INTERLUDE: Manly or Ruin innocence, by Revan-Sama

Author: Revan-sama.

Game: Dragon age origins.

Summary: When your son say 'I want to be a real man like daddy', you're really happy to make that wish happen. However, NOT when you got the help of your best friend hero of ferelden and his former dwarf companion...If so, then you really hope your wife won't have knowledge of this.

Character/pairing: Ryan Cousland, Oghren, Shane Mallory/ Kyle Mallory x Marilyn Mallory.

Disclaimer: Ryan Cousland, Shane Mallory and Kyle Mallory are kylemallory's characters.
Marilyn is SoniaCarreras character.

Author's note: Gift for SoniaCarreras Birthday! Hope I did it well!

-DAO: Manly or Ruin innocence?-

"I'm home!"

Today has been a very hard day of work for Kyle Mallory. Fighting bandits who kept stealing some merchants. Picking up some heavy materials to different shops. Giving some fishes to the cats. (it's not a job but since he loves cats...)

However, now that the day of work is over, he could finally go back home to his most important persons. His beautiful elven wife, Marilyn and his adorable son, Shane.

He would walk to the kitchen where she was cooking dinner for them (assuming that the kitchen wasn't set on fire like last time...) , Then he would surprise her with a kiss and she would response to it with the same passion.

Then behind him, he would hear a happy voice saying : "Daddy! You're home!"

For a five years old, Shane Mallory was really adorable. And he like his daddy very much.

Of course, he liked his mother too. But he admire his father's fighting skills.

Marilyn said it was a bit soon for him to pick up a sword. When he saw his son's disappointment, Kyle wanted to give him one of his wife's dagger but as soon as he wanted to give it to their son, she said : "Give him that dagger and loose a hand." So he gave up.

Yeah, he would finally find some rest in his hou-

...

Oh no.

"Hello Kyle! Good work for today." said Ryan Cousland, his best friend with his stupid grin on his face.

"Hello lad, have a sit and some ale." Said Oghren the dwarf friend of Ryan.

Usually when those two came to visit, it ended badly...When I said badly it means his wife killing the three of them: Ryan, Oghren AND her husband...even though he did nothing.

"What are you two doing here?" asked Kyle very calmly...trying not to activate the berserker mode.

"Oh, we came to visit you! We were passing by and decided to come here." Said Ryan, very happy to see his best friend.

"...You were here the day before yesterday."

"Is that so?" asked Oghren.

"Yes, it is..." Answer Kyle.

Ryan and Oghren looked at each other then both looked at Kyle with a grin.

"Well, you don't mind having two of your friends in your little home, right?"

As a matter of fact, I do.

But he didn't said that out loud.

"By the way, where is Mari?" Asked Kyle to change the subject.

"She went shopping with her sister and asked us to babysit the little lad here." explained Oghren while drinking some ale and pointing at Shane who was a bit half asleep and half awake.

Kyle gasped with his eyes wide open.

"She LET you TWO babysit our son?!" He shriek.

"hehehe You sound like a nug murdered." Laughed the dwarf.

"Shut up!"

"Don't worry Kyle, She said that if anything happened to Shane,  she would 'obliterated' our 'insensitive' ass with 'sharp objects'." said nervously Ryan... who was not feeling so well while saying that.

"That doesn't make me feel better...And what happen to my son?! He looks half asleep and half awake!!! You didn't drug him, did you?!" Demanded Kyle while taking Shane in his arms.

"Uh...He wanted to try some of Oghren's ale...and...well...he gave it him." Said Ryan.

Kyle's face was blue now...which made him look pretty with his green eyes.

"HE DID WHAT???!!!"

"Come on, don't squeal like a nug. it's no big deal." Said Oghren very naturally.

"Don't worry Kyle, He didn't gave him everything.  Just a taste of ale...80% of it..." Ryan tried to comfort his best friend.

"WHY DON'T YOU GAVE HIM SOME LYRIUM WHILE YOU'RE AT IT???!!!"

"Hmm...I didn't thought about it....Lyrium is tasty." said Oghren while thinking about it.

"Oghren, I think Kyle was sarcastic..." said Ryan.

Kyle's face was half blue and white and he kept saying, alone: "Mari is going to kill us, Mari is going to kill us, Mari is going to..."

Then Oghren told Ryan : "I think he fainted."

Kyle woke up again and asked : "Why...By the maker, Why did you gave him that?."

At this Ryan smiled a bit and said: "He said he saw you drinking some of this, so He wanted to do everything you do!"

"Yeah, He said: 'I want to be a real man like daddy'."

At this, Kyle's eyes become softer. He looked at his son and smiled proudly.

"He...he really said that..."

Both of his friend grinned and nodded.

"I...I guess it's alright for once...as long as Mari doesn't know about it."

...They began to tremble a bit...of the thoughts of what the young elf wife would do if she knew....

Marilyn knew her son was growing up, and soon he would be a young man. But still she wanted to keep his innocence for a little while longer. Like most mothers.

For her, Giving him ale to drink is like taking him to the whorehouse.

"It will be our secret! There is no way she'll find out, right?" said Ryan.

The three of them laughed a bit and Kyle decided to put Shane to sleep in his room.

Later...

"I'm home!" She was back with...lots of bag...And some of those things looked more like loot than bought stuff.

"Welcome back, Mari." As soon as she saw her husband in the living room she ran to him.
And kissed him passionately.

"How was the shopping?" Asked Ryan.

"It was great! Lots of loot...I mean, lot's of great stuff...found on the...ground...and people..."

She looked a bit around and asked: "Where is Shane? I missed him all the way here!"

"The little lad is in his room." Said Oghren.

"You put him to bed? Wow, you guys are better at this than I thought. I guess I can forgive you for that time when you said the word 'whore' in front of my son." Said Marilyn with a smile.

Ryan and Oghren became pale at the memory.

"Do I have to remind you that you set our clothes and armors on fire because of that and we had to walk naked in the street!" said Kyle.

She turned her face toward her husband and smiled with an angelic smile.

"Yes, I know. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll have to go see if my son is alright."

She went to Shan's room.

The three men sighed.

"I think we better leave before anything happen." said Ryan.

"Right...and leave me here, with the consequences." said Kyle.

"Better you than us...beside you live here." said Oghren.

When suddenly.

"Wait a second...." A cold voice coming down from hell.

EEK!

Marilyn  stood behind them with a somber expression on her face.

The three men turned around to face her...but stayed very far away...just in case...

"Y...Y...Yes...Dear?" asked Kyle very nervously.

It's probably nothing...
She couldn't possibly notice...

"Why does Shane's breath smells like ale?"

...
...
...
...

Oh shit...

-Later, outside the house-

Some people were walking calmly in the street when suddenly they heard some kind of earthquake and a loud voice : "YOU GAVE 80% OF WHAT TO MY SON????!!!!"

-Later in the house-

"Was it really necessary to bury them alive in your garden Mari?" asked Marilyn's sister.

"It's for the fresh air...No more ale in this house until Shane has the right age for drinking." Marilyn nodded to herself.

"There is fresh air underground?" asked her sister.

END.

GAME OVER.

R.I.P (rest in peace)
Kyle Mallory
Oghren
Ryan Cousland.