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 Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:04 pm
Tovar usually would have gotten someone else to babysit but -- well, Michael wasn't really trust worthy. He'd probably temporarily put Etain into a bottle or something rather than deal with the unicorn. Usually he would have blackmailed his cousin, Pukio, into watching Etain but she was off having some sort of adventure that seemed all too common around these parts. So, he'd been forced to look elsewhere. Unfortunately, it wasn't as if he could just take Etain along with him on this sort of thing. The 'sort' of thing being, of course, something he'd really rather not disclose to anyone but Michael (who'd snickered and sputtered about it for nearly an hour after Tovar had confessed what he was doing).
So that left only one option: find someone relatively suitable elsewhere. So he'd resulted to digging around D-Corp. In the end, Tovar had sighed, picked a random name and decided 'What the hell?' They all had similar children, right? How irresponsible could any of them be?
So that's how Etain and Tovar currently found themselves sitting on the wood bench infront of Michael's house, waiting to see whoever it was that Tovar had arranged things with. Tovar had given her what he hoped were adequate directions, and he'd even assured that Michael wouldn't be bothersome so long as they stayed mostly outdoors and on the bottom floor of the house (though, the house was sort of dangerous with the level of clutter. It'd probably be better to just...stay outside...). Etain swung his legs back and forth where he sat on the bench, chewing on his fingernails. Tovar watched him numbly, finding no real excuse to scold the unicorn for the habit. He did it too.
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:28 pm
Soon enough a car was coming down the road, slowly to fit the speed limit... then suddenlly the car gave a strong jerk, a screech, and then swirved back into it's correct lane.
Inside the car Bree had happilly declayred they were here... In that instant the leviathan in the back seat decided to pop up front for a better view. The rest is self explanitory.
The car slowed, pulling into whatever nessicary parking space and stopping. Next thing anyone knew, an angry wolf-woman was bursting out of the car shouting at the little dragon that had almost made her crash. In return the dragon was following her out, hissing in it's defence.
Next, out of the passenger's side was the preteen shark boy, shouting back at the woman in his dragons defence.
"I don't care if he was curious, he needs to stay in the back seat and not in my view of driving! We could have crashed!"
"We were only going like.. five miles an hour!"
Bree opened her mouth, then abruptly stopped, peering back at the toddler she was supposed to be babysitting. She gave them an awkward smile, before turning back to her own boy. "You keep that thing under control while we're here..." she hissed, keeping her voice as low as possible while trying to sounc menacing. "I need this money for everything you two keep breaking."
She spun around, smiling brightly as she hurried over to the two on the porch "Sorry about that, I'm not late am I?" she smiled brightly.
Simon trudged up behind her, pouting a bit at the fact he'd gotten in trouble. He gave his leviathan a 'way to go' look, before glaring at the ground.
The leviathin slid after him, awkwardly flopping across the dirt. It's fins weren't exactly doing their job out here. He pouted as well. Afterall,he'd just wanted to see where they were.
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:37 pm
Tovar stared with a sort of abject horror that made it's way openly across his features. This was who he'd hired to watch Etain? Uneasily, he shot the unicorn a sidelong glance. The little blonde boy seemed perfectly unphased by his babysitter's potentially unbalanced psychosis, continuing to swing his bare feet lightly back and forth. In fact, he seemed rather interested: if not in the humanoids, at least at the dragon floundering across the ground like some sort of oversized snake, unused to walking on the sort of terrain it was now presented with.
Carefully, Tovar pushed himself up off the bench, offering his hand out to the woman for shaking and all that. "Er. No. You're on time. Etain?" Absently, he glanced back down to the young boy.
The young boy turned his shining little face up to his babysitter, still smiling faintly -- well, up until all the color drained out of his face, effectively shutting up like a fan in the woman's presence. Etain's features went decidedly blank as he stared at the woman.
Tovar grimaced, glancing back to Bree. "Sorry about that. He's, er, shy. Anyway, I shouldn't be gone long. Just have to -- well, the downstairs of the house is free for you to use. Etain knows where everything is, so don't let him tell you he doesn't. If you have a whole lot of trouble, my maste--uh--teacher is upstairs and he should be able to answer any questions you might possibly have."
