Brotherhood Promises :Jason:

[Alex Dean Andrews]

Rolling his eyes, Alex dropped the topic again, it was something he wanted for his brother, but he knew he couldn't force it. Well, technically he could, but not if he wanted to keep any type of solid relationship with Jason. "Fine. I get it okay?" It came out as a half growl-half whine. They've the conversation more then enough times that Alex should just be smart enough to drop it all together, but he knew he wouldn't stop trying.

"It's once a month, error on my end. But you know what I meant." As he said him and Casey were happy with it, Alex knew he was. Casey though, while Alex felt good with his mate and knew he wouldn't find a better one. He didn't think Casey nearly embraced the wolf side as well as Alex does, still showing signs of being humiliated about being a wolf. It angered Alex in so many ways, but what did Casey want him to do? It wasn't like he forced the turning onto Casey. It wasn't even something he talked him to doing like he was with Jason. But after that fight they had before, Casey just sounded embarrassed of the wolf more than he wanted to be one.
Snorting into his drink, Alex gave a half a smile, "Okay cool guy, where are all these girls that fall at your feet huh.?" Looking around the bar as if they would just be lining up for his younger brother. Mocking Jason was like a second reaction, it wasn't even something the older brother needed to think about anymore. Talking about this though, made him think of Casey again. Made him wonder if Casey was second guessing what Alex was doing after the night with Davenport.

"Because we graduated years before you did! You had all open chances to be the top notch guy without me and Lynn there!" Alex said as if there was something to blame. He was smiling so big though, amused about his school days. Him and Lynn was so attached, they were best friends. He really did think he was going to spend the rest of his life with her, and really, he almost did. She left him. He would have never left her, even if now he could admit he wasn't the happiest. That was his kid's mother, how he could have left her? But since she walked out, she's been getting more and more distant over the years. Chelsey had been so broken up about her not showing up at the little birthday get together, Alex was so pissed off.

"I guess I should have figured she wouldn't, she signed off the kids to Casey. Casey is their legal parent. This happened a few weeks ago, I thought she'd still be involved though. Chelsey needs a girl around. Me and Casey can't play dress up or whatever the fuck man, I don't know how she do that. I was ready to kill her I was so mad, but I couldn't explain that to Chels. She's 5, all she's going to hear is 'mommy isn't here', then Casey is the bad guy. Who's the fair too?" Alex ranted a little, pissed off that he couldn't fix it when Lynn was no-call, no-show. Alex couldn't force her to be a mom, but he shouldn't have to either.

[Jason Andrews]

Jason grinned. "Oh, come off it, you know I have plenty of girls." He remembered the night before that he'd spent in some girl's bed. What had her name been? Carry? Cara? He couldn't remember, but he could remember things much more important than her name.
He shrugged it off. He knew Alex loved to tease him, he guessed it was just what older brothers did. Were Alex the younger one, Jason would tease him mercilessly, so he just had to put up with it. Most importantly, he and his brother were a great team.

"Wow, Case is legal parent? That's great, congrats! Doesn't mean Lynn can just take off, though. She's still their biological mother, and should be there for her kids." He shook his head. "I can't imagine abandoning a child like that."
"It's not fair to anyone, true. But Chelsey will see that it's not Casey's fault. It's only Lynn's decision."
He leaned back in his chair.
"Maybe Emma'll come by sometimes and play with Chelsey, I could ask her."

[Alex Dean Andrews]

Alex gave his brother a knowing look, smirking, "So, you would be..still going through these girls, even though you brought one to your niece's birthday party, right? Because the settled down life isn't for you." The older brother asked, as if he was actually agreeing. "I mean, you guys are just friends. Completely understandable for just a friend to come over and hang out with your niece. Way more understandable then if she was your serious girlfriend, and she wanted to hang with your niece."

