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The train's leaving!
A few minutes later they all were ready to get going and fortunately they all fit into Eric's mini van. It took them the best of an hour to fight their way through the traffic, and then Eric dropped them off in front of the pier then went looking for a parking space. The boys were all excited and running around, so that Julie had trouble catching up with them.
"Max, could you take care of Sean, please, while I go after Nick?" she asked.
The little boy was running towards the edge of the pier as fast as his little legs would permit, his eyes focused on a big white seagull which was sitting on one of the posts there.
Max hesitantly followed the kid. Why hadn't Julie asked Logan to go after him? She had no clue how to handle a child!
She grabbed the hood of Sean's coat before he could follow his brother. "Stop! You stay here with us." she said, kneeling down to pick him up and carry him back to the others. But the moment she wanted to lift him, he started screaming and yelling like crazy.
Obviously he didn't agree with her at all.
Logan and Beth watched the whole scene, slightly amused. Max, the usually self-confident young woman, suddenly seemed helpless, facing a little kid. Max held the struggling boy at his waist, looking back to Beth or Logan for help. To her annoyance, the two of them were just laughing at her.
"Hey!" she called out to them. "Would you stop laughing and come here to help me?!"
"Come on, Max. He is like what? Half as tall as you are? Even less?" Logan grinned, enjoying Max's situation immensely. But he also feared her reaction, so he decided it was probably better to get his ass over there and help her out.
He slowly rolled closer and set his brakes next to her and the screaming child.
Max shot him an angry look. "So what am I supposed to do now? Talking doesn't seem to help here! And I can't take him down, right!" she added in a lower voice so that Beth couldn't hear it.
Logan giggled. "No, you can't Max. He is family. Let me hold him, okay?" He stretched out his arms, offering to take Sean from her. "If you panic, he feels it, Max." He lectured her.
Max rolled her eyes. "And who taught you that? Maybe he just doesn't like me," she pouted.
"Nah, he is just pissed his brother was faster."
He held the little boy tight, glad he couldn't feel his little feet kicking him.
Max watched Logan admiringly. He certainly looked cute with the little boy on his lap.
Logan was surprised to see Sean calm down in his embrace. Apparently his glasses suddenly were of great interest, greater than Nick at least.
"Hey," he chided the kid good-humouredly. "I need those." He wrenched his glasses from the boy's tight grip and put them back on. But before he knew, Sean had found something far more interesting. "Hey, what are you up to now?"
"I think he wants a ride." Max chuckled.
"Yeah, apparently. And he would love to push the wheels himself."
The boy let out a piercing scream and then explained himself. "Me! Me! Sean wants to drive."
"Sorry, pal. You gotta take me along."
Max laughed out and stepped behind Logan. "Okay, you guys, hold on tight, this train is leaving in a few seconds for the ice cream booth," she exclaimed cheerfully.
Logan chuckled and held the kid tight when he felt his chair being moved forward way too fast for his liking. He hated not being in control, and being shoved as fast made it even worse. Max set into a run, pushing the chair in front of her. She had to manoeuvre around some pedestrians, who threw them puzzled looks and stepped aside. Sean kept on laughing and screaming, apparently enjoying every moment of the wild ride. He would have toppled off the chair if Logan hadn't held him with a firm grip.
**
Beth stayed close to Julie and Nick and looked after the three of them, shaking her head, laughing. Julie stepped next to her, carrying her other son. "They are quite a couple, huh?"
"Yes." Beth smiled. "It's good for Logan to have her. She is such a nice and cheerful girl. ..And carefree," she nodded in their direction, smiling.
"Logan had a hard time, hadn't he? Eric didn't tell me much about him, I guess he just didn't know
much either."
Beth's smile faded. "I think so, yes. But I don't know much either. He wouldn't talk to me, after...you know." she sighed. "Locked himself up like he always did."
"Maybe Max can help him. I have a feeling she knows how to handle him." Julie discovered her husband in the crowd and waved at him. "We're here!"
