Baby sitting (Zeke/invite)

[Alexis Seran]

Alexis had music blaring as she vacuumed the floor. What else was she doing with said music? Dancing. Dancing like hell..and even lip syncing to the words. It was a joke... she wasn't serious about the song..it was just her way of fucking around... like that one time she was dancing in men's underwear as if she were on the movie Risky Business.

She was sliding back o her feet attempting the moon walk but failed as she vacuumed the rug. If Gabriel walked by he hadn't bugged her yet.... though considering the display she was setting...anyone wouldn't be able to help themselves with making some form of comment.

Lexi had a green bomber jacket on and a pair or form fitting jeans on today... she wasn't dressed to impress or anything..it was just comfy as hell...without showing as much skin as possible. Why? She felt like not being a slut? Yeah shut up now.

Now she found herself kromping white woman style and she knew she was making a fool of herself, but what evs she was having fun.

[Ezekial Seran]

Carmine had gotten out of that horrible place, screaming baby in tow ...Not a hand lifted to stop him, yet as he strapped Zeke into the carseat, pulling away from the house, his mind was wrought with the thoughts of what would happen to Kevala.

But he could do nothing for her now, not with the child in his possession.

Yet he knew he could not keep him. He needed caring for, and Carmine had to get his stuff together to try and figure out how to get her back.

So, he did what he had been told to do if this should ever happen....He drove to the house, running into his separate housing unit and opening the wall safe in his room. There he fished out a set of documents...Not addressed to him of course, but instead to Gabriel Seran and Alexis Green. He knew what they were about.....It was just not something he thought he would ever have to use.....

But there was no time to think about it, instead he hurried back to the SUV, the baby still screaming out for his Mother, a glance back showing the dark bruises on the boys face and the makeshift bandage on his arm starting to soak through with blood.

It was all he needed to get his ass in gear, throwing the car into drive and speeding off in the direction of the residence that he knew to belong to them.

It was as though he could not get there fast enough, and when he did, he had to argue with the security.....though when they opened the back door, saw the boy and heard his screams their faces paled....

They knew him, undoubtedly from his stays here with the family.....To see him in such a state must be what got to them...

Letting him through, he raced up the drive, slamming the car into park and hopping out, papers in one hand and soon enough the boy tucked against him in a protective and soothing manner...

Though it did nothing to ease his tears.....

Carmine was not family, he was detached from the youth still and it was hard for the boy to trust him....Especially after what he had been through.....

Wasting no time he banged on the door...Hard as was possible for him....Hoping to god there was somebody here...though the music spoke that there was............

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Ezekial was lost, in tears and in pain...confusion raking his brain. There was physical damage, but the things they had done to him that could not be seen were what kept the boy crying....

His Mother had not seen, nor had the man who held him....Tears had long since stopped, no longer able to shed them as he continued his hoarse screams of pain and fear......

"Mamamamama!!!"

It was useless but he did not know that....He needed her...Why was she not here? She always came when he was hurt!!

[Alexis Seran]

Alexis heard some banging on the door over her music. She turned it off and listened again. The banging kept going and she heard a baby scream. It seemed urgent...and a baby screaming?

Urgent+screaming baby=Alexis running to the door.

What other baby did she know? None..so that's why she was worried for Zeke!

She opened the door expecting a small Kevala to throw the baby into her arms...but instead there was a sketchy tall bald dude.

"Um..." she looked at the baby and she ignored the man she was just about to ask a name from. Zeke and been hurt..and looked damn fresh too! She reached for him to take him from the man who ever he was...for all she knew he could have been the one who did this! Zeke still cried for his mother aside from being all battered. "What the hell?" was all she culd say while cradling the crying child.

[Ezekial Seran]

Carmine of course offered up no information, only handing the child over willingly...followed by the envelope with the papers inside....

"Those documents shall grant you both full custody should Ms. Katashi not return within three months time or should her ........body be found....."

