Moo: Wow! This is the fastest Sari will and ever has updated!
Sari: Eh heh heh...
Disclaimer: We're just rabid fangirls.
Warnings: None!
"NO!"
"Huh?" Was Kratos' reply to his newest morning wake-up call, in the form of Colette yelling and the pitter-pattering of many little feet.
"Mommy wants wet towels for Sheena, mommy wants wet towels for Sheena," little Genis chanted to himself as he wet a large handful of washclothes in Kratos' bathroom. Baby Zelos could be heard shrieking "OH NO! BUBBLES HAS GIVEN HER RAINBOW INTOXIFOCO! SHE'S GOING TO CRYSTAFUNGITIS!" as he sprinted through the hallways, getting yelled at by Zelos ("Shut up, you little brat!")
Genis, his hands still soaking wet, decided to shake Kratos, dripping washclothes all over him, as he informed Kratos, "Sheena has a fever."
"Ah," Kratos said, annoyed that his clothes were wet (he hadn't bothered to change the night before) and smelled like petunias and avacados. "Go give those towels to your mom."
Genis nodded and ran to his mother, dripping water all over the floor.
Kratos grumbled for a while, for the first time in almost two weeks noticing the lurid pink and green curtains again, and mumbling they went very nicely with the smell of petunias and avacados that had made its way into the entire room. Simon was sneezing uncontrollably.
Finally Kratos decided to see if Sheena needed anything.
"Sheena? You okay?"
"HEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!"
Kratos shut the door quickly to keep himself safe from a the barrage of pillows before realizing he must have asked the wrong Sheena. He wandered to the nursery, finding himself in a pale blue room with yellow curtains, despite the lack of windows.
"Oh, dad, you're here. Can you go and get me three pieces of toast?" Lloyd asked, sighing as he attempted to feed Sheena some oatmeal. The toddler was outright refusing everything and was red in the face, screaming at the top of her lungs as Colette attempted to take her temperature, unable to stick the little earpeice into Sheena's ear.
"Sheena, honey, stay still," Lloyd attempted to reason, managing to get another glob of oatmeal on his shirt. When Kratos finally came down with three peices of slightly burnt toast, explaining he really didn't understand the toaster.
"Here, Colette," Lloyd said, stuffing a peice of toast into Colette's mouth as she struggled with the tiny child, unable to take her temperature.
Then Raine wandered in, pushing some of her blonde hair behind her ear and droning about how to cure a fever.
After two hours of droning, screaming, temperature-taking, and feeding oatmeal, Sheena managed to fall into a fitful sleep, allowing Lloyd to change his oatmeal encrusted clothing.
"Ah, this is awful!" Zelos moaned, examining his fingernails.
"Easy for you to say, you're not even doing anything," Genis grumbled, slamming a bowl of oatmeal down in front of the redhaired chosen.
"Hey! I hate oatmeal, brat!" Zelos whined, pushing the food away.
"Well, it's breakfast. If you don't want it, wait until lunch," Genis snapped, spooning some more oatmeal into a bowl. He was obviously extremely annoyed, slamming down oatmeal in front of everyone murderously.
"Why so mad?" the
smaller Genis asked, slurping up some oatmeal and making himself an
oatmeal mustache. "Is there something bad?"
"I woke up at
four o' clock," Genis grumbled, rubbing his eye as he spooned the
last bowl of oatmeal – his own – into a bowl and began eating it,
ignoring how hot it was. "I need coffee. But we ran out because
Raine didn't bother to buy it in Sybak."
"She didn't?" Kratos asked, frowning. He would have sworn that he had seen some coffee.
"Well, she did, but I found it open, and I'm not risking it," Genis declared.
Lloyd spat a mouthful of coffee out. "What did the Professor do to it? It's terrible!"
Genis inspected the coffee. "Um, there's playdoh in there."
Everyone looked at little Raine, still immersed in her book on health.
"What?" she asked innocently, turning the page. "You should be happy. Pink playdoh is the best sort."
Lloyd looked
murderous. "You put playdoh in my coffee?"
"Yes. I thought
you would be happy. Usually me and Regal share it all by ourselves.
It's the best kind." She smiled happily. "It's the saltiest,
you see. I love salt, but Sheena says it's gross." Raine sighed.
"It says to cure a fever, you should let the sick person rest for
as long as nessacery, or... see..." Raine began flipping the pages
quickly, muttering.
"Muffins..." the younger Kratos sighed, eating a cold cupcake from some time or another, obviously half asleep.
"Ah, what luck," Raine said happily after a half an hour. "See! The page I was looking for was stuck in the front by someone... It says you can heal a fever with first aid."
Everyone stared at the toddler with their jaws down to the floor.
"What?" Lloyd whispered, fingering a clump of oatmeal in his hair.
"What?" Colette murmered, dropping the thermometer.
"What?" Genis said, dropping three dripping towels.
"RAINE!" All of them yelled in unison, waiting for the healer to come.
"First aid!" Raine said, making the small girl return to a normal color and return to a normal temperature.
"So that's done," Lloyd said happily, breathing out. "It's lunchtime, right?"
"I hope so," Zelos said, looking hungry. He had skipped breakfast.
"We're having linner," Genis said cheerily, not noticing his two friends' dismayed looks. "You'll have to wait several hours."
"BRAT!" Zelos screamed, beginning to chase Genis around the deck angrily, his fingers outstreached.
"Ah, prefectly normal chaos," Kratos commented to Simon the cat and Murray the dog, attempting to unbraid a dreadlock-like braid in the dog's long hair. "Prefectly normal chaos."
After several hours and one linner later, Kratos headed to bed early, deciding to skip the friends' customary wine and cheese after dark.
"A... Letter?" Yuan asked himself, staring at the pale pink envelope and shuddering slightly, nearly dropping it. It had lots of little fingerprints all over it.
Dear Yuan,
We were wondering if you could come on our boat with us. We are sailing around the world. You can stay for however long you wish. Kratos is coming for a month.
If so, meet us at the Thoda Geyser on the fifteenth.
Love,
Colette, Lloyd, Kratos, Genis, presea, ZELOS, Raine, SHNA
"Okay, I'll think about it," Yuan said, smiling at the line of signatures.
Sari: Foreshadowing is good.Moo: ... –sweatdrop-