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:14 pm
Bree smiled, taking the man's hand in a firm shake. "Sorry about that... Lev decided to jump into my lap, which.. made me swerve.. And well." She smiled awkwardly, hopeing that would explain for all that... She gave an awkward smile to the boy, who apaprently wasn't taking to her for whatever reason. She listened to the instructions, giving a slight nod. "Thankyou.
She was a good person, really. It was just simon and his dragon took everything out of her. She had a nicer daughter who....
Nicer daughter....
The woman choked a bit, looking back to the only two who had moved out of the car. "One second..." she hurried back to the car, opening the door to lean in side and dig out the toddler. Kizu, a little succubus girl automatically latched onto the woman. Looking timidly to the new area as she was carried out of the back seat of the car.
Bree let out a sigh of releif... Atleast simon had actually put her in the car this time. "Anyways. I'm Bree, this is Simon-"
"Jekel. Call me jekel." he cut her off with a tiny huff.
She sighed, "Simon, lev is the dragon.. and this is Kizu."
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:23 pm
Tovar nodded briefly, shaking his head slightly. "It's perfectly fine. Understandable even," he assured her quickly in concern to the dramatic car swerving. At least he could bes ure she wasn't a rampaging lunatic. Well. Mostly sure. Besides, Michael would be there. The man wouldn't let anything too horrendous go on in his front yard. --Well, unless he thought it entertaining, but Tovar would rather not consider that possibility.
He offered the family, dragon and toddler included, a quick smile, nodding quickly. He nodded alot. Habit, probably. "Lovely, lovely," he chattered, edging uneasily this way and that. "In any case, I really should be going. I apologize for not taking time to show you around but -- well, it's fairly obxious. For the most part. Just watch that no one gets lost in the house. It tends to open and close doors. Nasty sense of humor. Ah, yes. Well." Tovar glanced expectantly down at Etain. "I suppose I'll be going."
Etain looked up at him, an expression of utter fear streaking across his features. The unicorn whined absently, lifting his hands up toward Tovar. "Tovar...I don't--"
"Nonsense, you'll be fine." The young man gave him a somewhat uneasy pat on the head, and Etain fell silent again, watching Bree warily as if the woman was some sort of horrendous monster that might gobble him up at any given moment.
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:53 pm
Quote: (( Quick piccu reference. Bree-[x], [x]
Kizu-[x]
Simon and Lev [x]))
She set the little toddler down, kneeling down to Etain's eye level. "Hey, don't be scared." She tried to reassure "I have some toys in the trunk of the car... some crafts, and story books... What do you like?"
Kizu shyed behind the woman, looking out curiously at the boy her mother was talking to.
Jekel slowly snuck up behind the little girl, giving her a swift boot along witha "Boo!"
The little girl gave a startled cry, leaping out from behind her mother, and burrowing herself int he womans arms to stare, hurt, at her older brother.
Bree, tried to stay calm so as not to startled her new responcibility any further... "Simon... Leave your sister alone." The calm barely stayed as she tried not to shout at the boy for the billionth time not to torture his sibling.
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 8:03 pm
Tovar nodded hastily, and then floundered off -- strangely, back into the house. Wizards. Weirdos, the lot of them. Etain watched him go with a mournful expression on his face, discomfort more than a little evident as Tovar dissapeared. Slowly, he craned his gaze back around to eye Bree. She hurt his eyes, made his skin itch like ants were on him. For whatever reason, she was confusing to him. Some part of him was telling him that he should be seeing more than just her. At least two other people should be there, maybe more, but they...weren't. It hurt his head. Made him cross-eyed. Made him want to go find Tovar and squeak and whine.
Etain began chewing on his lower lip. Apparently he had no intention of talking to thise itchy-skin-inducing, eye-hurting woman. Instead, in an attempt to tell himself she wasn't there, the little unicorn diverted his attention to the older boy: watching with a desperate sort of interest as he scared his sister.
