Running (Wyatt)

[Naomi Hastings]

Naomi chose to get home at that moment. She came in the back door laughing and giggling as she thought of how her day had gone. She'd enjoyed just going with a few friends, without her parents, to Diagon Alley. She knew her dad probably wouldn't have liked to know that there were boys there. She smiled a bit as she looked back behind her. When she turned though and listened she heard her mom talking about making them being fun and then pulling her dad closer. She winkled her nose and then spoke, "Eww. You have children you know."

Naomi sniffed the air and then asked, "Burn dinner again? Gues that means we're ordering out." She shrugged and then began to move through the kitchen to look for something to eat. She came across a ding dong in the fridge and began to open it as she sat her little bag on the counter. She hoped that they weren't going to ask her what ti was because she didn't want them seeing the little kitten she'd rescused that was in there. SUddenly, the bag began to move and Naomi gave her parents a little smile and tried to escape out the door with the bag before they stopped her.

kitten

[Wyatt Hastings]

"Wel I told you to tell me right away. Come on Ria haven't you realized that I'm generally right." He joked lightly. Okay usually he was actually pretty wrong most of the time, but whatever, he knew what he was talking about when it came to charms and pain. Mostly because he was use to pain and he didn't like it. He looked slightly offended for a moment. "She's never going to know it was me. I've very good at what I do Ria, I could scare the boys away from her and they wouldn't even know it was me until they saw me creeping around dark corners to steal their souls for even looking at my baby girl... so see, it's the perfect plan." He winked. "We should have skipped parenthood and gone straight to Grandparent hood, my parents love it. The kids get rowdy and you just hand them off" He said with a grin. Since he was an only child and it had taken him a good while to have kids his parents were about to give up on ever have grandkids.

The door opened and Naomi walked in making her little comment. "We do? And here I thought those people wandering the house were boarders. Well that explains why we never saw an rent from them." He said to Ria with a smile. He laughed when Naomi figured out their current dinner plans. "Well this time you can blame it on your brothers." He shrugged, kissing Ria again, turning when he heard the bag rustle and begin to move. "Freeze, what are you hoarding?" He asked her.

[Ria Hastings]

Ria laughed as she looked to her husband and spoke, 'You were right there. I should have woken you. But you looked so peaceful and I knew their pregnancy and taking car of the girls had been hard on you....so I let you sleep. I know and you knew you needed it. You were right thought." Ri alistened to him rattle on about how he'd handle the world with Naomi. She laughed a bit and went to respond, but then their daughter came in and Ria smiled as she heard him make the joke about their children. She hit him and then spoke, "Oh, you know they are yours!" Ria shrugged as she heard him talk about the brothers and she nodded. It was their fault this time. Ria sighed as she spoke, the answer she knew was coming, "They were yelling at each other over the tellie." Ria heard Wyatt's words and shook her head.


Naomi rolled her eyes about the kissing and lovey dovey stuff. She then tapped her foot anf tried to eascape. Her mother answered what she'd wanted to know. Her dad spoke though and she sighed. She pulled the kitten from the bag and held it up as she spoke, "Oh, can I keep her please, oh please. I promise she won't get too big and I will take care of her."

[Wyatt Hastings]

Wyatt laughed lightly. "Yeah but you nearly breaking my fingers through the labor was harder." He joked. "Ria we've been married how long? four... five years? You should know by now that I'm always right." He winked, okay a few more than four or five, they were coming up on fifteen years soon enough. "I don't know about them being mine, i mean, they don't really look like me and none of them have my sparkling personality as far as I can well... well the little one, what's his name... he nearly clocked the other little one over a TV show, yeah he might be mine but the rest are up in the air." Yeah, Wyatt was not good at taking things seriously. "Naomi, tell your mother that the Telly is a wonderful thing."

Wyatt quirked an eyebrow as Naomi held up a cat. "You can promise it won't get big? I didnt know she had power of that sort of thing." Wyatt looked at Ria. "Think she can do it for the boys? Then we don't have to buy them clothes." He teased lightly. "Ask your mother." He pointed to Ria. he didnt' care, he liked cats and Naomi would be taking that cat with her to school anyway.

