Babysitting chap: Showers and sleep
A/N: Thanks to my beta, Snufflesgal for helping me with this fic and all my reviewers out there who encouraged me to write this chapter instead of other things I could be doing like watching television and…. sleeping.;)
Disclaimer: That one word says it all I think….
Mort was still fast asleep when the kids woke up. They headed towards the kitchen expecting him to be awake (It was almost 10 already!) like their parents who nearly always woke up before them, they were quite shocked when they saw Mort still asleep on the couch. "Should we wake him up?" Max asked the older girls "Lets just get breakfast and see if he wakes up then" Anna said "What cereals did your mother get Anna?" "I dunno lets have a look…."
Ten minutes later they were munching on cereal and debating whether they should wake Mort up or not. "You know, I've never known anyone who could sleep for that long without waking at least once" said Kate, trying to start a conversation. "That's probably what he's been doing since the divorce, moping around and sleeping, the poor guy" said Anna in a low voice, just incase said uncle was awake and listening. "Well" said Max "I'm finished" as he put his dishes in the sink. "So that means I'm the first in the shower" and with that he rushed as fast as he could up the stairs without making any loud noises.
"That little wretch I hope he doesn't use all the hot water, but knowing him he probably will" said Anna angrily "Then why don't you run the hot water tap in the kitchen until he gets out?" said a sleepy voice behind them "Hey uncle Mort, you sure do sleep in late" Mort tried to suppress a huge yawn but failed miserably. "Yeah with noone around to wake me that's what usually happens…. Aren't you going to have a shower?" "Kate will" Anna answered "When my brother gets out and then me after her if he even gets out before the hot water runs out but that isn't likely" Mort shuffled over, slumped down in a nearby seat and put his head on top of his folded arms and said "Isn't there some unwritten hospitality rule that friends go in the shower before family?" "Yeah but my brother's version is, he who shovels down his breakfast the fastest, gets to go in the shower first" "Oh" Mort said as he pulled his head off his arms for a minute and looked at the girls. "I hope whatever he had for breakfast doesn't end up in the shower, I'm not very fond of washing out vomit" Both the girls laughed at this while Mort put his head back on his arms and dozed. "C'mon Kate, Max has been in there long enough, let's bang on the door until he gets out" "Ok, let's go…. Er Anna has your uncle fallen asleep again?" They both looked at the silent slumbering figure of Mort on the table "Well it sure looks like it" Anna answered.
They both headed upstairs and began banging on the door, Max's voice rang out "Give me a minute I've just gotten out!" "Five minutes only" commanded Anna, then she and Kate headed downstairs to the kitchen where the tap was running and Mort and Chico were back on the mat. Mort looked up at them standing over him and asked "Did it work?" while nodding over at the sink where the tap was still running. "Yes it did thankyou" said Kate as Anna turned the tap off "Well I wanted to know if it would actually work" and all your banging and yelling woke me up... "So I decided to give it a try" and see if it would make all that stupid noise stop. He looked at the tap "I hope I haven't run the hot water out…. It takes longer to heat up than the oven does." Mort frowned at the thought.
Max came into the room just as the girls started laughing again; he saw Mort lying on the mat and asked "What happened was there a funny accident?" "No but there'll be an accident if you've used all the hot water you little scamp!" said Anna angrily "Hey" Mort said from the floor, surprising the kids with his tone of voice, they all looked at him "There'll be no so-called accidents here ok?" because if there is your mum will make me have an 'accident' as well. Mort looked at them for a few minutes his stern face turning into one of confusion when he saw Max's hair. "Didn't you use a towel?" Once again, the girls started laughing.
A/N: Well was it good? I think it was a bit weird and corny but it was a gap filler, I got the idea from my household because there is a constant war of siblings battling to get in the shower before the hot water runs out! Well please review, your comments make me smile, and no flames please because I am easily influenced and may delete the story without thinking ;P
Next chapter: Blackouts and Blunders