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)

26. Chapter 26 Eyes skyward

Hii new chapter!

If you wanna know what Miz was up to, you can check Mizumma Illusion is Reality in Archiveofourown. Id put the link but stupid FF doesnt let me do that. Please enjoy!

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Miz was late.

Sebastian didn't blame her, if she was living with her family on the other side long term and then travelling back here to be with him, of course things might be a little late. Still, he was relieved when she finally returned a couple days later. Miz was immediately beset by the angry twins who hugged her tightly and cried about how they were afraid she wouldn't come back.

"I'm sorry! I swear I would never leave forever!" Miz hugged the children tightly. "It's hard to aim myself in time, you know?"

"Don't leave ever again!" Zoe demanded. Miz sighed. "I can't do that. I have my own family back home."

"But...but we're your family too, right?" Zach asked her. Miz kissed his forehead. "Of course you are. And that's why I'll always come back, even if I have to leave now and then."

"Aaaww, that's so sweet I think I will throw up!" Seb called from the door. Miz laughed and tackled the man to the floor in a tight hug. "I missed you too, poop head, don't be so jealous!"

"Who said I missed you, kid?" Sebastian joked and hugged the girl tightly to show her it was a lie. They finally broke apart and Miz sighed. "How late am I?" Seb pet her head. "It's not too bad. Just a couple of days as opposed to 5 years like the first time." Miz nodded. "Right, I think I've got the calculations down by this point. I should be back on time during my next trip."

"Right, you should go call Sixer. He's been moping because he thinks he scared you off by hurting your feelings." Seb told her. It was annoying to get a call from him every night, asking if Miz had returned. Miz rolled her eyes. "That baby. I told him I might be late! Dimensional travel is difficult!"

She grumbled fondly as she walked off to find the phone so she could call him. The twins trailed after her, not wanting Miz to leave their sight. Zoe was tugging on Miz's dress and demanding to be picked up. Miz grinned and lifted both children to hug against her chest. "Oof! You've gotten heavy in the last few days~" She teased.

"No we haven't!" The twins protested. Seb shook his head as the three left the room. Well. It was nice to have Miz back. He frowned. Right. He and Wanda were supposed to find an Elementary school for the kids. He worried about finding a place that would treat Zach properly. He also needed to talk to Miz about taking over as the twin's pre-school teacher since he'd withdrawn them from the daycare.

He had tried to fill in as a teacher for the twins but he had his own work to do and couldn't give them as much time as he'd liked. Instead he just put on the Children's Programing channel and had the happy puppets and people in costumes teach the twins about the alphabet. It wasn't a good solution. He was glad Miz was home. He jumped when Sir Bedazzle suddenly ran between his legs after Miz and the twins, barking happily. Oh circles, at least there was only one plantimal he had to watch out for...

"Hey Miz!" Seb heard Zach say from the other room. "Shouldn't Sir Bedazzle have a friend? So he wouldn't be lonely when we have to go to el-lam-men-terry school in the fall?"

Seb's eye widened. Oh no.

"Hm...you're right. He deserves his own little playmate…"

"No. No. No." Seb ran for the door. "We don't need another pet…" Please, no! No more! Mercy! He loved Sir Bedazzle but it was getting harder to explain to the neighbors why they've never see his dog when they could hear it barking all the time. He had to claim Sir Bedazzle was strictly an at home dog. Josh and his husband from a few houses down wanted to bring their dog over for a puppy play date and it was getting harder to turn them down.

"Miz wait!" He burst into the room with a panicked expression, but it was already too late. Molecules were changed, matter was formed and a little creature, slightly smaller than Dazzle opened their eyes after a yawn. The twins cooed at it. Sebastian stared. Unlike Sir Bedazzle who was clearly an Acorn, this Plantimal was a Maple seed with a round body and a long wing-like tail. Sir Bedazzle walked up to it and yipped curiously. The new creature tilted its head at the Acorn Puppy and let out a soft "Mewl?"

"It's...a cat. A Maple Kitten…" Seb deadpanned. "Miz!" He scowled.

"We have a kitten now!" Zoe came running and smiled widely. The toddler picked up the little plantimal and stroked their head. "What do we call him?! The kitten purred at the gentle touch. "This time it's a she." Miz clarified and the blond girl apologized to the kitten. "How do you know?! They're plants!" Seb frowned. Miz stared at him. "I just do~"

Seb groaned. Great. There was another magical/weird plant in his house now. He sighed even as the twins discussed what to name their new pet. "Her Majesty Queen Fluttertail, Lady of the Feywilds!" was the name they eventually decided on. Queen Flutter for short. Seb had no idea where they came up with these names.

Sir Bedazzle and Queen Flutter stared at each other before the acorn made a happy sound and nudged Zoe. "Arf?" he asked. Zoe put Queen Flutter down and the two began to coo cheerfully at each other. The blond children squealed as their pets got along. "Daddy! Look how adorable they are!" Zoe screamed. "I think I'm gonna explode!"

"Yes, well, I guess I have to admit she is pretty cute…" Seb nodded. "But we can't have another one of these, kids."

Then it happened. Seb was viciously attacked. Not by one or two, but by five sets of huge pleading eyes: the twins, Miz, Bedazzle and Flutter.

"No…" Sebastian bit his lip.

"Please!" The kids begged and Flutter made some whimpering noises. "Mewl…"

"ARGH!" The man screamed. This was too much for him. "FINE!"

"You are the most greatest dad ever!" the twins squealed before hugging their dad. Miz giggled and grabbed Queen Flutter to put her on Seb's shoulder. "Look, Queen Flutter! He's your new dad!" The maple kitten pawed Seb's shaved face with one of her little paws and licked his cheek. Seb groaned. Wanda was at work and he didn't know how he was going to explain this when she returned. He watched as the maple kitten jumped off his shoulder, swishing around as it's tail helped it somewhat fly/glide to the ground.

The children ran off to play with their new pet and Miz gave Seb a smug look even as she found the phone to call Ford. "You're welcome."

"I didn't thank you." Seb grumbled.

"You will, the twins are happy and you love when they're happy." She shrugged and started dialing Ford. "Besides, now they've forgiven me for being late. So there."

"So that was your true plan!" Seb groaned. "Are you going to get them a new pet every time you're late?! My house can't handle that!"

Miz giggled. "Not every time. I'll have to switch it up so the twins don't get bored...oh! Yellow Fordsie!" Miz greeted when Ford picked up the phone.

