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 Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:48 pm
Meeting
Orpheus looked around the room, neatening it up in his own way or doing so which mean rearranging the piles of stuff so that they would stand up better. He even put stacks of paper on either side of them to keep them from falling over. He blinked a couple times as he caught sight of an envelope that was sitting on the floor, half tucked under the desk. He knelt down to pick it up, shook it then opened it up. It was from one of the labtechs? He read it over, then reread it. It didn't make a whole lot of sense just that the guy was wanting to see him. Maybe it was something about Ligeia? The owl boy was, for the moment, out at that party at Raja's house so now would be the best time as any to go and meet this guy. He wondered how old the note was? No date but it wasn't in that bad of condition. No doubt he had tossed it on the pile in the last couple days and it was what had caused it to go tipping over.
Now would be the best time to go, he could pretend to clean later.
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Orpheus was greeted, well not so much greeted as told that he was quite late and that as a tech he had a lot better things to do with his time then babysit and wait for wayward people to come when they were called. Orpheus rolled his eyes having no idea what he was going on about so he just followed him and attempted to listen to what he was going on about. He caught every little, were people supposed to talk that fast? Did they think that people actually understood them? He caught a word here and there 'experiment', 'child', and then something about a 'cobra'. Wait... back that one up a second. He seemed to be piecing things together now. Before he could say a word though he was looking down at what looked like a cross between an aquarium and a playpen and inside was a little child.
The little one was swaying back and forth, in his arms a bear that seemed to have been gnaw upon a couple of times at least, "What in the..." Ok he knew they dealt with poisonous creatures, knew there were even poisonous children since he'd had Nero in one of his classes but scorpions weren't as bad as, "A Cobra? You idiots actually made a cobra child? Do you know how dangerous these snakes are?" He asked then seemed to forget his rant and found himself watching as the guy carefully picked the kid up as if he were afraid it was going to bite him and all but tossed him to Orpheus. The redhead had a moment where he froze solid looking at the kid then drew him closer, snuggling him, "Poor thing. Did he just give you a toss?"
Yellow eyes gaze up at him and there was a reply that was an excited hiss. One arm wrapped around his neck while the other held the singing bear, a moment later he was wrapped around Orpheus's arm, snuggling closer to the man that was holding him as if attempting to steal his warm.
The labtech made a sort of... dismissing motion after that saying he had work to get back too.
Then it all became abundantly clear, he was getting a poisonous snake child pawned off on him, no doubt due to the class he taught the guy figured he would be the best man for the job, he was about to protest when the kid nuzzled against him and gave a yawn. Then he seemed to melt. Ok, ok. What was one more kid when he had one already? Besides he wasn't about to leave him with a guy that would toss him. Stupid labtechs sometimes. Mental note push him in front of a hungry black dragon he thought to himself, "I guess that means your gonna need yourself a name won't you?" He asked of the cobra child, "Mmm. I think I have the perfect one for you even. Terpsichore. Hows that sound? Its the muse of dance and you seemed to be dancing before."
The child gave a hissu response which he figured would be the best one that he would get and he headed out of the labs and back for home. He'd thought that now that Ligeia was older that he was free of the whole baby thing. And now here he was again. Fun. Not that he could blame the kid, he was sure he would latch onto the first nice person that came by as well, "So... I wonder if you are gonna need a heat lamp. And if so where am I gonna get you one?" He was gonna have to take to sleeping on the couch so that the cobra would be able to have his own room when he was older too huh? That or maybe he could find a new place to stay. He would have to think on all of this. It was out of no where but not something he wasn't gonna take in stride.
"Are you hungry? Shoudl we stop and get you something to eat on the way back?" What in the world would be want? Hopefully not something alive that was for sure.
Terpsichore lifted his hand to touch touch on Orpheus's face, then his clothing, then his hair... then tangled a hand in his hair. The child gave an excited hissing sound and started to yank on it. It interested him as he lacked any hair of his own.
