You Know What They Say About Pay Back?

[Narcisa Irridesca Vetela]

Ira had honestly been so caught up in watching Lazarus talk to himself that she hadn't noticed Riot. Her brow furrowed. She squinted at him. "Who in the seven hells are you talking t-" She turned her head and regarded the woman who had approached them. . .and all of the color drained from her face. ". . .M-mom?"

[Lazarus Morningstar]

Lazarus turned to watch the reaction as a simple, "You are cruel, time.... I do not understand but as you said..." He sighs and stands next to ira, clot seems to be with lazarus as Riot could tell yet where exactly would confuse her. Unless summoned or needed it would seem Clot would just be watching what unfolds.

[Toksyck Riot]

Riot looks at Lazarus, and then back to Ira, "Irridesca... What are you... doing here? Are you okay?" She asks worried for her daughter. She looks at Lazarus, "A god... why are you with a god? What is Ace doing hiding?" She asks trying to get a grasp on everything. "What... in the nine hells is going on here?" She asks. Riot sticks her hands in jacket pockets. Ira had of course met Eurynome, who was the last person that her mother was seen with though he was not with her now.

[Christopher Alexander]

{Skip Chris. He's too far away to properly hear anything, and nothing's going down. Continue to do so until he's either discovered or needed.}

[Narcisa Irridesca Vetela]

Ira's face twisted up in great confusion. "I don't. . ." She looked between Laz and Riot, not that the god was going to be of much help at this venture. She hadn't expected to casually stumble upon her mother. She was disarmed when Riot mentioned Ace.
"Hiding? What do you mean, Ace is hiding? He's here? Where is he?" she asked, growing angry now.

[Lazarus Morningstar]

Lazarus sighs, "I've found favor in this mortal, she may even be what I've been looking for in a mortal..." The words were matter of factually and nonchalant. Ace stepped out of nothing as he was holding riot in a romantic sweeping position, "I'm here, watching our beautiful daughter, as she walks around with sin...." Lazarus coughs, "And virtue..." Ace chuckles out as he kisses riot and stands her up, he's now between the two and seems to look between them. "One happy family..." he chimed with a grin.

Lazarus seemed to be by Ira with a simple folding of his arms, Ira could feel Lazarus' pain only faintly from before as Ace stares at her and then frowns to lazarus, "No fair... I said watch her, not block her from me..." Lazarus only smiles at Ace... clot... Time itself.

[Toksyck Riot]

Riot of course was confused, angry, and concerned, "We still haven't worked everything out Ace, so I wouldn't be too quick to call us a happy family." She says sharply before looking to Lazarus, "Do all gods just find a mortal to... I don't know." She then turns to Ira, "Why didn't Corbin tell me you had come to this dimension? Does he know that you followed?"

[Narcisa Irridesca Vetela]

Ira looked as though she'd been slapped in the face. "We're not having a casual conversation as if that piece of SHIT wasn't standing right there," she snapped, looking at Ace. She'd started to clench her fists so hard that her knuckles were turning white. "And you're still right beside him, loyal as a dog." She scoffed and shook her head at Riot. Right now, Lazarus was the most liked person to Narcisa, and that was really saying something. She was grateful for Sin being there to act as a buffer.
"This is fucking unreal."

[Lazarus Morningstar]

Lazarus was actually fairly close and put an arm around her shoulder and a hand upon her upper arm. "I'd steady that fist.... I cannot protect you if all you give into your wrath..." His gaze fixates on the two as Ace just smiles.

"You wound me..." clot teased as he hugs Riot, "What is there to work out? I kept my promise..." He was now on the other side of her, it seemed he kept a fair distance from lazarus, the arm movement had Clot shift positions.

The faint scream of Lazarus rung in Narcisa's mind but it slowly became background noise as she would feel her wrath lower and calm down a little, it also seemed to bother Ace that Lazarus was as close to his daughter as he was. "You can go if you want sin... it's some bonding time..." Clot mused but Lazarus shook his head, "Unless you will address me by the 14 I am... call me Lazarus..."

[Toksyck Riot]

Riot was frustrated, angry, and confused. Ira's accusation didn't help at all. She kept her cool though, that was very much in Riot's nature, she had worked hard to keep her calm after everything that Ace did. Riot wanted Ace, but she was still mad and hurt. She remembered it being called Stockholm, she wondered if it now went beyond that. She looks down at her boots. "Ira. You weren't supposed to come... not yet. Not until I fixed everything." She says. Riot was the herald of ace and that was awkward enough for everyone. "Lazarus, will you protect Ira. From everyone?" She asks looking up at him.

