RP Example - Family Talk
Game: Sunnydale OSI
Who: Laili and Wesley
Where: at their home
When: Monday night
Laili was seated on the couch, with Amir perched on her shoulder. She was currently leafing through a circular of Easter sales that had come in the mail, pondering the holiday. She hadn't really celebrated American holidays all that much, but now that she was married with a family and all- she supposed they should. "Wesley," she called to her husband. "Do you have any Easter traditions?"
Wesley looked up from the book he was reading, a little surprised. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Well, Easter wasn't ever really celebrated in my family." His family wasn't exactly Christian, and his father never really cared for anything remotely...fun, for lack of a better term.
"Oh," Laili said. "Well, as you know... we didn't exactly have Easter when I was growing up either." She laughed softly at the thought of how long ago that was. "But shouldn't we do something nice for the girls? A little basket with candy and oh- some of those hard boiled eggs with the different colored shells." She pondered this. "It might even be fun to color them."
He shut his book and smiled. "We certainly could do something for them." Thinking of this made him wish that he had been around to see Tia grow up, when she would still be interested in hunting for colored eggs in the grass.
Laili smiled too, and set her circular down. Amir dismounted her shoulder to rest on the back of the couch as she scooted over to be closer to Wesley. "We could have a nice dinner too.. with ham."
"That would be lovely. We could have ham and...what exactly do you have on Easter?" He couldn't help but laugh at his own ignorance of it. "I haven't a clue."
"Ham is the only one I know, other than the eggs," Laili said, blushing slightly at her cultural ignorance. "I can ask some of my co-workers at the zoo what they are planning on having for their dinners, so we can get some ideas."
"That would actually be a good idea. I should ask around, too. Tia and Gwen might even know." If Gwen knew, he was sure that she would be very excited to be able to educate him on something for a change.
"That sounds like a plan then," Laili said. "I'm very excited about this - it's our first holiday as a family." She took Wesley's hands in hers.
He liked the sound of that, having a holiday with a family. It sounded so new and different. He smiled back at her and squeezed her hand a little. "Sounds absolutely lovely."
"I really enjoy having our family," Laili said. "You and me and Tia and Gwen and Amir make a wonderful family, don't we? There's only one thing I worry about..."
"What's that?" He couldn't think of anything to worry about at the moment, but contentedness was clouding his mind a bit.
"Well, I do worry about.. my condition," Laili said. "What if the girls see me feeding? I know we're very careful, but accidents happened." It would be bad enough to walk in on parents having sex, but she couldn't imagine the trauma it would cause to see Wesley helping her feed.
He frowned a little. He actually hadn't thought of that. "Most children tend to avoid their parents bedroom when the both of them are in there at all costs." They usually did it for very different reasons, but all the same. "Do you want to tell them?"
"Well... they should know. It isn't nice to keep secrets from your family, after all. I just worry that they'll be upset by it. What if they don't like me anymore?" Laili frowned, really worried about that.
He reached over and stroked her cheek. "I believe that they'll still like you. Do remember, I did." He smiled a little at her. "I think that they'll understand, Laili."
Laili closed her eyes and tilted her head towards his hand. Wesley always knew how to make everything better. "Thank you, dear. Maybe we should wait until after the holiday to tell them though, just in case." No sense in spoiling Easter.
He tucked a stray piece of hair behind her ear. "We can wait until you're ready to tell them. Whenever that is." He actually figured that Gwen would be understanding. She had dated a werewolf, afterall. Tia, he wasn't sure about, but he thought that she would be receptive as well.
"Alright then - after Easter, but during their spring break, certainly..." Lailli said, then thought of something else. "Oh, spring break - do you think they'll want to go somewhere? I'm sort of worried about that. I see those television things where young girls go on spring break, and next thing you know they wind up drunk and on some awful video showing the world their breasts."
Wesley couldn't help but laugh a little. "You really shouldn't pay attention to those things." He leaned forward and kissed her forehead. Strangely, it was when she said things like that that reminded him how much he loved her. "I don't think they'll want to go anywhere like that, and Tia really can't go alone, anyway. I also trust them to have better judgement than to do something like that."
"That's good," Laili said, and smiled at the kiss. "I just worry about Gwen sometimes.. she seems a little wild." She had the feeling that before Wesley came along, Gwen hadn't had much guidance in her life.
"Gwen is...full of life. She is a little wild, but she has a good head on her shoulders. I don't think she would get into any situation that would put her over her head."
"That's good," Laili said. She didn't want anything bad to happen to Gwen, or to anyone in their family. Just thinking about that was upsetting, so she put it out of her mind and hugged Wesley close. "You're a good influence on the girls. And me, too."
He hugged her back, resting his head on top of hers. "You're a good influence on everyone, too, including me. You've helped to give me something that I never really had growing up: a family."
