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Who: Greta and Shinou
What: Greta... finds Shinou and Shinou's a prick and Greta thwarts him and.. Shinou wants to eat Yukito.
Shinou sat crouched just around the corner of a particularily darkened hallway. He had a string gripped tightly in his hands and was watching carefully for any signs of life. Gwendal had thwarted his plans before, but not this time! This time he had clear string that was so invisible to the naked eye that it would fool Gwendal into tripping and making a complete and total ass of himself. AH HAH AH AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!
Greta walked down the hall, holding Yukito on her hip and smiling at the baby. She paused when the light reflected off the plastic string, creating a red line in the middle of the hall. She reached down and pulled on the string.
Shinou, entirely caught up in looking for Gwendal, didn't even realize Greta's presence had been drawing closer. The moment she pulled on the string, he fell forward only slightly, but made a sort of grunting noise and growled, searching for the perpetrator. "YOU!" His eyes widened.
Greta giggled. "Shinou-heika, are you being silly again?" she asked, ajusting Yukito on her hip.
Yukito burried his face in Greta's neck, shy.
Shinou narrowed his eyes and gathered the string back up into a ball before placing it meticulously into an inner pocket of his overcoat. "I'm not being silly. I'm extracting revenge"
"Revenge? What did Gwen do?"
Yukito looked up at the sound of Gwendal's name.
"Marred my face." Shinou said simply and bluntly as if it were a most obvious action.
But then...Shinou hadn't seen the baby. Shinou automatically ignored it when most, if not all, babies entered a room. However, he took the time to sniff the air a moment. "I smell infant."
Greta furrowed his brow for a moment. "Infant? OH! You mean Yukito!" Yuki reached up to touch Greta's mouth, and Greta kissed his little fingers. "He's Conrad's and Yozak's son," she explained.
"I don't care who's son it is." Shinou frowned at it. "It smells like feces."
Greta pouted. "He does not! He just had a bath!"
"Ah." Shinou stood up, now, looming over the two of them. "He's all cleaned and washed up, ready for baking, eh?"
Greta frowned and cradled Yuki. "Stop being mean. If you're hungry, I'll make you some cookies."
"I'm not being mean, I'm being practical." Shinou stretched now, his body not quite liking the crouching position it had been in for so long. "What are you two wandering around in these corridors for, anyway?" His eyes never left the baby and he wondered briefly if it would go well with Tobasco sauce.
Yukito whimpered, grabbing onto Greta's shirt.
"We're just playing," she replied. "Yukito likes going for walks."
Shinou glowered. "It doesn't look like it is walking."
Greta sighed. "Yukito can't walk yet--he can crawl a little. But he likes it when we take him with us on walks."
Shinou wasn't interested in it if he couldn't eat it, so he ignored it, even though the fecal odor was overpowering his senses. "In either case, you ruined my ploy to get von Voltaire. I have to think up a punishment for you."
Greta raised her eyebrows in perfect imitation of Gwendal. "That means no more cookies."
Shinou did a major step-back at the resemblence to Gwendal's annoying antic. "You can't deny me cookies!"
Greta shrugged. "But if I'm punished..."
Yuki burbled, recognizing the shift in power.
"I don't need your filfthy cookies anyway." Oh Shinou. Sour grapes.
Greta looked at him before stomping her foot like a child. "You're just being a jerk, Shinou!"
"Unoriginal." Shinou blew on his fingernails. "Can you think of a more creative insult for me?"
She was upset, very upset. She started to cry. "I thought you were my friend, but everyone's right. You're just an old, bitter man!"
That stung. OH. did that STING.
"I am so NOT an old man!"
"Yes you are!" Greta shouted back. "You're mean and old and wrinkly and everyone hates you!"
Yuki started crying from all the screaming.
"Everyone does NOT hate me! Why... I have a whole temple devoted to me! I'm worshipped!" Worshipped... but how come he didn't have any friends and no one loved him and the only person who had ever given him the true time of day was now married to someone who just looked like Shinou? .... maybe Shinou needed to ponder this by candlelight and with the accompaniment of a razor.
Oh, but then the baby started crying and Shinou hissed at it.
Yuki cried louder at the hiss and Greta cradled the baby. "People worship you because they're afraid you'll kill them if you don't!" She rocked him gently, trying to calm Yuki. "No wonder Ken-chan left you--you're mean and evil and you'll die all alone with no one!"
Shinou actually paused... alone? No one? Isolation? Despair?
