A.N. ~ And here is chapter 3! Happy mid-term exam times everyone XD And please enjoy the chapter!


Chapter 3: The Name Game

Pedro falls asleep almost as soon as his head hits his pillow. Adriana soon finishes her bowl of ice cream and hot sauce and puts the bowl and spoon away in the sink. She then waddles to the bedroom and sees him sleeping. She watches him for a moment. 'Maybe he will wake up in a better mood...' She thinks and then waddles back to the kitchen. She guesses that she could make dinner now and Pedro could have some when he wakes up.

Adriana opens the refrigerator and ponders about what she will cook. She grabs some fish and tortillas and decides to make fish taquitos with some spicy salsa to dip it in. She begins to cook it and still thinks about the different things that she plans on asking Pedro about at dinner; their wedding and possible names for their chick. She eventually finishes cooking the taquitos and making the salsa and puts them out on two plates at the table with small dipping bowls out beside the plates. Adriana then slides to the bedroom and looks at Pedro; he still is asleep, though, and she thinks that he has napped long enough. "Pedro!" She shakes his shoulder.

"I'm sleeping...Go away…" Pedro mutters, not even opening his eyes, and turns over.

"Too bad." Adriana snorts and yanks the covers off of him. "Dinner is ready; now get up before it gets cold." Pedro just snores as he has already fallen back asleep. "PEDRO!" She then shouts.

"Ah!" He sits bolt upright and looks at Adriana with a slight glare. "Can't I just sleep through dinner tonight?" He yawns.

Adriana shakes her head. "No." She says and grabs his flipper. "Dinner is now, and now you're coming to eat it."

Pedro yawns and starts to get up. "Fine…" He rubs his eyes some with his flippers and crawls out from the bed. Adriana nods with a small snort and follows him to the kitchen. "Taquitos?" He yawns.

"Yep, and salsa." She replies as she takes a seat. "And don't you dare fall asleep on it like you did last night." She says with a slightly threatening undertone.

"I'll try to not…No promises, though…" He yawns as he starts on his taquitos and salsa. "Holy-!" He exclaims as he tries and discovers just how spicy the salsa is. He starts downing his water quickly; now fully awake. He finishes his water with his mouth still on fire. "What the atún is in that?! Lava?!" He runs over to the faucet, turns it on all the way and puts his beak under it.

Adriana watches this and laughs hard. "Too hot for you, Pedrrrro?" She asks.

Pedro shoots her a glare as he continues to try to extinguish the salsa fire in his mouth. After a few more minutes he comes back to the table with water dripping from his wet face and head. "I think I know how dragónes* feel now…" He mutters and pushes the salsa away from himself towards Adriana. "I think you can have the rest of this…"

Adriana shrugs and gets the salsa bowl. "That's alright with me." She says as she dips her taquitos in the 'fire' salsa.

Pedro instead eats his without salsa and watches her. "How the kipper can you stand that?" He asks.

"I don't know." She shrugs. "Maybe ask our future demonio who is making me crave spicy stuff and rainbow sherbet." She says.

"But, this is like...Beyond spicy...This could be used to like...Melt cell bars back at the base!" He exclaims.

Adriana shrugs. "Maybe it can, I'll keep that in mind next time I'm in a cell." She says and finishes her taquitos. She gets up and fixes herself another plate of them to eat with Pedro's salsa. "Speaking of our little diablo, do you have any reasonable naming suggestions?" She asks as she sits back down and looks at him.

Pedro quietly thinks this over for a moment. "Chico* or chica* name first?" He asks.

"Eh...Girl." She says as she starts on her second plate.

"Mmm…" He thinks about it. "Any certain letter you want?" He asks.

Adriana thinks. "Doesn't really matter...But nada that means like 'princess' or 'queen' or you know, that annoying stuff." She says.

Pedro nods some and thinks. "Juana?" He suggests.

"Juana?" Adriana thinks for a moment and shakes her head. "No, that sounds too much like iguana…"

"Okay then...Umm….Mercedes?" He then suggests, taking a bite of his second taquito.

"That's a car brand!"

