Nod nod nod vibrate.

"All right. It will be done, darling." She kisses his cheek, and then fishes out a small lock of her hair to begin braiding it. Call her a romantic, but it seems fitting, even if the end result will be transmuted into something less flimsy than hair.

"And I expect James will want to do something like this too, and is entirely free to ask for help from his witch wife, but somehow I expect he'll want to figure something out himself." This is, of course, said at a volume that James can hear.

"Spoilers!" he calls out from wherever he is.

Alexei giggles.

Yvette rolls her eyes fondly as she finishes braiding the small lock of her own hair. Then she takes Alexei’s hand to wrap the lock around his ring finger. Once properly arranged, it’s transmuted to a lovely rose gold. She needs to do a bit more cleanup, like where the two ends met, and making sure the ring is solid instead of thin strands of rose gold, but! The form of the ring is there. If Alexei likes it, anyway.

“I’m going to want to tidy it up a bit more, but. What do you think, darling? Pretty enough for you?”

He does his best to stop vibrating while she's fiddling with the ring, and when she asks if he finds it pretty he nods several times in a row and then immediately tackles her.

She is tackled, and giggles, amused.

"Careful! We need to stay decent, darling."

He pulls away a bit and blinks in confusion for a second before remembering why, and then just whines thinly and pathetically.

“Aw. Poor man.” She pets him, amused. “This does give us the opportunity to know about each other in more than a carnal fashion, though. I love you and want to know all about you.”

"Get decent," James calls in a tone too high for Aurene to hear—

...fine. He sits up and does not be on top of Yvette.

And presently here's James, holding Aurene in his arms. "I, too, am interested in getting to know you," he tells Alexei.

And now Alexei is looking suspiciously at Aurene again.

Aurene has by now had her morning breakfast (a couple of birds, of course) and is looking all perky and curious!

"Yeh!! Hi!! Do I call you uncle or are you another daddy, the pictures didn't say."

Help???????

"Uhhh we'll give it time, sweetheart. I expect just calling him Alexei would be fine?"

"Yeah," he says in something that would be described as a "croak" if it were a human doing it but since he's a vampire and one of the way in which they're bullshit is having unreasonably pretty voices it cannot, in fact, be described as that.

"'Kay!" She would like to pat him, so: daddy! Bring her over for pats for the sad vampire. "You're welcome for finding you," she says, when she is in patting range and can pat accordingly.

The taskmaster will of course always be obeyed.

He will submit to this indignity.

"Finding... me..."

"Oh, she was very insistent about us living here in particular. And now we know why! Our little precog wanted us to find you." Alexei's head is currently being patted, so she instead takes his hand (with his new ring!) and kisses it gently.

"Yeh!" Pat pat okay she is done patting now. "You were sad and now you're not!"

So... he has two mates, who are also mated to each other, so it's probably some bizarre hypothetical that happened to never have happened before, of three people being mutually compatible like this and running into each other. And he'd probably never have run into them if their... small precognitive person... hadn't told them to come here in particular. At least several days ago, from how inhabited this place is, but probably more since she'd have had to be guiding them for a while?

How does that work. He didn't know he was going to be here several days ago, does this mean free will is an illusion, what does free will even mean anyway.

Also why is he even wasting time with the running commentary when he just found the two hottest people in the world he should be fucking them—

—wait, no, small precognitive person should... not be awake... while they're fucking... for some reason.

Also also this is too many witches, do even the Volturi have this many, how does this happen, he feels toyed with by the forces of Fate.

Oh and they said they want to know him which he has no idea how to—what does it even mean, they met, what else is there to know—

James glances at Alexei for a second at that.

Yeah, kiddo, he's not so sure yet.

Yvette finds her new mate's obvious confusion really adorable and has to hold in a laugh at it. But she should probably rescue him from the wrath of the tiny taskmaster, so:

"Do you want to work on your numbers, sweetheart?"