Disclaimer: I own nothing, except Sebastian.
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Sebastian Alexander Beckett Castle loved everything and anything that was linked to Garfield. His favourite colour was orange, he had a teddy bear named Pooky and had a permanent Christmas wish for a dog named Odie. He had the Garfield bedspread, a huge number of Garfield toys (though his father was mostly to blame for this collection!) and huge number of Garfield comics and books, which was mostly attributed to his older sister who sent them regularly from college.
His mother had bought him Garfield: The Movie and Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties, and as she attempted to talk on the phone one afternoon, she regretted the purchase.
Seb's current obsession with the Garfield 2 movie was to take on the persona of Rommel the rottweiler. He'd crawl around on all fours growling like a dog, snarl 'Urr, trousers' before crawling swiftly to the nearest person and biting their pants.
Leaning against the kitchen bench, Kate Beckett was speaking with her stepdaughter on the phone when she suddenly felt the now familiar sensation of a tug in her pants. Looking down at her son gnawing at her pants, Kate sighs into the phone. 'I can't wait until your brother decides to grow out of this phase, Alexis.'
'You being slobbered on again?' giggled Alexis.
'Yep. And he seems to have a particular affection for my trousers. He leaves your father's pretty much alone,' laments Kate.
'Yeah, but Dad gets the 'kill kitty!' roars, so I'm not sure which of you gets the better deal!' Kate laughs as she attempts to pull her pants out of Seb's grip. Giving up, she tries walking out of the kitchen, but Seb remains attached and she's left pulling a chomping deadweight.
She's saved when Rick Castle swoops into the room and snatches their four year old up into his arms. Roaring as he bracketed his daddy's cheeks, Seb bent down. 'Kill kitty!' as his father shakes him in his arms with a fake roar of his own.
All Alexis can hear is roaring, and so Kate quickly updates her on the situation before handing the phone over to her father. Trying to keep the phone out of reach of Seb, Castle shifts him into his mother's arms as he talks to his oldest daughter.
When a loud cry is heard soon after, Kate gestures to Castle that she'll deal with it. Dropping Seb to the floor in the lounge room to play, she steps into her daughter's room. Taking in the bright red face as Anastasia screamed, tears rolling down her cheeks, Kate leaned down and picked her up, bringing her up to lie on her chest as she whispered comforting words to help her daughter settle.
Returning to the kitchen, she grins as she spots Rick lifting up Seb to sit on the kitchen cupboard, and holds the phone to his ear so that he can talk with his much loved older sister. Seeing her brother with the phone, Shae also wants a piece of the action and puts out her hand for the phone. 'Mine!' she declares loudly. 'Shae's phone!'
Crying when she doesn't get her desired object, Shae wriggles out of her mother's arms. Placed on the floor, she runs up to her father's legs and puts her arms up to be held. Castle leant down and picked her up, resting her on his hip and away from the phone as Seb continued to talk a mile to the minute, frequent references to his favourite orange fat cat throughout.
Whining when she still didn't have access to the phone, Shae leaned forward. 'Mine. Mine. Mine.' Fed up with his baby sister's complaints, Seb handed the phone over to Shae, who gripped it with both hands, placed it to her ear and went deathly quiet.
As Rick rolled his eyes at Kate that their loud child should suddenly now be quiet, Kate steps forward and tried to encourage Shae to say something, but all she does is nod her head, before she abruptly says 'Bye' and hangs up the call, handing her mother the phone with a flourish. 'All gone,' Shae declares to her incredulous parents, as Seb declared with a sombre nod that Alexis said he had to watch Garfield again.
Rick and Kate Castle exchange exasperated looks as they revel in the 'joy' of parenting!
