BbF&ML: Emergency Contacts (rough draft)

A Kingdom Hearts fanfic by Raberba girl

Axel/Saïx/Roxas/Xion Day, 4 August 2013

Summary: Soooo, according to the paperwork, who's the "dad" and who's the "mom"...?

A/N: The first part takes place soon after they arrive in Radiant Garden, when Lea and the kids are still living with his family. Lea's siblings are all random OCs. (Including his brother, whose name is Zeph now, not Zell or Zeke. I have to fix the "Vacation Notice" story, and I think at least one other BbF&ML story, too.) The second part is after Lea, Isa, Roxas, & Xion have moved out on their own.

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It was such a quiet day - everyone was gone. After Kayla had left for her volunteer work and the other four had left for school, Lea went back to bed, then spent the afternoon helping his mother shop for groceries and cook dinner. It was kind of nice, but he got more restless as the day wore on. "I'm gonna go out and see if I can meet them halfway."

"All right- Oh, but would you please make the salad for me first?"

By the time Lea had washed, peeled, cut, and assembled everything, the kids' laughter and chatter was sounding at the door - they were already home. "Hey!" He hurried to greet them.

"Axel!" Xion skipped over to hug him, and Roxas waved.

"Hi, Lea," his sisters chorused in unison, then went back to eagerly discussing how hot one of their formerly nerdy classmates had gotten over the summer.

"Did you have a good first day of school?" Lea asked anxiously.

Roxas shrugged. "I dunno."

'Flaming pants. That really is annoying,' Lea thought in astonishment, on the receiving end of such a reply for the very first (and by no means the last) time.

"It was okay," Xion said uncomfortably. "Kind of confusing...and weird...but it was okay."

"What?! What?! Tell me! I'll help!"

"Ummmm...okay, but let's do something else first, I just want to relax."

"...Okay." Lea hugged her again and then looked over at Roxas, who was obliviously discussing something with Zeph. "Gaaahh."

Isa came over for dinner, surly as usual but asking Xion about school without any reminders or prompting.

"How come everyone keeps asking?" Roxas complained.

"Rox," Lea said, "it was you guys' first day of school everrrrrr."

"All parents like to know about their children's lives, dear," Mrs. Hayes explained, "no matter how long they've been in school. It's a very big part of your lives."

"I'm not a parent," Lea protested, "it's only on paper..."

"Did you have any homework?" Isa asked, ignoring the rabbit trail.

"Of course we don't, it's the first day of school!" Belén yelped.

"We have homework," Zeph grumbled. "This is gonna be a super-fun year, I can already tell..."

"Oh," Xion said. "I have something, Axel."

"Homework?"

"They said make sure it's filled out and bring it back tomorrow."

"Show me after dinner, okay?"

"Okay."

When Roxas saw it, he said, "Oh yeah," and went to get an identical card from his own bag. He placed it in front of Lea, said, "I didn't know most of the stuff," and went to play a video game with Zeph.

"Emergency contact information," Lea read aloud. He looked at the cards for a while, then called Isa.

"What?" Isa said irritably.

"I guess, since I adopted them, I should fill these out, right?"

Isa gave him a look as if to say, 'Why did you drag me all the way over here just for that?'

"There's two blanks, though! Who do I put for their mom? They don't have a mom. I'm not gonna put Sora or Vexen!"

"Just enter your own mother's information," Isa said impatiently.

"But-" Lea stared at the card. "They're not gonna think I'm married to Mom or anything, are they?"

"It'll be fine, dear," she chuckled, leaning over to see. "They just want to know who to call in case something happens to the kids."

"Okay..."

One year later:

Lea and Isa happened to meet outside the house, just as it was getting dark enough for the street lights to start coming on. "Yo."

"Hi."

"Sooo...how was whatever you did all day?"

"Fine." Pause. "How was work?"

"Fine."

"..."

"...We're so lame."

"It doesn't matter."

Inside, Roxas and Xion were snacking on yogurt and enthusiastically playing Command Board on the kitchen table.

"Nooo, jerk!"

"Heh heh, now I'm winning..."

Lea grinned and went over to greet them. "Hey, guys. How was your second first day of school?"

