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[bloodyrockgod]

In a booth, Charlie is trying to feed Seth from a jar of crushed plums. Seth has several purple-ish blobs on his face, and has gotten very little of the fruit into his mouth. Woe.

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[unique-moments.livejournal.com]

Sam wanders by, after finishing her milkshake and having read through her magazine, and she's just so bored! So she decides to find someone to talk to.

And she stumbles across the cutest baby ever, and her favourite bloody rockstar. "Hi Charlie!"

[bloodyrockgod]

"Hi, Samantha," he says cheerfully. "This is Seth, my son."

Hi! Seth babbles. I'm Seth! I'm cute and everybody likes me!

[unique-moments.livejournal.com]

"I've met him before, but he wasn't awake." Sam grins and makes a silly face at Seth. "He's so cute!"

[bloodyrockgod]

Seth's arms wave. I know! Don't you want to be my minion?

"Yeah, we like him," Charlie says fondly. "Even though he won't eat his lunch."

[unique-moments.livejournal.com]

"Have you tried the choo-choo train thing? Or the plane? My mom always did that for me when I was a kid." She says, reaching a finger out to touch Seth's arm.

[bloodyrockgod]

"He gives me the 'you're daft, da' look whenver I try. Watch." He makes sputtering noises, bringing in the spoon to Seth's mouth like a drifting Sopwith Camel to the safety of a British airfield.

Seth watches the spoon skeptically and his lips stay shut.

[unique-moments.livejournal.com]

"Maybe it's the type of plane. Try something...not so sputtery. Like a jet." Sam giggles. She gestures to the seat across from him. "Can I sit?"

[watch-wait.livejournal.com]

"You're not stunningly brilliant at that." Bartleby leans over the back of the booth.

[bloodyrockgod]

Charlie dabs the spoon at Bartleby's nose. "Laddie is in a mood. Damned if I can figure out what the problem is. He ate bananas yesterday."

[watch-wait.livejournal.com]

Bartleby jerks backwards just in time. "Maybe you're not all-singing all-dancing enough for him. An aeroplane?"

[bloodyrockgod]

"Tried it. He looks at me like I'm insane and won't open his mouth."

[watch-wait.livejournal.com]

"Helicopter? Speed boat?"

[bloodyrockgod]

"I don't think the sound effects are helping. He just doens't want to eat from a spoon." He regards Seth despondently.

Seth wiggles his fingers, unconcerned.

[ihlini-witch.livejournal.com]

There is a woman there, smiling at the baby.

"That's little Seth!" she declares. "My, but he has grown. I spoke to his mother just now; seems he gives difficulties being fed?"

[bloodyrockgod]

"Yeah, this is our Sethie--he'd rather be back on the bottle, I think." He smiles at the woman a little uncertainly. "I'm Charlie--you're-?"

[ihlini-witch.livejournal.com]

""Oh, sorry, I'm Ginevra," she says, holding out her hand in modern fashion even though her gown is - nonspecfied and simple, but long and dignified. She might come from almost any world.

"My son is two now, but I remember when he was at that stage," she adds. "Holding on to both his little hands and singing to him often helped."

[bloodyrockgod]

"Pleased to meet you, Ginevra.

"Holding his hands helped him eat?"

[ihlini-witch.livejournal.com]

"Just so he couldn't try and grab the spoon to play with it," Ginevra says, smiling. "Yes, that helped a lot - eating is more interesting when the more interesting options of making a mess are out. Of course, the singing helped as well."

[bloodyrockgod]

"He hasn't tried grabbing the spoon yet--I don't think he trusts it. Look, Sethie!" He puts the spoon into his own mouth and makes a face at the sharp taste of the plums.

Seth is not impressed.

[go-between.livejournal.com]

Richard walks in with Joshua in his arms, sees Charlie, waves and walks over. He sits down and gives Joshua a bottle of pink formula. Joshua takes it and feeds greedily and eyes what Seth is eating.

What is that purple cack?

[bloodyrockgod]

"Hey, Richard," Charlie says even though he can't understand him. "And hello to you, young Master Mayhew," he says to Joshua.

It's plums! It taste like . . . purple!

[go-between.livejournal.com]

"Γειάσου, Τσάρλυ."

Joshua grins and flails and then goes back to feeding.

It looks bizarre. How do you drink it?

[bloodyrockgod]

You don't--you eat it!

To prove his superiority he opens his mouth for the next spoonful.

"There you go!" Charlie says. "I knew you'd get hungry enough to try it eventually.

"Blabbity-blah to you too, Richard."

[go-between.livejournal.com]

Joshua makes a face and Richard repositions and croons to him.

Yeuch! I'll stick with my formula. My Snake Brother made it for me!

Richard pulls out a package wrapped in newspaper and hands it to Charlie.

"Είναι ένα δώρο για το βαφτισιμιό μου."

[bloodyrockgod]

"Er, thank you?" He unwraps the package and looks surprised at its contents: a soft rabbit-fur spread, baby-sized. "Richard . . . it's beautiful." He lifts it up so Seth can touch it with his cleaner hand. "Feel, Sethie, soft."

Seth's mouth O's in wonder. Soft!