Let Your Eyes Sparkle and Shine
Now this was something he was not expecting to see when he walked in the door, no sir he was not expecting to see this at all. He thought that pigs would fly or maybe see a phoenix or something cool before seeing this. Usually when he came home from his days of cleaning bed pans, mopping up pee, and keeping an eye on his pregnant werewolf girlfriend he would see Aidan moping on the sofa complaining about his new responsibilities as the mob boss of vampires and Sally telling him to get over it.
Now this was something that he never expected to see out of the two, yeah Sally and Aidan had always gotten along and he swore that Aidan had a thing for Sally considering how protective he was of her but to see this, it was unexpected to the point where he had to blink and then question if he was gone longer then he thought. Because sitting on the window sill was Sally, Aidan and well…a baby an actual cooing baby, a bundle of joy and hopefully not their bundle of joy because he didn't think a ghost-vampire hybrid was possible and the thought kinda scared him if it was. Well anyway, Sally was actually holding the baby which made sense since she was corporal now and Aidan was making silly faces toward the kid and talking in a ridiculous voice. So Josh looked around the room and then cleared his throat which made his two roommates look up at him with a smile was wide as that cat that freaked him out from Alice in Wonderland.
"Wh-what is that?" Josh asked, his voice a little higher then he wanted it to be. "Please don't tell me that…"
Sally scoffed and rolled her eyes, muttering idiot and Aidan just laughed. "No, um Sally here is babysitting this ghost baby and she needed a little help and it was my day off so…"
"You two have been playing mommy and daddy how sweet really, look I need to talk to you two about something."
The baby suddenly burped and for some reason Sally squealed thinking it was the cutest thing in the world and Aidan just laughed when the baby started making spit bubbles. Josh frowned and crossed his arms, if he burped Sally would think it was the most disgusting thing in the world and if he made spit bubbles Aidan would tell him to grow up. Josh finally sighed, giving up when he heard the two aww and walked into the kitchen, feeling like the kid that's ignored by the parents after the new baby comes. Grumbling to himself, he went to the fridge and dug out a beer before plopping himself into a chair and drinking it like his own bottle.
Watching her with a kid was something…he never knew that Sally could be so…maternal. She was really good with the baby, granite she was having a panic attack when he walked into the house and saw her with the crying infant. He was surprised, like really surprised when he saw her with a baby and when he asked her if she kidnapped it she almost bit his head off. Sally had told him after she had handed the baby off to him that the baby and his mom just kind of showed up at the door asking for help and the mother practically had a cow when she figured out that Sally could see her. So she told Sally that she just wanted to say good bye to her family before crossing over and Sally offered to watch the kid.
Aidan didn't ask if Sally asked the mother how they died and he wasn't going to ask, he was too entranced with Sally at the moment. He had a feeling that if she wasn't dead and was never engaged to that asshole that she would have made a great mother to a lucky child and an amazing wife to a lucky man.
Sometimes Aidan wishes that things were different, that he wasn't a vampire and she wasn't a ghost and he could have that life with her.
But he knew that was impossible, so for now, playing Mommy and Daddy as Josh put it would have to do.
If she only knew the way he felt about her.
But that would just make things really complicated.
So he sat with her on the window sill as they talked to the infant who was dressed in all white and had skin as pale as Aidan's. How Josh could have mistaken that as their kid was just stupid, they would at least have a nice tint to them and Sally's eyes…and his hair but with her smile and his dimples, yep that would be one good looking kid. He shook his head and then looked over at Sally who was asking him loads of questions about his old life that he really didn't want to answer.
"You're really good with him." She comments when she gives the baby up and lets him hold it.
Aidan gave her a smile.
"It's like you forget about the whole vampire thing." She says as she watches him hold the small person like it was made of fine china. "It's nice"
Aidan nodded. "It makes me feel human," He told her. "And it helps that he doesn't have a pulse." And Sally just smirked. "Did you want kids...you know when you were alive?"
