Author's Note: Lullaby :) It's basically my favourite song in Shock Treatment, so I hope I've done it justice. I wrote this chapter while I was preparing for my performance of Macbeth, so I hope I didn't accidently type anything in Shakespearean, let me know if I did :) Thank you so much for your reviews for the last chapter, opheliafrump, Anne Oying, and AriXAmi they were all so wonderful, thank you everyone.~ Angie
Disclaimer: Well, maybe it doesn't belong to me, whatever... :( :D
Once both were changed and sitting on their bed Nation brought up what she and Kym had talked about.
"Kym thinks we should try for a kid again," she opened. "But you'd need to come up with some sort of experiment or something so that I could be pregnant for the same time as a human, if we wanted to do it now."
"Do you want to?" Cosmo asked.
Nation nodded slowly, "I think I do. Do you?"
"Of course," Cosmo smiled. "I'd love to. I'll come up with something in the morning."
Nation started to sing to her brother, it was the opening line to a lullaby that they used to sing, but she adjusted the lines a bit to fit in with them.
"I feel the heat from your skin,
And the stubble on your chin.
You're no good."
"You're no good," Cosmo leaned over her, kissing up her legs.
"You've got dirt on you hands,
And everybody understands.
You're no good," Nation smiled at her brother.
"You're no good," Cosmo looked up at her.
Nation swung her legs out of bed, grabbing her cigarettes, she pulled one out of the carton but didn't light it yet. Looking out the window she continued.
"Oh what a joke..."
"What a joke," Cosmo repeated, leaning back.
"You feel like choking,
You play for broke..."
"You play for broke," Cosmo picked up his whip and started to run his fingers up it.
"He leaves you smoking," she lit up and watched the flame from the lighter as Cosmo continued her song.
"Oh, romance is not a children's game.." he flicked the whip on the bed.
Nation jumped slightly, letting the flame from the lighter out,
"But you keep going back,
It's driving you insane," she joined him on the bed as he kissed her.
As they made out they could hear the others faintly singing as well.
"Drift into the treacle deep,
Slip into it's silent depths -go to sleep-
With your everything akimbo,
Float into the sandman's limbo." Janet sung from her room.
"Night night," Laura's sweet voice came in.
"Night night," Ricky repeated.
"It's time for bye byes," Laura continued.
It's been a great day
Thanks a heap.
Now it's time,
for everyone,
to go to sleep."
From where they lay on the bed Cosmo and Nation joined in with everyone else, singing the chorus.
"Night night,
It's time for bye byes.
It's been a great day,
Thanks a heap.
Now it's time,
For everyone,
To go to sleep."
Cosmo climbed up from the bed and switched out the light.
When she woke in the morning Cosmo was already up and dressed, sitting on the end of the bed, waiting for her to get up.
"Mm, Cosmo?" she moaned, sitting up. "What time is it?"
"It's only six," he told her.
"How long have you been up?" she asked.
"I never went to sleep," he replied. "I was working on the experiment for you."
Nation blinked, taking in his appearance, coffee had definitely been consumed last night, he was practically bouncing.
"Aren't you going to ask me if I did it?" he asked.
"Did you do it?" Nation asked, sounding as unenthusiastic as possible.
He nodded happily. She squealed and wrapped her arms around him, her mouth pressing against his.
"That's great news!"
Cosmo handed her a jar of pills, "You have to take on of these everyday that you are, or you think you are pregnant. In fact, start taking them right now, you never know"
"Are there any side effects?" Nation asked as she turned the jar in her hands.
Cosmo pulled a face, "You might have to go through almost every human symptom. You could get morning sickness, cravings, heat flashes, cold flashes, you'll even experience pain during the birth."
"Oh joy," Nation said sarcastically.
"Sorry, but it was all I could come up with."
"It's fine, I'm excited," she grinned happily.
They both got up and got dressed, on his way out the door Cosmo asked;
"Can you please find Janet and tell her I'll be in the wardrobe?"
"Of course," Nation grinned, clipping on her nurse's hat and heading towards Janet's room.
She wasn't there, so she left the room. As she stepped out she noticed a yellow coat slipping into the bathroom. Bert. She headed to the bathroom and pushed the door open yelling,
"Hoopla Bert!" she noticed that he was trying to peak in on Janet in the shower, quite obviously not blind. "Nice to see you up and about. Mac's waiting in the wardrobe for you Janet."
