"Something happened today with Frosta, she wanted me to walk her home. There was a car parked out front that really worried her." Catra said, explaining her day as she watched her wife eat a sandwich in the least efficient way possible. It brought a smile to her face to see Adora acting so dumb.
"You've always been protective of her, do you think it's someone from her school?" Adora asked while chewing.
"I know it is, poor girl must already have plenty of problems from school." Catra said with a grunt. Catra could remember how school used to be for her, the thought that that was happening to Frosta got her blood heated. Although, Catra didn't have the same advantages, such as money and being able to have clean clothes. "The car turned out to not be someone from her school though. The moment that was figured out she completely disregarded that I was helping her at all. I mean, Frosta is already so distant about pretty much everything. And I know sometimes she doesn't want to talk about what happens at school with Scorpia or Kyle, but it would be nice to know what's going on."
"Catra." Adora said putting her almost finished sandwich that was now mostly bologna down on her plate. "That's something for her parents to worry about, not you. You probably shouldn't get involved."
"Yeah, I know it is. But funny thing is," Catra said putting her elbow on the table and pointing at Adora. "I'm pretty sure I see her more than her parents do. She never talks about them directly, and whenever she does, it's like she doesn't even like them."
"I'm sure she likes her parents, her privacy isn't up to you." Adora said, lifting her food back up to her mouth and taking a bite. "Frosta probably only sees the band thing a job and you as her boss, I'm not sure being her friend is what she wants."
"Adora." Catra groaned as her body slumped. "You've never even met her, but your probably right. It's just, what happened earlier made me worry about her."
"I know honey." Adora said, about to pat Catra on the back before she stopped. "That was close, greasy crumby hand. I do have some news that might cheer you up."
Catra hearing this sat back up hopeful, her minor bad mood easily forgotten. "Is it a present?" The last time Adora had gotten her a present it was a whole turkey. It was the best meal she'd had in a long time.
"Kind of, this one has a little story behind it." Adora started, popping the last of her sandwich into her mouth. Catra's anticipation grew as Adora finished chewing. "That was good, I really was hungry. So I happened to meet up with Mermista and Sea Hawk earlier today at the mattress store."
"We're they looking for another bed for their kids? Is Mermista pregnant again?" Catra asked standing up and grabbing Adora's plate. Luckily she didn't have to go far, all she had to do was turn around and there was the sink.
"No Mermista isn't pregnant again, I'm not sure how they could afford another." Adora said with a chuckle. A small scared look in her eyes as she imagined what it would be like to have another kid in Mermista's house. "They were looking for a bed for themselves actually, Mermista explained the situation really quickly."
"Let me guess." Catra said as she started cleaning off the plate. She hummed for a second before an answer coming to mind. "Are they, getting a bed so they can give the one they're using now to one of their kids?"
"Um, that's what they're going to do with their bed. But that's not why." Adora said with a smile. "They were getting one that's more sturdy. The good news is that Sea Hawk said that you can babysit their kids in a few days."
"Really? When?" Catra asked turning off the water. "It can't be Tuesday, I have a meeting with Entrapta that I'm sure will last a while."
"Well it's Wednesday, you can babysit then right?" Adora asked as she stood up and scooted her and Catra's chairs into the small table.
"Yeah, that should work."
Catra and Adora continued to exchange anecdotes from their days until Adora finally got Catra to bed. All in all it was a good day for Adora and an okay one for Catra. Although, something still felt off with her. She still didn't know what was the problem yet or if there even was one. It wasn't with Adora and it wasn't with her band so what was wrong with her? It was just this, nagging feeling telling her something was wrong, that something needed to change.
The loud ringing in the room besides them was what woke Catra up on Wednesday morning. The falling on the floor when she jumped out of the bed as she was woken up was what woke up Adora. Adora, being the morning person she was almost instantly threw off her sheets to head into the other room and find out who was calling them at four thirty in the morning. As it turned out Adora was asked to come in early because of an error with shipments. Catra stayed awake long enough to make sure Adora didn't decide to fall back asleep. She helped comb Adora's hair and soon enough she was out the door.
When Catra woke up again it was much later in the day, and this time it was due to the knocking on the front door. Catra groaned and groggily stood up on her knees. The door seeming so far away from her bed. She managed to have the alertness to at least put on a shirt before heading out of her room. The knocks only growing louder as she made her way into the living room. Catra grabbed the doorknob and let out one last yawn before deciding it was too late to fall back asleep.
"Hello?" Catra asked rubbing the sleep from her eyes as she opened the door. The light streaming in almost blinding her. She made the mental note to start waking up earlier so this kind of thing doesn't happen.
"Catra, I can see you're doing well." Mermista said with a small smile as she scanned Catra's shirt that had an image of a woman in a provocative pose. "I hope you're planning on changing soon, my kids don't have to see that." Mermista said, her voice changing to have more edge.
"Mermista?" Catra said as her eyes finally adjusted. Mermista was dressed the same as Catra usually saw her. Her outfit somehow screaming professional business woman yet still seemed like it would work at a strip club. Catra had asked before where she could get those clothes in a different colour that wasn't sea foam, Mermista told her but it was far too expensive. "You're here early, aren't you supposed to bring the kids at around eight?"
