More fighting with this site... *shakes head* I'm not appreciating all of this. Esha Napoelon: Thank you! (and yeah, Vermi and I not loving the site much either these days lol) susie8807: Mindy's pretty much forgiven Cooper but it's James that won't budge on the subject, which just makes Connor very very upset. Things would definitely get better on Connor's end if James did forgive Cooper and let him come back home but James is too afraid of Cooper hurting Mindy again to even remotely consider it. firewing pegasus: Technically it's just Tiffany giving him the evil eye at the moment but she has no plans to stop. And I'm glad I finally got this up to. The site was really getting on my nerves.
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"You know what must really suck?" Mindy asked while picking at the brownie sundae she and James were sharing while the rest of the babies sat at the red table with them at the Cold Stone Creamery.
"What?" he asked while snuggling her neck (since naturally she was in his lap) and giving the top of Elizabeth's head a kiss.
"Being lactose intolerant" Mindy nodded with big eyes and James had to nod in agreement, "I could not imagine a world without the joys of ice cream"
"And cheese" Amber pointed out.
"I HATE milk" Scarlett's tongue went out and everyone around the table nodded in agreement.
"Mommy and Daddy only use it when we make pancakes and stuff in the mornings" Mindy grinned while covering James's hands lovingly with one of hers, "Milk sucks by itself but is very good for cooking, my babies"
"But other than that?" James squeezed Mindy's hand in his and shrugged, wrinkling his nose, "If I could tip every fucking cow to suck milk back into the atmosphere and never have to smell or see it again I'd totally do it"
"Or you could just shoot them" Scarlett shrugged, "Why the hell not?"
"Because pushing them is so much more fun" James nodded surely while looking to Tryg, "Isn't that right, Tarzan?"
"If I tortured animals, yes" Tryg nodded with pouted lips, "Mommy, do you like cows?"
"I LOVE cows!" Mindy nodded with a bright smile while wiping Chelsea's face with a napkin, unaware of Lizzie Bear sticking her fingers in her and James's shared sundae to eat it. "If I could hug…every cow…"
"I would have to hose you down before you even thought about entering my room" Amber smirked when Mindy shot her the finger and was cuddled by James.
"She could hug every cow in the world and still smell like coconut" James nodded firmly while kissing Mindy's neck, "Only my Baby Doll."
"One time…" Amber snickered and reached out to grab Mindy's free hand across the table, "Mommy and I went to Paris for Fashion Week…"
"OH Jesus…" Mindy's hand went over her face she knew what was coming as did the kids from hearing it so many times, because they were already giggling.
"I was little" Amber told James with a nod, "Like, Chelsea little…"
"And…?" he encouraged lightly while giving Amber his most charming grin, "On with it, Pumpkin"
"I got hungry" Amber snickered a bit louder, "And I only wanted ice cream, but in Paris they're all too skinny to eat ice cream, but Mommy didn't care. She went out, got it for me, and we wee backstage like" she snickered, "In a corner trying to eat it when the show started so out we went…" she dropped her eyes and nodded with a grin, "so of course Mommy and I are sitting next to Anna Wintour, who looks at us and like, gave us the dirtiest fucking look I've ever gotten from someone."
"RIGHT in the front row!" Mindy chimed in with a nod and a laugh, "Ambie's face was fucking covered in ice cream and sprinkles and I was trying so hard to get it off her, but Anna just stared at us like we were aliens and-"
"Did she hit you with her handbag?" James sniggered after having already seen and/or met all these people Mindy and Amber just threw around expecting everyone to know names by now. The babies were born and bred into Mindy's fame so for them it was no issue, but James and the boys were quickly adjusting to it the best they could. Connor was hopeless when it came to all that, but Cooper at one point was her party/event companion as was, of course, her man candy James. He'd been offered all sorts of contracts and sponsorships, but he just turned them all down unless it was something Mindy really wanted to do with him like the Lose Control music video or the cameo on Glee because the kids begged him to do it for the Mindy Stratus episode.