Laili nodded, considering that. During their trip to England, she'd been very surprised by the coldness of Wesley's family. "We've got a lot of love to go around here. Amir is happy too - he loves the girls, and he likes being able to perch in the big trees in the backyard."
He picked up his head to look over at Amir, who was staring right back at him. "I'm glad that he's happy as well. He really does like the girls?" Unfortunately, he never really could tell what Amir was feeling unless he was so agitated that he was fluttering about and screetching at whatever was offending him.
"Yes - he likes being petted, and I think they give him treats," Laili said. "That's the surest way to be his friend. For all that he's a carnivore, he loves sweets."
"Can I ask you something?" He was curious now.
"Certainly," Laili said. "You can ask me anything, dear."
"How do you know what Amir is feeling? Can you talk to him?" If there was a way for Wesley to understand him as well, he'd like to.
"I have any empathy with him, and a basic knowledge of how he is feeling," Laili explained. "He's my baby." Literally, really. "When he was younger, it was just basic thoughts- hungry, cold or tired. Now that he's grown older... I'd say he has the intellgence of a young child. He understands what you say."
"Sometimes I wish he could talk back to me. I wish I knew what he was thinking when he looks at me sometimes." He wondered if it was strange that he felt that way.
"I wish we could communicate with him more effectively, too," Laili said. "And who knows... there may be. Maybe a spell of some sort, or if we find a way to fix my condition - we may be able to cure Amir as well."
"From what I have been able to read so far, the two of you are connected. If we fix you, we fix him, too, I believe." These were only educated guesses, though. It was very hard to find anything on the type of vampire that Laili was. They may have to take a trip to Malaysia just to find better ways of research.
"If we could, that would be wonderful," Laili said. "Amir would be able to grow up as a young man, and I'd be able to grow old with you. I'd really love for that to happen..." There had to be some sort of hope. "I have given thought to the program you told me about, in your OSI. I think perhaps if I join up with that, it might encourage them to help us find a cure..."
He believed that there was hope. "They would be more than willing to help with finding a cure." There were people in the research department that would know more than he would.
"Then let's do that," Laili said. She was a bit scared still- it was hard to tell people that she was a langsuyar, when she'd spent so many years hiding that fact. But it was there best hope. "Will you arrange a meeting?"
"As long as you're comfortable with it, I can arrange it for whenever you wish." He didn't want her to do anything that she was uncomfortable with.
Laili nodded. "Yes, I'm ready. As long as you are with me, I will be fine."
Who: Laili and Wesley
Where: at their home
When: Monday night
Laili was seated on the couch, with Amir perched on her shoulder. She was currently leafing through a circular of Easter sales that had come in the mail, pondering the holiday. She hadn't really celebrated American holidays all that much, but now that she was married with a family and all- she supposed they should. "Wesley," she called to her husband. "Do you have any Easter traditions?"
Wesley looked up from the book he was reading, a little surprised. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Well, Easter wasn't ever really celebrated in my family." His family wasn't exactly Christian, and his father never really cared for anything remotely...fun, for lack of a better term.
"Oh," Laili said. "Well, as you know... we didn't exactly have Easter when I was growing up either." She laughed softly at the thought of how long ago that was. "But shouldn't we do something nice for the girls? A little basket with candy and oh- some of those hard boiled eggs with the different colored shells." She pondered this. "It might even be fun to color them."
He shut his book and smiled. "We certainly could do something for them." Thinking of this made him wish that he had been around to see Tia grow up, when she would still be interested in hunting for colored eggs in the grass.
Laili smiled too, and set her circular down. Amir dismounted her shoulder to rest on the back of the couch as she scooted over to be closer to Wesley. "We could have a nice dinner too.. with ham."
"That would be lovely. We could have ham and...what exactly do you have on Easter?" He couldn't help but laugh at his own ignorance of it. "I haven't a clue."
"Ham is the only one I know, other than the eggs," Laili said, blushing slightly at her cultural ignorance. "I can ask some of my co-workers at the zoo what they are planning on having for their dinners, so we can get some ideas."
"That would actually be a good idea. I should ask around, too. Tia and Gwen might even know." If Gwen knew, he was sure that she would be very excited to be able to educate him on something for a change.
"That sounds like a plan then," Laili said. "I'm very excited about this - it's our first holiday as a family." She took Wesley's hands in hers.
He liked the sound of that, having a holiday with a family. It sounded so new and different. He smiled back at her and squeezed her hand a little. "Sounds absolutely lovely."
"I really enjoy having our family," Laili said. "You and me and Tia and Gwen and Amir make a wonderful family, don't we? There's only one thing I worry about..."
"What's that?" He couldn't think of anything to worry about at the moment, but contentedness was clouding his mind a bit.
