Who: Seth and Noah... and the BABIES
Where: The Zoo
When: nowish?
What: Cuteness... then RAWR and lawls.

There is no way that a muggle petting zoo could be as, well, cool as a wizarding one.

"That's a niffler, Terry," Noah said, pointing at the long-snouted creature in the pen. Terry pressed his face into the chain link fence of the Niffler's cage and attempted to coo it over. Noah grinned and handed the boy some of the fake gold the zoo keepers had provided. "Here, throw it in there."

Terry knew the word 'throw' very well (thanks to Martin, and now with plenty of encouragement from Odette), and snatched the coin immediately. He managed to knock one of the nifflers in the head, but the presence of the coin caused the others to swarm and get rowdy. Terry shrieked in excitement and watched each and every movement.

Noah liked these kind of days; he and Lyssandra had come up with a system of Parent-Baby days at the planetarium, where one of them could skip out early to get some more time with their respective children. Today, Noah had decided on the zoo because Terry had been obsessed with wearing his Pegasus costume since Halloween; Noah was hoping that the zoo had some winged horses they could see.

The baby began to ramble off in gibberish and Noah stood up to pull out his camera and take a picture. When he began to focus on Terry, a new little face appeared in the viewfinder. A little girl had wandered over and stared up at Noah with large, doe-like eyes.

"Hey," Noah started, looking around for her parent. He smirked and bent down, "Where's your mummy?"

Seth refused to accept the fact that he was a horrible father. Because he tried, and he thought he was doing very well considering the fact that Leanne was just dropped off on his doorstep only a few months ago. But recently everything he seemed to do pointed to the fact that he was wrong and he really was just awful at this.

Taking Leanne to the zoo seemed to be an awesome idea. She loved it and all the animals, meowing at everything even after Seth told her what the animal really said. Maybe he should get her a cat or something. He stopped at one of the vendors to get some ice cream for the both of them, when she disappeared. Seth had no idea how it happened. She was right there tugging on his pant leg not even two seconds before.

Seth scanned the crowd frantically. Why were there so many freaking people here? It was the middle of the week, didn't they have work or something. And she was so tiny, how was he going to find her. He abandoned the ice cream and took off through the crowd, she had little legs she couldn't have gotten too far. Unless someone snatched her.

Merlin. What if someone did snatch her? She was a cute kid. Okay, freaking out was not helping at all, Seth tried to tell himself to calm down. He started calling her name when he heard a very familiar meow. He turned around to see her at the Niffler cage tugging on the wing of some kids costume. Of course she was meowing at the kid because everything meowed. Even kids dressed up as winged horses.

He quickly made his way over her and picked her up. "Hey baby girl, you can't run off like that, its bad for your dad's health." He said only to have her stare back at him then point back down at the kid and start talking gibberish. Nope didn't understand at all.

Noah stayed knelt to the ground as the father and daughter were reunited, and kept his eyes averted in hopes that Seth Wadcock did not notice who had just been speaking to his daughter. Not that Noah was doing anything wrong by trying to see if the little girl could answer his question, but he knew that he wouldn't be too happy finding Seth talking to Terry.

This was the shittiest coincidence ever. Or was it really a coincidence? Noah would not put it past Seth Wadcock (he couldn't think of the guy without using his fully name) to 'accidentally' lose his daughter and conveniently point her in the direction of where Odette MacFarlan may just be standing. Right, yeah, this was too weird for it to be an accident. Thankfully Odette wasn't with them today, but who knew what other kind of ridiculous schemes Seth Wadcock might come up with.

"Are you ready to go?" he asked Terry, who was 'speaking' and gesticulating in a wild manner toward Leanne. The boy shook his head as Noah lifted him up, and whined greatly as they started to move away, "C'mon, Terry, we have to find the horses."

Seth looked over to thank or apologize who ever Leanne had just wander over to. He wasn't exactly sure which he should do, apologized that she was bugging them or thank him for keeping for keeping an eye on her for that short period of time. He did notice that he was knelt down trying to talk to her. Maybe both would be a safe bet.

"Hey, sorry about--" he started out just as he realized who it was and the fact that he was trying to make a hasty get away. Of course it would be Noah's kid that Leanne would run off to. And now he was trying to leave before Seth could say anything which was causing his kid to freak out which in turn was causing Leanne to freak out. Apparently the two weren't done talking to each other or what ever.

