One of a Kind

Lorelei Dooley, first demigod in existance and daughter of Order and Amber: Lover of stories and adventures.

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Instant family // Sarcasm & Lori

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"He does but.. not on an emotional level": he lowered his head. "it’s not his fault. I’m sure creator gave him no choice but he won’t stay that way. he didn’t in the past and he won’t now…it will take time maybe." He tired to sooth her and ran his hands up and down her arms. He looked to the side briefly. "I’m really not important." he said and somehow felt like it actually. He was never a real part of the palace, always did his own thing and there was a time were he forgot that he was a god. "Yes, off we go." He took the Duffles and nodded. "We’re driving." He looked behind himself tor a brief moment before he followed her to the car to drive down a very long way to Chicago. 

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It had taken a while, but finally, The little family made it to Chicago and had found themselves a motel. Hopefully, they had left the chaos and distraught of the palace far behind them. Quietly, Lori let herself and her sleeping baby brother into the motel while Cas...no, he was Dean now, carried the bags in. "Could you push those two armchairs together?" she asked...Dean...with a nod of her head. "We need to make a makeshift cradle for Emp-Matt."

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Instant family // Sarcasm & Lori

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He licked his lips. “Order was another man in the past.. I think he’s still himself.. not the cold cruel guy but emotional..uh.. blocked.” He was glad that she at least didn’t see him so different. “I think it’s a matter of time and he will be your dad again but for the moment ..” he looked at empathy. “he’s ready for the war.” He said low. “Listen.. it’s hard to explain but it seem like Creator ordered him to restore the balance by .. resetting everyone who’s fucked up.” He blinked. “I.. don’t think I’m included because I’m not part of the important once.. ” he was still not sure about. He have up his work completely. “yea, the little guy will be save and as soon the storm is over.. everything will get back to normal.” It was more a lie cause How could he know. “But now.. we need to leave.. I left them a note and they’ll get it in a day or two so we have enough time to find a motel first before we look for a house.” 

[loreleidooley]

"I wonder if Dad even remembers his children," she thought sadly. The way Cas was talking, this reset him was hollow. Empty. Nothing like the father she knew and loved. She steeled her resolve. She could worry about that later. Right now, she and Cas had her little brother to take care of. "I hope you're right. I hope they don't look for you. I just want you to be safe." She looked down at her brother then to the bags. "We should get going. "She handed the duffles to Sarcasm and leaned down to pick up her brother and his bag. "Are we driving? Taking the hall of mirrors seems dangerous."

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Instant family // Sarcasm & Lori

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He made a nod. “Good, awesome..” He looked at the little boy and still felt heavy guilt that he showed with tension in his shoulders. “I.. had to run..a bit.” He sighed. He remembered that he had to stop to change a diaper on the way back. “Uh..” He swallowed. “Not..exactly.” He shifted his weight. He had to be careful with what he will tell her. “I had no choice.” he started low. “Your father.. He’s back to the basics.” he clenched his jaw. “Creator did something to him.. I guess it’s part of the war. He’s all work, no feels.” he said and placed his hands on her upper arms. “They fought, i heard things I didn’t like. Vengeance seemed unstable and Order..well cold.” 

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"What do you mean back to the basics?" she asked carefully. The only Order she'd ever know has Order her dad. The loving, caring man that helped raise her. "Do you mean like when mom died?" The connection between here and her mom had been weird over the past few days. It felt wrong. Distant. Was this why she couldn't feel him the way she used to? "Cold? He-he's not himself anymore...is he?" She could feel tears prickling at her eyes. She had already lost her mom. She'd thought her dad would always be there. But now? She nodded, trying to hold back her tears, "We'll take care of my brother. He doesn't need to know about this."

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Instant family // Sarcasm & Lori

"Babe, Did you pack?" he panted as he walked through the door, empathy in one hand and in the other a bag with the most important things. They needed to buy a lot of stuff anyway. He gave a servant an note but told him to wait a day or to give it to Vengeance. Empathy showed no kind of dear or that he felt uncomfortable as he laid the baby down on the couch but he made sure that a huge pillow kept him from rolling over. He turned to Lori and lowered his head. "Uh.. remember my joke about the kidnapping?" He smiled the most awkward smile with a shrug but felt awful about it. He kinda regretted that he react on impulse but he was sure that the kid was safer with them. He had to explain it to lori, but how? 