"Oh...Right…" Pedro thinks. "Tomasa?"

Adriana raises a nonexistent eyebrow. "I don't think we're having twins...We better not be having twins…" She says.

"Sancha?" He says.

"I don't think we'll be raising a saint, Pedro, so no." Adriana sighs and finishes her second plate.

Pedro thinks hard. "Are there any names you have thought of for girls? Any ideas?"

Adriana thinks now. "Maybe something darker and mysterious...Violent…"

"Violeta?" Adriana looks at him weirdly and he just shrugs. "What? It sounds a bit like violent…"

Adriana rolls her eyes. "I was thinking something more like Ernesta, or Maribel, or Maritza, or Valencia." She says.

Pedro thinks some. "I guess of those Maribel sounds the best...Though possibly more as of a middle name?"

"Oh? Then what first name?"

"Novia?"

Adriana just looks at him. "Hey, hey, you, you, no we aren't naming her 'girlfriend.'" She replies annoyedly.

Pedro shrugs. "Okay...Maybe Sofia? That means wisdom or something I think…"

'Which she won't have any of if she takes after you...' Adriana thinks and then shakes her head. "No…"

"...Rebeca? That means 'ensnarer.'" He says.

Adriana thinks this one over longer. "Rebeca Maribel Estrada Mateo?...That's alright I guess...Now, we think of male names."

Pedro nods and thinks on this. "Che?"

"No...That's too short." She replies as she gets up and opens the freezer part of the refrigerator and takes out the tub of ice cream. "By the way, you want some, too?" She asks as she gets a bowl.

"Eh, sure, why not." He replies and thinks for another boy name. "Jorge?"

Adriana fixes two bowls of ice cream. "No." She says shortly.

Pedro thinks. "Bobby?"

"Heck no." She replies, bringing the bowls to the table. "That's a terrible name!"

"But my friend is named it!"

"Exactly my point! So, no Bobbys or Bobs or Roberts, alright?!" She growls.

Pedro raises a nonexistent eyebrow and looks at her. 'Would this be a mood swing or is she just really passionately against the name Bobby?' He silently wonders to himself and then shrugs. "Pedro Jr ?" He then suggests.

"Nope." Adriana says. "One Pedrrrrrro is enough."

"Alright…" He replies sounding just a bit disappointed. He thinks hard on a name. "Juarez? I know that's typically a last name, I mean, it was the maiden name of mi madre*..." He says.

Adriana takes a bite of her ice cream. "I kinda figured that since it is the second to last name on your license, Pedro." She says, but then thinks. "You know...Juarez is an alright name." She says. "But what middle name?"

"Juarez Bobby Estrada Mateo?" Pedro asks.

"NO." Adriana growls. "No child of mine is having the name Bob in any form, okay?! NO BOBBY!"

Pedro makes a calm down motion with his flippers. "Okay, okay, I was just kidding, Kuzco…" He mutters. "So, what's your ideas for a middle name?"

"Iago?" She says with a shrug.

Pedro looks at her. "Why Iago?" He asks.

Adriana shrugs. "He was my favorite character in Othello." She says. "Or how about Remarque?"

"But that's German! We're Hispanic!" Pedro interjects.

Adriana shrugs again. "My grandmother was German." She says. "She was…"

"The King half of your padre?" He finishes and Adriana nods. 'Your abuelo* must have been very brave...To have married a woman so much larger than himself...' He thinks. "I guess I'm fine with that...So, Juarez Remarque Estrada Mateo then if it is a boy, or Rebeca Maribel Estrada Mateo if it is a chica?" He says.

Adriana nods. "I'm fine with those." She says and Pedro nods in agreement. "So, now, on to planning our wedding…"

"We still need to plan that, too?" He asks, mid-bite. "Hasn't this name planning stuff been enough for tonight?" He asks.

"Well, when else are we going to plan it? Tomorrow you'll be busy with the window!" She says as she finishes her bowl of ice cream.

Pedro shrugs. "Well, that shouldn't take all day." He says, "No more than a couple hours at most I'd guess. I mean, I'm pretty sure anyone can replace a window."