"Hi, ladies. Where is the rest?" He took Nick from Julie as the little boy stretched out his hands for his Daddy. Julie just grinned and pointed towards the end of the pier, where she could hardly make out the others.
"So Sean is earning himself ice cream I guess." He shook his head. "Unbelievable how much of that stuff they can eat."
"And they just had lunch!"
"But we better make sure, this little guy gets his share, so we won't have to put up with the same show his brother displayed a couple of minutes ago!" Beth inserted.
"Yes, please." Julie groaned.
They slowly made their way through the crowd; Nick now sitting on his Dad's shoulders.
**
Max had slowed down where the booths stood closer to have a look around.
Sean started to wobble up and down in Logan's lap, yelling for more, so that Logan had trouble escaping the boy's little arms and bobbing head.
"Looks like we just found out what else this chair is good for!" Max chuckled. "Ever seen a happier child?"
"Just for the record, if there is no child in my lap, don't dare to do that."
Logan tried to sit up a little straighter, he was totally aware of the people casting him odd looks. He knew exactly what they thought. He sighed inwardly; he was not going to put up with that right now.
"Ah, come on Logan, relax! I was not planning on pushing you off the pier or something." Max said, rolling her eyes. She was in such a good mood. She just wasn't up for one of his bitter minutes. Why couldn't he just give a damn about what other people thought and relax?
She picked up the boy from his lap and looked around. "I'm gonna get Sean some ice cream now."
"Sure. Here." He reached into the pocket of his jacket and handed her a five dollar note. "I want one, too, please."
"Okay two scoops of ice-ream for the two boys," she grinned. "Which flavour?"
"Let's go crazy, chocolate and vanilla, for both of us." Logan grinned, his mood much better again.
Max hesitated for a moment. "Shouldn't we ask Julie or your uncle first?"
"I think it's OK, but you can wait if you want to. I'm sure they will be here soon." He looked at the child in Max's arms. "Not so sure about this little fella being as patient though."
"Ice queam, Ice queam!" Sean yelled bobbing up and down in Max arm.
Logan laughed when he saw the helpless look in Max's eyes.
"Okay, I'll get some now," she said standing in line at the small nostalgic ice-cream booth.
"Mhhh, looks like self-made." she said nodding towards the huge bowls filled with creamy ice.
Logan wheeled closer aware of the fact that she could hardly carry Sean, hold the ice cream cones and pay all at the same time. No amount of multi-tasking could create a third arm.
"Here, let me take Sean."
Max looked down at him, and then understood. Besides, she didn't feel all too comfortable, carrying a screaming kid. She tried to put the boy down on Logan's lap, but Sean refused to sit down, so she let him slide to the ground. Logan grabbed the back of his jacket to keep him from running away.
"Whoa there, little fella. You are gonna stay here with me." Logan quickly set his brakes with one hand. He tried to tighten his grip on Sean, but the kid was faster and managed to break free.
"Shit! Max!" he exclaimed, unlocking his brakes to follow him. But the kid was already winding his way through the people too fast for him to follow, without running anyone over.
Max had just been watching the queue in front of her, so she didn't react immediately.
When she finally turned around she couldn't make out Logan and Sean right away. Worriedly she stepped away from the queue, scanning the crowd. But of course she was not going to find them like that. They both disappeared, being on a lower level then everybody else.
"Logan?" She pivoted and finally made out Logan's voice. "Excuse me." She shoved another woman aside. "Where's Sean?" Logan ran his hand through his hair. "I don't know!!" he said irritated. "He just struggled free and disappeared in the crowd. I had no chance to keep up with him."
"No problem. We'll get him, he can't be far." Max quickly made her way through the crowds. Hell, two minutes ago, there seemed to have been only half as many people here.
**
How could a little boy be that fast? Finally Max saw him, sitting right on the ground, observing two pigeons fighting for a piece of bread.
"Here you are. God, you scared us." She picked him up and looked around, now Logan was nowhere in sight. "We have to find Logan now."
