Water Training the Baby [OPEN]

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Just because Rhiannon didn't know how to swim didn't mean she didn't understand the importance of learning how to swim. So here she was at the lake, standing in the shallow part of the water in her one piece bathing suit. Little Arthur kicking and splashing in the water and his mother kept good hold of his hands. Certainly he had little water wings to keep him afloat, but she still wanted that added security. It showed in his movements that he was a mercury kid sometimes, his legs moving faster some times than others. Most likely he'd kick himself away into the middle of the lake where she couldn't get him if she were to let go and look away for a second. Cute and adorable as his face and abnormally curly hair was, he was probably twice the trouble maker. He's been out and about for less than half a year and she could already tell he was going to be a handful growing up. Not that she minded, though he should probably get another hair cut soon. Babies and all their baby pieces like hair and nails seemed to grow so fast.

Arthur hadn't gotten to the point of crawling yet, thank the gods, but he was babbling a whole lot. At anyone and everyone who would look at him. Though she knows it's just baby babble, every time she heard a 'mama' she would melt and talk back to him. She avoided the short baby talk, she heard it was better to speak in full words and sentences. Besides, she was going to have him reading books soon enough. She could sense it, he seemed farther along in the speech category than other babies, though it might just be her imagination. Of course the other option was he was a grand child of Trivia the goddess of knowledge and Mercury god of communication. The frightful thing was how smart kids where already, she never realized before because she hated kids, but they were smart and manipulative!

Arthur kicked and giggled and splashed. From the grin on her face the daughter of Trivia's eyes squinted a bit. Her cheeks puffed and blushing in the bright sunlight. It wasn't her favorite things to be out in the sun, and sure some people said it was still too cold to be in the water, but the only thing that mattered to her was her family. Their happiness was the world to her, and if Arthur wanted to be out in the sunlight, she'd just deal with it.

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Tag: @rhiannonwarlow

Word: 447

Notes: Hope it is ok I jumped in XD

It was a beautiful day to go out, to feel the soft breeze on the face as one was walking down the road to get to New rome. People were training in the distance, But as Lance quit on being Centurion, the Praetors needed to find a new one, and their current centurion, Kenshin had told them to have a free day, to relax and rest because next morning he would train them in the Obstacle course. she had seen Kenshin and he didn't seem to be as strong and agile as he was, he really was a son of Mars.

But she was going to take his advice, she really needed a moment of peace, she had caused so much pain and sorrow! Still, Remus had pardoned her life and was trying to let her stay in the legion till she finished her years there. Well, that was either too gentle from him or too weak. She was a rotten apple and he should have cut it and separated it from the good ones, the same went to what he did to Felicity. She rolled her eyes as she thought of that and shook her head, she didn't need to think of those two in that moment.

She continued walking and noticed those Lares... they seemed so happy together. Well, maybe that was true happiness, when you were with the one you loved even after death and you could still laugh and enjoy... existence. She looked away from them and to the other side of the road, there she saw others training. she sighed and shrugged. Romans after all, they would always be fighting, even when they were in peace. She was sure of that. Reason why Mars was the patron of Rome. she smiled and continued her walk till where Terminus was.

She showed the armless god that she carried no weapon with her.
"If I see a single rose of yours, you won't like it girl!"
He threatened to her and she nodded at the god. He was right to threaten her, she wasn't scared at all. but he was right on doing it. After that, she continued walking down to the lake. she wasn't related to any water god, but there were beautiful flowers by the lake. she wanted some to make a nice crown for her father.

She got closer to the edge and saw a woman there with a baby. she was teaching the baby how to swim? Eve was amazed at the simple act of it. "He seems to be adorable." she said before noticing who the woman was, who she was wife to, someone that she had hurt deeply.

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It was times like this that made her forget what kind of person she was. When it was just her giggling child, her crazy husband, and the fluff ball best friend of hers. Sometimes despite being around them she'd have an episode, something she wasn't sure what to name. It was like an attack on her mind and body, her heart beating fast and her mind processing dangers faster than what it took to blink. It was like a fighting mode, when she was in the battle field where the rule was kill or be killed. You had to watch every angel to try and not die, yet she had tried her best in both wars to reduce the casualties. The first war she was twelve when they had stormed the castle that was made of black stone. There was so little she could actually do. Fireballs and earthquakes still happened when she was angry, unable to control her powers as well as she would have liked. A child in a war, that's all she was. Killing those that tried to kill her was all she could do, monster and humans where a blur in her young eyes. This past war though, there was no monsters. She only struck down legionnaires. It was difficult for her mind to coupe, and lead to visions of terror in the shifting shadows that she once found comfort in.