Seb rolled his eye. Like hell he would let the twins get bored of the plantimals, they were their responsibility too! He looked at Miz speaking to his brother and wondered if he should leave to give them space.

Nah. He stood closer to Miz to shout. "HEY FORDSIE LOOK WHO'S BACK!" Miz and Ford jumped on both sides of the line and Miz rolled her eyes before putting it on speaker mode. "-eck Sebastian?! What was THAT for?!" Ford complained. Seb cackled. "I just wanted to let you know that Miz returned." He said innocently.

"I can tell." Ford said sarcastically.

Miz tapped the phone. "Hey. Sorry I'm late Fordsie. I just flew in from my dimension and boy are my arms tired." Seb snorted while Ford seemed to think she was being serious. "Do you use your arms to direct your flight? Is that why Bill would wave them around so much? How does that work? Are there muscles in those thin limbs?"

"...Sixer...I think she's joking…" Sebastian face palmed. Why did Ford believe everything? No wonder he was so easy to fool. Ah, he loved him anyway…

"She is?" Ford responded while Miz and Seb laughed at the dumb genius. "Miz made the twins another plantimal, Sixer!" Seb informed his brother. "A cat this time."

"That's amazing! I would love to study it. Both of them actually. How are they both plant and animal? How do they move? How do they vocalize?"

Miz and Seb glanced at each other before they both said "Neeeeerd!" and laughed. Miz was quick to reassure Ford they weren't making fun of him. "You're adorable, Fordsie. Hey, are you free right now? Want to come over?"

Seb choked. Really? Right NOW? In HIS house again?! When his babies were present and could hear?! He already placed the room Ford and Xin shared under a partial quarantine, the rooms magically cleaned themselves anyway. "I am actually a bit busy on a project, I would appreciate it if you came later, it's much better that way, or I could go, either way is fine." Ford replied.

"You wouldn't like it if we did that in your place!" Sebastian grumbled.

Miz hummed. "Well, is there anything you need help with on your projects?"

"T-that would be wonderful!" Ford seemed to perk up eagerly. His voice sounding excited."I have been meaning to ask you about the solar batteries…"

"Oh, right! Yeah I can help with that!" Miz looked at Seb. "I'll go with Fordsie, you three will be fine while I am gone?"

"Uh...sure...yeah. we can survive a few hours…" Seb muttered. As long as they didn't fuck in his house again, it was fine. Besides, Ford was working in his lab. There's no place to fuck there right? As if crushing his hopes on purpose, he heard Ford ask "Are you still willing to do a session? In...whatever form you're comfortable with? I...am fine with your true form, I swear I am!"

Miz frowned. "If I do take my true form, we won't be doing a session. Even if you say it's fine...it really...hurt my feelings when you reacted badly. I don't want that tainting our time together." Seb pushed aside his shock to scowl. Right, Ford was dumb. "I don't want you hurting my friend, Sixer or I will cut off your toes and feed...feed you those!" He threatened. "I trust you know how to respect her even with your...rough moments."

"Of course! I would never willingly harm her. In fact I had been trying to treat Xin's wounds but...he refused."

"I was gonna heal anyway. I didn't want you to waste your first aid supplies. What if you got hurt during an experiment and you needed them?" Miz protested. Seb made a face. "Just...don't get hurt…" What the heck was wrong with them? He wouldn't treat Wanda like that, the thought hadn't even crossed his pure innocent mind until these two fuckers started mentioning it so casually!

"The bruises are part of the sessions, Sebastian, they can't be stopped." Ford told Seb matter of factly and the younger man deadpanned. "...Right…" He stood up. "Be back for dinner, I'm making spaghetti." Seb patted Miz's head and stood up to go scream somewhere at the horrible mental image his mind was trying to come up with.

Ford sighed. "I would like for the bruising to be less prominent though. I feel rather uncomfortable with the idea of you being injured from our activities." Miz shrugged "But I like the way they feel."

"Yes, that's part of the problem here. Is the pain thing, a Bill thing?" Ford questioned. "...I think it's a me as Bill thing?" Miz mumbled. "It's just...how I am...pretty fucked up, huh?" She tightened her hold on the phone. Ford frowned. Was he supposed to agree? Or to deny it? "So...you will come, right?" The awkward scientist said at the end, sidestepping the question altogether. Ford heard the phone hang up but before he could worry about how he might have offended her, he jumped at the "Tah dah!" shouted next to him. He turned to see Miz grinning at him. "So, battery?" She asked as she looked over at his work table covered in machine parts.

"Yes, uh, I would appreciate it if you checked over my progress?" Stanford had never asked for help in his projects, except for the portal, it made him feel useless, but Miz was different, she was a literal Knowledge god! She was a good Bill, he needed to take advantage of having her as a friend! (In a way he'd always wanted from his own Bill, had thought he did have with his own Bill-) Miz fiddled with the items on the desk. Ford heard her mumbling under her breath "...silicone...sodium...possibly glass?"

The two quietly worked together, Miz pointing out corrections and even went on a long rant about reactions, decay and oxidation. "You know what? We should make some aerogel. That'll be a fun way to get you a better insulator for your machines." When Ford asked about it, she responded with, "It's like making jello, except you replace all the liquid with air!" At one point she got frustrated at the mess his lab was in and started sorting everything by type, size and function. Ford protested of course. "I don't need to clean- it takes time away from working!"

"No. I am putting the screws here, in a neat little pile, organized so we don't have to dig through your stupid tool box to find the one we need!" Miz glared at Ford. "We waste more time trying to find stuff otherwise."

Ford pouted. Now he wouldn't find anything! He had his own order! Miz didn't let up her glare. "Look, now all the screws are HERE-" she pointed at the cubbies she had created and sorted the screws into "-and they're all neatly labeled so you can easily just read them and grab the ones you need."

"But I knew where my stuff was before!" Ford whined. Miz rolled her eyes "Hence why it took you 3 minutes to dig out the bolt you needed to tighten the panel on your mini weather generator and by the time you did, the reaction had faded and we had to spend 20 minutes getting the machine back up and running to churn out another cloud."

Ford flushed. "...well I…"

"Nope!" Miz scoffed. "I am cleaning and organizing this mess." She continued working as Ford whined like a child. Really, she was even making new shelves and other tables to sort things into. Her OCD demanded it. Ford had stopped protesting and was now just pouting in a corner. Miz lifted and placed a huge tank of liquid helium and sighed. Everything neatly in its place.