"What'ssat?" he asked, the question very pointedly directed to Simon -- or Jekel, whatever his name was. That confused Etain, too, but not as much as the not-enough-people that he saw when he looked at Bree. At least this one wasn't itchy. Etain pointed in the direction of the dragon, finger wiggling up and down as he watched the creature.
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 8:30 pm
Bree blinked, cradling the poor startled girl as Etain's attention diverted from her to the older boy. She shrugged it off... As long as he stopped looking like he was going to scream and run away from her. "Well, Kizu, what do you think we should do?"
Kizu perked up a bit, still a bit startled.. but she got to chose the activity! "Read!" she bounced a bit.
Bree smiled and nodded, turning to head back to the car and dig out her collection of fairie tails.
Jekel blinked, grinning "This is lev. He's a leviathan." He patted the dragon on the head.
Lev blinked, givving a happy hiss and a wiggle. It flopped foreward to sniff at the new boy, looking curious nad completely harmless.
Other than the rows of sharp teeth.... But who cared about that?
Jekel shook his head at the flopping. "He's... alot cooler in the water."
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:19 pm
Etain edged farther away from the two females, closer to the older boy and the dragon. He was chewing on his thumb's fingernail, eyeing the 'leviathan' curiously. The dragon's breath was cold on his forehead as it came near. Etain wiggled his nose. Maybe it smelled of salt water of something like that. Strange... -- it definitely seemed faintly...
Well, out of it's element for one.
The unicorn smiled absently at the dragon, reaching out tentatively in some attempt to pet it. "C'n I?" he squeaked curiously, blinking in Jekel's direction with wide brown eyes. Self consciously, Etain glanced back to Bree and the little girl. His skin crawled momentarily, and he quickly shifted his attention back to Lev and Jekel. Ignore it, ignore it.
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Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:43 pm
Bree shuffled through the books, perking as she landed on one. "Unicorns!" She practically shouted the word. Etain was a unicorn, so a book on unicorns would undoubtibly give her something to share with the boy.
In a way she didn't mind that he didn't want her attention. On the other hand, she didn't want Simon to influence the boy... Just what she'd need. Getting blamed for another hellspawn crawling acros sthe face of the earth.
Jekel nodded giving a wave of his hand. The boy was wierd.. Most kids did lean towards his mom when she was being nice. Ah well, another person who hated that controlling evil woman... he was all for it! "Yea go ahead. The lil wuss loves being petted." He gave a playful kick-nudge to the leviathan.
Lev huffed at his tamer, giving a tiny hiss and puffing his chest as if to say "i am not a wuss!" However, he dropped it for the moment in hopes of a good petting as he leaned towards the other boy.
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Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 8:12 pm
Etain crooned in a pleasant fashion at the dragon, giggling slightly at it's apparent offense at being called a 'wuss.' "I like pettin' too," the unicorn chirped happily as his little fingers reached for Lev's nose, stroking across the silky smooth green texture of the dragon's skin.
Beyond the whole 'Eek, I'm not talking to your momma' thing, it seemed the little boy was remarkably outgoing or simply generally friendly. Not every little kid, mythical animal DNA or no, would probably totter straight up to a dragon and ask to pet it.
"He yer frien'?' Etain asked, long ears flicking slightly in Jekel's direction, brown eyes turning to peer at the older boy even as his fingers continued to scritch lightly across the dragon's nose.
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Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 1:53 am
Simon blinked, raising a brow at the question... Friend? he never really thought about it like that. He blinked as the leviathan looked back almost expectantly at him... As if hopin git would be a yes.
He eyed the dragon a moment, before grinning "Ofcourse! He's onea my best."
The leviathan gave a happy noise, leaning back into his petting, tail giving a tiny wag.
Bree finally returned, book in hand and toddler trailing behind her. "I found a book about unicorns." she grinned, hoping to peak the boys intrest.