Adriana nods a bit and wipes her beak with a napkin in thought. "Oh! And I forgot to tell you, but your sister called while you were at the base."

"What did she want?" He asks curiously as he takes another bite.

"How am I supposed to know?" Adriana says. "I just told her I'd tell you that she called."

Pedro looks at her for a moment and then takes out his cell phone and dials his sister's phone number. "Eh*! Guadeloupe, it's Pedro." He says on the phone.

"It's about time you called me back, Pedro!" Guadeloupe replies on the phone.

"Yeah, ehm, sorry about that, I was busy at training." He says. "And then I took a nap and Adriana just told me you called over dinner." He says. Adriana curiously listens to him as she gets both of their sets of dishes to start cleaning them in the sink.

His sister nods some. "So your girlfriend said." She says. "But anyway, I was wondering if you could possibly watch your nieces this weekend." Guadeloupe says. "Nataniel and I are going out of town with a few of his amigos…" She says.

Pedro looks at Adriana and thinks this over. "Sure! We'd love to watch the girls!" He says.

Adriana looks over at him surprised with an open beak. "What?! What girls?!"

He softly puts his beak over his phone for a moment. "My two nieces, Pilar and Yzel." He says. "It'll give you good practice I think." He says and uncovers the phone again. "So, when will they be coming over?" He asks.

"How does tomorrow night sound?" Guadeloupe says. "And we'll come pick them up Monday morning?"

Pedro nods. "That sounds muy bueno." He says. "We will make sure we've got things ready for them. Buenas noches, hermana*." He says.

Guadeloupe nods with a smile. "Buenas noches, brother." She says and hangs up. Pedro puts his phone away and looks at Adriana.

She is glaring back at him. "And you didn't ask me about how I felt about us watching them?!" She growls.

Pedro shrugs. "You're going to soon be their aunt. You're going to be the madre of their cousin. You need some time around chicks to start getting adjusted." He says.

Adriana just growls. "And exactly how old are these two girls?" She then asks.

"Pilar is five, Yzel is one." He says.

"But that's practically a hatchling!" She exclaims.

Pedro looks at her. "Exactly why they will be good practice for you." He says.

Adriana sighs irritably. "Some days you really make me hate you, you know that, Copper?" She rubs her flipper over her face.

Pedro gets up and pats her on her shoulder. "You'll do fine." He says and kisses her on her cheek. "They're good girls." Adriana just groans with her head on her flippers on the table. Pedro rubs her back. "How about we go on to bed?" He asks. "We have most of tomorrow until they come over and no doubt part of their stay they will want to go visit their cousin Alejandro." He says.

"Sure…" She sighs and gets up. She pushes past Pedro and waddles to their room and shuts the door behind her right in front of Pedro.

"Hey! I need to go to bed, too!" He exclaims, knocking on the door.

Adriana lies down on the bed. "But, I am mad at you, so not in here you won't. Go sleep with your pet." She yawns.

Pedro just looks at the door before grumbling going to the other bedroom and looking at the bed. "Well...I guess I need to move Flix anyway if the girls will have to be staying in here…" He mutters.

Flix watches him waddle into the room and flicks his tongue. 'Move me? Already?' He thinks. 'Can I get a moussssssse first?'

Pedro gets a mouse and drops it into the terrarium. "Well, Flix, looks like it's time for you to move to the living room. My sombrinas* are coming to stay the weekend. They'll need your room to stay in." He says as he lifts the terrarium and starts carrying it towards the living room.

'Whatever...You sssssstill owe me one vipressssss." Flix thinks as he burrows down into the 'ground' of his terrarium.

Pedro sits the cage on the floor for a moment while he cleans off the top of his bookshelf in the living room. He then lifts the cage again and places it there. "There, you're in your new location." He yawns and then starts back to the extra room that is now snake-free. He flops down upon the bed and falls almost instantly asleep.


Translations:

*Dragónes - dragons

*Chico - boy

*Chica - girl

*Madre - mother

*Abuelo - grandfather

*Eh! - Hey!

*Hermana - sister

*Sombrinas - nieces