[Ria Hastings]

Ria smiled a bit as she remembered almost breaking his fingers. She then shook her head and nodded as she spoke, "You deserved it for making me have two. You wanted a boy. I will tell you now though. I am done with having those for a good long while. I don't want to go through that again. Merlin only knows how Muggles do it!" She threw her hands in the air and laughed. Then he made the commetn about four or five years and Ria laughed again as she spoke, "I am not that young and Naomi isn't five." Ria missed those days. She turned to look at her child and then smiled again. Naomi was so little and so beautiful. All of them had been...then the twins grew up.

Ria heard her hsuband going on and on about her husband and then rose an eyebrow as she spoke, "Oh, shut it, Wyatt. You'd havelet me go long ago if you had any doubt they weren't yours."

Naomi scoffed and coughed into her hands loking at her mother. She make a fake puking noise and spoke, "Ewwww, gross. Don't even go there." Now that she had her Mum's attention she looked to ehr and spoke, "I do like the telly when the boys aren't around." She nodded a bit and smiled, "Well, I can't do that kind of magic but I can make sure it doesn't get fat!"

Ria looked at the cat and then sighed as she spoke, "I guess we can be sure the boys and your sister aren't allergic." Ria then waved her hand and continued, "But it will go with you to school, and you will be responsible for feeding it." Yes, that would keep the boys from thinking they could bring random animals home like dogs or lizards and the such. She nodded and watched as Naomi ran out. Ria sighed as she asked, "When did she get to grown up?"

[Wyatt Hastings]

Wyatt laughed and shook his head. "I made you have two? Ria once the swimmers leave the gate I don't have control anymore." He smiled. "I'm pretty sure Muggles use drugs, heavy and powerful drugs." He nodded, at least his aunt had. "Really? I was thinking we could go for seven or eight more. We're still pretty young and we can always have Naomi chase them down when it gets to be too much for us." He said jokingly, looking at the clock, waiting for the food it wouldn't take long. He started to point out that technically they weren't married when Naomi was born but thought better of it, he was not going to open that can of worms, especially when his daughter was in the room.

"You see how mean she is to me?" He asked Naomi. "Oh I don't know I mean you're a stone cold fox, I could probably forgive you for having someone elses kids." He smiled turning to her and wrapping her arms around her. "Granted I can see some of my mom in Naomi so maybe she's mine." He nodded.

"See, the kids like it, the boys love it and Naomi likes it... I'm sure Milly would agree that she likes it if she were here." He smiled victoriously then looked to his oldest child. "If you're taking it to Hogwarts then you may not be able to stop that. I saw a lot of fat cats, probably because of all the mice running around." He shrugged. It was true too, there were a lot of little critters running around the school, especially in the dungeons.

"I dont think they are, they were fine when I took them to the pet shoppe last week." Wyatt shrugged. He had been out with the twins and they wanted to see all the animals. Wyatt had wanted to see them too so... it workedout. He watched Naomi run off and he looked back to Ria. "I don't know, but I don't like it, she needs to stop. How much do you think I'll have to pay the lupins and Logan to watch her when I can't?" He asked half serious.

[Ria Hastings]

Ria rolled her eyes as sh espoke, "I don't care if you had control. It was still your fault then." She smiled a bit and then she heard his jokes and then the joke about her being that sexy he could forgive her. She went to hit him, but he grabbed her and held her close. Oh, she was hoping that food would get there soon before the man deliverying found a dead husband on the floor. Ria gave a fake smile as she spoke, 'Only some of your mom is in Naomi? I think you underestimate your daughter." Ria smiled more and then kissed Wyatt's cheek.

Ria rolled her eyes and spoke, "Fine the thing stays. I still am not watching it. I like my newspapers very much thank you." She grinned as she looked to Wyatt and then spoke again, "That is going to be the fattest cat we have ever seen. I din't think of that when I told her she ahd to pay to feed for it." She smirked a bit and then spoke, "Logan is going to have some trouble with that one wanting to take all his pets home." Ria's eyes went home as she spoke, "Oh no."

Just the image of her house ruined by some animal or another made her eyes go wider. She then looked to Wyatt and spoke again, "No letting her bring them home form hogwarts." She shook her head to reaffirm it. She then streached a bit as she continued, "Did they enjoy it all at the shoppe?" She ran a hand over and through her hair and then nodded, "Nothing, all have had or will be having kids. Nothing...pay back will come." She laughed a bit and then spoke, "No interest in boys from her yet. I must say that is rather nice."

