No Knives for Baby [Finished!!!]

[Dark]

Minh purred, leaning into the massage so far that she almost tipped them both over in the process. Aderlass really was an exceptional masseuses, and if he ever lost interest in the artsy stuff he could make a fortune off the trade--if she would ever be willing to share him, anyway, which would be never. And... there had been a question in there, somewhere.

"Haydn? I think he's possessed."

It was a fair assessment. Her male-child was a darling when he wanted to be, but that was usually when she needed to start worrying the most. Hadyn wasn't quiet, and when he was something was about to go horribly wrong. And sometimes there was a rather spectacular explosions to go along with the mayhem. If he applied himself, he'd probably be brilliant--as it stood, he was most pleased by mischief and mayhem and living in the moment.

"A bander? He's probably set the poor thing on fire." Or turn it into some sort of look-out, so that he could conduct even more mischief.

Minh was just glad he hadn't been born higher in rank, because if he had then they would be in real trouble.

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Haydn shook his head. The expression on Eir's face did not bode well for anyone whose name did not happen to be Eir and/or lackey. And while Haydn always took a certain delight in watching his cousin work his magic on the weaker minds of the community, there was a certain element lacking--mostly, his own involvement. Which was why he was currently working on a pipe bomb.

He wasn't sure to what purpose he would put it at present time, but he was certain the perfect moment would eventually present itself--and when it did, he would be ready.

[Bee]

Eir smirked at his cousin. Knowing Hadyn, he probably just wanted to make something go boom. It was probably the Corvistowne blood in him. They all had an irrepressible desire to do weird crap like blow up buildings and make banders grow spikes and wings. He wouldn't be surprised if that region were currently engineering the apocalypse, just because they could and because it amused them.

Not that Eir wasn't on board with massive destruction, provided his body didn't add to the final count. Ira was happy wreaking mischief, at least. His older brother usually was. He was also possibly brain-damaged, but Eir never speculated long on that. They just had to convince Hadyn. Mother called it finding the right angle. Find something that would appeal to him.

"Come on, bro. You just have to help me hide. Then we can have fun. We can detonate the park and blame it on Helena."

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Mnem sighed as Darrien grabbed her hand and kissed it. She hadn't seen him for quite some time, and it would be nice to be with someone who was not a child.

She said, wearily, "They've been their usual charming selves." And by "charming," of course, she meant "irritating" and "loud" and "in-the-name-of-everything-holy-I-could-sell-them-on-the-black-market" and a thousand other unpleasant adjectives. One child was too much; she didn't know what evil she had worked to deserve being saddled with seven. Well, scratch that. She did know what evil she had worked, but still, that kind of cruel and unusual punishment was something that happened to other people.

She cast a glance at Shinrai, and for a moment was amused at how tremendously awkward it would be for the father of her children to come and join a chat with her and her sort-of boyfriend. Fortunately, he was otherwise occupied.

She smiled. "How has work been, darling?"

[Bee]

Helena cheerily obliged, cuddling her brother happily. He wasn't hugging back, though, which was distressing. Hugs were always less fun when when the other person wasn't hugging back. Like that boy she had grabbed on the street the other day, the one with the blue--or was it green?--eyes, with whom she had fallen so passionately in love. She had squealed and grabbed him, and he had stood stock-still for a moment while Helena pawed at him, and then he had screamed and run away, calling her a freak and pausing once to throw a rock. Her feelings had been hurt deeply, and she had walked around for hours--or perhaps just minutes--hoping it would rain so the effect would be complete. She hated it when the sun shown on her deep depression.

Se was wrong about Eir, though. He wasn't a bully; he loved her.

"We should follow them," she pressed.

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Someone making way towards his mother momentarily caught Iphis's attention. Darrien! He hadn't seen him in a while. He was another one of Mommy's special man-friends, though he came around often more than the others, and Mommy seemed to like him more. Iphis had asked about him, once or twice, wondering if Darrien was going to be their new daddy (and what happened to old daddies when new ones came along; he didn't want anything bad to happen to Original Daddy, because Iphis loved him too much), but Mommy had just gotten angry at him and told him to buzz off.

