Rescued and Rejuved (private)

[JodyJames]

Tommy listened and nodded as he did so. "SAM had to teach me stuff too. I had to study. Sometimes I didn't want to."

He started to say he'd listen to teh rule, but then she mentioned ice cream! When he heard that, he got a quite excited. SAM had never given him ice cream, but he'd had some at the orphanage, and he vaguely remembered having some with his parents before that or at least he recalled knowing about it.

"Sarah had a birthday and Mrs. Sharpe gave us ice cream. It was cold, but it was good. Mommy gave me ice cream, too. I saw a picture SAM showed me. He said it was my birthday, too. I had ice cream and cake and candles on the cake. SAM said I was six. There were 7 candles on the cake, but SAM said you just get an extra one. And ... is it your birthday today, Lady Auntie Hanna? How old are you?

[cyrusdamodred]

Hanna giggled bearing a wide smile due to his sudden outbreak of excitement. "No, its not my birthday...but one rule is don't ask a lady about her age. If she wants to tell you she will do on her own. I am a bit over thirty years old. I just thought it would be kind to offer you a praise if you would listen to the houses rules. I think SAM would have done it that way, right?"

After saying that she picked him up in her arms carrying him along the house to show Tommy each room. She always said when something was dangerous...like the plug sockets or the cooker for example and told him only to use those stuff together with her. While slowly trying to get him to know everything her hands always were on him, fondling and teasing him while he was carried. Hanna also tend to ask him if he understood her explanation in order to make sure nothing mayor would happen over night.

They ended their little tour in the kitchen, close to the Refrigerator to give Tommy his promised piece of Ice cream. "So, I think this should be all the house rules for now. I'm sorry, it sure was a lot for you but most of them are there so you won't be hurt. Please follow them...I couldn't bare to see you hurt yourself." Hanna told him charmingly as she handed him the ice cream.

[JodyJames]

Tommy listened to the rules as he was carried along. Most of tehm made sense. He wasn't sure exactly why some things were dangerous, but SAM had told him often enough that some things were and on occasion he'd gotten hurt when fooling with something that was dangerous so he understood the concept.

When Tommy got his ice cream he was at first confused. He'd expected ice cream in a bowl -- the only way he'd ever had it. Instead Hanna gave him something on a stick. It didn't look like ice cream either. It had a hard surface whereas ice cream he knew was soft. He looked up at her quizzically. She smiled and told him to take a small bite. He bit the corner and inside the hard surface it was indeed ice cream. And the hard surface was no longer so hard either. He licked at the surface and it tasted good as well. Different fro ice cream, but good.

After a bit teh ice cream began to drip and by the time he had finished his treat his face was a chocolatey ice-creamy mess.

With his treat devoured he thought back on what he'd been told. "How come you don't ask a lady how old she is? How do you find out? Do you ask SAM?

[cyrusdamodred]

Hanna got a cloth from nearby and treated his chocolate sweet face in order to clean it after he was finished. "So, thanks for listening to the rules. If you will follow them we will have no problems and you won't get hurt. Hope the icecream was nice enough for a treatment after this."

When he asked about the reason why you don't ask the age of a lady she said "Well, some people think its rude to ask a lady this question. Time is not a womans friend so its nicer to tell someone she looks young than to ask about her age. I don't think your rude Tommy, have no fear." Hanna finished cleaning him during her little speech and when it was done she realized the time of the day.

"Oh...its already lunchtime." she said surprised. "Do you have any favorites you like to eat? no sweets...I mean like vegetables or meat. I will make something for you and you can go and play until i am finished. how about it?"

[JodyJames]

Tommy was mostly used to reconstituted food that SAM had constructed out of basic amino acids or chemicals. By it's nature it was bland. Spices and flavors could be added but these were more complicated to construct, and Tommy hadn't enjoyed them much more. In fact he hadn't at all liked some of the spicier flavors his parents had, so SAM had kept his diet nutritious but bland. Only when he arrived on the planet had he had any "real" food. He liked peanut butter and oatmeal, which had reminded him of the food he was used to, and they'd found he liked baby vegetables -- stuff that had been strained and mashed to a consistency he was used to.

He'd eaten nothing since he was rejuved and he realized he was hungry even though he'd just had ice cream. But he had a problem. SAM had just made food. In the short time he had also just had food -- whatever they served. He hadn't learned what was what. He knew what things like carrots, apples, etc. were from his lessons with SAM, but he didn't connect them with the foods he ate.

"I like vegetables and meat, both." he said. "Sometimes." and thought he'd answered her question completely.