"You don't seem all that talkative." He said to the snake boy who starred up at him as if he didn't quite understand the point in talking then yanked more on the hair. What a nice color! "Ow... having fun?" He asked of the little reptile as his hair was abused, he wasn't gonna stop him though. He wondered at the sort of 'fun' the child was even allowed to have, "You know Ligeia is going in for shots soon. Maybe I should ask the lady to look you over while she's at it. And prescribe us some anti-venom. I would rather you not go around biting people but having it just in case would be a nice thing."
More hissing from Ter but nothing really that would amount to more then him reacting to Orpheus's voice. A nice, kind voice of whoever this person was that was carrying him.
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Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:25 am
And There Was Pie
Soon enough they were turning to look around in the cafeteria. He gave a hmmm sound then looked at the boy, "See anything you want?" He asked as he walked through passed the food. Ter's yellow eyes seemed to light up and he gave a great hiss of excitement as he pointed at something, "Huh? Oh. That? Really?" He gave a shrug and got it over him, fetched a spoon and went to sit down with the boy coiled up in his lap.
Terpsichore looked down at the cherry pie in front of himself and started to stab into it with the spoon, scooping up some to eat but seemed to get more on himself then in himself. Orpheus wondered if it was the predator in the boy that wanted to eat the red colored pie or if maybe it was something he actually liked. Seeing that he was actually eating it and not just stabbing at it he figured there must be something about it the child liked aside from its coloration, "Good?"
Ter looked up at him and lifted then spoon to poke Orpheus with it the red head gave it a worried look not sure if he could get poisoned via sharing a spoon of pie with him, "Its ok, you eat up I will get something else later once your full up."
It was all the boy needed before he was back to stabbing at his treat, he offered to share and if Red didn't take him up on the offer then the pie was his!
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 2:53 pm
"I wonder how Ligeia is going to react to you." He said to the snake child who was slithering about the livingroom his hands touching on everything, picking up some things, flicking his tongue out over others, what a weird place. Ter had decided a while back, since coming here that it was weird, a little colder then he would like but it was also lacking the confinment and the creepy ghost like people in white. He gave a hissing sound as he found something interesting to look at it. It was... he reached out to run his hand down along it. It was a stack of papers?
He looked over at Orpheus a moment as if to question him as to why he stacked them like this. Seeing Red had his head turned away looking to the clocked he uncoiled a bit so that he could push himself up taller to looking the stack over. It was almost bigger then he was wide and much taller then the tallest he could stretch and still stand up. Interesting.
Especially when one noticed that it was all stacked up and held up by a single notebook that was rest against the side of the papers. It seemed to be supporting the weight just right to keep the paper tower in the air. Terpsichore chewed on is lip a moment before reaching out to the notebook... and yanked it away from the stack of papers...
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 4:43 pm
~Reserved for Ter getting babysat by Laial and his friends~
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 4:44 pm
First Meeting
Ligeia was standing there wide eyed and frozen in place, "A what now?" He was able to studder out but nothing really passed that. He had a what? He found himself leaning against Vorel for support as he looked over at his father and at the child that was with him, a snake child even... a brother he had been told. Why did he have brother? His father had never mentioned anything about a brother so why... why was there another child here?
"You have a brother. I know that its sudden but it was kinda suddne for me too. I hope that the two of you can get along he could really use all the attention he can get. He didn't seem to get any where he came from." He was saying but Ligeia semed to be having a hard time listening. Instead he turned his onyx eyes on the snake who was starring back at him in a bored sort of way.
Ligeia fluffed up, his wings opening some and he shook his head, "I don't... I don't want a brother." He murmured, looking ready to cry. Having a brother and a younger one at that meant that his father would pay more attention to the snake child then to him, his father was the one that he was closest too he didn't want to share him with anyone! This just wasn't fair!
Orphues looked a little suprised and then shook his head, "I am sorry Ligeia but you have a brother. He needs us, he needs a family and someone to help take care of him." He said as he set Ter down. The child slithered a little closer to Ligeia, flared up, and gave a hiss at him. A none to kind sound and it caused Ligeia to scree at him, wings opening up wide and it seemed the two were having a nice glarring contest. Neither of them wanting to give in to the other or show any sort of desire to back down. Then the cobra gave a hiss again and lunged forward hands outstretched and grabbed hold of some of the owl's feathers and gave a yank.
