Chip-ergarten
About This Story: The Chipmunks start Kindgarten and meet some mysterious new friends, the Chipettes. Some similarities may overlap with "The Squeakquel", only they are in Kindergarten. Warning: some chapters contain some harsher adult(-ish) themes, even though age-wise they are 5. I don't own any part of the Chipmunk franchise, just borrowing them from Nickelodeon, Janice Karman, & Ross Bagdasarian, their family, & their company.
About This Chapter: Rated PG-13, for mentions of nudity and insinuations to some sexual activities between an adult and children, including some child abuse, pornographic photos, and references to drugs, but most details are (hopefully) left to the imagination.
Pairings: Alvin/Brittany, Simon/Jeanette, Theodore/Eleanor
9. Not-So-Gentle Cycle
"Ready for your bath, girls?" Giorgio motioned to the half of the deep-set kitchen double-sink full of bubbles.
The sisters started exchanging nervous glances.
"I hope you didn't get the water too hot, Uncle Giorgio." Jeanette looked nervous.
"Here, I'll let you test it, Jeanette." Giorgio started undressing her. He even took off her glasses and set them aside. Lowering her into the water, he asked, "How is the water?"
"Oww!" Jeanette withdrew her toes from the water. "It's too hot!"
Giorgio ran some cooler water into the sink. "How about now?" He lowered Jeanette into the water a second time.
"Now it's a little cold." Jeanette sheepishly shrugged.
"Never satisfied, are you, Geek-Girl?" Ian grumbled from behind his assistant.
Jeanette managed a grateful smile at Giorgio. "But thank you for not scalding us with the bath water, Uncle Giorgio."
"You're welcome." Giorgio smiled back at her as he undressed Eleanor. He smiled down at Eleanor and asked, "Have you lost some weight, Little One? Your clothes are coming off a lot easier today."
"Well, I have been trying..." Eleanor beamed. "Thank you for noticing, Uncle Giorgio."
"See, the diet is paying off!" Ian happily remarked from behind Giorgio, as he continued to pace around the apartment kitchen.
Once Eleanor was undressed, Giorgio placed her in the sink next to Jeanette. The water was now deep enough that Eleanor had to dog-paddle to keep her head above the water. "Hey, try not to splash too much, you're getting the kitchen floor wet." Giorgio warned.
"Sorry." Eleanor apologized.
"Here, Ellie." Jeanette helped support her little sister against her hip, so that she didn't have to splash and swim to keep her head above the water.
"Thanks, Jen!" Eleanor smiled with relief.
"Is my Li'l Princess feeling better after her nice, long nap today?" Giorgio asked as he started undressing Brittany.
"Kinda..." Brittany still winced as Giorgio brushed against the bandages on her knee and elbow as he undressed her.
"Sorry about that." He shrugged.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa..." Ian spoke up from behind Giorgio. "What happened to my superstar? And where are her panties?"
"Oh, she had a little accident at recess where she ran into a little boy, and spent most of the afternoon in the nurse's office." Giorgio explained. "And when I came to pick her up, I exchanged her panties for these." He reached into his man-bag and pulled out Alvin's autographed boxers, as if he won them as a trophy in a contest. "Wouldn't you know, the little boy she ran into was none other than Alvin, who I saw waiting on the bench outside the nurse's office. He showed me to the little boys' room, where I gave him half a tablet of Xanax and managed to take these, as well as a bunch of pictures with him. I'm sure these pictures and his boxers will be worth a lot on the black market. I can show you the pictures later, Boss."
Ian looked down at the floor, as if contemplating his response. When he looked up, he smiled at Giorgio. "Well done, Parnetti. I will make sure to get your bonus check written out to you soon enough." He stroked his fingers along Brittany's back. "And, well done to you, Brittany. You are definitely my superstar." He glanced over to Giorgio. "Make sure that Miss Brittany gets a 'bonus' tonight, as well. As usual, keep her in 'mint condition', since she's worth more to me that way. But other than that - you are welcome to have fun with her tonight. I know she enjoys her time with her Uncle Giorgio."
Jeanette spoke up, "Since we haven't spent much time with Brittany today, can't she stay with us tonight? After all, we're her sisters, and we love Brittany."
