Thanks for reading! We have more coming soon.

Chapter 14: Adventures in Babysitting

Boyd looked at Mikey who was still sitting on his lap, smiling innocently at the teenager. He didn't know exactly what the four year old had seen over the past week. Boyd sniffed the air slightly before his attention was on Erica, the five year old getting a wave of fear. Allison and Lydia looked at Boyd and then at Erica as she started to convulse falling with the tea set in her hand.

"Quick grab the tea set from her," Lydia said, Allison nodded and jumped up from the sofa before she had time to react Boyd had set Mikey on the sofa and grabbed the tea set.

"Just make sure she doesn't hurt herself," Allison said as her and Allison watched as Boyd moved things out of the way before Erica stopped convulsing.

Erica lay on the floor with her eyes closed, before she sat up after a couple of minutes and started crying from being scared. Lydia walked over to her and held her arms out for the small girl to climb into them. Boyd glanced at Stiles, Scott, Jackson and Isaac and noticed that the four of them were still heavily invested in Batman.

"Do we call Sara?" Boyd questioned, watching as Lydia stood up with Erica snuggled up in her arms resting her head on her shoulder.

"No, we can handle them," Lydia said walking back to the couch and sitting down on the couch again with Allison.

"Boyd...can I sit on your lap?" Mikey asked from where he was sitting on the couch still. "Is Erica okay?" Boyd nodded as he sat back down, Mikey was sitting in his lap in an instant.

"She's just feeling a little sick. I think it's time for you, Isaac and Erica to have a nap," Allison answered for him as Boyd wasn't entirely sure how to answer the four year old.

"Why don't they have to nap?" Mikey pointed to Scott, Jackson and Stiles who had all turned to face Boyd expecting an answer.

"Well they can nap if they want to," Lydia answered, pausing for a moment before she continued. "Actually I think it sounds like a good idea. How about we all have a nap," Lydia looked to Allison and then Boyd and both teenagers nodded agreeing with her. "See Mikey, Boyd and Allison think it's a good idea too,"

"I don't wanna nap!" Stiles screamed at the top of his lungs causing the other children to cover their ears. Erica buried her head in Lydia's shoulder while Isaac clambered in Allison's lap.

Allison looked at Lydia and then at Stiles as she wrapped her arms around Isaac and gave him a cuddle. Lydia nodded to Allison that she should be the one to tell Stiles to sit in the naughty corner for yelling and scaring the others. Allison's eyes went wide, why did she have to be the one to punish him?

"Stiles, go sit in the naughty corner for six minutes and think about what you did," Allison said, she'd heard that he'd been put their multiple times over the past week. The only ones who hadn't gone to the naughty corner were Boyd, Isaac and Erica.

"When's mommy going to be home?" Mikey asked looking up at Boyd from where he was still sitting on the teenagers lap.

"Soon," Boyd answered before he found that Mikey was quite content in snuggling up on his lap.

Forty-five minutes later and the children were asleep, Mikey had refused to move from Boyd's lap so Boyd was stuck on the lounge with the four year old fast asleep. Isaac had curled up in a ball beside him while Stiles, Scott, Erica and Jackson had gone to the bedrooms with Allison and Lydia. Allison had taken Erica and Jackson, while Lydia had taken Scott and Stiles but not with out arguments. Derek and Sara arrived not long after with Jordan and Liam close behind them.

"Go get some rest," Sara pointed Derek in the way of her bedroom before she smiled seeing Mikey asleep on Boyd. "Go,"

"Is Derek okay?" Boyd questioned from under Mikey as the older man walked past him and he got a whiff of the dried blood.

"He will be, where's Lydia and Allison?" Sara replied as she sat on the lounge at the opposite end to them.

"They got stuck in the bedrooms with the others," Boyd answered, pausing before he spoke again. "Mikey hasn't left me since you left,"

"He likes you Boyd," Sara smiled before she glanced down at Isaac who was squirming in his sleep. "He doesn't even fall asleep on Derek or Jordan,"

"Seriously?" Boyd raised his eyebrow as Sara picked up Isaac and sat him sleepily on her lap.

"Seriously," Sara smiled as Isaac squirmed a little before he whimpered causing her to flip him around so that he was facing her as she hugged him.

Isaac snuggled up to Sara as Allison and Lydia re-emerged from the bedrooms followed by four sleepy children who had refused to nap. Boyd looked down at Mikey who snuggled up closer to him and wrapped his arms firmly around him as much as he could. Allison looked at Sara and Boyd and smiled, they were all thinking the same thing how long was going to take for their friends to be back to normal.

