LOG: 2 March
WHO: Tonks kinda-trippy, Teddy kindacanidae, Vinnie cool-vamp; cameo by the-godric and the-salazar
WHAT: Meeting Family for the FIRST TIME! YAY! And confusingness. and...things
WHEN: 2 March
WHERE: Slythermoor
WHY: Teddy wanted a sniff to prove Tonks was REALLY his mum, and Tonks just wanted to hug and babble at her baby boy who's now all grown up!
Tonks couldn't believe it! Teddy, Her TEDDY was on Brawl, and was coming to see her! He wasn't ignoring her, or barely speaking to her, they talked and he wanted to meet her straight away. It was almost too wonderful to believe - probably she would wake up soon to one of the triplets yowling, but for now? Now she was in heaven. It even managed to push her sadness at losing Severus away as she tore through the small manor of Slythermoor toward the floo-room. She called to Vinnie to keep an eye on the children as she tore down the stairs.
Ted had had weirder days before, probably. But this day was definitely up there, especially if he really was on his way to meet with his dead mum. He felt kind of nervous as he took a handful of floo powder, stepped into the floo and said "Slythermoor."
The rush of green flames died down revealing a rustic opulance of an entry room, some over-stuffed couches strewn about. In the corner a lion slept, a black boomslang curled over his ear. One blue eye opened, regarded Teddy, then shut as the lion slept on. The serpent raised his head and hissed a warning of sorts before settling in as well, keeping half an eye on the newcomer.
Tonks tripped over her feet on the last stair and crashed into the room, managing to gain her feet again. She grinned widely as she looked at her son, grown up! She was younger than she would have been, had she lived all these years, brought back the young age of twenty-five she was when she died. She was a little shorter, but that didn't seem to faze her as she bounced a little on the balls of her feet, before squealing. "MY LITTLE TEDDY!" and launching at him in an approximation of a bear-hug.
Ted was used to being tackle hugged by smaller people anyhow, so he just kind of flinched a little and then uncertaintly wrapped his arms around her, too. He sniffed her scent discreetly and his stomach knotted all up. Holy crap. She really was his mum. Somehow.
"Oh Teddy!" Tonks was babbling on about how she was so sorry she wasn't there, and he grew up so well, and she wanted to know everything about him, and "Want a cuppa?"
"Ok, mum," said Ted quietly. The word felt strange in his mouth, but he thought he could get to liking it.
Tonks pulled him down and planted a kiss on his cheek before grasping his hand and pulling him out toward the kitchen. The serpent hissed protectively, "Oh hush, Lord Sal, it's my little boy, you go back to being all moody - we'll continue our argument later," she said, as she tugged her boy out of the room and into the hall.
Her hair went from the purpleish colour it was when she entered, to a bright magenta, she was so chuffed.
Ted's eyes went a bit wide when his mum said "Lord Sal," and suddenly the name of the place made sense. But he followed her into the kitchen and didn't say anything about it, just looked around in interest.
It could be said that the kitchen was set up in rather an old fashioned sort of way, even for a wizard's home. Tonks motioned for him to sit down at the hewn table, moving to a cooling cupboard to pull down a pitcher of water, pouring it into a kettle and setting it over the fire. "Are you hungry?" she asked.
It felt like something warm and wriggly was curled up in Ted's stomach. Watching his mum walk around and put on the tea was the strangest thing he had ever seen. But he just said "no, thanks."
"Oh," she frowned slightly, but understood his belly was probably as full of cornish pixies as hers was, and let it go. She bustled about putting together the teapot, then poured the heated water inside, levitating it over to the table before grabbing down a few cups and saucers, bringing them over by hand. One day, Tonks would remember to pay attention to where her feet were, but today wasn't quite that day. So flustered, the tip of her foot hit a small crack in the floor, and she and the dishes went flying.
Ted jumped up without even thinking and caught his mum at the elbow before she fell, flicking one hand at the dishes to pause them for later. "Are you ok?"
"Thanks, yeah," she laughed slightly. "Just nervousness makes me more clutzy," she explained, smiling as she regained her balance.
"Oh." Ted took the dishes down and set them on the table. "Sit down, I can get it." He smiled, even though it mostly stayed in his eyes and didn't get to his mouth. That was normal for Ted though.
Tonks stammered a moment, then decided sitting down was a very good idea to do. So she did. "How... How are you, honey?"
Ted poured some tea into the cups and set the sugar in front of his mum since he didn't take any. "Um. Good. You?" He chewed nervously on his lip and looked into his tea cup.
Tonks summoned some milk from one of the other cooling cupboards, and poured a bit into her tea, before adding just a little sugar. "I'm alive again, took some doing, but I'm glad to be back. I'm so so happy to see you, Teddy!"
