A/N: Someone on Tumblr requested a fic where Sasha's a daycare worker and Gabi's an unruly child she has to take care of. It was fun and sweet to write ^^
I also installed grammarly recently, but I think I'm too reliant on these spell-check/grammar systems lately ^^"
"Bang bang!" yells a child, poking a gun to Sasha's leg. The child pulls the trigger to her toy gun, but nothing comes out, the young girl having run out of ammo for her water gun a long time ago.
This is the part where Sasha pretends to fall down dead, but she's frankly a little too tired to play along. Sasha had put the young girl, Gabi Braun, to sleep along with the other preschoolers a long time ago, but it seems that the child had crawled away and grabbed her water gun while Sasha had her back turned.
Sasha kneels down so that she's face-to-face with Gabi, smiling at the little girl. "Gabi," Sasha says, repressing the urge to rip the water gun out of the girl's tiny hands. "Aren't you tired? Everyone's taking a nap. Maybe you should take a nap too so you're not tired when everyone wakes up!"
"Not tired!" the toddler squeaks, jabbing the gun into Sasha's knee. While the kid is cute, she's incredibly energetic. It means she's enthusiastic about trying new things – class activities, snacks none of the other children never tried before, and group games – but she's a pain in the ass to put to sleep.
"Aw, but sleep is so nice – hey!" Sasha nearly gets herself whacked in the face by Gabi's toy gun. To avoid getting hit by the plastic toy, she puts a hand gently on the water gun and lowers it. "Maybe put this down, Gabi? You could hurt someone if you swing it around like that."
"Naptime is boring!" Gabi says, wrestling the gun away from Sasha and waving it in the air again. She runs a short distance away from Sasha before turning around and pointing the gun at her head. "Put your hands up!"
"Ahaha, I think we've played that enough for now," Sasha laughs weakly. She looks at Jean for help, but he only shrugs at her from the counter he's leaning on. She probably never should have expected help from him anyway. Even though he's her partner in this daycare, he only really likes to spend time with the quieter children. ("Gabi likes you better anyway," Jean says even though he makes absolutely no effort in trying to get along with the unruly child.)
"You're on your own, Al Capone," he mouths, pretending to look after the sleeping children in the case that Gabi's shenanigans woke any of them up. Sasha knows he's going back to texting his girlfriend on his phone in a second though.
Sasha sighs. It looks like she'll have to deal with Gabi herself just like she always does. She stands up and walks to her bag, her sudden disinterest causing Gabi to follow her curiously and forget that she was trying to shoot down her preschool teacher. Sasha pretends not to notice that the girl is peering into her bag. There's only candy and snacks in there anyway.
With a smile, Sasha pulls out a gun of her own; it's a bright red with a clear compartment filled with colorful jelly beans. She turns around and lowers it to Gabi's eye-level, letting the girl take a closer look. "Check it out! Pretty cool, right?" Sasha asks her.
Gabi's eyes are wide as saucers. "What kind of gun is this?" she asks, her own gun clattering to the floor, forgotten.
"A candy gun!" Sasha says happily. "It shoots out candy. Like this!" She turns the gun to her mouth and pulls the trigger, allowing the gun to gently dispense a single jellybean into her mouth. She had originally bought the toy to annoy Jean. They had seen it in a store while shopping for preschool supplies and he had said it was the dumbest thing he had ever seen, so of course she had to buy it. Not only was it a fun way to eat her candy, she also discovered that her kids found it entertaining and she occasionally takes it out to get children to settle down.
"Do it again," Gabi demands. She stares at Sasha very intently, determined to understand how Sasha had managed to obtain a gun that could shoot out candy. The girl tugs at Sasha's jeans, telling her to kneel so that Gabi can observe everything more closely.
"Okay," Sasha laughs, squatting so that Gabi can take a closer look. Again, she points the gun into her mouth and it drops another jellybean into her mouth. After she closes her mouth, Sasha smiles at Gabi, happy that the girl had finally stopped jumping around and making a racket. At the very least she's not going to wake up the other children.
Gabi holds out her hand. "Give it to me," she tells Sasha. Her eyes are glued to the gun. "I want it."
"Er, I can't really give it to you," Sasha laughs. "But I can…give you some candy too. Is that okay?"
For a moment Gabi looks unhappy but she thinks about it for a second and decides that candy and no gun is better than no candy and no gun. "Fine," Gabi nods. "But you have to shoot it into my mouth like you just did!"
"On one condition," Sasha says, holding up a finger. She taps Gabi on the nose. "You have to go to sleep. I'll let you play for a little bit outside, but you have to go to nap like everyone else afterward."
Gabi stands there, assessing the choice presented to her, and finally agrees to it. "Fine!" she says. "Now give me my candy!" She opens her mouth wide for the candy, looking so silly that Sasha has to stop herself from laughing out loud.
Using one hand to cup Gabi's face gently and the other to point the candy gun in the little girl's mouth, Sasha pulls the trigger and a candy lands on the girl's tongue, making her flinch a little bit.
Gabi closes her mouth after that, sucking on the candy quite intensely. "It's s'mores flavored!" she cries with delight.
"Shh!" Sasha hushes her, pressing a finger to her mouth to remind Gabi that they need to be quiet.
For once, Gabi actually listens to her and clamps both of her hands to her mouth, nodding with a serious expression on her face. When Sasha points to the playground outside, Gabi nods and trots to go play outside.
"You do realize that giving her candy was a bad idea, right?" Jean asks, walking towards Sasha who's leaning against the doorframe. He taps on her candy gun and then points towards his mouth, opening it so that she can give him some jellybeans as well.
Sasha snorts and thinks about making a snide remark about how he thought the toy was a stupid purchase, but she instead lets him have the candy anyway. When he grimaces after tasting the flavor ("Ugh, black licorice," he says.), she grins.
"It's fine. She's going to have that little sugar high and then come crashing down, right?" Sasha says. It'd probably be more effective if she fed Gabi even more candy, but she doesn't think Reiner would appreciate if he found out that Sasha was just filling Gabi up like a piñata every time the kids needed to take a fifteen-minute nap.
Jean raises an eyebrow. "And you know that you need to deal with her while she's having that sugar high, right?"
Suddenly there's a crash and Sasha turns just in time to see Gabi lying on the ground after tumbling down the slide. For a second, she's panicked, but the girl immediately jumps back up and tries again to climb up the slide (in precisely the way that Jean and Sasha had repeatedly told all the kids not to climb the slide). Once again, she comes tumbling down, landing with a thud and cackling with joy.
"Ah, shit," Sasha mumbles as she runs over to Gabi. Maybe that candy gun was a stupid idea after all.
A/N: Thank you again for your kind words always! It makes writing so much better for me ^^
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