"Well, I do worry about.. my condition," Laili said. "What if the girls see me feeding? I know we're very careful, but accidents happened." It would be bad enough to walk in on parents having sex, but she couldn't imagine the trauma it would cause to see Wesley helping her feed.
He frowned a little. He actually hadn't thought of that. "Most children tend to avoid their parents bedroom when the both of them are in there at all costs." They usually did it for very different reasons, but all the same. "Do you want to tell them?"
"Well... they should know. It isn't nice to keep secrets from your family, after all. I just worry that they'll be upset by it. What if they don't like me anymore?" Laili frowned, really worried about that.
He reached over and stroked her cheek. "I believe that they'll still like you. Do remember, I did." He smiled a little at her. "I think that they'll understand, Laili."
Laili closed her eyes and tilted her head towards his hand. Wesley always knew how to make everything better. "Thank you, dear. Maybe we should wait until after the holiday to tell them though, just in case." No sense in spoiling Easter.
He tucked a stray piece of hair behind her ear. "We can wait until you're ready to tell them. Whenever that is." He actually figured that Gwen would be understanding. She had dated a werewolf, afterall. Tia, he wasn't sure about, but he thought that she would be receptive as well.
"Alright then - after Easter, but during their spring break, certainly..." Lailli said, then thought of something else. "Oh, spring break - do you think they'll want to go somewhere? I'm sort of worried about that. I see those television things where young girls go on spring break, and next thing you know they wind up drunk and on some awful video showing the world their breasts."
Wesley couldn't help but laugh a little. "You really shouldn't pay attention to those things." He leaned forward and kissed her forehead. Strangely, it was when she said things like that that reminded him how much he loved her. "I don't think they'll want to go anywhere like that, and Tia really can't go alone, anyway. I also trust them to have better judgement than to do something like that."
"That's good," Laili said, and smiled at the kiss. "I just worry about Gwen sometimes.. she seems a little wild." She had the feeling that before Wesley came along, Gwen hadn't had much guidance in her life.
"Gwen is...full of life. She is a little wild, but she has a good head on her shoulders. I don't think she would get into any situation that would put her over her head."
"That's good," Laili said. She didn't want anything bad to happen to Gwen, or to anyone in their family. Just thinking about that was upsetting, so she put it out of her mind and hugged Wesley close. "You're a good influence on the girls. And me, too."
He hugged her back, resting his head on top of hers. "You're a good influence on everyone, too, including me. You've helped to give me something that I never really had growing up: a family."
Laili nodded, considering that. During their trip to England, she'd been very surprised by the coldness of Wesley's family. "We've got a lot of love to go around here. Amir is happy too - he loves the girls, and he likes being able to perch in the big trees in the backyard."
He picked up his head to look over at Amir, who was staring right back at him. "I'm glad that he's happy as well. He really does like the girls?" Unfortunately, he never really could tell what Amir was feeling unless he was so agitated that he was fluttering about and screetching at whatever was offending him.
"Yes - he likes being petted, and I think they give him treats," Laili said. "That's the surest way to be his friend. For all that he's a carnivore, he loves sweets."
"Can I ask you something?" He was curious now.
"Certainly," Laili said. "You can ask me anything, dear."
"How do you know what Amir is feeling? Can you talk to him?" If there was a way for Wesley to understand him as well, he'd like to.
"I have any empathy with him, and a basic knowledge of how he is feeling," Laili explained. "He's my baby." Literally, really. "When he was younger, it was just basic thoughts- hungry, cold or tired. Now that he's grown older... I'd say he has the intellgence of a young child. He understands what you say."
"Sometimes I wish he could talk back to me. I wish I knew what he was thinking when he looks at me sometimes." He wondered if it was strange that he felt that way.
"I wish we could communicate with him more effectively, too," Laili said. "And who knows... there may be. Maybe a spell of some sort, or if we find a way to fix my condition - we may be able to cure Amir as well."
"From what I have been able to read so far, the two of you are connected. If we fix you, we fix him, too, I believe." These were only educated guesses, though. It was very hard to find anything on the type of vampire that Laili was. They may have to take a trip to Malaysia just to find better ways of research.
"If we could, that would be wonderful," Laili said. "Amir would be able to grow up as a young man, and I'd be able to grow old with you. I'd really love for that to happen..." There had to be some sort of hope. "I have given thought to the program you told me about, in your OSI. I think perhaps if I join up with that, it might encourage them to help us find a cure..."
He believed that there was hope. "They would be more than willing to help with finding a cure." There were people in the research department that would know more than he would.
"Then let's do that," Laili said. She was a bit scared still- it was hard to tell people that she was a langsuyar, when she'd spent so many years hiding that fact. But it was there best hope. "Will you arrange a meeting?"
"As long as you're comfortable with it, I can arrange it for whenever you wish." He didn't want her to do anything that she was uncomfortable with.
Laili nodded. "Yes, I'm ready. As long as you are with me, I will be fine."