Of Stormy Nights [Áine/Tony]

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Tony appeared to be in a denial phase that Aw was to tired to be annoyed at, so the banshee just sat up in an attempt at not falling asleep again because damn his pillow was so comfy.

Now he had to find a way to casually say that he had sex with a fairy named Bea and got her pregnant.

"Er. Tom,", he started. "Remember when we were all weird because of those drinks, and I had all those red spots in my body and stuff.. ?", he said, yawning. "Well, it also made me, er. Stuff.. Then, you know.", ok this wasn't going as Aw planned. He started again. "It also made me, well. I had sex with a garden fairy called Bea and she got pregnant and I then she laid an egg and then Benedict was born and you know, he's got black hair like me and it's all curlyy...", the banshee finished almost whispering, his eyelids almost closing over his eyes.

He murmured a 'Can you get me a cup of coffee' to Scanlon and gave up on his plan of staying up. He lowered to his pillow again and started talking about Ahana, hugging Tony close again. "Stuff happened that Fer and Welsh are still planning but I was with Renee one day and Ahana appeared from nowhere, like Scan.", Aw explained. Well, it wasn't really an explanation, but it was three in the morning so he was forgiven.

He sipped his coffee from the coffee machine conveniently placed on their room while Scan started poking Tony again.

[Meduzia]

"Oh, you just can't keep it inside of your pan---" - he giggled crazily. It usually wasn't something Tony would say. He'd never be this blunt. Tony was of those people who weighted their words carefully, but this was stronger than him. After all, it was so late and he didn't really event think...

"On more serious note, would you endure a good old-fashioned slap? I'm not really strong, but that should do it, yes? Unless you already got one." - he shrugged, however instead of slapping his best friend, he just returned the hug.

"As for the other kid, I suppose that is alright, isn't it? Kids appear here a lot, it seems, no big deal." - Tony shrugged or just made a motion that looked like shrugging from his position, muttering something like 'you are so warm' afterwards. Finally, he decided to face Scanlon.

"Alright~ Scan, I get it, you want to show me something. What is i-" - he stopped because he noticed another baby, one that was obviously tugging at Scan's hair and generally trying to harass the redhead. The redheaded father threw his head on the mattress and then covered it with a pillow.

Muffled "Aw, would you please tell me there is no other baby next to Scan please?" - could be barely heard.

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Aw halfheartedly smacked Tony in his big red head. "Shut up, Tom. Three in the morning isn't the best time to talk about my pants." Well, no time is the best time to talk about people's pants, but you get the point. "That I remember, you also have a son", he pointed, eyebrows raised high.

He also decided to ignore Jamie's suggestion and drink his damn coffee instead. Great, he still hated this bitter drink but couldn't stop drinking it. Aw sighed, gulping down all the drink in one gulp.

Then Tony stopped talking to Aw and the banshee sighed into his pillow, at least until the shifter started speaking to him again. "What.. ?", the banshee asked, quite confused. "What baby, Tom?", he asked, frowning.

[Meduzia]

"That's why we're talking about them. Or rather lack of same." - Tony practically bubbled in his spot, teasing even though it was no situation to tease. Perhaps in the morning, he would reconsider his sleepy actions and apologize, but right now, he couldn't really care.

"We did not have sex. Unless you did something to me while I was sleeping, but that's hardly even coming into question. You'd surely wake me up before you could even get down from a bed, so~!" - alright, so that wasn't quite true and Tony was a heavy sleeper, but that was alright. Vaguely, he wondered if their new roommate would mind if they occasionally had conversations like this in the middle of the night, but he pushed the thought at the back of his head.

"Maybe I'm hallucinating" - the redhead tried again - "But there is a baby abusing Scan. Or I'm just in need of cup of coffee, I dunno." - he raised his head slightly, groaning when the picture didn't disappear. 'Please not another one. At least make it nice.'

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Aw closed his eyes. "Let's stop talking about pants in general. Forever, please.", he pleaded. Tony should stop saying stuff he'd regret in the morning - he would then keep apologising and Aw could do without the apologising, really.