Ted drank his tea black and looked at his mum. She was very different from his Granny in the way she acted, but there were small things that they did the same way. He smiled again, around the teacup, and hoped she would keep talking so he could keep listening. "Yeah."
"I know I have about a gajillion million questions about how you are, but I'm sure you've got some for me, too - so uhm... anything I can answer, sweetie?" Tonks asked
Ted panicked, but only for a second. He closed his eyes so she wouldn't see the flash of "nnnyyaaauggh!" Then he took another sip of tea to stall, and opened his eyes again. "Do you hate tomatoes, too?"
"Depends on how they're served. I don't like them much raw. I can't cook eggs to save my life, though. I'm utter rubbish at it. Slightly charred scrambled is the best I can do. Oh! You'll. erm... How would you feel to know you've... got siblings?" she asked, looking worried he'd storm out and wish they'd never managed to catch up to each other.
Ted set the tea cup down. He felt like at any moment someone would shout 'just kidding!' and there would be confetti while people pointed and laughed. He knew it wouldn't happen. He had smelled her. She was definitely his mum, not some horrible prank. "I do?"
"Erm..." she splayed both her hands on the table. "There was... The thing you have to understand is when you begin posting, and talking through people in Brawl, there's a sort of magic that binds everyone together, in some fashion or another. Even Lord Merlin isn't exempted when there are occasional disasters. These disasters sometimes do anything from altering your personality, your life... even your species, for a short time. Sometimes the consequences are minimal and temporary, sometimes... Sometimes they're permanent. There's a set of dhampir triplets that came as a result of one of them, they're your younger brothers, well, half brothers," she explained, not looking up. If he was anything like his father, she knew he'd scent her worry - she could practically smell it herself.
Ted's eyes went wide again, but he listened through the whole speech. "That...does that suck? Or..." He couldn't seem to ask the question he was trying to. It was a lot of very strange new information, all in the same day. "Can I see?"
"It's not as bad as it could be, their father is my first real friend," she said. "Yes, you can meet them. I think Vinnie's just put them down to bed for the night."
Ted frowned at the first part of the statement, but decided not to comment. He stood up and looked at his mum expectantly.
She saw the frown, and rested a hand on his arm. "I love your father dearly, Teddy," she told him. "When I say what I did, it's... complicated. It would take a bit of time to explain it. Don't ever think Remus didn't mean the world to me," she said softly.
Something prickly sat on Ted's lungs, or that's how it felt. He nodded, because he had no idea what to say to his mum to make her feel better. He...didn't know her, at all.
"Come on, sweetie," she said, taking his hand and leading him back to the stairs, and up toward the nursery room.
Ted followed his mum upstairs, and smiled to himself at what a strange new occurrence it was.
Vinnie had put the cubs to bed in their crib, and was currently leaning his arms, looking over the side, watching them sleep with a goofy-looking smile. Definitely made more goofy with fangs.
Tonks chuckled, seeing him, tapping lightly on the doorframe. "Teddy, this goofy vampire is Vinnie, he's the triplet's daddy. Vinnie, this is my son, Teddy. He wanted to see the boys." she said softly, making sure not to wake the dozing children.
Ted nodded a greeting at Vinnie. "We met, kind of." He walked closer and looked at the babies, not really sure what to make of them. "Huh. They're...nice."
"Hey, Ted", Vinnie gave him a grin, moving aside so the boy could get a better look, "Nice and loud, you mean"
"Shush, you're just miffed they broke your stereo." Tonks pointed them out to Teddy, one by one, naming them. "The one favouring the green hair is Aries. Arcturus tends toward the black and red, and Cetus to blues and purples," she told him.
For a moment Ted felt a funny sense of being left out, even though it is ridiculous. He reaches out and touches one of Cetus's little hands gently, smiling. The hair is odd on the babies, but not bad. He turns his own hair green, playfully, and grins at his mum. "Cool."
Then he yawned.
You're welcome here any time you want to come," she told him. "But I think you need to go to bed, sweetie. You've had a lot of excitement for today." She pulled him into a hug, leading him out the room.
Ted waved once to Vinnie on the way out and followed his mum back to the floo room. "This is the strangest dream I've ever had," he said, without meaning to actually say it out loud. He looked at his mum quickly to make sure she wasn't going to be offended.
"Me too," she agreed with a smile, taking no offense whatsoever. "Let's not wake any time soon, okay?" she told him, giving him another mamabear hug and a kiss on the cheek. "Don't forget to eat your chocolate," she told him with a smile.
Ted didn't ask what she meant about the chocolate, but he let himself be hugged and then gave her a tired grin. "Night... Mum." It was the first time he'd ever said that, either, and it felt funny. Not just strange, actually funny. He held the laughter in until he was on the other side of the floo, though, and then he chuckled to himself for a while. "That was fucked up."