"I wanted it my way!" Ford whined. He refused to admit it was useful to see how many of each component he had. With them all placed together he could easily see his supplies of Rhodium chunks were running low. But he still refused to admit the lab looked much nicer and more spacious now that things had been moved. There was more room to start new projects now. Okay fine, he was actually very impressed. But he didn't want to admit he was a slob.

"Yeah, you can live in your mess all you want, you awful messy child, but not when I'm here. Seriously, how did you survive like this? No one said anything about this mess?" Miz pouted as she sent the dust into a swirl of clicking molecules to create another shelf, this one was empty for now with little blank labels that Ford could write words on once he put stuff in them. Ford scoffed. "No one had a problem with my lab."

"I bet they just couldn't say anything because you're their boss and you write their paychecks." Miz deadpanned. "When I meet your mom during your birthday, I'm gonna tell her what a messy boi you are!" She stuck her tongue out.

"Wh-What?!" Stanford gaped. "Are you going to tell my mother I don't keep my lab organized?"

"Yes. Maybe she can make you listen to reason, you clearly keep pouting at me like a child." Miz had her hands on her hips and Ford was struck by how ridiculous this looked. A girl half his size, looking down on him as if he was the child. "I...cannot believe you are telling on me to my mother." Ford said at last.

"It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make." Miz said solemnly. Ford snorted. "What sacrifice?" He started laughing. This was so ridiculous. Miz giggled and the two just sat around and laughed over the situation. "But seriously though, I WILL be telling your mom." Miz clarified.

"I am a grown man. She can't ground me anymore." Ford sniffed as he tried to look superior. Miz floated up so she could pat his hair. "Of course you are. Such a big boi." She cooed. "Your mom can ground you no matter how old you are." Miz added. "Seb and the kids get grounded all the time!"

"...Seb gets grounded?" Ford repeated, both amused and confused.

"Have you seen the shit those three do sometimes? Wanda and I have to do something to get some peace in that house!" Miz groaned as she floated on her side. Ford tugged her back down. "Maybe Sebastian needs more discipline." He laughed. "Maybe give him a time out?"

"We've tried. He gets bored." Miz allowed herself to be placed back on the ground. Right. Gravity was a thing she was supposed to follow now. Ford laughed. "Sebastian had never stayed put in his time out as kids…" He said. "Every time I saw him, he was ALWAYS grounded in the corner!" He laughed but Miz frowned a bit. "Well, Seb can't sit still due to his ADHD so I can only imagine how awful that was for him." After all, she had some issues with her attention span too. Short attention span combined with an odd hyper focus and also a propensity towards multi-tasking. Gosh, she was a mess.

Ford frowned a bit in thought. He...didn't know that, actually, he knew that Sebastian had that condition but hadn't really followed that train of thought. "Well, he got more in trouble for not obeying...that must have been bad indeed…" The man rubbed his arm. He didn't like to remember when they were kids, not when he realized he had been horrible to his younger brother. Miz squeezed his arm. "It's ok. You three are fine now. That's in the past." She smiled. Ford smiled slightly too. Miz frowned suddenly. "Is your father still alive? Would anyone mind if I fed him his own eyes?"

"...I wouldn't wish that on anyone to be honest." Ford sighed. "He wasn't the best father-"

"He was an abusive asshole who literally made Seb PAY him to be allowed to sleep in his house. As a CHILD." Miz scowled.

Ford frowned profusely. "What are you talking about?! What-When…" He fidgeted with his hands.

Miz blinked. "Seb never told you? He's been working a job since he was like...what? 14? I'm not sure how old he was, to earn money to pay Filbrick so he would be allowed inside the house. Heck, when your father threw him out, Seb's first instinct was to go to his workplace to find a place to stay...which…" She winced. "...didn't work out since his boss passed away a while before…"

Ford slowly sat down on his chair and ran a hand through his hair. How could he have been so blind?! They had been kids! Why didn't Seb tell them?! "Do...do you know...if Stanley knew about this?" That had been so long ago, he knew Seb was fine now, they were all fine, but he hadn't thought of where his brother went to after he was...kicked out…

Miz shook her head sadly. "Judging by your reaction, I don't think he told anyone about this, not even your mother. You know how Seb never wants to bother people with his problems." She could relate, but she hated how Seb did this as a kid. Children were SUPPOSED to ask for help! Ford groaned and covered his face. "Why am I so blind?!" Miz raised an eyebrow. "You're generally pretty lost in your own head. You don't pay much attention to others." Her observation just made Ford feel worse. He needed to get better at this.

"So...feeding Filbrick his own eyes, yay or nay?" Miz asked and sprouted a tail just to wag it.

Ford lifted his glasses and rubbed his eyes. "Don't, please." He didn't know much about the old man. He only knew he was still in their old house in New Jersey. He stayed there after Mom left him. Miz considered it. "I'll give him a chance to make up for it." she grumbled. "Your Bill kinda fucked him over. And if YOU could get over yourself, I'll give him a chance to do so as well." Filbrick's wife left him after all. Perhaps his time away from his family gave him some time to think over his life and actions.

Ford blinked. "Wait. Bill...knew father?"

"Yeah? You didn't know? Your Bill made a Deal with your father back when he was a teenager in exchange for his first born or something like that…"

"He did WHAT?!" Ford gasped. He couldn't believe Filbrick would do something like-Well, no he could actually believe it but why the heck would he do that?! "And what was the deal about?!"

Miz frowned. Her eyes flickered to get the details and Ford couldn't help being entranced by the images he could see. Was that...a younger version of his father...with...a twin?!

"Those idiots summoned Bill...for FUN!" Miz hissed. "Of all the stupid-well, to be fair I've also dealt with stupid teenagers summoning me for shits and giggles but I don't...kill them for it…" Ford paled dramatically and he stumbled back. He leaned against the table and took a deep breath. "He summoned Bill Cipher?! Wh-Why the he-He-Urgh! Who did Bill kill?!"

"Pretty much all his friends...and then possessed Filbrick's twin brother…" Miz winced. "Wow. Your Bill was REALLY an asshole. Even Seb's past life didn't go that far."

"Fa-Father doesn't have a twin brother…" Ford mumbled shakily. "Just...an older brother...and a sister…"

"He didn't have one anymore , look... Bill killed this kid in front of him." Miz still hated the asshole, but she did feel sorry for this. No one should have to go through that. "And he called that other boy ''brother' so I'm guessing that if your father DID have a twin, Bill erased him when he killed him."

