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 Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:24 pm
{Growth Prompt}
Responsibility Qadir paced back and forth in front of the main door to his home, golden eyes darting up were there to be any movement within a mile of his home. Orpheus was, for lack of a better word: missing. There'd been a piddly sort of note that said he'd be leaving and returning...whenever, but there had been no further information for the worried father. Responsibility? Orpheus clearly didn't have it. Going on two days now, Qadir had paced through the foyer of his home, wearing a path in the carpet. Why hadn't Orpheus called? Was he making sure to take his pills? Did he even take any pills, or was he out there playing typical vamp after getting fed up with Qadir's rules.
For not the first time in the young boy's life, Qadir was glad there weren't really any other vampires that lived in the area. Their strict rules, which called for obedience based on length of life (or death for that matter), had not much phased Orpheus from treating the much older Qadir with any sort of respect since he'd come out of that damned cup. Were word to get out to higher powers that Qadir couldn't even control a boy for a few years...well, actually Qadir didn't want to think about what would happen if something that horrid came up.
Lost in his current train of thought, Qadir didn't realize that the door was in the process of being pushed open, but he did see Orpheus coming through the door, looking proud as a bean. "Orpheus!" Qadir said in his strictest tone, before going all blubbery and grabbing his son around the shoulder to pull him into a tight hug. "You're getting affectionate," Opheus growled as he pushed the larger vampire off him. Hugging was not one of his favorite past times. Well, it wasn't one of his past times at all.
"Where have you been? I've been worried sick about you! No messages, no nothing?" Qadir honestly looked like a pathetic little puppy dog, though his ears would have been laid back at the moment, fire crackling in his eyes. One did not simply disappear from Qadir for two days without letting him know. Granted, Orpheus had never been the type to care about other people, but wasn't growing up supposed to make him, oh, interested in someone other than himself?
Orpheus looked a bit shocked, before he stalked off into the other room and started ruffling around for something Qadir couldn't fathom. The older vampire stood his ground, hands on his hips and waiting for an explanation. Suddenly Qadir could her Orpheus' voice coming sharp and clean from the other room, though it was clearly a recording. Orpheus came back to Qadir with arms crossed and face angry. Several recordings played over, with Orpheus detailing where he was, why, when, all the important things. Qadir couldn't even manage to shut his mouth for the event, jaw acting like a great big fly trap.
"Why didn't I get any of these?" the vampire asked after the last recording had ended (with Orpheus promising to be home at exactly the time he'd arrived) and the shock began to wear off. Orpheus offered originally only an irritated sigh, before deciding to explain. "Well for one, mister genius, you accidentally unplugged the answering machine. I really congratulate you on that one by the way. For another, I was on the other side of the world, I could only call you while it was light out there, and I knew you wouldn't answer. If I'd known you were going to unplug the machine, I'd have told him to contact you." Both of them knew who "him" was.
Qadir didn't really had any other reply, watching his little boy being all grown up and calling home. Ok, well, it was a baby step for Orpheus, but wasn't his mature in his own way, if not responsible in the proper ways. He was just opening his mouth to ask just -why- he'd been on the other side of the world when Orpheus held up a small grinding of herbs in a bag in his hand. "For Crystal...put them in the tea, it will make her stronger...temporarily." It only took Qadir a moment to realize just what that was, and how absolutely impossible it was to obtain. For Orpheus to go through so much trouble, for someone else? Well, the big guy was feeling a little weepy. He'd never been so proud of the vain little vamp.
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:02 pm
{Sandbox Scuffle} Who: Orpheus, Amahte and Kaoru
Where: The Sandbox at the Park
Status: Playdate
[ Why So Many Tall People?] Orpheus sees Vanyel at the park and Kaoru soon joins them. Orpheus is furious about her growth.
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:04 pm
{Journal Entry}
Journal Entry To think that Kaoru had the nerve to shoot up like a weed before me! Surely as not only the man but the first child born of the two of us, it should have been my head touching the clouds and hers cocked up to me in awe and wonder. Am I not someone worthy of growing along-side my peers? Of course the stork would have grown before me. Her very nickname suggests she should be towering over the rest of us, but she can hardly be expected to know better. That and I heard tell she is one of the oldest of our group, not including the whispers of outsiders from time to time that worry me so. Who could these other people be invading our turf?