He had to be a dad at one point because no man is just that natural with kids unless he was raised with a gazillion brothers and sisters and Aidan obviously was good with kids of all ages, she remembered how he was with Bernie and how hard it was to be mad at him because he was so adorable with that kid and right now he was being beyond adorable. That and there was something so sexy about a man that was good with kids, but just the way he was smiling at the baby made her heart flutter and melt her insides where even warming up. But the what he had asked her next was something she was waiting for, she knew that in time he would start asking her about her personal life and unlike him she was willing to share.
"Of course I wanted kids." She said as she put her hands in her lap. "I wanted four, two boys and two girls."
Aidan looked up at her. "You know you can't choose what you have."
Sally shrugged. "Yeah I know but that would be my dream family…and it wouldn't be with Danny, last thing I would want is have murderous women killers around…" She looked up and smiled at Aidan. "No offense."
"None taken" He says as he bounces the baby in his arms. "You would have made an amazing mom Sally"
And man if she wasn't dead she'd be blushing more than a drunk man. She looked back up at him and then flashed him a bright smile as she took the baby back. "You know my sister Annie, she was the one that is amazing with kids. My younger brothers and sisters would scream and cry every night my drunk of a dad would go out and pick up the latest std infect slut at some bar as my pain pill addicted mom would work late shifts at a local convenient store. She clucked her tongue as the baby began to fuss again. "Annie would know what to do, Annie always knew what to do."
Aidan took a deep breath and looked at the crying infant. "You have never talked about your sister before."
Sally shrugged, "She really never needed to be brought up."
"Where is she now?" Aidan asked.
"I don't know she spilt once she turned 18. I never blamed her really, as soon as I hit 18 I did the same thing, got out of that hell hole and never looked back." Sally said. "But my mom, she sobered up after Annie moved out but dad was still dad." She lifted the crying baby to face her. "Now look at this poor thing, his mom tells me that she'd be gone for 2 hours…it's been ten hours Aidan, talk about mother of the year." She frowned and looked back at Aidan. "We should like call ghostly social services on his mom and then become his parents…I wouldn't mind being mommy if you would be daddy." She stated as she looked at him with her dark eyes.
A groan was heard from the kitchen, totally messing up their moment. Aidan cleared his throat and then stood up. "Well, looks like I got to deal with our oldest son in the kitchen before he starts pinching the baby or something."
Sally just gapped at him. "Well what am I supposed to do with Noah?"
"Sally…don't name him you'll get attached." Aidan warned
Sally narrowed her eyes at him. "Well we can't just keep calling him kid or the baby."
Aidan gave her a laugh and shrugged his shoulders. "Well just tell him another ghost story or something, let that material instinct flow."
Lucky for Aidan he didn't hear the barrage of curse words aimed at him as he walked into to kitchen and saw the sucking Josh.
Aidan raised his eyes to heaven as he took a seat across from Josh who was looking at his beer like it was the meaning of life or something. "What's up?" He asked as he heard Sally singing the song Cheers by Rihanna to the kid.
"You should really teach her some lullabies to her if you plan on keeping that kid." Josh commented and his pointed his beer at him.
Aidan chuckled. "Yeah she was singing Super Bass to him when I came home, it was a sight…and she…we are not keeping him."
Josh raised one eyebrow. "Yeah?"
"If his mother ever comes back" Aidan finished and Josh groaned again.
"Shit" he cursed as he put his head down on the table.
"…and she named him" Aidan finished, grimacing at the reaction that he was waiting for.
Josh's head suddenly flew up from the table. "Ah, now she is never going to give him up!"
"Give her time, the mom will show up and this is Annie's only chance at motherhood Josh, let her have some time with it." Aidan said as he turned his head, looking back into the living room and watching Sally dance around the room singing to the dazed but giggling baby. "So what's wrong?"
"Nora is still pregnant." Josh said.
"That's great Josh!" Aidan exclaimed
"Yeah that's fine and dandy but the baby transformed when I did, so she is going to have to deal with that for nine months…and she wants to move in." Josh told Aidan who's face just feel.
