Fickle

[Jean]

"Hurry." She told him before hanging up and then proceeded to look very pleased with herself. She had made herself deserving of a beer. Or maybe several. Jean began the pretty long walk home.

[Balthazar]

Balthazar sighed as Jean said 'Hurry', before hanging up. Because that made him feel so much better. He held his phone in his hand and stared at it, thinking about calling Leo himself, but decided that probably wasn't such a good idea, and slid it back into his pocket. He looked around, confused, having no idea where to start. It was no idea to go to his apartment either.
What if Sarah really had come back? Leo could never fight her alone... Sarah! He knew where to start, and wasted no time, he ran with supernatural speed, not thinking about all the energy he probably would need if Sarah really was there.
When he arrived, he saw Leo sitting outside, not in any visible danger at all. He stopped dead at some distance from Leo, not showing him he was there yet.
He wrinkled his forehead, looking around, looking for trouble, trying to sense any other vampire, but there where none.
With calm footsteps he walked over to Leo without saying a word, feeling both very relieved and confused.

[Leo]

Leo threw his phone onto his bed and crashed in it moments later. He laid still for a while, imagening he was dead. Then the kid interrupted him as usual.
"Was that your mom?" the kid asked. Leo laughed a bit.
"Yeah...sort of" he just said, rather ironic but not in a mood to explain. The kid gave him a puzzled look.
"I'm hungry.." he said. Leo was about to tell him that he wasn't someody's mom, but considering the situation it felt kind of odd.
"Well...let's go get you some food then..." he said with a faint smile and got off his bed and went outside. He had to wait a while though, the kid had forgotten something inside. Leo sat down and waited until he felt something strange. His eyes had merely made contact with Bazz's shadow when the kids voice broke the silence.
"Leo, I want pizza!" he said while walking thru the door in his two sizes too big jacket.

[Balthazar]

If Balthazar hadn't been so relieved and thankful that Leo wasn't in any danger, and that Sarah actually wasn't there, he would have started to yell at Leo again. His first thought when he saw the kid was that Leo had gotten himself a human, so to speak, and he was actually happy for him, that he had gotten some kind of sense at least to feed properly.
"Jean called. She was worried about you."
He said, waiting for some explanation.

[Leo]

Leo looked totally confused for a moment and felt generally unwilling to talk to Bazz. As the kid traised his eyes to Bazz he looked rather puzzled as well and Leo's facial expression didn't make it any better.
"Who...?" he uttered quietly and then as Bazz spoke he seemed to put things together. And due to Leo's silence he stepped in.
"Well she's a bad mom, so she should leave Leo alone!" he said and splaced his fragile body infront och Leo. Whom looked rather touched.

[Balthazar]

Balthazar smiled at the kids initiative to speak for Leo, and then laughed.
"Mom?"
He had a hart time seeing Jean as a mom, and a mom to Leo for that matter.
Balthazar looked from the kid to Leo with a confused look, but now he was smiling at least.

[Leo]

The kid seemed confused by the laugh but then eased up, thinking he had done something good. Leo laughed as well, but very swiftly. He couldn't get away from a certain sadness after seeing Bazz, even though he didn't seem to be mad at him anymore.
"Charley, I said sort of..." Leo just uttered with his eyes on the kid who shrugged with a smile. A few moments passed, Leos eyes met Bazz once more but he didn't keep them there for long. He just sighed. The kid looked from one to the other, not understanding this strange form of adult communication.
"So...Pizza time?" Leo said and the kid gave off a "Fuck yeah!" and then set off to the nearest pizza place. Leo gave Bazz a glance and started walking in the same direktion as the kid. For a moment he missed having his dreads to play with. But just like anything else in this world, it's pretty useless to regret things that can't be changed.

[Balthazar]

Balthazar waited patiently for Leo to give him the explanation to all this, although he could see in Leo avoiding his eyes that he would not get it that easily. When Leo suddenly spoke, and it was to the kid, not Balthazar, he gave a loud sigh, and followed Leo.
"Leo! Could you PLEASE just give me a explanation to Jean calling me, worried about you? And what are you doing here?"

[Leo]

Leo raised an eyebrow as Bazz said that Jean was concerned about his state of existanse. He gave Bazz a rather amused look.
"Why don't you ask her yourself?" He just said and continued to walk while the kid complained about them being too slow.

[Balthazar]

Balthazar's eyes turned black in a second as angry as he got with Leo, giving him attitude, and he stopped dead, thinking that if he stayed with Leo one more second he would hit him again. He closed his eyes to calm down. He would be the grown up, he would not act childish, he tried to convince himself, and when he opened his eyes again he felt a bit calmer, and went to catch up with Leo again. He thought he might start with an easier question this time.
"Who's the kid?"

[Leo]

The anger that Bazz exposed, even if it only was for a moment, made Leo real confused. When had he given Jean reason to worry? She seemed rather non-caring for all he knew. He gave Bazz a rather questioning look and waited for him to catch up. Now actually looking him in the eyes as he came in close. At the question of the kid Leo made a quick look around to see where he was, but he was still waiting for them to catch up at the end of the street.
"I don't know. He's a runaway." He said with a sigh and added.
"Considering he's from this hood, god knows what his parents might be like..." he made a gesture towards the slum.

[Balthazar]

Balthazar could sense, and see that Leo was as confused as he was, but did not know why. He just tried to shake it off, there were probably a perfectly good explanation to that, and he tried to not get upset about it again.
"And you take care of him? You're living at Sarah's place now?"
He gave a little frown at the thought of it.

[Leo]

Leo's eye twitched for a moment, this was sort of frustrating. He felt scared and sad, but at the same time...could it really hurt to have a casual conversation? Hopefully not.
"Nobody else does..." he said to answer the question but then realized that it probably sounded too snappy.
"I mean, he came to me, okay. And yes, I live there, because I had nowhere else to go. I couldn't go home because...I needed to be alone...and I think Isola likes me..." He looked like a sad confused puppy.

[Balthazar]

Balthazar felt he calmed down a bit more. This was going better than he had though it would go. Not good, but better. No-on was shouting.
He nodded at Leo's answer but did not know what to say. He had obviously taken the fight with Balthazar harder than Balthazar had thought he would, and it almost made him feel sorry for everything he had said.
At the the last thing Leo said he couldn't help but smile.
"You ran from Isola?"

[Leo]

Leo felt rather happy about Bazz not bringing up anything concerning their fight. Perhaps he could just forget about everything...or perhaps not.
Bazz amused smile got him a bit confused though. Did he find it cute or just silly?
"She started liking me too much..." Leo just said, not adding any meaning as to why he disliked it so much. Instead he went for the change of subject.
"So, you said Jean was worried... Why? She didn't sound worried, just annoyed as always" He said with a slight sigh while stepping into the pizza place where Charley had already ordered his favorit pizza. Apparently the little dude was a regular.