Ford closed his eyes and ran a six-fingered hand through his curly hair. He couldn't believe this… Miz frowned worriedly and put a small hand over his arm. "I am sorry you had to learn this now…" She told him. "I just...saw some things and...I had to tell you." Ford shook his head. "No, it's fine. I rather know the truth than live on in ignorance." He sighed. "I'm still mad at father, but now I want to talk to him. Figure out what happened from his side of the story…" he closed his eyes, "...see if father feels any guilt over how he treated us and Sebastian."

"...if he doesn't, does that mean I can mess with him?" Miz asked. "Even if he has a tragic past, it doesn't excuse the abuse he put Sebastian through." Ford nodded. "No mutilating him, and I know…" He sighed tiredly. They were planning to go to New Jersey in the summer anyway, maybe then he could have a talk with his father. He hugged Miz's small form to himself. "Thank you for telling me this. I have a lot I need to think about."

Miz nuzzled his chest. "Sorry that I just turned your world upside down…"

"No. You did nothing wrong. I admit, it is distressing to know Bill had a hand in my...I can't say conception, but my birth and the circumstance around it." Ford sighed, resting his chin on the top of Miz's head. She was quite soft and nice to hold. He absently squished her belly and the girl squealed. "That tickles!"

"Oh it does?" Ford questioned with a grin. Miz frowned. "Wait! Don't you dare, Sixer!"

Ford squished her belly again and Miz squealed again. "No!" She tried to smack his hand away but the man laughed and poked her belly. She giggled and shoved at him. "Ahahah! S-stop it! Fordsie, you asshole!" She laughed as she wiggled. She got her revenge by tickling his ribs and the man let out a loud bark of laughter. "Revenge!" Miz took advantage of Ford's loosened grip to start tickling him in earnest. The poor man spasmed as the demon tickled him. He usually only felt weird and jumpy when people tried to tickle him but he had been laughing before, so now his body couldn't hold back the natural reaction.

"Wa-Wait!" Ford cried but Miz had no mercy for the man. She wanted him to beg!

"Mi-Miz! Mi-Miz! Ah! S-S-Stop!" Ford snorted and tried holding back his mad laughter. He wasn't doing so well in that regard, twitching and sliding off his chair as he was tickled into submission. He laid on the ground, shaking and curling in on himself, trying desperately to protect his sides from her fingers.

"Mwahaha! I'll never stop!" Miz crowed. She knelt over him, pretty much straddling him as she jabbed her fingers into any opening she found. Stop was stop, but tickle wars had no such rules! Well, she'd stop if it looked like he couldn't breathe. She wasn't heartless (currently.) Ford realized he couldn't win with a defensive strategy and struck back, placing his large hands along her sides and squeezing. She made a choked gasp and squealed. Ford began his counterattack, wiggling his many fingers along her squishy stomach and grinned in triumph at his long arms easily holding her far enough away that she couldn't retaliate.

"Ahahahah! Fo-ahaha! Ford-hahah!" She gasped "Can't breathe!"

Ford placed her on the ground where she drew in large gasps of air. Ford was panting heavily himself, his sides aching and his body protesting the tickle attacks it had been forced to endure. The phone rang. Ford answered when he saw it was Stanley. "He-hello?" He asked, out of breath.

"Whoa, you okay Poindexter?" Stan's voice came over the phone. Ford laughed. "Y-yeah...just...went through something strenuous." Miz groaned loudly in the background. "Hah...hah...you...oh god…" she panted, face flushed and somewhat light headed. Stanley sputtered "IS THAT MIZ?!"

"Wh-why yes. She ca-came to vis-sit me earlier." Ford huffed. Goodness, he'd forgotten how tiring it was to be tickled. "What did you call me for Stanley?" there was a strange choking sound on the other side of the phone line. Ford raised an eyebrow. "Stanley? Are you alright?"

"I can't believe you- with Miz- oh my god!" Stanley sputtered. "Were you at LEAST gentle with her?!" Ford frowned. How did Stanley realize they had a tickle war? "Well, it escalated pretty quickly. She was quite aggressive so I was forced to respond in kind-" he was cut off by Stan shouting "I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IT!"

"Um...alright then?" Ford looked over at Miz who was panting and whimpering softly. "Miz? Are you alright?" he asked, a little worried now, had he been too rough? He hadn't been taking his strength into account. "My everything hurts…" Miz gasped miserably. Stanley, who could clearly hear Miz's response over the phone, went pale. "Oh...oh my god Ford...I can't believe you! She's...she's so TINY!"

"Yes, I may have gone somewhat overboard." Ford admitted. He knelt down and gently picked the girl up. "I'm sorry for that Miz. It won't happen again." he assured her. She merely groaned again and slumped in his arms. "I don't think I wanna do that again…" she whined. Ford sat back down on his chair, setting his phone to speaker mode so he could properly comfort the girl. "I also think we shouldn't have a repeat of this. It was an unpleasant affair for both of us."

"Ah! Oh my god! Sebas is going to KILL you!" Stanley freaked out on his side of the line. Ford was very confused now. "Yes, he did threaten to cut my toes off if I hurt Miz...but she's not...injured." Miz groaned. "I think you bruised my sides…" which WOULD have been a pleasant sensation if her stomach didn't feel like it was contracted painfully. The internal pain didn't feel as nice as the external ones.

"...Sebastian is going to cut my toes off…" Ford groaned. Stan made a half hysterical bark of laughter. "Sebastian is gonna have to get in line because I have half the mind to punch you. What the hell were ya thinking Sixer?!" Ford sheepishly scratched his nose. "To be honest, I wasn't. Miz had me helpless on the ground and I was just trying to fight back."

"You started it though." Miz mumbled.

"I couldn't help myself. The sounds you made were too amusing." Ford answered. "...and adorable." He couldn't help but admit. Miz giggled weakly. "Aw~you think I'm adorable?" She flicked his nose. "I liked your squealing too." Ford scrunched up his nose and poked her back.

"I don't want to listen to this!" Stan half sobbed. His nerd brother was apparently a beast in the bed and Stanley REALLY didn't want to know. No one! Absolutely no one including him and Sebas, went around explicitly telling everybody what technique or some shit and the things that happened while they had sex, what gave Ford the idea they could?!

"OW!"

Stan heard the yelp and blinked. "Sixer?"

