Firefly had left Haku with the two boys as she'd made time to get out and walk the packlands, she rarely got a chance to anymore and she wasn't going to lose this moment to herself, plus she had to see what she had been missing. Alexey and the other visitors had been keeping her up to date on new things going on but she wanted to see for herself. Her long creamy gold legs stretched out across the field as she smiled to herself and decided that she should go see if her cabin was still all in one piece.
She shook her head at the idea of the cabin being destroyed but as long as she'd been at Haku's and if they'd been taking in any new members there was the chance that she might have to run someone's ass out of her own den. Firefly slowed down as she came upon the cottage in the vineyards, circling the unit a few times to study the outer perimeter before taking a slow step onto the porch and scenting the area for anyone who didn't belong.
She relaxed as she realized that there were little to no scents of others in the area, all stale and belonging to those she'd known. She smiled smugly to herself as she walked back and forth on the porch as she gazed out over the snowy lands. This was her little getaway from the world she was mother over at the moment. The Acer couldn't wait until the boys were old enough to tag along across the packlands and get the hell out of the house. Firefly almost couldn't stand another moment locked in the building with the little squeakers.
The silence of the moment was broken by shrill barking. Willow came over the hill, chasing a rabbit and barking at it. Her short legs couldn't quite keep up and soon she tumbled head over heals into another snow drift. She lfited herself up, shaking and flinging off the snow. She'd found a lot of white rabbits today, and she wanted to catch one and take it home like Tal did for mom and Coli. She was frustrated that she couldn't do it. She didn 't know what she was doing wrong. She snorted snow out of her nostrils as she glared after the dissapearing rabbit.
She turned, and caught sight of someone nearby. A pretty wolf was pacing on a porch. Willow grinned and made her way to the porch, short legs catching in the snow. She bounded up on the steps, her tail wagging. "Hi! I Willow! Oo you?" Her words were becoming more recognizable. She was a good girl, really, just too friendly sometimes.
The shrill sound that broke through the quiet made her want to snarl. She wasn't use to the racket that puppies made yet, her own only made small whimpering and whining sounds, not the more noisy ventures that the elder youth brought forth. She narrowed her orbs as the small frame of the child came into her view, her eyes catching sight of what was a minuture of her mate almost to be exact. She wanted to rage right then and there but she knew it would be little use. The scent of the child as it bound right up onto her porch told her enough to drive the dagger in even further. Dahlia de Mai. The child belonged within the pack, her mate had brought his own bastard lot into the lands.
She stood there silently as the small one begain to chatter, hoping that somehow she'd read into this all wrong and she was sadly mistake but she doubted it. He already had once child running about, full grown but still one of his little mistakes. Firefly glanced down at the girl as she spoke calmly and collectedly. "I'm Firefly. Why aren't you with your mother.. These are dangerous times for one so small." Dangerous indeed, Firefly could think of a hundred ways to make the child's world a dangerous place to be. Here she was forced into a corner once again by her mate and there was nothing to save her now. No justice she could do to let him feel the way he made her feel.
Willow cocked her head, looking up at the woman. Firefly. That was a name the girl had heard a lot, usually spoken in hushed tones by her mom, as if afraid of calling the devil to them. Firefly didn't look so scary. And she smelled like mother's milk, which was a good safe smell. Her tail wagged as she answered the question from the older woman.
"I 'splorin! Tal says he splored lots when he was little too! Momma says I should run away if I see you, that you don' know we here. Why momma said that? You purrty and nice and you smew goods too." She had a tendency to ramble, but she was learning words. She was learning conversation. And soon she would probably learn why momma said to stay away from Firefly and Haku.
Firefly couldn't help it when her lips raised slightly to show her canines. The disgust in being presented with one of her mate's bastard children was almost too much but right at the moment she was going to place nice, well as nice as Firefly could play without wanting to rip her mate's throat out. When the child began to speak Firefly couldn't do anything but cackle at what she asked. "Well it's too late now for that, looks like I know you're here." she said darkly as she studied the child.
The golden bronze woman was use to compliments and while normally they didn't come from children they were all the same. She leaned down closer to the girl as she said slowly. "Probably because your mother's a slut and she doesn't want the world to know of how she couldn't keep her tail tucked where it should have stayed." She doubted the kid would understand a single thing she said but she hoped the little girl would carry the message home to her dear mummy.
"Can you think of any reason why mummy wouldn't want her dear sweet babe to be found by the Firefly?" she asked. Her emerald eyes glittered darkly as she could think of a million reasons why she wouldn't have let her bastard spawn loose in the same lands where the mate of the male she so freely fucked lived. She could make a few of those reason reality too if she really really felt like it, at a danger to herself though. She hated having the ghostly shadow of the Rosea always lurking just where she wasn't needed.
((Did you get my PM aboput a Deuce/Firefly thread?))
Willow looked trustingly up at Firefly, her head cocked slightly, her brow furrowed as she tried to understand the woman's speech. "You and momma talk the same," she commented, meaning the accent. Deuce had a little bit of an Irish accent at times too. She blinked her baby blues a couple of times, then asked. "Whats a slut?"
The girl was a sponge, picking up every new word she could. She heard lots when mommy and Tal were taking turns reading aloud in front of the fireplace. Now that she was out and about she was learning more then her mother would approve of, many of them being derogatory in nature. "I dunno why momma not want us round you. You smell like fadder." Her smile returned and her tail thumped against the porch happily.
ooc: Firefly's in enough as it is, with some of her plots she's got going, but if it took place this week I've been told she would be in much trouble, if you were still game.
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Firefly sneered down at the girl's words, comparing her to her own pathedic excuse of a mother. The Acer had no clue still who the child's family was but she figured that she could learn rather quickly. She'd seen the woman at the packmeeting but Firefly hadn't connected Haku's backburner game with the once leader of Phoenix Valley. Her ears pinned back as she chuckled darkly. "That's about where the connections end there between the two of us little lady." she said. The priceless unwaivering blink of the girls eyes as she asked her the next question made Firefly grin with grim satisfaction. "It means your mother shakes her tail at any passing fancy and doesn't cross her legs like a proper maid." She really wished that she could see the ivory bitch's reaction if her daughter brought those words home.
The last words that fell from the maw of her mate's lust child made her growl slightly as she took a step towards the little one and lowered her face closer. "I can probably guess why.. You see, your father has another family, one he belongs with, unlike your mommy who wants to live in a fantasy that she's wanted and needed." Firefly could only guess the reasons that the woman hung around and the constant negative buzz the child was giving her made her just want to backhand the annoying runt across the porch, but she refrained. She might have a temper, but she knew better than to let her mate get hold of the fact that she might have actually hurt any stupid fuckup he'd created along the way.