Leanne started to cry when Noah started to walk away with Terry and Seth felt horrible. She hardly cried for anything and now here she was getting ready to have a full fit because of some kid. Seth rolled his eyes as he took a step after Noah. The things he did for this girl.

"Hey wait up a second," Seth called after Noah, Leanne settling down to a dramatic sniffle now that he was no longer moving away. "Look, thanks for you know, making sure she was alright or whatever. Sorry to interrupt your day, but," Seth rubbed the back of his neck with his free hand. Merlin this was awkward, Seth didn't even ever apologize for roughing him up a bit while back... or any of the other things he did to piss him off. "She's really freaking out that you're walking away with your kid, and he doesn't seem to happy either so, maybe they could just play or whatever." Seth shrugged and glanced over at the nifflers because even he thought it sounded like ridiculous idea as he said it and never expect him to agree.

Meanwhile Leanne was wiggling in his arms trying to reach across the gap between the two of them to reach the wing of the Terry's costume again. Seth rolled his eyes again as she meowed at the kid. "Neigh, Leanne. He's a winged horse, and horses say Neigh."

"Papaaaaaaaaa!" Terry whined, nearly climbing over Noah's shoulder to get out of his grasp. Slightly counterproductive if you asked Noah, because now he had a better grip on the boy, but it would probably be less of a headache to stay here and let him gabber on with Leanne then to have him cry throughout the zoo and ruin the rest of the exhibits.

"Fine, punk," Noah said with a grunt. He made a show of pulling Terry back in front, letting the boy tilt upside down for a moment. Terry shrieked with laughter and Noah grinned before twisting him down to a steady position on the ground. Noah didn't think that a year ago he would be allowing himself to let Terry act like the monkey he was. Or, well, the monkey that Martin had turned him into. Or was he an overexcited winged horse? That apparently meowed, according to Leanne.

Noah let out a breath and looked for a place that wouldn't cause another lost child. "All right, there's a play pen---thing." He gripped the tip of Terry's wing and led the group over to where a few more kids were playing. Terry rushed in and toppled over a fake log, and Noah sat down on the bench for parents.

Now it was time for an annoying, silent, sitting session with Seth Wadcock. What a day.


Leanne wiggled in Seth's arms until he set her on the ground so she run after Terry. Seth shoved his hands in his pockets and followed. He couldn't help but smile as he watched Leanne toddle off with Terry. Now what was he going to do.

He eyed the bench that Noah was sitting on and frowned. Well that was going to be awkward. Time to find another option. Seth scanned the area only to find all the other benches occupied with happy married couples that actually looked like parents and scowled.

Awkward it was going to be then. Weren't they going going to look like a gay ole couple.

Seth slouched down on the bench next to Noah and focused his gaze on the kids playing. All happy and giggly. Kids had it easy. He looked at Noah out of the corner of his eye. Oh didn't he look all broody and moody and such. He leaned over slightly and tilted his head towards Noah. "I'm sure you'll survive the torture of sitting next to me for a while. I'm not like going to bite you or anything. Besides look how happy they look. Maybe she'll be a future Mrs. Boot."

"Don't try to marry off our children."

Noah turned and sent a fairly annoyed glare at Seth. Weren't fathers supposed to be against the idea of their daughters getting married at any sort of time and place? The idea of---even if Leanne turned out to be the nicest, smartest, prettiest girl in all the world, the fact that he would some how be related to Seth Wadcock would force Noah to ban him from the country, or--or send him up in a rocket to the moon. Just the idea of having to deal with the man in more situations than he already had gave Noah a throbbing headache, and he hunched forward again. He could definitely ignore Seth Wadcock for however long Terry wanted to run around, he was very good at ignoring people.

He'd been having such a good time with Terry, too. Father and son bonding time, that's all he wanted. And now he had to deal with Seth Wadcock. Why was it so hard to try and have a nice time? Anywhere?

"Odette's not here," Noah said, not turning to Wadcock. He knew that was the only reason the man was dealing with him and Terry; if there was the slightest chance that Odette would be coming around, Seth Wadcock would surely not miss it.


Seth rolled his eyes at Noah. "Really? I hadn't noticed." he said sarcastically. Did he think that his life revolved around MacFarlan? Because it didn't. He had other responsibilities and things to do to occupy his time.

"You act like I spend every waking moment stalking her or something. I do have other things to do, like spend time with my daughter." he said gesturing towards her. "I don't always have an ulterior motive. Just out enjoying the day with my kid. Just like you are."

