Baby Blues
Our vampires are different, part 12: by Demona
Baby Blues
Tora stood in the middle of the hallway with the baby in his arms for a good few minutes more before the baby grew bored and just grabbed Tora's wrist to drag his fingers into reach to chew on them. With a surprised yelp, Tora nearly dropped the little critter, but luckily with his now faster than human reflexes managed to catch the blanket/baby-bundle before it could hit the ground.
Miyavi would kill him if anything happened to his precious little daughter. And not just kill him, but slowly and painfully kill him. Not to mention the fact that with him being a vampire, Tora was sure that Miyavi would have his fun killing him for quite an extended period of time. He shuddered.
The baby, however, just giggled and began to make little bouncy movements as if to encourage Tora to nearly drop her again. When he didn't, the cute little face quickly contorted into a grimace and the baby began to wail.
Tora felt like crying himself. He did not really have any experience taking care for a little baby. Even less for a half-vampire (or dhampyr, he remembered). How old was she? Must be about six months. He remembered tossing a few bucks in for gifts for the baby shower. How did one keep a child of this age well occupied? And when would he need to feed her? Just a few drops of blood, or where there bottled meals hidden somewhere?
And even more horribly: What if her diapers needed to be changed?!
Looking for some clues, he carried the little one to the living room and was immensely relieved to find a playpen stocked with some toys and cushions. He sat the baby down and curled up on the sofa where he could keep an eye on her. And he hoped that either Miyavi would return soon or enlightenment would strike him and he would know what to do with the baby. At least, at the moment she seemed happy enough to blabber to herself and chew on some toys. It would have been adorable if she hadn't chewed off the head from a cute little rag doll and waved the severed parts at Tora happily before continue chewing on the mutilated doll. Tora curled up on the couch and felt very afraid.
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Hiroto had to admit that he was a little on edge. This was the first time in weeks that he and Tora were not at least in the same building for an extended period of time. Hiroto even pondered the thought of inviting Nao or Aki over to spend the night so that he wouldn’t feel so nervous anymore. He trusted Tora not to chew Akiya up or something like that, but still... he wanted the other around. Badly.
That bugged him. It wasn't that they were newlyweds or something like that. Still, he felt like something was wrong.
Snorting softly to himself, Hiroto decided to abuse his power over Nao and force his human servant to spend the evening with him.
Luckily, Nao was just happy enough to spend time with Hiroto. Unfortunately though, he dragged Hiroto out to Akihabara. And told him not to let him buy anything. Yeah, that would sure work... And of course once in Akihabara, neither of the musicians could resist a short visit in the Laox Music Vox. Or not so short a visit, as six floors of musical instruments and technical goodies could sidetrack a mind.
However, they were not the only ones happily browsing the store. Hiroto more felt than saw Nao blanch when a grinning Akiya waved them over.
Benefit of the doubt only went so far. After exchanging some polite pleasantries and making sure that Akiya had no idea that Tora was meant to be with him this evening, Hiroto excused himself and looked for quiet corner where he would not disturb other customers when he yelled into his cell phone.
Hiroto's initial worries quickly changed again to righteous anger at his missing housemate when Tora picked up and greeted him in a somewhat hoarse and hushed voice.
Hiroto's hand clamped around the cell phone a bit too harshly, making the plastic crack slightly. However, his anger quickly dissipated when he heard suspicious sounds from Tora.
"Tora... are you crying?!"
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next chapter: whenever I get around to writing it.
und jetzt noch tolle nachrichten: wir haben eine übersetzung auf deutsch in arbeit!
kommis sind <3