"Fine."

"Fine."

"Very informative. Are your teachers nice"

"I dunno."

"Oh, Axel, we got those card thingees again you have to fill out." Xion went to get them.

Lea looked at the cards for a while. "Hey...Isa...it's asking for the parents' contact info again."

"So?"

"I'm thinking it makes more sense now to put you and me."

"No. They're your children, not mine."

"But we live together now!"

"It doesn't matter. Just use your mother, like you did last time."

"No, I told Mom that I'm grown up and on my own now, and I don't need her help anymore."

"You're not asking her for help, all you're doing is writing down her phone number."

"But I don't want them running to her if something happens to the kids! Isa, come on, we're all in the same household, we know each other better than anyone else does, you said we're a family - all I'm asking is for you to let me write down your phone number and stuff. I'll be the one to actually deal with everything, okay?"

Isa looked at the cards for a while. "...Fine, but my information goes in the section labeled 'Father.'"

"What? No!"

"I will not be anyone's 'mother' in any way, shape, or form."

"That is so not fair, you're saying I have to be their mom?"

"Just cross out the label and write 'guardian' instead."

Glaring, Lea did so. Then they stared at it for a while, with Roxas and Xion peering curiously over their shoulders.

"...You can still tell where it said 'Mother' and 'Father,'" Lea grumbled.

"Why don't you take turns?" Xion suggested. "One of you can be the mom on my card, and the other one can be the mom on Roxas's card."

"Urgh...well, I guess that's fair. Right, Isa?"

"No."

"Why are you so stubborn?!"

"Why is this important, anyway?" Roxas asked, genuinely confused. "You guys aren't even our parents at all."

"Yeah, Isa! It's not important, so stop being a sissy!"

"Stop taunting me like a five-year-old. Fine. We'll follow Xion's suggestion."

"Good," Lea said in satisfaction. He lowered the pen to write.

Isa snatched the card away and slipped the other beneath Lea's poised pen tip.

"Oi!"

"If I have to be someone's mother," Isa said roughly, "it will be Xion's. I refuse to be the 'mother' of a boy."

"Lame, Isa," Lea pouted, filling out the mother's section on Roxas's card.

"I still don't see what the big deal is," Roxas grumbled.

"Now I have a daddy and a mommy," Xion teased, hugging Isa.

"Get off."

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Author's Notes: This drabble was lame...especially for a Pairing Day... (Not that I actually wrote it for AkuSaiRokuShi Day, but I didn't have time to write my OT4 a real story [again DX], so I just looked for an unposted draft, and this was the best I could find. *sweatdrop*)

I like to play with relationship dynamics and gender roles a lot. Plus, it's just fun to tease Sai and gratifying to torture Axel. I didn't write this to label Isa as "the girl," just so you know.

I wrote almost all of part one before realizing that the fic actually needed to take place after they'd moved. XD *headdesk* I ended up trying to draw the scene to a close, moving on, and just leaving it in, since it seemed a shame to cut out half of an already short fic...

The name of Lea's youngest sister was causing problems - it changed once or twice before I decided on "Genesis," but then I remembered last-minute that there's already a Genesis in Final Fantasy VII. orz Then I had to hunt for a new name, which took way longer than it should have because there were more factors involved than you would think, and I finally ended up with Belén. (Which looks way better with the accent mark, which I did not know was supposed to be there until I went searching for how to nickname it, because all the baby name sites I'd been looking at before just had it as plain old "Belen," which is wrong.) Apparently it's a popular girls' name in Spanish-speaking countries...? There's a particular reason I wanted a name like that, but it's a spoiler for the CatC universe. I put way too much effort into naming a throwaway OC, but whatever.

And Zeph, just... He originally was the Zell from FF8, then I decided that wasn't a good idea and changed it to an OC, Zeke. Then I thought that was too similar to Zack (also from FF7), so then I went looking for Hispanic boys' names starting with Z, and somehow ended up with Zephyrus? Even though that's apparently Greek? (It looks like Hispanics don't like Z names, so my options were quite limited. XD) I don't know anymore. -.- Like I said, throwaway OCs, so hopefully it won't matter.