Kat giggled.  "I know!  He eats all kinds of gross stuff."  Kat juggled her plate to take Julia's hand and then set it on the end table and slid out of the chair to get a slice for Julia.  Carefully she carried the plate to the young woman and handed it her.  "What kinda stuff did you hear about me," she asked curiously.  She was always interested in what grownups said about
her, though she teetered on the edge of dread too, afraid they might have told embarrassing stories.  The little girl then climbed back up in her chair and leveledher gaze on Julia.
 
 
Julia, not much one for chairs to begin with and giving Nick a quick teasing smile, sat down on the floor in front of Kat and took a big bite out of pizza before chewing and then chuckling at what she had said about Nick.  What Julia had heard was bits and pieces from people since she arrived... and somewhere else she couldn't place but didn't really dwell on.
 
"Well..." she then leaned forward comradely "that you make a lot of people here happy and are very special.  And you can actually stand the smell of Nick's Marine omelet without having to leave the kitchen."
 
Okay the last part was to get Kat to giggle and even get Nick to loosen up.  She even went a step further and nodded up at Nick as if to tease him into doing it "You think he's ... " she mock gasped, eyes widening "You think he doesn't like pizza?  He hasn't even touched it!"
 
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