WHAT: Meeting Family for the FIRST TIME! YAY! And confusingness. and...things
WHEN: 2 March
WHERE: Slythermoor
WHY: Teddy wanted a sniff to prove Tonks was REALLY his mum, and Tonks just wanted to hug and babble at her baby boy who's now all grown up!
Tonks couldn't believe it! Teddy, Her TEDDY was on Brawl, and was coming to see her! He wasn't ignoring her, or barely speaking to her, they talked and he wanted to meet her straight away. It was almost too wonderful to believe - probably she would wake up soon to one of the triplets yowling, but for now? Now she was in heaven. It even managed to push her sadness at losing Severus away as she tore through the small manor of Slythermoor toward the floo-room. She called to Vinnie to keep an eye on the children as she tore down the stairs.
Ted had had weirder days before, probably. But this day was definitely up there, especially if he really was on his way to meet with his dead mum. He felt kind of nervous as he took a handful of floo powder, stepped into the floo and said "Slythermoor."
The rush of green flames died down revealing a rustic opulance of an entry room, some over-stuffed couches strewn about. In the corner a lion slept, a black boomslang curled over his ear. One blue eye opened, regarded Teddy, then shut as the lion slept on. The serpent raised his head and hissed a warning of sorts before settling in as well, keeping half an eye on the newcomer.
Tonks tripped over her feet on the last stair and crashed into the room, managing to gain her feet again. She grinned widely as she looked at her son, grown up! She was younger than she would have been, had she lived all these years, brought back the young age of twenty-five she was when she died. She was a little shorter, but that didn't seem to faze her as she bounced a little on the balls of her feet, before squealing. "MY LITTLE TEDDY!" and launching at him in an approximation of a bear-hug.
Ted was used to being tackle hugged by smaller people anyhow, so he just kind of flinched a little and then uncertaintly wrapped his arms around her, too. He sniffed her scent discreetly and his stomach knotted all up. Holy crap. She really was his mum. Somehow.
"Oh Teddy!" Tonks was babbling on about how she was so sorry she wasn't there, and he grew up so well, and she wanted to know everything about him, and "Want a cuppa?"
"Ok, mum," said Ted quietly. The word felt strange in his mouth, but he thought he could get to liking it.
Tonks pulled him down and planted a kiss on his cheek before grasping his hand and pulling him out toward the kitchen. The serpent hissed protectively, "Oh hush, Lord Sal, it's my little boy, you go back to being all moody - we'll continue our argument later," she said, as she tugged her boy out of the room and into the hall.
Her hair went from the purpleish colour it was when she entered, to a bright magenta, she was so chuffed.
Ted's eyes went a bit wide when his mum said "Lord Sal," and suddenly the name of the place made sense. But he followed her into the kitchen and didn't say anything about it, just looked around in interest.
It could be said that the kitchen was set up in rather an old fashioned sort of way, even for a wizard's home. Tonks motioned for him to sit down at the hewn table, moving to a cooling cupboard to pull down a pitcher of water, pouring it into a kettle and setting it over the fire. "Are you hungry?" she asked.
It felt like something warm and wriggly was curled up in Ted's stomach. Watching his mum walk around and put on the tea was the strangest thing he had ever seen. But he just said "no, thanks."
"Oh," she frowned slightly, but understood his belly was probably as full of cornish pixies as hers was, and let it go. She bustled about putting together the teapot, then poured the heated water inside, levitating it over to the table before grabbing down a few cups and saucers, bringing them over by hand. One day, Tonks would remember to pay attention to where her feet were, but today wasn't quite that day. So flustered, the tip of her foot hit a small crack in the floor, and she and the dishes went flying.
Ted jumped up without even thinking and caught his mum at the elbow before she fell, flicking one hand at the dishes to pause them for later. "Are you ok?"
"Thanks, yeah," she laughed slightly. "Just nervousness makes me more clutzy," she explained, smiling as she regained her balance.
"Oh." Ted took the dishes down and set them on the table. "Sit down, I can get it." He smiled, even though it mostly stayed in his eyes and didn't get to his mouth. That was normal for Ted though.
Tonks stammered a moment, then decided sitting down was a very good idea to do. So she did. "How... How are you, honey?"
Ted poured some tea into the cups and set the sugar in front of his mum since he didn't take any. "Um. Good. You?" He chewed nervously on his lip and looked into his tea cup.
Tonks summoned some milk from one of the other cooling cupboards, and poured a bit into her tea, before adding just a little sugar. "I'm alive again, took some doing, but I'm glad to be back. I'm so so happy to see you, Teddy!"
