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 Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:46 am
Slush didn't stop till he was in front of the fire, where he held her close to him, rubbing her limbs to try and get circulation back into them. Tears flowed freely, he couldn't lose her! This reminded him all too well of when X and Jack brought Isto back half frozen and inches from death.
"Someone!" He cried, not wanting to leave Tourma, "HELP!" Choking back a sob, Slush rocked her to him ever so gently.
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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:31 pm
The fading light meant the end of the work day--for Isto, anyway. In truth, he could come home whenever he wanted during the day, given the properties of the Past door, but he liked to time it as close to normally as possible. After weeks of thirty hour days while Cody was so clingy, normal sleep patterns were most welcome.
And now, with the weather growing cooler after dusk, the earlier Isto was home, the better. Riding the motorcycle home added a good deal of a wind chill, and Isto did not want a repeat of the previous winter.
He wasn't in the best of moods upon returning home. His metal arm was throbbing unpleasantly from the cold--but at least it hadn't given out completely just yet. He pushed open the door and started through towards the stairs, but paused when he heard Slush's cry and, immediately concerned, changed directions to follow the sound to the fireplace.
"Relax, Doom," he murmured automatically, stepping over and crouching beside Slush, metal hand resting no his shoulder. "What's--Tourma?" Only then noticing the toddler--and pegasus, though he ignored that for the time--and surprised by the lack of life, he momentarily fell silent, staring down at the girl. However, only moments later he snapped out of it and sunk to sit beside Slush, metal hand reassuringly rubbing his back while the other gestured for him to give him their daughter. "What happened to her?"
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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:54 am
Tourma didn't move, though she was breathing, however faintly.
The pegasus had indeed followed Slush inside the house through the open door, and simply peered up at Isto silently, sizing him up before neighing softly in approval and returning his full attention to the toddler.
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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:01 pm
Slush jumped, then relaxed against Isto's hand ever so slightly and immediately handed Tourma as carefully as he could with shaking hands to Isto. "Sh-she... Out--tss-side!" Slush wailed, obviously not the one to stay calm in such a situation.
"Brooomtodooropen." He gasped all of a sudden before wracking himself in another sob.
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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:16 pm
"Relax, Doom," Isto automatically repeated, carefully accepting the girl and holding her in his normal arm. "Crying won't help anything." Letting his right hand fall, he turned his attention to Tourmaline, unwrapping the jacket around her somewhat and, just to reassure himself, checking for a pulse.
Choking back a sigh, he forced a smile and rewrapped the jacket, shifting the girl onto his lap infront of the fire and resuming where Slush had left off, rubbing the life back into her limbs through the makeshift blanket. "Look, she's breathing and she's inside and safe now. She'll be fine, alright? Just give her a little while." He glanced up slightly, adding as an afterthought, "We'll need a better blanket. And maybe something hot to drink. I...can't really remember from when this happened to me."
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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:28 pm
With the added heat, the toddler was beginning to regain color and her body was warming up a bit. Her eyes opened slowly, almost painfully after a while, but when she tried to move her body, Tourmaline couldn't and her eyes widened. "'Addsy!?" What was happening to her?! Why couldn't she move?!
The pegasus immediately stepped in to lean down and nuzzle Tourmaline, trying to comfort her as well.
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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 12:33 pm
He made a sort of swallowing and choking noise as he attempted to stop crying, and Slush quickly got up to collect the items Isto had asked for. The SM was back in front of the fire in no time, handing Isto the items before finally eyeing the horse with wings in X's living room. "Uh... Who... Whuh?" Articulate as always.
Slush hmphed, watching Tourma with happiness when her eyes opened, but soon became worried and confused when she couldn't move and cried out.
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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 1:50 pm
Upon Slush's return, Isto removed Tourma's jacket to wrap the blanket around her a few times instead, immediately resuming rubbing her arms through it. He brightened up considerably when she awoke, and even her cry didn't upset him.
The reason for the cry was obvious--she hadn't moved, after all--so there was no reason to worry just yet. She was awake and warming up and, by the looks of it, hadn't been exposed to the cold long enough to suffer any major after effects. She would be fine.
"Hey kiddo," he replied brightly, smiling down at her. "You'll be alright in a second, okay? Lookit the pony, Tourma." Maybe the pegasus would distract her.
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Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 4:16 pm
Smiling. Smiling? Tourma blinked at Isto's words in mid crying and turned to look at what was nuzzling her and she smiled, moving to reach and pet the horsey.