But then he came to his senses. "I cannot die." HA! Worm your way out of that one, little girl!
She scoffed. "That's even worse."
Oh...
Shinou frowned and leaned against the wall. "I don't do anything to be mean to people. People just annoy me... and I let them know that. I think that lying to people, even if it is a white lie, is wrong."
She snorted. Ooh, Yozak would be proud. "Liar. If I were anyone else, you'd have killed me by now."
"I could kill you if I wanted to!" Shinou conjured up a mini purple ball of death in his hand to emphasize this.
Greta set Yukito down on his rump then stood in front of him. "Then do it."
"FINE." He reared his hand back and gave Greta the meanest scowl he could, hoping she'd beg or... something.
Greta was scared, but she was proving a point. She looked at him. "If you do this, Shinou, you'll be proving everyone right."
"What, that I'm not afraid to murder annoying little brats?" His scowl was still plastered across his face, but his hand was shaking.
"That you're an evil man, who would kill a child simply because she was arguing back." Her voice was shaking, and she clenched her hands.
"I would also eat that baby." Shinou pointed to where Yukito was.
Was?
He lowered his hand. "Where'd the tasty morsel go?"
Greta turned around. "Yuki?" She turned around in a circle, looking for the baby before trying hard to suppress a smile.
Yuki was playing with the shoelace of Shinou's boot
It would have been so easy. SO EASY! Easy to just.. kick that baby thing. Kick it out the window so that it shattered the glass into a million pieces and ended up in a million pieces itself on the ground of the courtyard outside.
And the only reason why he didn't do it was because Greta would be sad if he did..... DAMNIT NOT THAT HE CARED OR ANYTHING. He did, however, nudge the baby with a frown. "Off, little primate."
Yuki looked up at him and burbled, reaching up. He grabbed Shinou's pants leg to use it as leverage to stand.
Greta smiled and squatted down. "Come here, Yuki," she urged, clapping her hands and holding them out.
Yuki looked over at Greta and reached out towards her, taking a shaky step, then another, and another before falling back onto his little rump and blinking up at her.
Once more, Shinou fought back the urge to kick the baby.
He was actually far to concerned that the kid's soiled hand had infiltrated his pants leg. Baby germs. D:
Greta squealed excitedly and scooped the baby up, spinning him around. "Yuki, your daddies are going to be so happy!" Her smile faded when she looked at Shinou.
"I don't like that thing." Shinou said. He was acting like a spoiled brat and he knew it. But he really didn't like live babythings.
"His name is Yukito," she replied. "He's not a thing."
"If it can't think of itself, then it isn't relevant." Or so Shinou's train of thought liked to have him perceive. "Nothing you do or say will ever make me like that... baby." At least he didn't call it a think this time around.
Greta looked at Yukito. "Yuki, who do you love?" she asked the baby.
"Dada!" the baby replied immediately, smiling widely and bouncing in her arms.
She smiled and tickled him. "You're such a smart boy, right?"
Yuki nodded.
Shinou made an overexaggerated gagging face. He was such a child.
"Shinou's a mean old man, isn't he?" she said with a chuckle.
Yuki nodded again.
Now Shinou REALLY didn't like that babything! "There's no reason for me to be here anymore." He scowled. "Go finish your walk and I hope you drop it." He spun around, taking great care to make his cape whoosh.
"I'm teasing, I'm teasing!" Greta grabbed his cape. "Please... Shinou..."
Shinou set his jaw, but didn't turn around. "No one teases with Shinou."
Greta smiled. "I can."
Shinou gave her a death glare. "What makes you so sure?" Oh, denial.
She giggled. "We're still alive."
Shinou's mouth formed a perfect 'O' shape and he relaxed his muscles only slightly. "That doesn't give you permission to tease me."
She giggled. "Fine."
Shinou sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "Listen. Do you... want to go put up that rugrat and go make me some cookies?"
"Are you sure? I hear they're nasty."
"They kind of are, but I can stomache them." A grin.
She set her jaw. Two could play at this tame. "Well, as long as you think you can survive eating them."
"Think? I /know/ I can survive."
Greta made a silent "oooh" motion behind his back, Yuki giggling and waving his hands as well.
Shinou waved off the little gremlin. "But that away and make me some cookies, or I'll go off to my temple and break things."
She chuckled and shrugged, stepping past him. "It's your temple. Break what you want," she called out, heading towards the kitchens.
Shinou made mocking faces at Greta the moment she turned around, but slowly floated after her to the kitchens thinking of nothing but sugary things of yum.