"These guys refuse to nap," Lydia said motioning to Stiles and Jackson who both stuck their heads out from behind her. While Erica and Scott did the same from behind Allison.

"Okay you four come here," Sara motioned for the four children to walk over to her as she shifted Isaac slightly to one side. The second that she'd made room on her lap Stiles was clambering into it. Scott, Jackson and Erica then proceeded to get as close as they could before Erica moved onto Boyd.

"You going to be right under a pile of children?" Boyd asked, running a hand over his face as he looked at Sara under the pile of children.

"Yeah, I'll be good," Sara smiled at him as she wrapped her arms around the remaining kids. "What about you, you good to stay there with Erica and Mikey snuggling up to you?"

"I think so," Boyd said as he leant back against the lounge. Allison and Lydia looked at them and smiled before they headed to the kitchen.

"Do you want us to do anything before we head home?" Lydia asked as she stopped at the door to the kitchen causing Allison to nearly run into her.

"Can one of you check on Derek? He's in my room," Sara asked from where she was between comforting Isaac and kissing the top of Stiles' head.

Allison nodded, and the two of them walked back up to Sara's room to check on Derek. Allison and Lydia walked into Sara's room and saw Derek struggling to get comfortable and they couldn't work out why. They didn't know about the injury he'd sustained when he'd been out with Braeden. He was asleep none the less so the two teenagers left him as he was.

"He's asleep, but tossing and turning," Allison said, as the two of them made for the kitchen to clean up.

"Thanks Ally, Lydia," Sara nodded before she kissed the top of Stiles head as he snuggled up closer to her wrapping his arms around her neck. "You don't have to do that,"

"If we do it for you now, you won't have to worry when they're awake," Lydia answered, smiling before they disappeared into the kitchen and could be heard cleaning up the dishes.

Sunday, eight days after the curse had started Sara was starting to wish that all of them would change back to teenagers. Mikey was enjoying having friends even if they were growing older every couple of days. Sara was sitting with Derek on the back deck watching Stiles, Scott (who were both 8), Jackson, Isaac (who were both 7), Mikey and Erica (who was 6) running around chasing each other. Mikey had told them he wanted to play tag. Stiles stopped running causing Mikey to run straight into him as he'd been chasing him.

"Mikey, bud you okay?" Sara called watching as he stumbled backwards and fell on his bottom.

"I'm okay mommy," Mikey called back as Stiles crouched down in front of him. "Why did you stop, Unca Stiles?"

"Sorry Mikey," Stiles said sitting down on the ground as the others stopped running and Scott started to have an asthma attack. "Sara!"

"Hold on," Sara called back as she motioned for Derek to go and grab the inhaler from the kitchen. Sara darted down the stairs and stopped in front of Scott crouching down, taking hold of his hands and pulling him onto her lap.

"Can't...brea..." Scott tried to speak as Derek walked from the kitchen and crossed the back yard holding onto his side as he tossed the inhaler to Sara who caught it and handed it Scott.

"It's okay, Scott," Sara said as she held the inhaler to his mouth. "You know what to do," Scott nodded and did what he'd been told by his mother until he was breathing normally again.

"Sara," Scott sniffled before wrapping his arms around her neck and hugging her.

"You're okay kiddo, how about no more running around?" Sara smiled giving him a hug as she stood up taking him with her.

"I'm okay," Scott nodded, but yet refused to let go of Sara causing her and Derek to laugh. "I am!"

"Sure you are, just no more running for a little while, okay?" Sara said before setting him on the ground as Stiles raced over to him and wrapped his arms around him tightly.

Stiles looked up at Sara and then Derek and glared at Derek, Sara raised an eyebrow at Derek who shrugged as he looked at Sara and then down at Stiles. Derek stepped away from Sara and Stiles stopped glaring at him. Mikey stood up and tugged on Derek's shirt and then stuck his arms up to tired to ask to be picked up. Jackson, Erica and Isaac flopped back onto the grass and stared up at the ceiling.

"I don't like him," Stiles mumbled looking at Sara and then at Derek as Mikey continued to stick his arms up.

"Hey! What did we talk about?" Sara crouched back down again and took him by the shoulders.

"Sorry Derek," Stiles mumbled looking up at Derek as he picked Mikey up and sat him on his hip.