Title – The Troublesome Twosome

Disclaimer – Sadly, I still own nothing of an excellent show called The OC, so, sniff

So – Um… Seth and Ryan grew up together, Ryan was adopted, and just imagining a little Seth and a little Ryan running around together, having fun. Please R&R, so yeah.

Chapter 1

"Seth, Ryan, can you two come down here for a second?"

"Alrighty mommy!" Two voices came drifted down gritty stairway, accompanied by a race of footsteps.

"I bet I can beat you to mommy Ryan!"

"Bet you can't"

Sure enough, little four year old Ryan appeared in the kitchen first, with a puffing Seth trailing behind. "You cheated!"

"No I didn't!"

"Yes you did!"

"No I didn't!"

"Yes you-"

"Stop it!" Kirsten yelled, trying to get the two bickering boys attention.

Both Ryan and Seth stopped.

Kirsten sighed, and asked, "Do you two want a snack?"

"Yeah!" Came the enthusiastic reply of both kids. "I want cookies!" "I want Froot Woops!" "Milk!" "Juice!" When they both noticed they were shouting at the same time, they started laughing.

"Alright you two. Go sit at the table, while I get the snacks." She smiled as they went to go sit at the table, Seth's mouth was already starting on some game or the other when she turned her back and started getting things together. She loved both of them, but sometimes she wondered what it would be like with out Ryan.

"Sandy, Sandy, help. Ow, it hurts, help!" Sandy was driving like mad to the hospital full speed, trying to miss any bumps that the road had. Kirsten's water just started to break, and the hospital was 5 minutes away.

"I'll be alright Kirsten, don't worry, breath," he said, calming Kirsten down microscopically.

When they finally reached the hospital, Kirsten was put on a stretcher, and taken to the Delivery wing while Sandy padded excitedly behind. Joining them at a sharp corner was another woman, who also looked like she was in labor. But the only difference was that she was alone. They were taken to the same room, and doctors buzzed around, shouting instructions, encouraging both woman.

When the two boys finally came out, there was a peaceful atmosphere setting in the pale colored room. Kirsten cried as she took a little baby boy into her arms, looking into the deep hazel eyes. It was perfect. The baby was perfect. Everything was perfect. With a great breath of air, the baby filled its lungs and screamed. Loud. "Seth," whispered Kirsten, while Sandy took the baby from her and started rocking it back and forth. The thin layer of matted hair began to loosen. All the doctors smiled, listening to the lively screaming. Soon, a second, almost identical sounding scream filled the room, as the other woman's baby was born. Everyone basked in the moment, filling their hearts with joy.

The perfect moment was shattered as the woman roughly said, "I don't want him."

Kirsten looked at shock at the young woman with blonde hair, and then quickly became angry at what the woman had said. Taking a look at the baby the other woman had born, she fell in love.

"I got another one at home who's an ass, I don't want him," the women repeated.

Giving a pleading look at Sandy, who was still holding Seth, Kirsten looked back at the other baby. Looking into the clear blue, scrunched up eyes, she knew. She looked Sandy in the eye, silently asking him. Sandy shook his head, and then said, "We'll take him."

When the women waved off the baby one of the nurses was trying to giver her, Kirsten held out her hands and embraced the little boy. Not wanting to seem like she was taking over, Kirsten asked, "What's his name?"

The woman, who was trying to convincing the doctors to let her go, started. "Um… I don't know, think of one."

Kirsten looked hard at the wailing baby in front of her. Sandy sat down on a chair next to her, and leaned over to tell her something secret. Kirsten smiled, and whispered, "Ryan".

The people that were buzzing around the room started moving the other women's bed out. When they got out into the hall, Sandy followed.

"Excuse me, what's your name again?"

"Um… Atwood. Dawn Atwood."

"Thanks." Rushing back into the delivery room to his wife, he sat with Kirsten while the doctors took away both boys.

Kirsten smiled. "You know, we just got in way over our heads."