What: Greta... finds Shinou and Shinou's a prick and Greta thwarts him and.. Shinou wants to eat Yukito.
Shinou sat crouched just around the corner of a particularily darkened hallway. He had a string gripped tightly in his hands and was watching carefully for any signs of life. Gwendal had thwarted his plans before, but not this time! This time he had clear string that was so invisible to the naked eye that it would fool Gwendal into tripping and making a complete and total ass of himself. AH HAH AH AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!
Greta walked down the hall, holding Yukito on her hip and smiling at the baby. She paused when the light reflected off the plastic string, creating a red line in the middle of the hall. She reached down and pulled on the string.
Shinou, entirely caught up in looking for Gwendal, didn't even realize Greta's presence had been drawing closer. The moment she pulled on the string, he fell forward only slightly, but made a sort of grunting noise and growled, searching for the perpetrator. "YOU!" His eyes widened.
Greta giggled. "Shinou-heika, are you being silly again?" she asked, ajusting Yukito on her hip.
Yukito burried his face in Greta's neck, shy.
Shinou narrowed his eyes and gathered the string back up into a ball before placing it meticulously into an inner pocket of his overcoat. "I'm not being silly. I'm extracting revenge"
"Revenge? What did Gwen do?"
Yukito looked up at the sound of Gwendal's name.
"Marred my face." Shinou said simply and bluntly as if it were a most obvious action.
But then...Shinou hadn't seen the baby. Shinou automatically ignored it when most, if not all, babies entered a room. However, he took the time to sniff the air a moment. "I smell infant."
Greta furrowed his brow for a moment. "Infant? OH! You mean Yukito!" Yuki reached up to touch Greta's mouth, and Greta kissed his little fingers. "He's Conrad's and Yozak's son," she explained.
"I don't care who's son it is." Shinou frowned at it. "It smells like feces."
Greta pouted. "He does not! He just had a bath!"
"Ah." Shinou stood up, now, looming over the two of them. "He's all cleaned and washed up, ready for baking, eh?"
Greta frowned and cradled Yuki. "Stop being mean. If you're hungry, I'll make you some cookies."
"I'm not being mean, I'm being practical." Shinou stretched now, his body not quite liking the crouching position it had been in for so long. "What are you two wandering around in these corridors for, anyway?" His eyes never left the baby and he wondered briefly if it would go well with Tobasco sauce.
Yukito whimpered, grabbing onto Greta's shirt.
"We're just playing," she replied. "Yukito likes going for walks."
Shinou glowered. "It doesn't look like it is walking."
Greta sighed. "Yukito can't walk yet--he can crawl a little. But he likes it when we take him with us on walks."
Shinou wasn't interested in it if he couldn't eat it, so he ignored it, even though the fecal odor was overpowering his senses. "In either case, you ruined my ploy to get von Voltaire. I have to think up a punishment for you."
Greta raised her eyebrows in perfect imitation of Gwendal. "That means no more cookies."
Shinou did a major step-back at the resemblence to Gwendal's annoying antic. "You can't deny me cookies!"
Greta shrugged. "But if I'm punished..."
Yuki burbled, recognizing the shift in power.
"I don't need your filfthy cookies anyway." Oh Shinou. Sour grapes.
Greta looked at him before stomping her foot like a child. "You're just being a jerk, Shinou!"
"Unoriginal." Shinou blew on his fingernails. "Can you think of a more creative insult for me?"
She was upset, very upset. She started to cry. "I thought you were my friend, but everyone's right. You're just an old, bitter man!"
That stung. OH. did that STING.
"I am so NOT an old man!"
"Yes you are!" Greta shouted back. "You're mean and old and wrinkly and everyone hates you!"
Yuki started crying from all the screaming.
"Everyone does NOT hate me! Why... I have a whole temple devoted to me! I'm worshipped!" Worshipped... but how come he didn't have any friends and no one loved him and the only person who had ever given him the true time of day was now married to someone who just looked like Shinou? .... maybe Shinou needed to ponder this by candlelight and with the accompaniment of a razor.
Oh, but then the baby started crying and Shinou hissed at it.
Yuki cried louder at the hiss and Greta cradled the baby. "People worship you because they're afraid you'll kill them if you don't!" She rocked him gently, trying to calm Yuki. "No wonder Ken-chan left you--you're mean and evil and you'll die all alone with no one!"
Shinou actually paused... alone? No one? Isolation? Despair?
But then he came to his senses. "I cannot die." HA! Worm your way out of that one, little girl!
