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 Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 5:55 pm
A medium height pale skinned male paced large circles around a small child. The resemblance between adult and child made it clear that they were kin, though the way the pale skinned hybrid paced left it uncertain as to the exact relation. Many wouldn't guess that it was parent and child from the unsettled look in the adult hybrid's eyes and the worried tension of his brow.
Soon, Xigbar would find them. Yes.. and then he could deal with it. The child had taken a very important book and was refusing to release it nicely. Normally chipper Lucydia hadn't realized that parenting would be so difficult. Is this why his father was always so grumpy...? No, surely not. Lucy's father was unfriendly by nature. He certainly hadn't raised his mix-blooded children with much love.
Lucy slowed his pace until he stood in front of the child. Twirling long hair around his fingers he released a heavy sigh and stared down. He didn't want to be like his father, he wanted to raise his children with love. Though this one was making that a little bit difficult. Where in the world could his child have gotten that temperamental nature..-- oh, nevermind. All of Lucydia's family was temperamental.
"Just leave him the book, Brother. Xerxes is but a boy. You may exhaust yourself repeating that he cannot read.. but that means nothing to a child," a deep but gentle voice called out soothingly from nearby accompanied by a soft splash of water. The eldest brother had emerged from the lake nearby, eyes hidden behind his blindfold though he faced in the proper direction. Elbows propped up on land, he rested his chin into his palms and heaved a sigh. His words fell upon deaf ears. Lucy would only listen to Xigbar. If only his younger brother could realize that he, too, was a difficult child.
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 6:01 pm
Xigbar stumbles into the general area his mate, brother-in-law, and son was in, Asgeir held with one of his arms around the hybrid's waist, his feet, tails, and rear the first thing the others would have seen of him before he started throwing his screaming fit again. Xigbar's eyebrow twitches slightly, then he shakes his head and glances down at Asgeir. "You're in time-out, remember? You're not supposed to make noise." He grumbles, sounding tired. Seeing the worried expression on his Lucy's face, though, he stops and tilts his head slightly, a frown crossing it. "Lucy? What's wrong?"
Asgeir gives one last ear piercing shriek, limbs flailing in every direction, sounding for all the world like he was being brutally murdered when that obviously wasn't the case, then he just goes deathly quiet, glaring at the ground below him.
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 6:22 pm
Darrick grasped his ears and pressed them down against his skull, his deep voice booming out with a roughness that was rarely witnessed until children arrived, "Asgeir!" The glare behind the blindfold so intense that it could be felt, aimed in the proper direction of Xigbar and Asgeir. He knew that the child would not cease for long and let out a deep sigh. "Xigbar," he acknowledged softly but plainly before he sank beneath the water's cool, dark surface.
It had never been clear whether Darrick liked Xigbar or not though it mattered very little. Perhaps the only one in his family with any sense of loyalty at all, he accepted his brother's mate with never a single hint of disapproval. The same could not be said for the children thus far in their early lives. The blind-- skeptically so, it was unknown whether he were truly blind or not, but regardless the fold worn over his eyes had sharpened his hearing tremendously through the years-- mer-hybrid would eventually come to accept them. Perhaps when they reached adulthood and did not suffer temper tantrums.
"Xigbar," Lucy cried and fled towards his mate after all but ignoring his eldest brother. "Something is wrong with him! He found that book and he's been staring at it for hours... but he can't read!" The hybrid frowned darkly and said nothing of his other son who had been turned upside down and clearly had caused a bit of trouble. Though seeing his mate tired did concern him and relieve him at the same time. Lucydia had been worried that only he struggled when they became parents and it appeared he had been wrong.
His eyes drifted downwards towards their other son before he offered a glance back over his shoulder, where Xerxes at contently in the grass, the book open-faced on his lap. The sight seemed to disturb him more than anything ever had before. His child was far too young to read, and Lucy struggled to grasp the concept as to why he was enthralled with a book he could not understand. Almost too quickly his attention snapped back toward Asgeir. "What did he do this time..?"
That was good old Lucy. Quick to panic and just as quick to forget. In no time he would be happy and chipper once more.
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 6:30 pm
At the booming voice calling his name, Asgeir attempts to whip his head around to see who had spoken, giving a small hiss as he kicks his legs again, trying to get himself free.
Xigbar glances over at Xerxes as Lucy explains what the problem was, then glances back down at Asgeir. "Asgeir has been causing the usual amount of chaos. Getting up into places he's not supposed to and knocking things over, leaping out from under cover to attack my 'superiors' legs, causing said superior to curse rather loudly... I've told Mansex not to curse around our kids, but of course, he's not listening to me. I'll probably have to pay him a visit from the shadows with a dart gun sooner or later... So, for timeout for Asgeir, he has to go everywhere I go, which means I have to carry him. He hates it. Hoping he'll learn to not be such a trouble-maker." He says, then he steps over to where Xerxes was, tilting his head at the child and the book. "Whatcha got there, Xerxes?"
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 6:39 pm
Lucydia settled into a calmer mood and folded his arms to his chest, clicked his tongue once against the roof of his mouth, and turned his head away. "Then he shall have no treats tonight, and he will have to eat all his vegetables. That's what bad boys get when they misbehave." He stated flatly and seemed to expect bribery to work on children just as it did adults.
Xerxes lifted his head slowly and stared toward his father, lips curled upward of a smile. The eye contact lasted but a few moments before the child lowered his gaze back down to the book once more. There were no pictures in which to captivate his young mind or so the adults thought. There were pictures though, hundreds of them! Littered all along the pages in neat little rows. The letters were the pictures to a mind so young. Colorless pictures as they were all in black ink against the white pages, but they were still pictures. He wondered what those things were. Funnily shaped and far different from the pictures his mother showed him.
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 6:44 pm
Asgeir had no knowledge of what bribery was, but he certainly didn't like eating veggies. He gives a growl at hearing that and flails about some more, almost wishing that he dared bite the parent that held him, but knowing he'd get his butt swatted if he did so.
Xigbar crouches down near Xerxes, setting Asgeir down long enough to grab the waistband of Asgeir's pants before the other could think to take off, then gives a small smile. "You like the way the words look, hrm? Maybe if you give daddy back the book, he might read it to you. And when you get older, we can teach you how to read. How's that sound, Xerxes?" He was only guessing that it was the way the letters were printed in the book that held Xerxes' attention, but from the angle he was looking at the book from, they looked interesting to him, too. "Right, Lucy?" He asks, turning his head to give his mate a small smile.
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