But Iphis was happy for her. He hoped he could have special man-friends one day too. Lots of them, like Mommy had. Ones that sent him flowers and chocolate and told him how pretty he was. Though one of his temporary babysitters hadn't been very pleased when she asked Iphis what he wanted to be when he grew up, and he had proudly announced, "A slut!" because that's what he had heard the nice man at the bazaar call Mommy once.

He frowned contemplatively at Elyse, torn now between wanting to meet the new people and say hi to Darrien.

[Kasatsu]

When Minh leaned back into him, almost causing both of them to collapse onto the grass, he gave deep chuckle in amusement. Continuing on with his massage, hitting all the tender spots, he thought over what she had told him about his son. He sincerely hoped that his son’s ‘activeness’ – light term to use towards it – was not causing too much of a hassle on his Minh. If so he and his son would have to have words.

He chuckled some more when she mentioned the Bander being on fire, seeing it coming true. If not that then the Monty was sure to take a liking towards it . . . which every way that would swing be it friendship or enemies. “If not a Bander, then wot else would you suggest I get for the little termite?

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She had noticed that his attention had shifted to the male canine who had taken a seat next to his mom.

“Who is that?” she asked curiously. The only males that she had seen around his or her mom for that matter were her dad and Sir Whip.

[The Jenn]

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[Dark]

"I would suggest a fire extinguisher, but I suppose that's not exactly what you had in mind, was it?"

She starred off in the direction her demonic spawn had taken off in, fur bristling a little in unease. It was too quiet, and she was beginning to have a very bad feeling about whatever the dear little children were up to. Of course, it was probably no worse than what she did on a regular basis--if Haydn wanted to blow things up and start fires for fun, so long as he didn't get caught by the authorities or destroy any lab equipment, he was welcome to it.

Feeling a bit mischievous, she maneuvered herself into a sort of flailing glomp which toppled both she and Aderlass over in a tangled mess of limbs. She purred.

Catching a glimpse of blue, she laughed and burrowed closer to Aderlass, "Hey, look. It's Mnem's boyfriend. Poor Rai--he must be heartbroken."

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Haydn gave Eir a look that stated quite clearly that he knew very well he was being played. Detonating the park sounded rather uneventful, actually. He supposed the body count would be rather impressive, but he'd rather have some sort of rubble to set flying or some sort of flammable material get caught in the blast to create an even more impressive explosion--a building would be much more satisfying in the long run. And no one would be dumb enough to believe Helena would be capable of creating such an intricate detonator, no matter how delightful framing her would be.

He fiddled with the wiring a bit, tilting his head in consideration, "I'll help you, but we wait on the pipe bomb. I want it to be...just...right."

[Jaguara Katial]

Maji tilled her head at the equine’s comment. Has she seen him before? In addition, if so where had it been? Was it at Ashwin’s? Maybe on the street? She really could not remember. She reached up and touched the necklace that graced her neck. It had become a habit since she got it. “Where do you think that you have seen me before?” Her voice was clam and relaxed.

Aeron looked around the park with his eyes. He did see many children around and most of them had some kind of resemblance to Vishne. Aeron did not know about his brother. Mama and Ashwin never mentioned one, so as far as he knew he was an only child. “I don’t have any siblings.” He said with a smile.

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Darrien looked at Mnem with worried eyes. The children always seemed to be a handful for her and he felt bad for not being able to be around to help with them. Hopefully “Whip” was doing his fair share.

He had to admit that when Mnem had told him that she was expecting he was delighted…but unfortunately she also disclosed that they were not his. It was a crushing blow but he was a man after all and he was determined to do his best to be a good father figure to the bunch.