"So-Sorry, Stanley, Miz bit me!" Ford shouted accusingly as he shook his hand and the middle triplet heard Miz saying "Don't be a baby, Fordsie, I didn't bite you THAT hard, I could have taken your arm off but I didn't!"

"Why are you like this…" Stan groaned and slowly ran a hand through his face. He took his time to call his older brother and this dick received him like this! The disrespect!

"So, anyway, why did you call, Stanley?" Ford asked when the adrenaline from the tickle war ran out. Stanley groaned "I was going to check about when you were going to come to my place for our birthday. I know it's still a couple months off but since everyone was going to come for the summer, I needed to make sure there was room for everyone so I figured I might as well start preparing early." since everyone would meet up in New York for a while before they headed out to Jersey.

"Aaaww!" Miz cooed next to Ford. "That is so sweet of you, Fish!" She hummed. "I could make another expansion like I did with Seb's place on the hotel rooms when we get to Jersey! Would you like that?"

"Magic hotel room! Of course I'd love that! We would only need to rent ONE room! Haha, Carla would be thrilled." Stan grinned at the thought of a magically expanded room that wouldn't cost him any money to get. Seriously, being friends with an all powerful demon god was so convenient.

Ford hummed. "Well, as to when I would go, I am not sure when exactly I would arrive in New York." Driving would be tiring (and take forever), so maybe a plane? He would need to buy tickets soon… "What did Seb say? Have you already called him?"

"Yeah, he says he's coming here a few days before our birthday. The twins aren't going to preschool anymore so they can leave earlier BUT Wanda has work so that's the earliest they can leave." Stan shrugged. Ugh. Real life responsibilities~

Miz pulled Ford's sleeve. "Why don't you go with Seb and travel with them? Everyone likes seeing twins and triplets in public places!"

"Yeah, listen to Miz, that's a good idea." Stan nodded, but they couldn't see him. Ford agreed but then looked at the black-haired girl. "What about you? Will you just...teleport there?" she hummed and twisted to sit on Ford's lap more comfortably. "I probably will. I don't really like physical transportation vehicles."

"What? Do you get motion sick?" Ford asked. Miz pouted. "Just a little." Stanford raised an eyebrow but didn't comment. He could ask later about that. Stan sighed. "Well, bro, I have to go, gotta work. Behave you two!" He warned. "And for Moses' sake, be more careful when you do...that!" Stan was glad that Miz was actually billions of years old or he'd have to report his brother to the police. "We will, Stanley." Ford nodded as Miz snorted. This was too fun! She wondered when Ford would realize what his family was thinking of them… "Yes, Fish! We will!" She giggled. This was too stupidly funny.

"I won't tell Seb just because I love you, and I want you to keep your toes…" Stan said. "See ya." The man hung up. Now that they were alone again, Ford sighed when he remembered what he had learned from Miz earlier. That being the sheer depth of the abuse Sebastian had suffered under their father. He wasn't sure how to handle this information. Sebastian was fine now. He was happy. He had a loving wife and beautiful children. Ford didn't want to bring up bad memories by asking Seb about it. But he really wanted to know. It annoyed him to know that he had been completely oblivious to his brother's abuse. And how many times had he heard Seb cry as he was punished and he had never intervened? How many times he had heard and he had thought to himself his younger brother deserved it? Thought Seb was always behaving bad and he had to be grounded?

Miz snuggled into Ford's lap and yawned. "You're thinking too loudly." She poked his chin. "Am I?" He frowned. "If you're really worried about this, just apologise and tell Seb that you're gonna be a better brother from now on." She stretched languidly and sighed. "Actually, I'm glad to hear you feel guilty about this."

"...why?" Ford frowned. Did she like seeing him agonize over his own guilt? Miz played with Ford's hand, lightly pinching his fingers "It means you've finally gotten over yourself to think about others. It's nice to see you're not as much of a jerk anymore." Ford frowned. He wanted to argue he wasn't a jerk, but he really couldn't. He had been a jerk. As a kid and as an adult, his brother protected him and saved him so many times and he never thanked him as he should…

"You are right." He admitted at the end. "I was a jerk...And I will apologize to Sebastian. Should I call him?"

"You crazy? You'll apologize in person, when you see each other again, or I'm gonna tell your mom you didn't even give your brother a proper apology!" Miz complained. "Besides, this is probably going to be an emotional confrontation so you'll need to be physically there to hug him when Seb starts crying."

"How do you know Sebastian is going to cry during this conversation?" Ford raised an eyebrow. Miz scoffed. "Seb's a cry baby." Ford twitched. "...isn't it rude to say such a thing?" Miz shifted again to lounge on Ford's lap, he wasn't nearly as comfy as Xanthar but he would do for now. "It's true though." She pulled on Ford's hand to bring it closer so she could continue playing with his fingers. "To be fair, I'm also a cry baby." She pouted. "I feel like we have trouble processing intense emotions. I know my other brother, Blue, was totally mind blown when he realized he could feel more than one emotion at once."

Ford raised an eyebrow as Miz continued pulling his six fingers. "So...It is a...Bill thing to be a 'cry baby'?" Now that he thought about it, Miz was right. Seb cried real fast, both as a kid and as an adult. "Do you think he also has trouble with his emotions?"

"Dunno if the crying is a Bill thing, Blue doesn't really do it. Might be an issue, he has no way of really venting… but besides that, do you know your triplet, Fordsie?" Miz giggled. The man pouted. "Apparently, not as much as I thought I did…"

Miz hummed. "He has trouble with emotions but he learned how to express them properly over the years. Wanda helped a lot. His therapist helped a lot. Stan and everyone else helped a lot." She frowned. "I'm a little better than he is at UNDERSTANDING how human emotions work or at least… faking like I can express it like a 'normal' human. I just…" she ducked her head "...sometimes I forget. Sometimes I think...I lose track of what is considered appropriate anymore." Living among humans has been making her work harder on keeping her moods in check. Staying in a humanoid form helped somewhat to quiet the non-stop noise in her head. Though...she should tear herself open to bleed out some of this soon… wait, no. She wasn't supposed to do that anymore. Miz sighed. She wasn't supposed to self harm anymore.

Ford stroked Miz's long hair and the girl purred. Ford thought it might be difficult for someone like Bill to differentiate right from wrong, even if Miz was good. "Why do you like being with us? I mean, not just our family, but humans in general." he noticed how, aside from maliciously cursing a woman for making Zach upset, Miz had been...very polite and kind towards humans. That cashier lady, the other parents at the party…

Miz snuggled against Ford's hand "I like humans. You're interesting. And fascinating." She rolled her eyes "You're also incredibly stupid sometimes and often you do things that piss me off but it's not any more or less than what other alien species do so… generally, I like you more than I dislike you. If that makes any sense?"