"It's eight now." Mermista said, her voice returning to her normal bored monotone. "Did Adora tell you it was at night?"
"No, she just said at eight." Catra said opening the door all the way and leaning against the door frame. "Hold on a sec, I just woke up." Catra said as she rubbed her eyes again and stretched. With a yawn Catra started, "Um, how long am I gonna keep them?"
"Hopefully," Mermista said slowly as she pulled out her flip phone to check her notes. She had written this down earlier so she wouldn't forget but here she was, holding out a syllable because she forgot. "Here it is, Hopefully until after six, you can feed them right?" Mermista asked as she clasped her phone making it close with a resounding clap.
"Yeah, I can feed the squirts. Who's picking them up?" Catra asked as she made a mental note of when they would be getting picked up. At the same time she had to raise her hands to her forehead because the sun just happened to stop hiding behind another house in the distance.
"Both me and Sea Hawk should pick them up together. Can you change before I let them out of the car?" Mermista said poking the breast of the woman displayed on Catra's shirt. "I don't want them looking at that kind of stuff, and I don't want them learning any new swears either. I let one slip just the other week and now they wont stop saying it whenever they think I'm not listening."
"Yeah I can change, thanks for letting me watch them again." Catra said as she closed the door as Mermista started her walk back to her car to retrieve the five year old parasites.
Catra walked back to her room and immediately went for he closet. Catra actually forgot she had this shirt, it was just one of the plenty that was in her clean basket of clothes that she hadn't put up yet. She had a wide variety of clothes to choose from, there were black clothes that had little or no designs on them, and she had red clothes that had little or no designs on them. Catra grabbed a sleeveless red tee from out of her closet and replaced the shirt she had on now. She tossed off the shorts that she was wearing and replaced them with some torn black jeans. And almost without noticing that she did it, she barely took off her headband and smoothed her hair behind it.
Catra did it almost every day, and yet she still never even feels the thing on her head and no one ever acknowledges it. Catra hadn't even remembered how she got it. Or when, she was grateful she had it though, otherwise her hair would cover her like a canopy.
Catra tossed the thought aside and looked herself up and down. She deemed herself decent enough for children and left the beginnings of clutter that was her room. Although the room recently got a complete make over and was cleaned from head to toe, Catra could tell that Adora was not planning on keeping it clean, which was evident by the last few days clothes scattered at the side of the bed.
Catra opened her front door and stepped outside, being smarter this time and covering her eyes to block the sun. She looked around the parking lot for what looked like the most expensive car until her eyes landed on Mermista helping her kids out of their seat belts. And from what Catra could tell, Mermista's little boy had fallen asleep on the drive over. Mermista's little girl however couldn't look more excited.
"Aunt Catra!" Aqua screamed as she hopped out of the car the moment she got her seat belt unbuckled. The kids Short legs carrying her as fast as they could across the sidewalk leading up to Catra.
"Woah there, who said I was your aunt?" Catra asked as she bent down to catch the running kid. Catra lifted Aqua up in a hug as Aqua ran into her. "My goodness kid, you're getting big, I can barely hold you." Catra lied.
"You saw me two weeks ago!" Aqua squealed into Catra's ear, almost making Catra drop the kid.
"How do you know that? You learn to count already?"
"I told them on the way over." Mermista said as she walked up, holding her sons hand as he yawned. "Our little soldier here stayed up late watching a scary movie, because someone told their dad that he could handle it. So he's a little tired right now, you can probably let him sleep for another hour."
"Noted." Catra said as she bent down to put Aqua back on the ground lightly. "So did Leven here stay up all night because of the scary monsters?"
"Yeah." Leven said as he hung his head in shame, owning up to the fact he was a little too young to be watching scary movies.
"So what movie did the kid see?" Catra asked as she stood back up, popping her back from the change of holding a kid.
"Poltergeist, Sea Hawk wouldn't have let Leven watch it if it was rated R, but it wasn't. Leven here kept Mommy up, interrupting Mommy and Daddy's alone time." Mermista said with an irritated monotone. Catra was impressed with how well Mermista could convey so many emotions clearly without changing more than two octaves. "So it's a good thing you don't have kids, otherwise you would have no fun with Adora."
"Adora actually likes that kind of stuff more than me actually." Catra said. Catra was going to keep talking to Mermista if it weren't for the small kid just out of her field of view pushing on Mermista's legs.
"You can go now mommy! I want to spend time with Catra!" Aqua said as she tried to push Mermista away by her thigh.
"Okay, I'll leave." Mermista said shaking her kid off her legs. "Be good for aunt Catra, and that means no saying bad words."
Catra waved and said bye to Mermista with the kids at her feet. With the closing of a car door and the car making it's way down the street Mermista was gone. Catra knelt down to hold onto the kids shoulders and lock eyes with both of them. "So, what's the bad word?"
This is very fun. Aqua is the daughter and Leven is the boy. Don't worry they wont be around long. This is just a progression plot of having Catra interact with the kids. Please review. Tell me what you think Adora and Catra should do together. Yes Catra and Adora are going to Adopt. Only one kid though.
