A/N Hey guys you can thank my quick update on "Santa" cause this year I got a Galaxy Tab and I can type where ever I go! Hopefully you find this fluffy since tonight is the Season Finale and that makes me sad, I needed fluffy! Thank you so much for all the love on the story! It is unbelievable!
So I have some mild potty humor in this chapter nothing bad just a fair warning so it won't gross people out!
If you blink you may miss the Nikola/Helen flirting but it is there and I want to see if anyone gets the very small Edison crack I have in here.
So let me know what you think! Thanks for reading!
Chapter 7
"I'm not going to jail!" Kate said, happily turning toward Helen.
"Not yet," Nikola mumbled.
"Kate what happened to your head darling?" Magnus asked, spotting the swollen bruise on Kate's head.
"We had a mishap in the store with one of the employees but I'm getting ready to get that taken care of," Declan said, seriously.
"What kind of mishap?" Magnus said, frowning.
"A mean man pulled me out of a toy bin and made me hit my head," Kate explained.
"He what?" Magnus said, angrily.
"I'm going to take care of it right now," Declan said, nodding towards the officer beside him.
"We got Kate a snack," Will said, holding up a paper bag.
"Can she come with me and have a snack with the boys or does she have to stay with you?" Magnus asked.
"Let me take a picture of her bruise so I can document it and then she can go with you," Ronnie said, pulling out his cell phone. He snapped a few pictures of Kate's bruise.
"You still need to come with me to fill out papers," Ronnie said, looking at Declan.
"Of course," Declan said, putting Kate down and following Ronnie to the security office.
"Nikola will you sit with the children while I run to the restroom," Magnus asked, sweetly as she lead them to a bench.
"Helen…" he whined.
"I'll just be a moment I promise I won't take long," she said, pointing for him to sit down on the bench.
He sighed heavily sitting down on the bench. He was surprised when Helen sat Kate in his lap followed by sitting Henry next to him and then Will. She got the boys settled with their snack of pretzel bites and cheese and drink so they wouldn't drop them off the bench. She then handed Kate her snack careful not to get cheese on his pants. What really surprised him was when she handed him Kate's drink to hold.
"Do I look like a cup holder?" he snapped.
She ingored him.
"Here put this on her bruise while she eats it will help with the swelling," she said taking his hand holding the cup and put it on Kate's head.
"No it's to cold," Kate whined, pulling away.
"I know sweetie but it will make your bump feel better. Let him hold it on there for just a little while," Magnus soothed.
Kate wasn't happy about it but she put her head back on to the cup.
"What were you doing in a toy bin in the first place?" Nikola asked, sourly.
"I was trying to get the prettiest pony I had ever seen but the mean man wouldn't let Declan buy it cause I was bad," she said, sniffling.
"Eat your snack and I will be right back," Magnus said and then placed a kiss on Kate's head.
"Helen I know that look in your eye don't make things worse your helper is taking care of it," Nikola said.
"I'll be back," she said, calmly.
He watched as she calmly walked away. She passed right by the restroom and went in to the toy store. He almost pitied the employees in the store right now.
The children ate quietly. Nikola was thankful for that one small favor. Kate would pull his hand down from her head when she wanted a drink causing the cold droplets of from the cup to drop on his pants other than that she kept his lap clean. Of course he was wiping her hands off every other bite so that had something to do with her neatness too. The children were almost done with their snack and Helen still had not returned. He noticed that Will was really starting to wiggle on the bench.
"Nikola I have to go to the bathroom," Will said, urgently.
"No you'll have to wait until Helen gets back," he said.
"Please I have to go really badly,"
"No,"
"Please I can't wait," Will said, standing up.
"Fine lets throw away your trash," he said, sighing as he stood up with Kate.
They quickly threw away their trash and headed for the bathroom.
"I can't go to in there," Kate fussed when they got to the men restroom.
"Just close your eyes, be quite and this will all be over soon," Nikola said, shortly.
Kate cloesd her eyes and tucked her head into the crook of his neck. He pushed the bathroom door open with his back and ushered the two boys in. Will headed for a stall and Henry used a urinal.
"Wash you hands," Nikola ordered, after Henry finished using the bathroom.
Another man walked into the bathroom and was a little surprised to see a man holding a little girl and another boy standing beside him at the door.
"We're waiting for someone," Nikola said.
The man nodded and went into another stall.
"We're waiting William," Nikola said, impaitently.
"I told you I had to go to the bathroom! You can't rush this kind of thing," Will said, iratated.
This seemed to cause Kate to begin giggling uncontrolble.
"I don't know how I let Helen talk me into doing these kinds of things for her," Nikola mumbled.
The man walked out of the stall smirking. He quickly washed his hands and left after Nikola glared at him.
It wasn't long before Will began giggling from the stall.
"The poop plopped," Will giggled harder.
This made the other two giggle and Nikola grimace in disgust.
"Are you done? You can clean yourself right?" He asked.
"Yes I'm done and I have it undercontrol."
Soon Will flushed the toilet and came out of the stall grinning.
"Wash your hands twice," Nikola said.
They were walking out of the bathroom when his cell phone rang.
"Helen you owe me the the best bottle of wine you have after today," he said, answering the phone.
"We are heading back to the bench now meet us there," he said and then hung up.
Magnus was grining when they walked up. Nikola noticed the toy store bag in her hand.
"Did you get business taken care of?" she asked, chuckling.
"These little urchents are gross," Nikola said, putting Kate down in front of her.
"They're not so bad," she said, stroking Kate's hair.
"What's that?" Kate asked, pointing to the bag.