He didn't want fame the way most celebrity husbands did. He attended and participated in the things he did for Mindy, and that was it. He had no interest in seeing his name in lights or people tripping over themselves for him. Sure, he loved any good ego stroke but as far as he was concerned, the only ego-stroking he really craved anymore came from Mindy. He just wasn't cut out for her lifestyle, yet adjusted fast because he knew nothing was going to change. Even if she retired from the industry altogether no one would leave her alone, it was a vicious cycle and he was screwed.
"No" Amber shook her head with a furrowed brow, "She actually offered me and Mommy the cover of next month's issue."
"It's on my wall" Mindy nodded with a smile.
In the home gym she never ever used anymore Mindy literally smeared the walls with every single magazine cover she ever made in thousands of gorgeous frames and in order of when she made the cover. The pictures from her at seventeen were light years different from the ones she'd done that very year at twenty-nine.
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"Daddy!" Thorn excitedly pulled James by the arm out the back door the moment they got home, "Daddy Daddy! Daddy! Come see what Oxa teached Mommy's peacock!"
"Oh Christ…" James already didn't like where it was going, running a hand through his hair as Tryg, Chelsea, and Scarlett trailed behind him and Elizabeth.
Going out into the backyard James was expecting a dead bird lying on the ground with half its head in Oxa's mouth, and he was almost right.
"LOOK, Daddy! Rotunda is DANCING!" Thorn beamed while clapping her hands together excitedly as Oxa crouched low and tried repeatedly to pounce on the peacock, which would open his massive tail all the way and jump around so the Serval couldn't try to eat him.
"Oh CHRIST…!" James tried to grab the Serval with one arm immediately before Mindy had a dead peacock and gave the world hell for it.
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While James was busy trying to save Rotunda from Oxa, Mindy was inside hard at work at the piano with Amber lingering behind her slowly to try and pick up on whatever it was that her mother was doing down there. She had the same repetitive notes going for a while and finally opened her mouth, which was what Amber was most curious for since this was obviously something very very new that her mother was working on. She'd seen her working on this a few times, but that was about it.
"No matter how many times that you told me you wanted to leave…No matter how many breaths that you took you still couldn't breathe…" she continued playing a bit and turned immediately once she noticed Amber was right there, which made her gasp and suddenly stop playing, "Ambie!"
"Mommy?" she giggled a bit before walking over to her mother and sitting right next to her on the bench, "Is that the new album?"
Mindy took a moment before shaking her head, which spiked Amber's interest.
"Then what is it?"
"Ehh…" Mindy shrugged a bit before continuing, "Somethin' I was just workin' on"
"For what?" Amber frowned and rubbed her mother's back, "You've been working on it for a little while now"
"Mhm" Mindy nodded a bit before shaking her head and curling her lips in, "I am having a hard time finding out what to do with it…"
"Did you write it for Daddy?" Amber nagged with a slight giggle, elbowing Mindy until her stomach was pinched and she dropped her head into her mother's lap she was laughing so hard.
"Mommy only writes beautiful things for Daddy because Daddy is very beautiful"
"Everything you write is beautiful" Amber said gently while patting her mother's leg, "Who are you writing this for?"
"My Bub" she said after a moment of hesitation, and Amber actually frowned and hugged Mindy, "I'm writing it for him"
"Because you miss him?"
"FOR him" she nodded stiffly, "I will not sing this"
"Wow" Amber's eyes widened significantly and she nodded, "I didn't know he could sing, Mommy"
"I'll coach him, I do not care I know he has a beautiful voice"
"Do you even know where he is?" she shrugged, "Or are you waiting for him to come home?"
"I did not finish the song I only know four lines so far"
"Well I like it so far" Amber nodded stiffly, "but you didn't answer my question."
"Hm?" Mindy frowned when Amber finally asked.
"You really really miss Cooper, don't you?"
