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 Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:42 pm
"Well no, I guess I couldn't say you aren't interesting," she agreed with a laugh. "It's such a shame that he's still there... It isn't a bad place to live, but knowing how nice it is to be surrounded by family... I want better for him." Milu's ears drooped slightly as she thought about her son not even knowing about her. "I really need to visit him as well, once he's been adopted. I doubt the pound would look very fondly on me going in there and giving him false hope. I'd ask Kita to adopt him, if she wasn't already taking care of so many of us." Sighing, she glanced up at the stairs, thinking of the many filled rooms upstairs. "It's quiet here today, but when everybody is home, it's crazy." Turning her attention back to Comet, she shrugged in reply to his question. "Vee and I are doing okay. We have a big family here, good food, sometimes too much entertainment when Dras gets into things..." She snorted.
Vilu's expression mirroring his neice's, he began to worry about his twin. "We are kind of a handful... Or that's what she says, anyway. She and Maari mainly watch over everybody, since Kita's away a lot. Maybe she isn't getting enough sleep." His eyes widened as she confessed that she didn't know what soccer was. "Soccer is the greatest sport there is!" He then, as was typical for him, launched into a complex and highly animated explanation of the game, even diving headfirst into the carpet at one point to demonstrate a daring save.
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:54 pm
Comet smiled. "I can only imagine. We almost had too much entertainment once, Orca managed to make Susanna's doll into a robot and tried to send it over to the North Pole to annihilate the elves..." He winced. "The Bond house is never quiet. And then when I try to go out lately, Susanna's been following me around. I think she cut off some of my hair and hid it somewhere too. She's a creepy kid." He looked at Milu and took a breath. "Sheesh. They're all such a pain. I'm glad I wasn't a handful as a kid." said Comet Bond, complete hypocrite.
Deidre watched Vilu carefully. Somewhere along the line she procured a notepad and took notes in symmertical columns. "It sounds like a battle." she said. "And it sounds symmetrical." From Deidre, this was a gold stamp of approval.
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:06 pm
"He actually managed to turn a doll into a robot? I don't know where he gets that mechanical proficiency from," she wondered. "Vilu tried to fix the toaster once; He set a small fire and nearly electrocuted himself. The curtains were never quite the same again." Smiling at the memory, she couldn't help but note the similarities between their households. With Vilu and Dras living here, they might as well be housing two children. Stretching in a very cat-like manner and putting her feet up on a footrest, she raised an eyebrow in an appraising manner. "Well, Mister Comet Bond. I've never known you to converse like such a normal person before. Perhaps you really have grown up."
"Oh yeah, totally symmetrical. Until everyone starts running around kicking the ball and jumping on top of each other, anyway," Vilu said with a grin, oblivious to how very unsymmetrical his statement was. Popping back up off the floor, he shot another glance in at his sister and Comet. They certainly had been talking for a long time...
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:14 pm
Comet snorted. "Me, grow up? You must be joking." He shrugged. "I'm conversing around you normally because flirting with you would only be an insult, now wouldn't it? I can talk normally to people I know well enough, people I highly respect, men, and any girl who's still a child or is too old to be attractive. Anyone in any other category is completely fair game." He grinned. "Of course, while this narrows down my targets, there is still most of the female population of the Pound to consider."
Deidre winced. "Well, I can close my eyes during that part." she said reasonably. "That leaves... The start and end for me to see." That meant she'd only miss the middle bits. Two out of three wasn't bad. She peered in the room with Vilu. "Is it safe in there?" she whispered.
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:31 pm
Leaning forward with head chin resting on one paw, Milu flashed him an evil smile. "Would it?" She hated to fall into this one's trap again, even throw herself into it in this case; But she couldn't seem to resist. She was, after all, nearly as bad as Comet when it came to flirting - She just wasn't nearly so notorious.
Blinking at Deidre, he was about to protest and insist that the middle was the best part, the only part that was interesting at all, but was cut off by her next question. "Safe? Er..." Peeking into the room, he saw his sister staring at Comet. It looked like they were having a staring contest... Or she was trying to make him explode with her mind. He secretly hoped it was the latter. "Looks safe enough," he lied, wanting to interrupt whatever was going on in there.
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:39 pm
Comet grinned at her. "You tell me." he said. "A woman's mind is so hard to read. Not that I'm saying I lack practice." He was quite unable to resist falling into old habits with such blatant encouragment.
Deidre looked in. "Nuh-uh, that's..." She flipped through her notebook. "Dad's Flirtatious stare No. 9." she said. "For mild to fair flirtations. Do not apply in awkward silences." She looked in. "We should probably stop them. It's not fair for Dad to flirt with Mom when she's delirious from lack of sleep."