Someone was talking to her, which was a little strange. Though for some weird reason kids liked her, despite her terrible dislike for them. Parents and teenagers knew who she was, and didn't often speak to her. Tried to keep their children and younger siblings away from her. Not that kids listen, sometimes she wished they would. Inek and Jadis where not there for their amusement, and neither was she. Arthur was a cutie though, and people at least seemed to warm up a little to him. Erich liked him, Mikayla too. Charlie was a little iffy about babies at first, and she had to learn when to change Arthur, and feed him and everything, but ended up dressing him up in all kinds of adorable clothes. It was a little weird to have Mors with Arthur, being Death and all, but he was going out with Charlie. Seemed to ONLY be going out with her, so that was good. Considering gods, and their habits.

“He is” the smile on her face faded a little bit as she looked at the person, eying the girl slightly as some realization came to her face. A sad realization it seemed like, which Rhiannon wasn't sure which was better that or anger. Sadness was annoying, anger you could blow off in a good fight.

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Tag: @rhiannonwarlow

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Notes: I promise little by little my muse will come back!

Eve didn't know what to do, should she just turn around and leave that woman alone? after all she had already made her suffer a lot, more than any other maybe. Or should she stay there and try to talk to her and apologized once more for what she did. That woman deserved that and more. Or not?... Eve breathed deeply as she remembered all the bad and wrong she did to Rome. that woman had also been someone that had hurt and bled Rome. so why should she do anything to comfort her?!

But Eve wasn't a god to judge her, besides she would do as her Father, she would try at least to act like him. Impartial. Death treated everyone alike, so why shouldn't she do the same. After all the bad she had done, she wanted to make good, to make her father proud of her. So, after deciding that inside of her head and heart, she walked a couple of steps closer to Rhiannon and the beautiful baby she was teaching to swim. She noticed that her presence had made the woman kind of upset... or was it sadness what she was looking into her eyes?

"I'm... sorry. If my presence here is a burden to you, I can go to other place." she said as she looked into the woman's eyes. She perfectly knew that maybe she should leave her be. She should just turn around and then walk again back to her barrack and stay in there. No one deserved to be with that who had helped to kidnap the husband of that person. It wasn't human! it was more of a freaky thoought, to think that you could be forgiven!

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There was no sadness, or upset in the daughter of Trivia's eyes. Cool and calm as she often tried to keep herself. A storm often raged in her heart, and in her mind, but she was not one to wear emotions on her sleeve. At least not unless she lost the presence of mind to keep them under a tight lid. Postal was the term. Keeping everything bottled up until it exploded in a very bad way. ”You're the one with a sad look on your face. You know who I am, at least from that look on your face, but I don't know you.” It was strange how the girl would just come up and say that. The realization that was on her face a moment ago seemed to be replaced by some inner turmoil. An argument with yourself. Casting her eyes down, she looked at her son. What was it that let her read people easier now? Think she could read people. Was it some magic that came from being a mom? Or had she always been able to see these cues in peoples eyes, and simply never believed it?

“Besides, you'll probably get wet staying here.” It was true, kids splashed, and even Arthur seemed to be getting tired of not getting anywhere and trying to swim at least in circles, kicking up more water than Rhiannon would have thought plausible. Others ran around the edge of the lake, trying to push each other in. Mostly just rowdy Roman kids being exactly that. Children. It was nice to see, but the idea of having all that innocence taken as they learn to fight at the age of ten. That was always something she had to put out of her mind. That was the thinking that put her on Saturn's side. Smoothing Art's hair she held him close and made her way over to the baby bag on the side of the shore, near the strange girl.

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Tag: @rhiannonwarlow

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Notes: lol oh! Eve...

Eve looked at Rhiannon and then at the baby. Rhia said that she didn't know who she was, then... should she just keep her mouth shot and act as if everything was fine? as if she had just made a mistake and everything in the world was once again fine? She didn't know, she was confused. But then she looked more carefully at the baby, and there he was... His father, there in his eyes. the same bright blue eyes that Joshua had! the same eyes that she had seen before, back in the government facility.

"He has... his father's eyes, right?" she asked but it was more a confirmation about something that she already knew very well. But when she had seen joshua's eyes bac there, they hadn't been bright, but lost, or full of hate, also hurt or even marked with red after some beating. for eve it was almost a torture to be there looking at the baby's eyes, knowing that she had been the one responsible for what had happened to Joshua, rhiannon and that baby. for some time. She looked back at Rhiannon and then she smiled shaking her head slowly.

"Oh, don't worry. a bit of water never hurts." she said and then sat down, not really close to them, not even close to the baby. She brought her knees up to her chin and then rested her chin on them. "In many ways it is good you don't know me..." she said feeling the blame and guilt digging a hole in her heart. she needed that woman's forgiveness!