| Raven's Home! | ||
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| Summary: Just hanging out. Hanging out. Hanging you with my family, Having ourselves a party Who: Alexa Donovan, Raven_von_Tilsen, Violet When: August 1st, 2016 Where: Old Warehouse - Living Area    |
Suddenly, lines of light in a roughly cylindrical formation start appearing in the corner of the room. As they fade away, Violet is standing there, glancing about the room. "Uhhh, Hey, guys!" She blinks as she notices the full setup. "Wow... You're going all out, aren't you?" Of course Lishra is the one to start talking. "Absolutely! I mean, why wouldn't we? After all it's kind of the first time we get to hang with our real mom, right?" she grins. Em just nods in his silent way. Violet slumps ever so slightly at that. "Yeah... I guess... She really was a bit... not there last week still, wasn't she? I... I wanted to thank you for looking out for her like that. You'd think the adults would, but... well, I guess not in this case." She clearly still feels a little guilty about that, herself, but she straightens herself up again soon enough. "Okay! So what can I do to help?" Aerial comes out of the kitchen with some silverware. "I could use some help getting the table set up, sis!" she smiles. Lishra chuckles. "There you go! Besides, Marque's almost an adult, so he kind of counts, right? Oh! And um.." she kind of leans in to whisper in Violet's ear. "I tried calling Aunt Ari but.. I think she's been drinking. For like, a day." she frowns. Violet scrunches up her face and whispers back. "What? Why? I thought everything was going well for her. Do you know what's going on?" She then blinks and looks over to the table, then back to Lishra, then over to Aerial. "Alright, I'm on it, Aer!" She gives Lishra a concerned look, and then the oldest/youngest of the siblings is off to the kitchen to get more to set the table with. In the kitchen there are a pile of glasses, bowls, napkins, etc. sitting on the counter. Marque is at the stove, and it looks like he's cooking up some cheeseburgers. With bacon. There's also a big bowl of salad, some sandwich stuff, and a counter covered in desserts. Marque turns and smiles, which is a complete turnaround from how he used to be. "Hey Violet. Been a while." the rather tall teenager says. Violet blinks slightly in surprise at the greeting. "Uhh, yeah, sorry I've not been around much, but, you know, ship's operational on top of moving in with Alexa... I've been pretty damn busy lately. But there's no way I'd miss this." She smiles to him, then grabs a stack of bowls to take back into the living area. As she turns away from Marque she frowns slightly, a pang going through her as she, rather briefly, regrets moving out and missing out on this kind of big family life. All it takes to bring her out of that, however, is imagining Alexa's smiling face. As she gets to the table, her smile is back in full force and she sets out the bowls. Aerial helps with the settings, and it isn't too much longer before the door opens and Raven steps in. "Hey guys." she says quietly, smiling a little. Violet blinks as Raven enters. "We're not ready!" She then glances at the others. "Wait, are we ready?" After the breifest of pauses, she looks back to Raven again and says, "Welcome home! Here's hoping you stay this time!" Rave laughs. "I'd like that." she smiles, then suddenly gets rushed by the terrible trio of the twins and Aerial with a chorus of "MOM!". Even Marque comes out of the kitchen for a hug, which is pretty shocking to Raven, but she hugs each of the kids back in turn. After they go back to what they were doing, Raven walks over to Violet and gives her a hug as well. Violet returns the hug in full, happy to feel Raven's strength returning. "So... How're you feeling? Think you can eat all this? Maybe you can eat som much that you have to sleep it off, eh?" Rave chuckles. "I'm okay. Still recovering but you know. It's a process." she blinks at the food. "Well, if I don't go into a food coma, I do have pills to help with that." she grins. Marque comes out with a tray full of bacon cheeseburgers. "Maybe it's a good thing Aunt Ari didn't show. Pretty sure we have meat from every animal here." he snickers. Violet grins back. "It's good to have you, Rave." She glances back to Marque, but doesn't quite laugh at the joke. "Looking good, Marque! ...but honestly, now I'm a little worried about her... why wouldn't she be here? I thought she wouldn't have missed this for the world..." Em says, rather quietly, "I think she's on a bender." Lishra jabs him in the side hard