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 Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:11 pm
"Is this a stra'berry?"
"No."
"Is this a stra'berry?"
"No, Fiore."
"Is this a -"
"WILL YOU PUT A SOCK IN IT."
Fiore looked up at Natalia with doting eyes, and offered her the mostly broken seashell.
"It's pretty," he said. "Izzit a stra'berry?"
Nati took the shell and threw it over her shoulder.
"Fio. Please. Go bother someone else."
"But-"
"NOW."
Supposing it would be safer not to test Mama's temper further, Fiore gave Nati a peck on the check and toddled off further down the beach, splashing a little ways into the surf.
"You did promise him you'd pick strawberries," Leonora said coolly on the beach towel beside her sister. Nati snorted and rolled onto her stomach, flipping a page of her magazine.
"I just told him that so he'd shut up," she said. Leonora huffed and swatted at her sister.
"You're horrible."
"Mmhm."
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:17 pm
"That's not nice," Jesse snorted, leaning over to see what Nati was doing. He then turned, "SY! FIORE IS HERE!"
"FOOOOOOOOOO'!"
The red-haired boy flew over a nearby pile of rocks, landing hard on his face and not caring as he ran to his friend, blood dribbling down his chin.
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:23 pm
"Tch. A lifetime of disappointment will build character," Nati drawled, looking up at Jesse with a wry smile. "Long time no see, darling."
Leonora was not taking Jesse's sudden appearance so calmly.
"CHRIST ON A BIKE, YOU'RE HUGE."
"Leo. Shut up and go hunt for crabs."
"But-"
"CRABS."
"Fine, fine, going."
Fiore jolted and tripped over his own feet, landing face first in the water. He got up spluttering, and bolted over clumsily.
"SY SY SY YOU BLEEDIN' HIIIII~"
And then he proceeded to tackle Silas to the ground.
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:26 pm
Jesse laughed.
"No need! No need. I know I'm big." He invited himself onto Nati's towel, ankles crossed.
"What's been up with you?"
Silas giggled and flailed a bit, nuzzling his Fiore's cheek and shoulder.
"HI! YOU GROWED TOO!"
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:33 pm
"Ugh, don't let her hear that, then she might come back and then I'll have to take her home with me," Natalia sighed, pushing her sunglasses up her nose again. "Up with me? Ha. Plotting to murder parties who shall remain nameless, the little runaway man-slut."
She ground her teeth for a second, then shrugged it off and sat up with her wry smile.
"Where've you been? I hope not in prison, you're just too pretty."
Giving Sy a peck on the cheek - hey, Leo let him do it, clearly Silas would too - Fiore sat up and brushed the sand off his face.
"I got big'n strong and I even beat Leo in a fight. Righ' Leo?"
"No!"
"She jus' sayin' that 'cause she's mad I won" Fiore whispered conspiratorially, looking deeply proud of himself.
He decided not to mention it had only been a pillow fight.
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:35 pm
"Believe it or not? Courting," Jesse said, crossing his arms behind his head. The man stared up at the sky, eyes glazed and faraway. Aww, it was so cute when enormous mutants were in love.
"Ooh!" Sy said, "I never beat'd anyones! I ress-ul wif Hor-a-sho, tho'."
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:40 pm
Nati immediately thought it was a joke, but bit her tongue to curb the laugh that would have come out when she saw his face. Aww, how...uh. Sweet.
"I'm happy for you, Jesse," she said after a beat, uncharacteristic sincerity in her tone. And then it was gone. "So. Which team are you swinging for?"
"Ress-ul?" Fio parroted. "Whass that?"
And what was more, what the heck was a Hor-a-sho.
"Fio, don't eat starfish."
"Wasn'!"
"Was. You spit that out 'fore I tell Nati."
Fiore hurriedly spit out the starfish, wiping his mouth and looking up at the clouds innocently.
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:43 pm
Jesse just laughed. Hard.
"What the Hell, Nati?! What the HELL?!"
Sy sighed, resting his head on Fio's chest.
"Is when you roll 'round n' play rough!"
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:50 pm
Nati just grinned.
"Dar-ling, I don't know what you get up to when I'm not around to look after you. One must assume certain things."
Fiore nodded hard, even though he still didn't quite understand. Eh, Mama would probably explain. Or tell him to shut up and go away. Either or.
"You shoul' come over mah house," he said. "Mama? She, she gave me a room? And it's big. An' my bunnies and my fishie live wi' me."
He paused.
"I thin'...I thin' Lulu ain't a girly-bunny," he said, thinking. " 'Cause Lola's got real fat. Leo says she gonna pop babies soon. And then Mama'll eat 'em."
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:03 pm
"Just because I'm a sailor doesn't me--OH ********>" Jesse laughed and leaned over, grabbing Nati by both sides of the face and kissing her roughly before propping his torso up above her, grinning.
"I play for that team, sweets."
Silas gasped. Fio got a room of HIS OWN?! How novel!
"Can I had baby?" he asked, propping himself up, "Bunnies fuddy."
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:10 pm
"HNNF!"
Splayed out on her towel, Nati stared at Jesse in absolute shock. Then she burst out laughing, wiping her hand carelessly across her lips.
"I'll keep it in mind so I can keep myself available as the rebound," she said, patting Jesse on the cheek.
"If Mama don' eat 'em," Fiore said solemnly, looking over his shoulder at her. "Or Leo. Leo don' li' bunnies."
"Oh, I do too," Leo said huffily, dumping a bucket of water over Fiore's head and making him squeak. The girl grinned and picked a snail out of the boy's hair, chucking it like a baseball back out to sea. "I don't like all the presents they leave everywhere."
"They don' leave pe-sents," Fio said with a small frown. "They poo."
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:12 pm
Jesse laughed and flopped back to the towel.
"How thoughtful of you."
Silas looked to Leo, sitting up and glaring.
"Be ni'e," he warned.
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:18 pm
"I aim to please," Nati said dryly, opening the small cooler by her head and pulling out a beer. "Want one? I stole 'em from work, so it's not the store-bought s**t."
Leo arched a brow and her tail lashed.
"He's my brother," she said plainly. "I'm bigger."
"Is," Fio said, nodding hard and raising his arms above his head. "She's li'...this big."
"And I love my Fio, don't I, you lil' sonuvabitch?"
Leo scooped Fio up in her arms and squeezed him, making the boy giggle before tossing him - gently - into the surf.
"AGAIN!"
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:21 pm
"Oh, Hell yeah," Jesse laughed, holding his hand out.
Silas frowned, face twisting and eyes welling with tears.
"DADAAAAAA!"
"Oh, Christ. WHAT, SY?!"
"LEE-YO SAID A BAD WOOOOORD."
"...SY. DON'T BE A TATTLE."
"BUT DADDYYYYY!"
"...oh, good Christ."
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:26 pm
Nati yawned and passed Jesse a beer, twisting the cap off her own with her teeth.
"Leo!"
"What?"
"What'd you say?"
"I didn't ********' say nothin'! Ain't my goddamn fault he don't like swear words!"
"Clean it up, you're around corruptibles."
Fiore, shuffling around in the water indecisively, cleared his throat.
"Scooz me,"
"I didn't say nothin'-"
"Scooz me-"
"Yeah, I bet not-"
"SCOOZ ME!"
Leo turned to her little brother.
"What?"
Fio cleared his throat again and blushed faintly.
"Heck," he said, looking aghast at his own daring.
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