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"All packed," she called back as she walked into the living room, duffle bags in hand. "Why are you so out of breath?" She saw him leaning over the couch, her little brother laying their peaceably. "So they agreed with us?" she asked, setting the bags on the coffee table. "They think we should take him?" Upon second look, Sarcasm seemed...disappointed or upset or ashamed for some reason. "What's going on?" a feeling of foreboding came to her at the shrug. "Cas, what did you do?"

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Little talks // Sarcasm &Lori

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"Chicago is it then. alright." He nodded. "I can keep Dean morgan.. so you would be Lori morgan..Like we would pretend to be married already?" He blinked against the tiles in front of him. "Empathy.. pathy.„pat ,..Matt? What about matt?" He looked at her. He lowered his head. "I know that’s all really messed up but we can manage this. Kinda playing house or something." He smiled slightly. "Order and venge will get along. They can’t die and will be fine." 

[loreleidooley]

"I suppose we can be already married," she blinked. "We could pretend Empathy...Matt is our child." She looked at him, "This feels so wrong. Like we're doing everything backwards. Empathy is my brother. I don't want him growing up to think I'm his mother." She shook the idea away. "I hope you're right." She leaned up to give him a peck on the cheek, "I'm going to go start packing. You'll talk with my dad?"

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Little talks // Sarcasm &Lori

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"A bit cold for an infant yeah.. Maybe .. I don’t know.. Chicago..new york?" He suggested while he continued to do the dishes. He looked over his shoulder with a sad smile. "Me neither but.. it’s practise right?" 

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"Let's go Chicago," she decided, "We'll have more space for Empathy to grow. Will we need cover names? I mean Lori is a human name, but Sarcasm and Empathy..." She began to wipe down the table and looked up at him. "I suppose so."

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Little talks // Sarcasm &Lori

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"I know what you mean. Could happen that they leave them no choice." his expression dropped. "That’s so fucked up." he stood up to clean the table. "You know what? I’m gonna visit them.. telling them our Idea and we will see." The thought to have a baby around was not as unpleasant as he thought. he started to do the dishes. "Could be fun,.. having a baby around." He said low. 

[loreleidooley]

"Okay," she stood and began to package the extra food for the refrigerator. "I can be packing our things and have them ready to go. Is there a specific place we should hide? I doubt Alaska is the best place for a baby to be." She handed him the dirty dishes once she had cleared the food away. "This isn't how I thought it would happen though," she said just as quietly.

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Little talks // Sarcasm &Lori

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Maybe he took his whole thing less serious. “Yeah sorry… that stuff is a bit much.” He faced enough wars to be more calm about it but for her it was frightening. He forgot about that. “You don’t think that they actually will fight each other right?” he rose a brow. “Like what..throwing candy hearts and flowers at each other..no.” 

"What? Do you want to kidnap him?" He blinked. "These guys are mature adults. they will know what to do. yeah maybe it’s not a bad Idea to have the little guy with us for a while.." he  thought about that and maybe he should suggest this to order. 

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"I mean, I don't know...what if they're forced too? These Eternates are big scary guys. I've met Destroyer. What if they force them to fight against each other?" She looked down at her plate. "I'm not saying we kidnap him, I'm just saying, we could be an option. They have to know he might not be safe with them. We could keep him safe. He'll be with his big sister and his brother-in-law. We'll take good care of him. We can protect him. I'm not saying they have to, but it is an option for them."

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Little talks // Sarcasm &Lori

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Sarcasm smiled a bit sadly and shook his head. “it will happen under those who are influenced by the change.” he said and sighed. “That’s why I worry about Order. He is still working ..right but is not focused on it any longer.” He smirked at her. “This war will order.. in the minds of the higher ones.” he crooked his head and pursed his lips. “See, I don#t get the whole thing either but just because I have nothing to do with it.”