The owl let out a scree of anger as some feathers came free then lifted a fluffy foot to put it against Ter's chest and gave him a shove. He turned his gaze on his father a moment then shook his head, "I don't want a brother!" He said then fled to his room. He slammed the door once he and Vorel were inside.
Ter coiled up on the floor and seemed to laugh some as he waved around the feathers that he'd gotten for himself acting almost as if he could fly or something. Orpheus lifted a hand to rub at his temples, "Ergh... Well that went well..." He muttered to himself then moved over to pick up Ter, "Come on then. Time to go applogize."
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 4:45 pm
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 4:45 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:27 pm
Homework Time
Orpheus looked over at his two boys, watching as they seemed to be avoiding each other best that they could. Ligeia was sitting up on the couch with Vorel, he was reading while the dragon slept with his head on Ligeia's lap. They were the calm two of the family despite Vorel being a baby. That or maybe it was because he was a baby? Still young and in need of long naps and Ligeia was more then willing to curl up with him when he was sleepy. And then there was Ter. He would at the moment be getting into things if the tv wasn't on and playing his favorite DVD on repeat. He had no clue why the show held him in such fasination but when he had classes to write up he wasn't about to complain over it.
The red head paused a moment as he looked through the papers and looked it over, whistling to himself when he found some papers from one of the other teachers for Ter, "Ahhh. These things again." He murmured, the 'ABCs' that were to be colored in as homework. He gave a glance over at Ter before he picked up the remote and turned off the TV. Terpsichore blinked a couple times before he flarred up, hissed, and started to hit the TV screen as if that would make it start to work agian.
"Ligeia?" Orpheus called to his child.
The owl lifted his gaze from his book, "Hrm?" He tilted his head to the side, "What is it?"
"Can I get you to help Ter with his homework?" He asked holding the papers up.
The owl looked at them, at the owl, then back again giving a flutter of his wings. He really didn't want to try to get Ter to do his work, he somehow doubted that it would be something that was easy for anyone to do. He gave a nod though not one to tell his father no. He slipped out from under Vorel who rolled onto his side without even waking as his partner moved away from him, "Ummm..." He walked over to take the papers from his father then looked down at them before going to fetch the crayons from the shelf, "Come on then Ter. We need to do these papers."
Ter gave him a look, as if to tell his older brother that he had better things to be doing then doing... whatever the paper things were.
Ligeia sat down and laid them down, "Sit... ahh... or whatever it is that snakes do."
Ter slithered over, coiled up, then glarred, "Hiiiiiissu."
Ligeia gave a low scree then held out the box of crayons, "You pick a color... and well color. Its easy."
Ter looked into the box, grabbed out one and looked down at the picture, glarring before he looked over at Orpheus, "Red!" He said loudly, and his father lifted his head.
"What is it Ter?"
The snake child pointed at the TV.
Orpheus gave a laugh, "Do your homework then I will turn it on for you ok? Work then play, thats how it goes Ter."
The cobra gave him a look then looked back at the papers before he set to work. He colored in swirls, broad strokes, and stabs of colors. It seemed at first as if he were just wanting to get it all done so that he could go back to his show but midway through the pages he started to get into it, putting more time into each picture. He waved off help from Ligeia who crawled back up on the couch watching him closely, "Your doing good Terpsichore." Ligeia praised the snaked child even though it didn't seem as though he were really much into caring what his older brother thought of his work.
Ter did lift his gaze to Ligeia, hissed in a non threatening sort of way almost as if he were thanking him then went back to what he was doing.
It was a slow going process as it seemed that Ter went back to a couple pages a couple times as if he were wanting to chance things. He spent the most time on the 'O' and the coloring of the creature seemed to be something he was putting a lot of thought into, as if he wanted it to look like someone.
When he was done with the papers he stacked them, slithered over to his father, and gave a hiss.
"Hmm? Ahh. Done?" He flipped through them seeming impressed that the cobra had gotten them done and they didn't look to bad either, "Good job Ter."