Mindy hesitated, so Amber shook her head and reached up to rub Mindy's back.
"I know how bad it must feel to lose him" her lips pouted and she frowned, "You love him so much"
"Ambie…" she held a hand over her mouth and croaked before shivering violently and hugging her oldest as closely as she could, "I think about him all the time I worry, I do! I love him, Ambie I miss him! I want him to come home I need him to come home he must be so alone and SCARED out there I love him, I do! And he KNOWS I love him and I hate it because I miss him and wanna hug him and play with him and snuggle him and-"
"Make out with him?" Amber asked harshly which made Mindy cringe and shake her head, "Because Cooper wants your piece, I hope you know that"
"No Ambie, he-"
"He's not gonna change, he's never gonna change!" she shouted and shook her head, "Mommy I LOVE you, and I LOVE Daddy and I'm okay with Connor, but Cooper HURT you! He HURT you and I don't miss him! I don't CARE about you and Daddy always banging each other, but Cooper?" she scowled and shook her head, "He doesn't BELONG here! This is OUR family! That is MY Daddy! You are MY Mommy! And he hurt you both! That's enough to make me wanna come after him with a steak knife because I hate him! You HAVE to stop loving him, Mommy!" she stamped a foot and begged, "PLEASE! Cooper's BAD he is and I hate him!"
With that she stormed out of the room when she almost ran into James walking in with Elizabeth and Chelsea in his arms.
"Pumpkin!" he frowned as she walked away without a word and looked up at Mindy, "Baby, what's the matter?"
"She hates Cooper" Mindy shrugged while standing so she could meet him halfway and rub their noses together, "What else is new?"
"I'd like a blowjob, please" before he could finish the sentence Mindy was seated at the piano bench fumbling with his pants until his cock was free, swirling her tongue around the tip and licking the vein underneath for a few moments before completely engulfing him with the walls of her little throat, "Good girl…" he groaned and held her hair while watching, "That's my good girl…I love you."
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"I can't believe Dad STABBED you…" Cooper frowned while running his fingers through Connor's hair, "Has he completely lost his fucking mind?"
"As far as YOU'RE concerned?" Tiffany replied sharply from her coloring book page of the Powerpuff Girls where she had written 'Barbie' over Bubbles, 'Taryn' over Blossom, and 'Loo' over Buttercup, "You're lucky to even be alive right now I don't understand why you keep coming back when you know no one except Connor wants you here"
"Mom wants me" he replied while Tiffany coldly motioned around her.
"All this, Cooper…" her voice dropped and she shook her head, "all this is because of you."
"Hey!" Connor frowned at Tiffany when the young blonde shook her head firmly.
"Don't you 'hey' me, Mister" she shook her head, "I'm interim Mommy for now, alright? And I say that Cooper is BAD news for you, sugarplum. I don't side with your Daddy at all, but I do agree with him on all of this being a direct result of YOU putting your hands where they don't belong"
"Oh, seriously?" Cooper frowned and shook his head, "Momma's totally over that"
"To appease you" she said stiffly, "She's appeasing you because she's schizophrenic and doesn't understand where to draw a line, so I as her replacement sister am doing that for her. She can't say no to you, Cooper, but I can and I'll do it for Connor too"
"Tiffany STOP it!" Connor shook his head worriedly when Tiffany shot him a glare and shook her head at Cooper.
"You have done nothing to prove you were sorry beyond groveling to the mentally ill one because you know you can take advantage of her. Daddy is never ever going to forgive you, but you could have tried to at least have him TOLERATE you! He could have maybe in time tolerated you because I'll be honest here" she shrugged indifferently, "By doing all the stupid shit you've been doing all you're proving is how right he is about you. He calls you out for raping your mom and what do you do? You go and start screwing your own brother! How sick ARE you? You lost Loo, you lost Jeff, you lost Daddy, you lost me, you lost the babies…" she shook her head and shrugged, "This is all you! We loved you just totally fine until you decided to be a little shit and touch Loo-loo when you KNEW that would be bad! James will NEVER give her up even if she kicked and screamed for a divorce he'd never give her up. Your mom's the exact same way with him. Neither of them are going anywhere anytime in the next ten lives. You CAN NOT break them up, nor will you even come close to because I got news for you. Even if she DID willingly screw you, James wouldn't place ANY blame on her. He's a lunatic for her and you got in the way of that and just look at the monster you've created! He's killing your ex's brother, stabbing Connor…" she slapped her hands to her thighs and shrugged, "what next?"