Sandy smiled back, somehow knowing that it would all be worth it.

When the kids were finished their snack, Seth challenged Ryan to a staring contest. Kirsten grinned as Seth tried to make up more and more rules while Ryan just looked lost.

Deciding to rescue Ryan from a completely unfair match that no one was going to win, Kirsten suggested they go watch T.V. Ryan and Seth were settled in on the old couch, sharing a blanket, and watching some old movie about a run-away. Looking at the content kids, Kirsten decided she needed to go upstairs and get her book. She went up the steps and, when she couldn't find the book she was looking for, searched through all the 3 rooms. Unsuccessful in her search, she thought back to the boys. They were being awfully quiet.

Suddenly fearing the silence, she quickly walked back downstairs. Sure enough, when she came back down, the blanket was askew and the kids were missing.

"Ryan, won't mommy be worried about us? We aren't supposed to go anywhere outside the yard without her!"

"Come on Seth, you saw the guy in the TV. He left the yard and he was perfectly alright! We can be just like him!"

"But mommy'w get mad at us… and wook; we can't cross the road without someone to howd our hands!"

"I'll hold your hand if you need one that much!"

"Your not mommy though. Ryan, I wanna go home…" Seth started, tears threatening to start down his adorable face.

"Seth, Seth, its ok. Don't worry, we'll be fine!" Ryan said, trying to act like daddy would. A small shudder ran threw his body. Hopefully daddy wouldn't be mad…

"Weww, what do we do know?" Seth asked. He hadn't thought farther then leaving the house.

"Uh… let's go, that way!"

"Okay…" Seth said reluctantly, following Ryan around the block.

"Haven't we been here alwready?" Seth complained. He'd been walking for 20 minutes, and they had passed the place twice.

"Um…" Ryan stuttered. He was saved from answering the question by an angry Kirsten.

"SETH. RYAN. CAR. NOW!" she screamed. They obediently walked to the car, to scared to do otherwise.

"What do you think you guys were doing? Thank GOD you didn't cross the road. Do you REALIZE what danger you were in? What were you thinking? What gave you the idea to go outside and wander around? "

Ryan timidly spoke up. "There was a show on TV, and the guy went into the wild, and we wanted to do what he did. He was having fun, and we thought we would too…"

"Well, did you have fun?" Kirsten asked, still yelling.

"Nooooo!!" Sobbed Seth curled up in the backseat with Ryan, who was also crying.

Kirsten stopped yelling, noticing that both her kids were crying. "Good. Ok, here's the deal. You guys have to promise me that you're never going to do that again."

"We promise," came a meek reply.

"Good. Now, you're both banned from the TV and all your electronic games for a week. Understood?"

"What does ewectronic mean?" asked Seth.

"It means no Game boys, no hangman, and nothing that uses batteries. Got that?"

"Nooooo!!!" "That's not fair!"

"If you two keep complaining, it'll be two weeks!"

They thought this over, and silently agreed the first option was the better.

"Just don't tell daddy about this. Please?" Ryan asked.

"Why not?"

"Cause I dun wants him to get mad at me."

"I don't know, I'll have to think about it…"

"But-"

Before Ryan could protest, Kirsten pulled up to the driveway.

"Both of you get up to your room now!"

The two boys trudged slowly up the steps, and into the house. "Wow," whispered Seth, "Mommy's weally scary when she's angry."

"I heard that!" Kirsten yelled up to them, even though she could only hear them whispering. Seth and Ryan, thinking she had super hearing, went up their room and lied down on their beds quietly.

When Sandy came home from work with dinner, Kirsten told him all about the incident.

"Well I'll be," was all Sandy could say. Calling the boys down for dinner, he heard no reply and so went upstairs to check on them.

Back-to-back on Ryan's Power Ranger bedspread, they slept together, both curled the same way. A smile snuck its way onto Sandy's face as he turned on the night-light and shut the door silently behind him.

Please R&R!