"Fine." Casey chuckled. "Anyway, where's Immy? She even coming today?"
"Oooh, you've got this all planned out haven't you?" Lake smiled. "It doesn't always stay that way though~" Casey chuckled in a sing-song tone. "In fact, I'm yet to see a male and a female who are friends around here for any real amount of time without something eventually sparking between them."
You'll never win Mommy! D8< I also have every other male Naruto character except Orochimaru because I don't trust him around young boys B| Spoiler Wow, you're drawing has improved massively since I last saw a drawing of your's o.o I'm not very good at drawing hands myself so I can't give too much advice, but they seem to bend a little too much for fingers. When I try to draw fingers I try to make sure I draw the fingers in three small parts so they look less curved as fingers aren't really curvy rather three straight lines.
"Sounds like you two are getting along rather well." Casey chuckled. "It might be a little confusing if your little brother has the same name as your Daddy though. So you can kinda see her point." Lake giggled.
*grabs Hikaru* I now have twincest >8D Spoiler That's a really weird coincidence with his name. o.O
"Well I work in a hospital, so it's usually quite interesting. Never the same day twice really." He chuckled. "And no, sorry. I expect he'll appear at some point, seems everyone does eventually." "Oooh." Lake said sounding interested. "That's a big job for you, any ideas on names?" She giggled.
"Are you now?" Lake asked with a smile, playing along with Esmya's excitement. "And where is your little brother or sister?" "Not too sure, she's either around the house somewhere or out somewhere. I've only just got back from work really."
"Nah, I don't know through experience." Casey laughed. "I've never done anything like that, it's been Lyra and only Lyra. My little sister just had some really dodgy friends, and worked in some really dodgy places. Not that she did anything, at least I hope not." He added with a small eyetwitch. "Oh look who it is!" Lake giggled. "I think she missed you Mickey."
"Oh I don't know, some men pay for women to snarl and be all sadistic and stuff. So they've got to like it a whole lot." Casey chuckled. Lake smiled sweetly.
"Just takes one person who wants to get to know you, or they might find hostility attractive." Casey said as he sat down on the kitchen counter. "Plenty of women with short fuses or the occasional grumpy temperament get married quiet easily. Lots of men find women with backbones sexy." "Of course, he's a little kid." Lake giggled.
"He hurts her again and he's in deep sh*t from just about everyone I think." Casey nodded in agreement before patting her on the shoulder gently. "And not all guys are out to hurt women. I've never done anything like that, so I know that for a fact. You'll find someone who'll help you lower your defenses one day. It's just finding them." He smiled encouragingly. "Okies." Lake nodded. "And he has been very quiet."
"Well then you're a first." Casey chuckled. "I guess really it's anyone's guess what's going to happen next with those two. There's no doubt they love each other, but I think Lake's going to reach breaking point eventually... It's like watching my parents again. Mickey's my son, and I love him, but I also think of Lake as a daughter... And I can't do anything without upsetting them both. So I've decided to see what happens and hope I can step in before it all gets too much and one of them snaps..." He said as he looked over at them. His voice slowly descending into melancholy. "How long do you think we're gonna be looking after little Caleb here for then?"
Casey shrugged. "It's beyond me, he's just always been a bit... over dramatic, even by my standards. He just needs to learn to look a little deeper, realise that she's more complex and just how much he upset her and just how much she loves him. I think he just takes after my father a little too much. He didn't treat my mother all that differently, only Mickey learnt not to do it more then once. He used to do it to her over, and over, and over again... I swear he didn't even care on the effect it was having on her. And they said the Malfoy's were bad... Grandad Draco had nothing on him..." He muttered bitterly. "Sorry, you prob'ley don't want to hear me rant about my old man." Casey chuckled awkwardly, rubbing the back of his neck. "Of course not." Lake giggled, grinning back at him.
"This prob'ley isn't that interesting, but I don't really want them overhearing me telling you about it. I don't really want two pretty-scary-when-they're-p*ssed-off werewolves after me." He said as he lent against the bare-brick that outlined the large fireplace opposite the kitchen table. He hung his head slightly and his mop of golden blonde hair flopped over his face. Casey took a small intake of breath and spoke in a quiet, secretive tone. "Not too long after they became a couple, a few months at most, they broke up for a couple of months. You see, Mickey, being how he is, ran off on her and on the rest of us because he'd taken protecting his niece a little too far. He ripped two people to shreds, I can't recall if they were vampires or werewolves however. Not that it really matters. Basicly we were all p*ssed at him big time and he decided to run away. Lake, however, agreed with us that he'd gone to far and told him that if he left she wasn't going with him. That didn't change his mind. She pretty much begged him to stay. That didn't stop him. He left her crying her eyes out and barely able to speak she was so distraut that he was going. She spent three months like that I think. She'd even turn into her wolf form for days at a time just to get a small let up in how much pain she seemed to be in." He sighed and looked up as he finished the story. "Ever since he came back she's never said no to him or dared to have a mind of her own around him. She's scared of losing him again I think, so acting how she does, like she needs protecting, makes her feel like he won't leave her because he thinks she needs him to help her." "I get what you mean."
"You do that."
Casey looked over at the young couple in the corner of the room briefly before turning on his heel and beckoning for Wolfe to follow him out of ear shot and eye sight into empty kitchen. He didn't want his son to over hear what he was about to say as it didn't show him in the kindest light, or for either to feel as though there had been a betrayal of trust. "I suppose that's a point." Lake nodded.
"Oh? How come?"
"Sounds nice." Lake smiled.
"You are, it's a fact."
"All teenagers are perverts." Casey smirked.
