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**Peeker** · September 18th, 2007, 05:08 PM

The boy wormed his way down along the couch, ignoring the pain as he settled his rear and thighs on the cushions, and let his ankles hang over the end, head lightly propped against Mikeal's leg.

"Yeah, but she's Alice." The boy answered, unimpressed with Mikeal's answer. "I mean, she screws up. Alot. I'm... I'm not as much of a mess as she is... I've got one year of Razziel keeping me down. She has fifteen years of herself. Y'know?"

The boy shrugged a little, and took a deep breath. Speaking of Alice-- "I wrote the letter. You just need to send it. Just remembered." He added, before Mikeal had answered, and turned his head away from the man, closing his eyes.

Ten minutes until medicine. ...dammit.

**Kira_Wolf_Cub** · September 18th, 2007, 05:17 PM

"True, but here, you're Janus Bell yourself," Mikeal ran a hand lightly through the chocolate brown locks of hair. "You're still growing up Janus. It's okay to make mistakes.... don't worry I'll send the letter in a bit. I'm sure Alice will be happy to recieve it."

Mikeal rubbed his temple. His head was beginning to hurt.

**Peeker** · September 18th, 2007, 05:21 PM

"Okay."

The boy turned his head and looked up at Mikeal, rubbing his forehead.

"You okay?"

The boy sat up - much to his own distress, and then tipped himself off the couch so he could stand, not wanting to be in any more pain. He looked over at the man quizzically. "You aren't getting sick, are you?"

**Kira_Wolf_Cub** · September 18th, 2007, 05:38 PM

Mikeal looked at Janus and shook his head.

"Oh no, I'm fine," He tried to reasure the boy, although Mikeal was suspecting that he, himself was coming down with a head cold. 'Grand, just what I need...' "So, tell me about what you did while I was gone. I'm sure you did more hten look in books and sleep, right?"

**Peeker** · September 18th, 2007, 05:57 PM

"Not really." The boy admitted. "Played some games.... and then, y'know, the library... After that I really... I couldn't do much. I tried to sleep, I took the medicine, and I waited for you."

The boy stretched amicably, before returning his hands to his rear, and beginning, at last, to rub. "How'd the thing with the puppies go?" The boy looked over at the place where, in their pen, the sound of the creatures should have been filling the kitchen. "You were gone a while."

...and once again, the thought of having one of his own made the boy smile a little.

**Kira_Wolf_Cub** · September 18th, 2007, 09:26 PM

Mikeal gave a groan of annoyance. Some of it had been fairly easy, the Sires having known how to handle the pups and their fledglings, if they had them, were happy to see them. However, Mikeal had to lovely chance of running into the living proof that one could truely baby a fledgling too much.

On some points he could understand it. He was after all guilty of spoiling Janus a little, just as Aleks was in spoiling Alice even if the girl didn't see it. As a Sire, one wanted the fledglings to have an easier time intagrating into their new life styles, at lest most of the time you wanted to.

'At lest Aleks doesn't spoil Alice like that over grown brat...' Mikeal thought sourly. "On the must part, fairly well. Several fledglings were, like Alice, very happy to recieve their puppies but there was one..." He He sighed, guessing this was possibly the bases of his headache and continued with a very bitter tone. "... lets say that neither you nor Alice could compet with her."

Mikeal began telling Janus about the young Lady Heather Stjerneskud. Now the girl was naturally beautiful by human standards, being voted prom Queen and being a Debeautan as a child, but that woman...! No, she wasn't even that. She was just a child trapped in a 29 year old body turned seventeen for the whim of her Sire. He had been tempted to remove the puppy from her the moment she literally ripped it from his hands and sneared at him, demanding to know why it took him so damn long to bring the dog to her.

And her Sire just cooed at her and asked Mikeal if he didn't just love her personality.

"... I loved it as much as one could love a hang nail," Mikeal rolled his eyes and smiled at Janus. "Even Sires can baby their fledglings too much. I'm glade that Aleks doesn't do that, otherwise I wouldn't allow you around Alice. That girl was insufferable."

He rubbed his temple again. Was it just him or was the throdding of his head getting worse?

**Peeker** · September 18th, 2007, 10:31 PM

"Who was unsufferable?" The boy asked, with a small smirk. "Alice? Or Heather?"

The boy closed his eyes, amused. "...did I ever tell you about the first time I met Alice? I was shocked. I didn't think anyone was treated less strictly than I was..." He shook his head a little, sighing. "...that was a bad day."

**Kira_Wolf_Cub** · September 18th, 2007, 10:39 PM

Mikeal snorted at Janus' joke.True the girls walked close to each other, both apples in the eyes of their Sires, but Alice was by far more polite then Heather was. At the very lest she greeted someone when they came by, even if she didn't like them.

"You know... I'm pretty sure Alice would have smoothered you had she heard that," He laughed, glade to have a lighter mood. "And no you didn't. I'm sure it was a culture shock for you. I know it was for me when I met Gabby."

He gently reached a hand out and began to pet Janus hair.

"What do you mean by a bad day?"

**Peeker** · September 18th, 2007, 10:48 PM

Janus casually ran his fingers through his hair, brushing away Mikeal's hand as he did so, and shrugged. "You know. She was telling me about all the great things she had and talking freely, and not being worried about being hit... and I was just... sort of not believing her. I was nervous because of being introduced to Lord Aleksandr... and it didn't help that I was caned at dinner - I just hid in my room after that - didn't even talk to her... We really started on a bad note, I guess."

**Kira_Wolf_Cub** · September 19th, 2007, 08:20 AM

Mikeal nodded his head understandingly. He could picture Alice unconciously bragging about her life with Aleks, unaware of the suffering Janus put up with for the normal everyday. It wasn't something she did to be cruel, but she was probably happy to finally meet someone a little more like her, someone whom was more intoned with her thoughts and interests.

And Mikeal knew exactly what JKanus ment by nervous of meeting Lord Aleksandr. The first time Mikeal set fotot near the man, he was thankful that he didn't have to shake the man's hand since his suddenly felt clammy and gross ou of worry. Razziel was very fixed about how meeting were to go. It was all about giving the best impression of utter obedience. If a hair was so much as out of place you would live to regret it.

"Well, I can understand how a caning would leave you unwilling to talk to her," Mikeal allowed the boy to brush his hand away and reached over for the blanket to cover the boy a bit up. "It much have shocked her though, Aleks' form of discipline is far more different from Razziel's, so she must have been a little hurt that you wouldn't talk with her..." He losely tucked the thick comforter around Janus, just so that he form was showing slightly but he could freely move. "Still, she could have been too upset. You and she seem to be getting along just fine, no?"