Rogelio was expecting somethings from today. Rogelio expected to wake up and work for a few hours before his husband had to start work with Catra. Rogelio didn't know exactly what their job consisted of but he didn't exactly care when it kept some money coming in on Kyle's end. In fact, Catra was supposed to be over any minute now. And as that thought came into his head, the knocks on the door came as well. In fact, there seemed to be too many knocks coming at the same time.
"I got it." Kyle said as he made his way to the door. Done with what he was doing Rogelio decided to meet Catra at the front door this time, intrigued by why the knocks at the door came so rapidly.
"Kyle!" Catra said in a happy tone. Normally she wouldn't sound so excited to see him but this time she brought with her a surprise. She didn't really know how Kyle or Rogelio would react to Catra bringing over kids but that wasn't really a huge problem, it wasn't like they actually had anything big they were working on. "You remember Mermista's kids right?"
"Kyle knows us aunt Catra!" Aqua said as she rushed to hug Kyle's legs, almost knocking him over. Rogelio walked over to Kyle and was honestly a little irritated Catra didn't warn them about the kids.
"I take it you want me to watch them while you two work?" Rogelio said as he knelt down to high five Leven.
"Not really, we don't have to work everyday." Catra said as she stepped inside and took off her jacket. "If you don't want to watch them we could just hang out or I can leave."
"Can we stay Kyle?" Aqua asked, a smile on her face.
"Rogelio, do you have any problem with them staying? I can watch them." Kyle asked, a smile on his face, mimicking Aqua's.
"Well," Rogelio started, rubbing the back of his scaly neck, he could feel himself start to shed. The scratching more distracting than it should have been. Rogelio looked at Kyle, then to Catra, and then to the little girl smiling up at him. "Where's Leven?"
"Sitting in the grass, he's really tired." Catra said stepping to the side in front of the door, pushing it even more open. Catra lifted her hand to point to where the tired kid was. "Over there, poor thing, stayed up last night and really needs a nap."
Kyle moved closer to Catra to see where Catra was pointing to. As Kyle did that Rogelio stepped outside to see where Leven was. Sure enough, Leven was just laying in the grass, his dark skin reflecting the sun. Rogelio walked over to the kid and put his hand out for him to grab onto.
"Come on inside, you can take a nap on the couch." Rogelio waited a few seconds before the kid finally reached up to grab his hand and pull himself up. Leven rubbed his eyes as they made their way back inside the house. "Why hasn't he had a nap earlier?" Rogelio asked Catra.
"Because I thought he could take a nap here, make it easier on you." Catra answered. "So are you gonna watch Aqua or are we gonna hang out today?"
Rogelio let out a deep sigh that Catra thought she could feel just from how low it was. "Fine, I can watch them, go get to work." Rogelio said as he lifted Leven into his arms. "Just get some work done. I'm babysitting later by the way, this is extra work."
"Who are you babysitting?" Catra asked as she lightly shoved Aqua over to Rogelio, she was talking to Kyle about, something. Catra wasn't too interested in what they were talking about, probably perfume, Kyle would totally talk to a kid about perfume. Catra laughed at the thought before about how Kyle was so feminine that she was surprised that they hadn't had a kid already. "Would I know this kid?"
"Probably, it's Adora's brother." Rogelio said as he started walking towards the large living room. "Come on Aqua, you like ponies right?"
Aqua, following right behind mimicked her moms voice. "Ponies are so, lame. I like Batman."
"Good taste kid. We'll watch TV until you're done." Rogelio said as he turned the corner. Soon after they were out of sight the loud blip and low hum of a large TV could be heard being turned on.
"So you wanna head to the garage?" Kyle asked as he closed the front door, as Catra moved out of the way. She walked a few steps and opened the nearby door leading to the garage.
"Yeah, before we start, did he say Adora's brother? Adora doesn't have a brother." Catra said as she walked into the large garage, walking around the keyboard and loose tools. "Why is everything moved around?"
"Oh," Kyle said following close behind. "Rogelio needed flat ground so he could change the oil in our car. I moved everything around so the car could fit in here, I didn't break anything." Kyle said quickly, afraid he might get yelled at if he didn't justify the safety of his actions.
"That's, good Kyle. Most of today is going to be spent moving things back and tuning now." Catra said with a sigh, moving her hands to her head to rub her temples. "Sorry, not what I'm focusing on, Adora doesn't have a brother."
"Yeah she does." Kyle said, walking past Catra to start pushing his drums back into place. Although any brief observation would be able to tell that because of Kyle's lack of muscle that it would take a while. "Shadow Weaver had another kid, didn't Adora tell you?"
Catra took a sigh and moved to where the bases were placed on blankets. They were lined up as if they were dead soldiers, which would make Catra chuckle if she wasn't talking to Kyle about something more important. "No, I don't think Adora knows. Both of us kind of cut all ties with Shadow Weaver a while ago."
Catra reached down and grabbed her Bass from the floor and slipped in around her shoulder. She retracted her claws a small amount, just enough to be able to play and started strumming each cord one by one. She was immediately hit by the realization she needed to plug in her bass to tune it. She was too used to playing on her acoustic guitar back home that the muscle memory carried over. Catra pushed her speakers closer to the middle of the garage and plugged in her equipment.
Catra thought back to the last time her and Adora spoke to Shadow Weaver in person. It wasn't pretty, Shadow Weaver never made anything pretty. After Shadow weaver had begun doing things that she used to do when Adora and Catra were younger Adora finally snapped out of whatever control Shadow Weaver had on her. When Adora finally put two and two together both of their lives improved greatly. Catra met Shadow Weaver once after that. And Catra was happy to say that she hoped that she never had to speak to the witch of Adora's mother ever again.
