#almost 6k words of jason & mara bonding folks

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Damian finally came back out of the bedroom and announced, “Athanasia. It is time to continue your training.” 

“I don’t want to,” Attie said flippantly, as she took her sweet-ass time looking over her cards and choosing another to put down in the pile. 

“You do not have a choice,” Damian said, as he stalked over to where all of them were sitting.

“Yes she does,” Jason cut in, before anyone could say anything else, “She has to agree to play with you, Damian.” 

“It’s not playing,” Damian nearly screeched. But yes it was. 

They were definitely just playing. In their own weird baby-assassin ways. 

“I want to play Uno right now,” Attie said, not even looking up from her game, “Want to play too?” 

“Uno is for children,” Damian scoffed. 

Jason rolled his eyes and said, “No it’s not. Uno is a classic game that adults play at parties all the time.” 

“I like it,” Mara admitted quietly, and she sounded downright anxious again. 

Damian scoffed loudly and said, “I expected more from you, cousin,” before he spun on his heels and stormed off to the bedroom. Jason heard the bedroom door shut, but at least he didn’t slam it. 

“He’ll come around,” Jason said, hoping Mara didn’t take it to heart, too much. One day, they were going to get Damian to play something with them. 

Maybe Jason should introduce them to the game of Pictionary. 

“Mama played games with him,” Attie said, as she legit dropped her arms so her cards were fully visible. “She played cards with him whenever she got to be with him without Grandfather.”