Tipping the rest of his beer back, he moved it to the end of the bar, thinking about if he should get another one. The last time he went out drinking, he ended up in bed with someone else, but he wasn't drunk then. Two beer wouldn't cloud his judgement, plus he was with Jason, Casey couldn't get upset about that. Turning his head to the side, "Chelsey is five, her and Casey have a hard time getting on sometimes. Casey tries, I see that, but Chelsey..she doesn't understand that Casey isn't her mom. She keeps trying to replace Lynn with Casey, doing all the stuff she can do with her with Case. When Casey tried to explain that boys don't so certain things, Chelsey told him she wanted her mom. It killed him, but he won't say it. Fuck man, I told her not to say those kind of things, but she is only five. She's gong to want that shit you know?" Alex rambled, sighing, maybe he should just suck up his pride do the girly shit with his little girl. But he really didn't want to be dressing up or down, it wasn't something he wanted to encourage, but what did he have to offer in substitute?

Merlin, he hated Lynn. Alex was just grateful Josh accepted things so easily, if both of them wanted Lynn even half as much as Chelsey did, he'd be going out of his mind. "Either way, thanks for the help Jase. Knew you being a Ravenclaw suck up would come in handy some day." Even though, no, that's now what Alex's said growing up. Ever. He would tease his younger brother about how he belonged in the library because that's where Ravenclaw's belonged! But Jason wasn't a bookworm really, he was an action kind of guy. "But, so somethings are going on right now, so I'm thinking, when everything is chilled out, you could bring your girl over, have type of adult night?" Alex snorted at the words, 'adult night', Merlin he felt old. "Beer and cards or some shit." Alex raised his eyebrow in question.

[Jason Andrews]

He grinned. "I go off with girls because it's fun and it takes my mind off strenuous work days." He leaned back as Alex continued talking. "Yeah, sounds about right." Then, he laughed. "Forget it, Emma isn't interested in being a serious girlfriend, and I'm not interested in having a serious girlfriend, that's why we are such good friends."

Seeing that Alex's beer was empty, Jason drained his own, then signalled the bar keeper for two more.
He listened intently, then said: "You know...it may be that way now. But I think Chelsey is just trying to cope right now. There will be things she only does with Casey, things that are special to them both, and they will get along. I mean, a girl alone in a male household has it tough. And realizing your own mother doesn't give a damn about you must be really hard." He thought for a moment. Chelsey's attitude had a way od getting on everybody's nerve, but seeing that she was in a very difficult position at a very young age might make it more bearable. "It's understandable that it hurts Casey. But he should try to find activities that they both enjoy." Then, he blushed. "No, I'm not a children's psychologist, but a work mate of mine just got married and he told me about how tough it was at first, when he met his now wife. She had two kids from a previous relationship and her husband died. So my mate had a very tough time with the kids at first, but it worked out really well. And I have to admit, I read up on the subject when you and Case got together. I really love Chelsey and Josh." He was silent again, trying to find a way to phrase what he wanted to say next. "Maybe you guys should just go along with what Chelsey wants every once in a while. You know, have a tea party with her and her stuffed animals, wear a tiara, that kind of stuff." He fought hard to keep a straight face, Alex would kill him if he so much as grinned.

"Adult night sounds like fun, I'll ask Emma if she's up for it. Maybe she'll be there. And stop calling her my girl, she isn't."

[Alex Dean Andrews]

A small smile stretched over Alex's face, thinking about when him and Casey first got together. Casey was so abdomen about how they 'weren't dating' when Alex was trying to win him over. It's been awhile since Alex's has been there, him and Casey have been together since he was 26. "Eh, man. I think you're a wuss. I don't even know that girl, and I think she's already too much for you to handle. You can't really take on a challenge like her anyway." Alex taunted, he knew that Jason wouldn't have brought this girl over if he wasn't interested in her. They were just friends, sure, Alex could understand that, but just friends didn't care about ex-boyfriends. Just friends didn't feel the need to hide the fact that there ever was an ex-boyfriend. "Playing hero and getting a new girl Jase..it's not as great as coming home to that one person. There isn't a damn thing I could think of that I know Casey wouldn't have my back, that kind of loyalty isn't something you get jumping around...Just, think about it. No big brother mind tricks here, just think about a serious date."

