Slices of Life and Family

by bluefrostyy

PART 3 of The life of Sebastian Pines! (Read that first, I doubt you'll understand what's going on) The story follows Seb's life after Gravity Falls. Bill was defeated, but the Pines family still have thousands of adventures together. Old characters will come back, new characters will make an appearance, all to accompany Seb through his journey as a human (Cowritten with Mizuuma)

20. Chapter 20-Love and child raising!

Hello! Welcome back to a new chapter and a new year and a new decade! (For me the decade already started, idgaf xD)

Please enjoy! As always, drawing in deviantart and Miz made another one of Seb ;)

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Ford knew he wasn't very good at all this...love thing... But he didn't know he sucked so bad!

There were problems right off the bat.

The distance.

With Ford in Oregon and Cathy in Jersey, they mainly chatted over the computer. While Ford didn't have a problem with that, quite enjoying the talks they had, Cathy seemed disappointed they couldn't really go on dates. Also, she wanted to get to know him, but all Ford could think of to talk about was his projects (carefully hiding all the details, he was still paranoid about people stealing his ideas).

"No, I mean… what do you like to do? Outside of work." Cathy asked him, looking a little exasperated. Ford blinked. "Ah…" Well, the only thing he really did outside of work was hanging out with Soos watching anime or playing DDD with Fiddleford. And, while Ford was an oblivious idiot, even he knew that such things would only get him teased by Cathy. He certainly got teased by that a lot during school for being a nerd.

"I… take walks in the woods and mountains around town." Ford finally responded with. Because he liked to visit all the local cryptids now and then to get an update on how they were. Most of them didn't like him much, calling him a 'Nosey know-it-all' and Ford felt that was fair considering he HAD captured a few of them to examine back when he first came here. Also, that hand-witch was very… clingy whenever he went anywhere near her cave so he tried to avoid her.

"So you like the fresh air and exercise after being cooped up in your lab?" Cathy asked. Ford shrugged, not sure how to respond. Ford wasn't sure what Cathy wanted him to say. She always seemed like she was waiting for something.

"Why don't you ever ask how I'm doing?" Cathy finally asked him one night. Ford blinked. "Well, you seem alright. You haven't told me if anything was wrong."

"That's not the point. You should wonder how I am. You should care enough to ask." Cathy frowned. "And you never ask about my schedule and when we might be able to meet up in person to hang out."

Ford blinked. He never thought of that. "Do you… wish to meet up in person?"

"Yes! Of course I do. Talking with you is all fine and good, but don't you ever… want to be with me?" Cathy asked. "It feels like you're not invested at all in our relationship."

"I'm… sorry?" Ford tried. Cathy just sighed. "Stanford…" She asked quietly, "Do you like me?"

"Ye-yes. Well, I don't dislike you!" Ford stuttered. "I-we talk every night. And-"

"We talk alright, but we're not communicating." Cathy told him simply. "You're a nice man, well meaning and much more polite than my ex-husband, but you speak to me as if it's an obligation. It never… feels like you actually want to connect with me." She sighed. "Like you're just going through the motions because you think you should." She didn't sound upset, more… resigned. "You don't… have to date me just because you think you should." She said finally. "It's a waste of both our time if you don't actually like me that way."

Ford was quiet. He… wasn't sure what to say. He really… wanted to protest, but her words struck something in him. He… was dating Cathy just to try it out, and perhaps… he really wasn't interested in her. He was a grown man now, not a hormonal teenager who developed and lost crushes on a whim. And his feelings toward Cathy now… she was… just someone he talked to. He never felt like he was looking forward to their nightly chats, more like it was something new to add to his already busy schedule. He called her like clock-work, not out of a desire to see her, speak to her.

"...I'm sorry." Ford said finally. Because what else was he going to say?

"It's alright. I got this feeling a while ago." Cathy sighed. "We should break up. You aren't feeling it, and I'm too old to put in the effort needed to make us a 'thing'. I'm not going to waste my time with a man who doesn't like me back." She wasn't angry, or upset. She was an adult now, she knew when to cut her losses. She'd wasted years with a husband who didn't work out for her, and she wasn't going to waste anymore time with a man who wasn't even interested. "Goodbye, Stanford." She told him.

And then the call dropped and Ford sat there, staring at the screen and feeling… nothing. He wasn't upset that they broke up. He wasn't happy. He didn't feel anything at all. Aside from maybe a little relief that he had his evenings free for himself again. Ford finally closed the lid of his laptop and sighed.

Maybe romance really wasn't for him.

-.-

Contacting Linda was hard as hell. Seb even worried something had happened to her. He tried locating her with her pendant and there she was…nothing was wrong…

Then why wasn't she picking up?!

She was talking with that deliciously handsome man he saw a few years back. Really? What problem could he have?! He was handsome and judging by his suit, he was also rich! He could fuck off! Seb needed Linda more!

After MILLIONS of attempts to contact her, she finally picked up. "Linda! I'm so glad you aren't trying to ignore me! I need your help!"

"Oh my god...Another one…" She muttered under her breath, but Seb heard her. "Whatcha mean? It's me, Seb?"

Linda sighed. "Hello Seb...A...former demon…Oh my god, I think I understand what you were telling me so much better now!"

"...Are you ok?" Seb asked confused.

"Yes, yes! Don't worry… Just, getting used to all this supernatural stuff…" Seb decided to ignore that. "Okaaaaay, well, anyway, I think I'm going insane, doctor, and I need your help with these confusing emotions and my identity."

"Not the only demon who asks me that…" Linda mumbled under her breath. "Sebas, I'd love to help you… but I'm really busy nowadays… I'm not sure I can handle online therapy sessions."

Seb bit his lip, feeling his eye welling up with tears. But...Linda was supposed to help… "Wanda is going to leave me...She'll leave me if I don't solve this…" He whispered tearfully. "You're my only hope!" He sniffled.

Linda winced. "Okay…" She thought about it. "Seb." She said finally. "There are some exercises you can try on your own to talk out and realize what you're feeling. Have Wanda there with you, if you want. It would help." She ran a hand through her hair. "And if you really need the help, I can recommend you to some other therapists. But…" She could hear Seb almost crying on the other end, and she felt her heart hurt. "Okay, what's the problem you're having? I can try to see what the issue is?"

So Seb gave her a very brief and confusing (but somehow easy to follow?) explanation of how he felt pent up with energy that he couldn't keep in and was lashing out in ways that the people around him claimed were 'bad' and he felt like he WAS bad and should BE bad because-

"Okay. Well…" Linda rubbed at her face. "If you're having thoughts about doing 'mean' things to people, stop and talk to yourself about why you want to do such things to them. Do they really deserve it, would you be happy with anyone who did that sort of thing to you. Maybe talk to a mirror or a stuffed animal about all the terrible things you get the urge to do and try to explain why you feel that way." She was a little worried, but not too much, everyone had fantasies about doing bad things to people when they got annoyed or frustrated. But most people had the self control to not go through with it.

Sebastian… had a very spontaneous attitude and didn't always remember to not go with his first thought. That had always been a problem he struggled with, he had ADHD after all... "If you have too much energy build up, from your… 'magic'," (and that was really magic, wasn't it? If Seb was truly a demon or former demon?! Good grief!) "...then perhaps you need a way to expend this energy of yours? You mentioned it wasn't a problem back when you lived in Gravity Falls since you could go out and use it up all the time? So… maybe you need more physical activity to burn it up? Go out hiking, or go to the gym? I'm sorry, I'm not an expert in magic." Linda never thought she'd have to talk about something like this.

Seb hummed in thought. But the gym sucked! "Ew, sweat...but...I get what you're saying...so...talking to myself and seeing what to do instead of doing bad things, right?"

"Yes. You can start with that. I don't think its an identity crisis like you put it, Sebas. You know you're not a bad person, but no one is perfect either. You like chaos, that's just how you are. And everybody gets thoughts of wanting to kill a bitch… But you need to channel it through something else so it doesn't affect the people you care about… And anyway, doing 'bad' things doesn't automatically mean you're a horrible being or-or the Devil! Hahaha! Trust me! I know that!" Linda sounded strained for some reason.

"Ok…" Seb smiled a little. That was a lot to do, but he'd do it. So Wanda would be happy with him again. Maybe he'd learn to ignore the rules governing them once again and push them back, he needed to find a way to get rid of these thoughts.

Sometimes he missed Bill2… At least then he could blame all the thoughts that came from him and his shrill voice. These thoughts were his own and it stressed him out. He wondered if Ax would kindly return him…On the long run having Bill2 would be a terrible idea, and he knew it, but he was confused at the moment.

"Thanks, Linda...I'll transfer you the money for this session later."

"Oh no, Seb, its ok. Don't worry about it!" Linda smiled behind the phone. Seb was a sweetheart when he wanted to be. Trying to pay for 8 minutes of speaking.

"Oh, doctor~ why are you ignoring me~I've been here for a whole minute already!" A deep british voice called behind the woman and Seb heard her sigh. "I gotta go now, Sebas. Don't hesitate to call me if you need anything else."

"What? Who are you talking to? Do you have someone else?!" That sexy voice called out again from Linda's end of the phone. "I have patients other than you, you know that, right?" Linda scolded back.

"Bye…" Out of curiosity, Seb opened his Eye and checked the office again and grinned. So THAT'S handsome guy's voice~~

-.-

Seb put Markimoo, his giraffe plushie, in front of him and he sat in front, cross legged. He decided he'd try this alone first...He was afraid of talking to Wanda. Right now, anything was a possible motive to start a fight.