"Babe, you’re freaking out." he said low and looked at her seriously. "it’s still in the beginning. Nothing is set yet okay. It was also my Idea to hide anyway. I don’t want to have anything to do with that crap. But we need to inform Order and vengeance." 

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"I know I'm freaking out, but you just told me there's going to be a war! Of course I'm freaking out! How can I not be! I have a baby brother with parents who are supposed to side against each other!" 

She gasped in realization, "What are they going to do with Empathy? What are Dad and Vengeance going to do with Empathy? How are they going to raise him? Is he going to be safe up there in that big palace? He's just a baby! We should take him with us. When we hide, we should bring him too."

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Little talks // Sarcasm &Lori

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"She’s afraid." he said. "And no… it’s hard to explain. Ya know I’m not one of the higher gods but those who are have a fixed profession. Like your father. He’s the one who preserves the balance and if he stops then Preserver herself will feel it. It could be pain..I don’t know but everyone had to work like a chain and if one or two links break.." He made a movement with his hand that indicated a broken chain. "Now the bosses are shitting their pants because everyone gets influenced." 

He grabbed her hand when she started to get jittery. “Nothing will happen to us. I will make sure of ti and I bet my ass that daddy is trying to avoid a war at all cost.” He said low. “A war doesn’t mean death or distraction. This kind of war happens in the background.” He said low. 

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"I don't understand. How can a war not mean death and destruction? Don't they pretty much entail that? I mean look at the world wars! The Vietnam war! The Hundred Years War! This can't be good. And it's already messing with my sense of order. I can't stand when things get messy."

She looked up at Cas when he grabbed her hand. "Please, can we just go hide somewhere? I don't want to deal with a war that we want no part in. We can go to Alaska early. Hide out in the wilderness and just camp out for a while. Just you and me and the Alaskan sky."

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Little talks // Sarcasm &Lori

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He grabbed some of the pancakes and chewed on them, trying to enjoy the taste but let his fork drop again. “The Palace is splitted in counterparties and each of them are fearing of their place.” He said stern. “Regarding to your dad, preserver lost her mind during the changes that were going on.” He added and took a sip of his juice. “Changer is planning to bring everything to fall to have the prevalence but I basically told her to go fuck herself.” he wrinkled his nose. “But I wasn’t the only one.. Pride was me in this. I honestly think that everyone his losing their freaking mind.” He shook his head. “I’m worried about your parents.. They are natural enemies.. you know.. that could cause a shit load of crap but since they raise a god..maybe they stay out of it.. or creator is keeping them out of it,… I don’t know.” He sighed. 

"There’s a lot wrong." He smiled weakly. "I could always play it off but of you remind yourself of each name of the god.. who is doing their work? Everyone is playing family.. I mean even destroyer has fucking hearts in his eyes. In Creators and maybe preservers eyes..they are all ‘wrong’" He made air quotes. 

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"But if everything and everyone is changing, isn't that good? For Changer at least...wouldn't she want to keep that happening? Why would she want to stop that? I-" she sighed and looked down at her untouched breakfast.

"Is there anyway we can get away from it? Get out of it? We can go into hiding right? I know Dad won't let this happen. It's disorderly. He can save us. He'll save his family. Can't we just run away?" She looked up at him. "Everything is so great now. Vengeance and I are getting along. I've made peace with my family. We're engaged. They can't just tear that away from us. Everything is good. It should stay that way."

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Little talks // Sarcasm &Lori

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"Don’t get smug there." He chuckled and inhaled the smell again but she smelled even better. "And I’m ready to eat them." He whispered and continued to set the table. 

he grabbed some orange juice from the fridge before he set down. “it’s ..” He licked his lips and looked at his empty plate. “Uh.. remember when I was away? that day and I was a bit off when I returned right? .. I had a meet up with changer.” he said, filling his glass. “The Palace is freaking out.. there’s a..” He tried to find a less threatening word for war. “A turmoil.. changer insisted that I do everything to stop destroyer and preserver..” It sounded confusion for his own ears. “She acted out of her freaking  mind in my opinion and I refuse to be part of this.” He looked up to her. “Babe,..a War could happen.” He finally said. 

