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Note: Lloyd gets the hiccups, Kratos is confused on how to cure it, and Anna is laughing her ass off.
Sorry if this chapter is short people :[
Hiccups
"Hic!"
"What's that noise?" Kratos wondered.
"Hic!"
"Where is that coming from?" Kratos looked all over the house, hearing the strange noise over and over again.
"Hic, hic, hic!"
"…" Kratos closed his eyes and listened.
"HIC! Awah…HIC!! Ehh…HIC!! ENYA!!"
Kratos opened his eyes and blinked in puzzlement, "Lloyd?"
Kratos moved upstairs to his son's room and sure enough, Lloyd was in his crib and was the source of the strange sound.
"Da-HIC!-Da!! HIC!" Lloyd said, or tried to as whatever sound that was interrupted him.
Kratos frowned and picked his son up.
"What's wrong Lloyd?" he asked, searching his son everywhere for the sound.
"HIC!!" Lloyd jerked and Kratos' eyes widened.
"HIC!" another jerk, panic.
"ANNAAAAAAAAAAA!" Kratos yelled for his wife.
Anna ran in, "What? What's wrong?" she asked, worried.
Kratos put Lloyd in front of him, "Lloyd keeps making an odd sound--,"
"HIC! HIC HIC!" Lloyd jerked three times, causing Kratos to worry more.
"He keeps jerking, also! What's going on? Is this an illness of some sort?" the mercenary asked, then he started to see if Lloyd had any other symptoms of illness, then stopped as Anna gave him a weird look.
"What?"
Anna shook her head , "It's called the hiccups, dear…" then added quickly before Kratos could open his mouth, "And it's not an illness either." Kratos relaxed and became confused. "Then what is it?" he asked.
"It's…umm…it's…ah…." Anna became confused also, 'What ARE hiccups??' she thought then said, "I'm not sure…" (AN: Anyone know? Because I sure as hell don't.)
"Perhaps they are an enigma, since neither you nor I know what it is, and for you to simply not even experience it is a rather immense revelation for me to distinguish." Anna said.
Kratos blinked in shock and inwardly was gaping like a fish.
"A-Anna?" he asked, "Do you even understand a word you just said?"
Anna shrugged, "Maybe, I don't know. Was I supposed to?"
Kratos shook his head in disbelief.
"Ma-HIC!-Ma! HIC HIC! Dada! HIC!" Lloyd spoke up, jerking with every "HIC" produced.
Kratos looked worriedly at his son.
"What do you suggest we do?"
"Scare him?" Anna suggested, "It's how I get rid of mine."
Both Anna and Kratos looked at their son, they didn't want to…but they had to if they wanted the sound to go away.
"HIC?" Lloyd blinked and stared at his parents with his big innocent cute eyes.
Kratos and Anna tore their gazes away, feeling guilty.
'I can't…' Anna thought, 'I don't want to.'
'I refuse! No way in hell am I going to scare my son!' Kratos furiously thought.
"HIC HIC HIC HIC!" Lloyd hiccupped four times in a row, pitifully whimpering from the stress on his chest and non-stop jerking.
Both his parents' hearts melted at his whimpers and decided it was the best.
The two adults whispered to each other about an idea and nodded. (AN: Figure it out 3)
Kratos put Lloyd down and both he and Anna ran for it, leaving their son in the room by himself.
"Mama? Hic! Dada?" Lloyd asked as he followed his parents out the door.
"Mama???" Lloyd got outside his room and looked around.
"Hic! Dada?" Lloyd walked a few more steps before almost jumping out of his skin.
"BOO!" Kratos and Anna yelled, Kratos looked somewhat reluctant to scare his son and Anna looked guilty.
"WAH!" Lloyd yelped as he fell back on his rear, breathing heavily.
Kratos and Anna immediately ran over to him, checking for any injury and saying sorry one million times (like a certain chosen we know).
"Why scware me?! Mama and Dada mean!!" Lloyd asked loudly, eyes wide and afterwards pouting.
"Sorry Lloyd." Both parents replied, then they realized, it was apparent Lloyd did too.
"No more hiccups!! YAY!" Lloyd said, smiling.
"That's good." Anna said, "Sorry about scaring you though, Lloyd."
"It 'kay. Yous my mama and dada, I wuve yous anyways." Lloyd said, smiling up ADORABLY to his parents and their hearts melted.
"Aww, we love you too Lloyd!" Anna said, hugging her child.
"Yes. We do." Kratos said, smiling slightly, heart feeling light and world complete, not that it wasn't before.
Then Anna said something that broke it, "At least it came from the attic and not the basement!" She said, laughing.
Lloyd blinked, "Huh?"
Kratos blinked, as realization dawned on him, he inwardly stuck out his tongue and in his mind said, 'Ew…' Outwardly he reprimanded Anna, "Anna, that's not appropriate." Anna stuck out her tongue and said, "So?"
Kratos sighed and shook his head, "You drive me crazy sometimes." He said.
Anna giggled, "I know, I'm so beautiful, charming and loveable, I turn you into a lunatic mad with love."
Kratos sighed again but smiled a little at her words.
Lloyd blinked and obliviously asked, "Wat's a loonatic?"
"Animals." Kratos and Anna said at the same time. (AN: DISCLAIMER: Loonatics Unleashed is not mine)
"Oh…'kay."
Lloyd (teen): Seriously though, what ARE hiccups??
Arisu: That's why I'm asking the reviewers and Lloyd?
Lloyd: Yes?
Arisu: There's a school named after you. Lloyd High School (disclaimer: don't own.)
Lloyd: O.O REALLY? Wow! I feel so honored.
Arisu: Uhh…you know it's not you.
Lloyd: Don't care. I'm happy. :3
Arisu: REVIEW PLEASE! THANK YOU!