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[greatamazingfeelingsboy]

Caleb doesn't need to be an empath to know that Alex and Michael could use some 'couple time,' which is what he's calling it in his head so he doesn't accidentally stray too close to 'thinking about my big-brother figure having sex' territory. So on one Saturday while he's hanging out, he decides to bundle up Luke and Bopp and bring them out for the day. The whole day. So Alex and Michael can have the whole day.

He starts out with a late breakfast out, with Bopp tied to a bike stand outside of the cafe so they can eat in peace. Later, it'll be the arcade, maybe the park or the natural history museum, some lunch, the aquarium... Whatever they decide to do doesn't really matter to Caleb, as long as Luke is having fun.

Because the kid needs it.

He's been dealing with the fallout of Michael's abduction just as much as any of them, and Caleb hasn't really had the chance to help him with that. Maybe this will do the trick. Just get him out of the apartment, away from school, and let him focus on being a kid and having fun.

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[ithastobeseven]

The apartment's smaller than the House, smaller than any of the houses they lived in back home, and that's not a bad thing but it does mean that any feelings inside it sort of...bounce around. Michael's up more now, and talking more, things are mostly back to normal-ish, but it can't have not happened. Luke wants to have his people around all the time, but also for them not to worry, or sometimes he just wants to be quiet and sad and think, and he can't have all of it.

Going out with Caleb is nice, with all that. Caleb's cool, and really nice, and he likes that he wants him to hang out, it makes him feel big. Caleb's older than Stevie but he reminds Luke more of that kind of big brother than Michael or Alex do (which is probably good anyway because he definitely wouldn't do what Steve said all the time).

And they have pancakes, and the whole day's about having fun. It's easy to forget about being worried.

"You don't think Bopp's lonely, though, right?" he asks, swinging his legs and putting one of the banana pieces from on top of his pancakes in his mouth.