[Citadel] Two Dads, One Cub

'Gnaw.' Rahk says proudly and climbs back on the couch.

"Takky bought him the whole set when he heard he was going to stay over, even the 5 meter long maw..."

The kid stood on the couch and suddenly made a grab for Juhani's hair; it wasn't much malice as plain curiosity.

"Five meter maw? Owch!" His amazement is cut short by surprise. Rahk grabs a good handful of his hair. While regulations have cut it short regularly, there's still some left for a small toddler like him to grab. Juhani's all leaned over silly.

"Uh, yeah, that's called hair. Humans have it. You have that crest of yours instead."

"No Food Rahk!" Tellix said sternly grabbing hold of the toddler, "let go." Luckily the turian doesn't try to pull the krogan off, since he's holding real tightly.

"Rahk... let go or you get punished!"

'NO!' and he let go, once again he was smirking.

"Sorry about that."

Juhani rubs the now sore spot on his scalp, frowning. Rahk sure had a tight grip on him there!

"Just for future reference, hair tastes awful so you don't want to put it in your mouth, okay?"

He waved his finger at Rahk, but stopped it quick, for he wasn't sure if the krogan would try to bite that as well.

"So, Tellix...why don't you tell me about this little guy's dad? How is he doing?"

"Takky works way too hard if you ask me, he used to just handle the occasional bit of trading between the Guc clan's trader and the rest of C-Space, but now, with CDEM winding down and Guc standing firmly behind the Urdnot clan's policy, his workload expanded... and then he has taken it upon himself to make sure no Guc on the Citadel causes trouble..."

The green turian crossed his arms, "He's over a thousand and has a family, he shouldn't be taking these kind of risks... You know his father was in Citadel Defense Force... that was before C-Sec and the rebellions when people trusted the krogan, and I think he always wanted to step in his father's footsteps."

Rahk nodded earnestly, he had no clue what was being said but it sounded serious.

"I'm probably worried about nothing... right?"

Takkar was over thousand years old? Juhani just sat back and let that sink in. He'd screwed a guy thousand years his senior. Takkar must have seen all sorts of things. That was just...crazy. Juhani just sat there, holding the plush varren on his lap.

"Wow. Just...wow. I never thought to ask him how old he was. It's just mind-boggling to think about, with all the stuff we've done together." It looked like there was some faint blush coming onto his cheeks. One more new thing for Rahk, for certain. This fellow could change his colour!

Rahk looks mesmerized as Juhani changes color before his eyes, a hand reaches out and softly runs over the human's cheek.

Tellix chuckles, "don't be surprised, krogan are long lived if they aren't shot at... and his experience comes in handy..." a hand rests once more on Juhani's shoulder.

"Listen if race doesn't matter than age within reason shouldn't matter either. Isn't the knowledge that another likes you and trust you enough for you that don't have to worry about when he was born or what DNA he has or how he looks?"

Oh no, he offended Tellix, didn't he?

"No I didn't mean it that way!" he exclaims, and then hangs his head down in shame. "IT's just...I'm 24 right now, he's over thousand. How young krogan he'd need to date to get to about the same aged person?" Juhani sighed and leaned against the couch. "Sorry, that was a dumb idea..."

He turns to look at the perky krogan kid and one his fathers. Such a shame Takkar wasn't here, he'd like to see his reactions when Rahk tried to headbutt him.

"I think I should get going. It was nice to see you're doing well." Juhani turned to Rahk and patted his back, where he'd one day have most definitely a great hump. "It was nice to meet this little guy here too. Do tell Takkar that I dropped by and said hi." he smiled.

"Oh no... I'm not mad." Tellix says with a smile and leans in for a hug (and a quick, friendly nip in Juhani's ear.

Rahk knew what hugs meant and he joined in, little arms wide he hugged the stranger with the 'hair' on top of his head.

"I will, sorry that he isn't here, but he's being held-up in traffic. Please come back. You don't have to go, I like the company to be honest."

"Sorry...there's some errands I need to run." Juhani apologized, standing up. He offered the varren toy back to Rahk. "Here you go, little buddy." he turned to face Tellix again. "I'll visit when I can. Maybe if I'm lucky I'll catch both of you here on my next time."

Rahk took his varren back, the young krogan smiled...

"Say goodbye to Juju honey." Tellix said. '-ey -uju!' was the reply with the best wave he could manage with the big varren in his hands.

The lime green turian walked Juhani back to the door... then in a surprise move the turian pressed himself against Juhani for another hug, with a flick of his tongue against the rim of the human's ear... "You better don't keep us waiting for too long, otherwise we'll come looking for you Twinkie without Rahk but maybe with some toys." The last was said a sing-song but also hushed voice, even though Rahk, by the sound of it, as busy running around in the living room.

It's clear that below Tellix the friendly, loving parent there was still very much Tellix the hedonist.

"Now go out there and score some tail..."