Why?

valar dohaeris.

karpos slayer

all men must serve.

Karp shook his head in shame, his dirty blonde hair in desperate need of a haircut and alcohol rolled off of him. "I had gone to talk to her and she'd been drinking. Next thing I know I wake up in her bed without clothes. I don't think it's a need for attention this time Mercy." He said regretfully remembering how she nearly killed him in the hospital. There were claws marks from where she had hit all across his arms and one on his face. She had definitely tried to rip his throat out.

"You're a damn fool, you know that?" Chulyin rumbled, free from his own clutches again. He faced the drink he'd taken with much aplomb, and swilled it down without much thought. "Both of you." Chulyin tried to imagine Mapplethorpe's face when the boy broke the news. "You gonna face it like a man, or are you gonna keep drinking your problems away?"

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Mercy still couldn't believe it. He wracked his memory for some sort of inkling...Had they? Hadn't they? He knew Aponi well enough to know her tendencies. But he didn't know himself well enough to know exactly how he was when hammered...He was a black-out drunk; had been since he'd started drinking as a pre-teen. Chulyin asked them both a question, and Karpos- who had yet to show any real acknowledgement of the man- was given a quick glance before Mercy wordlessly turned toward the bar, lifted his drink and downed it.

Karpos turned and finally acknowledge Aponi's uncle. Shit. Shit. Shit. The question was asked and Karpos gulped before managing out an audible and clear answer. "Is there a difference?" He asked the uncle, who wasn't his biological uncle, but felt like it. When Karp had first been taken to Hollowheart Manor it was Chuylin who had helped him through the trauma's of losing his dad when someone broke into their house. He'd been separated from his sister, she was still up for adoption too. His aunts and uncles had all disappeared too.

"'Course there is." As he finished the last of Karpos's drink, he slammed the empty pint down. All these kids...So foolish. His head tipped back for a moment, an attempt to regain some calm before he tried talking sense into his almost-nephew. "Take responsibility for your damn actions. God forbid if there's a kid, you're gonna raise it right." He stared at the blond boy long and hard, hoping that some of this was sinking in. "What's drinking gonna do but land you in deeper shit?"

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Mercy couldn't believe what was happening. In the very least, Karpos thought he was the father, which partially relieved and disgusted Mercy. The thought of Karpos and Aponi together...He shuddered. At the same time, though, it meant that he was scott-free. He lifted his hand and gestured for the barkeep to bring him another Stella- and let Karpos handle all this man-talk.

Karpos snorted again, raising his head and looking at Chuy. "She wants nothing to do with me. She damn near tried to kill me when I showed up at the clinic. If I get anywhere near her than she'll try again." He explained to her uncle, his eyes hiding something deeper than fear. He was terrified. "Tell me, how can I raise a child if I'm either A) Dead or B) Not allowed anywhere near it or her mother?" He asked.

Chulyin reached out a hand to pat the troubled man on the back. He had gotten himself into a predicament, hadn't he? Sighing heavily, Chulyin shrugged, knowing, at least on some level, the severity of Aponi's passion. "Drinking it away ain't gotta help much either. No matter how much you drink, it still happened, and you still gotta deal with it." The man knew full well about the consequences of one's actions. Sometimes you just had to face them head on. "The drink got you into this mess, so I don't know why you think it's going to get you out."

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His head wasn't so fuzzy and so he took out his phone, a picture of Aponi as his background [an appropriate picture :P]. He opened a message and texted @Aponi. "Please, can we talk?" He then looked to Mercy and then to Chuylin. "What do I do then?" He didn't know what to do.

Mercy stared straight ahead as he drank, but listened in, still, on the conversation between Chulyin and Karpos. He froze, though, when Karpos mentioned a clinic. He turned, and without paying attention to anything Chulyin said, or acknowledging the fact that Aponi had freaked out at Karpos. "She's not going to get an abortion, is she?" He asked, shocked.