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:47 pm
'That's probably because I keep changing my mind,' she thought with a mental eyeroll. "Oh, I've no doubt you've had plenty of practice. Hell, you've had practice with me. But no, I don't consider it to be an insult, exactly..." Her grin widened as her spotted tail flicked back and forth, disturbing the cushions on the couch. She had to admit that this was more fun than acting like a responsible adult.
Vilu's eyes widening, he took a closer look at the pair in the living room. Milu did sort of have that look she got sometimes when there were guys around... And for her to be looking at Comet like that definitely couldn't mean anything good. "You're right," he said firmly, crouching down on the floor. "We should probably sneak up on them though." Stealth missions were his favorite kind.
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 6:01 am
"What a good sport you are." Comet purred. "I'm honoured that you would consider flirting with- Oof!" All of a sudden, Comet had had a Deidre leap upon him. "Don't worry, Mom." said Deidre. "We wouldn't let him take advantage of a woman delirious from lack of sleep." She paused. "Or crippled, or greiving, or married, or blind/deaf/mute." She looked up at her mother. "Anyway, you're safe now. And Vilu's prepearing his offensive too." she added. "So Comet can't..." She narrowed her eyes. trying to recall something someone had said Comet did. "Manipulate you with his masculine wiles. Or stand up."
Comet muttered from under Deidre. "Okay." he said muffledly. "You've got one point you can chalk up at home, but I'm still in the lead." Deidre looked at him. "That's only cos you go to unsymmetrical places to flirt now. If you didn't, I'd have more points."
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:41 am
Milu gasped and jumped back in surprise as Deidre launched herself onto Comet, effectively interrupting their conversation. "Er..." She started to say, but trailed off as the father and daughter conversed about some kind of points system they apparantly had. Finally she found her voice again; "Delirious from lack of sleep...?" She was throroughly confused by this. Who ever said she hadn't been getting enough sleep? Her mind then turned to her daughter's other statement - Vilu was preparing an offensive? Eyes widening further, she quickly ducked, just as a large gray form flew overhead.
"Ow!" Already having launched himself into the air when his sister ducked, Vilu had had no choice but to continue on his momentum and sail headfirst into a bookshelf. He certainly was getting his share of bumps on the head today. Growling a little in Comet's general direction, he firmly blamed him for his head hurting, paying no mind to his sister's twinly intuition of his actions.
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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 2:55 pm
Deidre nodded. "We decided you were delirious from lack of sleep!" she explained. "Because you were acting like you like Dad and usually girls end up slapping Dad if his act slips up." She explained as she got off of her father. But then she winced as Vilu banged asymmetrically into a bookshelf, leaving an asymmetrical pile of books. "Vilu!" she said and ran over to arrange the fallen books symmetrically again. "You should make them fall symmetrically next time, okay?"
Comet rolled his eyes. "Welcome to my life." he said to Milu, smiling at her weakly. As Deidre got off of him, he stretched, but startled when Vilu jumped out and crashed. "Ouch." he said sympathetically, missing the growl completely. "You all right over there, Vilu?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:31 pm
Blinking at Deidre's explanation, Milu couldn't help but smile at how black and white everything was to the younger feline. "I know that he's a bit... Overbearing at times-" she shot a look at Comet as he stretched- "But he's really not that bad once you get to know him..." She trailed off at her daughter's proclamation that Vilu ought to make books fall symmetrically, and laughed. They really had produced some strange children. Unlike Comet, she caught Vilu's low growl, her ears attuned to the voice of her twin. Her eyes narrows as she watched him, wondering what was coming over him today.
"Make them fall symmetrically...?" Vilu repeated in confusion, a bit dazed from his knock to the head. He was beginning to think this girl was just a little bit insane. As Comet spoke to him, he suddenly remembered his vow of giving the silent treatment to him and his sister, and promptly clammed up.
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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:59 pm
Deidre nodded. "You aim for the middle of the shelf." she explained. "Orca said it'd work. He was also coughing a lot at the time though..." She looked at Milu talking about Comet and waved a hand dismissively. "Dad's not overbearing sometimes, it's all the time." Deidre was around her father in the rare moments when he wasn't flirting or pretending to die from lack of romance. She admitted he might be decent underneath, but underneath only surfaced every so often. "Anyway, he's only normal like that when there isn't anyone suspectible to his charms or sympathetic enough to listen to him moan about how there's no one suspectible to his charms about." Deidre saw the world in black and white, but saw her father in varying shades of grey. Pity the charmer who ran into her because the moment they'd smile she'd say 'I see you're opening up with Charming grin No. 4. A nice job, but Dad usually uses No. 12. It's more reliable. So are you gonna ask me what I'm doing in a place like this next or what?'
Comet looked over at Milu. "Oh come now, you can't possibly be sticking up for me." he said, sounding a little sruprised for once. He got up and picked up Deidre. "Let's give Uncle Vilu a little room before we bother him about the symmetricalness of his landing, hmm?" Deidre squirmed in his grip, but Comet carried her off to give Vilu some space while he recovered.
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