Logan spotted Max in the distance who was waving blindly into his direction. She didn't seem to see him, so he hurried to get to her. When he had almost reached her, a couple strolling leisurely along the pier blocked his path, leaving too small space on the left and right for the chair to fit through. Logan slowed down and excused himself. When there was no reaction, he raised his voice "Excuse me!" The couple seemed to be totally lost in each other's eyes and didn't react. Instead they stopped abruptly, kissing, too quickly for Logan to bring the chair to a stop. The footrest bumped into the girl's heels.
"Hey!" the guy turned around. "Watch out where you're going!" he shouted.
Logan backed up a little. "I'm sorry, but..." "Are you blind or what? Could have said something instead of running us over!" The guy was a complete show-off, obviously trying to impress his girlfriend by stepping in for her.
Logan sighed. "I did so twice, in fact, but you were obviously too...busy to notice."
Max had watched the scene from ten feet away. She was unable to move for a moment. She couldn't believe what was happening. Finally she snapped awake and stepped forward, holding Sean protectively. "Cut it out! It wasn't his fault!" she addressed the bully young man.
The man turned around to look at her. "Oh yeah? And who are you to know? If he can't drive that thing, he'd better stay home." he blurted turning towards his girlfriend to check if she was okay.
Max was about to burst, only the child in her arms kept her from slamming her fist right into the guys face. Instead she took one deep breath and stepped closer, the guy wasn't much taller than she was, so she could look him in the eyes. "I want you to apologise for being a total idiot. Now." Her voice was icy and cold.
The guy just laughed. "Me? Apologise for what?? He was it who ran into us. And why do you care anyway? ...'He your lil' puppy or what?"
"Shut up!"
"Max...let it go." Logan laid a calming hand on her arm. "He is not worth it."
Max still didn't move, she still stared right at the guy, but somehow Logan's touch calmed her. Slowly she relaxed.
"Max! It's okay. Let's go." Logan insisted, his calm voice betraying his own fury.
Slowly Max took a step back and finally took her gaze away from the other guy who had flinched at her stare long ago. She suddenly realised the crowd that had built itself around them and chided herself for losing control like that.
Logan reached up to take the child from her, who had grown all quiet in shock about the shouting people around him. "Easy Max, let me take him." Max hadn't realised that she had involuntarily tightened her grip around the little boy, who was now eyeing her warily, thinking her had done something wrong.
"I'm sorry," she mumbled. "Let's get outta here." She took a deep breath to collect herself and then got hold of Logan's chair to push him away from the spot.
**
"That was awful." Max said, when they had gotten away from the crowd. "What a complete idiot! How can he be so ignorant?!"
"You better get used to scenes like that Max." Logan replied. "You can't go around kicking people's asses all the time."
"Not all the time-just this time….What do you mean? You get this all the time?"
"Let's say there are a lot of stupid people out there." Logan said dryly. He hated situations like this, but he knew there was no use in starting a discussion or anything each and every time.
Max frowned. "That sucks!"
"Welcome to my world, Max!" Logan said bitter sarcasm filling his voice.
Max stood still thinking, and then bent down to kiss his neck softly. "So if you can't change people, whatcha gonna do about that?" Logan just shrugged, waiting for her answer.
"Don't let it get to you. 'Cause you are a wonderful person and everybody who doesn't see that or isn't willing to look beyond the chair is a complete idiot….What do you think, Sean?" she added with a smile at the boy.
"Yeah, Yeah!" the boy chattered, rocking back and forth on Logan's lap, trying to make the chair move again. Both Max and Logan burst into a laugh at that.
"Let's get that ice-cream and then go back to the others," Logan said, adjusting Sean on his lap. "Hold tight, lil' fellow!"
**
TBC…
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A/N: We just want to inform you guys that you should imagine the twins being two-year-old boys. Alaidh warned us that they act like 2-year-olds and we might have introduced them as 3-year-olds. As we do not have the time to rewrite everything and adjust it, please just accept it as it is. Thank you!!!