"Oh"
"Yeah oh, what are we gonna do? How are we going to communicate with Sally without Nora thinking that we have lost our minds." Josh said. "What is she going to do when she sees you drinking blood from a mug?"
Aidan sighed and massaged his temples. "We will figure it out, don't worry about it too much Josh…Sally is corporal now and maybe that means that Nora might be able to see her."
"Yeah whatever, so when is this kids mom coming back?" Josh asked and Aidan groaned.
"Will you stop acting like the annoying older sibling?" Aidan said too much of Josh's surprise
"I am no annoying" Josh said as a whooshing sound filled the house. "Why did the temperature just drop to zero degrees?"
There was a crash from the living room and Sally's voice ringing out. "No way in are you getting him back you Ke$ha wanna be!"
Aidan gave Josh a look and both men stood up and drug themselves back into the living room.
"Well he is my son!" Said the girl with the knotty blond hair and raccoon like eyeliner, she actually was a Ke$ha wanna be.
Sally scoffed as she held the baby closer to her. "Oh says mother of the freakin year who left her son with a complete stranger for ten freakin hours as she hooked up with every ghost in Baltimore!"
The girl, who looked to be about 18, rolled her blue eyes. "Ugh, it was one guy and we had a great time…maybe you should try it since your such a nut case."
Sally's eyes narrowed and she looked around the room. "Wait…wait…you actually figured out a way to get your clothes off?"
Ke$ha wanna be just smirked and nodded.
"And you were still your ghost self, like you didn't need to possess anyone?" Sally asked and blondie nodded. "Damn…you gotta teach me how to do that."
"I will teach you that when you give me back Fletcher and we will call it a night." The mother said and the three roommates just looked at each other.
"Fletcher?" Sally asked. "Really? Were you high when you named him?"
The blonde just scoffed. "No, the website where I picked his name had that listed as a future popular jock name."
"Wow," Sally said her grip not letting up on the infant.
The young ghostly mom was becoming impatient and just rolled her eyes, flicking her fingers casually and the baby dispersed from Sally's arms and into his mothers. "I did not want to have to do that." She said as she smiled at her son. "And don't even try to do it sweetie, it only works for me."
Sally growled and looked past the mom and then at Aidan who just shrugged, the blonde turned around a little and looked at Aidan and then back to Sally smiling. "Look, how bout I come back next week…you can spend some time with Fletcher and I will teach you that trick…I'm sure you can put it to good use," She looked back at Aidan and then winked. "If you know what I mean."
She bounced the baby in her arms and walked over to the door as Sally joined her roommates and folded her arms. "How did you two die?" Sally asked and the blonde just turned around and sighed.
"Carbon monoxide poisoning, I guess once the landlord gets put into jail for putting in a faulty pipe we can finally move on." She smiled at them. "My name is Elizabeth by the way, I can't stand being called a Kesha wanna be, I invented this look before she became famous." And with that the young mother and the baby with the strange name vanished in the air and Josh just sighed.
"And with that, I'm off to bed." He said as he climbed up the stairs leaving Sally alone with Aidan
"If it counts, I liked the name Noah" Aidan said as he wrapped an arm around her shoulder and brought him closer to his side.
"Yeah?" Sally asked as she craned her neck up to look at him.
"Mmhm, it was my son's name." Aidan casually said as Sally gapped at him. "Hey at least we still have Josh right?"
"Wait you had a son?" Sally asked. "That answers a lot of my questions…but you had a kid?"
"Man I'm tired, I have an early shift tomorrow, goodnight Sally." Aidan said as he kissed the top of her head…she's freak out about that later and let her go.
"Oh no, you can not just leave me with that Aidan! Come on!" She yelled as he walked up the stairs.
"We will talk about it later." Aidan said
"Good, cause I will haunt you until you spill." Sally said and Aidan chuckled.
"I'm sure you will Sally."
A/N- first one shot posted, the next one will be up tomorrow. I threw in Annie from the UK series and the idea is also taken from an episode of the UK series.