"Okay," Janet called back.
Nation turned to Bert, smiling cruelly, "Care to join me in an on-set snack."
Bert nodded, shoving his glasses back onto his face. They walked to Bert's room.
"Why didn't you tell me you weren't blind?" Nation hissed at him.
"I don't know," Bert took off his glasses and looked at her. It was the first time he'd seen her without his glasses on and he noticed how vibrantly red her hair was. "Your hair is a lovely colour."
"Don't try and distract me," Nation gave him a glare that she hadn't used since she had been Magenta.
Bert cowered slightly under her gaze.
"Why do you even pretend to be blind?"
"It's a gimmick, for the show, it's more interesting if the host is blind."
Nation accepted this answer, after she and Cosmo had used their fair share of gimmicks.
"How about that snack now, eh Nation?" Bert asked.
Nation nodded, "Okay."
He reached out and grabbed her hand. She snatched it away.
"You've got to pretend I'm blind," Bert almost ordered her, before adding, "Please?"
"Fine," Nation rolled her eyes and led him to the dressing room.
On the way up the stairs Bert started to sing, Nation smiled at him as she opened the door to the dressing room.
"Ever since I was the einer keliner herren,
It was the cordon bleu for which I am most care-en.
And the one taste treat so sweet,
That really can't be beat..." he pulled a bowl out of the fridge.
"Is what we have ja? How you you are? Caviar!
That little black mess." he shoved a handful into his mouth as Nation grabbed a bottle of champagne.
Suddenly the door burst open and Cosmo jumped through, "Et voile!"
Janet followed him in and started singing. Nation squealed and popped the cork from the bottle.
"Well first you go rip, rip, rip,
Then you go snip, snip, snip,
Then you whip in a zip, zip, zip.
An' split it up to the hip, hip, hip,
An' as you strip, strip, strip,
You quiver and shiver, for that soft caress.
As you slip, slip, slip...
Into that little black dress.
That minimal.."
"Minimal," Cosmo, Nation and Bert repeated, as they saved some glasses from the counter that Janet was kicking everything off.
"Criminal.."
"Criminal," Nation poured them drinks as they sung.
"Sin-i-ful.."
"Siniful."
"Little black dress!"
They started to drink champagne and dance around.
"Let's face it Mac, that basic black is coming back," Nation told her brother.
"Let's face it Mac, that basic black is coming back," Bert agreed.
"Let's face it Mac, that basic black is coming back!" the pair shouted.
"That minimal.." Janet sung.
"Minimal."
"Criminal.."
"Criminal."
"Sin-i-ful.."
"Siniful."
The trio threw their remaining drink over their shoulders and sat on the sofa, Janet posing on their laps.
"Little black dress!" she finished.
Janet climbed off them and grinned at Bert and Nation.
"What do you think, Nation?" she asked, thinking Bert couldn't see her.
"Beautiful," Nation nodded approvingly at Cosmo who grinned.
"'Good Morning Denton' is about to start," Bert stood up. "We should go."
They followed Janet down the stairs, waving at the studio-audience. Cosmo and Nation walked slightly behind as Nation talked to Neely. They, and Bert, stopped near Kirk's coffee cart, while Janet followed Macy and Ralph on set.
Janet started to sing as song, most of the lyrics consisting of the word 'me'. Everyone around the coffee cart began to dance. After a while of dancing Nation noticed that her brother was mostly jogging on the spot, waving his arms in the air. For a Transylvanian he really wasn't that good at dancing. She grabbed his hands and swung her hips, prompting him to dance with her. He did so, spinning her, and swaying with her, then let go and started on his mad arm swings again. She gave up and started to dance by herself again.
The trio rushed over to Janet once she had finished her song.
"Out of self came selflessness," Bert shook her hand.
"You showed yourself," Nation praised. "The real you, the secret you."
"And you liked what you saw," Cosmo nodded knowingly.
Betty arrived at that moment, "How's Brad?"
"If he caught my act he'll be looking good," Janet laughed, along with the trio. "It seems I'm his medicine, so we're off to give him another spoonful. Check ya later Betty, I gotta go freshen up."
Janet headed off in front of him.
"Good job on the outfit, Mac," Nation grinned at her brother.
Laura and Ricky rushed over to them.
"We just watched Janet," Laura grinned. "Did you make the costume, Cosmo?"
Cosmo nodded.
"Good job, man," Ricky patted his back.
"Where's Janet?" Bert asked.