"Wow, Tom. This way you're going to scar our future roommate too soon.", he commented. Because it was true. Their new roommate better be prepared - Aw and Tony weren't very coherent when they were sleep-deprived and together. "Shut up and let's sleep."

Aw slowly, very slowly opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling. And sighed. The banshee sat up and looked over to where Scanlon was. And there he was, being groped by a tiny black haired baby. Aw just stared for some time, and when he finally spoke, it was in a neutral tone, as if he was talking about the weather. "It's got your eyes.", he pointed flatly.

Meanwhile, Scanlon was basking in the glory of having a sibling that could sleep with him at all times.

[Meduzia]

Still holding in a fit of giggles, Tony agreed to stop talking about pants in general anyway. After all, he felt like he has already said more than enough. Which wasn't untrue, really.

"Maybe they are a heavy sleeper." - Tony commented, shrugging their new roommate-to-be off his thoughts completely as he cracked only one eye open. And indeed, there was a green eyed baby, like he had assumed. It seemed it really was his, seeing that it had that those darned spots under the eyes. He rubbed his eyes sleepily. Why did most Loves have those? Was it genetics? Maybe. Tony himself liked them. So did Antonia. It was more matter of aesthetics than anything else, really...

"Is it safe to assume it is yours?" - he asked and separated the two - siblings? - and observed the newborn.... new-appeared rather, baby.

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"Or maybe he'll stay up all night listening to us blabbing.", Aw said. It was also very possible that the roommate would axphixiate them in their sleep, but the banshee thought it was better not to sa-y this part aloud.

"Well,", the boy murmured, still kind of in shock. "It's -- she's got black hair. And the eyebrows.", Aw added. Seemed like all his childrenwere doomed to have huge eyebrows like him. Aw eyed suspiciously the baby girl in Tony's arms, narrowing his eyes ar her. She kind of looked like Scanlon - round face, big eyebrows, that nose. Damn it. He was already getting attached. "Uh, Tom. What exactly will we do with her?", he asked, eyeing Scmlon as he bounced to Tony's side and tried to take the little girl to his own little arms.

[Meduzia]

"Why would he do that? It's our thing, what we talk in the evening." - he shrugged. Tony usually didn't exactly... understand the whole 'eavesdropping' concept.

"Whose else could it be?" - he asked, mostly himself - "I don't really go and socialize with many people who have black hair... I know only few." - yes, which included Áine, Alan, he was sure he once met a black-haired vampire and Alan's uncle... All more unbelievable that the other. Alan... he wasn't sure that Alastor would appreciate that. He's never met Alan's uncle, the encounter with vampire was far too short... That of course, left Aw only.

He gave the baby to Scanlon, warning her brother not to hurt her or damage her in any way (despite the fact that baby so obviously tried to maul Scan once more) and patted both of the babies.

"I don't know, keep her? What else do we do with her?" - he shrugged.

[Meduzia]

"Why would he do that? It's our thing, what we talk in the evening." - he shrugged. Tony usually didn't exactly... understand the whole 'eavesdropping' concept.

"Whose else could it be?" - he asked, mostly himself - "I don't really go and socialize with many people who have black hair... I know only few." - yes, which included Áine, Alan, he was sure he once met a black-haired vampire and Alan's uncle... All more unbelievable that the other. Alan... he wasn't sure that Alastor would appreciate that. He's never met Alan's uncle, the encounter with vampire was far too short... That of course, left Aw only.

He gave the baby to Scanlon, warning her brother not to hurt her or damage her in any way (despite the fact that baby so obviously tried to maul Scan once more) and patted both of the babies.

"I don't know, keep her? What else do we do with her?" - he shrugged.

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"Is that it, then?", the banshee asked, frowning. "So I've got four kids. Four kids, and I'm nineteen. Mother basically skinned me for Scanlon alone!", he said, eyes still on the babies. Oh god, from now on, they'd give sleepingnpills to Scanlon when there was a storm. Aw decided he would not haven a crisis right now and laid back besides Tony, though, and watched as Scanlon struggled to carry his baby sister to the place between Aw and Tony, even though she was still harassing him.