No such luck, no matter how hard she tried, Tourmaline couldn't get her arm to move out of the sausaging blanket. About to start wailing again, the toddler was stopped short when the pegasus stuffed his nose into where her hand was through the blankets, flapping his wings lightly and awkwardly.
This seemed to cease her cries and grab her attention as warmth began to slowly trickle through her limbs from her middle.
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:45 am
She was awake! Slush, if he weren't so confused with everything going on, would have promptly celebrated, or asked coherently about the pegasus in the living room.
Unfortunately, Slush could not effectively do ANYTHING helpful at the moment, and only watched everything wide eyed, blinking rapidly until he was yanked up off the floor by an unseen person.
"You need a drink." X grunted, nodding to Isto before dragging off a weakly protesting Slush towards where she kept her liqour.
Their bickering could only be heard for a while before X's hand found its way to over Slush's mouth, and all that was heard was a faint muffling of complaints from the Skullmonkey.
Soon enough, they were out of hearing range.
Sometimes X wondered why Slush was so wimpy when he was her child.
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:07 am
More good signs! Tourma was coherent enough to understand and let the pony cheer her, so the cold hadn't effected her all that badly, and probably caused her no pain to boot. He glanced back to Slush to assure him of this, but paused instead when X yanked Slush to his feet and led him from the room, merely nodding in reply to his mother-in-law.
...Oh well, better for Slush this way. Tourma would be moving properly by the time her returned from whatever drunken stupor X put him through, which meant Slush would be happy, which meant less stress for them all. NOw all he had to worry about was the horse in the house.
He was silent for a short while, watching the pegasus and his daughter and continuing his attempts to warm Tourma. Finally lifting his normal hand, he offered it to the little creature for inspection, speaking more to himself than to the pegasus. "And where'd you come from, kiddo..?"
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:14 am
And Isto was right, Tourmaline was soon beginning to regain feeling and movement of her limbs, struggling with the blanket wrapped around her with an irritable cry. She wanted out! Now!
The pegasus eyed Isto's hand, giving him a glare when Isto called him 'kiddo,' stomping the floor with his right back hoove as if to emphasize the point that he was indeed not a 'kiddo.' Maybe he should bite him...
Instead, the pegasus snuffed at the Skullmonkey before leaning down to carefully help unwrap Tourma since the big one wasn't helping. Useless he was, and the pegasus snorted in disapproval.
Kiddo. Who bloody called a pegasus kiddo?
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:24 am
Isto wasn't exactly familiar with pegasi and their dislike for the title 'kiddo', but the glare spoke it clearly enough. Letting his hand fall, he pulled a face at the little creature, then turned his attention the the squirming toddler on his lap. "Well, what else was I supposed to call you? I call everyone kiddo sooner or later. You'll get over it."
He briefly debated over freeing Tourma or not. It would probably be better for her to stay wrapped up for a time.. He remembered mention that he had fought to get free of the blanket when this had happened to him. But Tourma didn't seem to be ill or anything. She was just irritated with being stuck in a blanket and unable to move--which was perfectly reasonable, especially knowing the little girl.
Nudging the pegasus out of the way somewhat, he unwrapped the blanket and set Tourma down on the floor infront of him, leaving the blanket in a heap beside her. "There, happy now?"
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:33 am
He could care less whether this one called everyone kiddo or not, this pegasus was not to be called such and he decided that the next time Isto did, biting would be in order. Neighing when he was pushed out of the way, the pegasus eyed him silently for a moment before turning his attention to Tourmaline.
The toddler nearly exploded herself from the blanket when let free, panting lightly and glaring at the blanket. Tourma nodded pompusly in response to Isto's question, the fire was warm and she was next to it. No need to be sausaged in that blanket.
Flicking her tail curiously, the SM reached for the foal, who flapped his wings happily, and made a sort of smile.
"Whorsey!" She exclaimed, clapping her hands together in time with the flapping, bicolored eyes bright with excitement. Obviously, she had forgotten what had just happened for now.
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:47 am
Haughty little bugger, Isto mused, eyeing the toddler thoughtfully. However, he smiled, sitting back to watch the pair play. However much the pegasus might not like him, he could tell it wouldn't hurt Tourma. Now all he had to do was figure out where it came from and what they were going to do with it. They couldn't exactly keep a winged horse in X's house...
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