He headed for the stairs and went up to the room she'd said was his. He had a small box of things that had been taken from the ship. There was a picture of his parents in a frame, which he put on a dresser. There were a few toys which were actually age-appropriate for him again now. One was a small teddy bear.

He took the bear out and spoke to it. "I think Lady Auntie Hanna is maybe like a mommy, Teddy. Let's make her a story."

He got out some markers and began to draw pictures on the wall. He'd gotten quite good at that in the ship. Everything was decorated with pictures by the time he'd been found. But his coordination was gone in the rejuve and his pictures were now clumsy. He worked on three pictures. One was a small child between two adults holding thier hands. The second was a larger child sitting in front of a computer. The third was a small child with one adult.

[cyrusdamodred]

His answer was enough for Hanna since she just wanted to know if there was anything he didn't liked. "Okay, I will see what I can do, go and play in your room if you like. I try to be fast and bring you something." when he ran off she didn't think of anything that could go wrong and cheerfully started cooking some stuff. A fine asortee of a few different Vegetables as well as chicken breast and a slice of pork. It ended up being enough for the both of them in her enthusiasm and she wondered how quiet everything was.

Resting the meal on the dinner table she started to worry hoping he wouldn't have tried something funny and made pace up the stairs. "Tommy? ...Tommy, is everything okay?" she yelled as she entered the room and her chin collapsed seeing all the walls covered in marker drawings of him. She didn't really look what he had drawn but thought of the hours it would take to clean this Mess up and before she could think it through the troubles of the day as well as her own education broke through.

Hanna went to Tommy with an angered Face and grabbed him by the hand. Taking one deep breath she said in a rather calm manner "You don't write on walls or floors. Thats no no!" she pulled the child towards her in a hug and gave him three muffled smacks up his bottom. "Never do that again, okay? This isn't your house, its ours...we somehow have to keep it clean. Those markers will take very very long to wash off. If you want to draw ask me for papers and I give them to you but please never draw on the walls or the floors again, okay?" Hanna settled with time from her lecturing tone to a more caring voice as she got her calm again, waiting if he would say something. Her hug wasn't tight...just to show him he wasn't alone and she wasn't really mad.

[JodyJames]

Tommy wasn't too good at reading faces yet, but it was clear Hanna's expression wasn't the same as it had been before, and her tone of voice was different. He flinched a bit when she struck his bottom. He raised a hand to hit her back, but the swats hadn't really hurt and he remembered the time he'd really gotten in trouble was when he'd struck out at Mrs. Sharpe when she'd been breaking up a fight, and luckily he stopped himself.

He really wasn't sure why he wasn't to draw on the wall except she didn't want him to. As he rubbed his bottom with one hand, he looked at the drawings again. "I can do them better. I promise. I'll practice, then I'll put them on the wall for you."

[cyrusdamodred]

"I didn't smack you because you had drawn bad. Houses already have hangings on their walls so you don't need to draw on them. If you like to hang up a few pictures you have drawn on paper thats fine but please, if you want to do something you're not sure of ask me. I don't like to have to punish you." Hanna said sadly sounding a bit beaten...defeated by those she wanted to prove wrong. "...I hope you don't hate me now."

She kept sitting there with him for a moment not sure what to think of herself for this outbreak and then reminded herself of the readied lunch. "If you want to eat, Lunch is ready...its in our dining room." she sure hoped he wouldn't take her forceful appearance in here too serious. At least she managed to get back to her old self again as she smiled at the boy.

[JodyJames]

"Ill ask." Tommy promised giving his backside a quick rub. Then he remembered something. It was way back in a dim memory. "Mommy did that, too." he said. "I remember. In the ship. Like that, but more. Because ... because .. because ... I don't remember." He screwed up his face trying to remember. He could almost recall but it just wasn't there.

He quickly forgot that and grabbed his bear. "Teddy wants lunch with me." he said heading for the stairs. He raced ahead of her giggling with Teddy making it fly holding it above his head. He hurried down the stairs and his nose led him to the dining room. When Hanna arrived he had his face very close to the various dishes sniffing them.

[cyrusdamodred]

Hearing the story of his mother and that he got spanked by her relieved Hanna quite a lot since it meant he not only didn't hate her...he started comparing her to his family. She thought why they could have done it and decided to speak to him about this at the lunch. She didn't know when he would make her lose her cool again and that made it neccessary to make him understand why those things are done.

"Please don't run down the stairs...Lunch won't run away..." she yelled pleadingly after him as she heared the quick steps downwards, going after him. "You can start already if you want...I can make something for me later." Hanna added swiftly reaching the dining room. She had feared her little treatment would have made him unreasonable but so far there was nothing out of the ordinary.

She sat down on the table and shifted a chair aside her padding the seat. "Come now...this is all yours."