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 Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:51 pm
Tovar stuffed the peanut butter cookie into the infant's hands and waited warily, eying the baby sideways as his other hand hovered over the cup of coffee he'd ordered. Leith sniffled and continued to whine and stutter and little but, eventually and rather suddenly when he actually did, he stuffed the cookie into his sharp-tooth filled mouth and began chomping at it, leaving peanut butter cookie crumbs all over the table.
Tovar sighed, taking a hesitant sip of his coffee. Well, that had worked fairly well. Up until that point, Leith had been throwing an absolute fit all over the outdoor front porch of the little Barton coffee shop. He'd done everything he could think of - humming, singing a little to him, bouncing him up and down.
Cookies though, cookies apparently worked.
"Well," Tovar said at length, setting down his cup and looking at Leith as the baby continued to gnaw at the corner of the cookie. "That wasn't too bad -- don't coke."
Leith ignored him, as babies are prone to do.
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Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:11 pm
Malen needed out of the HQ he was getting ansty and agitated when cooped up for more then short periods of time. After emerging from the hell that was the in between he couldn't spend to long in his home without getting paranoid that it would happen all over again. So in addition to getting out of the house he'd decided that sweets and coffee were needed.
As they approached the coffee shop Kishi was watching the world with icey gray suspicious eyes. She was about to growl at someone walking a bit to close behidn her when she got that feeling, the same oen she'd had upon meeting Taylor and his crazy sister in the craft store. There was another ghost child nearby but it's energy had changed. Slowly her eyes roamed the area untill they found a familiar face.
She did not recognise the boy with the man but Kishi waved at a guardian whom she vaughly remembered havign seen before.
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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:45 pm
Glancing up over the rim of his coffee cup, Tovar was somewhat surprised to catch sight of a familiar pair of faces. He smiled, slightly, setting his cup down on the small circular cafe table, leaving a ring of coffee on his napkin. Leith shot a glance in Kishi's direction but continued to devour his cookie, taking little chomps out of it with a dogged sense of determination.
Tovar's smile widened faintly. "Fancy seeing you two here again," he called cheerfully, waving back at Kishi good naturedly. "What are you doing here this afternoon?"
If nothing else, this whole parenthood experience had given Tovar enough self assurance to actually talk to people nowadays. Who would've thought a couple of kids could make a chatterbox out of an introvert like Tovar.
Leith screeched a little around his cookie, frowning at the other child.
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Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:14 am
" Avoiding the house" Malen said tone neutral, still he smiled at the other man. Company would be nice and even if he seemd a bit cranky kishi would have a baby to fawn over. He walked over to Tovar and dragged a set to the table. " I hope you don't mind."
Kishi frowned back at Leith " Be nice you liked me last time.. I think" kishi emeory was hazy about thier last meeting. she knew the boy before her had been only a baby ghost and that she herself had been younger. Still she was certain nothign bad had happened.
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:08 pm
"No problem - I've already done the crossword puzzle and was just about to run into a lapse of entertainment." Well, half done the crossword puzzle anyway. 42-Down, three letters, 'Wine adjective' and Tovar was stucker than a hiker in quicksand. Glancing toward Kishi, he quickly nudged Leith's highchair a little to the side and made sure the infant was fully concentrating on his cookie before he saw fit to forewarn the little girl. "Careful, he's got teeth already and, uh, likes to use them. On hands."
Leith peeled back his lips a little as if to illustrate the point, showcasing a nice row of nasty incisors as he chomped his way through the last of the cookie.
"He means well," Tovar assured them with a sigh, even if he wasn't entirely sure whether he was telling the truth or not...
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:13 am
Kishi eyed Leith warily but smiled none the less." I can bite back and I have a stronger jaw..maybe." If she had been told what Leith was in the past she didn't remember it. It was possible he was something with tremendous jaw power. " I still bite back."
Malen looked at Tovar and just shook his head " At least they've both had their shots yes?" He was glad that he wasn't completely interrupting the other guardian.
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:01 am
Tovar grinned a little crookedly. "Right; we've got at least that going for us." He chuckled, sipping off the last of his coffee, setting the cup down on the corner of the folded up newspaper. It left a damp ring, the newspaper print congealing into a soggy pool of black ink and recycled paper.