"This is for you but you have to promise no more climbing in or on anything else if you want something you ask you understand," Magnus said, firmly.
Kate opened the bag and her eyes went wide. She quickly pulled the pony out of the bag and hugged it tight. She then threw herself into Magnus's arms.
"Thank you!" Kate cried.
"You're very welcome. Now I expect your very best behavior from now on," Magnus reminded.
Kate looked her in the eye and nodded. Magnus was then met with hurt looks and puppy dog eyes from the boys because they did not get a toy.
"Its ok boys you're still going to get to look around a store for a treat just not the toy store. Come along you sad sacks," she said smiling and then led the way to the new store.
The children were a little unsure when Magnus led them into a large bookstore. As they walked in the middle aisle was full of tables with games and things from movies but Magnus kept them moving until they reached the back of the store. They reach a section of the store that was more colorful than the rest and had small tables and chairs set up and even had a train table set up in the middle. They had reached the children section that had children books and toys.
"Ok you three last stop and last chance no running away or climbing in anything you stay in this area do you understand me," She said, firmly.
They all nodded and then scattered towards something that caught their eye. Magnus walked over to two over stuffed adult sized chairs and sat down. Nikola joined her by sitting in the other chair. She smiled as she watched Henry at the train table.
These trains did not move by themselves like the other train did you had to push these trains. What fascinated him was the shiny ends of the trains that connected to each other but would not connect to anything else he was trying to stick them to he decided that they needed fixing. He quickly took the toys over to Magnus.
"Their broken," he said sadly, handing her the two trains he wanted so badly.
"No darling look that fit back together," she said, clicking them back together.
"No there broke," Henry said, taking them apart and putting a train on the arm of the chair letting it fall when it didn't stick.
"Oh I see. They're not going to stick to something that is not metal. These are magents, Henry, they only stick to metal," she explained, as she stuck one of the trains to the table leg.
Magnus couldn't help but chuckle when Nikola went in a long explation of magnets to Henry and Henry just blinked at him and ran off before Nikola could finish.
"Well that was rude," Nikola scoffed.
"He's six I'm surpised he stayed that long. If you want to explain magnets to him find a book or kit to show him," she said, patting his hand.
"Maybe I will," he said standing. He walked away leaving her a little shocked.
She felt her phone vibrate and she saw that she had a text from Declan asking where they were. She replied to him and waited for him to meet them there. It wasn't long before Declan came and sat in Nikola's chair.
"So I was filling out my statement when the oddest thing happened," Declan said
"What happened?" She asked couriusly.
"That employee, Stu, came in to the secrurity office to turn himself in," he explained.
"So he had a change on heart," Magnus said.
"I guess so but he looked a bit haggard and weary that was the odd part. You wouldn't know anything about that would you?" He asked, suspiciously.
"Why would I know anything about that?" she acted surprised.
"Because he was mumbling something about a crazy British lady, it could have been someone else but I thought I would check with you," he said smiling.
"Must have been someone else," she said, shrugging.
Kate ran up to greet Declan still clutching the toy store bag.
"Declan look what Helen got me his name is Ralphie and I'm going to keep him forever," Kate said, showing him the pony and hugging it tight.
"Ralphie?" Declan said.
"Yup," Kate said and skipped off.
"Odd name for a pony," Magnus said, standing up and walking away.
Magnus went looking for Will she hadn't see him in a while and she wasn't sure what that meant. She found him sitting on the floor looking at a big book of maps. He was studying a big colorful map with all the States on it.
"Can I get this? Mommy says if I learn all fifty states maybe one day she will take to each one to go camping but she said I have to study hard. Do you like camping?" Will asked, looking up.
"I do like camping and yes you may get that book. Do you see a story that you may like to read at night or during your visit," She asked.
"I'll look" he said, closing the book and tucking it under his arm.
Magnus went around collecting a few books that she thought the children would like for rainy days or to read to them at night. She didn't know how long she would need the books but she would just donate them when everything was normal again, if that was possible. Plus she was trying to avoid Declan for a while but Kate seemed to be distracting him because she had him sitting on the floor looking at books. She was looking at more books when she heard Henry fussing.
"Please!" Henry fussed, looking at Nikola.
"No, you can have any other train why do you want this one?" Nikola asked, holding a train out of his reach and standing where Henry couldn't get to the others.
"I want the blue train," Henry said, determinedly.
"Good Lord, Nikola let him have the blue train. If it makes you feel better I'll scratch the name Thomas off and it will just be the blue train," She said, shaking her head and putting hand on her hip.
"Fine," Nikola said, sulking lowing the train.
Henry glared at him as he snatched the train box out of Nikola's hand.
"You can pick a small track for your trains to go on," Helen said, smiling as she pointed to the box of tracks.
Helen smile to see that Henry had also picked out a James train also. He found a small track that he liked and held them close with his trains and a train book he had picked out.
"Are you ready to go find the others Henry because I think it's time to go home have dinner, bath and bed time," Magnus said, looking at the yawning boy.
Magnus ending up buying the books she picked out Henry's trains and book, Will's map book and a lego building kit, Kate found a horse book and a coloring activities book and Nikola had even found a magnet kit to do with Henry. The lady at the register looked wide eyed as she rang all the things up. As they were walking out the door everyone heavy with bags Nikola leaned in and whispered in Helen's ear.
"If you want I can join you I can join you for bath and bed time," he said, huskily.
"That would be lovely," she said, deeply.
His eyes went wide in excitement and shock.
"I'm sure the children would love your help getting ready for bed," she said, smirking.
His face fell.
"Helen!"