"So...I don't know what to say…" Usually speaking to himself was easier than this. "It'd be easier if you were alive... Are you alive?" Seb narrowed his eye at his giraffe. He exited the room to spy on the plushie. No movement. He stayed there, but nothing. "You're good…" He made his way towards the twins' room and spied on THEIR toys, completely forgetting why he'd been talking to his plushie in the first place.

Wanda had taken the twins to the mall so he was home alone, spying on some toys. He screamed when a Glarbie doll dropped to the floor from one of the shelves and he ran back to his room.

When Wanda returned home with the twins (they went to buy winter clothes), she found Seb playing, but more importantly …

"WHY ARE MY TOYS HERE!" Zully screamed as LOUD as they could and their eyes turned blood red. The toys were positioned everywhere and Seb had duct taped weapons to them. The 4 year old was pissed their toys were being handled like that. Zoe just giggled. "Toy war!" She squealed.

A bear was thrown at her with an explosion noise. "Catch him, Zoe! He's a dangerous criminal and deserves to be punished!" Seb gasped.

Zully almost fainted when their sister put the bear in her mouth, dropped to all fours and shook her head around as if she was a wolf. "RrrrGGGhhhHHH!" Zoe ran after her dad to play.

Wanda looked down at Zully who sat on the floor crying. She picked them up and softly shushed them. "Daddy gonna kill them!" Zully wailed. Wanda winced.

"We'll get more, I promise." She kissed their forehead and covered their eyes when a crocodile doll flew by, on FIRE. Wanda groaned when Zully continued to make distressed sounds. Dammit Seb!

"...I can explain…" Seb whimpered under Wanda's glare. Wanda didn't let up. "Do you even know why I'm mad?"

"...because I destroyed all their toys and now we need to buy more?" Seb asked hesitantly.

"No." Wanda sighed. "I'm mad because you made Zully cry."

Seb flinched at that. Oh. He hadn't… realized… "B-but Zoe loved playing with me."

"And Zully didn't." Wanda told him. "They're very different children. Zully's sensitive. You know that!"

"I know...Its ok, I'll buy them more toys! Even better than before!" Seb tried to say. "...I burnt off my magic in a not harmful to humans way though...so that's good."

"I don't care if it was burning down a house! And it's not about the toys! It's about the girls! Don't you see you always make Zully upset with your violent games? Zoe may like it, but you can't leave Zully out! Or do you prefer Zoe over her?"

"I don't have preferences between them… Are you insinuating something?" He narrowed his eye.

"I'm just saying you like to play in a way that excludes Zully. I've seen you and Zoe playing on the piano together, and Zully sits out because she doesn't know how to do music as well. You know she feels like she's not good enough whenever that happens?" Wanda asked him. Seb flinched again. "I…" He didn't think it was that bad. He talked to Zully about it! He did! He told her that he loved them both the same and it didn't matter if Zully couldn't play the piano!

But apparently he just hadn't noticed his daughter feeling bad.

"I'll apologize to her. I Promise...Just...Don't get angry. We said we wouldn't fight anymore..."

"It's not about you and me anymore, it's about our kids, Seb." Wanda rubbed her forehead. "First of all, you should have been doing the doll exercise. Not playing with the girls' toys, even LESS destroying them. And that made Zully upset. I'm just telling you to realize your attitude needs to change, because it's also our daughter you're hurting…" Wanda sighed and walked out of the room.

Seb's face was red with embarrassment. He didn't mean to...He got carried away...

They would have talked more but the doorbell rang. Wanda went to go get it, and had to hold back a groan when she saw Carol. "Oh. Hello Carol." She tried her best to be polite.

"Hiiiii Wanda~!" Carol grinned. "I have an appointment at the salon today so I thought Amanda would like to come and hang out with the girls today~"

Wanda twitched. 'We're not your fucking babysitters!' she screamed inside her head. But her poker face didn't let any of these thoughts show.

"Actually. We're kind of in the middle of something important here, it's a family…"

But while Wanda was saying this, Carol had already turned and left. Little Amanda stood on the front porch, innocent smile on her face. Wanda twitched again.

"...thing…" Wanda held back her own murderous impulses. What kind of mother just fucking LEFT her child at someone else's house?! She managed to calm down when she felt Amanda lightly tugging on her shirt. "U-um… thank you for letting me come over, missus Pines." Amanda told her with a shy smile. Wanda felt herself soften. As angry with with Carol as she was, she couldn't blame poor Amanda for any of it.

"I hope you brought your toys...the twins are... in a shortage of them…" Wanda let her inside.

Amanda blinked. She adjusted her bag. "I bwought a few things." She told her. Wanda nodded and watched Amanda head upstairs to the twin's room. Once she was out of earshot, Wanda groaned and collapsed on the couch. Seb, having watched this all while hiding behind the sofa the second he realized it was Carol at the door, peeked out. "So…."

"Not. One. Word." Wanda growled. Seb wisely ducked back behind the couch. Right. Well. At least on THIS thing, they both agreed on. Fuck Carol.

"Amanda!" Zoe squealed as she ran up to hug her friend. Zully was still sniffling. Amanda hugged Zoe back before looking over at the other twin. "Awe you okay, Zully?"

"No! M-m-my-" Zully's face scrunched up and they whimpered.

Zoe sighed. "Our toys had a war. And there were no surwivors." She said solemnly.

"What?" Amanda was confused. Zully wailed again. "T-they were on FIRE!" Amanda didn't quite understand, but when Zully held up a burned and torn open Alligator, she gasped. She didn't get what was happening, but she understood that Zully's toys were broken!

Zully continued crying and Amanda went over to hug them. "Do-don't cwy…" Amanda sniffled herself. Having your toys broken was awful! She patted Zully's back and held them close. Zully hugged Amanda back and cried until they calmed down somewhat. Amanda looked over at the burned alligator and then a determined look came across her face.

"What if...we make drawings? To wemember them?" Amanda suggested. Zoe gasped and grabbed from their shopping bags some new markers mommy bought them. "We can use this to draw! Mommy bought us clothes too! I have boots now!" She informed Amanda proudly.

Zully sniffled but accepted that. The three toddlers laid on the floor and started drawing. Amanda helped Zully set up a memorial for Mr. Dinkleberry and Mrs. Jolly FooFoo and Sir Fang of Botswana and...

Seb and Wanda spied on the toddlers. Seb knew he had destroyed those toys...but hey! "I'm helping them bond with a friend." He whispered to Wanda. "Over loss~"

Wanda rolled her eyes so much her green irises disappeared for a second. Then she pushed Seb away and sighed. She was going to make a list of everything that got destroyed and see which stores would have something similar…

Back in the twin's room, Amanda and Zully looked at the memorial they built. The drawings of Zully's toys were taped to the walls with a pile of the burned remains in front of them. Zully rubbed their eyes, wiping the tears away. "I'm gonna miss them." They whispered. Amanda looked down at her feet, frowning. Then she went over to her bag and pulled out a worn Lemur plushie. "Here." Amanda said, handing the Lemur to them. "This is Pear. He's…" She took a deep breath. "He's my favwite. B-but…" Amanda watched Zully turn Pear around and stare at her. "...you can have him. S-since you don't have any toys anymowe…"

"...Amanda…" Zully gasped. Was she… was she really giving them her favorite? "You don't have to! Daddy said he was gonna buy us new toys, since he bwoke them."

"But you have nothing to pway with wite now." Amanda pointed out. "So… so you can have Pear until you get mowe toys. Oka-" Amanda was cut off by Zully running to her and wrapping her in a hug. She toddled, almost falling over at the sudden action. "Zully?"

"Thank you, Amanda! I'll take good care of him! I pwomise!" Zully told her, tears running down their cheeks. Amanda smiled and hugged her friend back.

Zoe just made gagging sounds in the background. Uuuugh~ that was so sweet her teeth hurt!

-.-

Wanda was sitting with Seb now. It'd been a few days since the funeral of around 20 plushies, and she was now making sure Seb did at least one of the things Linda told him to do. He was facing Markimoo, tied to the chair, and Wanda was sitting by the door.

"I want to see you talk to the giraffe, Sebastian!"

"Call me 'baby' again or I won't!"

"I will when I feel like it! Now start or I'll call you other things!" Wanda wasn't really threatening him, more like scolding him.

Seb huffed and stared at his toy. "Well...Hi...I don't like Wanda not calling me baby...I miss it...but I guess that's my own fault for not knowing how to control myself...She is probably going to leave me...even when I'm trying…" He tried looking back at Wanda, but his neck could only turn so much.

"I need to burn my energy, I have too much Weirdness building up inside me… I had fun with the plushies but I made my daughter upset...Because I'm careless and I can't think straight and I always end up hurting the people I love…" Seb rubbed at his face with his shoulder. "And I don't want to hurt the people I love. I need… I need to find a better way to use up this energy. I don't know what's good though. I can't just set things on fire in the forest, I can't fight the Gremlobin to work off stress. I can't even go and beat up a unicorn for being a fucking cunt." Seb chuckled a little at that. "There aren't any here. And beating up a unicorn would have been so much fun! Those assholes deserve it anyway. Or gnomes. Those are just the perfect thing to bother if you're bored..."

Wanda listened quietly, fiddling with her hands.

"And...I know I gotta change, because...It's not wrong to be me...but...maybe not in excess? And-And doing something doesn't make me completely bad...maybe just a little...And I need to just show a little of that...because it's part of me…I just want to find the perfect way to balance it...And...that Wanda accepts that I'm not-I'm not exactly like what I've been actIng like before…" He sniffled. "I just want her to love me...knowing that I'm NOT going to go back to hiding, that I don't like rules...and that I'm a little bad…but that I will try to keep it controlled...for her, because I-I love her..."