Talking about Alaidh: Thank you so much!
And now enjoy, for once it's a longer chapter- so review!!!!!!
**
The train's leaving!
A few minutes later they all were ready to get going and fortunately they all fit into Eric's mini van. It took them the best of an hour to fight their way through the traffic, and then Eric dropped them off in front of the pier then went looking for a parking space. The boys were all excited and running around, so that Julie had trouble catching up with them.
"Max, could you take care of Sean, please, while I go after Nick?" she asked.
The little boy was running towards the edge of the pier as fast as his little legs would permit, his eyes focused on a big white seagull which was sitting on one of the posts there.
Max hesitantly followed the kid. Why hadn't Julie asked Logan to go after him? She had no clue how to handle a child!
She grabbed the hood of Sean's coat before he could follow his brother. "Stop! You stay here with us." she said, kneeling down to pick him up and carry him back to the others. But the moment she wanted to lift him, he started screaming and yelling like crazy.
Obviously he didn't agree with her at all.
Logan and Beth watched the whole scene, slightly amused. Max, the usually self-confident young woman, suddenly seemed helpless, facing a little kid. Max held the struggling boy at his waist, looking back to Beth or Logan for help. To her annoyance, the two of them were just laughing at her.
"Hey!" she called out to them. "Would you stop laughing and come here to help me?!"
"Come on, Max. He is like what? Half as tall as you are? Even less?" Logan grinned, enjoying Max's situation immensely. But he also feared her reaction, so he decided it was probably better to get his ass over there and help her out.
He slowly rolled closer and set his brakes next to her and the screaming child.
Max shot him an angry look. "So what am I supposed to do now? Talking doesn't seem to help here! And I can't take him down, right!" she added in a lower voice so that Beth couldn't hear it.
Logan giggled. "No, you can't Max. He is family. Let me hold him, okay?" He stretched out his arms, offering to take Sean from her. "If you panic, he feels it, Max." He lectured her.
Max rolled her eyes. "And who taught you that? Maybe he just doesn't like me," she pouted.
"Nah, he is just pissed his brother was faster."
He held the little boy tight, glad he couldn't feel his little feet kicking him.
Max watched Logan admiringly. He certainly looked cute with the little boy on his lap.
Logan was surprised to see Sean calm down in his embrace. Apparently his glasses suddenly were of great interest, greater than Nick at least.
"Hey," he chided the kid good-humouredly. "I need those." He wrenched his glasses from the boy's tight grip and put them back on. But before he knew, Sean had found something far more interesting. "Hey, what are you up to now?"
"I think he wants a ride." Max chuckled.
"Yeah, apparently. And he would love to push the wheels himself."
The boy let out a piercing scream and then explained himself. "Me! Me! Sean wants to drive."
"Sorry, pal. You gotta take me along."
Max laughed out and stepped behind Logan. "Okay, you guys, hold on tight, this train is leaving in a few seconds for the ice cream booth," she exclaimed cheerfully.
Logan chuckled and held the kid tight when he felt his chair being moved forward way too fast for his liking. He hated not being in control, and being shoved as fast made it even worse. Max set into a run, pushing the chair in front of her. She had to manoeuvre around some pedestrians, who threw them puzzled looks and stepped aside. Sean kept on laughing and screaming, apparently enjoying every moment of the wild ride. He would have toppled off the chair if Logan hadn't held him with a firm grip.
**
Beth stayed close to Julie and Nick and looked after the three of them, shaking her head, laughing. Julie stepped next to her, carrying her other son. "They are quite a couple, huh?"
"Yes." Beth smiled. "It's good for Logan to have her. She is such a nice and cheerful girl. ..And carefree," she nodded in their direction, smiling.
"Logan had a hard time, hadn't he? Eric didn't tell me much about him, I guess he just didn't know
much either."
Beth's smile faded. "I think so, yes. But I don't know much either. He wouldn't talk to me, after...you know." she sighed. "Locked himself up like he always did."
