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Apr. 20th, 2020 06:33 pmMarcus has promised Dan he'll keep an eye on Rue.
He isn't obvious about it, he knows something like that will only result in the girl closing down even further, but Dan cares for her and is worried about her, so Marcus does his best to make sure she's looked after whenever he's working one of his shifts at the Home. It can all pass at him just doing the job he's signed up to do, after all, making sure the kids are fed if they don't want to come to the communal meal, helping with their homework if they need, just spending time with them if they don't or if they're lonely and looking for some company. He talks to them, too, and some of them confide in him. Some of them don't. He isn't bothered by it.
This is all something he's very good at, looking out for the kids here, and it's nice to find something he can do besides banishing demons.
He tries not to play favourites and he's been helping one of the fifth graders with his homework for about thirty minutes when he sees Rue coming into the common room. So after they answer one more question together, Marcus gets up from the table and wanders over to where Rue is sitting on the couch, sinking down beside her with a smile.
"Homework done?" he asks, though he's wearing a bit of a smile that says he's only teasing her.
He isn't obvious about it, he knows something like that will only result in the girl closing down even further, but Dan cares for her and is worried about her, so Marcus does his best to make sure she's looked after whenever he's working one of his shifts at the Home. It can all pass at him just doing the job he's signed up to do, after all, making sure the kids are fed if they don't want to come to the communal meal, helping with their homework if they need, just spending time with them if they don't or if they're lonely and looking for some company. He talks to them, too, and some of them confide in him. Some of them don't. He isn't bothered by it.
This is all something he's very good at, looking out for the kids here, and it's nice to find something he can do besides banishing demons.
He tries not to play favourites and he's been helping one of the fifth graders with his homework for about thirty minutes when he sees Rue coming into the common room. So after they answer one more question together, Marcus gets up from the table and wanders over to where Rue is sitting on the couch, sinking down beside her with a smile.
"Homework done?" he asks, though he's wearing a bit of a smile that says he's only teasing her.