If Alex was honest, he was worried about his little brother. Sure he had time to find a girl to settle down with, but he knew what it was like to have someone to rely on too. While Alex would be there for Jase for anything his little brother needed, there was just somethings that family couldn't help. Casey was his light when things went bad, he just wanted Jason to have something a little more than playing the field.

Shaking his head, "Lynn cares, I know she used to. I don't even know what happen. She was here when Josh was born, there for Chelsey...but after the accident she changed. I guess it was too much for her, but Chelsey isn't going to get that you know? I've thought a few times if things would have been better if Lynn had taken Chelsey with her when she left, Chelsey would grow up to be a women and I'd be in the picture. But after Lynn actually signed off on being her mother at all...I'm glad I didn't let her take the kids." Alex turned his head looking to his beer, raising a girl was a lot harder than raising a boy.

Smiling a little thinking about how that would make his daughter's day, sometimes his pride was too much though. He'd do it for her, a little game like that wasn't a big deal, but he still wasn't a girl. He wished he could have turned her into a tomboy, but his princess wanted to be a girl all the way through. "Yeah, it'd make her day."

Looking to the side of the wall with a knowing smile, "Alright no problem, Case hired this babysitter a little bit ago. I think he's a good kid, from what I understood, he wanted to get back into...the field. I'll have to tell him about Emma, I'm sure he'd jump on that." Alex responded easily, so much for no big brother mind tricks. "And he's allowed to talk about his job." Alex said adding an extra dig to the fuel.

[Jason Andrews]

Jason looked at his brother. "Maybe you're right. Maybe Emma is too much of a challenge. I mean, she's different from the girls I usually get off with. But you know...maybe it's possible for men and women to be friends." Jason took a swallow of his beer. "I know that's hard to imagine." he added with a grin.
 "Yeah, coming home to that one person sounds good. Maybe I'll find someone like that someday. But not now." He thought for a moment. "I doubt Emma would come on a serious date."

Jason was silent for a while. "You know, Lynn had her reasons for not taking the kids. And if she had taken Chelsey, she probably would have acted pretty much the same. This way, Chelsey has you and Casey, and she'll get over her mother being absent. Had she been with Lynn these past years and would suddenly come live with you, it would be much harder."

He laughed. "It really would. Especially if you'd wear clip-on earrings with your tiara and let her play with your hair."

Jason's throat constricted and his heart hammered in his chest when Alex mentioned telling some kid about Emma. "Well...you know, with Emma not looking for someone, you might just leave her out of it. It'd just disappoint the kid, finding that he's wasting his time on her. But if he wants, I'll take him when I go out at night, show him the best place to pick up girls, that kind of stuff." He quickly drank more beer, hoping that his brother wasn't sensing how much his comment had upset Jason.

[Alex Dean Andrews]

"Na, I mean I don't have any girl friends honestly, but hell..don't really have any guys friend either. You on the other hand, I haven't seen you just hang-out buddies with any girl except during the time with Pip." Alex said honestly, "I put my money done you guys get married before me and Case. And I'm already engaged." Alex pointed out to his brother, it was obvious that his Emma wasn't just a passer by. Because if she was, Jason wouldn't have brought her to meet the family. "Kinda cool Emma was pretty chill with us, unlike the boy before her who was scared of the family. Man, sorry, but what the hell is with you and wussies?" Alex thought about how Pip was intimidated by Alex, even the older man found it amusing at the time.

Letting out a sigh through his nose, Alex just shook his head, "That bitch doesn't even deserve to call herself a mother. Chelsey is torn up about her. Josh...man, you seriously have no idea how grateful I am he latched on to Casey. Casey isn't a girl, but he's...sensitive." Alex worded carefully, trying to think of how to put it lightly that Casey was different then most males, while he wasn't putting on make-up and walking around in a dress, he still spent hours in the mirror and would rather talk than fight.