The scientist hummed in thought. It made sense, a bit, well, this was a Bill Cipher, it won't make more sense than this. "That's interesting...Are aliens still alive in our time? I found a crash site a while ago but I wasn't sure how long ago it happened."

"Well in MY dimension, that ship crashed like...30 million Earth years before you humans started keeping a proper record of timekeeping and years?" Miz scrunched up her face in thought. "But aliens are still around. Most of them just don't think there's anything of worth here to visit. But in MY dimension, they stay away because I claimed the Earth as my own and I threatened Time Baby that I would devour anyone who dares to lay a hand on it." Maybe she should let up on that, lots of human cultures learned stuff from observing the night sky and she couldn't keep them isolated forever...

"Oh." Ford pouted a bit. "So we will never make contact with them?"

"Nope! Well, not for a while at least." Miz teased and poked his nose. "What other alien would you want anyway? You have an interdimensional All knowing god right here!" She motioned to herself smugly. Ford smiled a bit and patted her head. "You're right." The man looked at Miz and smiled. She was an alien...that was so cool… He had been thrilled to meet Bill Cipher originally. An otherworldly creature. More than that, an interdimensional being of pure knowledge. A muse. It was the greatest thing that had ever happened to him. He had been so ecstatic to spend time with Bill and had wanted to ask so many questions. But he always held himself back, afraid of scaring the ethereal creature off by sounding too eager, too needy. And then Bill had betrayed him. Twisted him up inside until he was paranoid ball of nerves and hate.

He looked at the soft girl purring in his lap. What sort of miracle had brought her to him? A Bill Cipher who wasn't evil. Sure, she didn't really have a moral compass, offhandedly mentioning eating people and he was sure that despite her innocent appearance, she's probably killed (and subsequently eaten) hundreds upon thousands of people. That thought made Ford somewhat uncomfortable. Murder was wrong. Miz was most probably a murderer...but his own triplet had been a Bill Cipher in a past life…

It was very confusing to think about. About being able to love someone who was a killer. But he and Stanley had done plenty of unsavory things while on the other side of the portal. Besides, he had learned over the years that context was important. The world wasn't just black and white. Seb used to be Bill Cipher and he had killed countless people as Bill, but Seb wasn't like that anymore. Miz...might still be killing people somewhere but she was here now and she hadn't killed anyone...

Ford wasn't sure how to feel about this. He didn't like the idea of Miz killing people. But could he really make her stop? Especially since he's realized over the years that murder does not equate evil. He still found the idea to be wrong but murder was a human concept. He's hunted plenty of alien beasts for food in his years traveling the cosmos. Miz, Bill, wasn't human. Even if they did a good job of pretending to be one. The concept of murder was the killing of a fellow man or sentient, thinking person. Ford could try to make her stop, or tell her that she could try NOT killing people? Ford didn't really know enough about her circumstances. As long as Miz doesn't harm anyone here or attempt to start the apocalypse then it was fine.

The girl snuggled closer to his chest and yawned again. Ford hummed in amusement. "Are you tired?" He asked as he brushed her hair aside. She nodded. "Dimensional time travel tends to do that." Ford looked around. Not very many places for sleeping in his lab. Miz climbed onto him and clung on like a monkey. "I'll just sleep here…"

"Really?" Ford pouted. He looked down at the girl. "I could take you to the Shack…" He offered. "No. Here." Miz pouted. Ford groaned. "You'll be in the way of my work…." When Miz didn't budge, Ford realized he would need to change tactics. Miz wasn't going to go home to Seb until dinner time which was, Ford checked the time, still 2 hours away, so he had to find something to distract her with. "If you go to the Shack, you can see Soos and how the new Mystery Shack tours work." He mentioned. Miz's head popped up with interest.

"I could?!" She asked, her dark eyes widening. Ford grinned. "You'd be surprised how well the Shack's profits go with the research center so close. Soos hasn't even changed anything, all the attractions are still fake, but he just says they come from the center and charges double for them...Seb and Stan were really proud of him." Ford rolled his eyes. Miz giggled. "I want to meet Question Mark and-" She gasped. "Is Melody here too?!"

"Oh! Soos' wife. Yes, she is helping him as well." Miz jumped off Ford and pulled him up. "Come on! Come on! I wanna see them!"

Ford shook his head at her childish antics and let her pull him toward the door. They passed a few of Ford's assistants who blinked at the little girl pulling their boss. It didn't escape them how similar this girl looked to the mysterious man they saw Dr. Pines with a week ago.

"I was actually thinking you could go alone…" Ford mumbled as Miz pulled him along. She pushed open a wooden door that took them to the inside of the Shack. "Ford, the house is a mess." She wrinkled her nose, seeing dust and piles of papers. It looked almost as bad as how Seb found it before the portal accident. "Seb kept this place much cleaner." she complained. "Well, I am sorry for dedicating my time to my research." The six-fingered man pouted. Miz sighed. "At least you aren't down in the basement anymore…" she proceeded to sneeze. A dust bunny turned into a centipede snake, which hissed before crawling under some supplies and disappeared from view. Ford had time to widen his eyes in alarm before Miz sneezed again.

"Ha-cheui!" She squeaked. More and more random objects in the room began turning into weird creatures and escaping from sight. Ford was beginning to panic now. He picked Miz up and tried to cover her face. "Mph-cheeh!" she sneezed. Ford looked around frantically. "G-get rid of the dust!" he told her.

Miz whined and attempted to swirl the dust away but she sneezed again and the clump of dust turned into a centuartuar. Ford decided to simply take her out of the room. He closed the door and winced when Miz sneezed once more. "Ok...maybe I should clean more often…" he admitted. Miz sniffled miserably. "You think?" The man rubbed the side of his neck awkwardly and Miz glared at him, wiping her nose. "I bet the lab is only clean because you have people that clean for you!" She accused and Ford couldn't actually deny it. There was a thumping sound from behind them as the centuartuar clopped around in the storage room, banging on walls and stumbling over things.