The quartet exchanged a look. Then Nation remembered,
"Oh, she said she was going to go see Brad."
Their eyes widened, she wasn't supposed to see him today. They ran down the Dentonvale trail towards the Terminal Ward. Bursting through the doors that saw Janet, with her parents, Brad in his cage.
"Ahh!" Cosmo exclaimed as he fell into the room.
"Are you the doctor?" Harry asked.
"I am," Cosmo stood up straight and proud.
"There's going to have to be an enquiry," Harry said.
"Ahh," Cosmo began slowly.
"There are regulations to uphold," Harry told him.
"Well,.. it's.." Cosmo stuttered, trying to explain.
"It's for his own good," Janet put in.
"Hoopla Janet!" Bert exclaimed.
"Bert! Sweetie!" Janet turned.
The doctors and Bert started clapping and cheering. Bert and Janet walked away from the group a little.
"The patient was in great danger of doing himself harm," Cosmo said, entering the cage.
Nation followed with Harry and Emily.
"We only want what's best for him," Nation tried to explain. "As parents you must understand."
"No," Harry replied. "No we don't, Brad doesn't need to be trussed up like a turkey. There are drugs to keep him quiet."
"We used them," Nation smiled, hands in pockets. "All of them."
"And none of them worked?" Emily asked.
"No," Nation shook her head.
"Then double the strength," Harry suggested.
"We did," Nation replied.
"We know our job," Cosmo said, pressing his stethoscope to Brad's forehead and neck.
"And we also know how you feel," Nation tried to sympathise. "We're not strangers to confusion."
"Well, I am, God damn it!" Harry turned to his daughter. "You trust Brad with this.. crowd-pleaser!"
Cosmo and Nation smiled as they walked out of the cage, Cosmo started to circle around it.
"I'm not a locum with motive to suture myself,
I've been a cynic for too many years.
Playing doctor and nursey can be good for your health.
I've seen clinics with those gimmicks in Tangiers."
He reached Nation, who was standing on the door, and pushed her forward. She sung on the door, closing it with a click. She sung as she circled in the opposite direction to her brother.
"But if you open your heart to a smooth operator,
He'll take you for all that you've got.
He'll hand you a curse that will be with you later,
It'll shake you the way he takes off.
Like a shot."
"You need a bit of..." Cosmo snatched Bert's cane from him, snapping it faith healer style.
"Ooh, shock treatment!" chorused Ricky, Laura and Nation.
"Gets you jumping like a real live wire.
You need a bit of..." Cosmo grinned widely as he sung.
"Ooh, shock treatment!" As the chorus sang Nation grabbed Bert's glasses and stamped on them with her foot.
"So look out Mister,
Don't you blow your last resistor,
For a vista that'll mystify ya." Cosmo reached Laura and pushed her gently towards the cage with the cane.
"You're blinded by romance,
you're blinded by science.
Your condition is critically grave.
But don't expect mercy from such an alliance,
Suspicion, of tradition so new wave." Laura grinned at the Weiss's from her position halfway up the cage.
"You need a bit of..."
"Ooh, shock treatment!" They started to pose for photos, taken by Ricky, joining in one at a time.
"Gets you jumping like a real live wire,
You need a bit of..."
"Ooh, shock treatment!"
"So look out mister,
Don't you blow your last resistor,
For a sister that'll certify ya! Fire! Fire!"
"You need a bit of..."
"Ooh, shock treatment!" Nation and Laura joined in the photos.
"Gets you jumping like a real live wire,
You need a bit of..."
"Ooh, shock treatment!"
"So look out mister,
Don't you blow your last resistor,
For a sister that'll certify ya! Fire! Fire! Fire!"
Laura squealed and everyone started to dance around the cage in a circle. They headed out the door, leaving Brad in the cage alone. Ricky and Laura left for their room, Harry and Emily for 'Happy Homes', and Cosmo, Nation, Bert and Janet headed down to the main set, where 'Faith Factory' was being set up.
Nation and Cosmo were talking to Bert when Ralph approached them.
"Ah, Bert?" he asked. "Could you spare a moment?"
Bert nodded, shoving two jars of drugs into Nation's hands. She grinned at her brother, shaking the pills, and they followed Janet and Macy up the stairs to the dressing room, smiling at the camera crew on their way up.
A/N: Well...what do ya think? If you review I'll let you come upstairs for cocktails in the dressing room :D