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Pixie Krysta Ordreg Vice Captain
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 Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 8:46 pm
Tinania sat her phone down, a sigh forming across her lips as she looks at the fireplace. She knew this day would happen, she just didn't realize how much it would hurt. Glancing towards the children, she chews on her bottom lip as she looks at Nirendra. The young lady who became apart of the family the last few months she was here.
Nirendra picks up her dollie giving it a hug before she looks towards Tinania, tilting her head for a moment. She blinks before she finds her blinking again over an image she seen. Two people she didn't recognize, yet somehow she knew them.
Seiji moves down the hallway, rubbing at his eyes before he frowns. Under one arm he held a schoolbook as well as his homework. Pausing he looks between his mother and Nirendra "Mom...is everything okay?"
Tinania looks from Ren, then towards her son, giving him a small nod "Yea Seiji, it seems I have a trip to Barton today." she wasn't sure how she was going to break this to the family. It was going to be hard, and then saying goodbye was going to be even harder.
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:31 pm
Zhane, oblivious to the brewing storm in the next room, was still asleep. The nights, at times, seemed to be endless depending on how bad Nani's nesting impulse was tweaking. The other night, he had been woken at three in the morning as she had fretted that they had chosen the wrong colors entirely for the nursery.
Early that morning, he had been sent out for pomegranates, which were no longer in season at the local market, but thankfully had been in stock at the all-seasons market on the other side of Barton.
It had only been a two hour drive. Only.
No matter how bad YOU think you have it, just remember, she's going through worse right now his mother's words haunted him every time something like this happened. And so he'd taken it in good (if somewhat groggy) spirits.
That had not, however, stopped him from dropping the bag of fruit on her side of the bed and collapsing as soon as he'd gotten home, not even bothering to undress first.
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Pixie Krysta Ordreg Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:39 pm
Seiji arches a brow again, for some reason thinking is mother was hiding something from him. With a small nod, he moves towards the table to his book down "Should I go wake up Dad?" folding his wings behind him, he looks back towards Nirendra, who seem to gone quiet.
Something wasn't right, and even she knew it.
Nirendra stands slowly, moving towards Tinania as she held the doll close to her. Lifting a hand, she rest it on Tinania's belly for a moment. As she looks up at Tinania, her eyes held mixed emotions. Sadness and happiness all at the same time.
Tinania looks down at Ren for a moment, giving the young girl a reassuring smile "Yes Seiji, could you go wake up your father for me?" as she hears Seiji move back down the hallway, she carefully picks Ren up so she is sitting in front of her "You know you will be okay? You can come visit anytime you like?"
Nirendra nods, and she pats Tinania's belly again. So the vision she saw was right. She was finally going to meet her parents.
Moving down the hallway, Seiji pauses at his parents door. Knocking on it lightly, he pushes the door open slowly "Dad? Are you awake?"
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:51 pm
"Mmrnnh?" was the response as the ijouo was dragged from the dark recesses of sleep back to the present. As he cracked his eyes open, squinting them in the daylight, he listed onto his side to squint at the bedside clock. He couldn't have been out for more than an hour. It had felt like he'd JUST laid down and--
...well. Apparently time had marched on without him. If he was already sleepless now, trying to imagine what life with a baby would be like was cringe-worthy.
"Getting there." he said, stretching the kinks out of his back as he went about the process of sitting up. And then, finally, sleep-bleary eyes focused themselves on Seiji. "Things okay?" he inquired.
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Pixie Krysta Ordreg Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:00 pm
Seiji nods alittle, then looks towards the living room again "Mom said she has to head to Barton, she just got off the phone with someone." after a pause, he looks towards his dad "I think mom knows something, and it deals with Ren."
Tinania finally lets Nirendra slip down off the couch, running her fingers through the bright blue hair "Why don't you go get ready? Put something nice on, but still cool enough?" as the little girl giggle, she watches the child drop her doll then run down the hallway to her bedroom.
Leaning down, she picks the doll up looking at it for a moment. Shaking her head, she sets it on the couch next to her.
Watching Nirendra move into her room, Seiji frown grows even more before he looks back at his father. Now he really had a feeling something was going on.
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:09 pm
Zhane furrowed his brow as Seiji's troubled eyes met his own and his mind returned to the night prior, trying to think if anything had been out of place. Ren had seemed in good spirits, with no signs of being ill...
....and even now as she'd just run by, nothing had seemed amiss. Standing, and absently straightening the rumples out of his shirt, he crossed the room to lay a hand on Seiji's shoulder in passing.
"I'll talk to your mother." he assured the young dragon. About what he wasn't quite sure. With any luck, nothing at all. This would not, after all, be the first time Seiji had jumped to unfavorable conclusions about what had amounted to be nothing.
Venturing past him, into the hallway, Zhane paused a moment to look in the direction Ren had gone, and then continued on his way to the living room.
"Nani?" he asked.
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Pixie Krysta Ordreg Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:19 pm
Tinania glances up at Zhane, giving him a weak smile "Did you sleep well? I'm sorry I sent you after those pomegranates." her cravings seem to be getting stranger each day, and often she wondered what the baby would be craving next.
Seiji nods to Zhane, before he looks down the hallway. Turning towards Ren's bedroom, he knocks alittle on her door "Ren?" peeking in, he blinks as he see her picking out something to wear "What are you doing?"
Nirendra loos towards Seiji, she didn't smile "I'm picking something to wear. I'm going home.." looking away, she finds herself frowning now. It hadn't come to her mind until just now that she was leaving Lexi and Seiji.
