#bergen_county

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Jaymes is home again, and rapidly healed . But it's good to be back in the barn. Twobit nearly explodes from happiness! The man is back!

He is set up on the couch downstairs, with pillows and the remote and a tv tray of snacks and Dagmar's Thor quilt and Brown Dog and Two Bit nearby and....

Tove fusses over him and looks ready to break his knees if he tries to go to work all at the same time.

"Mmph" (Carowyn might need help)

"grrr" (Carowyn is fine) Tove grunts back

Dagmar? Is outside, with Flyswatter.

And a dog she does not at first recognize curls up on the porch

Then she realizes, it's an English Springer Spaniel

"Hey Tiff."

wink and a wag. Appears she's on assignment to be extra security

Tove peeks out "Sam? Your dad and I were.. oh honey, you do't have to be out here"

"I'm guarding."

Tiffany wags and moves closer to sam, then sits attention as if to say THEY are guarding, and it's good

Tove sighs "Need a blanket?"

"I'm okay. Not too cold."

WUFF Tiffany declares

"Fine, ONE Blanket"

"Wiff" She adds

"And a smaller blannket in case" Tove adds eyeballing Tiff, she kisses her daughter on the forehead "Be right back"

"I didn't know you spoke Spaniel."

"Un poco pooka" She answers then heads up.

Of course, one COULD wonder if Dagmar's mother decided to use the wiff sound to get a small blanket for her daughter anyway, but surely a mother would never be so duplictious

Never!

And soon, a blanket is on the porch for a pooka in pooch form, and another about Dagmar's shoulders, smaller and lighter as agreed

Siiiigh

And if a fellow guard leans now and then in warm reassuring canine fashion to ease worries? Well, while she's no connor, Tiffany knows her sttuff

A quiet night, but the patrol eases her nerves.

(Fade to Paw-Trol)