"Look…" Cooper shook his head and motioned to Connor, "I only came to see my brother, I'm-"
"I want you to leave" she said stiffly, "and I want you to leave now before I call security in here and make you"
"But-"
"Go back to WHEREVER it is you came from and leave us alone"
"Tiffany!" Connor frowned and shook his head, "No no no no"
"Stop it" she shook her head at him and sat on the bed, running her fingers through his hair, "NOW Cooper! Before I call James!"
Cooper's eyes watered as he nodded meekly, waving goodbye as subtly as he could before leaving both Connor and Tiffany all by themselves, Connor obviously less than pleased with Tiffany but she didn't care at the moment.
"I'm sorry Connor" she shook her head at him sternly, "but I can't deal with him and if you love me you'll understand why. He did things to your mommy that I can't ever forgive"
"Same as everybody else" he pouted and rolled his eyes, "You all just want me to be MISERABLE!"
"No I don't" Tiffany shook her head before pulling out her phone and looking at the picture she just colored in and dialing Mindy's number.
"What would you like from my life?" came Mindy's tired voice while Tiffany could clearly hear a movie of some nature playing in the background.
"Loo…" she smiled gently before speaking up, "When Babs comes up I know what we're wearing to Likansuk's costume party."
"Hmm?" obviously Mindy had racked her brain over this as well when Tiffany finally chirped.
"Slutty Powerpuff Girls!"
"Ohhhh YES!" Mindy cheered happily while bouncing on the couch and hugging James even though he was clueless, "That is AMAZING when's Babs coming so we can shop?"
"Tuesday" Tiffany nodded before suddenly cringing, "and you gotta help me find a red wig."
"I need green contacts" Mindy nodded when Tiffany started sniggering.
"I need pink ones."
"Fuckin Barbie has it the best" Mindy rolled her eyes and groaned, "Bitch already has blonde hair and blue eyes what injustice is this?"
"Oh don't worry" Tiffany's eyes widened and she snickered, "she gets to be Will Turner for the after parties"
"I shotty Jack Sparrow, you know nobody can top my Jack Sparrow, and you know I was born to be the drag version of that role."
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Finding his way back to Taylor's apartment building since that was essentially the only place he had to go left, he opened the door to have her arms wrap around him at the look on his face and she pulled him towards the couch to sit with him.
"Aww boo…" she frowned while rubbing his back, not asking anything personal but just letting him sit on the little pink blowup couch with her while she soothed him, "I'm sorry, how's your brother?"
"Dad kinda stabbed him" he shrugged, "he's as alright as he's going to get"
"I'm sorry…" she frowned and shook her head at how distraught he was, "Is there anything I can do? Or…?"
"It's alright…" he tried to wave her off but she shook her head and hugged him tighter.
"No it's not alright. Dude I told you you fucked up big, but still man, you don't deserve"
"My mom's best friend is a fucking lunatic with her and literally shoved me out of the room"
"That the blonde with the husband?" she waited for Cooper to nod before sighing and running a hand through her hair, "Excellent. And did Mommy or Daddy show up while you were there?"
"Thank Christ no" he shook his head and ran a hand through his hair. "I hope Dad doesn't show up ever again"
"Then how are you ever going to fix things?"
"When he wants me DEAD?" he made eye contact with her for a moment before shrugging as her hold on him tightened tenfold, "I really don't know…"