"Catra?" Kyle said, snapping her out of her trance. Catra hadn't even noticed she was on autopilot. It was so odd to find herself holding a different bass and Kyle's drums pushed back into place.
Catra shook her head and hit it for good measure, she had also noticed that her eyes grew a little wet as well. "Um, sorry. I kind of blacked out there, what?"
"You said you cut off Shadow Weaver and kind of stayed quiet for forty minutes. Are you okay?" Kyle asked Concern in his voice as he moved to pick up Frosta's keyboard. "You kind of stopped tuning the Bass and have just been strumming the same cord for a few minutes."
"Ugh, Sorry." Catra said as she took off Scorpia's bass. "I've just been thinking about the last time I saw Shadow Weaver." Catra, swallowed and changed her tone. "So, the hag managed to convince someone to fuck her? That's surprising." Catra said with a laugh as she sat down. Her legs feeling much better now that they weren't standing.
"No one knows who the dad is." Kyle said, trying his best to keep the conversation rolling. "But hey, you have a brother now, isn't that cool?" Kyle said, raising his voice, trying to sound excited. He was very quickly confused. "Does that make you his brother because you and Adora practically grew up like sisters or because he'd be your step brother?"
"Don't care." Catra said as she grabbed the last bass. Normally this one was never used, but it was always there as a back up, and had to be tuned just like the rest. "So uh, what's his name?"
"His name is Adam, he just turned four." Kyle said, struggling with the keyboard stand.
"Four, sounds about right." Catra said.
"What?" Kyle said, his struggle to make the stand not collapse only growing more frustrating.
"Well, the last time I saw Shadow Weaver was six years ago. Oh crap." Catra said, remembering something.
"I ask again, what?" Kyle said as the stand fell over, luckily nowhere near any other equipment. "How do you do this?" He said under his breath, frustrated at his own incompetence. He played drums, not the keyboard, and this was a good reason why.
"My eighth wedding anniversary is coming up in a few weeks."
"Good for you." Kyle said in a frustrated tone, still trying to figure out how the keyboard would even go on the stand. "I mean it, I'm just getting stressed with this thing."
"Here, let me do it." Catra said, hopping up from her spot on the floor and moved her way over to Kyle. "You just gotta do this." Catra said as she grabbed the stand and in a few motions quickly set up the stand and locked it in place. "So, how old is this Adam?"
Kyle was still amazed and very upset, his frustration growing with himself on how he couldn't figure out how to set up the keyboard stand on his own. "He's, he's four I think."
"Four? And you never told me?" Catra said in an offended tone, leaning against the empty stand, making Kyle even more frustrated.
"I thought you already knew, and you never asked." Kyle took a deep breath in, and a deep breath out. He wasn't going to get over this that easy. "We set everything up, we're done for today right? You can do whatever you need to do without me?" Kyle said, trying his best to escape this room, with even the walls reminding him of his keyboard failure. He made the mental note that he should redesign the walls.
"I have to tune the last bass, you can put the microphones in place though, think you can handle that?" Catra asked, pointing to the clumped together microphone stands. "And if you're up to it we can practice a song."
Catra and Kyle worked quietly for a while. Kyle, because he was trying to calm down from his previous failure, which shouldn't have affected him considering his long line of failure or patheticness. And Catra, because she didn't want to have to deal with the version of Kyle that just starts to whine when he gets too upset. Catra has sat through that side of Kyle plenty of times and it always is so boring and exhausting to do damage control whenever she was around.
Catra finished before Kyle and helped him finish. She managed to get him to cheer up when she said they could practice one of his songs. Catra hated it. Catra, really hated it, because Kyle was not a songwriter, and he always tried to make his songs serious. He made around five good songs in his entire life and everything else was depressingly bad. And the one they practiced happened to be one of those songs.
"Catra!" Aqua said as Catra came into the living room, finally finished with her work. Aqua stood up from her spot on the carpet in front of the TV. "Are we going back to your place now?"
Catra walked up until she could reach down and pat the top of Aqua's head. She looked at the couch where Leven was still asleep. Rogelio was sat on the couch right next to Leven, resting his head on his fist, as if even watching TV with kids was irritating enough.
"That's the plan kiddo. What did you guys watch?" Catra asked walking further into the room to be able to see the TV, an ad for toothpaste was playing.
"We watched MASH, apparently she watches it all the time with her dad. That and love boat." Rogelio said with a groan. "We also watched a fishing documentary, which she watches all the time with her mom." Rogelio said, somehow with the same groan.
"Rogelio hates documentaries." Kyle said as he walked past Catra to the couch. Kyle, upon reaching the couch, knelt down and shook the shoulder of Leven. "Come on bud, time to go back with Catra."
Leven groaned as he was shook but still sat up and stretched.
"Come on Leven, time to go." Catra said, grabbing him by the hand and helping him off the couch. Catra walked him back towards the door and grabbed Aqua's hand as she walked past. "Say goodbye to Kyle and Rogelio."
"Bye." Both kids said, Leven ending his with a yawn as he woke up for the walk back to Catra's apartment.
Next chapter we get Adora and Catra watching the kids. Isn't this everything you wanted from a Catradora married AU? No? Well please review and tell me what you think, I don't care if you have nothing to say about the story. Tell me something that they could do together or even tell me as a guest about whether or not you sleep with socks on. Or if you eat cereal with or without water.