Ter gave a hissu and pointed to the TV again. Soon enough it was back on and the DVD was playing again with Ter stuck once more to the screen.
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Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:06 pm
Orpheus Entry 1 I am looking out over the livingroom as I write this and at my two sons. One couldn't have imagined two such different children as these two. Ligeia is curled up on the couch with one of his many books and seems to be reading it with one eye and watching Ter with the other. It doesn't seem though as if the cobra is going to be going anywhere anytime soon though as he seems to caught up in his show. I have no idea what he sees in that show but if its going to keep him so well behaved and keep him from getting into things he can watch it all day so long as he gets his work done. They don't see eye to eye on anything really, in fact I'm sure if Ligeia said that the sky was blue Terpsichore would argue the point and tell him that it wasn't. Well... that is if he spoke. Aside from the word 'Red' that may or may not be an insult towards me, he doesnt' speak. He just hisses, flares up, and flails to get his points across. I wonder if maybe there is something wrong with him? Or maybe is how he spent the first part of his life? I'm not to sure but maybe he will learn from the shows he watches? Even if its just GI Joe phrases I would be happy then I would at least know hes ok. Ter is going to be put in some classes soon, my attempts at getting him to socialize. He has interest in other students but its only when they are in his line of sight. I think he suffers from that 'out of sight out of mind' thing, if he doenst see it then its not that important to him at the time. He's young though so maybe he will get over that soon enough? I do hope so. Anyways I am off to make dinner for the three little monsters. It makes me wonder how chaotic things are going to be once Ter has a dragon as well. Orpheus shook his head as he closed up the journal, rose to his feet and looked over at the boys, "I'm going to get food now any preferances?" He asked. He got a loud crooning sound from Vorel, a hiss and a wave of a hand from Ter, and Ligeia suggesting some of his 'critter sandwiches' which in the end meant that it was up to Orpheus, "Keep an eye on your brother." He said as he headed out to find food.
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Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 11:16 pm
Shedding...
Orpheus lifted his head from what he was doing when a screeing Ligeia came running over to him, jumping up with a flap of his wings and landed on his father, "What the..." Then was followed by Ter who was hissing in anger and sort of slithering in a odd sort of pattern that made it seem as if he weren't able to see that clearly, "Ter? Ligeia?"
"H-Eeee's angier then normal! K-Eeeeep him back!" Ligeia cried, all but crawling up onto his father's back to get out of the range of the angry snake child.
Ter coiled up in front of Orpheus, "RED!" He said, flailing his arms then started to rub at his eyes in an angry sort of way then blinked up at him finding his vision to be blurry and it only made him that much madder, "RED!" He started to flare up and Ligeia squeaked trying ot get up higher expecting that his younger brother was getting ready to attack them and eat them or something nearly as bad.
Orpheus reached down to catch hold of the cobra child's wrists, "Hey, hey. Terpsichore. Look up at me." He said, his voice both soothing and commanding at the same time, "Come on."
The snake child seemed to relax for a moment turned his gaze up at him, then hissed at him. He couldn't see very well and his eyes seemed to have a hazy coating over them. On top of that his skin looked rather dull as well. The red haired teacher looked him over then picked him up, "Shhh. See? Its nothing bad at all. Its a normal snake thing." He assured him lifting a hand to gently rub it against the cobra's forehead and some of the skin came a bit loose, "See? Your just shedding. I doubt its going to be something thats very pleasent but its osmething your gonna have to deal with more then once so..."
"Shedding?" Ligeia asked then reached over towards him and jerked his hand back when Ter nipped at his fingers.
"Snakes when they start to grow they shed their skin." He said then snuggled the snake child close, "It won't take that long."
Ter beat his hands against his father's chest before he gave up and rested against his chest in a bad mood, it was all the Red man's fault he just knew it! It was his way to get Ter to behave... how had he done it? He had no idea but he would find the source of Mr. Red's powers once he was finsihed with this... 'shedding' thing. For now though he planned on making everyone as miserable as he felt.
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 5:39 pm
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 5:10 am
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 3:11 pm
~Reserved for Orpheus and Emer's Families ~
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 3:12 pm
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 3:13 pm
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