She scoffed. "That's even worse."
Oh...
Shinou frowned and leaned against the wall. "I don't do anything to be mean to people. People just annoy me... and I let them know that. I think that lying to people, even if it is a white lie, is wrong."
She snorted. Ooh, Yozak would be proud. "Liar. If I were anyone else, you'd have killed me by now."
"I could kill you if I wanted to!" Shinou conjured up a mini purple ball of death in his hand to emphasize this.
Greta set Yukito down on his rump then stood in front of him. "Then do it."
"FINE." He reared his hand back and gave Greta the meanest scowl he could, hoping she'd beg or... something.
Greta was scared, but she was proving a point. She looked at him. "If you do this, Shinou, you'll be proving everyone right."
"What, that I'm not afraid to murder annoying little brats?" His scowl was still plastered across his face, but his hand was shaking.
"That you're an evil man, who would kill a child simply because she was arguing back." Her voice was shaking, and she clenched her hands.
"I would also eat that baby." Shinou pointed to where Yukito was.
Was?
He lowered his hand. "Where'd the tasty morsel go?"
Greta turned around. "Yuki?" She turned around in a circle, looking for the baby before trying hard to suppress a smile.
Yuki was playing with the shoelace of Shinou's boot
It would have been so easy. SO EASY! Easy to just.. kick that baby thing. Kick it out the window so that it shattered the glass into a million pieces and ended up in a million pieces itself on the ground of the courtyard outside.
And the only reason why he didn't do it was because Greta would be sad if he did..... DAMNIT NOT THAT HE CARED OR ANYTHING. He did, however, nudge the baby with a frown. "Off, little primate."
Yuki looked up at him and burbled, reaching up. He grabbed Shinou's pants leg to use it as leverage to stand.
Greta smiled and squatted down. "Come here, Yuki," she urged, clapping her hands and holding them out.
Yuki looked over at Greta and reached out towards her, taking a shaky step, then another, and another before falling back onto his little rump and blinking up at her.
Once more, Shinou fought back the urge to kick the baby.
He was actually far to concerned that the kid's soiled hand had infiltrated his pants leg. Baby germs. D:
Greta squealed excitedly and scooped the baby up, spinning him around. "Yuki, your daddies are going to be so happy!" Her smile faded when she looked at Shinou.
"I don't like that thing." Shinou said. He was acting like a spoiled brat and he knew it. But he really didn't like live babythings.
"His name is Yukito," she replied. "He's not a thing."
"If it can't think of itself, then it isn't relevant." Or so Shinou's train of thought liked to have him perceive. "Nothing you do or say will ever make me like that... baby." At least he didn't call it a think this time around.
Greta looked at Yukito. "Yuki, who do you love?" she asked the baby.
"Dada!" the baby replied immediately, smiling widely and bouncing in her arms.
She smiled and tickled him. "You're such a smart boy, right?"
Yuki nodded.
Shinou made an overexaggerated gagging face. He was such a child.
"Shinou's a mean old man, isn't he?" she said with a chuckle.
Yuki nodded again.
Now Shinou REALLY didn't like that babything! "There's no reason for me to be here anymore." He scowled. "Go finish your walk and I hope you drop it." He spun around, taking great care to make his cape whoosh.
"I'm teasing, I'm teasing!" Greta grabbed his cape. "Please... Shinou..."
Shinou set his jaw, but didn't turn around. "No one teases with Shinou."
Greta smiled. "I can."
Shinou gave her a death glare. "What makes you so sure?" Oh, denial.
She giggled. "We're still alive."
Shinou's mouth formed a perfect 'O' shape and he relaxed his muscles only slightly. "That doesn't give you permission to tease me."
She giggled. "Fine."
Shinou sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "Listen. Do you... want to go put up that rugrat and go make me some cookies?"
"Are you sure? I hear they're nasty."
"They kind of are, but I can stomache them." A grin.
She set her jaw. Two could play at this tame. "Well, as long as you think you can survive eating them."
"Think? I /know/ I can survive."
Greta made a silent "oooh" motion behind his back, Yuki giggling and waving his hands as well.
Shinou waved off the little gremlin. "But that away and make me some cookies, or I'll go off to my temple and break things."
She chuckled and shrugged, stepping past him. "It's your temple. Break what you want," she called out, heading towards the kitchens.
Shinou made mocking faces at Greta the moment she turned around, but slowly floated after her to the kitchens thinking of nothing but sugary things of yum.