Simon rolled his eyes "Thsoe are babybooks"
Bree gave him a "shut up" glare, then continued. Flipping open the book to start reading. "Once apon a time there was a lonly princess, she sat in a tall tall tower... So tall, that it was hard for people to even come and see her. Because back in those days, no one had an elevator."
there was a tiny crinkle of paper as she flipped the page
"The princess got tired of being alone, and decided she'd leave the whole castle and go outside, where no one would ever have to climb any stairs to see her. She travled for nearly a day down the stairs, and then finally she made it outside!"
"It was so wonderful, she met all sorts of animals, rabbits and squirrles. And soon she had followed them into the forbidden forest..."
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Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:00 am
Etain seemed rather pleased with the answer himself, smiling cheerfully at both Jekel and the dragon -- an expression that faded remarkably quickly as Bree and the toddler came close. Etain made a low whine of a noise, features screwing up into a marvelously sickened expression. Unconsciously, the bow edged farther from Bree and closer to the older boy and Lev.
Augh, she made him itchy, his skin crawl like little bugs. He wanted to get away, scratch against something like how elephants rubbed on trees. It was uncomfortable. -- But Tovar said it was bad to run away from people. So instead Etain stayed as close to Jekel and the leviathan as possible, shifting uneasily from one foot to the other, chewing uncomfortably on his lower lip.
Apparently the draw of unicorn stories wasn't really enough to captivate the child. Well, not to get him off the subject of who was reading it, anyway.
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Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:40 am
Bree read on, hopeing as the story progressed it might.. draw him in a bit more.
"Soon, she was lost amongst the tangled twisted forest.. Dark branches everywhere. And soon the shadows started creeping in on her."
Kizu leaned foreward, eagerly listning to the story quite opposed to the other toddler.
Simon, was mostly ignoring the story, there wasn't near enough action. He woul dhave walked off by now if the unicorn boy hadn't been so desperatly clinging behind him.
"Then.. A beautiful light came from the darkness, just before she thought she was doomed! I white horse, with a horn atop it's head... It can't be! she thought, as the Unicorn approached But unicorns never come to people, why me? The unicorn smiled simply, leaning it's beautiful head down to help the princess to her feet."
The page turned. "It's simple, he replied, because you are pure. Untouched by any man..." Bree trailed off there, voice losing it's previous perk falling into a dull monotone, then into a mutter and finally stopping. She'd heard stories aobut unicorns. Like.. one or two, it completely slipped her mind.
She peered up from the book, mouth slightly agape as she stared at the little boy. He was so uncomfortable... So then...
Oh god he knew.
The fairly tan woman went pale. A small toddler knew.... every..."Aa..."
Simon raised an eyebrow. Holy crap something just made her shut up, but hell if he could figure out what it was... And what was with that story? "What did they mean untouched by a man?" he blinked "Was it because no one could come see her?"
Bree gapped a bit "Yes. She'd.. never been hugged. How sad, right?" The words were rushed. She paused, suddenlly dropping the book. "I.. Have to go to the bathroom." She eyed the child nerviously, darting off into the house.
Simon raised a brow, watchign the woman bolt as if ... well he wasn't sure what would have scared her that way. "She's insane..."
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Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:56 am
((Haha. ; ; 'Never been hugged.'))
Etain stared back at her as Bree's words trailed off. He thought for a half second that perhaps she was considering eating him. Who knews what creepy crawly people like that did to little children?! Michael certainly looked like he could have whenever he wanted. Bree seemed nicer than him, generally speaking, but...--ugh. She felt weird.
It was with a heavy sigh of relief that Etain watched her scramble into the house. Slowly, the little toddler moved a few inches away from Jekel before flopping down to the grass and scratching his bared forearms and tummy. They didn't really itch anymore, but there was something remotely comforting about grating his stubby little fingernails over his skin.
Inside the house was absolute chaos. From the start, books were piled halfway to the low ceiling, lining the hallway like some dangerous centurions waiting to come crashing down on whoever passed. Knick-knacks were scattered here and there, and a little table against the wall was overflowing with papers and who-knew-what-else.
Organization apparently wasn't a reigning quality in the little house.
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