Seb heard light footsteps and then felt Wanda's arms coming around to hug him from behind. He leaned back into her embrace. "Am I doing good?" He asked.

"It's a good start." Wanda told him. She nuzzled into his soft hair. "We can work on it. I DO want you to be comfortable enough to be yourself . Just… everyone has to find a balance in their behavior. Even me. So… we'll work this out. We'll make this work. Alright, baby?"

Seb smiled even as he sniffled again. "Yeah. I will! I promise I will."

-.-

Around the time Ford finished experimenting with his love life (and putting an end to it when Cathy broke up with him, Seb was decent enough not to laugh at that), Sebastian had his own stupid (but no less stressing) human problems to tend to (aside from the issues with Wanda).

One of them was Zully and Zoe throwing a tantrum over veggies today. He didn't know what came over them, maybe they were possessed, but he couldn't care less right now why they didn't want to eat. Above their ear piercing screams, food everywhere and broccoli on fire surrounding them like a summoning trap (every wood element in the house was fireproof, so fire was just lazily chilling around them), he was holding two phones to his ears and trying to solve a bigger problem at stake.

"CAN YOU BOTH SHUT UP?!" He screamed at the twins, who just screamed louder. "No! Not you, sir, I was talking to my daughters...wait a second sir please...Now YOU idiot! What am I paying you for?!"

He was talking to both his manager and the guy organizing the event he was participating in. He was offered a seriously good spot in a fashion show months ago to show a new collection and he had been working on it. Now, his stupid manager decided to tell him TODAY! The DAY before the event, that one of the girls modelling broke her stupid ankle!

Today!

What was he supposed to do?! There was no time to find someone new who would be able to fit the dress! He would have to contact people and get them to travel here and refit the whole dress just for them and there wasn't enough time for that!

He couldn't breathe, the walls were closing in on him, he was dying, he was sure of it.

"You need to find a model, anyone at all who can fit, Mr. Pines, for the presentation tomorrow night."

"But we can go with one dress less, I'm sure no one will notice with the other artists there! I-I my designs aren't even the greatest…"

The organizer chuckled, oh, so humble. "Sebastian~ I'm sure you're aware of your reputation being on the rise! You're the new face there and for that very reason you must have a complete presentation. Besides, you surely understand we are on a tight schedule and we have to show the promised designs!"

Seb ran a stressed hand over his face. Why?! Why did he have to agree?! Why did he have to be reborn?!

(The Axolotl shifted in his sleep. Damn, Bill cursing him always woke him up, what a jerk. He was the one who asked to be brought back. Twice . He had no one to blame but himself. Briefly, he found himself a little jealous of that other Axolotl who had that sweet, obedient Bill… and then he recalled the memory that Axolotl shared with the lot of them of his Bill poking him non-stop for years because they were bored and shuddered. Okay, nevermind, he didn't want that Bill either. One waking him up like this was enough!)

Zoe had enough of dad ignoring her and Zully and kicked him in the leg. She had fat tears streaming down and an angry crying face.

"OW! SHIT!" Seb startled and almost dropped the floating phones. "Ok, that's it! I'm tired of seeing your identical annoying faces! To YOUR ROOM!" The twins were just sobbing. Daddy had said they could eat nuggets today but he FORGOT! And he gave them yucky veggies instead! They were so upset at this betrayal but daddy wasn't listening to them! He just kept talking on his 'fones'!

Do you know about one of those days you just can't deal with yourself and everything is annoying and you feel like crap? Well, it wasn't only Seb experiencing a bad day. The toddlers were too. They couldn't nap today, preschool was stressful and they couldn't even play with Amanda after school since her mom didn't bring her over today. And to top it all off, they didn't get dinosaur nuggets! So they were cranky. They couldn't help it. They couldn't control their emotions yet.

"You mean!" Zoe shrieked. "AND YOU'RE A PESST!" Seb screamed back. "WELL YOU'RE A POOP!" Zoe shot back, stomping her little foot.

""AAAAAAHHHH!"" Father and daughter screamed at each other as Zully just sobbed. The men on each phone were listening to the screams awkwardly.

"GO EAT!"

"I'll thwow up!" Zoe threatened. "If you throw up, I swear I'll force you to eat your vomit!" Seb threatened back.

"Eh...We'll call later…" The manager said and the two men hung up at the same time.

Zoe rubbed her eyes and just sat down on the floor, tired and defeated. Puffy eyed and exhausted. Seb was heaving. He threw the phones to the couch and also sat on the floor for a second before laying down.

It wasn't long before the twins crawled toward him to lay down on his chest. They were upset with daddy, but daddy was the only one who could cuddle them right now. "I don't wanna nothing." Zully sniffled.

"You know what? I feel you. I don't wanna nothing as well…" Seb closed his eye. "I'm stressed and tired. There's a problem at work and your screams are not helping me you know? I can get very bad headaches in this body."

"We're tiwed too...Bad day…" Zully tried to explain, remembering when mommy complained about being tired because of a 'bad day at job'. That meant she wasn't happy and none of them were happy right now.

Seb sighed. Ok…"How about...we make a deal, huh? You need to eat your vegetables, no buts...but we can try to have a less poop day by watching a movie and we can eat in the living room for tonight, yes?"

The twins considered it before engulfing their hands with fire to shake with daddy.

They watched an old Garbie movie Mabel had shown the twins and they loved it. It had shitty animation, but eh, early 2000's CGI will be like that. The twins asked dad to feed them their veggies and he agreed just to not fight anymore. "You can't hope for someone to do stuff for you all the time though. You gotta think and solve your problems yourself…" Seb told them. The twins rubbed their eyes and opened their mouth to get some broccoli and asparagus mixed with chicken.

Solve your problems yourself…" Seb muttered as he stole some food from Zully's plate while they had their eyes closed. Hey~

That gave him an idea.

"Solve my problems myself…" Seb stood up, looking off into the distance. "I must go." He said, grave and dramatic, before he marched off. The twins glanced at each other in confusion before Zoe suggested they finish dinner by themselves. They were big kids now, they could eat by themselves. Zoe also snuck more veggies from her bowl into Zully's while their eyes were closed. Because she was kind of a bitch like that.

Seb worked tirelessly through the night and called his manager the next morning to tell him he found a model. His manager and the coordinator were glad he found a solution, though he hadn't told them what it was. "You found a model?" His manager asked. Seb sent back a "Yup! Everything's gonna turn out just fine. Now leave me alone to work! I have a bit more refitting to do!"

So they stopped bothering him about it. Let the artist work his magic, as the case may be. Seb also realized he forgot to put the twins to bed, but miraculously, he found the two of them curled up asleep on the couch. They finished their dinner, didn't brush their teeth obviously, but at least they were fine despite Seb getting too absorbed in his work to check on them.

Wanda hadn't come home last night, staying overnight at the office for some work, so at least Seb could sneakily float the kids off to their beds without her realizing he forgot to do so the night before. Oops~

When Wanda came back home it was very late (or early, since it was the next day), but she found the lights on and got a little worried. Everything was turned off at this hour, Seb and the twins should be sleeping by now. She heard muttering coming from his working room and she followed the noise. "Seb?"

"Can't talk. Just work!" She guessed Seb also had the right to work till late into the night like she did...It made her sad though, she wanted him to sleep more. She worked hard so he didn't have to. "Ok, see ya upstairs then~" She understood, she also got disorganized with work sometimes. She'll ask what's going on later.

-.-

When she woke up, she found herself alone in bed. Seb had passed out on the floor of his office. "Baby, what happened?" She asked him with a yawn. She knelt and shook his shoulder. Seb awoke with a jolt. "H-wha?!" He groaned and crawled into her lap, snuggling against her. "Sleep more…" He mumbled. Wanda chuckled and stroked his hair. You're working too hard. What was so important?"

Seb, eye still closed so he could continue resting, answered, "Well one of my models broke her ankle, like an idiot. And I had to refit an entire dress for a new model for the show tonight." Thank goodness it was tonight! Seb could sleep in today and be fully rested in time for the show! Speaking of which…

"You don't have work today, right?" Seb clarified. Wanda nodded. "Yeah, I got all my work done yesterday just so I'd be free tonight for your show."

"Good! You're kind of needed." Seb nodded, nuzzling into Wanda's lap. "The guest of honor as it were." Wanda laughed. "Sure, baby. So who's your model?" Seb told her and Wanda's jaw dropped. "What?!"

"That's why I need you to be there!" Seb told her. "Please? I know I should have told you first, but I didn't have time- I had to refit the whole dress! There just wasn't time to-"

Wanda placed a hand on Seb's head and stroked his hair. "Shhh, it's okay. I'm not mad that you didn't tell me first." Seb relaxed. Glad this wasn't another arguable thing. "Of course I'll help you." She leaned down, curling around her husband. "This show is important to you. I want it to go well too." She kissed his nose. "But for now, you should get in bed. Rest properly. I'm going to check on the girls and then…" She kissed his nose again. "...I'm going to need a nap if I want to be awake for tonight~" She was sad she didn't get to cuddle him last night. Seb grinned and kissed her back. "Alright."

The twins weren't sure what was going on. Mommy was making breakfast today! And daddy was nowhere in sight. "Your daddy's really tired from working. And mommy will be taking a nap too. So…" Wanda hugged the two of them. "Do you two mind playing quietly today? Mommy will just need a few hours." She worried a little, leaving the twins alone without supervision, but… "And if you are really good, you can come to daddy's fashion show tonight~" She was technically bullshitting. The twins would be allowed to come either way, but they didn't know that.