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"I don't understand," she frowned, "Turmoil? Have Destroyer and Preserver been attacking people? What does Changer want from you? We don't even live at the palace! She can't just expect you to up and leave to fight for her! What has she done for you?"

She pushed her plate away to give her full attention to Sarcasm "A war? But everyone's happy. Why would we need a war? Nothing's wrong! ...I don't want you to fight."

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Little talks // Sarcasm &Lori

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he rose his nose and inhaled. “Do I smell pancakes?” He licked his lips. “and sausage..damn you are awesome.” He walked towards her and wrapped his arms around her her waist and kissed her neck. “Mornin.” he snuggled against her neck and then leaned his chin on her shoulder to look at the pan. 

He moved again and grabbed some dishes from the shelf to place them on the table. “I have a little.. breakfast talk to do with you.” He said, looking over his shoulder a bit stern. 

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"You do," she grinned over her shoulder at her fiance, "And I know I am." She turned back to the stove to make sure the pancakes didn't burn and grinned when she felt his arms wrap around her waste. "Morning," sje said again, leaning her head against his own. "They're almost ready."

"Talk? About what?" Her stomach dropped as she removed the pan from the stove and served the breakfast up. "What's wrong?"

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Little talks // Sarcasm &Lori

He stepped out of the bathroom in his boxers and yawned heavy against the sleepy feeling as he stretched. it was time to tell lori what he knew. He couldn’t protect her from the evil that was brewing in the background forever and it seemed to be bad. He walked towards the kitchen and looked for her. 

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Lori was up as per usual cooking breakfast while Sarcasm slept the day away. Not that she minded. Today she was making his favorite for breakfast, pancakes and sausage, and it was almost done. Any minute now she expected the smell to bring him into the kitchen.

"Morning," she greeted cheerfully when she heard his soft footsteps on the floor.

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Slumber Party // Lori & Emma

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"I know! There’s so much I don’t know, so much I haven’t seen or done." Tilting her head, she thought about Lori’s question. "You know, I don’t know if I want kids or not. I haven’t really thought about it. I’ve never even been around a baby and I’m just learning how to take care of myself. I have no idea how to take care of a baby."

The smell of pizza filled the room as Lori walked back in with the box and Emma’s mouth began to water. “That smells so good,” she remarked hungrily. Not wanting to wait on a plate, she opened the box and took out a slice. She let out a happy moan as she chewed. “Perfect,” she declared after swallowing.

Emma blushed at the thought of living with West, but smiled as she replied, “We haven’t talked about it really. I mean, he’s over a lot. He spends more time at my place that at his dad’s, but we haven’t talked about him actually moving in.” She took another bite of pizza and swallowed before speaking. “I don’t even know if West would want to move in with me.”

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"So what you're saying is that he's already practically moved in?" She grinned, teasing the girl. "If he's already spending so much time with you at your place, then he's like unofficially moved in. How often does he stay the night?" she winked, taking another bite of pizza.

She glanced at the movie as she heard Mandy Moore begin to sing. "Oh!" she pointed, "This is my favorite part! She's got such a sweet voice."

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Slumber Party // Lori & Emma

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"I can understand that. I haven’t been back to our house in Asheville since Daddy died. And then Mom didn’t want me around in our rooms at the palace. Luckily, Vengeance and your dad let me move in for a while before I moved into my own rooms at the palace."

She smiled at Lori’s enthusiasm when talking about her brother. “I can’t wait to see him.” She was silent for a minute before asking, “Do you think you and Cas will have kids? I know that’s kind of nosy for me to ask, so don’t feel like you have to answer me.”

"No, I’m living at the palace. I have my own apartment there now."

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"Yeah, it's tough," she agreed.

"I don't know," she shrugged, "I don't think it'll happen anytime soon. I'm only like two years old and I don't know how to take care of a baby or be a mommy. I want to explore the world first. See famous works of art and landmarks. I want to do things with my life. What about you? Do you see yourself ever wanting kids?"

The doorbell rang and Lori stood to go answer it. A couple minutes later, she came back with the pizza. "Dinner's served," she smiled.

"Have you and West ever thought about moving in together?"