Lucrezia lay on her bed, lazily running her fingers through Cesare's dark hair. Giovanni begins crying in the next room.
"Cesare do you love me?"
"Of course sis, why do you ask?"
"Will you attend the baby then?" Cesare laughed but moved from the bed to fulfil his sister's wishes anyway.
"He is growing big your Giovanni" Cesare whispered as he looked down affectionately on his baby nephew. Giovanni slowly quietened, being rocked in his crib.
"He reminds me more of his father every day." Lucrezia sighed and rolled on to her stomach to look at Cesare as he continued to rock Giovanni.
"The poor stableboy?"
"No, Narcissus." Cesare smiled at his sister and gently kissed his nephew while he slept.
"You would make a good father Cesare."
"For Giovanni?"
"Perhaps." Answered Lucrezia beckoning Cesare back to the bed with a small crook of her finger to which Cesare quickly replied.
"I will always be here to be the father figure Giovanni needs."
"A father figure maybe, but not a father." Cesare looked at her with concern in his eyes and placed his hand over hers.
"What has brought this on?"
"He is growing older as you said and I'm beginning to doubt my ability to give him everything he needs from a family." She said quietly a trace of sadness shadowing her words.
"Everything you cannot give him, I will."
The door bangs open and Juan leisurely strolls in, a cigaro in one hand and wine in the other. He smirks when he sees Lucrezia and Cesare on the bed together.
"I hope I'm not interrupting anything." He says coyly, strolling over to peer at Giovanni in his crib.
"Keep that foul smelling turd from my son."
"Piggy likes cigaros doesn't he?" Juan coos while lowering the cigaro into the crib. Giovanni wakes briefly from the intrusion and fusses slightly.
"Look what you've done." Lucrezia scolds getting up from her position on the bed to stand protectively over her son, attempting to soothe him back to sleep.
"Was there something you wanted Juan?" Cesare also gets up from the bed, shooting Juan a dark look.
"Not at all brother, again sorry if I interrupted anything…" He chuckles, throwing his siblings a glance they fail to recognise before stalking from the room just as suddenly as he arrived.