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 Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 8:01 am
Leviathan huffed and gave the shopping list a dirty look. Since when had he become Chore Boy? For as long as he could remember, it was always Saint and Rook that got sent out to get food. Oh sure, they didn't exactly always bring home to right stuff, and seemed to forgot things they didn't approve of, but Sable never really had a problem with it. It just meant they would actually eat what he cooked. But Juno? He made the boy work for his keep.
Leviathan was not impressed.
Picking up a basket, the lobster-boy began to wander around the market, trying to ignore the fact he felt like a total girl. Why couldn't Juno just send Ishizuke? She was a girl. And it's not like she couldn't carry an umbrella to walk to the market, god. She wasn't a cripple. Leviathan continued to mumble and grump to himself as he wandered the aisle, wasting time more than he was actually shopping.
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 8:19 am
Ophelia had a tendency to be effortlessly fashionable, even in paint-stained jeans and a plain white tee. Fish, on the other hand, could make any outfit look like a disaster area within minutes of putting it on, provided he was given any sort of food. So far today at the market, he had been offered a child-sized cookie, a sample juicebox, and a lollipop. Various examples of these currently stained his shirt.
It was really hard to keep track of your little brother, carry a basket, and manhandle pears at the same time. Ophelia had to keep yanking the little boy away from whatever precarious display had caught his eye, and she was damn tired of the wicked looks he was getting from passers-by. It wasn't like he was her kid or anything. But she didn't have any way of telling them that.
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 10:59 am
Fish also caught Leviathan's eye, but at least he didn't snarl. Leviathan really liked Ophelia. But why was she totting around a toddler? Curious, and much more interested in a friend than the cabbage he was supposed to be hunting, Leviathan made a beeline for the pear stand. Slipping in with grace he didn't usually possess outside of the water, Leviathan grabbed some of the runaway pears before they made it to the floor.
"Are these yours?" he asked, unable to help the grin spreading across his face. He put them in her basket before he addressed the small child Ophelia was attempting to keep close. "...is this yours too?" He had looked like Ophelia from far away. If he didn't know Phel was a cabbage child, he might assume this was her little brother or something.
....wait. "...are those scales?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:28 am
Ophelia wrangled Fish back to her side again and gave Levi a deadpan expression. Who did he think he was, being a smartass like that? The only thing that saved him was that he was her friend. "Hardy har har, Levi," she said.
"This is my brother, actually," she said.
"Hi," said Fish, waving a sticky hand at the nice tall boy. "'m Fish!"
"Phineas, actually," grimaced Ophelia. "Dad seems to have a thing for names no ordinary child can be expected to pronounce. So we call him Fish. Or he calls himself that. Should be kind of self explanatory."
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:44 am
"Pleasure to meet you, Fish. My name's Leviathan, but you can call me Levi," he replied, waving back to the small blond child. If Leviathan wasn't an obnoxious preteen male, he might even venture to consider the younger child cute, but this was entirely out of the question. For now, Leviathan would just admire how sea-worthy the kid looked.
"Eh, that's okay. My dad named me Leviathan," he shrugged at Phel, flashing her a grin. "I couldn't say that when I was younger. Nor did I want to." He had the attention span of a fly. And if the name didn't have such a significance to him, Lev would probably still resent the name, but as it were, he was now quite happy to be Leviathan Dagon-Hazard. "So what are you guys doing here? Other than setting the fruit free, I mean?" he asked, fishing around in his pockets for any leftover candy to make nice to Fish with.
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:00 pm
"Levi," nodded Fish. He decided it was a good name and that he liked it. He pointed to his sister, because they seemed to be introducing themselves, and declared, "'N she's Feely."
Ophelia groaned. "It's no small wonder I nicknamed myself Squishy as a child, if that's the best nickname he can come up with," she sighed, and investigated the pears Levi had put in her basket. They were satisfactory enough.
"We're just picking up some groceries. What are you up to?" she asked.
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:14 pm
Feely. Leviathan laughed out loud and shook his head. "At least he's creative?" he offered, though he understood it might not be so humorous to the person labeled as 'Feely'. Or maybe it was just a guy thing. "Oh, I got sent out to get groceries," the boy muttered unhappily, motioning the list sitting in his basket. So far, he hadn't been very successful, only picking up some cereal, some milk, and some chicken. Easy things. Things he liked. Okay, so he wasn't any better than his older brother at this stuff, but he couldn't blame Rook for avoiding things put on the list, anymore.