with her elbow. he frowns at her. Raven just shakes her head. "She's having a rough time of things, probably." Violet scrunches up her face a bit, not comprehending why Ari would be having trouble right now. "I get the feeling I'm just... not noticing something about her. I really don't get why she's having such a rough time." She sighs, then shakes her head. "Well, her loss today..." She smiles, looking over the array of food. Rave nods a little. "That is an impressive spread. Now I know where my bank card went to." she grins before Aerial grabs her hand drags her over to the couch. "Sit! We'll make you a plate." she smiles. Rave concedes, then winces a little as Aerial turns, frowning a bit at the purple highlights in Aer's otherwise red hair. Violet laughs, shaking her head. She stays out of the way for the moment, letting the kids execute their planned dinner! At Raven's wince, she follows her glance to the purple in Aer's hair. She cautiously steps over to Rave and whispers into her ear, "Is that... not just dye?" Rave shakes her head a little and whispers back. "No. Had it since the day she was born." Violet bites her lip slightly, then speaks up more conversationally. "I just had a thought... Has everyone met Ari's boyfriend and girlfriend? I'm not sure they've been around here..." She then frowns. "Well, might want to keep Miriam away from all the tech. It tends not to agree with her." There's a brief murmur of conversation, and the kids all shrug and shake their heads. Raven chuckles. "Skeeve only met the twins when they were just barely walking. Mainly because Lishra would teleport to the usual and cause trouble." Violet puts her hands on her hips. "Well, we'll have to get a formal introduction to them, then, I think. But that is later. Now is food! Thank you for cooking, Marque!" Marque nods. "No problem. I actually like it." he grins. Em gets busy with fixing Raven a plate, and goes a little overboard. There's a cheeseburger with the fixings, salad, chips. The plate looks a little overflowing, but Raven takes it when offered with a smile. "Thanks kiddo." She puts the plate down on the coffee table and takes a pill bottle out of her bag, making sure it's the right one before taking two pills out of it." Violet frowns lightly. "You need a pill to keep food down, still?" She shakes her head, determined to keep a good mood today! She smiles to Marque. "Well, good. Thinking maybe of doing it for a job, maybe?" she asks as she heads to the table to start preparing her own plate. Rave nods a little. "So my stomach doesn't reject anything. And it helps absorb the nutrients better." Marque shuts off the stove and heads in to fix himself a plate. "You know, I hadn't thought of it. I mean, I love chemistry, but this may not be a bad idea either." Violet tilts her head. "Well, it's worth thinking about. Keep going on chemistry for now, I'd say, but keep it in mind?" She then glances to Rave and nods. "I guess that makes sense." She takes a seat and starts to dig into her own food. Rave hesitates before taking a bite of the burger. "Okay, no, Marque, I'm paying for cooking classes. This is amazing!" The terrible trio make plates for themselves, probably loading up more on junk than anything of nutritional value. Violet chuckles and nods as she takes another bite, eventually speaking as her mouth gets free. "It's really good! If you set your mind to it, I'm sure you'll do well in that! But nothing wrong with it staying a hobby, either." She glances at the trio and shakes her head with a laugh. Rave keeps eating, thankfully, and Marque nods. "I'll think about it, honest." At one point, when Em's not looking, Lishra steals a bunch of chips off his plate, then teleports to the other side of the room on the couch as if nothing happened. Aerial goes to pick up a brownie, but one raised eyebrow from Raven makes her put it down and get real dinner type food instead. Violet smiles, looking around at the family setting. "This is... nice. It's just... I dunno, I feel like it's one of the things I never knew I missed in my life..." Rave grins at Violet. "Get used to it. We're family, right? Speaking of, where's Alexa? I figured she'd be your plus one." Violet holds up a finger as she finishes a bite. "Well, she was in the middle of a simulation when I got called, so she needed to finish that up..." She looks down at her watch with a slight frown. "I'd have thought she'd be ready by now, honestly. Maybe the simmed mission went on longer than I thought it would..." Almost as if on cue, there's a knock on the front door! Violet blinks as she looks over in the