Babysitting & Nightmares, Or Are They One and The Same?
"Ginny, I can do it! All the help you guys have given me it's the least I can do! Plus, you didn't have to bring me all of those candles… Trust me a little babysitting won't kill me!" I said trying to convince her to let me baby-sit everyone's kids. She usually did it but had to run some errands tomorrow.
"You'd be surprised!" She answered. Whoa, that did not sound good. "Let me guess, you've only ever watched Tieran and his friends. Am I right?"
"Yeah, what about it?" I asked.
"They're a cake walk when you compare them to our kids. Think about how bad we were, then times it by ten and add two. Then you have our kids…" she trailed off laughing and shaking her head. "Plus, there are eight of them, so times the last thing I said by eight."
"I'm sure it's not that bad. Come on, Ginny. I can do it," I begged. I was in the middle of searching for a job so it was not like I had anything else to do.
"Fine, but just don't kill them, k?" She said after a length of time.
"I promise I won't kill them," I said in a cross my heart hope to die manner.
Tieran,
Hello, how are you? Do you like your classes? I hope you're having fun! I forgot to warn you about Snape. He's so evil to some of the students. He was particularly hard on Adyna's dad, Neville. I felt sorry for the guy, but he's a researcher and developer of potions now! Well, the house is all cleaned up now. It's ready for you to move in during the Christmas break. I'm babysitting for everyone tomorrow. Wish me luck. Well that's all for now. Bye Tier.
Love,
Dad
P.S. What have I gotten myself into?
* * *
I lay down to sleep in my nice clean, newly painted bedroom. It was wonderful to finally call a place home. You have no idea how monotonous moving around from place to place. I drifted off into a troubled sleep. It was the first time I had had a dream of that night. It was terrible to relive it.
* * *
"Lenia!" I screamed running through the doors of my old home. I heard her scream of terror. I found her in our kitchen; sprawled on the ground, face down, and lifeless. Tieran was screeching in his highchair, he was only a few months old. There was a pool of blood surrounding my wife. I heard someone laugh behind me.
"You asshole!!" I shouted in rage.
"Is that the best you can do?" Sneered the cold voice of my father.
"No, this is the best I can do," I grabbed my wand from inside my robes and was about to strike him down with a curse when I changed my mind. "No, I will not give you the painless death of a curse. You will feel a knife through your heart as I have!"
I lunged at him with the knife from the island in the middle of the kitchen. He was quite strong for a man of his age. The struggle went on for quite a few moments. He was trying to force the blade into me. But in the end good triumphs over evil and I lodged the blade in his chest. He stopped struggling.
Mad as I was, he was my father. I pulled him into my lap and he put his hand up to cup my chin.
"No matter what happened, I was always proud of you. I am sorry," he went motionless in my arms.
* * *
The doorbell rang. I was so nervous; I must have been on something when I begged Ginny to let me baby-sit all eight of the kids. I yanked (I say yanked because the door kept sticking) open the door and she was surrounded by a throng of munchkins.
"Here you go and good luck. You're going to need it. Don't give them too much sugar." And with that she left eight kids staring at me.
After a moment, Sirius bounded in and hugged me.
"Hey kido," I smiled.
"Hey Dray," She smiled and then turned to the other kids. It looked as if they were much shyer than Sirius and had not gotten used to me. "Come on guys! He's not going to bite you!"
She ran into my house and plopped onto the couch. The rest of the kids looked at me unsure. Then two kids, I think it was Galahad and Hayden, tackled me and the rest of the kids ran into the house to sit with Sirius.
"Whoa! Guys take pity on an old man!" I said as I picked them both up, much like Dean had done. I turned into the house and then dropped them both on the couch. "So what do you guys want to do?"
"Sardines!!!" They all shouted at once and it sounded like a dragon roared.
"And that is?"
"A game!" Sirius laughed.
"I know that but how do you play?" I asked.
"Someone hides and the rest of us look for them. When you find the person you jam into the spot where they are hiding. The last person to get there is it," she answered. She turned to the rest of her friends. "Who's going to be It?"
They all turned and collectively pointed at me. Sirius laughed and instantly agreed. Soon I found myself looking for a spot to hide in the big house. I dashed up one staircase, slammed a door and lightly ran down the other stairs, hoping they hadn't heard me descend the other stairs. I was like a big kid running around my house. I finally decided to hide in the tiny crawlspace that could fit me and about two other kids. So, there I sat and waited.
After about five minutes, I heard a mad dash of feet go overhead. They thought I had gone upstairs. Yes! Score one for me. There was a tap on the door and I stiffened. Sirius pushed the door open with her foot, smiling broadly.