He wrinkled his nose and looked back down at Fish. "So can you swim, Fish? With a name like that, I bet you can!"
Leviathan Dagon-Hazard did not usually like younger children. Fish, however. Fish caught his attention.
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:20 pm
Fish nodded and smiles happily. "I can swim real good!" he declared, holding out a splayed, sticky hand. "Feely says it's 'cuz I gots webbed fingers!"
Ophelia laughed. "I took him down to the beach yesterday and started teaching him how to surf," she said.
"'N, 'n, 'n, I can breath underwater!" boasted Fish, still waving a sticky, webbed hand in Levi's face.
"Yeah, that too," nodded Ophelia.
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:36 pm
"Dude, that's ******** awesome!" Leviathan exclaimed, quickly becoming just as excited as Fish. "You can stay down as long as you like, man!" Leviathan could think of a handful of times he'd had rather stayed underneath the waves rather than surface and get pounded on while he fished around for his board.
"But, you know, if you want to learn how to surf really well, you should definitely be learning from me. I taught your sister," Leviathan explained, flashing Ophelia a toothy grin. She was so lucky. Her little brother was awesome!
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:38 pm
"Yeah," nodded Ophelia, for Fish's benefit as much as Levi's, "Levi's loads better than me."
She then pulled Levi aside.
"You just dropped an f-bomb around my little brother!" she hissed. "If he repeats that, Dad's gonna kill me!"
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:46 pm
Leviathan did not see the problem with this. "What are you talking about? My dad didn't really care." Which was actually totally untrue, Sable cared a lot, but there was very little he could do to keep Rook from swearing. So Rook kept swearing and and Leviathan learned it and was none the wiser. But he wouldn't say it again.
The teal-haired boy tipped his head and regarded Fish thoughtfully. "Just don't make a big deal about it and maybe he won't even remember."
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:10 pm
"Alright," sighed Ophelia, hoping that Fish would not decide the word needed repeating. She turned her attention back her brother.
"You should definitely come by sometime and surf with us," she said to Levi. "Right now Fish just kinda sits on my board while I paddle around and pretends to talk to dolphins."
"They really do talk t' me!" objected Fish. Ophelia laughed in a way that indicated she didn't believe him.
"So, you, me, and aqualad here?" she asked, smiling.
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 2:03 pm
Leviathan nodded. He was pretty sure little kids only made big deals out of things they heard older kids making a big deal out of. It was the cool factor. Fish wouldn't know if they didn't say anything, especially if he had cooler things to say later. Like surfing.
"Yep, sounds good to me." Leviathan nodded and glanced over at the young boy. "You know, if you want to surf, you got to pay attention to what you're doing, otherwise, you're going to fall off every time." It went without saying that falling off the board from the height of a crest hurt like none other.
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 2:12 pm
"Oh," said Fish, and nodded. He glanced over at his sister. "Feely falls off lots," he said.
"No I don't," objected Ophelia. "Not as much as I used to, anyway."
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 2:26 pm
Leviathan snickered. "It's okay, Ophelia. I'm just a natural, you see." It was true. The moment Lev was big enough to use a surf board, he had begged and pleaded until Sable gave in and took him to the surf shop. It took him hours, but the lobster-boy finally picked the board he liked. The board was worth hours of searching and trying to Levi, at least, because the boy then spent every day that summer at the beach.
Sable was never really pleased with the hobby; surfing was just asking to drown, in his personal opinion, but what was he going to do? Leviathan was not going to be deterred, and, much to Sable's dismay, the boy actually got good at what he did. It was all he did, and it was paying off. Leviathan still practiced daily, even though it was the middle of winter. Maybe he didn't spend all day out, but he did spend at least a few hours a morning down by the water.
Leviathan shook his head and regarded his friends. He didn't need to get lost down memory lane; Sable was gone now and there was no getting him back. He didn't need to be thinking about such sad things.
"You have to fall off a lot before you can get better. It's just one of those things, man."
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