#alonso walker

Alonso was almost too glad that winter didn't hit San Fransisco quite as hard as it would New York. The light breeze he did feel to resemble some sort of winter to this area. His feet dug into the ground and kept him walking farther from his cabin--a cabin full of people he didn't want to disturb or want to take with him. He needed time to himself and only he knew how much he could handle of staying inside for so long. 

"..did you know grandma was gonna die?" Duncan stares over at Alonso who is fiddling with the letter in his hands nervously. His head just nods slowly as he is still crying over the news--but he's not in the state of mind Anthea has predicted.

Duncan just nods his head. "You came to get me because you knew you would have to eventually." Duncan just looks down at his feet.

"I wanted to say goodbye and ...fix things. Wanted to do right by you. I wanted to do right by them. I wanted you with me from day one." Alonso looks over at Duncan with a caring gaze.

"Even before you knew I adopted you; I thought of you as a son. Idris thought of you like that too. Always used to say we should tell you so you could call us Mum and Dad but..." He trails off and just holds his head.

"Did you at least...you know...see her grave?" Duncan nudges Alonso with his head.

Alonso just nods. "Yeah... I did... Put flowers there and the likes. I still pray to her and ..." He looks at Duncan. "...Duncan--"

"Adam's dead too... I assumed." Duncan says quietly, resting his head on Alonso's shoulder. "I'm so sorry for all of this. I never wanted you to have this as a family. You deserve so much more." Alonso is choking on his own words.

"I do have what I want. Got you carin' for me and Elijah and Nicholas and..." He stops before he can mention Lycan and just smiles. "I love all of you. You're great and brilliant. Now...come on, let's go see them?" Duncan stands up and holds his hand out for Alonso to take.

"Come on, please? We can all make you feel better." Duncan smiles though Alonso can tell the boy is upset as well.

"Can I go to New York with Elijah?" Duncan looks from Alonso to Elijah with a bit of hope in his eyes while Alonso nearly chokes on his tea.

"What...?" Alonso stares at Duncan who just shrugs his shoulders. "Can I? I hardly ever really get alone time and it'd help me with my studying. I've never seen New York so..." He trails off and stares down at his hands.

"It's a far away place from California and ...well..." Alonso bites his lip. He doesn't want to admit that he would miss the boy for that short time but he would. That was his son. Duncan was his child.

"If you do really well on your studying and keep out of trouble I'll think about it." Alonso finally says, biting his bottom lip and feeling Duncan wrap his arms around him before running outside.

"You will let him go to New York?" Elijah is staring at him.

Alonso just sighs. "...I'll miss him but...if he wants to go once with you, sure. You'll protect him, right? You'll watch him and...make sure he's safe? And the other children, they won't tease him, will they? He hates bein' teased. And...--"

"You will need to let go eventually." 

"You named it Sylvia...?" Alonso stares at Duncan while the boy shows him his finished homework. "Yeah, it doesn't have a name so I said Sylvia. It never said it had to be a name that matched gender, for all we know its a butch chick in there."

Alonso can't help but laugh and reads over his work, his glasses sliding to the end of his nose while he corrects it.

"Why don't you sing anymore? You used to sing for me and you don't anymore." Duncan tilts his head slightly and Alonso sighs. "What did Sylvia tell you?"

"Nothing...I want to hear it from you anyway." He said softly, looking down at his knees while Alonso sat up more and rubbed the back of his neck.

"Bit of a bad memory with that song, love. It sang it while it..." Alonso gulped on his own words as his fingertips traced over his own hip. Duncan frowned.

"...you know there are enough good memories to go with that song so you don't have to do that." Duncan said, nuzzling his head against Alonso's shoulder.

Alonso sighs and wraps his arm around Duncan, petting his shoulder gently. "There are days I forget but Nicholas doesn't. I see his face when he hears it. I can't really bear to see him look like that. In a way it won for that fact alone."

Duncan frowns more and chews on the inside of his cheek. "No. No it didn't win because tomorrow I'm making ALL of you sing until that thing loses." Duncan growls and gets off of the couch, Alonso frowning after him.

"I thought it was named Sylvia..." Alonso says quietly.

"Winston, heel." Duncan grins and keep scratching the dog's ears and body each time it listens to him. His eyes looking over at the cabin and then back over at the dog.

"I got him the dog, it was an adoption, it makes him happy...why not?" Alonso just sighs and smiles a bit. "The dog is trained and Duncan seems to have taken to it already so...it'll just sleep by Duncan."

Alonso just grins a bit and whistles for Duncan and Winston, seeing the dog walk in with pep in its step until it sits and tilts its head up at Nicholas.

"He likes you. He growled at everyone in the shelter." Duncan smiled and hugged Winston, staring up at Elijah and Nicholas. "I can keep him? Please?" 

Elijah just nods and Nicholas shrugs, Alonso is left just smiling and sitting on the couch.

"Why is his name Winston?" Elijah looks at Duncan puzzled.

Duncan is staring right at Sam and just looks back at Nicholas, giving a double tack back and forth. "Holy shit it's the twilight zone."

"Language." Alonso rubs his temples. "This is Sam; Nicholas' cousin." Alonso gestures for Duncan to say hello properly but the boy just stares and gulps.

"He looks like Sputnick's doppleganger." he says bluntly, looking back at Nicholas and then back at Sam. "What am I supposed to do with him? Does he even have a ...you know." Duncan mimics an explosion to hint at mutation and Alonso just chuckles.

"Yes, he makes shields so don't test him." He says softly.

"Isn't he a bit old to be babysat?" Sam gives a concerned look towards at Alonso who just raises a brow. "He's fourteen." Alonso states.

"Doesn't look that age--oh I'm sorry does...he age fast?"

Duncan has a large grin on his face and makes a snap of his fingers to make himself look normal to Sam. "Sorry, I made myself look older. Neat trick I use when people I don't know are around." He says simply, Alonso sighing. 

"We'll be back in a few hours, he isn't allergic to anything but...if he goes missing just check your closets." Alonso puts a twenty into Duncan's sweatshirt pocket. "That's for food, make sure you get enough for you AND Sam. He's very nice, be good to him and don't make him nervous he'll make holes into the ground." Alonso gives a light wave over at Sam, tugging Nicholas by his belt away from the cabin.

"If I throw things at you will you deflect it?" Duncan gives a small grin.