[Wyatt Hastings]

"Fine but when they grow up to be a doctor and.... I don't know a professional fighter or something... I'll remember that they're my fault." He grinned. She talked about Naomi having more than a little bit of his mother in her. "Oh yeah? I wonder if she could make the Quiche." He teased, kissing her and pulling away as the delivery person got their with their food. "Oh it smelled delicious."/ He said, getting out the money to pay him and then took the food, putting it on the counter and looking over at Ria with a smile.

"The Newspaper is painfully outdated Ria, the Telly, you can get updates all day every day. The paper comes out once a day." He really didn't care. He didn't mind if Ria watched TV or used the paper. He ripped into the food, getting the boys' spighetti onto plates and cutting it into smaller pieces for them. They could make messes like no one else so he tried to avoide it as best he could by getting them the pasta without the sauce. He didn't want a mess any more than anyone else. "Now it did occur to you that Naomi doesn't have a job so we're paying for the food by giving her pocket money right?"

He laughed at her reaction to the thought. "Ria I really don't think Logan would let her take random creatures home." he said shaking his head. He could just see Naomi trying to convince them to let her keep a blast ended Skerwrt. "And if he does I will make sure he doesn't do it more than once." He grinned then frowned. "Little Lupin had a kid? Elijah, not the littlest Lupin." He did not remember that happening. He knew that the Lupins were taking over the school, Logan was teaching and he was an honorary Lupin, then Elijah and his girlfriend were teachers and then the two little Lupins were students.

[Ria Hastings]

Ria looked to her husband as she spoke, "I never aid that those were bad jobs, Wyatt. They are jsut Muggle jobs, and I think that if they want to do that then they can. I was jsut making a random comment about them." She was referring to a discussion they'd had recently. She hadn't meant to say they were bad. She jsut made it sound that way. Maybe, even after all these years, she did still have some pure-blood elitist in her. Ria hadn't meant it like that, had she?

Then he made his comment about the quiche. Ria felt offended and hurt at the same time, but since the delivery guy was there she wasn't going to say a word. Ria ran a hand over her arm and bit her tounge to literally keep her mouth shut. Then he made the comment about the food smelling good. Ria nodded and then called the boys yo get their spagetti and Naomi to get her food. Once they were all out Ria spoke, "Yes, I realize that, but she'll work for the money if she wants to keep the kitten." Ria knew she'd probably give in and jsut let her and Wyatt pay for the food.

Ria took her food and began to set it up on a plate as she spoke, "I know, but I like my paper." She sat at the barstool as she looked to her husband. She set her fork to the side and then spoke, "Well, the children they will have. I don't think Elijah has a child yet either." She nodded her head to give herself clarity in her mind. She then took a bite of her food and thought. Her midn was runningat many different angles. Was she a poor mother because she couldn't cook? Did Wyatt and the kids deserve better? What could she do to let him have everything he needed? Were they too different to be able to work through their problems? Maybe all this after this long as still a mistake. She felt tears coming to her eyes and she sat her fork down. She looked to Wyatt and spoke, "Am I a bad mother and wife?"

[Wyatt Hastings]

"I know Love. Relax, I'm not saying anything bad about you or what you think." he assured her. Honestly he didn't mind it if his sons ended up with muggle jobs and he knew that honestly Ria wouldn't either, she was just use to the ideas that Muggle Jobs were more work because they had to do everything without Magic. He looked at her and smiled softly. He didn't care about all that because she was working on it, after all she'd married someone who had a muggle parent, that was a step up...down... in the right direction. "I don't know I guess we should wait a few years before deciding what the boys are going to do with their lives, seeing as they're only five."

Wyatt got the tops off the boy's food and unwrapped the plastic forks before the boys got there so they wouldn't make too big of a mess. "Anything you drop on the floor you still have to eat." He said as they ran off the with continers in their hands. They just smiled at him mischiviously and ran off. Wyatt shook his head and looked at Ria. "Yeah okay, well seeing as she'll be at school and won't be able to get a job or come home to do chores or whatever what about putting together a reward system for grades?" Naomi was smart, but he knew that grades tended to falter for just about every kid. "she gets so many good grades and she gets a couple of galleons." He shrugged.

