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A squeak! Then she calls from hiding, “yes ma’am! Just excited! New babies!”

Jonas takes 'fake' Pipers hand

Sylvi moves to the door, all smiles. "I'm reallllly sorry. It won't happen again."

The nurse peeks in briefly past Sylvi, and then nods, placates. “Alright.” Amused. “We’ll be by later to check your vitals and you can order dinner then.”

She bustles off.

Jonas looks relieved "Well, so far, so good?"

"Ooof. Yeah."

“Is it safe to go see the babies? Rikki, can you hold down the fort?”

"We'll make it safe, one way or another. Is this your robe?"

Rikki nods "Sure sure I can hold it for hours"

Piper laughs! “I THOUGHT IT felt kinda breezy…” realizing she’s in her open backed gown

A grin. "No worries. Here..." she helps her on with the robe. "Jonas, you know where the babies are...I can stay here with 'fake Piper.'"

“He’s seen it…” she says dryly

She says with a grin as she shrugs into the robe.

Tiptoes to give Sylvi a kiss on the cheek! “I owe you one. Riki… we’ll talk later, Kay?@

Jonas nods "Thank vyou, Sylvi. And.." A grumble "Rikki"

Rikki still has the head clutch pose "Who me? Gwan, get out out of here"

"Hey, what's wrong?" Sylvi says, noticing Rikki's posture.

Rikki waits until Jonas and Piper are out of the room, then answers Sylvi "Zen and the art of effigy maintainance"

Jonas and Piper head down the halls, sneaking towards the NICU

Meanwhile... Rikki tells Sylvi "I scared the shit out of my best friend... great joke, huh?" Guilty eyes

"Hey, accidents happen. I know you didn't mean it." A worried look. "It takes that much effort to maintain an effigy?"

"This one is a bust, with soupy clay." She says "I wanted Zip, I got zap, So now I'm holding together this junker with screws and gum"

"Um...anything I can do to help?"

"Well, you can either kill any nurses that come in, or talk to them. Either way, your move"

She keeps her eyes on the effigy

"Running interference is my specialty." She pulls a chair over for Rikki to sit in near the bed.

Under Rikki’s vigilance, the fake Piper rests in a believable fashion.

Rikki does "I kind of want to tweak her nose. "

"It might come off."

"Heard of Running noses, didn't think I'd meet one"

"Heh." She keeps an eye on the door.