Loft above Luke's, Saturday morning

[lovemykilt]

Priestly was sleeping in, today, thank you very much. Unless his housemate woke him up to demand breakfast, he wasn't planning on being up until well into the afternoon. He'd woken up long enough to note that he wasn't feeling crazy horny for the first time in a week and decided that that deserved a nice, long morning off from doing anything remotely adult-like or responsible.

The plan was doomed, but he didn't know that yet. The couch was comfortable, Dean was running the diner, Momoko was . . . doing whatever she was doing this morning, and all was right with the world.

[ooc: for a particular child, but also open for other visitors, including and especially the one who arrived last night, should she care to ping.]

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[newlances.livejournal.com]

Sin was trying very hard not to giggle behind Momomama's back. Alec was mean. But funny!

"Sister is fine, Uncle Priestly. She and Momomama live together ever since they got Lasumi."

[lovemykilt]

Priestly blinked. "Dinah and Momo . . ." A week of sex pollen had set his brain into certain habitual thought patterns. "Niiiiiice."

"Dad!" Jane threw an eggshell at his head. "Gross!"

[heromaniac]

A yo-yo followed immediately after that eggshell, lightly thrown and not charged, but still. There should be some owie to go with the "Priestly!"

Uhm.

"Okay. Well. That, uhm. Means the call to Dinah will be totally easier. And I don't have to go looking for any dads. Speaking of..." She glanced back at Boaz then turned to Priestly. "This is my daughter from a different time than these, since her name is Boaz and she has no uncle Priestly."

[lovemykilt]

"Dude," Priestly said. "I would never name a kid Boaz."

"Maybe you let Grandma Naomi name her," Jane suggested. "She looooooves the name Boaz."

[techhasfeelings.livejournal.com]

Alec was probably really glad she could feel machine's feelings and not humans, thank you, Priestly. She also felt a tiny bit guilty about messing with Auntie Momo's head.

"It's okay, Momomama," she said. "I know I must be from a different world, too, so you don't know me."

[momokodomo]

Boaz gave the man a stern look and crossed her arms at him. "Boaz is a pretty name! It means strong and I am too!" Did he need her to prove it?

"And Grandmother-Naomi didn't name me either. Mom did. After her friend who died, so it's the best name ever." She looked over at the strange big-girl with more of a smile. "You know Grandmother-Naomi? She's nice, isn't she!"

[momokodomo]

Nom nom nom nom nom nom... No more coffee creamers left. Or anything else edible within Lasumi's reach. That napkin was getting sucked on because it had some eggs spilled on it.

"More please? Hooooooongry." Lasumi could care less about drama. Or confusion. "Won tons!"

[hasafirstname.livejournal.com]

"Nice," Jane said. "Sure." If by 'nice' you meant passive aggressive and controlling. She was pretty pissed her 'little boy' had let her granddaughter get all pierced and tattooed up.

Jane passed Lasumi the loaf of bread Priestly had gotten out to make toast, curious to see what would happen. "Who gave birth to the vacuum cleaner over here?"

"Hang on," Priestly said, too distracted to notice the gobbling going on. "I think you're confused, kid. 'Grandma Naomi' is my mother. She named me Boaz."

Aww, he'd almost reached the point where he could say that at full volume.

[momokodomo]

By 'nice', Boaz meant she totally spoiled her.

Not that Boaz knew the reason; she just knew the spoiling part.

"Grandmother-Naomi didn't name me! And she's not your mom; she don't have kids anymore!"

"... doesn't..." Momoko interjected, totally out of some weird habit as she stroked Alec's hair and tried to figure this one out.

"Doesn't." SIGH MOM! English had stupid rules sometimes.

[lovemykilt]

"Anymore?" And click. "Holy crap, I'm dead in your version of the future?!"

[momokodomo]

Boaz rolled her eyes. "I don't know. Are you?"

"Boaz!" Momoko's voice was stern. "/Don't be rude./"

"/Sorry mom./" Boaz sighed heavily and tugged on her hair. "Mom says she found me after a portal brought me to Fandom Island when I was really little. She said she adopted me because I didn't go back and I called her mama. She named me after her friend, because they were going to get married but they couldn't and he died before she found me. Mom doesn't talk about him because it makes her sad just like Fandom Island."

[lovemykilt]

Right, they weren't going to get any straight answers from a little kid, were they.

"She ever say why it made her sad?"

[momokodomo]

Lasumi was ignoring all this. It was loud. And the pretty girl was asking him something.

"Momomama and Mommy got me in a box'a wontons from Wang's Happy Wok." A very solemn nod. "We should order s'more!"

[hasafirstname.livejournal.com]

"Musta been a hell of a box of wontons," Jane noted. "Hoping if we get some we'll find you a sibling?"

[momokodomo]

"Yes!" Lasumi grinned at her, then pointed at his sister. "But Sin says 'no!' and she hides the phone from me. Why? I dun wanna be the littlest always. Helna just says "Hush, why would they want more trouble?'"

[hasafirstname.livejournal.com]

"Life's better as an only child, anyway," said she who had never had any siblings. "Means you get all the stuff."

[momokodomo]

"No sharing?" Lasum considered this. "I don't share MonMon, he's mine." He squeezed the stuffed monkey. "Sin got him for me, only meee. Is Uncle Priestly your daddy? You both gots shiny on your faces."

[hasafirstname.livejournal.com]

"That's my pop," Jane agreed. "I don't have to share him with anybody, either."

Well, she didn't before a bunch of cousins showed up, anyway.

[momokodomo]

"I don't gots a daddy," Lasumi said matter-of-factly. "I gots two mommies and one Sin and a Aunt Helna and a Aunt Barbra and a Alfred and a Aunt Karla and a Uncle Priestly who makes us foooood." He inhaled. "And lots and lots of super-peoples who come stay sometimes and they beat up bad guys! I'mma do that too!"

Careful there, kid, please don't fall off the chair in your punching of bad-guys enthusiasm.

[momokodomo]

Momoko hadn't been on the uptake when it came to the parentage of the other three kids (SHE AND DINAH? REALLY?) but she was totally doing the math here... She and Priestly about to be married?

Boaz shrugged. "Cause lots of bad things happened when she was here? And because he died. Once we came to Fandom Island to put flowers on his grave, only it's not a real grave cause she said she didn't have time to make him one, and she cried as soon as we got here! Miss Dinah cried lots too. I had to give her extra hugs."

[lovemykilt]

Priestly stared. Kind of a lot.

Then he groped behind him for a chair and sat down and stared some more.

Jane hadn't been paying much attention to the conversation, but looked up at that. "Dad? You okay?"

"Uh huh," he said.

Well. Shit.

[momokodomo]

A pair of pretty blue orbs eyes were suddenly closer and looking up at him. "Are you okay? I'm sorry! Did you know him too?"

[heromaniac]

Momoko leaned over and gave Priestly a very, very tight hug.

"He's okay, Boaz. He's just..." How do you tell a six year old this? "Yes, he knew him. Very well."

Boaz's eyes were still glued to Priestly's. Funny, Momoko thought, how they were the same colour. "I'm sorry! I didn't know!"

[lovemykilt]

Priestly pulled himself -- rather forcefully -- back out of the usually pretty successfully buried memories of arrows and blood and reached up to squeeze Momoko's arm. "'Sokay, kid." He cleared his throat and forced a smile. "Hey, who else needs a change of subject?"

And possibly some booze. At . . . whatever o'clock it was in the morning. Dean might be a bad influence on him.

[momokodomo]

Lasumi looked up from the cheese dip he'd found, panic totally written all over his face. "S'not me! Imma big boy now!"