One is enough, thank you! (Áine/Tony/children)

[chocofer]

That school was going to be the death of him.

No, seriously. Scanlon was enough. It was more than enough. Actually, if Áine didn’t love that little brat as much as he does, he’d have throttled him already. Various times. The kid was a pest! He hid things and cried at the oddest times in the morning and kept morphing all the time! If Aw didn’t have a little sister, who already made all those things to him, he would have killed someone.

But, in the end, Scan was too much of a dear. He could be the devil, but he would giggle and make baby faces and morph into a lookalike of anyone he liked and he never cries when he sleeps in a nest, like Tony, and he’s so tiny and so baby. Aw, in the end, always ended up doing his homework with him in his lap.

But one was enough. Scanlon and Noll and Tobiah and Tony, it was too much.

They were currently in their room, thought what they were doing could hardly be called ‘babysitting’. And Scanlon refused to leave either Aw’s or Tony’s lap while playing, and so one of them was always unavailable.

Aw prayed to all known and unknown gods that he’d never have to do such a thing ever again.

[Meduzia]

Although past few weeks were hectic, to say at the least, Tony has adapted himself and was now fully able to adjust with Scan, Aw and his occasional around-the-school-property-and-beyond with Alastor, or even worse, Tamara. But he was OK so far. Well... until Rashida found out.

Rashida Demir, Tony's mother, was a rather complicated woman, or so he thought. With mixed feelings for children, she would cherish her own and pester those of others. Tony wondered how far her tolerance for him went - after all, the small woman trusted Tony in every choice he would make. Obviously she did not trust him enough with a child, but she was able to close her eyes and pretend it never happened. Under one condition, that is. How did it ever come to babysitting other kids? Tony honestly didn't know. He remembered vaguely when she mentioned Filth being in need of caretaker...

The ginger was pulled out of his thoughts when curly, blonde child practically bit on his arm.

"Tobiah, what was that for?!" - he asked, but the still-crawling toddler only kept gnawing at his hand before he practically shrugged him of. And was that Noll who was half-hugging, half-crushing Scan on Aw's lap? Tony sighed and tapped Tobiah's forehead as the warning, not wanting to hit the child and letting him go easily. He picked him up and got closer to Aw.

"This is a nightmare." - he stated blankly.

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He patted the floor next to him in a sign of ‘come sit down’ and sighed in agreement. It was a nightmare. At least the three little ones got along well – if they disliked each other… Aw shuddered. Scanlon actually seemed to adore little Tobiah and promptly reached both his arms for him when Tony got closer, but have mixed feelings for Noll and his bone-crushing hugs.

“Scan seems to like Noll.” Aw said, tilting his head. “But it looks like he would rather have his internal organs intact.”, he add, picking the brunette baby and placing him in the floor in front of them, rather in his lap besides (over) Scanlon. Who was leaving his lap and still reaching for his father and the blond baby.

Scan frowned. “P’pa, To’y!”, he said, and that was the reason Aw put up with all this. He didn’t know Rashida, his friend’s mother, but he was not letting any adult get his son (god, it’s still so weird to think that word, ever weirder to said it out loud. Even with Scanlon saying ‘Papa’ and ‘Athair’ all the time.) away from him. No, seriously, it came to the point where it’d be strange not to have a room full of baby stuff, or not to hear two other people breathing at night.

Even if it probably made his interactions with other people next to zero.

Actually, Jamie was his only friend.

He sighed.

“Scanlon is ruining my social life,” he complained to his friend. “Not that I’d like to be surrounded by loads of people all the time, but I think you and his mother,” he pointed at Tobiah, “are the only ones here that I’ve talked to more than once.”

(I'M SO SORRY BUT I'M DRAWING AND DIDN'T NOTICE SAKDLJASLKDJKLASJ /SOB)

[Meduzia]

Tony sat down next to Áine with a sigh while Scan and Tobiah seemed to get along pretty well. Tobiah, for one reason of another, kept brushing his curly hair behind his ears. Was it what Vittoria did to him occasionally? Tony personally found it rather strange for a kid who could only say 'Madre' and 'No' rather strange. How did the kid even understand English? He decided not to think about it, lucky enough to have gotten Scanlon rather small so they could teach him whatever language they wanted to. Oh dear Lord, what are they going to do about teaching?

"I'm a little bit worried about Noll though. He's a little... He seems nice... enough, OK. But he is the child of two most obnoxious people in the Academy, without exaggerating. I have only briefly met his father AND been made fun of. Never personally met his mother... But Ma hates her." - he explained and shrugged. So far, except for (indeed) bone-crushing hugs, the kid seemed nice. Not too quiet, but he didn't complain about anything (much) and he wasn't (much of a) bother.

Thinking of what Áine said, Tony only nodded.

