OOM: Beach. Baby. Bianca....yeah

[latino_menace]

Ramon's more than happy to disappear while Arithon and Random do their thing with magic and souls. He's a little less comfortable with having to entertain a kid while they do so.

Hmmm. Beach. There's a lot of sand. He has no blanket to put the kid on and has the vague notion that putting him down without one would be Frowned Upon. Also, how does one put sunscreen on a baby that's wearing clothes anyway.

Ramon does the sensible thing. He stands and...flails waits for a solution to present itself.

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[abotticellilady.livejournal.com]

Oh, come on. He didn't really expect her to let that comment about becoming a hormonal milkbag slide, did he?

She sighs, just enough to be perfectly annoyed and long-suffering. Walking over, she takes Martin out of Ramon's frozen arms.

"Come on, sweetie, lets go for a walk and leave daddy to chat up the pretty girls, okay?" Giving them all a smile, she hitches her bag around and starts walking back up the beach.

[latino_menace]

Suddenly faced with five girls all giving him enquiring - and somewhat pissed off - looks, Ramon sighs and spreads his hands.

'Sorry about her. She's just mad because her husband is back at their house with another guy right now, if you know what I mean.'

Seeing as they've already been given the impression that he's something of an asshole by wanting to get custody of a kid for revenge, the news that he's with another man's wife possibly detracts from what he's saying.

...in fact, he realises, that he's now given the impression that Bianca is only with him because her husband is gay, which wasn't the intention at all. Time to cut his losses, he thinks, especially as they now seem to be feeling sympathetic to Bianca, and not him.

Damn her.

He makes his excuses and leaves them muttering about how men can be such bastards - which is true, but not what he'd been aiming for at all - and catches up to Bianca. Who gets a sour expression, obviously.

'Enjoy that did you?'

[abotticellilady.livejournal.com]

Cheerfully,

"Si." Martin is currently in serious contemplation of the pearls strung through her golden hair, so Ramon probably can't kill her without hurting the baby.

[latino_menace]

He sighs in an extremely long suffering way, and lights a cigarette.

'Honestly, five hundred years of this? Just kill me now.'

[randomsbastard.livejournal.com]

"Burble."

A flailing hand attempts to grab sunglasses. Anybody's sunglasses.

[abotticellilady.livejournal.com]

Well, Bianca's are in reach. She winces, and just takes them off to let the baby play with them before glancing at Ramon.

"Well, maybe if you refrain from saying I'm going to turn into a hormonal milkbag, I'll be nicer." She points out, sweetly.

[latino_menace]

Ramon looks at her - staying well clear of shades-stealing babies - and replies,

'You're kidding me, right? That was a joke - and anyway, you are going to turn into an hormonal milkbag.'

Some people just never learn.

[abotticellilady.livejournal.com]

"And that wasn't a joke?" Bianca asks, gesturing with her head slightly back towards the girls. "Really, you do have no sense of humour."

[latino_menace]

He'd like to point out that his joke hadn't scuppered a conversation with five women who weren't wearing very many clothes, but thinks that maybe he'd better just let it go before she decides to play any more on him.

'My sense of humour is just fine,' he says, then waves it off and points at Martin. 'Not too heavy for you?'

[abotticellilady.livejournal.com]

"Hmm? Oh, no. He's fine."

[latino_menace]

He lets quiet reign for a moment, idly wondering what Random and Arithon are up to. Then he asks,

'So what's with the girl? How old is she?'

[abotticellilady.livejournal.com]

"She looks to be about twelve or so. And...she was tortured. Traumitized. A pretty thing, so I'll leave it to your imagination to say 'how'."

[latino_menace]

'Oh.'

He sounds unconcerned. Because he is.

'Well, I guess I can see why it's not good for Arithon to be around her then. Why not put her in a hospital here somewhere?'

[abotticellilady.livejournal.com]

"Because he wants to get her soul back first."

[latino_menace]

'Yes, I know that,' he says, a little impatiently. 'I mean afterwards, when you weren't sure what to do with her. Put her in a psych ward or something.'

[abotticellilady.livejournal.com]

"We only can if we can prove that she's a danger to herself or us." She says with a sigh.

[latino_menace]

'Well, is she likely to kill herself? Some kids do, I hear.'

Of course, then it occurs to him that it probably wouldn't be allowed anyway.

'Arithon wouldn't let her go to one I suppose.'

[abotticellilady.livejournal.com]

"Not really, no."

[latino_menace]

He shrugs and drops it. Not really his problem, unless the girl starts tormenting Arithon further than she is already. If she does, he'll have to do something about it.

[abotticellilady.livejournal.com]

And now there is a slightly awkward silence.

Lovely.

Bianca is possibly a bit too worried about her sunglasses to actually attempt to do anything about it, though.

[latino_menace]

Luckily, babies generally provide something to talk about. Ramon nods at him and says,

'He'll probably attempt to eat those if you're not careful.'

No, seriously.

[abotticellilady.livejournal.com]

"I know...I have two nephews under the age of two." Although she does shift Martin onto her hip and attempt to take her sunglasses back.

It...doesn't really work.

[latino_menace]

'Do you?'

He hadn't known that. And he smirks at her attempts to retrieve her shades.

'You obviously haven't met this kid as an adult. If Bar were ever to run out of food, he'd just eat the bar. Never seen anything like it.'

[abotticellilady.livejournal.com]

"Yes, I do. It's...a long story with Joshua, but Andrei was adopted." Bianca doesn't entirely get how Joshua is the son of a god, but also part vampire and why he has wings and, really, she's not about to explain that Ramon.

Possibly the mun is still rubbing her head over it, too.

"And, no, no I have not." Pause. "Martin, if you eat my sunglasses, just remember that there is only one witness."

[latino_menace]

'And I won't back you up,' he says to the kid. Which gets him stared at, predictably.

He glances at Bianca then, and frowns. 'Andrei? Like...Aeyrn's kid?'

He's the only Andrei he's heard of and he knows he was adopted out.