Infant-sized Shuttershades

== Excursions ==
(Originally uploaded paragraphs 6, 8 - 11, and 13 on 22:05, August 1, 2015 as "Shuttershades for Fei Yen".)
7-month-old Fei Yen in a snuggie against Tahnee's chest wearing a floppy sun hat and--
"Shuttershades!" cheers Jin, setting a pair of baby-sized shuttershades on Fei Yen's nose. 
"Where the hell did you get baby shuttershades?" 
"This is Hong Kong," Jin shrugs and he's off. 
--being walked around Hong Kong and Tahnee describing all the birds and pretty flowers.
6 Tahnee’s like /this close to pulling them off Fei’s face and tucking them in a discreet pocket of the nappy bag, but when she lifts her hand Fei squalls and she leaves them alone.
Tahnee's like, 'not my kid, I shouldn't care how she's dressed or whether she's wearing shuttershades but thank /god she's growing fast and'll out grow them in like, a week.'
8 She ends up with an overstimulated, inconsolable Fei Yen at which point Daiyu materializes and escorts Tahnee and Feiby to a tea shop where Chau appears and tries to calm down Fei Yen (he's managed it before, he can manage it again (knowledge gained from getting stuck guarding half a dozen rounds of Tang brats ('generations' isn't quite right because the 'baby boom' occurs every 3-4 years))) but Feiby cries on and Jin is dragged in but wants to leave. now. And then Feng and Chao show up, Chao gives a masterful disapproving Look as Feng cocoons Feiby in his shawl. Not sure where it would go from there, tho, and that was a lotta similar names. Dangit.) 
9 Tahnee meanwhile is sitting in a corner drinking herself stupid with pot after pot of ‘soothing’ tea, nursing a burgeoning headache (because holy FRAK she does /not remember her or Dana ever being that loud, where do these kids get their lungs, Christ) AND a newfound, lifelong dislike/hatred of Hannibal Chau, because if that man has no other skills, he does know how to make a highly-training, highly-skilled individual feel like a goddamn moron, but how was she supposed to know Feiby was getting overwhelmed (she was so happy looking at turtles and carp in the pool outside the Tea Museum?), Tahnee doesn’t know anything about /babies [that aren’t baby animals], and okay yeah, she probably should have known that two hours was about the limit, but she DOESN’T KNOW BABIES and oh god she’s broken everything, the Marshal is going to kill her, Feiby sounds like she’s dying, Tahnee’s never going to touch a baby again, she was getting such /weird looks in the street (white foreigner with a screaming Chinese baby, what a reversal of the norm)… and now Jin is here, and she needs to pee insanely badly (because three pots of tea in half an hour), and oh god just kill her. (But not before another pot of tea; this is /good stuff, which province did you say it comes from again?)
10 TL;DR Tahnee is slightly traumatised RE taking care of babies solo; pinks a little around the ears every time the Weis bring it up again; and responds decidedly unfavourably to the 'mama’ jibes that spring up hereafter.
11 Also she dislikes Chau. The degree is uncertain. But she d/like him. Hairs standing up on the back of her neck, instant distemper d/like. 
12 (bonus: Dana teases her about babies now. Which is ironic, considering Tahnee’s the one more into them, hence why she took Feiby duty in the first place.)
13 *note: I don’t think Chau managed to make NEWT feel like a goddamn moron; I don’t think Newt’s that selfaware
(as Black Rabbits or whatever-tf-his-band-was-called should attest)
== A Second Pair ==
And then, of course, as if Jin could read her mind, by the time Fei Yen /does out grow them, there's a bigger pair waiting for her.
*these ones are sunshine yellow and Tahnee is a little disturbed by finding she kind of likes them
Dana huffs. "For the love of god, they're /just /glasses."
"They're not /just /glasses, they're /shuttershades and they're /ugly and stupidly /impratical."
Dana rols her eyes.
When word reaches Xiong, this is yet another alarm bell that her 'Dome's going stir crazy and hey, maybe this's what sparks the creation of DomeKart (besides the illegal races in the halls, obviously)
Yep, Dana’d probably be the one like, /sigh “chill, sis, they’re just glasses” while Tahnee’s like “I hate them and they’re stupid and I hate them do you not remember that Corey Worthington bullshit a few years back I hate them” (though probably in more bitchfaces than words bc co-pilot twins)
(the ‘dome thinks they’re fighting about something legit, and when someone plucks up the courage to intervene, they’re both like “Shuttershades” but in /totally different tones of voice)
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