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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[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.

[hasafirstname.livejournal.com]

Awww, he wanted to be a superhero. Kids that age could be cute like that.

"Sounds like a plan, man. I've only got one mom, but I've got a whoooole bunch of aunts and uncles. We run a sandwich shop."

[momokodomo]

The superhealing and extra-strength didn't help convince him he couldn't, either. Dinah so deserved this kid.

"Nummy! Do you make sanwiches with ... strawberries?" Lasumi beamed at her. "Do you make 'em wiiiith mustard? An' hot sauce?"

[hasafirstname.livejournal.com]

"Not all at the same time," Jane said. "That'd be gross."

[momokodomo]

"Noooo, yummy." Lasumi shook his head emphatically. "Can I have more food please? Miss... Uh-oh. I dun know your name."

[hasafirstname.livejournal.com]

"Jane. Just Jane. No 'miss'."

[momokodomo]

"Just Jane can I have some more food pleeeeeaze." Lasumi gave her the big eyes. "I know a song with your name. That's not my name!" He shouted suddenly. "I can make food?" Stop him!

[hasafirstname.livejournal.com]

Jane reached out to block him from heading for the counter or the fridge. "Hold up. No prepping food without at least watching the training video."

That was the policy at Beach City, anyway.

[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!"