"We'll be good!" Zully exclaimed. They wanted to see the pretty dresses Daddy made! They pulled their sister for a hug and Zoe wrinkled her nose when Zully gently patted her cheek. "We'll be good ." The kid sent their sister a look, eyes slightly turning red, that made Wanda wince.

Wow. As sweet as Zully was, she was definitely Sebastian's child….

Wanda took a nap with Seb. He was dead to the world and didn't feel her snuggle with him, but at least she could have some time with him. The twins watched Tv for a bit, but with the same attention span as their dad, they got bored and searched for their daddy and mommy. Zoe wanted to poke daddy awake. She wanted to play the piano! But Zully made her reconsider said action. If she bothered dad, he'd be tired for work, and he'd get angry at them and wouldn't take them to the show.

So they climbed onto the bed and curled up as well. Napping was always nice. Even if it was for babies and parents~

Wanda and the kids woke up a couple of hours later and let Seb rest a little more. She got the twins ready, with a pretty dress and a pretty suit and then she got ready. She needed to look nice today, she had to support Seb with everything.

The place was PACKED. People everywhere. Photographers and reporters for various fashion magazines milling about, chattering and shoving each other to find a good spot. This was Seb's first big show. He was nervously making some last minute touch ups to the dress in the changing room. At least this dress didn't have to go out until nearly the end of the show. He would have a little more time. Wanda was fidgeting, a little (okay, a LOT) nervous about it all. "You… really want me on that stage?" She asked, biting her lip. Seb nodded even as he touched up her make up. She had to look perfect. "I wouldn't trust anyone else to be up there with me for this show." He smiled at her and Wanda grinned back, feeling a little more confident.

It was in moments like this that they forgot fights or discussions existed.

"Don't worry." Seb told her, brushing her hair. "We're going to do fine."

Outside their personal changing room, the other models were already outside, walking the stage. Seb was keeping a close ear on the music, he knew which song went when, and which song would indicate it was time to head out. Wanda looked down at the dress. It had a long train, much like Seb's suit for their wedding. Long enough that someone had to hold the end up to keep it clean and not trip over. Hence why Seb needed the two of them to be on stage together. (Seb was going to hold the train for his original model, but the situation had changed and this would work out better anyway. Because it was Wanda!) That was only a precaution though, Seb had designed it to be super light and fluttery so best case scenario the train would simply flow behind them as they walked. Still, Wanda had to admit it was lovely. But…

"Do I really have to wear heels?" Wanda asked. Seb rolled his eye. "I'm wearing heels." He pointed out. "And they're not that tall, besides, if you place your weight on your toes and not the heels, you can walk just fine."

Wanda was going to make a joke about how Seb knew this information but the music changed and Seb stood up. "It's time." He said, wide grin on his face.

The photos were snapped, the crowd cheered as the lovely ladies strutted their stuff out on the runway. Everyone was anticipating the final dress though. It was said to be the best one in this collection. The music changed and everyone held their collective breath as the spotlights focused on the stage.

From behind the curtain, a smooth leg adorned with a set of lovely high heels stepped out.

The curtains were flung wide and the model was revealed in all their glory as they strode forward confidently, rocking their hips as the fabric flowed around them like ribbons. Everyone's jaws dropped.

The twins, sitting front line with a nanny, squealed loudly. "Aaaahh! That's Daddy! That's Daddy!" He looked so pretty! They had never seen him wear a dress or a skirt outside of the house!

The photographers were now trying to get more photos than ever. The organizer and manager were gaping, this was totally unexpected! They didn't know the new model was HIM!

Seb posed in front of the runaway, showing every part of the dress as Wanda held up his train for him. The camera flashes went off like wildfire all around the runway. Between the lights and the noise, Seb didn't notice anything except the audience as he posed.

He was confident as he finally turned and sauntered off the stage while the crowd went absolutely nuts. They were cheering and clapping at Seb's bold decision to wear the dress himself. After the applause died down, all the models, Seb included, came back out on stage to do a final walk around before it was time for Seb to get on the mic and talk about this line with everyone.

One reporter immediately shouted, "Why're you wearing the dress?!"

"I'm wearing a dress because I like it, and because I think separating clothing between sexes is just silly. Clothes are just there to protect your delicate human skin from the elements and look pretty! So I see no reason why people can't wear whatever they want. Also my clothes are for every person out there who wants to look amazing! Whether it's a man, a woman, or any other gender!" He smiled at the cameras. "Besides," He posed again, sticking his smooth leg out daringly as people 'whoo!'ed at him. "I make it look good." He purred sexily.

Wanda smiled like a very proud wife as the twins (who were now up on stage and holding Seb's train for him) giggled and tried reaching for their dad. She glanced around to see people's expressions and so far, everyone seemed pleased, surprised and amused. She was glad. She had her doubts herself, but Seb seemed confident and he had always wanted to do this. Besides, it seemed he caused quite the impression, which was good to become well-known.

After the event, Sebastian met with his family again. He was wearing an open shirt, pants and a jacket, but his face still had make up on. "Daddy! You looked pretty!" Zoe squealed and raised her arms to be picked up. Seb picked her up and nibbled her cheek. "I'm always pretty!" He snuggled closer to Wanda who softly kissed his cheek. More photos were snapped.

Reporters crowded around Seb to get photos and some words out of him as his manager felt so blessed when his phone started going crazy with calls. Sebastian's insane stunt actually worked!

Seb was going to have so many commissions. And his manager was practically seeing dollar signs. (If Stanley ever met Seb's manager, the two would probably get along).

-.-

"Fiddleford! Have you received the new applications for the internships next summer?" Ford asked his best friend while they had lunch. Fiddleford's eye twitched and put his tray down on the table. "Yes. Some."

Ford smiled and sat down next to him. "It's quite early, but alright. We should start checking them." He had come to like the idea of the interns. It was a ...very interesting summer, and he liked transmitting all his knowledge to uneducated (but no less curious) minds~

Fiddleford didn't think the same, not as much anyway. After the craziness with Tyler and Viola, he wasn't sure he could go through that again. He was surprised they didn't get sued by Tyler's parents for losing him. To be fair, Tyler was an adult and he did sign the contract...but still ...

"Are you sure you want to go through...something like that again?" The blond winced. However, Ford nodded eagerly. Fiddleford sighed. "Fine. But they're yours this time. I don't want to get interns next year…"

Ford shrugged slightly. "Alright. I'm sure someone else would like to be a mentor to future scientists!" He smiled. He was going to ask some of the other scientists if they wanted to be part of the program as well.

"And no one wants to work with the next interns!" He complained to his brothers in a video chat. Stan wheezed, hitting the table as Seb was in his living room, watching the twins play. "Well, your last intern was kind of an asshole, no one wants to work with assholes." Seb shrugged. He smiled, getting a sudden very bad joke, but contained himself from saying it.

"Well, no one DIED! And Viola is a lovely girl. I still get texts from her. She sends me photos of frogs and toads. I have come to realize how productive-"

"Sixer, I seriously couldn't care less about your interns." Seb leaned back in his chair as he floated a fabric towards him to cut. Ford glared at him. "Thanks, Sebastian. You're so supportive."

Seb's eye turned yellow with a red pupil. "You're welcome, Sixer!"

-.-

Despite how much of a bother it was to breathe the same air as Carol, the twins were doing great at school. They participated in class and they were learning a lot. Amanda being there was actually very good for them, it gave them confidence and security. They had a friend they could play with, even if the other kids grouped off without them.

The other good thing was that Amanda was vaccinated now! Seb was so freaking glad! She wasn't a time bomb of human diseases anymore! Wanda and him pressed a complaint to the school, anonymously, about an unvaccinated girl. They were informed when Carol presented the updated vaccinations to the school and they could sigh in relief. Their babies had been born premature so it made them more nervous about their health than normal.

However, more problems began when the school started calling Wanda. They had told them to call Seb, as Wanda was always in meetings, but they were used to calling the mommies in case something happened. Still, Wanda passed the message along.

Seb had gone to the school and found his kids covered in glitter and paint. All over their clothes.

His eye twitched.

"Thanks for coming, Mr. Pines."

"Yeah. Hi…" He waved at the principal before glaring at the twins. "Your mom and I work our asses off to buy you clothes and look what you've done! You ruined them!" He cried. "I'll send you naked next time!"

The little blonds just giggled.

The principal coughed. "That's not actually why I called, Mr. Pines...I wanted to tell you that Zoe and Zully are very hyperactive girls with no sense of boundaries. They've snuck into the elementary children's classroom and painted some of the walls…"

Seb snorted with laughter.

"We wanted to suggest you have a long talk to them about things they can't do. They can't be this destructive all the time! We must know you'll tell them this can't happen again."

Seb rolled his eye. He didn't see an issue with his babies having fun (it wasn't like they hurt anyone, just painted a room and probably made it better), He dragged a looong groan before looking back at the principal. "We'll see what we can do about it…" He hardened his look. "But you should respect that my daughters are just like this! We won't get rid of what makes them happy and special just because you want them to be silent and passive and follow dumb rules! We'll just balance it!" He crossed his arms.

The principal wasn't sure what to say. "Mr. Pines, with all due respect, your daughters defaced school property and there's generally a fine for that. The only reason we're not making you pay for cleaning is because they're only four, but if this happens again, the school would need to be compensated for the loss of the supplies they used, and the fee for hiring the cleaners and-"

But Seb had stopped paying attention. He was caught up in his memories of whenever Filbrick complained about having to pay for whatever Seb had broken in school as a child. How angry Filbrick had been about having to spend more money on him. How he loved to beat Seb up for that, telling him how useless and a freak he was. Seb twitched. He was shuddering now.

"-ster Pines? Are you listening to me?" She raised an eyebrow.

