After the Visit
Chapter 1
It's five years later Fitz and Olivia are happily married with twin boys and they are expecting two more in about 5 months. Sex is yet unknown
"It's eight O'clock, do I know where my wife is?" Fitz said as he stuck his head into their bedroom and saw his sons draped around his wife as she read them a bedtime story.
" I believe the reason we bought a house with five bedrooms was to make sure we had enough room for children AND enough room for those said children to have their own room."
"Dad, mom is just reading us a story", one twin said, he never knew which one and had stopped trying to tell them apart since they seemed to enjoy making sure he was confused. He really could tell them apart but when he was a tad irritated them merged into one . Elijah was the oldest twin , the first born and quietest l , Ethan was the more vocal of the pair but one should never excuse Elijah's quietness for docility.
"like I said, that is why we have five bedrooms, why is our bedroom the library, Liv?"
" Neither could agree ,which of their rooms would be the setting for tonight's story but both agreed our room and bed was the perfect place. "
"Our room and bed has been the perfect place the past month" Fitz said alluding to when they told the twins they would soon have a younger sibling. They decided to break the news in two parts, first the new baby soon they would tell them more as soon they knew the sex of the twins.
Fitz took the boys , one on each shoulder and walked them to their rooms. He settled them in and returned intending to have a serious talk with his wife
"liv, they are getting too heavy for you to carry them, especially now"
"Fitz, I don't carry them"
"who takes them to their bed when they fall asleep here and I'm not home?"
"Fitz they are my babies":
"not for long. Look you are allowing them to get away with too much. Starting tonight I'm putting a stop to bedtime stories here…..….If they want to be in the same room and bed I'm putting their beds in the same room they are getting away with as much as you allow. It stops here…. I'm taking them out tomorrow, without you ."
" a boys day out?
" nope a males bonding day, I will discuss their sleeping arrangements and what I expect from them as older brothers"
"good luck with that"
Fitz pulled his wife into his arms " I never knew being a father was so hard, we have two opinionated, stubborn, selfish children who are twins and they don't like each other"
" most siblings don't like each other. Often the older one gives in to the younger one. Since they are the same age that doesn't work for them. They like each other they just want everything to go their way all the time."'
'"that's what I said, selfish and stubborn, I start changing that tomorrow, when the girls arrive you can have your selfish stubborn boys back"
" and what if they are a mirror of the boys, why do you keep saying girls?"
" no creator would send us another two like these two. If it's two boys, easy, we send one pair to my parents and one pair to yours, then we start over."
"Fitz, you are impossible. You run a multinational corporation and you are having a hard time handling two four year old boys. "
"two four year old boys who are one half me and one half you , they have the bad half from both of us. "
"there is no bad half "
"said the woman who locked herself in her car after Ethan kept insisting he wanted his name changed to Elijah when he was three"
"why did he do that again, we have had so many Ethan moments?"
"because El came before Et which meant his name would always come second"
"who insisted on teaching them the alphabet ?"
"I thought it was what parents do, read to their children, teach them their names, teach them the alphabet. "
"that is what parents do, you just have two over achievers"
"you..?...…..nope … its we"
" smart how you settled that"
" they are children, we both have graduate degrees, we just have to out think them"
" smart , when it was time for their shots , Ethan thought it was ok to go second"
"I hope these two are girls"
"why?"
"I got my two minis,….. I want two mini Olivias. "
" are you sure?"
"no, but we always have the option of sending them to live with their grandparents, even better Aunt Max. We take them back at eighteen then send them off to college. All our problems solved."
" Fitz you said you wanted five, what happened?"
"what happened, I never knew being a parent was three full time jobs"
" I like the idea of threatening to put them into a room together, that will create quite a stir , call at the office when they go to sleep"
" so now whose avoiding the meltdown we know will happen.
" you think that will make a difference remember when Elijah convinced Harrison to come get him because he had a surprise for his mom.
I'm waiting for one of them to ask if they don't like the new baby can we sent it back, remember when Ethan asked if we could find another family for Elijah .
"Fitz, I don't need to hear any more horror stories from you about OUR children. Lets just see what we can do to normalize this house before the next two arrive."
"Easy, solution send them to their grandparents….
" Really Olivia I mean it , they are too heavy for you to carry, Ok"
"yes . OK"
"I mean it"
"what are you going to do if I misbehave?"
"I'm with holding sex"
Olivia crawled on top of Fitz and started to bite his ears as she ran her hands into the waistband of his pajamas, pulling them down and off . Fitz started to moan softly before asking
"did you lock the door?"
"you were the last one in, did you?"
he slid out of bed removing his pajamas from his ankles.
"now Mrs. Grant where were we?"
It's the holiday season. I'm trying for a holiday themed story involving the four Grant children, two sets of twins.