"What was all that anyway?" Ford asked. He looked around and found they were in what used to be Seb's office. As he sometimes used this place, it was less dusty. He opened a window just in case. "How can you be allergic to dust? You don't have a nose in your original form, and what was all that crazy creature-making sneezing?" Miz grumbled. She'd been incredibly sensitive to dust as a human. Even if this body wasn't, it kept many quirks from her human life. Like her allergy to melons. And propensity towards hiccups. She rubbed her nose again. "This body has a nose. And it certainly doesn't enjoy dust." Ford looked around for a tissue or handkerchief. He found a roll of paper towels to hand her.

Miz blew her nose. "And...my powers tend to go haywire if I'm not keeping them under control constantly." This even happened throughout all her other forms. Funny (or not so funny) her Bill form was capable of hiccuping and when they got bad enough his powers would start to slip out of his control. Which was half the reason why drunk Bill was something the multiverse feared.

"Fascinating." Ford smiled and Miz blew her nose again. Blergh! She hated this! "Shut up, Sixer." She pouted. "Is the Mystery Shack clean?"

"Oh, yes, I suppose." Ford chuckled sheepishly. "Soos takes good care of it." Miz sniffled once again and took a deep breath before grabbing the man's hand and getting out of the room. Ford rolled his eyes as Miz dramatically held her breath as they walked to the Gift Shop's door. She lifted a hand into the air to swirl the dust into gold coins as she went. She pushed the door open and took a deep breath before leaning against the door. "You're so dramatic." The scientist sighed. "...did you just make gold?!" a couple of the coins had rolled into the room before she closed the door.

"Basic alchemy." Miz wiped her face again. "Bleh." Ford knelt to examine one of the coins and picked it up in awe. Being able to simply…create anything she wanted...no wonder Bill Ciphers tended to become corrupted. Ultimate power leads to ultimate corruption right? He was suddenly worried about how Miz would grow up. She claimed to be a relatively young Bill Cipher. Hopefully, living among humans would teach her not to be problematic when she was older.

"Oh, Dr. Pines!" Both turned to look up and found Soos staring at them. Miz cooed. He was wearing a suit! Elegant like his former boss! She went right up to him and poked his stomach. He chuckled. Miz's face lit up. "It's like the Pillsbury Dough Boy!" she poked him again. "Miz! Stop!" Ford scolded and pulled the girl gently away. "Um, hello Soos." Ford nodded respectfully. "Um, this is Miz, I am sorry for that."

The former handyman laughed. "No probs Dr. Pines. Kids like poking me." He grinned at Miz. "Hi little dood. I'm Soos." Miz grinned back "Hi Question Mark! How're things at the shack?"

"Hey...Seb called me that too!" Soos chuckled. Miz raised an eyebrow and Soos frowned. "Wait a second…" the round man bent down to look closely at the little girl. She innocently blinked her dark eyes and Soos shrugged. "Huh. Almost thought you were someone else." she can't possibly be the triangle dude. He was dead and he had yellow eyes. "Who?" Miz asked, tilting her head. Ford sighed tiredly. "Oh, it's not important, dude! Have you looked at the souvenirs? You can only find them here at the Mystery Shack!" Miz's eyes widened and she immediately went to look around. "Ooh~"

Soos and Ford watched Miz skip around to look for a souvenir. "Who is she, Dr. Pines?" Soos asked. "I saw you come with her from the house."

Ford wasn't actually sure how to put this. Soos deserved to know the truth though. "She's...well please don't panic when I tell you this. It has to do with the portal and the things that happened years ago..."

"Dude. Is it bad?" Soos asked before his eyes widened. His mind raced through all the fanfics he'd written about the Pines family. Portal. Years ago. Soos stared at the little girl who, now that he was looking closer, was floating off the ground in order to look at stuff on a higher shelf. He gasped. "Is she your alien daughter from space?!"

"Yes-Wait! I mean, no!" Ford cried, disturbed by the idea. "She...you know how Seb was Bill, right? From another dimension, Miz is Another Bill...but a good one." Soos looked at Ford as if he had grown a second head. "Are you serious, dude?" Ford adjusted his glasses and nodded. "I am completely serious, Soos. But she is a good friend of ours! Seb is a really good friend of hers and she was even the one who helped me and Stan when we first fell through the portal."

Soos blinked. "Ok. That's cool. So is this triangle dude a dudette?"

Stanford blinked slowly. "Um, yes...I, yes, Miz is a dudette half the time, it's a little complicated…" Ford frowned, the word felt strange in his mouth. "Aren't you...worried?"

Soos hummed. "I don't think so." He shrugged. "I trusted Sebas. But I'm gonna need to meet this dudette first to know if I should worry or not."

Ford gaped unbelieving. "H-how are you so...ok with this?"

"I'm a simple guy, dude." Soos smiled and adjusted his bowtie. "The triangle guy was, like, a super scary dude, but Sebastian was one too, and he was nice. Miz also looks nice…" Soos seemed to think of something. "I mean, I don't know Miz, so I can't judge her but..." He looked at his former boss' brother knowingly. The two glanced over at Miz, who was trying on all the different hats in the gift shop. At the same time. Just...stacking the hats one on top of each other as they began magically floating. She was giggling with each new hat, tilting her head back to watch them orbit around her head.

"I think I like her." Soos nodded with a smile. Ford hummed, admiring Soos' truthfulness. It had always been difficult for him to trust people because of fear of getting mocked or bullied for his hands. And here was Soos, trusting and smiling at Miz after another Bill Cipher like her caused Weirdmageddon.

Miz came over, the hats rotating around her like a mini solar system, and pulled on Ford's hand. "Which one should I get?" she asked. Ford looked around, glad that no one was around. He smiled at the blue and white hat. Dipper had had one of those, didn't he. "I would recommend this one." He tried putting it on her head but it only floated. Huh.

"Ooh! This is Pinetree's hat! Eee!" She squealed. She tilted her head back to try and see the hat but it kept floating out of view as it stayed an inch away from the top of her head. She started batting at it with a hand and giggling to herself, thoroughly distracted. Ford and Soos looked at her with bemused expressions. It was actually pretty hard to remember she WAS an all powerful demon. Suddenly, the little bell on the door rang and a woman entered the gift shop. "The tourists just left, Soos-Oh, Dr. Pines, what a surprise!"

Miz's head turned around so fast that if she were human she could have broken her neck and was suddenly in front of Melody. "Ooh! You must be Cadenza!" she squealed. Melody blinked at the little girl "Ah, no, my name is Melody."

Miz grinned. "I know what I said."