general direction of the entrance. "Well, uh... should I go see if that's her, or do one of you guys want to see who it is?" Rave starts to get up to answer the door, but Em holds up a finger to her with a soft "No." and he heads to the door and opens it. Alexa smiles. "Hi there. I'm Alexa." Em doesn't say anything, as Em does, and just points to Violet. Violet laughs and shakes her head. "Hey, Love, welcome to the party!" She waves over to Alexa, then motions between her and Raven. "So I'd like to re-introduce you to Raven. Raven, this is the love of my life that you've heard so much about." Alexa blinks at what Violet says, then smiles, nodding politely to Raven. "Nice to meet ya for real this time, Ma'am." Raven smiles. "Nice to meet you, too. I.." she's cut short by the giggling of the two girls. Violet glances at Aer and Lishra, not looking particularly pleased.. "Okay, what are you guys finding so funny, then?" Alexa kind of blinks in the girls' direction, but before she can say anything, Aerial pipes up with "Are you two gonna get married?" Lishra adds "Can we be bridesmaids? I want a pretty dress!!" Rave just kind of rolls her eyes and pinches the bridge of her nose. Marque has a similar expression. Violet blinks and looks at Alexa with a smile. "Well, assuming things keep going the direction they are now? I'd say there's a decent chance of it. As far as details, though, I'm gonna hold off on promising anything." The girls stand wide eyed for a moment, then start talking excitedly at the same time about bridal magazines, flowers, the cake... Raven sort of facepalms. "Girls.." she warns, but the warning is drowned out. Alexa can't help but laugh, then walks over to give Violet a kiss on the cheek. "I think we kind of have to now, or those two may get upset, beautiful." Em just kind of rolls his eyes. "Girls are stupid." he says quietly. He's almost twelve, he's allowed to think like that. Violet sweatdrops, herself. "Hey, uh, guys? Leave any planning to us..." She blushes at the kiss on her cheek. "Well, sure, but I get the feeling they think they're gonna have more say in any of it than they really will..." Em, however, gets a slightly dirty look. Rave chuckles as she actually finishes the burger! Progress! The girls are still talking plans because that's what they do. Em shoots the look right back at Violet. "You're not girls. Those are girls." he point to his sisters. Alexa grins a bit. "Well, I bet they'd be happy puttin' favors together or somethin'. " she slips her arms around Violet's waist, and looks to the table. "That's quite a spread." Violet chuckles. "We'll find something for them to do." She glances at the spread, then back to Alexa. "So you gonna eat up or not, Love?" She gives Alexa a quick kiss on the cheek before pushing her lightly towards the table. Alexa laughs. "Alright, alright. I can take a hint." she smiles, taking a plate and loading up. Rave smiles as she watches the two of them. The girls give a simultaneous "Awww!!" Em just ignores them all and eats. Violet actually blushes a bit at the reaction of the girls and says, "All right, you guys, we're not a show..." Rave hehs. "Sorry, they're not used to seeing couples. It's a novelty, it'll wear off." she reassures. The girls look a bit disappointed, but they get back to their food. Violet nods. "Another reason they should meet Skeeve and Miriam. They think couples are a novelty, wait until they see a..." She frowns, trying to think of a word to describe it. "Triplet? No. Triple... threes- no, no, definitely not that..." Lishra grins. "Triad, I think. We know of them, we just haven't met them yet. We hear they're pretty nice, though." Alexa munches on a pickle. "I only met Skeeve. Seemed like a decent guy." Violet nods. "They are. Well, Skeeve is. Miriam seems a bit... I dunno, flighty? Maybe she just doesn't go out much, but I've not really seen her." She glances up at Alexa, then shakes her head. It looked like maybe she wanted to say something but thought better of it. "Triad works, I guess, but it sounds a bit like... I dunno what, but it doesn't sound particularly romantic." She shrugs, then scoots over a bit to be inviting for Alexa to sit next to her. Rave smiles. "Hey, whatever works for them, as long as they're happy. Specifically as long as Ari's happy. But Skeeve and I have been friends for years, I'm sure he takes care of her." she nods. Marque disappears back in the kitchen for something. Alexa sits down next to Violet and kisses her cheek before getting back to her food, not realizing how hungry she was until she actually sat down to eat. Violet