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Jack of the Frost is back in the bar, with a box. He's trying to tie ribbon around it, like a present, and it's failing utterly.

Ribbon is too damned fiddly.

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"Zelos is a brat - an insufferable one, really, but that might be why I like him. He is forever trying to be noticed - it is what he is, I suppose."

A laugh, quiet and genuinely amused.

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"Is he patient or impatient?" Jack wants to know. Frost, he wonders

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"Zelos is Jealousy - more competitive than anything else. He prefers to look younger and teases the nymph something awful, but that is mostly because she ruffles his hair and refuses to cry when he tugs hers back."

They amuse her.

Zelos was the reason the nymph seemed so terribly interesting in the first place. Anyone who deals successfully with her brats for more than five minutes is worth at least a cursory glance.

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"He tugs Lethe's hair?"

Jack gives the table a dark look. No one should pick on Lethe.

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Another laugh.

"Lethe is a much bigger girl than you think, little love. She shoved him in the river first time he did it - couldn't remember his name for a week."

The grin curls pleasantly. This is loving parenthood ... really it is.

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"Hah."

He smiles, not entirely happily, but it is a smile.

"I have learned, though, that because you can survive something does not mean you deserve to have it happen to you."

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"There is no love lost for hair-pulling, dear. Zelos just likes attention - and the nymph was a great dear more shy than she is now."

Hair-pulling is, by far, the least that occurred between her siblings.

"He is a bit childish, not violent. That's Bia."

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"I will avoid Bia, then."

He yawns, and lets Frost deal with the whole question.

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"That may be best, little love."

A careful pressure of fingers, leaning his head back to her shoulder.

"I'll leave your boy the nymph as well - she's used to him by now."

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Much as it pains Frost to admit it, the screw ups were largely his fault, and the animosity that built.

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"I have no doubts that he is a clever thing, love."

She finds him interesting for a reason, after all.

Another light hum and she skates her fingers at the neckline of his shirt.

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So very proud. A lot of the time.

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"Should be, love."

Another skitter of fingers and a quick press of lips to follow.

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He straightens, not to pull away, but to slide arms around her properly.



Tonight'll be about her, he's decided.

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"Well now, who could say no to such a request?"

Certainly not her - if the purposeful shift is anything to go by.

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He laughs, and guides her to her feet.

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She smirks.

"Will I walk this time, love?"