Chapter 7: When Phil and Melinda Babysit
Note: This chapter was an idea sent to me by the lovely and amazing LisaMichelle25 who has been sooo amazing with all of the positive words. This one is for you dear! I hope it lives up to your expectations! AND HOLY CRAP ABOUT THAT FINALE! I won't spoil anything for you, but I'm totally starting a support group. If any of you need to talk just PM me and we'll talk all you want :) Here's some fun for those of you who suffered like I did with the episode tonight and need a pick me up. The fall can't come soon enough!
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters. They are from AOS and have just ruined my life and this is my way of coping. The story is actually my idea though so that's pretty cool!
After Grant and Leo found out that their wives were again pregnant, they decided to take them out for the day to pamper them since they had to go out of town to go see the obstetrician for a check up. Phil and Melinda were all too happy to watch Ian and Delilah and had a day of fun things planned.
The couples left after breakfast so Phil and Melinda decided to take the kids outside to go play on the swings. Ian kicked his legs as Melinda pushed him and Phil was sitting and swinging with Lyla in his lap giggling. After swinging, the kids wanted to play in the sandbox that they had put in recently. Melinda grabbed buckets and shovels and toys and all of them started building a sand castle. Melinda decided to go in and get some juice boxes for the little ones and when she came back out she couldn't help but laugh.
She was only gone for a few minutes, but Phil was already somehow covered in sand with a giggling Ian still dumping sand on him and Lyla toddling away to explore the yard. Phil looked over and locked eyes with Melinda. A look of desperation caught his face as he mouthed the world "help". Melinda just shook her head with a smirk on her face and winked at him, enjoying the sight of him getting covered in sand. She kept an eye on Lyla as she walked off, making sure she didn't go anywhere dangerous but wanting her to feel like she can explore her home. Mel loved her adventurous demeanor and felt she would be less scared to try new things once she grew up if they let her explore.
After a few minutes, Melinda walked over to pluck Delilah up off the ground to bring her back inside and handed her a juice which she promptly squeezed everywhere and giggled. Melinda's usually composed features screwed up in a scorn for a second and then promptly turned back into the same indifferent expression she used everyday as she calmly explained to Delilah that juice boxes aren't made to be squeezed. Phil laughed, happy to see that he wasn't the only adult getting ganged up on by a pair of toddlers. He got up from the sand and brushed it off letting some fall onto Ian, making the little boy laugh. "Alright you two. Time for a bath and then a nap."
"But Uncle Phil! I'm not tired!"
"Well let's get you cleaned up and then we'll see how you feel."
The group went inside and took a divide and concour approach; which they soon discovered was not the best idea. Phil bathed Ian and Melinda bathed Delilah. Ian had a small water gun that he played with in the bathtub. Phil didn't know it was in there and turned around to get shampoo when Ian started to shoot him with the water. Phil jumped and turned around and a water fight soon ensued, but a soaked Uncle Phil ended up getting Ian clean.
Melinda's shot at getting Delilah clean was not much more successful. She set Lyla into the water and started to get her cleaned up. They were both still sticky from the juice and found it was harder than she thought it would be to get the little one to cooperate. Lyla started waving her arms in the water and splashing. She loved the water and it showed every time she was plopped into it. Melinda was unprepared and slipped and fell into the water.
Lyla giggled as Melinda fell in and shrieked "Yay Gamma! Gamma swim!" and then splashed more water. By the end of her bath she had more water outside of the tub than inside and Melinda was exhausted.
Phil and Melinda decided that it would be in their best interest not to split up anymore and attempted to put the kids down for a nap together. They put blankets and pillows out on the floor in the middle of the living room and all lied down. Phil and Melinda started reading stories and within the first few pages they were asleep. The kids however did not fall asleep as quickly as their adult babysitters. Ian promptly got up and walked down the hall and Lyla got up and followed shortly after.
Phil and Melinda awoke a short time later and immediately noticed that Ian and Delilah were no longer in the room with them. They looked around the room and Melinda rolled her eyes. "I can't believe I was a cop for ten years and it's two toddlers that finally get the slip on me." Phil laughed and got up and offered Mel his hand to help her get up off of the floor. The first place they looked was in the playroom and cursed when they saw that nobody was in it. Next they checked Lyla's room and noticed nobody was in there as well. They started to panic and ran up the stairs to Ian's room. They opened the door and stopped in their tracks. Ian and Lyla were lying on the bed each clutching their favorite stuffed animal. Mel leaned up against the door jamb and smiled at the sight of the kids taking their naps. Phil walked over and gently picked up Delilah and pressed a kiss to the top of her head as she snuggled her head more into his shoulder. He rubbed small circles on her back as he walked her into her own bed then went in search of his wife.
Phil found Melinda sprawled out rather ungracefully and still covered in juice on the couch in the front room of the mansion, too tired to move from it. He lifted her legs and sat down and placed them on his still partly sandy lap. He started rubbing her feet causing her to hum in appreciation and soon the pair were out cold snoring on the couch.
Grant, Skye, Leo, and Jemma got home a little while later to find the older couple still messy and sleeping on the couch. Grant chuckled and whispered, "Let them sleep for a bit" as he walked off in search of his daughter. Jemma went to look for Ian and Skye and Leo walked towards the kitchen to go get dinner ready. They figured the kids would be hungry and wanted the food to be ready for when they got up.
Grant walked into Lyla's room to find her and Ian sitting on the floor playing with blocks and giggling. He called down the hall to let Jemma know that Ian was in the room as well and the pair grabbed their kids and went downstairs to see what was going on in the kitchen. Before they got to the kitchen they decided to have a little fun at Phil and Melinda's expense. Grant and Jemma set the toddlers down and walked into the kitchen. The two kids quickly ran up to the couple on the couch and startled them awake. They started awake and then noticed the parents standing in the room. "Hey guys. Just letting the little ones run around while you sleep huh? Must be getting old if you fall asleep half way through. You guys look nice covered in sand a juice by the way." Everyone started to laugh.
"Very funny. We were watching them close. That's how we got so messy. They were in their beds when we fell asleep."
Grant laughed. "Yeah we know that. We brought them down to have a little fun. Come on. We made dinner." With that, everyone got up and walked to the dining room to have their dinner. They had a lot of fun talking about Phil and Melinda's day of babysitting and promised that they wouldn't have to do it alone very often. Skye and Jemma filled in Phil and Melinda on their appointments and Grant announced that him and Skye were expecting a baby boy. Congrats were said and Jemma and Skye laughed at the fact that there were going to be two more boys in the family and poor Delilah was going to be outnumbered. Skye had joked about trying for more and Jemma blushed. She had always planned on only have two kids, but Skye always said she wanted more. She never had a family growing up and wanted to make up for it and have a large one. Grant laughed because he never had thought about how kids he wanted, but knew that he would give Skye anything she wanted. The kids went to bed early since they didn't get much of a nap and the adults sat out on the patio and had drinks (aside from the pregnant Jemma and Skye who both decided on virgin margaritas) and visited with each other some more until it got late and the men carried their women to bed.
