☁️For Bee if you want! ( but if u can't think of much since they haven't interacted a lot then Bill is fine instead! )
send ☁ for 3 adjectives my muse associates with yours. - No longer accepting
“Alright Rick, Lets continue.” The interviewer shuffles his question cards “How about your ‘Dad’“ he makes air quotes as he says it “if you can believe the tabloids anyway..”
Rocker laughs as he picks up his drink “the only thing they’ve ever gotten right.”
“So you’ve told us, though you’ve always been a bit hazy on the details…” He purposely draws the last word out hoping the musician will take the bait.
“A tradition I hardly intend to break today.” The rock star answers sternly. He’s not about to explain to a studio audience and thousands of television viewers he was ‘adopted’ by the demon because of a Daddy kink gone paternal.
The interviewer exaggerates his disappointment. “Ah well, wouldn’t be the Emmy winning reporter I am if I didn’t ask.” The audience claps.
The musician laughs “Oh yes, tell me more about your one Emmy as I polish my 14 Grammys.” He rolls his eyes.
A member of the crowd calls out ‘aww snap!’ and the rest laugh. Ben looks insulted. “Anyway..” he presses on “3 words to describe Bill..”
“Right, Bill.” Rocker is sitting up a little straighter, clearly pleased with himself. “Let me think..” Awesome, handsome and prankster all spring to mind as he thinks about his best friend and father figure. “Straightforward” he settles on at last, picking up a cigarette and pointing at Ben with it. “Pops, Bill that is, he doesn’t sugar coat shit. He is going to call it as he sees it and he’s not going to tell you what he thinks you want to hear, he tells you what you need to hear.”
He huffs a laugh as he lights the smoke. “Its something I haven’t always received very well, but he’s always helped cause he’s always right in the end.” Rocker smiles “That’s not to say he’s tactless and will just say any old thing without thinking..” he laughs and gestures to himself “that’s me.” He pauses for the audience laughter “Bill’s got damned good delivery, whether with a well timed joke, or much needed words of advice, or ..” he rubs his beard “once in a while a sharp edged comment that stings, but brings you to your senses. Either way, I never would have gotten to where I am now without him.”
He clears his throat of emotions “Yeah, yeah, yeah, save it!” he waves the crowd off “okay um.. what else. I mean honestly I could list a hundred words for Bill.” He shrugs and drags the cigarette “He’s ancient and magnificent. Hysterical, mischievous, loyal. He’s powerful and intelligent..” he lists as he exhales smoke then chuckles. “Those generic ass adjectives aren’t what you’re looking for though, are they boss?”
“Hey I just provide the questions!” Ben throws his hands up in defense.
Rocker laughs “Okay hot shot. Fatherly then.” This time the musician’s hands jump up “I know I know, my father figure is fatherly, real poetic Mr song writer! But seriously, it’s the right word for him.” He takes a sip of his water and continues “He’s head of our little custom family for one thing, but he’s always the first to check on ya if you’ve had a bad day, or are sick or any old thing. Even with his animals, he’s just this real caretaker and seems to almost have this need to fuss over people.” He laughs “Well not people, but us few who are lucky enough for him to call family.”
More awws from the audience and then Ben speaks again. “Speaking of family, Bill recently added to it, didn’t he?”
He nods as he’s swallowing some of his drink “Yeah, Bee. Real cute kid.”
“The other kid that’s won you over that you referred to earlier ?”
He nods again “Yeap, though I mean I don’t know if I would say she’s won me over. I haven’t had a chance to spend much time with her yet, but from what I can tell she’s a real chill kid. She makes Bill and Rick happy anyway, which is the best part of her coming along.”
“How would you describe her then?” The interviewer prompts.
“Hmmm..” Rocker shifts in his chair as he thinks. It’s true what he says, he doesn’t really know the girl too well yet. “Tenacious” he says with a scrunched brow and a nod, as if he’s just agreeing with himself as he says it. “That girl has a real grip on not only herself, but her place in Bill’s life. She knows what she wants and she takes it.” He laughs, thinking of the near wild horse she recently adopted. “I don’t even think Bill fully realized what was happening when she came along, but in her own way she just grabbed onto all of us and was like ‘you are mine now’ you know what I mean? It’s impossible not to find her endearing.. well, unless you cross her!” He laughs again.
“She’s a real spit-fire too!” He says through his laughter. “I’ve seen some blog posts between her and some people she’s not so fond of and woo! Girl’s got her father’s tongue, I’ll tell you that. With some practice when she grows up she’ll be just as able to cut anyone down to size with a well phrased insult as the rest of us.”
“Oh hmm, yeah that sounds very endearing.” Ben teases with a raised eyebrow.
A bark laugh comes out of the musican “Pffft!! Well that’s what makes us a family, a taste for the less than chivalrous.”
The interviewer shakes his head knowingly. “Well then, anything else you’d like to add for Bill or Bee?”
Rocker shrugs again. “What can any man say about his family that could possibly convey how important they are? I love them and I’d be lost without them.”