Wyatt smiled. "Of course, but I'll know the news faster than you will." He actually was quite fond of the paper too, there was nothing like sitting at the breakfast table with a bowl of cereal and reading the paper. "Yeah well I talked with Logan during lunch, he reminds me of... me when you were pregnant with Naomi." He smiled. He had been so jumpy and twitchy and if there was anything Ria needed he would have flown to the moon to get it. He sat down and opened his own food and started to eat, almost choking when Ria asked if she was a bad wife and mother. "What?" He asked when he was able to breathe again. "What would make you even ask that? You're in incredible mother and an even better wife." He tried to assure her.

[Ria Hastings]

Ria nodded a bit as she looked to him and spoke, "Then why did you pick those specific jobs? I mean...I I'm learning still, Wyatt. I knwo it has been so long, and I am still trying to learn, but I don't know what else I can do. I'm going to be proud of the boys no matter what they do. I love all our kids." She looked up and sighed. She was trying and she always wondered if it was enough. She wanted to give her children so much more, but what if it never was enough? She laughed a bit and then spoke, "We never really get to decide they are. They do, right?"

Ria watched the boys run off and went to tell them no they shouldn't but they were already gone. She sighed a bit and looked to Wyatt and spoke, "Wyatt, you should know better. They wll have a food fight or something now." She shook her head and sighed gently. She then listened to him and then nodded, "That seems like a good idea. We can do the grades thing. I don't know what else we really can do. I am still worried about her being away form me. I know you are there, but I will miss her and you."

Ria shrugged. She liked the paper and she didn't care if it got her the news slower. She liked her paper, and Merlin she was sticking to it. Ria heard him and then she nodded a bit. She grinned as she spoke, "You were so nervous and scared that something was going to happen to us. I remember it all so well. It's going to be harder on him though. It isn't like she lives in the school with him.... Did you give him good advice?" He chocked and Ria felt her nerves go on alert as she patted his back till it was all cleared. He spoke and she repeated, "Am I bad wife and mother?/" He continued and then Ria looked up as she spoke, "I mean...I." Tears were still at the tips of her eyes to come out as she continued, "I can't cook. What kind of mother am I if I can't even feed my kids? Then you jsut go and tell the delivery guy...like I'm not even here to hear you down me. It's all so embarassing. Maybe this isn't the right thing.... Maybe we aren't right."

[Wyatt Hastings]

"Because honestly I think at this point in their lives, professional wrestling seems like the best option for them." he nodded. "Or demolition men, I think they'd be good at that." He smiled, half jokingly. "It's fine Ria, I don't expect you to change and I don't expect the boys to go for a job in the muggle world, ever honestly." He nodded. He knew he wouldn't go back if he didn't have to, magic was just too easy and it was great. "Well I don't know I mean my mom decided I would become a teacher, marry an imposibly amazing woman and have kids that were rowdy enough to make me feel bad for everything I did to her in my childhood." He joked. "Okay so she just told me that I'd end up with the last one, but the first two were bonuses I guess." He smiled.

"And then we'll use magic to clean it up." Wyatt shrugged, "I'd say make them clean it but they'd probably just make it worse. We'll get back at them someday, just wait until their friends come over and talk about their Hot Mom." He said. He hadn't had that problem... he only had a couple of friends and while his mom was pretty she wasn't really in the Hot Category, not like Ria was. He nodded in agreement. "Well she's survived it for the past three years, I'm sure she'll be fine and if she's not I'll wrap her in bubblewrap and send her home ASAP." he promised.

"I don't know that it'd be harder, I mean, yeah his wife is going to be away from him, but they don't have ex-death eaters after them." He didn't resent their past though, hey it got him a beautiful wife and amazing kids. "I gave him great advice, always be near a fireplace, don't ignore any owls and go home every weekend with chocolate and be ready to give a good foot massage." He nodded. He frowned when Ria started explaining her reasoning behind the question. "What did I say to... Ria I was talking to you, not the deliver guy." He shook his head, getting up. "Ria your mothering skills have nothing to do with your ability to cook... or lack thereof. Our kids are far from starving, you can make the basics and what you can't make we can have delivered, it's fine. I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings, I really didn't mean to." He said, kneeling next to her chair to look at her, he wasn't use to her being this emotional.