During school that day, she spaced out and would stare at the top of her hand. There was something about Horatio that seemed familiar to her. But no matter how hard Ciara thought about it, nothing came to mind.

Horatio went back to his room for the rest of the day. That was enough of the outside world for now and he still had a problem to solve. Besides, for some reason that little outing seemed to drain him a bit.

"Knock knock." Came a familiar voice from the window sill. "Hi Big Bro." Juno had stopped in. She found it easily to see him when everyone else was at school/work.

"Juno" Horatio smiled and made his way to the window. Normally he kept it unlocked but since he had actually left his room, he preferred the place to be locked down. The last thing he wanted was someone potentially getting a hold of time-sensitive information. So he opened the window for her and moved to step aside but it turned into a bit of a stumble.

Juno swung in and wrapped an arm around him, "Wow, easy there. You alright?"

"Yes, I am fine" Horatio sighed as he steadied, "I suppose I just need to get out more. That was exhausting."

"Oh? Were you sociable today?" Juno wrapped her arms around him, "My brother's all grown up." She teased, dramatically shredding a tear.

Horatio rolled his non-seeing eyes, "Yes. Apparently since no one has actually seen me, they thought I was an intruder, Ceres had to stop them before they attacked, Ciara showed me around the mansion and they all went to school. It's a good thing I already know my way around though because I would have been very lost otherwise."

Juno let him go, chuckling a little, "Yeah that sounds about right... So you have some face time with Ciara? How did that go?" She asked, curiously.

Leaning back against the desk horatio sighed, "I'm not sure..." he admitted, "it was awkward and I think she may have caught me watching her"

"Well, you two haven't really talked before face to face so I'm sure it was awkward for both of you. It'll get better."

"It is not usually that bad though" Horatio ran his hands through his hair, "I'm supposed to be charming and mysterious, not tongue-tied and nervous. And she's still too young for this anyway, it is not appropriate. I mean, of course I will always be much older than her but there is still an etiquette to these things."

"You are charming and mysterious but perhaps a more natural approach it the issue will work better. It seems each time you play the hero who sweeps her off her feet you implant the IDEA of being with you... a fantasy. But by being yourself, she can grow to love you, not the idea of you." She said, placing a hand on over his heart.

"... well that is just the cheesiest thing I have ever heard" Horatio grinned.

"You can blame the soap operas they have on in the afternoon." She laughed. "It's the only thing on the tub when I'm done all my schoolwork for the day."

"I wish I could get you a series called 'Breaking Bad' but it isn't going to be out for while yet." he commented, "I think you'd like it though"

"Ah. Spoilers!" She said covering her ears. "lalalala." She teased.

Horatio chuckled and stuck his tngue out at her, "so, what brings you by?" he inquired

"Nothing really. Just wanted to hang out, have a little chat... It's kinda hard when your whole family is here but you're considered an enemy to the rest of the household..."

"It's kinda hard when you've spent your known life chasing after the one and only person you have ever truly loved and never knowing if you can find her again or if she's dead forever across the worlds" Horatio commented, "Yeah, life sucks sometimes. But at least we have each other. Want to see if we can find Logan's stash of Canadian beer?"

Juno smiled, "Yes. I think a beer is in order." She sighed, Hope knew where she was coming from but she had to stay away. She had to find their familairs... it just... was taking a really long time.
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Together they managed to sneak through the mansion and locate Logan's beer to bring back to his room where they could kick back for awhile, "So how's the search coming along?" he asked, "Vesta and Polly's familiars, any word?"

"Not a word... I can't sense them anywhere. It's almost like... they aren't on this planet." She sighed, taking another chug of beer. "Must have some magic barriers or something up..."

"Or they're on another planet" Horatio suggested, then laughed at that, "Yeah, right, kitties in a space ship. Mrooooowwwww" he made hand gestures of a rocket taking off into space.

((Meanwhile in Asgard, Loki sits reading a book while Vesta's cat is curled up on his lap, asleep.))

Juno laughed, "AWWWW! They would be so cute. With their little fish bowl helmets."