The banshee sighed, and patted her little head. "Everyone except Scan has black hair.", he commented. Maybe tomorrow he could bring Benny and Ahana to their room too.

Oh god, it's not even weird that he is a father anymore.

[Meduzia]

"That's not what I wanted to say, I meant--" - Tony sighed, not sure if they were even on the same page here. He decided not to bother. Áine was the better one with words, from what Tony could tell at least. He usually said wrong things at wrong times. Like now.

"You'll be fine. She'll learn to deal with it... Eventually." - he tried consoling his best friend. He knew that Rashida didn't mind... but it was a woman named 'Dementia' after all. This second child wouldn't be a surprise. Tony was not 18 and Rashida probably thought it was perfect time to have a child. Ignoring completely that she never gave birth to her own, but then again, she had warped vision of world around her.

"You have strong genes, then. See how the girl has black hair too~" - he chuckled slightly, cracking a small smile.

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"She'll burn me alive and take my kids with her.", he stated. It was a fact - Amanda is justthat kind of wwoman.

Well, ni, not really, but Aw feared for himself anyway.

"I just hope she'll be a good girl.", Aw said, looking at Scanlon again as said girl continued to harass him. Really, it was a vain hope. Even Scanlon knew she'd grow up to be a worse devil than even he was.

"What about names, then, Tom? I named Scan, now it's your turn."

[Meduzia]

"You are over-reacting. Isn't the woman the one who is supposed to be overly emotional and all?" - Tony raised an eyebrow, rubbing his eyes slightly. Unlike his now coffee addicted friend, he did not feel the slightest need to drink coffee, but he did still feel tad sleepy. Not that it wasn't tempting, with the coffee machine there, in their room, but he still didn't like it. He'd probably add way too much sugar for anybody's liking.

Tony wanted to say 'I'm sure she'll be...' but seeing how the girl was already harassing Scanlon and how she already was pulling on his hair, he wasn't exactly sure if that was going to work out. The more he looked at her, the more sure he was that there is still hope for Scanlon.

"Umm I don't know?" - he tried to ponder, but Tony was terrible with names. Had the redhead had it his way, everybody would be named after somebody in family, because that saved a lot of time and thinking - "Amanda...?" - he suggested gingerly, waiting to be strangled.

On more serious note, he was thinking about female names he knew.

Having two mothers, that wasn't the most difficult part. Having one Islamic mother who had names in family that Tony can't even pronounce, that was a little bit harder. But, if he recalled correctly, there had been pretty names.

"Well, I know of..." - he 'mhmmm'ed, trying to remember as many names as he could - "Antonia's mother was Octavia, her sister was Christina, their mother was Annabeth... Then my mom's sisters were Elmira and Almera, since they were twins, it's just a variation of the same name... I think their mother was Leila? Not sure about it, Ma mentioned it only briefly. None of those flows really well with Scanlon, except for Annabeth and Octavia. If you have any other suggestions, I'm pretty open for those."

He pondered for a while before adding: "Antonia's first name is Beatrice, but I'd much rather prefer if we didn't use that."

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"That's why, Tom", Aw said. "She'll get overly angry, then she'll kill me, then she'll take my kids and name all of them after me because she felt guilty.", he finished, sighing. The banshee just drank more coffee, don't ask where it came from because in that room, coffee comes from everywhere, and decided he would enjoy life while he could.

Aw didn't even bother to scowl at Tony when he suggested 'Amanda' as a name. The banshee would name her 'Taco' before naming her after his mother. Just imagining the scene Amanda would make if they named the baby after her made Aw have goosebumps.

Aw patted the girl's head. "I like Octavia, but it's Antonia's mother's name?", he said, frowning. Aw hated Antonia with all his being. "I mean, I don't know if her mother was a nice person, but , well, Antonia..", he mumbled. "We won't ever name a kid after that woman, but I think Octavia's nice.", he add, shrugging.