Anonymous said: I loved your little story of Gris-Chan being sick and DaddyGray taking care of him! It's because I really like intimate bonding like that xD is there any chance you can write Gray and Juvia potty training the boy? If you take requests that is :D

Rieriebee replied: Ohhhh! Girl I agree with anon ;) I like how you make it realistic parenting. Like Gris being sick and stuff. Parenting isn't all sunshine and rainbows! Maybe something else that's realistic like diaper changing or potty training? Lmao

AN: Took me a while, but here we go!

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Potty

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"We are not leaving until you pee pee." Gray said, arms crossed over his chest and staring at his son with a serious expression.

"No." It was Gris's response to almost everything these days, his new favorite word and honest to the gods, Gray loved his son but each 'no' he heard the little boy say, he wanted to go out and destroy something. It was so freaking irritating.

"I don't have anywhere else to be." Gray shrugged. Juvia had left instructions for Gray to try to continue the potty training while she was away, but if Gris was too resistant, to put diapers: it was a marathon, not a sprint, after all.

"Noooooo!" The little boy all but yelled.

Gray took a deep breath. Gris was almost two and now he understood why people call the phase 'The terrible twos'. Gris has always been a sweet boy, but he was being so rebellious Gray wasn't looking forward to the teenagers years.

He just wanted his son to pee so they could go to the Guild, it wasn't much to ask, was it?

"If you don't pee, we can't go to the Guild see your friends." Gray bargained. "Or if we do, you'll have to wear a diaper. You'll be the only one in diapers…" Gris' shrug was a perfect imitation of Gray's and the older Fullbuster just gave up. "Alright, let's put on the diaper." He sighed and Gris grinned, standing up.

Beaten by a two-year-old. How the mighty have fallen.

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"Alright, Gris, you are diaper-free here at home." Gray told his son while the little boy played with his toys at the living from. "I will make our dinner so if you need to go potty, you just tell me. Okay?"

"Okay, Daddy." Gris said while grabbing a block and he started to play and hum a made-up song.

Gray went to the kitchen and started to make their food, since Juvia was away on a mission for a few days – at first being separated form Gris had been very trying but after a while and seeing that Gray was more than fine taking care of their son, she went to more and more.

Thankfully, Juvia knew her husband and pre-cooked almost everything he needed and he just needed to heat it up and cut some vegetables – Gris was a bunny and just loved carrots so he had to have it in almost every meal.

Gray was halfway through cutting a carrot when he heard Gris yell from the living room: "Daddy! Potty!"

"Alright!" Gray turned off the fire on the stove and left the half-cut vegetable, running towards the living room and he was about to pick up his son to get him to the bathroom when he stopped. "Uh… Gris?"

"Yes, Daddy?" The little boy was inspecting one of his toys and was paying little attention to his father.

"Buddy, you need to tell me you need to potty before you pee." Gray could feel a migraine coming as he looked to the puddle on the floor and then to Gris' wet pants, which was still dripping. "Do you understand?" When the boy didn't look at him, Gray called his son until he looked. "When you want to go, you have to tell me before you pee or poo, alright? When you feel you might need to go, you tell me. Now, when do we say we need to potty?"

"Before pee pee or poo poo!" Gris recited dutifully.

"That's right." Gray nodded and offered his hand to his son. "Now, mister, you need to take a shower."

"Awwww." Gris complained but took his father's hand even so.

"Hey, hey, hey. No complaining. That's what you get for peeing on the floor so buckle up." Gray told him. "You got it better than me. Who do you think will clean the floor?" Gray snorted.

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Gray was talking to Natsu and Gajeel when he felt someone tug his shirt quite forcibly and he turned a but just to see his son there.

"What is it, kid? Tired of playing with Stella and the Twins?" He wondered.

"No! Potty, Daddy!"

The Ice Mage sighed. "Alright, tell me where you went and we'll go home to change your clothes after I clean it." Even though he was wearing a diaper, Gray knew it very well it could leak.

"Noooooo, Daddy!" Gris was impatient. "Gris needs to potty!"

Gray finally noticed how his son seemed to jump around a bit, the universal tell-tale of someone holding in the need to pee and his eyes widened.

"Oh!" He said. "Oh! Come on!" Gray took his son into his arms and ran towards the Guild bathroom, ignoring his friends laughter. "Please, don't pee. Please, don't pee. Wait twenty seconds, Gris."

"Daddy…" Gris warned.

They arrived at the bathroom and Gray pulled Gris' pants in a haste and goddammit that diaper seemed like a puzzle at the moment, but soon was thrown away and Gray sat his son on the toilet.

A couple of seconds later, he heard the sound of water hitting water and he raised his arms in victory.

"Yes! Yes, we did it!" He celebrated. "Ha! I can't believe we actually did it! Your mother will be so jealous!" Gris laughed at his silly dad. "Your mother thought I couldn't do it, you know? She told me to keep you in diapers but we showed her, didn't we, Gris?'

"Yes!" Gris giggled. "Gris went potty!"

"Yes you did!" Both Fullbusters high fived and exchanged smiles. "You are a big boy now! I think we should celebrate with some ice cream, how's that sound?!"

"Yay!" The little boy cheered. "Ice ceam!"

"Are you finished?" Gray asked and his son nodded. For such a small thing as teaching his son to go to the bathroom, Gray was feeling ecstatic and couldn't hide it. "Okay, let's get you cleaned up, wash your hands and get some ice cream. You deserve it. And god, so do I."

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AN: After a few bumps, Gris finally made it! HAHA

08/19/2018 ~ BonneyQ