"We're her sisters..." Ian rolled his eyes and did a whinier imitation of Jeanette. In his regular voice, he continued, "You know what, Jeanette? Sometimes DNA is all you and Eleanor are ever going to share with a superstar like Brittany. And I can't even believe you come from the same set of parents. Brittany is hot, superstar material, while you're just her freakishly-tall and scrawny, geeky and awkward older sister. I guess the first one is the throw-away, just like waffles." He sighed. "Then Eleanor is all short and fat..." He sighed again. "Which reminds me...I have a bone to pick with you, Jeanette." He reached into Eleanor's backpack and pulled out a piece of paper. "This is a note from the teacher regarding Eleanor's empty lunchbox for the past two days. Eleanor's diet has been working, just give it some more time, and she'll be as thin as Brittany. I told you that if you ever told a teacher or other adult about her empty lunchbox and her diet, that I would make you spend the night in the Punishment Cage. Knowing this, WHY DID YOU TELL THE TEACHER?"
Brittany spoke up, knowing that Jeanette was cowering and squinting in the sink. "Jeanette didn't say anything about it, Uncle Ian. Another student noticed, and told the teacher."
"HEY, HEY!" Ian barked. "As much as I like you, Brittany, I was talking to Jeanette, and I want Jeanette to answer. She has got to learn to fight her own battles without your help." He glanced sternly at Jeanette. "Well, Jeanette, what do you have to say for yourself?"
Even though Jeanette was without her glasses and couldn't see that Ian was glaring at her, she could feel his burning gaze. She gulped and shyly nodded. "I-I-It's true, Uncle Ian, a-a-another student noticed Eleanor's empty lunchbox and told the teacher."
Ian rolled his eyes and shook his head as he donned some rubber gloves. "You know what, Jeanette? I don't care that 'another student noticed and told the teacher,' next time, you just tell that other student to mind his or her own business." He snatched Jeanette from the sink at her waist - not very gently - then grabbed the spray nozzle from the side of the sink, turning the water to steaming hot. Ignoring her screams, Ian sprayed the soap suds off of her.
Before shoving her into the infamous "Punishment Cage", Ian tore a bit off fur off of Jeanette's tail. "And that's what you get for disobeying me! No dinner for you, skinny!"
"Uncle Ian! It wasn't Jeanette's fault!" Eleanor cried as she tried her best to keep her head above the water.
"You know what, Eleanor...you are absolutely right." Ian snatched Eleanor up from the sink. "I realize now that Jeanette would not be in the Punishment Cage, if a certain sister didn't need to go on a diet in the first place." With that, he sprayed soap suds off Eleanor with the steamy hot water from the nozzle, ignoring her screaming. He also tore some fur off Eleanor's tail before shoving her into the Punishment Cage with Jeanette. Chuckling, he leaned over and asked Eleanor, "Do you think I'm gonna give you any dinner, now?"
Eleanor shook her head as she continued to cry and hug Jeanette.
"That's right, Pumpkin." Ian nodded in a voice like he was talking to a little toddler, but he had to much of a maniacal laugh behind it for any child to find it comforting.
"Can I at least have my teddy bear to snuggle?" Eleanor's lip quivered. "I can't sleep without him."
"Ohhh, the 'poor widdle chubby girl' can't sleep without her teddy bear..." Ian fake-cried to mock her. "Oh, grow up, already, you fat baby!"
At this, Eleanor buried her face against Jeanette's right shoulder and started to cry. Jeanette patted and rubbed her little sister's back to try to comfort her and dry her off. She had a feeling that Ian wouldn't give them a blanket or even a towel to use to dry themselves. They would have to huddle to keep warm enough.
"Oh, Uncle Ian," Brittany begged, "Please let my sisters out of the Punishment Cage. I really do want to be with them tonight. Or you could let me huddle with them in the Punishment Cage..." For selfish reasons, Brittany didn't really want to spend the night in the Punishment Cage. But deep inside her heart, she knew she loved her sisters and knew she belonged with them, and if they were being "hazed" then it was only fair that she share in it along with them.
