WINEFEST, AT THE LAKE [OPEN]

[willcabot]

Bare feet padded down the small jetty, clothes abandoned in his wake as he stripped down. Discarding the Breitling watch onto the wooden boards, he grinned as he dropped the final piece of clothing between him and the water onto the short pier before diving straight into the deep, cool, lake waters. Swimming deep down into the darker waters, Will swam down brushing his finger tips along the lake bed before swimming slowly up. There were some advantages to a Siren ancestry, the attraction to the water and his speed in the water was definitely one of them.

Swimming to one of the buoys, far beneath the surface, Will swam the length and bredth of the lake before he reappeared at one of the floating platforms. Swimming slower, deliberately slowly, Will looked like any other morning swimmer. Emerging from the water, he slicked his hair back before grabbing onto the edge of the pier. Muscles straining as he pulled himself up on to the board, grabbing his towel he wrapped it round his waist before grinning as he realised he had himself an audience.

"Morning," Will began, grinning as he mock saluted them. "Nothing better for a hangover than a morning dip, don't you think?"

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[second_son]

Fabrice is still there ofcourse, but Demetri ignores him in favour of Will and his annoyance for the moment. It's complicated, he'll claim later, trying to assuage feelings he's sure will be, rightfully, hurt. "Swimming naked. With my baby sister. Will, I thought you had more sense than that."

[willcabot]

Will's brows furrowed in bemusement as he stared up at Demetri. Offering a mock salute to his companion, he smiled up at Demetri and his irritation-annoyance.

"I think you're mistaking me for my brother Dems, I've never had any sense." Will replied blithely. "Is there a problem with me being naked?"

[ofcatsandfate]

Fabrice makes himself scarce, trying to keep the hurt off his face. He knows, from what Demetri has told him of June, that the man is fiercely protective of her, and he would never want to get in the way of Demetri's family. He still can't help but sting a bit at the abrupt dismissal though. So he keeps his distance, keeping his gaze low to the ground or cast out across the lake, shuffling his feet and trying to dwell on happier moments as Demetri and Will hash it out between the two of them.

[second_son]

“I have zero problems with you being naked,” Demetri responds, blocking Fabrice out as best as he can. He’s sorry, he wants to say, but he needs to deal with this. This is complicated, you knew that going in. But they all sound like excuses to him, and they are. “I have a problem with you being naked near June.”