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:31 pm
{The Get Well Soon Present} Who: Orpheus, Qadir, Kaoru and Crystal
Where: Crystal's Home
Status: Playdate
[ I Brought You Something] Orpheus does his best to cheer up the sickly Crystal.
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:34 pm
{Journal Entry}
Journal Entry Truly I have no reason to stay away from her. It is but the coward within me which keeps me from being upon my flower's doorstep at the slightest hint of dusk. I tremble to watch her in her new state, so frail and so weak. Where is the woman who I could sweep off her feet and twirl her in circles until she laughed? With but a breath I feel as though I could break her, and I am helpless to offer her comfort. I cannot bare to be seen by her in such a state as I myself have delved into. As she sinks, so too do I feel like the dark water of life is dragging me beneath the surface.
Bless Orpheus for forcing me to confront her. Perhaps it will make me no more comfortable around her in the future, but even seeing her makes me feel like I could be alive again...makes me feel like there is something worth living for in the first place. How can I make her feel like that too? How can I find a way for her not to escape so easily from my hands? Is Death so happy to take away everything I have ever cared for?
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:42 pm
{Event Day One} Who: The Whole Gang!
Where: Olivia's Party
Status: Playdate
[ Rain Dancing] Another one of Olivia's parties has everyone turning up to mingle.
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:45 pm
{Journal Entry}
Journal Entry I refuse to grace anyone's presence until I am tall enough to command their attention.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:11 pm
{Event Day Two} Who: The Whole Gang!
Where: Olivia's Party
Status: Playdate
[ Rain Dancing] Another one of Olivia's parties has everyone turning up to mingle.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:13 pm
{Journal Entry}
Journal Entry Wishes do come true! Though I had suffered some indignation for my child-state but only the day before, here I am tall and stunning in my own way. No doubt this is a new beginning for me as it will be for those around me. I am one step closer to being an adult and having them all look up to me, but still I am sure it is a long way off.
Today I met a silly boy. Ment. He eats bears and I fear that he is influencing Kaoru in a way I wish to prevent. She seems to not like my instances that she stay away from him though.
Qadir watches me more now that I have grown as well. I think it saddens and delights him. He may watch me grow as he once would have wanted his real son to grown, and that brings him joy in a way that he cannot express or appreciate for as I grow his son does not. In addition, I am supposed to be vampire, a being which by nature is frozen in time and yet here I am leaping through the years with the reckless abandon akin to the human race.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:14 pm
{Event Day Three} Who: The Whole Gang!
Where: Olivia's Party
Status: Playdate
[ Rain Dancing] Another one of Olivia's parties has everyone turning up to mingle.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:16 pm
{Playdate Voided} Who: Orpheus
Where: Dance Contest Winner
Status: Playdate
Orpheus had decided that the reward was too great not to take the opportunity presented to him, and even though he'd told Qadir quite firmly that he wasn't happy about this event, here he was, facing the camera. Scowl on his face, he waited for Qadir to turn on the (what can only be defined as ridiculous) music and Orpheus wiggled his toosh till he couldn't wiggle it anymore. All this humiliation for Qadir to promise Orpheus that he could join him on his escapades hunting monsters all around the world. Horrifying.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:18 pm
{Journal Entry}
Journal Entry Journal Voided - Dance Contest Winner
Orpheus had decided that the reward was too great not to take the opportunity presented to him, and even though he'd told Qadir quite firmly that he wasn't happy about this event, here he was, facing the camera. Scowl on his face, he waited for Qadir to turn on the (what can only be defined as ridiculous) music and Orpheus wiggled his toosh till he couldn't wiggle it anymore. All this humiliation for Qadir to promise Orpheus that he could join him on his escapades hunting monsters all around the world. Horrifying.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:23 pm
{An Evening Walk} Who: Orpheus and Niamh
Where: The Park
Status: Playdate
[ What Is Seeing?] Orpheus meets the blind woman Niamh and they have a rather deep conversation.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:27 pm
{Journal Entry}
Journal Entry To be truthful, I almost liked the blind woman Niamh, and even her dog grew on me in a way I can't comprehend. Perhaps because he asks for so little and understands me not at all, I feel as though I can relax. Talking with Niamh was actually interesting. Both of us had little reason to be where we were, and yet we both had excellent excuses to be there. Why, after all, would a blind woman and a vampire wish to find comfort in a setting sun? I actually find myself hoping I can meet her again, though I have a strange feeling she might be lost to me now.
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