Seth really shouldn't have been surprised that Noah would think so little of him, that he would use his daughter to get to Odette. He almost wished he thought of it himself, but again, he wouldn't use his kid like that. It was wrong.

Noah let out a harsh breath from his nose, "You do act as if you spend every waking moment stalking her."

He really hadn't expected to get into this today. All he wanted to do was show Terry the horses and have fun, not force himself to deal with the man who annoyed him the most in the world. A title that used to belong to Martin, but at least his brother didn't have some weird fascination/obsession with his fiancée. Did Wadcock not see how much stress he was putting into their relationship? Maybe that was his plan, but Noah and Odette had to tip toe around certain subjects because of how irritated they both became when they were mentioned.

"You act like it's some stupid game, but all you ever manage to do is piss her off, piss me off, and piss--" he waved a hand toward Terry, but let it drop when he saw that the boy was too happily occupied with his reflection in a mirror to look miserable, "--well, Terry's too little to get it, but seriously?"

Shifting to actually turn and look at Wadcock, he glared at the man, "What happens when he's old enough to hear and understand that the media thinks his mum and some guy on her team are supposedly having an affair? And---Leanne, she'll be the same way, wondering what the fuck her dad is doing causing such a scene with a woman who's not her mum. That's fucked up, and all you're doing is adding fuel to the flames."

Noah hated to preach, but it was the calmest way he could get the words out. Wadcock didn't believe he was causing a fuss? Well, he was, and Noah did not want to deal with his shit any longer.


"It is just all a game." Seth said. "I don't understand why you are taking it all so seriously. I know I piss Odette off, that's the point. That's just how things work for us. I don't get why you get so pissy about it. She's wearing your ring and it's not like I'm going to steal her away. I'm married myself." he said waving his ring in his face. As much as the marriage was going to crap it was still marriage.

"And as for the kids, well, you can just tell him what an idiot you think I am. And Leanne, well it's not like Savannah is her mum, she'll never know who her mum is cause the bitch ran off and left her behind so," he trailed off shrugging. "To her I'll always be with some woman who's not her mum" he didn't mean to sound harsh, but it was true.

"Anyways, I'll probably get tired of it way before that's even an issue anyways. But there's always going to be media and rumors so you might as well get use to it. That's what happens when you marry a celebrity and if you can't deal with it, maybe you shouldn't be marrying her."

"There's no bloody us! You made her fucking cry the other night! That's not fun, that is fucking sick! She hates you, Wadcock, it's not a fucking game, Odette is not some toy to get your fucking jollies off with and----"

That asshole. Noah could hardly recover from his apathetic, nonchalant comments about Savannah before he was struck with the final blow from the ever eloquent Seth Wadcock. He didn't think Noah could handle the rumors? It wasn't the rumors, it wasn't any of that, it---"Who the fuck do you think you are to say--"

He stood, putting his hands up because another altercation with Wadcock would only upset Odette more, and that was honestly the last thing Noah wanted to do. He loved her, and when he asked her to marry him that was a promise to protect her and keep away anything that hurt her or made her miserable. Seth Wadcock made her miserable.

"I thought trying to speak to you like an adult would have some sort of result, but you're actually the complete moron I pegged you to be." Noah shook his head. Unbelievable. "Leave Odette alone, or we will enforce that restraining order to its full strength and your ass will be sent to prison faster than one of those fucking snitches disappears."

Without another word he hefted up Terry's bag and crossed the play area to swoop up his son. Terry squealed but Noah did not have the patience for this anymore. He did not have the patience for idiots who enjoyed deliberate cruelty because it was just a game.

Noah was up and gone before Seth could even respond. "Well actually, Noah, I did feel bad about that and apologized but I guess Odette didn't tell you that. And you know I was just answering your questions, no need to get all huffy." he said as if he was still standing there. Whatever. If the guy didn't want to hear him out, fine.

He pulled himself off the bench to go attend to his daughter that was now crying her eyes out because her friend was just snatched away. "Hey there, its okay." he said scooping her up in his arms. "He had to go but its okay, maybe you'll be able to play with him some other time." Okay so he was lying to her because he was pretty sure that Noah wouldn't let them within even a thousand feet of each other again, just because he hated Seth. "Hey how about we go to the pet store and look at the kitties? Would you like that?"

Leanne sniffled and looked up at him. "Meow?"

Seth just laughed and walked in the other direction of Noah, "Yep. Meow. Let's go."