He had to force out the last bit of words, not wanting to really focus on the thought for too long.

With that he would try to make his exit. One last thing offered up toward the woman.

"The boy has been through a lot. He is in need of much care."

Turning away from her now, trying to escape to the SUV without having to explain any further....

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Zeke felt hands grab him, his body shaking as he clung to the man...only to hear a familiar voice....

It was then he spotted Aunt Lexi and willingly moved into her arms, hiding his face to her neck as he cradled his hurt arm...

"Owwie Owwie Owwie!!"

His voice soft and hoarse yet still struggling to get his point across, that lower lip quivering with each shaky breath the boy drew in.....Eyes closed and screaming continuing.....

[Alexis Seran]

She was then handed papers...well last time there was only a mention of the documents...now they were actually in her hand. She stared down at them and sighed. Kevala really knew how to get herself into trouble....on top of the fact she really knew how to get someone to babysit without asking.

Really..

All she really had to do was call maybe 2 or even 1 hour ahead of time?

But guess the trouble she manages is trouble that could cost a life...you would think one would learn after toughing the flame.

The man left and Lexi shut the door now. She dropped the Documents on the coffee table and headed to the bathroom. "You have ouwies?" she said...kids liked it as if the adults understood the situation like so...though ouwies was a total understatement.

She sat him on the toilet seat and looked into the medicine cabinet for some disinfectant and some proper bandages. As she knelt down to tend for the bandages she looked into his eyes that were blood shot from crying. "Don't cry, sweetie." once that was done she would get into the kitchen and grab him a lollipop...yes she now had a candy jar for any of his visits... once he had a sucker she would bring him back into the living room and sit him on her lap. She had also grabbed a bag of ice before leaving the kitchen so now as she sat down she cuddled the baby and dabbed at the bruise on his face. She of course made sure to remove the ice once in awhile as not to freeze his cheeks off.

[Ezekial Seran]

Zeke did not really respond to the words she spoke, instead just continued to sob and cry against her.....Then he was set down and fear stuck him instantly, sliding off the toilet and crawling, despite the arm, to wrap about her leg..clinging to her as he hid his face.....

Then came the bandages, every touch only making him cry a bit more as she tried to sooth him.....

Yet it was hard.....VERY .....

He had owwies!!!!

Tears once more finding their way to streak down his cheek as she lifted him up and carried him into the food place.....Catching his attention slightly......

Then she produced the candy, and that was like heaven even if he was beyond the point of stopping.....He did however take the lollipop and stick it in his mouth, drool easily pouring out over his chin onto his blood stained sleeper he was still in....

Though he did not care, as he huffed in breaths to try and settle himself, all the while nomming the candy...

A little whimper each time she put the cold stuffies to his face, pain shooting through him though he was so intent on the lolli that he was not giving too much more attention to anything else....

*DROOOOOOOOOOOL..........SLOBBER SLOBBER.......DROOOOOOOOL*

Eyes staying open only due to force and the fear of going to sleep. Sleep meant the bad men came to get yous again!!

[Alexis Seran]

He stuck to her and she would try and calm him down. She would rock back and forth as she cuddled him and would brush her free hand through his hair as she dabbed the bruise with the ice.

"Want me to kiss it better?" that usually only worked for phantom pain.... but she was gonna try anyway just because she wanted to do anything to make him better. She really wished she knew what was going on. Yeah she wanted a kid...but not in this circumstance. She would press a small kiss to his cheek...but as not to press hard to bring forth any sharp pains that bruises usually tended to do.

Her eyes kept looking back at the papers on the table top. It made her nervous... she was really hoping Kev would be found...Alive. How was she gonna tell Gabe? Last time he got so bloody mad....

Maybe she will just let him look at the papers and kind of piece everything together....and explain...something happened to Kev...but not sure what...BAH... she is a complicated girl!!!