"Damn it! You found me," I said in fake shock.
"Don't swear, Dray," She said as she down on my lap and kicked the door shut. O.k. I was wrong, we could fit three kids in here with me, but no doubt seven will be jammed in here. "It's bad for your karma."
We heard a couple of doors slam and then another stampede of feet racing down the stairs. I heard a couple go in the kitchen and the rest run outside. We both held our breath as we heard Galahad laugh insanely as he ran past us. We relaxed and then the door burst open and he dived at us. Two down, six to go. The door creaked open and in slid Glen. Three down, five to go. Guinevere and Larissa found us not five minutes later. It was starting to get cramped. I had two girls on my lap and the rest were crammed all around. Five down, three to go. Hayden and Gawain found us next, and they were having a hard time shutting the door. We were waiting for Adrian.
I was starting to get worried when he didn't show up after fifteen minutes.
"Come on guys," I said as I pushed Sirius and Guinevere off my lap. I climbed out of the crawl space and walked through the house. I finally found him, in the main living room and he was contentedly reading a book. "Thanks so much Adrian for leaving me in a crawlspace filled with kids, eh?"
"Hmm? What? Oh sorry," he said as he was brought back to reality from whatever book he was reading.
"Who's hungry?" I asked. Everyone started bouncing around saying, 'I am.' They were really cute; I could not understand why Ginny had said that they were terrible. So, we walked into the kitchen and I began making grilled cheese sandwiches and peanut butter sandwiches.
The morning and lunch went well enough. I had let them have some pop, so the afternoon spiralled into insanity.
* * *
I had parked them in front of the television to watch a muggle video called, 'The Lord of the Rings.' They seemed to like that well enough. They all laughed so hard at the hobbit-things. I sat and watched the movie too. I laughed mostly at them.
"Mr. Draco?" Larissa was standing beside me.
"What is it, Larissa?" I asked gently.
"Could I have a drink of pop?" She asked sweetly.
"Of course," I said as I got up. "Anyone else want anything to drink?" They all said what they wanted and I soon returned with an armful of pop cans. "Here you go guys-."
I dropped the pop cans to the floor. You would not believe what I saw there. Every single one of the kids were jumping around and throwing things.
"Accio fireworks!" I shouted, pointing my wand in the direction of Galahad and Hayden.
"Hey!" Was there angry shout.
"No way, are you two lighting fireworks in my partially new house!" I said angry. That seemed to be good enough reason and they went about jumping around.
I finally got all the kids onto the couch, sitting quietly and watching The Lord of the Rings. I left to get a washcloth to wipe off their faces, which were covered in dust.
When I came back, two were missing. Larissa and Hayden, Damn it! I cursed inside my head. God knows those kids would have flipped if I swore. Hayden and whoever might happen to be around would be a bad mix.
"Where are Hayden and Larissa?" I asked, trying to keep my voice calm.
"I think they went that way," Sirius said trying to keep a straight face, while pointing to her right. So, naturally, I went left. "You two! Living room, now!" They looked up startled; they were sitting on the stars eating… "Chocolate! O.k. give me that and get you're arses back in the living room…"
They walked toward the living room and I was almost stomping. What met my eyes made me want to go kick a wall in. The kids were going retarded! I swear… They were absolutely insane, no way was I doing this again. They were jumping on the couch, throwing things, from god knows where, and doing just about everything else to make me go insane.
"Immobulus!" I shouted with a flick of my wand, everyone, excluding myself, was frozen. I stomped into the kitchen and grabbed a beer. I sat on the couch and watched the rest of the lord of the rings (it was only at the part where they are on the tower and Frodo gets stabbed). I watched it from almost 3 hours.
"Draco!" Ginny called from the door.
"I'm in the living room," I called casually.
"Draco-. Oh my god!" Ginny laughed. "You seemed to get control of the situation well enough." She said as she surveyed the frozen kids and the horrendous state of my living room.
"Yeah, well no offence or nothing but I think I am only going to baby-sit your kids from now on."
* * *
Dad,
I don't know what you've gotten yourself into. Be careful. If those kids are worse than Darren and me were, you're in for a time. I'm sure you'll be fine though. Have fun and don't kill them. Everything is well enough here. Snape's a bitch as usual but there is no getting around that is there? I can't wait to see the house. Well, that's all really. Bye Dad,
Love,
Tier
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A/N: I know it took me a while. Please review Thanks so much for reading… I'm tired… Time for sleep… Anyway, thanks again… Luv Gia