Ian leveled with Brittany, "Oh no, my little superstar. I already told Giorgio to give you a bonus tonight, which is exactly what you're gonna do - you're sleeping in his room tonight, on a nice, warm and cozy pillow, with a comfy blanket. And unlike your sisters, you don't have to sleep naked, either." He held up a short and skimpy nightie in Brittany's size that he had on the counter. "You even get to wear this."
"What if I don't want to?" Brittany crossed her arms and stared him down.
Ian blinked and sighed before snatching her up with his rubber gloves. He glanced over at Giorgio and ordered, "Parnetti, do you still have the other half of that Xanax you gave Alvin?"
"Sure do, somewhere." Giorgio replied as he dug through his man-bag for the prescription vial. "Here it is."
As Giorgio handed the half of the tablet to his boss, Ian held Brittany down on the counter on her back. A brief struggle followed, as Ian tried to get Brittany's mouth open enough to take the half of the tablet. Struggling also made her hit her head against the counter, which caused her to start crying again. She eventually swallowed it, once she became too weary of fighting back - and her knee and elbow started bleeding again. Ian removed the bandages completely, knowing they would probably come off in the bath water anyway.
"Hey, Parnetti," Ian asked his assistant, "I think Brittany could use some warmer, fresher water in her bath. Could you please take care of that?"
"Sure, Boss." Giorgio complied.
As he drew another fresh bath for Brittany, Jeanette whispered to Eleanor, "OK, Ellie, I can't see what's going on over there, since my glasses are still by the sink. I can hear that she stopped crying by now, but I can't tell if it's because she's fallen unconscious. Can you tell how Brittany is doing from here?"
Eleanor perked up after hearing her new "mission". She peered through the bars of the cage to get a better view. "Well, Ian still has her pinned down on her back on the counter... Oh, now they are giving her a bath, and I can't see her, since she's in the sink... But her eyes were open and blinking a little, so I think she's still conscious."
"Ohhh..." Jeanette whimpered worriedly.
For a while, they could hear Ian and Giorgio talking tenderly to Brittany, but they couldn't see or hear Brittany herself. They came to the conclusion that Brittany had fallen asleep or passed out by the time they set her on a towel to dry her.
"Here, Boss," Giorgio handed Ian his phone and opened it to his photos. "Here are the pics I took earlier of Alvin, if you wanna look through them for an estimate on how much we could get for them on the black market. And if you like, I can add some of Brittany to the collection later tonight."
Ian browsed through the photos. "Not bad, Parnetti! As I said earlier, you're definitely getting a bonus check for this. Whoa! That bratty-ratty Alvin is sure out cold in some of these pics. If it were up to me, I would've stuffed him into the bottom of the bag so that he would suffocate, and then I would've taken the dead body to a taxidermist to have him stuffed. I bet he'd be worth millions on the black market."
Giorgio continued to dry Brittany off with a towel and a hair-dryer. "Whoa, Boss, you must still be pretty mad at him! Remember that all of these little chipmunks are probably worth more alive than dead. Besides, the Chipettes are already making more than the money you lost when the Chipmunks left you."
Ian sighed. "Yeah, sorry, it's been a long and rough day. I guess I'll turn in for the night."
"Night, Mister Hawke." Giorgio nodded to him as Ian left the kitchen with a brief wave. He dressed a sleepy Brittany in the nightie before cradling her in his left arm, as he had done earlier that day with Alvin. Placing a gentle kiss on her forehead, he smiled down at her as he carried her to his bedroom. "Don't worry, the effects of the medication should wear off by morning. You can go back to school, then. In the meantime, Li'l Princess, feel free to enjoy some sweet dreams about your new little boyfriend while you cuddle with me. OK?"
A/N: Giorgio sure is a totally different person around Ian than when he's around Alvin and/or Brittany! Ian called Brittany his "superstar" in "The Squeakquel", which is also where he gave Eleanor a hard time - more about being short than about her chubbiness (the platform sandals), but he had some of that in there, too (when she got stuck in the mail slot and he told her to "lay off the nuts"). Once again, Giorgio (and Ian this time) use the controlled-drug alprazolam (Xanax) to induce sleep. (Shame on them!)