Seiji just stood there, shocked beyond words. What did she mean she was going home? He thought this was her home? She been with them since he could remember.
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:27 pm
"Oh, pfft...." he said, with a dismissive gesture of his hand. "Not a big deal." Saying so, he summoned a slightly lopsided smile for her. "Is everything okay?" he asked, noting the tension in her features. "You look a little...."
Worried? Sad? Maybe a bit of both? He wasn't sure. And so he opted, instead, to leave the statement open-ended.
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Pixie Krysta Ordreg Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:32 pm
Tinania glances down at her lap at Zhane's question. Lifting a finger to her lip, she chews on the nail before looking back up at him "That was my Uncle...Ren's father. They are back..." she didn't say anything else, as she knew she wouldn't have to at this point.
After a moment, anger seems to etched into the young dragon's face "What do you mean your leaving? Ren this is your home, you can't go anywhere....you can't leave us..." Seiji seem to be fighting back tears as he turns and storms away from Ren's room, heading back down the hallway to the living room.
Pausing next to Zhane Seiji glares at both his parents "Ren can't leave, this his her home." looking directly at his mother as she lays eyes on him. He crosses his arms "I won't let you take her away from us."
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 11:31 pm
His expression was one of puzzlement for a moment, before the puzzle pieces clicked together to form a much clearer picture of what, exactly, was going on here.
"Oh..." he said quietly, blinking. He and Tinania, honestly, hadn't talked much about the possibility of Ren having to go home. Both had known it was an inevitability, but she'd so easily fit into their day-to-day lifestyle that it had become hard to think about. Or to even FATHOM for that matter...
At Seiji's entry and proclamation, he winced and then heaved a sigh. "Seiji, its....not really for us to say." he murmured, reaching up to rub at his temples. What a hell of a thing to wake up to...
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Pixie Krysta Ordreg Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 11:44 pm
Seiji anger only builds as he looks up at his father. Shaking his head, he actually stamps his foot "Yes we do, she been with us longer then her parents. She belongs here with us. I won't allow you to take her away fr-"
"That is enough Seiji!" Tinania voice shocked the poor boy, as he never been yelled at by his mother before. Her eyes held anger as she looks at Seiji "You will not tell us what to do. And you will act like a grown child, and not a baby." moving over to Zhane, she rest her hand lightly on his cheek "You have to understand Seiji, that this was bound to happen. We can't stop Ren from going home."
Seiji was so angry, that he didn't even bother to listen to it anymore. Turning, he runs down the hallway nearly knocking Ren over in the process as he pass her. Slapping his door shut, he plops down on his bed as he buries his face into his pillow.
Ren stood stunned for a moment, before she looks up at Zhane and Tinania "Is this my fault?" her wings drooped alittle as she at them. Somehow this whole leaving wasn't going as she expected.
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Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 12:06 am
Things had gone from 'sensible' to 'chaotic' in the blink of an eye as he flinched away from Nani's raised voice almost as badly as Seiji had before he'd torn out of the room down the hall again. Zhane stopped in mid-step as his first impulse told him to go and try and smooth the boy's ruffled feathers, given pause by Nirendra's question.
"No Ren. Its not you." he assured her, moving to kneel in front of her to be at eye level with her. "Never you, okay?" Reaching out to smooth a lock of hair from her face, he forced a smile he didn't really feel. "Seiji just...."
It was hard to explain it, really. "....I guess its just none of us really wanted to believe this day was coming, that's all..."
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Pixie Krysta Ordreg Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 12:12 am
Tinania sighs before she shakes her head "Not your fault at all Ren." looking away, she moves into the kitchen. She was shaking from all the mixed emotions running through her. Upset and anger were the ones fueling her at this point. Placing her hands on the back of one chair, she breaths slowly as she attempts to calm down.
Nirendra nods alittle before looking at Zhane, her eyes looking into his. Lifting a small hand, she lightly taps his cheek "You'll have your hands full real soon. I'll be okay, I will miss you though..." stepping close to Zhane, she wraps her small arms around him as she rest her head on his shoulder.
Seiji finally lifts his head up from the pillow, quickly wiping at the tears that spilled down his face. He was upset over everything, and just couldn't understand why his parents were allowing this to happen.
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:29 am
Zhane returned the hug. "Yeah....think I speak for the whole house when I say we'll miss you too." he muttered. He did not need to look at Nani to know what sort of shape she was in....by now they had existed in the same space long enough for her voice to tell him everything.
And right now it was telling him that her composure was being held together by a few frayed strings and a prayer. The books he'd read, and even the doctor herself, had said it wasn't good for her to get overly-riled this close to her pregnancy's term. But who was he (or ANYONE, for that matter) to tell her that she was not allowed to be upset over something like this?
He would have to applaud Morgana and Torvil's fantastic timing...
He shifted his hold on Ren to lift her into the crook of one arm, carrying her into the kitchen where Nani stood to bring her into the hug as well.
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Pixie Krysta Ordreg Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:25 pm
Hiding her face against Zhane's neck, Tinania quickly attempts to compose herself before allowing anyone to see her in tears. Lifting her head after a couple of moments, she smiles to Zhane then Ren. Although it was a weak smile, it was enough to make everyone see that she was going to hold herself together.
Nirendra smiles back at Tinania, before laying her head on Zhane's shoulder once again. With a light chuckle she claps her hands "Baby Baby Baby!!" Looking between the two, she gives them a huge grin.
After a bit, Seiji finally was able to pull himself back together. Climbing off his bed, he moves towards his door. He stood there listening to the giggles coming from Nirendra. That alone was hard to hear, just because he knew he wouldn't hear it everyday.
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