"I'm not going to punish the girls for expressing themselves." Seb glared. "I'll pay whatever fine you want me to. I'm not going to tell them they can't have fun or that they need to follow rules that don't make sense at all!"

The principal blinked. "That… is not what this is about, Mr. Pines." She sighed. "Your daughters broke into the supply closet, stole the paint and smeared it all over the walls of a classroom. Having fun or making a mess during art class is fine, but they snuck off during recess and defaced school property. As a parent, you should explain to them that stealing and using things that aren't theirs, and destroying things that aren't theirs, is a bad thing." She sighed again.

"Mr. Pines, I know that as a parent you want your children to be able to express themselves and do what they want, but society has rules that they would need to learn to follow. Think about their future. If they don't learn this now, they could get in a lot of trouble when they grow up. It's just innocent finger painting now, but what of when they're older? Graffitti? Damaging public and private property? Breaking and entering? Theft? Murder? These are all things that need to be nipped in the bud, do you understand, Mr. Pines?"

Seb grinned and stared directly at her blue eyes. "Society has rules indeed…" His eye slowly turned yellow. The principal shivered and despite trying to look away, she found herself unable to.

Zoe was peeling the paint off her as Zully stared at Seb with wide eyes. What was daddy doing? They jumped when both daddy and the principal dropped to the desk.

"Dad?" The child called. They were about to stand up when Seb perked up with a gasp for air and grinned. "I'm so glad we're on the same page, dear." Seb stretched out his hand, as the woman blinked confused and looked around. What happened?

Seb grabbed his kids' hands and led them to the car. "Daddy, why did Mrs. Erickson and you fell asleep?" Zully insisted. Seb strapped them to the car (safety first!) before saying "I'm just making sure no one will bother you or your sister again, at least not for stupid things like this."

There were things he still considered bad, maybe hurting others without any real motive or hurting children, he left her with those thoughts. But thinking his precious kids could ever be wrong and become monsters just for a little bit of fun? Nope! That's gone now. He even crushed that door very well so she couldn't even think about it again. And he got rid of this memory as well... He considered he did her a favor. She was more open-minded now and less dramatic!

And if anyone had an issue…

"Hey, if you two wanna paint somewhere they say you can't, make sure they can't prove you were the ones who did it." Seb told the two of them. That was good life advice, in his opinion.

The school had other complaints about the twins. Zoe played rough and she intimidated the other children. That's just who she was! And she didn't want to look like a meanie, she just wanted to play like the others, but no one ever wanted to play with her. And because of that, they avoided Zully too because the twins were always together.

So the only friend that they had at school was Amanda. And even then…

"Amanda! Wanna play with us?" One of the other girls asked. Amanda was about to go over but then she looked back at the twins. "And Zoe and Zully?"

The other group of girls made a strained expression. "...just you." One of them said. Zoe scowled at the car toys and blocks she was playing with.

Zully frowned as well and hugged some of their toys. They wouldn't blame Amanda for going to play with the other girls if she wanted.

"Nah. Me and Zully are helping Zoe build a city for her to destwoy." Amanda shrugged and turned to go back to the twins. The other girls scoffed and turned to leave. "If she wants to play with the weirdos she can." They mumbled.

Amanda paid them no mind. She didn't play with meanies anyway!

She and her friends played together, building a nice little city before Zoe roared and rampaged through it, biting the toy cars in her mouth, shaking and tossing them around as she went. "Raaawwwrrr!" She flopped around, knocking over the buildings.

Amanda and Zully sat back and watched her. "So do you wanna build another city?" Zully asked once Zoe was done. The other blonde shook her head. "Nah, can you build a beach this time? I wanna go swimming."

"But we don't have water!" Amanda tilted her head to look under a shelf where some of the cars rolled after Zoe spit them out.

Zoe waved a hand. "I got it. Let's just make a beach and let me take care of the rest!"

Amanda smiled. Zoe was so creative, she knew how to do so many cool things. She looked at Zully, dutifully picking up the blocks to make a new scene. And Zully was soooo good at building stuff! The twins were fun. She didn't see why other kids didn't want to play with them.

-.-

Wanda was called, and this time it was her that went to the school, Seb had been busy.

And she was pissed .

Zoe's clothes were wet, and they had been even more wet before Wanda arrived. She was sitting on a chair with Zully, and Amanda was sitting on the other chair. Huh. That was new.

"Hi, Missus Pines!" Amanda waved. "Hi, mommy!" Zoe waved.

"Oh, thank God its you." The principal sighed in relief. Every time Sebastian walked into this room she...felt like she blacked out for a few moments. At least with Wanda she'll be able to actually talk!

"Kids. What happened?" Wanda asked the twins. Zoe shifted from side to side. "We made a beach…"

"In the classroom!" Zully added.

"I filled my water bottle, and Zully's and Amanda's with more water so I poured it on the floor because a beach has water. We built waves too!" Zoe explained proudly. "Oh, and I'm wet like in the beach!"

Wanda grimaced. What?! What was she thinking ?! She turned to look at the principal. "They poured the water on the mat, the water reached some cables that made the plug and the lights in the class and the next few ones explode and burn down…The firefighters came and checked everything, it wasn't that serious. But it could have been." The principal looked so tired. She...knew the twins got in trouble and they were brought here. She knew she was supposed to think they were wrong with all their mischief...but she couldn't, even when others clearly did think so.

Besides, every time something like this happened, she couldn't remember, for the life of her, what she talked to Sebastian about. She only knew they had been there because she saw the Pines leaving.

Wanda sighed. "I'm SO sorry. They… have very… creative ways of having fun." That was an understatement. "I'll pay for the repairs, I'm so sorry...Seb and I will talk to them, this won't happen again..." She looked at Amanda before whispering to the principal. "Oh please don't tell Carol, she's my neighbor and I won't be able to deal with her." Wanda massaged her temples. "We'll take responsibility for it all."

The principal sighed. "Alright. She hasn't even responded to our calls… we're going to call again after this to tell her to pick Amanda up. The firefighters told us to keep the kids away while they worked. So all the children are being picked up early."

Wanda rubbed her face, stressed and wondering how Seb dealt with this every time he…

Actually…

She knew every time Seb had gone to the twin's school, because they always called her first, but when she asked him what had happened, he'd snuggle the kids and pinch their cheeks. "Just a misunderstanding and some things daddy already solved~"

"Can I talk to you? It'd be just a second." Wanda asked the woman. She asked the kids to wait outside and once alone, Wanda asked "What have you told my husband? I don't really know what the twins did the other times...Seb said it wasn't serious, but he tends to… not know what 'normal' is sometimes."

The principal sighed. "Truth is, I don't quite remember what I talked to him about. I suppose it's because I'm tired, but I think I might have blanked out during our talks."

Wanda twitched. Dammit Seb! "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you get more rest." She was going to have a LOOOONG talk with Seb tonight. "I'm sorry again for the twins."

"Oh, it's alright. Kids will be kids, but they are quite… energetic. I think they need some better way to work out their energy, maybe try some physical activity to tire them out so they wouldn't be so eager to cause trouble?"

'They weren't the only ones…' Wanda thought. "We'll find them something to do. I promise." She smiled weakly before shaking her hand. She barely listened to the twins talking about their funny day, she was thinking on how to confront Seb.

She had no idea what kind of...demon...voodoo magic shit he'd done, but she KNEW he did something!

When she got home, Wanda cast a bored look at Carol's house and found her watering her plants. "The school called. You gotta pick Amanda up." Wanda mumbled at her.

Carol looked at the twins and put her hands on her hips. "Well, you picked up the twins, why didn't you bring Amanda too?"

Wanda suddenly wanted to have fire powers too. "I can't take your kid out of the school? There are laws. I'm not her guardian so I can't take a child who isn't my own, nor do I have permission to do so." Wanda told her firmly. She needed Carol to tell the school that she was allowed to take Amanda, it was just a safety thing! Otherwise any random person could claim to be a family friend and simply abduct a child!

Wanda preferred not to pick her up though. Amanda was a sweet little girl, but if she or Seb did a favor to Carol once, she knew she'll take advantage of that.

"And if you'll excuse me, I am busy." Wanda ushered the toddlers inside before closing the door. The twins saw Daddy talking with some women and a man and they rushed at him, not caring that they were talking about adult things. ""Daddy!"" The two cheered as they hugged his legs.

"Hewo! How was school? Had fun?" Seb asked his kids as the women cooed. "Let me finish talking with Mr. Manager and these lovely ladies about a deal and then I'll be all yours~"

And so Wanda waited until they left. Seb was smiling and she almost hated to ruin this.

Almost.

"Sebastian. We gotta talk." Wanda glared. Seb cursed. That meant trouble...

"W-what's wrong, Wands?"

"Oh, it's nothing, just… what did you do to the principal?" Seb twitched. "Ah… noooothing?" His attempt at innocence was entirely transparent. Wanda had seen better lies in the courtroom. Really, Seb was shit at lying. "Sebastian Pines, what did you do to that poor woman?" Wanda got right up in his face, the sternest lawyer voice she'd ever made coming out as her husband was sweating nervously.

Seb bit his lip. Why did this body make him suck at lying?! As Bill he had no problem! "Nothing! I didn't hurt her! I swear that can't hurt her!" He put his hands over his mouth. FUCK!

Wanda raised her lawyer eyebrow. "Oh really? Then what does 'that' mean?"

Seb gave up. No point in lying now. "Look, she was being annoying, ok? She thought the twins could turn into murderers just because they were painting somewhere they shouldn't! I just made her relax a little! It comes from the boost of my powers I'm having~ I'm improving. It's been awhile since I did more than little telekinesis stuff!"