"Maybe Max can help him. I have a feeling she knows how to handle him." Julie discovered her husband in the crowd and waved at him. "We're here!"
"Hi, ladies. Where is the rest?" He took Nick from Julie as the little boy stretched out his hands for his Daddy. Julie just grinned and pointed towards the end of the pier, where she could hardly make out the others.
"So Sean is earning himself ice cream I guess." He shook his head. "Unbelievable how much of that stuff they can eat."
"And they just had lunch!"
"But we better make sure, this little guy gets his share, so we won't have to put up with the same show his brother displayed a couple of minutes ago!" Beth inserted.
"Yes, please." Julie groaned.
They slowly made their way through the crowd; Nick now sitting on his Dad's shoulders.
**
Max had slowed down where the booths stood closer to have a look around.
Sean started to wobble up and down in Logan's lap, yelling for more, so that Logan had trouble escaping the boy's little arms and bobbing head.
"Looks like we just found out what else this chair is good for!" Max chuckled. "Ever seen a happier child?"
"Just for the record, if there is no child in my lap, don't dare to do that."
Logan tried to sit up a little straighter, he was totally aware of the people casting him odd looks. He knew exactly what they thought. He sighed inwardly; he was not going to put up with that right now.
"Ah, come on Logan, relax! I was not planning on pushing you off the pier or something." Max said, rolling her eyes. She was in such a good mood. She just wasn't up for one of his bitter minutes. Why couldn't he just give a damn about what other people thought and relax?
She picked up the boy from his lap and looked around. "I'm gonna get Sean some ice cream now."
"Sure. Here." He reached into the pocket of his jacket and handed her a five dollar note. "I want one, too, please."
"Okay two scoops of ice-ream for the two boys," she grinned. "Which flavour?"
"Let's go crazy, chocolate and vanilla, for both of us." Logan grinned, his mood much better again.
Max hesitated for a moment. "Shouldn't we ask Julie or your uncle first?"
"I think it's OK, but you can wait if you want to. I'm sure they will be here soon." He looked at the child in Max's arms. "Not so sure about this little fella being as patient though."
"Ice queam, Ice queam!" Sean yelled bobbing up and down in Max arm.
Logan laughed when he saw the helpless look in Max's eyes.
"Okay, I'll get some now," she said standing in line at the small nostalgic ice-cream booth.
"Mhhh, looks like self-made." she said nodding towards the huge bowls filled with creamy ice.
Logan wheeled closer aware of the fact that she could hardly carry Sean, hold the ice cream cones and pay all at the same time. No amount of multi-tasking could create a third arm.
"Here, let me take Sean."
Max looked down at him, and then understood. Besides, she didn't feel all too comfortable, carrying a screaming kid. She tried to put the boy down on Logan's lap, but Sean refused to sit down, so she let him slide to the ground. Logan grabbed the back of his jacket to keep him from running away.
"Whoa there, little fella. You are gonna stay here with me." Logan quickly set his brakes with one hand. He tried to tighten his grip on Sean, but the kid was faster and managed to break free.
"Shit! Max!" he exclaimed, unlocking his brakes to follow him. But the kid was already winding his way through the people too fast for him to follow, without running anyone over.
Max had just been watching the queue in front of her, so she didn't react immediately.
When she finally turned around she couldn't make out Logan and Sean right away. Worriedly she stepped away from the queue, scanning the crowd. But of course she was not going to find them like that. They both disappeared, being on a lower level then everybody else.
"Logan?" She pivoted and finally made out Logan's voice. "Excuse me." She shoved another woman aside. "Where's Sean?" Logan ran his hand through his hair. "I don't know!!" he said irritated. "He just struggled free and disappeared in the crowd. I had no chance to keep up with him."
"No problem. We'll get him, he can't be far." Max quickly made her way through the crowds. Hell, two minutes ago, there seemed to have been only half as many people here.