"Well he is a bit of a handful. I don't suppose Vicky would help anyway." - he nodded in general direction of Tobiah and Scanlon who were a complete mess on the floor between the two teens - "But I've gotten used to him. It's like I can't remember what it was without him." - he smiled slightly.

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"I'd probably have an emotional breakdown if I woke up at night and you two weren't there.", Aw addimited, too tired to care that he was being more sentimental than usual. "I love Scanlon and I think we take care of him pretty well and all, but whose idea was it to put two more children to our care? I don't think we can survive if exposed to any more of that." he said, gesturing to the ball between them that seemed to be Noll hugging Scan hugging Tobiah and the messy room in general.

Aw didn't even dare thinking what the three would be like as teens if they grew up together.

"Dare I ask, Tom,", he said slowly, "who on Earth is Tobiah's father? And Noll's parents? I don't think they'd agree to have us babysitting their sons." He sighed. He himself wouldn't let other person next to Scanlon ever again after what he did to his mother.

Let's just say her hair was never the same.

"Anyhow." he add, poking Noll's right cheek fondly. Oh hell, he was getting fond of them. Nothing good can come of that. "What are your parents? I know Tobiah is a Spider-thing like Spider-Woman, and Scan is.. Well, a bansheefter?"

[Meduzia]

Did a two-minute research and obviously a kid of 2 years should be able to talk...... Ahhh how do I do this sassdfggkksa Oh by the way. Love you title e v e ]]

"I would have a heart attack. " - Tonu admitted - "And I'm not even talking about the usual mini sort I have every once in a while." - he added as some sort of afterthought. Pondering at Aine's question for a while, he shrugged.

"Actually, I'm pretty sure Ma thought they are better off with us. Or she's punishing us. Could be as well." - he sighed in defeat. - "Besides, Ma hates them both. Maybe she's punishing us all."

But then came Tobiah. If Tony was to be honest, he didn't see Vittoria for a long time now. Could it have been 9 months? Possible. But he still didn't know where Tony popped from. Al heard more of her than It did... It couldn't have been Al, could it? No that's a stupid thought. The two been over for long time now. He shrugged.

"I don't know about Toby. He does look a bit too much like Vicky, doesn't he?"

Meanwhile, Noll's brain fought to answer the asked question. As the eldest, he understood most of things he was asked. However, as a two-year old he had problem voicing what he wanted to say.

"King." - child spoke in the end - "Erlkönig." - what he truly meant to say was earlking, wood spirit, but being a child of egocentric father and German mother, he knew that konig did, in fact, mean king.

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[['S okkkk I didn't know he could talk either haha look what happens when Mummy doesn't give me younger siblings]]

Aw scoffed. "Tom, I don't know your mother, but I think it's more probable that she's punishing everyone. Besides,", he add, "I think that now, at least, we have an excuse for not doing our homeworks." Aw chuckled. And, well, he at least was glad to put Scan with some other kids more around his age. Wouldn't do well to grow up surrounded by adults, and they got along anyway, so what's the big problem, right?

"But anyway. Why is everyone having babies all of sudden?" He looked at Tony and raised an eyebrow. "We can be forgiven because I didn't get anyone pregnant, but this Academy wasn't exactly made to host a dozen of toddlers." He completed, pointing at the three. They were well enough for the moment, if you don't count how Scanlon was climbing to Tony's lap and preparing himself to sleep hugging Tobiah. "Seems like you're going to be paralized for some time," commented the banshee, chuckling again. 

Áine got up and came back with all of his friend's blankets, which were many, and arranged them around the five of them like a nest (which was how Scan (and Aw, but he'll never tell) got used to sleep). He picked Noll up and placed him in middle, between him and Tony (and Scan and Toby). "Time to nap, Noll. I'll let you sleep with Scanlon if you promise me that, as the oldest here, you won't let they kill each other when you all grow up."

It was a vain hope.

Aw looked at Tony again. "I don't think I'd have missed a pregnant Victoria. I actually never talked to her anymore, but I used to see her all the time." he frowned. "And yes, the only difference between them that I can see is that Tobiah has less eyes and arms. Besides that... He's going to look exactly like her when he grows up."

[Meduzia]

My sister is 6 but I swear she could speak the day she was born. The kid just doesn't shut up//ming ]]

Thinking on his mother, Tony decided, yes, it was more likely.

"I couldn't agree more." - he nodded and chuckled with Aw - "That's a legit excuse too. These three are quite a handful. Were we this hard to take hold of when we were kids?" - not like they're not now. Or close to being kids. After all, they were both 18-ish.

"I think it's good for Scan. He likes them and.... We're his parents. Don't most of the children defy their parents?" - he commented though he did keep 'most of', for Scanlon hasn't defied them yet and for he himself never did.