"What did you do?"

"I just erased some of her memories, so she forgets the twins did something, and changed her old perspective a little so she can't think such lame things are wrong! Don't worry, even I can recognize when some things are truly wrong, like hurting others or putting others in danger with no reason. She'd be able to recognize that!"

Wanda's brain stopped working for a second, trying to understand what she was hearing. And when she finally reacted, she lost it. "YOU WHAT!? YOU MESSED WITH HER MIND?!"

Seb flinched a little. "Just a little, nothing bad! I swear! It doesn't hurt her!"

"Sebastian-what-the FUCK!" She couldn't even process this. "NO!"

"What? Is it ILLEGAL to enter someone's mind?"

Wanda felt her heart stopping. "Well it's not RIGHT!"

"Is it written somewhere I can't!? Then no! it's not illegal! I did it for the twins!"

"No! You did it because you want to continue messing with others! Because you want others to work for you! You only care about yourself!"

"I don't! I did it for Zoe and Zully! They're such WONDERFUL babies! Wanda, they're our babies! Shouldn't we make sure they're happy?! All the time?! They gotta be themselves! People telling them they're WRONG! ALL THE TIME! IT'S UTTERLY SHIT!" He screamed. "THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT!"

"They shouldn't have to go through their father literally modifying a woman's MEMORIES so they can do all the mischief they do! It's WRONG! Do you know what they did today?! The lights exploded! The firefighters WENT TO THE SCHOOL! And ALL because YOU don't want to tell Zoe the way she plays is wrong!"

"She's not wrong! She's just a baby! She is learning! She-She's just having fun!"

"They could have gotten hurt today! Do you know how fucking stupid flooding the floor is? I wonder who they learned that from! The man who teaches them to play by burning stuff?!"

"I'm not going to punish them for those things!" Seb screamed, tears welling up in his eyes. "Fil-Filbrick always hit me for those things! He hit me for the smallest thing I did!"

"I don't care if you got scared when your dad grounded you! If the twins do something wrong, then they have to learn it was wrong! We can't let them think they can do whatever they want!" She pleaded, so caught up in her frustration she didn't fully digest Seb's words yet..

Seb wiped his tears and unbuckled his belt with a soft growl. "Fine." He went towards the door. "Wait, what-what are you doing?!" Wanda grimaced.

"You said you don't give a shit about how Fi-Filbrick hurt me for this type of thing...So I'm going to 'scold' them, as you so nicely put it...I-I'm going to grab a 4 YEAR OLD and-and beat the shit out of them for wanting to play in a different way...I'll beat them up until they never think of doing that again, until they're too scared of me, of everyone else, until they feel like a total piece of shit for ever daring to be different than the rest, until-until they're crying because that's the only thing they can do with-with their backs bleeding and-and begging for the pain to stop...because you don't care...because I used to be like them...and everyone thought I was horrible!"

Seb hit his own leg with his belt in frustration, hard, while sobbing.

Wanda was covering her own face as loud sobs shook her body. Seb dropped his belt and looked at his wife with his sight completely blurred with his tears. Wanda's breath hitched and she hugged him tightly. Seb immediately hugged her back, trying to disappear into her embrace.

"Oh god, Seb, I'm sorry...I-I didn't mean it that way…" She cried into his chest. "That's no-not what I meant at all!" The two grown adults sobbed into each other's arms. They didn't like this. They didn't like arguing with each other. They didn't like being mad at each other.

When the two of them were done crying out their fear, they could finally stare at each other. Wanda wiped Seb's tears away. "Sebas...baby, I'm sorry...I do care how you felt growing up...I know that really scared you and that...your father was horrible to you…" She whispered. "I swear letting Zoe and Zully learn they did something wrong doesn't mean hurting them…"

"I...I don't think so…" Sebastian rubbed his eye as Wanda sniffled. "Do you trust me?" Seb whispered.

"What?"

"Do you trust me?"

"...Yes" Wanda finally responded, though she still had some worries. Seb took in a desperate breath. "I… I won't mess with people's minds again, I promise... But-But I won't force the twins to conform to other people's ideas of what is right. I… I want them to be able to play however they want, be whoever they want, without feeling like they're wrong for being who they are."

Wanda ran a hand through her face and took it to her disheveled blond hair. "Ah, Seb...But...Listen, I love the twins just as much you do...but I think there are limits to what someone should be allowed to do, even if it's just for expressing themselves. I'm all for them playing however they want, but not when it impacts the safety of themselves or others or causes problems for other people-"

"It's other people's fault for having a problem with it!" Seb shot back.

"No, Seb…" Wanda sighed. Damn. How could she make him understand?

Wanda thought of something. "Ok, then how's this? If Carol wanted to come over to our house and express herself by sticking scent plugs for her handmade essential oils into all our outlets, how would you feel?"

"Fuck that bitch! Get outta my house what are you even doing?!" Seb responded immediately before he paused. "Oh." He said finally, understanding what Wanda was trying to say. Wanda knew she won, but she continued anyway, just to grind it in and make sure that Seb fully understood. "If you say that everyone should be able to do whatever they want and be themselves, that has to apply to more than just you and the twins, are you saying that you'd be okay with anyone else doing the same? Would you be fine with Carol ignoring laws and rules and coming into our house to do whatever she wanted?"

"Noooooo!" Seb wailed.

"Also, think of your niblings. You said they were always getting in trouble when you were taking care of them. They were being themselves too, but it put their lives in danger."

"Damn Dipper raising the dead…" Seb mumbled.

"You also tried to get them to stop. What did you do?"

"We...had different harmless activities...like, watching Tv or playing at home...sometimes fireworks...many fireworks…"

Wanda smiled, knowing the idea was sinking in. "You see? It's ok to be yourself, but you can't allow it to be in a way that affects others… Maybe… just like we're searching for something for you to do, a less destructive way to unleash your extra energy... Maybe the twins need a way as well...We can enroll them in sports!"

Seb hummed in thought. He hated to admit it… but Wanda was right. Zoe and Zully HAD Weirdness too, and while Zoe was like him and up for unleashing Hell on anyone whenever she wanted, Zully actually tried to contain it until she couldn't anymore and went along with their sister's crazy schemes. And while Seb was all for that, knowing that allowing such a thing would be like agreeing to let Carol do it as well (because to say that only he and the twins were allowed to do this while Carol wasn't, was hypocritical… And while Seb was a hypocrite sometimes, he understood that if he ever complained about Carol, Wanda would just tell him that he can't stop her without being said hypocrite) totally sucked!

"Ok fine. You win. We will find those critters something to do. As long as I don't have Carol's stinky oils all around my house!" He crossed his arms. Fuck Carol. Wanda managed to chuckle and kissed his pouting lips before hugging him. "I'm sorry I said I didn't care...I'm sure that what you did wasn't bad, and you definitely didn't deserve to be beaten for it… and if you had had the right attention you would have done better."

"Eh, I was a piece of shit as a kid, I actually shouldn't compare myself to the girls, I was completely sure of being Bill at their age… But yeah, doing stuff instead of being locked in the house had always been a cool concept."

Wanda took a deep breath. Disgusting Filbrick… she really wanted to try and bring him to court but Seb hadn't wanted anything to do with him at all. Besides, apart from testimony, she didn't have much evidence.

Seb awkwardly pulled from the hug and stood up. "I'm gonna serve dinner I guess…"

Wanda didn't want to stop him, she was tired, cranky and worried about her little family's future. But at least she got Seb to realize the issue. Now, she just had to find a nearby gym with activities for children and man-children. She snorted at the thought. And well, perhaps she could take this time to get into a healthier routine herself, that was always good!

-.-

Well, at the end she didn't have to think much about this place. After they tried a few places where the twins were not accepted, either because they were too young or Zoe was "too violent" (that made Seb growl), Stan was a godsend and told her about this new gym a friend of his was opening.

"Seb doesn't like gyms." She said tiredly. "Ignore that whiny bitch, I'm sure he'll love this one!" Stan laughed.

So, they gave it a try. It was 10 minutes away by car and they lied to Carol as to where they were going. It had places to park so that was a plus. Stan had not said why was this so special, but…

"OH MY GOD~~~" The brunet squealed at the sight of the huge climbing wall and made grabby hands. "Ah! Ah!" Seb squealed.

A woman approached them and after covering one of her eyes to block Seb's eyepatch from her view, she exclaimed. "You're definitely Stan's brother! Hi! Welcome!" She showed them around the facility, pointing out the amenities and activities that people could use. "We even have classes." The woman told them all. Zoe was interested in all the colorful equipment, Zully was impressed by how big this place was, and Seb had to be pulled back to keep from rushing to the rock climbing wall.

"So I've opened some other gyms in other cities, this is my fourth one, and as you can see, it's different from other gyms as it offers more extreme sports. The climbing wall is for both adults and kids, though its always available for them in different schedules. We also have traditional machines and classes for the kids, like yoga, gymnastics…" She continued explaining. "By the look on Sebastian's face, I can tell he really hates the climbing wall." She joked.

"What can the children try now while I supervise him?" Wanda asked the owner. She giggled and checked her phone. "Gymnastics class started 15 minutes ago, but I can tell the coach to let the twins get in to try."

"That would be wonderful." Wanda was very grateful for this. "Come on you two, wanna learn gymnastics?" The two cheered. She led them off to the other room before coming back to make sure Seb didn't hurt himself trying the wall. From the smile on his face, Wanda was really hoping this gym thing would help out whatever hyperactive unrest was inside him.

Seb was having the time of his life!