**
How could a little boy be that fast? Finally Max saw him, sitting right on the ground, observing two pigeons fighting for a piece of bread.
"Here you are. God, you scared us." She picked him up and looked around, now Logan was nowhere in sight. "We have to find Logan now."
Logan spotted Max in the distance who was waving blindly into his direction. She didn't seem to see him, so he hurried to get to her. When he had almost reached her, a couple strolling leisurely along the pier blocked his path, leaving too small space on the left and right for the chair to fit through. Logan slowed down and excused himself. When there was no reaction, he raised his voice "Excuse me!" The couple seemed to be totally lost in each other's eyes and didn't react. Instead they stopped abruptly, kissing, too quickly for Logan to bring the chair to a stop. The footrest bumped into the girl's heels.
"Hey!" the guy turned around. "Watch out where you're going!" he shouted.
Logan backed up a little. "I'm sorry, but..." "Are you blind or what? Could have said something instead of running us over!" The guy was a complete show-off, obviously trying to impress his girlfriend by stepping in for her.
Logan sighed. "I did so twice, in fact, but you were obviously too...busy to notice."
Max had watched the scene from ten feet away. She was unable to move for a moment. She couldn't believe what was happening. Finally she snapped awake and stepped forward, holding Sean protectively. "Cut it out! It wasn't his fault!" she addressed the bully young man.
The man turned around to look at her. "Oh yeah? And who are you to know? If he can't drive that thing, he'd better stay home." he blurted turning towards his girlfriend to check if she was okay.
Max was about to burst, only the child in her arms kept her from slamming her fist right into the guys face. Instead she took one deep breath and stepped closer, the guy wasn't much taller than she was, so she could look him in the eyes. "I want you to apologise for being a total idiot. Now." Her voice was icy and cold.
The guy just laughed. "Me? Apologise for what?? He was it who ran into us. And why do you care anyway? ...'He your lil' puppy or what?"
"Shut up!"
"Max...let it go." Logan laid a calming hand on her arm. "He is not worth it."
Max still didn't move, she still stared right at the guy, but somehow Logan's touch calmed her. Slowly she relaxed.
"Max! It's okay. Let's go." Logan insisted, his calm voice betraying his own fury.
Slowly Max took a step back and finally took her gaze away from the other guy who had flinched at her stare long ago. She suddenly realised the crowd that had built itself around them and chided herself for losing control like that.
Logan reached up to take the child from her, who had grown all quiet in shock about the shouting people around him. "Easy Max, let me take him." Max hadn't realised that she had involuntarily tightened her grip around the little boy, who was now eyeing her warily, thinking her had done something wrong.
"I'm sorry," she mumbled. "Let's get outta here." She took a deep breath to collect herself and then got hold of Logan's chair to push him away from the spot.
**
"That was awful." Max said, when they had gotten away from the crowd. "What a complete idiot! How can he be so ignorant?!"
"You better get used to scenes like that Max." Logan replied. "You can't go around kicking people's asses all the time."
"Not all the time-just this time….What do you mean? You get this all the time?"
"Let's say there are a lot of stupid people out there." Logan said dryly. He hated situations like this, but he knew there was no use in starting a discussion or anything each and every time.
Max frowned. "That sucks!"
"Welcome to my world, Max!" Logan said bitter sarcasm filling his voice.
Max stood still thinking, and then bent down to kiss his neck softly. "So if you can't change people, whatcha gonna do about that?" Logan just shrugged, waiting for her answer.
"Don't let it get to you. 'Cause you are a wonderful person and everybody who doesn't see that or isn't willing to look beyond the chair is a complete idiot….What do you think, Sean?" she added with a smile at the boy.
"Yeah, Yeah!" the boy chattered, rocking back and forth on Logan's lap, trying to make the chair move again. Both Max and Logan burst into a laugh at that.
"Let's get that ice-cream and then go back to the others," Logan said, adjusting Sean on his lap. "Hold tight, lil' fellow!"
**
TBC…
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