi, I missed you.” He said as he rubbed at her back.

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Harper watched anxiously, holding Harlow close and grimaced. She was struggling with concern and the anxious frustration that he'd show up injured- the fact that he was injured at all had her upset. "You did amazing, Tessy girl."

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“Yeah you did!” Griffith added, though he had just missed her performance.

Tessa didn’t seem to know it was a lie and continued to cheese. Meanwhile, her brothers came running up then, also vying for their fathers attention as they began clinging to him. Digby bounced up and down and held onto the bottom of Griff’s shirt.

“Daddy, you came! You came! We were scared you wouldn’t come!” He cheered.

“What? Of course I would come! I wouldn’t miss it for anything.” Griffith grinned at his kids despite his throbbing side.

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"Mumma said you would!!" Lowell said happily from Griffith's other side, not clinging but still jumping up and down in excitement. "Daddy, does this mean you're home for Christmas again?"

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"I am! We're going to have so much fun! We can bake cookies and go sledding and-"

"Daddy, do you have an owie?" Digby asked, looking up to where a bit of red had begun to seep through onto Griffith's shirt. He reached to gently poke at the stain, but Griffith quickly caught his little hand in his.

"It's just a little one, baby. Why don't we go say goodbye to your teacher and friends and we'll go home and Daddy will put a bandaid on it, hmm?" Griffith suggested, giving Digby's fingers a gentle squeeze.

Digby seemed satisfied with this and turned heel to go say goodbye to his classmates in the crowd.

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Harper took a deep breath. "Griffith... go out to the car before the rest of the kids see, okay? We'll meet you out there." she tried, frowning a little.

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"Momma, I want to ride home with Daddy! I want to ride in his car!" Tessa insisted as she latched back on to Griffith.

Griff bit his lip a little as he watched Harper's expression. He let out his own sigh before looking down at Tessa, reaching to pet her hair.

"Daddy's car is stinky right now, you don't want to ride in it, Tess. I'll meet you at home though and we'll order pizza tonight, how does that sound?" He suggested.

Tessa pursed her lips but didn't argue. Instead she huffed and went over to Harper, burying her face into her mother's leg to hide her pout.

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"Its okay, Tessy." Harper crooned to her, reaching to pet her hair. "You can snuggle daddy with a movie and pizza lots tonight, okay?"

Harlow reached for Griffith again.

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"Yeah, baby girl. We'll snuggle and watch your faaaavorite movies, doesn't that sound good?" Griffith suggested, as he reached out to also pet Tessa's hair. She whined and pulled away from him. He sighed and then looked to Harlow. He smiled for him and reached out to pet at his dark waves. "Daddy see Harlow soon. Daddy be at home." He said and signed for his youngest, not sure how much Harlow knew in ASL yet.

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Harlow pouted but blew Griffith a kiss and settled down again. Lowell came back running over. "All done!!!" he said, reaching for Griffith's hand.

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"Alright, let's get you all loaded up in Momma's car and I'll meet you at home." Griffith said, squeezing Lowell's hand. He felt as Digby grabbed his other hand, rejoining all of them. He smiled and proceeded to playfully shake both of their arms as they began heading for the door. "Do we want cheese pizza? Pepperoni? Maybe...fish?" He teased.

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((FF))

Harper finished getting Harlow tucked into bed, positive that he'd find a way into her and Griffith's bed later anyhow but it'd buy her enough time to doctor Griffith properly. And talk, for gods sake.

She sighed as she stopped by the hallway bathroom and grabbed the first aid kit, checking everything she'd need was in there and then grabbing the bottle of rubbing alcohol from the cabinet before heading for her and Griffith's bedroom.

There had been a couple of more questions from the kids about 'Daddy's Booboo" until Griffith had bandaged it up for now. It was getting harder and harder to explain things away from the kids.

She headed into the bedroom, tossing the kit and bottle onto her side of the bed as she went to grab a hairtie from her night stand to pull her hair back, frowning as her face was settled into its usual RBF, thinking about what to do or say.

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Griffith had beat the family home and had just enough time to tape some gauze to his abdomen and clean up his face. He changed into something more comfortable and dark in the event of more bleeding before going about his evening with the kids.

He managed to run around and play with them, albeit he was a bit stiff, and he ordered them pizza and snuggled on the couch until everyone started fading. Tessa was the first to pass out and Griffith got her upstairs and changed into her pajamas before returning for the twins. Though they were sleepy, they insisted he read to them and of course he did even though the both passed out long before the story was over. He helped Harper with Harlow, but eventually left her to it to clean up the living room just enough to not allow any vermin to snack on leftover pizza crusts.

He clutched his side as he made his way back upstairs to join Harper in the bedroom.

"Lord, they are awfully rowdy, huh?" He said, trying to lighten the mood a bit as he made his way over to the bed. He flopped down with a wince.

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"They always are." Harper answered as normally as she could, opening the kit to look for some wipes. "... So what happened?"

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Griffith sighed, knowing that the mood was in fact not lightened and he and Harper were going to more than likely "talk" about their situation.

"Well, I was dropping some stuff off with the guys on my way out of town and, I mean, it's Faulkner, it's small, some of Butcher's boys just happened to see us and they didn't like that." Griffith explained as he went ahead and took off his shirt. Much to his surprise, the gauze he'd put on was only barely stained with his blood. The wound beneath wasn't terrible as it turned out. "We fought, Benny took care of the mess so I could leave. I couldn't miss the recital."

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