[Narcisa Irridesca Vetela]

Ira looked soothed with Lazarus's arm around her shoulders. She felt less angry, and finally focused on the noise she heard in her head. "I want to leave." Her eyes flickered between Riot and Ace, and between the two of them, they were making her queasy. "You two really deserve one another."
She shook out of Laz's grasp and began walking away.

[Lazarus Morningstar]

The nod from laz was all Riot got as Clot sighed, "I always find it funny how everyone tells me how it is..." As Ira wiggled out of Laz's arm clot smiled and she was once more standing there within Laz's grip. "Stay..." he chimed as he looked to Riot. "We're gonna sort this out now....." he points to her then to Ira. Lazarus simply leaned over, "Your mind is safe but your body can still be manipulated in this current state, daughter of time, please... I will do what I can to get you out if you trust me..." The words danced into her ear and Lazarus was trying hard not to let time get to him.

Clot smiled and faced Riot, "She's here because I brought her here...Chris is here because -I- brought him here..." He looks to Ira, "I brought most of the people here, Even your mother's favorite lover here..." he turns, "Yes I've teased him but He's been alive and thriving... FOR YOU... I brought Eurynome... I brought Adam, Chris, your children, Every Tom, Dick, and Jane you like or fuck...." The area around them started to shake and fracture with pockets of themselves running in different times and dimensions. "YET I'M THE GOD DAMN BAD MAN!" Ace shouted as blackness filled the area, they could see nothing but themselves before Ace's voice echoed for what seemed forever. Shortly after that they were once more in their own reality as he gently tugged his tie, adjusted his sleeves and composed himself. "I have tried... to be a loving man, I have done all I can to be a loving father.... I even love Alex, the love child of the one woman I've loved still through the millions of years I've hung in time and space..." he sighed and looked at Ira, "Unless it is that time of the month for you... calm your tits..." he looks to riot, "And let's solve this...."

[Toksyck Riot]

Riot was getting dizzy with everything that Ace did and she sighs sitting on the ground angry. Then she stood up and got in Ace's face, "NO no you don't get to tell me what to do anymore! You abused me! Not to mention you've had HOW MANY lovers compared to mine? Huh?! At least I actually felt something for the people that I slept with! Unlike the way you ABUSED Eurynome! Used sex on Averie! Used sex on Rose!" She bites her tongue to stop herself. "Ya know what Ira, I have done EVERYTHING for you. I love you! I wanted to protect you from him, and the only way I could do that was by staying with him. Every time I tried to leave I got threatened with things he would do to you." Riot taps her hand on her thigh. "As for you Ace, I've told you that I love you. There is nothing I can do to stop myself at this point, and working things out was what I wanted... but... I hurt!"

[Narcisa Irridesca Vetela]

Ira stood there, tucked into Laz's side, and tried to suppress the urge to vomit. This was overwhelming. She really didn't want to be here. She hated her parents, fucking HATED them, because they were too wrapped up in their own stupid shit and couldn't pull their heads out of their asses to see it. She had no words anymore. It was easier to just stand there and let Riot make her feel bad for "all she'd ever done for her," and oh please.
She was sure Laz could feel every wave of anger, every pulse of resentment. But she stood there. Silent. If Riot and Ace were going to resolve this mess, they'd better do it quickly.

[Lazarus Morningstar]

Laz held her close and started to calm her, keep her well the best he could, a sense of worry actually came from him without him trying as clot laughed.

Looking at her he smiled. "First... Eurynome was brought in by... You... I actually spoke with him... we're cool..." On the other side of her he held up two fingers, "Second... Averie..." he looks at Ira, "My assistant back home" he turns back to riot. "Not the leader here... asked to be paid in such a manner... and after you broke my heart I let her close... I actually..." he stopped himself. "nevermind..."

Somewhere in Ace's realm Averie sneezes as she tidies up his library.

"Third!" he said with three hands before appearing next to ira. "Rose slept with me and I kept refusing her a child..." He strutted over to Riot once more. "I was insane, I was mad... I did a lot of bad things, but I did have one promise... when I had moments of clarity... That I would provide a perfect world... for us... for our family..." He looked to Ira and smiled, "I painstakingly picked and chose ever event to transpire to where we are today..." He opened his arms and looked at the two of them. "All I asked... was to not be hated... yet you don't seek me out... you followed me here, but I heard your dreams... it's him..." he folds his arms and then looks to Ira, "My children hate me, the one I've always done anything for hates me..." He shrugs and puts his hands in his pocket. "Worse off the lies... the constant lies and talk of running away, I had to keep you close from the rest of the world... because you kept trying to kill yourself..."

Lazarus held Ira closer as the area shimmers. "Even without me..." clot continued, "You tried to kill yourself, over... and over... before I even lost my mind you kept doing it... so I had to protect you... I lost my mind for you and you hate me..." His gaze turns to his daughter, "Why do you hate me so?"