nods, but glances at Marque with a raised eyebrow. "I'd say they're pretty damned lucky to be in a balanced relationship between three people like that. And yeah, I've, uh, known Skeeve for a while." She smiles a bit sheepishly, closing the associated eye with the cheek in question as Alexa kisses her. She looks like she might be about to return it, though she decides against it. Best not get near someone's mouth when they're actively eating, after all, even if it is the cheek, right? Rave nods. "Yeah, longer than I have, I think. Probably, anyway." she chuckles. Marque comes out a few minutes later with a dish containing what seems to be apple cobbler. Alexa smiles with a full mouth at Violet. She knows what Vi wanted to do, which is enough for her. Violet nods. "I think I was dating him before you showed up in NeoTokyo at all, actually... though, as always, my memory's pretty damn foggy from back then. Nice enough guy, still see him as a friend, but it didn't work out." She takes another bite of her burger, and thus says nothing as Marque comes out with the cobbler. Her eyes, however suggest that she's really looking forward to eating a slice. Alexa smirks. "Lucky for me, right." she winks at Violet. Lishra takes a picture of the wink, actually. "Oh my god you two are so cute together!" Em rolls his eyes. Violet smiles back to Alexa. "Just as lucky for me, Love, just as lucky for me." She then blinks as Lishra takes the picture. "Uhhh..." she looks like she might be about to protest, but then she shrugs and lets it go, leaning on Alexa slightly. "I think I can't really argue that statement." Lishra grins. "Nope! And it already has a hundred and fifty views on my blog!" she giggles. Alexa tilts her head a little, confused. "What's a blog?" Violet blinks and snaps her attention back to Lishra. "Wait, what?" She's now blushing a bit again. "You're posting pictures of me onto the internet? Who's reading your blog?" She actually looks a bit nervous about this. Look! Raven's plate is empty! Hooray! She starts to get up again, but Em takes her plate with another "No." and heads over to fill it up with different things this time. Lishra takes a look at her PDA. "Um, lots of people. I talk about, like, everything on it." she nods. Alexa notices Violet's concern and echos it. "Is this a bad thing?" Violet tilts her head as she considers this. "Well, yes and no? I guess not really, no, I don't really have anything to hide, I just... like things a little private..." She frowns. "And I'm a little creeped out by unknown hundreds of people having pictures of me." She then winces. "Well, I guess now I know what Rei was going through, though probably no where near as bad as she had it." Lishra shakes her head. "I have it set so nobody can download anything I post. And it's not like it's the first picture I posted of you anyway." she grins. Em hands Raven a plate, this time full of desserts. Raven starts to say something, but Em simply says "Eat." and walks off. Raven looks at Violet. "Pretty sad when my kids get to boss me around, isn't it? Violet raises an eyebrow. "I'm sure people can get around that, Lishra." She frowns. "I'm gonna want veto power on pictures you post of me to your blog." She then grins to Raven. "Let 'em for today, for this. After all, how much of his food did you not eat last week?" Rave hehs. "Fair enough. Don't think I'm going to fit into my jeans at this rate, though." She picks up a brownie and takes a bite. Lishra wrinkles her nose.. it's a family thing after all. "But Viiioleeet.. that's not faaaiiir!" Violet holds up a finger to Raven. "It's one day. Tomarrow you can go back to watching what you eat, right Marque?" She glances at Lishra. "How would you like it if I just started posting pictures of you all over the internet? I'm pretty sure you won't get much I'll object to, don't worry..." she then frowns. "But when have you gotten the other pictures of me you've put up?" Lishra grins. "I don't mind my picture being taken. I'm adorable!" All three of her other siblings groan in unison on that one. "And I took pictures of us when we met, remember?" Violet blinks. "Oh, right. Forgot about that. That was a 'here's my sister' picture, though, so that one's fine, I'm sure." Lishra nods. "Good. Got a lot of likes on that one." she grins. "Ooh, brownies!" Alexa chuckles as she finishes off her burger. "I like your family, darlin'." she grins. "Seems a fun bunch." Violet grins back, though it's a bit nervous. "Well, I guess it wouldn't hurt to have more than just two." She sighs in relief, glad her sister isn't finding more invasive pictures