Leith kicked his legs absently, grinding his teeth a little obnoxiously as he wiggled around in the cafe supplied high chair. Tovar quickly bent and snatched a little eyeless black stuffed pony from the satchel at the foot of his chair. He set the pony down in Leith's reach, the infant instantly snapping up the toy and stuffing it's yarn-maned neck into his mouth. Tovar winced.
"So, what have you two been up two since we saw you last?"
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:44 pm
Malen goggled at Leith for a moment " Is there anything he won't put in his mouth?"
He thought for a moment on the other man's question." Been training mostly, visiting a few old friends, trying to avoid the small dragon war taking place due to my own stupidity" He smiled a bit at that.
" Del has dragons from d-corp a big one and a two little ones, they don't exactly get along." Kishi explained.
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:53 pm
The grin on his face flit lightly over his face, from one corner of Tovar's mouth to the other: flicking in and out in a way that clearly suggested he was trying not to break out into (manly) giggles and a full on grin. "Not much," he told Malen. "Kiddo doesn't like vegetables too much though, mashed, smashed, or pureed."
The dragon part, though, he couldn't fight the grin off on that one. Or the laugh. Tovar turned the cup in his hands, grinning hard from ear to ear. "My other kid, Etain, he's just got his dragon. Real pretty gold. Unfortunately, the poor kid's half terrified of the dragon - would rather spend time with his goldfish and bowl than with the dragon; he's convinced it's going to eat his hand off."
Leith snorted and gurgled around the neck of the stuffed horse as if to say 'My brother is a giant baby,' or something along those lines.
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:06 pm
" I think it's a universal law that kids hate veggies just to annoy parents." Either that or it was some deep seated memory passed from parent to child about not eating them when they were children.
" Del loves Echo who happens to be a bronze but looks gold because he's a baby. Plus she's got two of those mini's from the fund raiser. All together that makes three dragons, one dolphin and something thats either a cat or a dog or both sharing one bedroom. I'm surprised they all come out alive each day." He grinned at Tovar " I hope he gets over the dragon fear before the grow at that point the thing will probably be bigger than he is. What is Etain if you don't mind my asking?"
Kishi just smiled at Leith and moved the tip of her wand towards him. at least if he attacked it he couldn't do much damage. She wanted to get a reaction from him.
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:14 pm
"He's a unicorn," Tovar explained, moving the cup from off the used newspaper so he could fold the paper up into quarters. A nervous compulsion. Maybe. "Ah, I'm not...entirely sure how they got a hold of the DNA in question, but frankly," - he glanced at Malen, grinning sheepishly - "I'm not sure I want to know."
Leith eyes the approaching wand tip with distaste, continuing to nibble on the stuffed pony's exterior. He growled, a low pitched noise that was predominantly absorbed by the pony in question.
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:31 pm
" You're probably right, all things considered their sketchy practices in finding guardians." Malen muttered thinking back into how he'd been roped into taking in Del.
Kishi just smirked and went to touch the tip of her want to the Pony.
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:37 pm
Leith apparently wasn't having any of this 'poking' thing. Suffice to say, it seemed he was getting a little irritated having his pony/chewtoy's personal space bubble violated in such a fashion. With a muffled screech - he was, after all, still chomping away at the stuffed animal's neck -, Leith's chubby little baby fingers snapped out, snatching at the end of Kishi's wand, clutching it tightly and tugging at it stubbornly.
"Ah, Leith!" Tovar reached forward, carefully attempting to pry the infant's fingers from around the little girl's wand.
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:24 am
" It's ok it's obsidian he can't hurt it" Kishi said. Her tone was filled with dejection, although she loved babies and toddlers Leith was proving to be the one child she couldn't make a connection with. She supposed it was only natural though. " Plus I'm bugging him so it's not his fault." When Leith chose to let go she'd leave him alone from then on, no point in irritating him more.
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Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:51 am
Tovar smiled briefly, his expression a little sad. "It's alright, it's not your fault. He's just irritable, aren't you Leith?" The infant gurgled a little and then finally released the girl's wand, his chubby little fingers curling back over his stuffed toy.
"See? I think he's just grumpy about being in the high chair so long to be honest." Tovar hesitated, glancing toward Malen apprehensively before directing his attention back to Kishi. "You know, there's a nice little courtyard with a lot of grass just across the street there," he said, thumbing over in the general direction of the pavilion. "Maybe if your dad agreed, we could go over there so you two could play huh?"
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