“Work has been busy…this job is almost over and my stay here in the capital has been extended until the spring.” He wanted to tell her that he wanted to stay here with her…that he would arrange to never go home but he knew that was not possible. Tuuli was at home waiting and he did not know how to rid himself of that little problem so that he could stay here with Mnem. He just looked into her eyes, held her hand, and thought quietly for a moment. Maybe “Whip” could handle the children by himself so that Mnem could have a break. “Mnem…do you think that Whip would watch the children for you for a while? You need some time to yourself too…” He smiled at her and hoped that she would find a way to leave the children with their father.

[seraaches]

Ira gave a low laugh, well pleased with how the day was coming together so far. "Now all we really need to do is find a way to make it Mom's fault for wotever trouble we get into!" he announced proudly, something he could engineer quite well himself once Eir told them the Plan. "So, Eir," he continued brightly. "Wot mischief have you decided upon today?"

Se flattened his ears again and shot his sister a dark, pointed look. "No. Eirhead is just that. He's going to be getting someone or something in trouble and for once it won't be us. Let's go find something else to do." Like sit and stare at passing strangers. Heh. Actually, he kind of enjoyed doing that with Helena. Those who found themselves on slightly disturbed by his pupiless gaze, often discovered that they could not stand Helena's fawning, even if it was from a distance. "Let's go watch the people walking by."

[seraaches]

Despite the comments of their friends, and Mnem's own self-inflated arrogance, not only was Rai aware of Darrien's presence in the woman's life, he welcomed it. The woman seemed content to use him merely as a distraction and not as a potential experiment, so the King turned a blind eye and pretended that the 'affair', as it were, didn't exist. Not that he was 'faithful' to Mnem; he'd had a few -- childless!!!!!-- daliances himself, and was simply cautious to be sure his weren't discovered. Someday they certainly would and his potential blackmailer would be surprised by the fact that he didn't care. He only kept it a secret now so Mnem wouldn't come up with something more devious than a hidden boyfriend.

So when he caught a glimpse of Darrien's white fur and distinctive clothing in his peripheral vision, he was carefully to shift his weight so they were less in his sight and more at his back. Let them 'steal' a few more moments together beofre he had reason to charge over and act as though he didn't want them near each other. Serafino was making him a lot better at these types of games.

Rai tilted his head thoughtfully as the woman fingered her necklace and abruptly he recalled, snapping his fingers and giving her a smile, "Aha, I recall." He lifted his left hand where his bone gauntlet was strapped, as usual into place. "I got a particularly nice deal on this at Cauter's Shoppe. Were you able to do the same with your lovely necklace?" Off the top of his head, he couldn't recall if he'd heard wot her necklace did.

Vishne looked at Aeron with newfound respect. "No siblings? Man, you're super lucky. Mine are bullies, jerks, and freaks." He glowered slightly again. "They're always picking on me."

[Kasatsu]

She smiled at him, preening a little from the compliment. She really did enjoy making pretty things for Iphis. “Over where?” Elyse looked in the direction of where Iphis was pointing. There indeed were new comers talking to Rai-Daddy and Vishne.

“Alright, lets.” She said.

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“For some odd reason I do not think Hadyn would get the humor behind such a gift” he replied with a chuckle amused by the mental image of his son being soaked and definitely not pleased.

He was suddenly caught off guard when Minh threw herself at him, causing them both to topple onto the grass. As she snuggled closer to him, he wrapped his arms around her, gathering her closer. This was definitely something he had missed.

Looking over to where Mnem was indeed sitting with her ‘boyfriend’, he eyed them for a long moment silently trying to assess the relationship. He had never really understood what was happening between Mnem and Darrien, actually he had not even really been aware that there was any sort of relationship between the two of them.

“You know, I do not know Whip’s stance on the situation between the two. He has not said a word about it.” Making a mental note to ask his friend about it whenever a proper time came up, he turned his attention back to the female in his arms. “You do not have a boyfriend that I do not know about, right?” he asked her playfully.