Ted drank his tea black and looked at his mum. She was very different from his Granny in the way she acted, but there were small things that they did the same way. He smiled again, around the teacup, and hoped she would keep talking so he could keep listening. "Yeah."
"I know I have about a gajillion million questions about how you are, but I'm sure you've got some for me, too - so uhm... anything I can answer, sweetie?" Tonks asked
Ted panicked, but only for a second. He closed his eyes so she wouldn't see the flash of "nnnyyaaauggh!" Then he took another sip of tea to stall, and opened his eyes again. "Do you hate tomatoes, too?"
"Depends on how they're served. I don't like them much raw. I can't cook eggs to save my life, though. I'm utter rubbish at it. Slightly charred scrambled is the best I can do. Oh! You'll. erm... How would you feel to know you've... got siblings?" she asked, looking worried he'd storm out and wish they'd never managed to catch up to each other.
Ted set the tea cup down. He felt like at any moment someone would shout 'just kidding!' and there would be confetti while people pointed and laughed. He knew it wouldn't happen. He had smelled her. She was definitely his mum, not some horrible prank. "I do?"
"Erm..." she splayed both her hands on the table. "There was... The thing you have to understand is when you begin posting, and talking through people in Brawl, there's a sort of magic that binds everyone together, in some fashion or another. Even Lord Merlin isn't exempted when there are occasional disasters. These disasters sometimes do anything from altering your personality, your life... even your species, for a short time. Sometimes the consequences are minimal and temporary, sometimes... Sometimes they're permanent. There's a set of dhampir triplets that came as a result of one of them, they're your younger brothers, well, half brothers," she explained, not looking up. If he was anything like his father, she knew he'd scent her worry - she could practically smell it herself.
Ted's eyes went wide again, but he listened through the whole speech. "That...does that suck? Or..." He couldn't seem to ask the question he was trying to. It was a lot of very strange new information, all in the same day. "Can I see?"
"It's not as bad as it could be, their father is my first real friend," she said. "Yes, you can meet them. I think Vinnie's just put them down to bed for the night."
Ted frowned at the first part of the statement, but decided not to comment. He stood up and looked at his mum expectantly.
She saw the frown, and rested a hand on his arm. "I love your father dearly, Teddy," she told him. "When I say what I did, it's... complicated. It would take a bit of time to explain it. Don't ever think Remus didn't mean the world to me," she said softly.
Something prickly sat on Ted's lungs, or that's how it felt. He nodded, because he had no idea what to say to his mum to make her feel better. He...didn't know her, at all.
"Come on, sweetie," she said, taking his hand and leading him back to the stairs, and up toward the nursery room.
Ted followed his mum upstairs, and smiled to himself at what a strange new occurrence it was.
Vinnie had put the cubs to bed in their crib, and was currently leaning his arms, looking over the side, watching them sleep with a goofy-looking smile. Definitely made more goofy with fangs.
Tonks chuckled, seeing him, tapping lightly on the doorframe. "Teddy, this goofy vampire is Vinnie, he's the triplet's daddy. Vinnie, this is my son, Teddy. He wanted to see the boys." she said softly, making sure not to wake the dozing children.
Ted nodded a greeting at Vinnie. "We met, kind of." He walked closer and looked at the babies, not really sure what to make of them. "Huh. They're...nice."
"Hey, Ted", Vinnie gave him a grin, moving aside so the boy could get a better look, "Nice and loud, you mean"
"Shush, you're just miffed they broke your stereo." Tonks pointed them out to Teddy, one by one, naming them. "The one favouring the green hair is Aries. Arcturus tends toward the black and red, and Cetus to blues and purples," she told him.
For a moment Ted felt a funny sense of being left out, even though it is ridiculous. He reaches out and touches one of Cetus's little hands gently, smiling. The hair is odd on the babies, but not bad. He turns his own hair green, playfully, and grins at his mum. "Cool."
Then he yawned.
You're welcome here any time you want to come," she told him. "But I think you need to go to bed, sweetie. You've had a lot of excitement for today." She pulled him into a hug, leading him out the room.
Ted waved once to Vinnie on the way out and followed his mum back to the floo room. "This is the strangest dream I've ever had," he said, without meaning to actually say it out loud. He looked at his mum quickly to make sure she wasn't going to be offended.
"Me too," she agreed with a smile, taking no offense whatsoever. "Let's not wake any time soon, okay?" she told him, giving him another mamabear hug and a kiss on the cheek. "Don't forget to eat your chocolate," she told him with a smile.
Ted didn't ask what she meant about the chocolate, but he let himself be hugged and then gave her a tired grin. "Night... Mum." It was the first time he'd ever said that, either, and it felt funny. Not just strange, actually funny. He held the laughter in until he was on the other side of the floo, though, and then he chuckled to himself for a while. "That was fucked up."