He picked up Scanlon who was somehiw still managing to cling to Tobiah and laughed slightly while rubbing redhead's tummy affectionally.
"Noll is two years old, that's hardly all of the sudden." - he noticed - "How come everybody is having children and nobody cares?I mean....teachers not Headmaster. Everything is so weird here..... I think what you just said might be beside Noll's comprehension. " - perhaps it has been simple, but to Noll it was rather foreign and seemed like Billion things. However the blue-skinned child nodded in agreement.

"She does cave in a lot, but that is kind of hard to miss" - he agreed - "It had to be more than... Nine months and then some. How old do you think he is?" - Tony pointed to the blonde, curly child who was now attempting to hug children AND Scan's parents at the same time. Shapeshifter willed himself not to imagine him with an extra set of arms.

"Honestly, I wouldn't mind the eyes. But imagine all mess he could make with couple of arms extra."

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"I don't know. I was very spoiled when I was five-ish, but that's because of my mother." He sighed. "She says that I was 'too cute' and 'so adorable' and so on and on. I didn't let her ruin Ang that much, so I think we'll be fine.", he completed with a shrugh. He didn't ever like to think about his cousins. The last time he saw them... Aw trembled. Scanlon would never spend more than a week with his Bancor relatives without Aw.

"I've never met the Headmaster, so I can't say, but I don't know. I think everybody here is just crazy. Not a good idea to put so many horny teenagers in one place filled with people that don't mind a couple of babies." He sighed. Noll and Tobiah had grown in him, but as long as those two were the only babies people would tell him to babysit, he was ok. Sort of.

Ok, fine, Áine likes children. But he'd only babysit some. And not all the time. At all.

He sighed again.

"Eer, a couple of months? No idea. How can she disappear for more than half a year and still be here? I don't understand Siper-Woman. She probably had a child with herself." he chuckled. The way they were alike, he had no problem believing this. But Tony's next phrase got him unprepared. "Oh God no, don't even think. The way he is now, he'd probably try to hug the whole school." he shook his head, and started to put the three of them (still clinging to one another, oh lord) to bed. Well, to nest. He arranged the three to lay one besides another and not over, and put one part of a blanket over them (it was hard to tell which part belonged to which blanket). Aw patted Noll's and Toby's head and kissed Scan's. "Better let them sleep. We've been here for a long time, someone is probably coming to pick them up or something."

[Meduzia]

Tony shrugged.

"I wasn't because Ma kept claiming that she doesn't like kids. Which of course turned out false, but she had 'image' to uphold." - redhead rolled his eyes, attempting NOT to think of his mother when she was angry. From what he understood, she was murdered for 4th or 5th time few years before that and was, of course, still angry. At mother of one of the students here, from what he understood. He knew that it was all messed up and Rashida didn't touch the girl because she just happened to be child of her previous fiancee. Messed up like Hell, if you asked Tony.

"I haven't met him either, but a friend of mine has. His uncle sleeps with Headmaster of something. I mean- they're roommates, not a-actual couple--" - Tony struggled with words, unsure of how to explain this - "I mean... Like you and me, only more crazy." - he shot Aine a smile and then got up to help him tuck in the children.

"I doubt that she had a child with herself. Obviously you haven't seen her... flirting and all... Al used to date her, before he dated me. I'm not saying that he-! I mean, they broke up and all and I--" - he surely must've been tired. Too much thinking. He shook his head and tried to reword what he was attempting to say - "Ah, let's see. I've told Al already. I don't care about who they swap spit with. But I'm pretty sure that wasn't him. A~nd I don't have any other ideas either. I've seen her flirt, even with Noll's father, even though he ignored her all the time... So... Maybe it's somebody out of the Academy?" - he suggested. What were they doing? Gossiping? Oh god, Al was a bad influence.

"I think she comes out of her rooms only when she hears some mess around. Like, when students broke window once. Alan - Alastor's uh... it's complicated, but, Al's roomie - said she sent them to detention. That's only time he's seen her. And she caught me and Al several times when we were trying to... urm... How would you react if I told you that we were trying to break into infirmary?" - he smiled awkwardly. It was very obvious that he was uncomfortable, but that had been emergency. He chuckled at Aw's remark about Toby and kissed all three of boys.

"I just hope they are better than parents, yes? Including Scan, yes, him too." - he nodded, a little bit red because he didn't want to offend Aine.

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Aw sighed at his friend. "Tom, you're my best friend, but I don't think it can get crazier than this. Look at us,", he added, pointing at the nest with three kids in it. "How many people at this academy have to do this?", he said, raising his eyebrows. Also, he tried not to think too much of Rashida. She had simpathysed too much with his own mother and that always ment crazy of the highest level.

Aw furrowed his eyebrows. He didn't know of his friend's ex-boufriend, after all. "Al?" And then he chuckles. "Swalp spit? What a nice way of saying 'kissing', Tom." Though... It probably was someone out of the Academy. Aw shrugged. "I don't know. I'd be happier not knowing actually. She probably grabbed the first male she saw or something.", he
add, chuckling again.