The wall was covered in colorful handholds and whenever he slipped, he used his powers to catch onto the wall again, even when they forced him to use a harness. The subtle use of his powers wasn't much, but it did ease a little of the tension inside, and the thrill every time he felt that falling sensation made his heart race in such a wonderful way!

"Hey, you're good at this." The coach grinned a bit at the laughing brunet. Seb beamed at the praise. "Yes I am!"

Meanwhile, Wanda fixed Zully's little ponytail and crouched in front of the twins. "Now, listen, today's just a day to try. You don't have to do everything perfectly. Just try having fun." Wanda explained with a smile.

"Ok!" The little blonds grinned.

"Hey, girls! Come on, join the girls." The teacher pointed at the group of children stretching and giggling.

Wanda waved at them and Zoe ran towards the group of girls. Zully took off their shoes and looked at the girls before glancing at the 3 boys on the other side. They smiled a little and walked towards the group they felt they'd feel more comfortable in.

"Hey! Zoe, go with the girls!" The coach grabbed their hand and led them away from the boys. "I'm Zully. And I wanna be there." Zully pointed at the boys.

"No, it's better if you stay with the girls. Boys are much rougher and we don't want anyone getting hurt." The teacher smiled and went over to start giving instructions. Zully pouted a little. They could be rough too! Playing with Zoe was VERY rough and they survived that! They still obeyed though, they didn't want to get in trouble. So Zully walked over to the other girls and pouted at everything. Still, once the activities started, they quickly forgot their annoyance and had plenty of fun learning to try to how to balance in all sorts of poses, how to stretch properly... sure, they fell over a lot, but it was still fun!

Zoe growled in frustration when she couldn't stand on her hands like the older girls. "I can't!" She complained. The coach smiled kindly. "It's ok, if you continue trying, you'll get strength to do it." She sulked though, watching others who could do it and not her. At least Zully couldn't either but her sister didn't seem that bothered about it.

The best thing was the game at the end though! Were they had to run and someone chased them. No one could catch her! And when it was her turn, no one was safe from her! That was the best part of this gym-astics. Zoe cackled wildly as she slapped someone to 'tag' them. Zully on the other hand, didn't like that game too much. When it was done, everyone put on their little shoes again and their parents, sweating from all the exercise they had been doing as well, picked them up.

The coach said she was going to take them to their mom. Zully grabbed the woman's hand as Zoe skipped behind them. Mommy was sweating and her ponytail was a mess! She looked like a disaster! That was fun! "Where's daddy?" Zoe asked. Wanda sighed. She had left him at the climbing wall to do something less...extreme...so she didn't really know how he was doing.

"I don't know, let's go find him!" Wanda thanked the coach and approached the climbing wall part. "Seb! The twins finished! We gotta go!" She exclaimed, looking around to try and find him. At least three deadpanning people looked at her and pointed up. She gasped a little at the sight. The wall wasn't straight, it had a complete irregular shape, with some blocks were people could easily sit. Seb was looking upside down at her. "NEVER!"

"We were going to pull him down but he took off the harness…" One of the instructors sighed tiredly. "We were very worried he was going to fall, but he's… really good at holding on." They told Wanda. The blonde groaned. She knew he was probably using that 'magic' thing of his to stay on. "Seb! Get down here! We need to go home!"

"NEVER! I live HERE now!" Seb called down, shaking his fist at her like a brat. Wanda buried her face in her hands. Well… at least he was happy. Then she paused. Telling Sebastian to do something directly wasn't going to work, was it? Instead, she switched tactics. "Oh. Okay then." She shrugged, taking the twin's hands. "Well, you heard daddy. He lives here now." She shrugged again. "So… say bye to daddy. We're going home."

The twins blinked. Zully frowned. "So we're leaving daddy here?" They asked. Wanda nodded. "Yeah, since daddy lives here now." She began to walk toward the doors. The twins were somewhat confused, but waved up at Sebastian as they walked away. "Byeeee daddy~!" they called out.

Seb blinked. They… they were leaving? Without HIM?!

But-But...he drove! It was his car…!

"Wanda?" Seb called down. Wanda turned when she got to the doors and smiled. "Byeee Seb~ We'll come to visit you next weekend for our next gym day." She grinned. To Seb's growing horror, Wanda let go of one of the twin's hands to raise his car keys into the air. Right! He left his stuff with Wanda when he went to climb!

"Wanda… but… but…" Seb whimpered. "Y-you're not gonna leave me here… for real?!"

"Well, you don't want to come down, you live here now. And I need to get home. I have work tomorrow." Wanda said simply, sounding like this didn't bother her at all.

"NoooOoo!" Seb cried. To the horror of the coaches, he turned around, swinging down from the block, used some of the handholds to adjust his position, and jumped the rest of the way down to the large safety mattress under the wall. "Wait! I'm coming too!" He ran towards her and the twins and hugged them. "Don't… don't do that… I-I really don't want you to leave me…" It reminded him of his nightmare. Wanda looked exactly the same, so relaxed, calm, as if it didn't bother her at all.

The blonde smiled, unaware of what her husband was thinking, and patted his back as the twins tried to climb up his legs. Then she looked at the owner, who was raising an eyebrow at tbem. "We loved this. We'll all start next weekend." She told her. Then she turned back to Seb and hugged him close. "I wouldn't really leave you. I'm just messing with you. Besides, you have to work tomorrow too...The living room is a mess." She joked. Seb didn't stop hugging her though. Wanda shuffled her way outside, not sure why Sebastian was being so clingy.

Once the Pines were outside, one of the coaches of the climbing area stated. "Everyone saw how he jumped like 3 meters right?" the other coaches shrugged. "He IS Stanley Pines' brother after all." Maybe athleticism ran in the family?

-.-

While Zoe was tolerating the classes because she could run around and accidentally push others, Zully was in love with the gymnastics class. Sure they were just learning, but they loved everything about it. They liked stretching, making poses (contorting into different shapes) tumbling around on the mat, learning to do cartwheels...

The only yucky thing was being with the girls. The boys and the girls had different exercises (and Zully wanted to try out the boys ones too!) Everyone made them go with the girls everywhere! Even at school there was a bathroom just for girls or boys! Even though they all could use the bathroom at home whether they were a boy or girl! Why was a bathroom for boys at school and at the gym different? Was it another color? They liked all the colors! They heard older girls being dared to enter the boy's bathroom, that it was horrible and weird…

Their twin didn't care about the boys bathroom, in fact, she didn't know why they cared so much. "I wanna try their bathroom." Zully pouted. "Then do it." Zoe told them during one of their tea parties with monsters who drank dirty water with mud from the yard. They had very deep philosophical discussions once they were alone, "I can't, the teachers telled me not to." Zully wilted in on themselves. They had trouble disobeying direct instructions, unlike Zoe who would just ignore everything the teachers told her.

"Then go without them knowing?" Zoe raised an eyebrow. Zully sighed and sipped their juice. "Mom says that bad." Zoe snorted, leaning back into the grass and groaning loudly. "So what? Mommy doesn't have to know! That's why you go when they don't know! You know?!"

Zully shook their head. They didn't feel like disobeying...They needed their energy for gymnastics! Zoe sighed and rubbed the grass. "Why's the grass green? Why can't it be pink?" She complained absently.

"Don't know…" Zully mused and ran a small hand over it too. They laid down with their twin and stared at the blue sky. Why was the sky blue anyway? Who got to decide it? And why it turned black at night? Or orange? Or even pink sometimes? So many important questions that weren't taught at preschool!

"We should ask dad!" Zoe said before they ran inside.

The kids were growing up very fast, they were endlessly annoying, curious about everything! Seb was always close to exploding at their squeaky "Whys?!" And "Hows?!" When he asked Stan about Diego, he shrugged. "He has some children's books he can read if he has questions, they do wonders~ Do your twins know how to read yet?"

"Eh~ Some words and small sentences." He couldn't see his brothers face, but he could feel Stan's smug grin on the other side. "Diego already knows how to read~~ Specialized preschool~" And Carla said all the teachers told her that Diego was incredibly gifted for his age. Something about having a real knack for numbers. Heh. Maybe Diego would grow up to do stuff with stocks? Hey, a guy could dream.

"Yeah...well...Shut up!" Seb responded. His kids made fire! That was way cooler than being good at SCHOOL stuff! Hmph! He didn't care if they couldn't fully read yet, they would do it when they were ready. Besides, he didn't need to put them in a specialized school to avoid talking to them. He tried to answer their questions the best way he could, even if it annoyed him, because that's what good dads did, they didn't ignore their kids, they spent time with them and tried teaching them whatever they wanted to know.

Even if they were awkward as hell.

"Mommy, daddy! Where do babies come fwom?" Zoe and Zully climbed into their laps and stared at them innocently.

Wanda blushed a bit with a smile and Seb snickered. "Well, what babies? Humans? Insects? Reptiles?"

"Humans!" Zoe giggled, kicking her legs.

This was going to be a weird talk, but they were ready, they had been preparing for this precise question. They read a book! "Well, what do you think?" Seb asked them first, to get an idea of how their own thought process went for this subject.

"Umm... Charlie from class said-he said he will have a little sister! And that his mommy has a baby in her belly...How?" Zully tilted their head and Zoe gasped. "You EAT babies?!" Was that how the baby got in their belly?! Or maybe- "Did she eat a Baby seed and now the baby is growing in her stomach?! Like how you eat a watermelon seed and have a watermelon in your stomach?!"

Seb burst out into loud, genuine laughter, he even shed a few tears and Wanda snickered. "No, sweetie. Um...A baby grows in a woman's womb , not her stomach, and it develops there."

The twins hummed in thought. "And how?! How does it gets there?!" "What's a woom?"