back when Violet was living here. She does grin back to Alexa, though. "I like them too. It's... nice to have one." Rave grins, not saying anything as she continues to eat the brownie. Marque, who has been quiet, is now clearing some of the food things off the table and putting it into storage containers. Alexa slips her hand into Violet's, fingers entwined. "We should visit more often, then." she smiles. Violet nods, blushing slightly as she grips Alexa's hand. "Yeah, I guess you're right. Though I'm sure us making the girls squee would annoy the heck out of Em." She looks up and grins at Em after saying that. She then blinks and gets up, her hand entwined with Alexa's trailing behind as long as she can as she goes for desserts. "You want anything, Love?" Alexa smiles, not letting to until the last possible moment. "That cobbler sure sounds good." At the mention of the cobbler, Marque disappears into the kitchen and comes out with vanilla ice cream for the top of it. Violet nods in thanks to Marque as she slices two slices of the cobbler and tops them with the ice cream. "Coming right up! Raven, you want me to cut you a... Em, you want me to cut a piece for your mom?" Rave starts to shake her head no, but Em nods with a quiet "Yes. She'll eat it. Thank you." Violet gives Rave a grin as she slices the third slice. "Sorry, Em's rules tonight." She hands off one plate to Em to give to Rave, and brings the other two back to Alexa, where she offers one to her and takes the other for herself before sitting again. She fully leans on Alexa as she sits, leaning her head on Alexa's shoulder for a moment. Em walks over to Raven and doesn't move until his mother takes the plate from his hand, shaking her head. "Yeah, I know, I'm lucky." she smiles. Alexa sighs rather contently, slipping her arm around Violet's shoulder, then whispers a very quiet "I love you." Violet doesn't stay in the position with her head on Alexa's shoulder for very long, however. She has cobbler to eat! It's much easier to eat when one's head is upright, after all. Still, along the way, she kisses Alexa's cheek and says, "I know. And you know I love you too." She attempts to scoot even closer to Alexa before she starts eating the cobbler. The girls, of course, go "Awwwwww!" in unison. Raven shakes her head. "I swear you two..." she says to her daughters. Violet looks at the girls and grins. "We will make the two of you as sick of us as Em already is, mark my words!" She laughs before taking another bite of her dessert. Em shrugs. "That may take a while." After a brief conference between the two, Aerial pipes up. "We'll get sick of it after the wedding." Lishra nods in agreement. Alexa smirks at that, looking at Violet. "Elope tonight, then?" she winks. Violet shakes her head. "No way. I wanna have a real wedding, so no eloping." She glances at the two girls, then back to Em. "Sorry, bro. Not gonna tone it down just to reduce the squees." The girls actually do squee at that, and Emrys sighs, going to a bookshelf, picking up a large book, and going to the couch with it and a scowl. Alexa grins. "Alright, you could have ended the gawking early, though." she winks at Violet. Violet finishes the last of her cobbler and leans against Alexa again. "Well, I can live with it, I think. I really wanted to have the real wedding. I want it... to be more than just some sheet of paper saying it's so. It doesn't have to be big or anything, but I want it to... be a thing." Alexa smiles. "I was teasing. Of course it's gonna be as big as you want it, darlin'. I promise. Violet says, "...and I think we'd never hear the end of my sisters' complaining if we run off and get married without involving them, anyway." Lishra grins. "Oh, we'd hunt you down. Promise." Raven rolls her eyes. "Enough, you two." Violet sighs happily and downright snuggles into Alexa. Later that night in bed, Violet is once again snuggling in, when she suddenly stops, thinking over the day. "Wait a minute... With all that talk of a wedding... are we engaged?" Alexa holds Violet tight to her, kissing her forehead. "Well, there's no rings involved, so I don't think we're officially engaged, no." she smiles. "Unless you want to be." Violet snuggles in again. "'Course I want to. But maybe we should do it by the book with rings, make it official. Otherwise it just feels like just being lazy... Well, I guess everyone assumes it's coming... have since the start, haven't they? Goodnight, Love." Alexa smiles at that. "Goodnight, darlin'. And yes, it is comin'. I promise you that." | |
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