Aw smiled a bit (only a bit) maliciously at Tony. "My, Tony, what exactly were you going to do on the infermary, all alone?", he commented. Oh god this was something he'd rather not know, but Tony's face was priceless to him. He could hear Scanlon giggling though. Hopefully they wereb't corrupting their son too soon. "Well, she once came into my room, before you came. When that infernal cat was still camping here." Fortunately, the beast had grown tired of Aw and no more sneezes were heard anymore.

He sighed. "The way Scan is now, he's going to be a devil when he grows up."

[Meduzia]

"I suppose you are right, then." - Tony shrugged - "I can't name one, let alone two people who have to do this. They all dump their things on u-us." - he cleared his throat, stuttering only slightly because he was not supposed to say that. Or so he thought.

"Isn't it, though?" - the redhead questioned - "I mean, it wasn't entirely unpleasant, but it's mainly just it - swapping spit. I think there are other ways to show affection, is all." - he commented and stretched, suddenly thinking of something.

"Speaking of Al... Am I clingy? During the night I mean? I've been told I am, since we used to share a bed back when we were still dating, you know." - he said and laughed, honestly hoping Alastor was joking back then. He didn't want to make Áine uncomfortable or anything.

"S-S-Surely not what y-y-you ar-re th-thinking!" - he stuttered out, flustered and his face red in embarrassment. - "People just don't want to b-believe that two people can stay f-f-friends AFTER they break u-up!" - Tony used his hand to wave around his face to cool off a little and he tried to calm down.

"I'm sure... he'll be fine. Your kid. And mine, I suppose. He'll be a nice little guy." - empty hope, but... at least it was a hope.

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Aw did that thing that Scanlon als secretly got from him - he looked at Tony as if Tony was being particularly sily. "Tom, I never kissed anyone so I can't really say anytning, but I didn't need that image in my head.", he said. Great, no he was stuvk with a mental imahe of Tony kissing someone. Now he had to burn his own eyes.

Aw smirked at his friend without looking at him. "Yes, you are. You look like an octopus, Tom, that's why I can never get out oof bed before you.", the boy joked. Well, Tony was an octopus, but then so was Aw and Scanlon. That's why the three started sleeping together so much, after all.

"Oh, I see. So you trked to break into the infirmary after tyou broke up? Hm. Ok, why?", the boy asked, tilting his head a little. He had never been to the infirmary, so he couldn't tell what ot was that Tonynwent there for. But, wel, the nad time and the kids were sleeping, so tnere was no problem.

Aw sighed. "Let's hope.", he said. "But not too much."

[Meduzia]

"Well I have, and that should be enough." - he said with a nod. He did and he was mainly teased for this point of view of his. It's not like he ever refused any kisses given to him, or that he hasn't given any, no matter what he was saying - "It's hard to have an image in your head, when you've never even seen something of the sor-- Did you imagine me in bed with somebody?"

Shapeshifter made a face and shook his head, being a bit too dramatic. Not that he wanted Aw to have those images, thank you very much. Or anybody, for that matter, as long as it included him. He went beet red.

"I-I'm sorry, t-then! I don't mean to, I just-- just-- I cling." - he said 'helpfully' and rubbed his cheek, that were now almost as red as his hair.

"Yes, after we broke up." - he confirmed - "Because Al needed some... potion, thing, I don't know exactly. And his boy" - that's what Tony was calling Alan - "wasn't at Academy at the time, so... I was the only one who could squeeze through the window." - the boy explained, not wanting to remember how he had to walk out of the door because he climbed on Alastor's shoulders, but couldn't go back outside because he didn't remember shifting. Scary few moments, but apparently students went to infirmary a lot. And not for healing mostly, it seemed as well.

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Aw grunted dramatically and covered his face with his hands. "Oh lord, Tom! If I didn't brgore, I ceirtanly do now!" Aw cursed his fair complexion how the hell do you write complexion as his face went tomato-red. "Tom, I don't think it's socially acceptable to imagine your best friend- argh- bunny munching someone.", he finished without moving his hands, in whispers.

"His... Boy?", Aw asked, not sure of what his friend meant. Alastor's boyfriend? Alastor's son? Aw shrugges. "Having a shifter friend is very useful, I suppose. Not that I ever saw you shifting much.", Aw said, snorting. Sometimes, Aw even forgot that his friend could be someone else, if he wanted. He wondered why Tony kept Antonia's name and appearence, too.

That's kind of why he calls him Tom, actually, instead of Tony. It seems kind of wrong, sonce keeping the name Tony was Tony's idea, probably. But Tom is a nickname for Thomas, and Aw prefers it when Tony is his own person, instead of a part of that woman.