"Um…" Seb shrugged. "There are looots of ways a baby can form. For example, mom and dad ...get their bodies VERY CLOSE to each other and...share an egg and sperm to make a baby~ Like we did to make you two!" The twins giggled. "Egg like from a chickin'?" "What's a spwerm?"

"Well, a female can create a very little egg inside her once she's old enough, and a male can create sperm. Which is like tiny little tadpoles." Wanda rolled her eyes when Sebastian snorted loudly. "They go inside the egg and a baby is made."

"...I'm confussed." Zoe whined. So egg like a chicken, but then its a frog tadpoles- but then they go together like-

"Like Triassic Park?!" Zoe gasped. "So we're DINOSAURS!"

Seb broke down laughing hysterically. Yes! His babies were dinosaurs! Wanda chuckled. "Kind of. But you ended up as humans. But anyway, often times you get a baby from a man and a woman combining their egg and sperm." She wasn't going to leave it at that, though. "But sometimes they get it from someone else. Like gay couples. They can't have kids, because to make offspring you need an egg, which comes from a woman, and a sperm, which comes from a man. So if there are two men who want a baby, or two women, they ask for someone to kindly lend them an egg or sperm so they could use it to grow a baby for them, or if they're women, one of them grows the baby after receiving a sperm."

"So only girls grow babies?" Zully asked with a little frown. Wanda nodded. "Yeah. It grows inside them, until they lay them out like a really weird egg."

Or extract them...like burning tumor babies...

"Why?"

"Because males don't have a womb."

Zoe pressed. "And how from the s pern and the egg you pass to a baby?! And how the two gets there?! In-In the...Woom?!" She was trying hard to understand.

Seb opened his mouth to SAY it, but Wanda pinched him before he got any funny ideas. "Tone it down. I don't want them traumatized." She warned in a soft voice before looking back at the kids. "Well, sharing them is a very...intimate grown up thing. You know...how we all have private parts?" The twins nodded. "Well, women and men have different private parts to make an egg or a sperm so when two grown ups get very close, they connect their private parts and form a baby." She let them complete the picture, just like the book said. When they were older they could get more details. The important thing was not lying to them.

The twins finally seemed satisfied for now and nodded. "Ok!" The two exclaimed.

A few days later, they were called by the school because some really horrified parents, including Charlie's parents and Carol, were complaining about the twins telling their kids that to make babies, grown ups 'rubbed their private parts together very fast and that way a perm and an egg became a baby in the mother's woom' And Zoe asked Charlie if he could "Ask his parents how fast they rubbed it to create their sister."

"I mean...they're not wrong ?" Seb mumbled to himself as the other parents completely lost it. "They're too young to know that! How could you!?" Carol seemed so hurt and disappointed in them. Seb secretly got a vindictive thrill out of it.

Wanda actively ignored her and looked at the principal. "What were we supposed to say? That a giant bird dropped them off on our doorstep?! We explained it in an as modest and objective way as possible. Do you advocate for lying to the children? Telling them about the stork?"

"YES!" A group of moms cried and the Pines-Friedmann sighed. "Well we didn't want to lie to them. That would only make them distrust us once they're older and realize we lied." Wanda glared. The other parents were still quite distressed but the principal stated that Wanda and Sebastian had done nothing wrong. So they were able to leave and the other parents couldn't do shit. Hah!

At home they had to explain that just like it was done with private parts, it should remain a private thing and talked about only with mom and dad~

Wanda told the incident to her parents, and to her surprise, both her mom and dad burst out laughing and told her that she'd used to badger them with questions like that too. It embarrassed her a little to learn she was just as curious as the twins were now back when she was a child.

-.-

The private talks lasted for a while. Their babies were still very curious about everything and they wanted to ease their questions, besides, they were worried that the kids would go out getting in trouble at school again if they didn't get the answers they wanted.

Seb was wondering if it was this normal for kids to ask so much about this. According to Carla, Diego only cared about coloring inside the lines and Seb was sure as hell he didn't give a shit about that when he was 4. (Maybe because he was planning his revenge against the lizard and the Stans).

But here he was. Talking about bodies and dicks and eggs to his toddlers.

They needed a bath, they smelled like nasty babies, but they didn't want to get a bath. He told them that bacteria would grow on them and eat their flesh. Zully agreed to bath after that, but Zoe just said "I wanna be a skelton!" And Seb had no idea how to respond to that.

"Let's all go take a bath, nasty little humans." Seb took them to the bathroom (ignoring Zoe's protests), took off their dirty clothes covered in glue and glitter from school and put them in the bathtub with warm bubble bath water. He also got some toys for them to play with and not bother him too much.

"You get in too! Or bactery will eat you too!" Zully pulled daddy's hand. Seb rolled his eyes and agreed. Ok, he could use a bath too, and it would give him the chance to wash the twins better.

So now he was sitting on the tub with the kids, trying to wash their curly wet hair while they squirted water at him and splashed around. Urgh! This wasn't a pool day! Damn it!

"Ok, song, song, we're gonna sing a song ok? I know you sang it in class!" Seb cried as he rubbed water from his face. Zoe clapped as Zully groaned like a broken lawn mower. They really didn't like singing.

"Head! And shoulders! Knees and toes!" Zoe finally sat down to point those body parts and Seb finally caught her to wash her hair. "And your eyes?" He asked. "Where are the eyes!" He cried dramatically.

Zully and Zoe giggled and pointed at their eyes. "Aaanddd ears?!"

"Here!" They grabbed their little ears. Zoe was shampoo free now and Seb caught Zully to do the same. "Anddd where are your mouths?!" Zully giggled and pointed at their eyes again, but quickly realized their mistake and pointed to their mouth instead. "Here!"

"Right...because we have a mouth , we don't eat with our eyes...or have to close our eyes to eat." Seb said slowly. Zully nodded. "Yeah." What a silly question.

"Good." Seb sighed. She'll learn it eventually. It was just a weird baby habit, like, sucking their thumb! Yeah! It'll go away… (Hopefully, his own baby habit was biting his hand and it never went away…)

"And...Where are our private parts?" Seb asked. The twins pointed down at the water. "And what's its name?" Seb asked next. "A-Agiana?" The twins struggled to say the name.

Close enough.

"Good! And who can touch that?" Seb asked them seriously. ""Only me!"" The twins said in unison with their own serious looks. As the twins were getting curious, too curious, Seb and Wanda thought they might as well teach them other basic and important things. Seb didn't want anything happening to them, they had to be prepared for anything. "And what do you do if someone else tries?!"

"We tell mommy in-miadetely to put them in pwison and daddy to burn them! And when we're older, we can burn them too!" The twins responded.

"Pftt why going to school, you're both so intelligent allreaddyyy~" Seb cooed as he poked their chubby cheeks. The twins squealed and laughed. Seb managed to rinse their hair free of shampoo and set about washing himself too, brushing his wet hair away from his face. Hm… he should get it trimmed… Seb rubbed his face, at the hair growing along his chin and remembered he had to shave his body soon, his leg hair was already growing back. Damn hairy human body!

He spaced out and started mentally complaining about hair and how having XY chromosomes was a curse to be disgustingly hairy. While he did so, the blonds played around and 'helped' to wash his neck and back.

Zully rubbed his tattoo and frowned. "The marker isn't coming off!" Seb realized Zully was looking at his back and quickly grabbed them to put them in front of him. "Tattoos don't come off, they are in your skin...like a mole. Or a birthmark."

"I like the dwawings you have!" Zully declared with a grin. "I saw a star! And glasses and a twiangle in the middle and a tree and-"

"Yeah, yeah, many shapes, I'm clean already let's get out." He first grabbed Zully by their armpits and swung them out of the tub. He had to stand up to reach their soft bathrobes and he missed the look Zully gave him, or rather the lower part of him. The bubbles in their bath hid everything but now that Seb was out, and the bubbles slid down off his body, Zully noticed something weird.

"Ok, there you go~" Zully's hair was wrapped up in a towel and Dad put them in their bathrobe. Then Dad did the same with Zoe, who didn't want to get out now and had to be wrestled out.

When both of them were wrapped up, Seb reached for a towel to wrap around himself as well.

"Daddy…" Zully called as Seb wrapped a towel on his hair. "Yeah?"

"That thing is your private part?" Zully shamelessly pointed at the towel he wrapped around his waist. Seb blushed a little at her bluntness.

"Well...yeah?"

"Why?"

Why? Why was it his? Or why did he have it? What?

"Um, you have one type that girls got, I have another? For men?" This was getting weird.

Zully frowned. So that made you a boy? But they didn't have that!

Zoe complained she was cold and demanded to get changed already. Seb was about to open the door when Zully spoke.

"Dad...I want your private part, not mine." Zully declared. Seb nearly tripped over his own feet. "M-my penis?!" He choked out. Zully nodded. "Yeah!"

has stopped working.

Finally, he managed to reboot and sighed. "Zully, you're a girl so you have the girl's private part. Daddy is a boy, so he has the boy's private part." He was feeling rather awkward at this point.

"But I want the boy's part!" Zully insisted. Seb blinked slowly. "Oh…" He wasn't sure how to handle this. "So… why?" He finally asked. Zully pouted. "I wanna be like daddy!" Seb relaxed at that, thinking that Zully was simply being cute and wanting to be like their cool dad. He chuckled and ruffled Zully's head towel. "Well maybe when you grow up." He teased. "But right now, you both need to get into your PJs and go to bed."

"Okay!" Zully was much happier to hear that they could be like a boy when they grew up. They couldn't wait for that!

Seb shook his head, wondering why this had even come up in the first place. Zully was such an odd child.

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This occured BEFORE the christmas special btw

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