By: (profiler20)/anna16profiler
About: the Walker childhood, Justin´s not born yet, William still alive
Rating: G
Disclaimer:The Walkers and everyone connected are not mine. I´m just borrowing them for fun.
Summary: It´s a story set in the early childhood of most Walker siblings.Justin´s quite a few years away from being born.
The kids age:
Sarah:10 years Kitty:9 years Tommy:7 years Kevin: 5 years
A Shift of Power
Chapter1:
MORNING ROUTINE
It was another one of those messy mornings. Nora Walker stood in the midst of her 4 children who were basically tearing the kitchen apart. She had just entered the room and immediately milky cereal banged against her right arm making her flinch.
Kevin, with 5 years her youngest, was looking happier than ever before,playing blissfully ping pong with his breakfast. Older sister Kitty next to him was just as busy, trying to convince the latter to stop it NOW by virtuously describing the disadvantages of throwing food, demonstrating once again how much more evolved she was than little Kevin. Kevin however seemed hardly impressed and Kitty too happy in her vivid monologue to notice.
In the meantime Nora opened and closed her mouth several times planning to finally put an end to this nonsense, but couldn´t bring herself to get entangled in this disaster she called her morning routine.
It was so much less stressful to stand there unnoticed and close to the exit. Waiting for reality to catch up with her, Nora turned her head to see another ongoing disagreement. Her oldest, Sarah was doing her very best to warm up milk without being irritated by her younger brother Tommy who kept pulling on her clothes screaming that he wanted to do it. He was seven years old!
Nora considered the image of two of her children burned by hot milk much more of a threat than food plastering the walls and made a step forward. Sarah however was quicker: "Goddamnit, Tommy!! Would you please, PLEASE, stop this like NOW?!
Tommy opened his mouth but Sarah gave him a very intense warning look, raised one finger and said:"Uh--uh!! Did you want to say something?"
Tommy nodded and opened his mouth again, and once again Sarah (cut him off):
"Oh that´s too bad, because you don´t GET to say something! I am in charge of the milk and as long as that doesn´t change, you´ll be quiet and sit with your siblings!"
Tommy looked up to her with big eyes, looking slightly hurt, mumbeling: I just wanted to do it –once. Sarah heard the resignation in his voice and immediately responded. She kneed in front of him and said with a much softer voice:
"Come on, Tommy. Once you´re 10, you can do it too. Look, even Kitty isn´t allowed to do it, okay? It´s just something Dad thought, would be best… (Tommy still didn´t look any happier.) ….how about, I´ll keep Kevin away from you when your friends come over later? …. And even Kitty?"
Now a tiny smile appeared on his face and after Sarah had given him a big kiss on his cheek, he turned to sit at the table, but froze before he got there: MOM!!
And with a glance over to Kevin and Kitty: "Look what Kevin and Kitty are doing!!"
Nora nodded, gave him a smile and with a glance down, said: „Yes, I´ll take care of that… you go find your other sock, sweetie. You can´t walk around like that."
Tommy looked down himself, grinned and ran off. Nora went over to Sarah, who was finally warming up the milk, and said approvingly: "Thanks for that. You did great."
Sarah let a little smile slip then finally serving her siblings their milk. Kevin´s cereal had been taken and the only reason he wasn´t throwing a tantrum were Sarah and Nora coming to the table distracting him with their appearance and the morning milk, that all kids had to drink, even Sarah.
Nora bowed down to her, whispering in her hair: Sweetie,I´ll be right back.I can rely on you to look after the others for a moment, can´t I?
Sarah looked up at her, smiling a little bit, saying: Yes, mom. Always.
Nora stroked Sarah´s slightly wavy brown hair and left her four children behind hoping she would finally be able to get a few minutes to herself.