Smacking his brother upside the head, "Fuck off man, I'll send Chelsey over the next time with the entire make-up get your girlfriend got her. You can have a blast with that when I tell you asked to be her bloody dumby." Alex mumbled taking another drink from the half-empty bottle. Even though he knew he'd have figure something out, he just hoped that Casey had a girl friend from work or Maria could help them out.

Smirking, "I don't know, she seemed like the serious kind of girl to me. Worth a shot right? I mean you're not interested and your just friends, you should be an awesome friend and set her up man." Alex said shaking his brother's shoulder, "I even let Daj watch the kids, yeah. So that being said, he's not a bad guy. Good looking too." Alex tried to pretend the stuff coming out of his mouth wasn't nearly as girly as it was, this really was just to prove a point. A point Alex was pretty sure Jason would see through considering how strong he was laying it on about Daj.  

[Jason Andrews]

"Just because you don't have female friends doesn't really prove anything. And just because Emma's my first friend who's a girl doesn't prove anyhing, either. There's a first time for everything, they say." Jason grinned. He was having fun with Alex, even though he wished his brother would stop bugging him about Emma. He didn't know what he wanted with Emma, and it was hard enough working that out without Alex going on about her. Maybe he should just tell Alex how he felt...but that would lead to endless teasing, and Jason didn't want that.

Jason patted Alex's shoulder. "Casey is a great guy, he's perfect for you and the kids. Chelsey will come around, I'm sure of it. And just forget about Lynn, she's not worth stressing over."

"Like hell you will. You do that once and you can just look for another babysitter." Jason threatened. He knew Alex wouldn't take him seriously, Alex knew that Jason loved the kids way too much to not babysit for them anymore.

"Just stop it, okay? I don't want to set Emma up with anyone, so just leave it." Jason said heatedly, his voice rising. He could feel himself blushing and tried to hide behind his beer.

[Alex Dean Andrews]

Making a tisking sound with his tongue, Alex grinned anyway, Jason could hide in the shadows for the time being if he liked. But Pip was brought around to the family once upon a time, that wasn't for fun. Emma, that girl held her own pretty well with the family, but Alex wasn't one to put judgement after only a few hours of meeting. But he knew Jason, Jason knew how Alex was protective of his family. He wouldn't have brought Emma round if she was a threat, more than that, he would have had to gotten to know the girl. Alex knew that too. So in the short, Alex knew that Jason wasn't just messing around with this girl, because if she was just a fling or just his friend, Jason wouldn't be this defensive. So as the older brother, he just smirked and took a sip of his drink.

"Whatever you say Jay, I'm on board with whatever you want to do. Teasing aside. But even if I don't set her up, she's not a bad looking girl. She's bound to catch someone's interest if someone doesn't act." Alex pointed out, he wasn't blind to the girl's looks, he was with a girl for over a decade, he liked women too. And just looking at the athlete, Alex knew she turned a few heads. Moving his head on Jason's shoulder, "Don't tell Casey I said this or you're ass is grass, no matter how much training you get in. If I was you, I'd be all over that girl in a heartbeat. I might not be the best one about relationships with women," The older brother point out as they had spoken a lot about Lynn and her poor choices. "But I do know, they don't wait forever. If you don't ask, they don't stay."

Alex wanted the best for Jason, really he did. It wasn't just because of a girlfriend, but he if he had someone good to go home to, maybe he'd be less risky. Maybe things would go over a little better at work. There was a lot of maybe's, but Alex knew his family, was his biggest motivation to get home safely and quickly. Going back to main point of them meeting up, "Come over if you hear anything, but don't owl me. And if...there happen to be people at the house you don't know, don't freak. More than likely, they're supposed to be there. Just..don't tell Casey that part either." Alex still hasn't figured out to tell Casey that Ben will be more than likely living with them for awhile.