[Ezekial Seran]

It took him awhile to finally calm down enough to be able to sniffle out a reply to her question. A little nod and a soft, broke, hoarse little tone..

"Eke owwie..makes betttters..."

It was something that had always worked with Mommy, and yeah he didnt really know the difference in pain....So he was going with that which was normal for him.....

Still unable to stop the trembles that forced through his body, but he sure was going to town on the lolli like there was no tomorrow...Prolly cause he had yet to eat since last night...Little tike was starving.

Though he would just curl against her, wincing slightly as she kissed his cheek and then nuzzling his head into her, drool continuing to slide down his chin...Now a faint tinge of the color of the lolli pop...

MESSY BOY!!!!

Little hands covered in it now, sticky as ever and clinging to the one source of food like it was a life line.....

[Alexis Seran]

He was getting slightly better so she picked him up and sat down at the piano bench. She had him in his lap and her fingers would run along the false ivory keys. This was her original piano. She managed to find it for sale on the internet. It was old and in rough condition... but she loved it too much... She won it..no stealing it. The piano was something she could be proud of. A gift for something she loved doing rather than getting it a slimy way like all her other instruments.

It brought her back to when she got it... Olivia and her never had the money to be in a club to play instruments let alone to own one... but they would play whose ever they could get their hand on and yeah..they got damn good... and the music instructor found their talent and let them play in their band and loaned them instruments... she helped them financially where their parents should have... but in the end at a concert she was lead piano and Livi was lead violinist...they took home their own instruments. Alexis still had Olivia's Violin... she didn't know how to play it... but it was one thing Livi felt close to.

She started playing a song. Just as she was young music did wonders...she wanted to expose Zeke to it as much as possible. After all.... music was the great communicator. So she was now lost in the quiet melody of the song.

[Ezekial Seran]

Zeke felt her move, his sticky hand shooting out to grip her shirt as he feared she would set him down...But instead she settled him in her lap in front of a thing that looked like it had some funky teeth...

His eyes going over it as she put her fingers on the teeth....Music starting to sound from the big monster thingy and his eyes following her fingers intently, through the sniffles and the whimpers of pain as he moved his arm....resting one lightly atop hers, though not hard enough to disturb....

He was simply feeling out her movements over the monster...learning.....It was what he did best......That lolli in his mouth, drool still slipping down over his chin to the front of his sleeper...yet he was lost in the soft sounds that played filled the room...

Letting them calm him all the more........

Purrrrrty!!!

The sounds starting to relax him enough that he would begin to cease with the trembling and the shakey little body. Instead he would become a bit more like himself, despite the bruised and battered appearance.......

It was nice, something he heard before but had never really gotten to sit through first hand......Instantly a new passion starting to grow in his little mind......

[Gabriel Seran]

Today had been a long enough day. The institute had been wearing on him for quite some time. Despite what the scientists were saying the simple fact was Tyrone seemed to have a grudge against Gabriel. This was the third day he'd been put into the testing arena unwarned. It was like the sadistic man was looking to have him put out of the way, a worry that made Gabriel fret. But that was aside the point he was succeeding in fighting back their little experiments right and left if not for close calls he was growing significantly stronger. It was the thing he lived for.

Now in his Audi Gabriel stripped himself of the shredded cloths, his present ones having jagged scars down the front of his chest sinking into the upper layer of skin to draw blood. But he'd not bring that business home, no doubt Lexi would see it later but for now pretenses were a big thing when he didn't know what he was walking into.

Edging into the back he'd find another button up he'd laid out earlier in the day a sturdy vest there as well as he changed quickly walking to the door with tired steps and walking in through the door with a calm smile noting the music in the other room. He loved it, coming home to her playing it always lifted his spirits when he was concerned. A smile and a much more reserved poise as he came in round the corner.

"Good afternoon ma belle..." Eyes darting back to Zeke now sporting what he'd only expect to be on a fighter twelve times his age. He didn't get angry but rather speculative shifting his glance up to Alexis with a questioning stare before he knelled down in front of them with a smile.

