A/N: Anonymously requested as "the first time Andy meets April's parents." Simultaneously fills out a request for more Natalie (because who doesn't want more Natalie?)

April realizes all too late that she shouldn't have let Andy come and help her get some things from her parents' house. Though she was spending more and more time just hanging around Burly's house with him, the moment she stepped in the house there was the flicker of a memory triggered. Natalie sat upside down on the couch, her legs sticking over the back of the sofa and her head sitting on the floor. Her dad looked over but her mother wasn't in the room.

"Hey," April declared unceremoniously, waving her hand towards them and immediately moving to go upstairs. "Getting some of my stuff."

"Yeah, we're just gonna grab some-"

April turned around and gave Andy a glare, interrupting him. He clammed up instantly, a hand going to his lips. There was a sorry look all over his face when Natalie turned her head as much as she could and her dad noticed Andy. In the distance, like a horrible cry, came a shout of excitement.

"Oh God, you shouldn't have said anything, Andy," April whined and dashed up the stairs, leaving Andy behind.

"Where're you going?" Andy asked, hoping she could hear him.

"You're on your own!" she answered him, the slamming of a door reverberating out.

Turning around, curious what she meant, Andy sees in an instant. A short woman, her face entirely captured in a smile and holding out her arms like she's ready to hug him, walked in front of Andy and motioned for him with those open arms. Tentatively, he stepped forward until he gave in and accepted the hug. Andy was kind of an expert on hugs. He knew who gave the best ones, for different reasons too: Ron tried to make it look like he didn't want those hugs but Andy could tell otherwise, Leslie had the same enthusiasm for each one that he did and those were awesome, and April's made him feel like he could run for a thousand years and never get tired.

April's mom's hugs were almost the best of all those put together. She pulled him into a back crushing embrace that he barely got to reciprocate because Andy felt like he was going to pass out. She laughed and swayed a little, and somewhere Andy realized that she knew who he was before he really did. The only reason he guessed this was her mom was because she was older and had the same sort of button nose.

"Andy! We've been waiting to see you," she shouted, laughing still. How the hell did April, a perpetual happiness-vortex, come from this family?

"Oh, yeah... uh, I've been asking April when we'd hang out. Or meet, if you will," he nodded, waving his hand in a flourish.

She laughed again.

"I doubt Zuzu's said anything about us. Or, at least, anything good," she chuckled again and Andy already loved this woman's laugh.

"Well, Ms. Ludgate... Zuzu's kinda weird," Andy emphasized the nickname, smiling and noting it for later. "But in like a really cool way."

"April's more than weird; she's kind of awful," Natalie mumbled from her position, staring at her phone.

"You can call me Rita, by the way," her mother ignored Natalie's comment. "I've- I heard that you already met Natalie."

"Oh yeah, she almost got me arrested," Andy nodded, turning to catch Natalie's flat stare from across the room into the foyer. "That was awesome, by the way."

The younger girl gave a dark, muffled noise that Andy guessed was supposed to be a laugh and returned to her phone. Ignoring that, he turned back to Rita who still beamed up at him. Why was everyone in this family so short, Andy asked himself, before he caught her dad standing up and walking over. There wasn't an intimidating bone in either of these two people, and then there was April and Natalie.

There were a lot of questions he had for her now.

"Mr. Ludgate," Andy stuck his hand out, back straightening.

"Andy," he replied with a straight face before breaking into a smile of his own, "the first thing you should know is that I'm Larry, not Mr. Ludgate."

"Oh sure, yeah. Gotcha," Andy gave him a look and tried to think of anything other than how... plain this place all seemed.

Looking around, clapping his hands together, Andy just saw regular people things in the house. Pictures, paintings, furniture that wasn't spikes in the floor. To be honest he half-expected April to lead him to a small underground dwelling in the sewers. His train of thought derailed when he saw a picture on a small table in front of the staircase. Picking it up he started laughing and couldn't stop.

"You like that one?" April appeared above him, holding one of those mesh hampers full of clothes and dragging it behind her.

There were almost tears in his eyes. Andy didn't know for certain that it was her, but the dour demeanor was unmistakable - there was April, she had to be ten or younger, standing next to two Disney princesses. The princesses of course had dazzling smiles but the little girl between them looked like all she wanted to do was take the sharp ends of their fans to their necks. There was even a small silhouette that looked a little like April's dad bent over, laughing.

"This is adorable," Andy said through painful breaths.

"That's what we said!" Rita chimed in, taking the picture from him and staring at it. "I have so many copies of this. D'you want one?"

"Yes!" Andy answered immediately just as April groaned loudly and Natalie gave that same, murky chuckle.

"Shut up, I could show him your tea party pictures," April hissed at the prone girl on the couch.

"What's wrong with that? Little kids always play house and stuff..." Andy started, confused.

"She was fourteen," April explained, smiling that same ironic smirk that just made him laugh. "That was before she got edgy and way into Ritalin, though. Obviously she's too cool for that stuff anymore."

"And I could tell Andy about the time you told mom there was, like," and Natalie started to affect a Valley Girl and waved her hand over her head, not looking back, "the cutest doofus ever in City Hall, but he's so into this other girl. You want lame-"

"Natalie uses..."

They both trailed off into argumentative yelling, most of it in Spanish, and Natalie even stood up to get in April's face. Andy just pulled his head back and looked over to the other two Ludgates, who only looked on smiling.

"Uh, should we stop them?" Andy sidled up to them and hesitated to ask the question.

"Nah, you should see them make up," Larry commented, still watching.

"It's also pretty funny," Rita added with another grin.

"Yeah, that too," her husband agreed.

Andy just watched as they eventually cooled down, the two girls easing off their tirades and pointing. This must have happened often because at no point did anyone intervene. Even Andy, who was more confused about everything and totally not understanding a single word they said, just sat watched. Partially because mad April was scary and Natalie was mostly an emotionless husk from what he knew.

"Sorry," April muttered eventually.

"Yeah," the other girl said, turning back around and laying down normally on the couch.

April returned with her hamper, dragging it until Andy grabbed it and hefted it behind his back. It wasn't even that heavy anyways, but April looked less cute and more annoyed when she sat there struggling with it. She didn't seem to mind anyways and returned her parents' hugs with less hesitation than he expected. A few moments later there was a small version of April's Princess Loathing portrait given to him that Andy immediately stuck in his wallet.

It was a good thing they apparently had a ton of extra copies, because he'd probably lose his wallet and there was no way he was gonna stop laughing at that picture.

"We'll be back later or tomorrow to get more stuff, okay?" April explained in that voice that Andy thought he alone got to hear from her.

In that second, realizing how familiar that soft tone was to him, Andy felt that same kind of thing like he got in April's hugs. It was almost like he'd never been happier, and that was saying something coming from him. Andy accepted Rita's kiss on his cheek and the nod from her father, turning to walk out of the house - that strangely normal house and not a witches' coven or werewolf den - with April's clothes and whatever else thrown over his back.

After he stowed the hamper away in the back seats, Andy turned to April as he sat down.

"You really talked to your mom about me?" he asked with a big grin on his face.

"Oh my God," she said loudly but he could see a hint of a smile in response.

"Thatis adorable-"

She smacked his arm all the way back to Burly's but neither of them stopped laughing either.