He'd learned well enough from the last encounter, and Gabriel never made the same mistake twice. Ever.

[Alexis Seran]

Gabriel entered now and she did not know he was gone to begin with... but it was always nice to see him. Zeke was enjoying the piano and she kept playing for him, but this time a little more happy than sad...

"Hello sexy." she said giving him a wink. Then she noticed his look of puzzlement...oh yeah...Zeke's shiner..

"So um... yeah don't ask me how he got like this...Right now I'm in the process of making him happy. Though...uuh.. something you need to see.... check out the documents on the coffee table."

Was she scared for his reaction?

Damn Rights she was!

He might go aimlessly search for her again or what ever he did the last time!

She stopped playing the piano and lifted Zeke's arms gently so she wouldn't hurt his arm and would lay them on the piano. He wouldn't be able to play a song but she could smack the keys and make a jumble of noise to make himself proud and excited.

[Ezekial Seran]

Zeke noted the song changed in tone, it was enough to make him shift in her lap and look closer at what she was doing, only noting the sound of another familiar voice near him as he studied her movements...

Then it stopped, and that was bad....very bad....a little sob escaping him from about the lolli that was in his mouth.....right before his hands were moved to the keys....

Instinct drove him to pull the one arm back, tucking it to him protectively as the other hit the teeth of the monster......

Random sounds that made him happy, even if he did not show it...Not a smile to be found on his lips as he finished off the lolli and stuck the stick on his lap.....STORAGE SPACE!!!

After a few more bangs on the keys he was content to stop, not really all that energetic at the moment....

Instead he curled into her and and hid his face once more...A little sound of pain escaping him as he bumped his arm and his face...yeaaahhhh...kids his age were clumsy and if they had an owwie they were gonna hit it every damn time......

[Gabriel Seran]

He appreciated the greeting as he smiled widely lookign towards Zeke fumbling about like a drunken sailer but that was a kid for you right. All he could do was press aside the worry and think to himself that the boy was safe now that he was here with family. Thats what he'd told Kevala even if he was angry with her. Her and Zeke were family now, and family needed to be protected.

"So um... yeah don't ask me how he got like this...Right now I'm in the process of making him happy. Though...uuh.. something you need to see.... check out the documents on the coffee table."

"Alright." Gabriel would speak softly turning about towards the coffee table as he flipped through the files legally granting him the right as Ezekiel Seran's Guardian with Alexis. A frown forming a way on his face. Stupid girl. The protective side in him rising up thinking that all she needed to do was come here and Gabriel and Alexis would protect her from any foe.

"hmm." A mumble in his throat as his head turned up to watch Alexis, "Keep playing, I'd rather our nephew was to smile at times like these than frown."

Gabriel would say calmly, never the same move twice. He controlled it this time his body not angry but controlled. Breaths coming in slowly as he focused, the world his bubble and he was in control of it all. A sigh and he was up scooching over Alexis with a nudge as he sat next to her on the piano chair stroking Zeke's head lovingly as his right hand looped around Alexis and began to play at the high chords at it's end.

[Alexis Seran]

She watched as she flipped through them and let Zeke slam the keys with his one hand until he cuddled into her.

"Keep playing, I'd rather our nephew was to smile at times like these than frown."

Those words stuck to her most definitely. It would seem this child was bringing them together in a way they were close to having before....it just gave the final push... she felt like a family now... not just a boyfriend or a girlfriend...And the way he worded his statement added on to the feeling.

She did as he asked and started playing just as Gabriel sat down next to her. His arm wrapped around her to reach the keys so both the little melodies each of them created formed into a pretty little improvised duet. Of course she turned it into a song she could sing along to...

She was scared so the song was slow...she was scared to take care of somebody else's child...she should be here..enjoying the company of her child... something that Alexis didn't get the luxury of...she wished the opposite of what she had for her Zeke