Ford interrupted "Hello Melody. How are you?"

"I'm doing fine, thank you, Dr. Pines!" The woman smiled and Ford felt that smug feeling inside him. Damn, how he loved to be called Doctor. It never got old. "Do you need something?" Melody asked, closing the door.

"Oh no, I just wanted to show Miz the Gift shop." Ford nodded at Miz who was circling around Melody and making airplane noises. Melody laughed. "Well hello Miz." She smiled at Ford "Are you babysitting for someone?"

Incredibly glad she didn't call Miz his daughter, Ford adjusted his glasses and put his hands behind his back. "Yes, you could say I am!" Miz snorted. "What a terrible decision, really!" She teased the glaring man. "I'm the one babysitting ol' Fordsie here." She said proudly. Ford made an offended sound.

Melody laughed. "You're taking care of Dr. Pines huh?" Miz nodded. "He doesn't clean his stuff. Like, EVER!"

"Yeah, he never does." Melody agreed. The only decent place was the kitchen and other shared living spaces because Soos and her lived here with Abuelita (with the scientist's permission). Knowing Ford, she still couldn't believe they actually got him to agree to keep the Mystery Shack. "You know, Dr. Pines, Seb kept the house clean everyday waiting for you to return, you should try keeping it that way." Soos commented lightly, meaning it like a joke, but Ford felt his heart clenching a bit.

'And I was still ungrateful.'

"I know." Ford forced a smile on his face. "Can we go back?" He asked Miz sheepishly. She shrugged and took the hat down to cover her face in case more dust happened. "Ok. But you have to find me a place to nap." She yawned, hiding her sharp teeth behind the hat.

Ford almost groaned. Right. She wanted to sleep. He wished he didn't need to, Miz was weird indeed. "Come on." He opened the 'employees only' door and Miz made a pained expression before going back inside the house. At least they weren't going through the storage room this time. Ford took her to the second floor and to his room. When he didn't fall asleep in his lab, he would sleep here. "You can rest here. There isn't dust here."

Miz gaped in awe. Dipper and Mabel changed bodies in this room! The carpet was gone, it was being perfected at the center now (as part of an entirely different experiment), but it still looked like a hella awesome room. She jumped onto the couch-bed and bounced a bit. "Ok. Make sure you wake me later so I don't miss dinner. Seb is making pasta!" She snuggled into the couch and before Ford could respond, fell asleep.

He looked at Bill. He could go, right? Or did he have to stay? Miz looked fine on her own, but when Ford stepped away, Miz let out a soft whimper. Ford sighed and grabbed one of the books on his bookshelves to read while the demon napped. It was only efficient to stay after all. He would be able to wake her up for her dinner at Seb's place. He adjusted his position next to her and opened the book. Miz unconsciously crawled to lay her head on his lap and he found himself not really minding the closeness, petting her head with one hand as he read.

-.-

"Daddy, can we have dinner already?" Zach asked Seb as he watched TV. "If you don't give us food, we will..um...I'll make Queen Flutter pretty clothes with your pretty clothes you tell us we can't touch!" Zoe grinned evilly.

Seb looked at his toddlers and frowned. "You are a little monster, you know that?"

"I am told." Zoe nodded.

"We have to wait for Miz and Mom, ok?" Seb told the kids. They whined but Queen Flutter bumped Zoe's hand with her head, demanding cuddles. Sir Bedazzle was napping quietly in Zach's lap. "But I don't wanna wait!" Zoe stomped her foot. "I want yummy food!"

"And I want us to eat like a kind of normal family so for those two things to happen, we have to wait. I ain't discussing this." Seb turned on the volume a bit more. "DAD!" Zoe whined but got no response. "I'll burn the house down!" She threatened, showing her dad her pointy teeth. "Zoe, no!" Zach pulled her arm. He was always the one to talk his sister down when she wants to resort to violence to get her way.

"Well, then I will burn your toys if you burn the house!" Seb growled distractedly, still watching TV. "NO!" The girl screamed and pulled at her dad's arm. "DON'T BURN THEM!" She screamed. Only she was allowed to burn them. "Then stop screaming!" Seb said as calmly as he could. Zach watched the exchange awkwardly. He cuddled Sir Bedazzle to his chest and whimpered. Seb and Zoe stopped when they heard Zach's distress.

"It's ok, Zachy...I won't burn the house…" Zoe looked down guiltily and Seb picked up the little boy to sit him on his lap. "And I won't burn your sister's toys."

"I don't like it when you yell..." He stroked the puppy's head. Seb kissed his tiny forehead. "I know, we'll try not to do it as often ok?"

"Ok…" Zach smiled. Luckily for them, Miz came back at that point, materializing out of the air and face-planting on the ground. "Uuugh…"

"Miz!" The twins both cheered as they went to hug her. Seb blinked when he saw the hat floating above her head. Oh. Looks like she couldn't wear a proper hat either.

"We missed you!" The children declared and Miz disheveled them even more by ruffling their hair. "I know, I missed you too!" even if it had only been a few hours. "Were you in the Mystery Shack?" Seb asked. It took him a second to recognize Pinetree's old hat style. Now he was grinning like a dork.

"Yup! Fordsie took me there! And I met Question Mark and Cadenza!" She informed her friend with an excited grin. Seb was confused for a bit before he realized what she meant. "Oh. Melody right?" Miz nodded. "She seems nice. Kinda sad I didn't get to hang out with her more. I was sleepy."

Seb grinned like a little shit. "Sleepy wittle baby?"

"Shut up, Pines." She rolled her eyes. "So, can we have dinner?" Miz asked excitedly and Seb groaned while Zoe cheered. "I was just telling Zoe we should wait for Wanda…" Miz raised her hand and flicked. There was a scream from outside. "HOLY SHIT!?"

Seb buried his face in his hands. "Did you just teleport Wanda and her car back home from wherever she was driving?!"

"Maybe?"

Seb and the twins ran outside and Seb gaped when he saw his wife's car. She was gripping the wheel tightly and she had a horrified expression on her face. "Hey, Wands! You drove so fast you travelled faster than light! You should be ashamed!" He teased and the still shocked woman glared at him with all her might, only holding herself back because she saw the twins there and cheering that she was back.

She got out of the car and slammed the door. She almost had a heart attack! They were all so lucky she was stuck in traffic, insulting an asshole and not actually driving! The twins hugged her legs. "Hi mommy!" Zach snuggled closer to her. "Now we can eat!" Zoe cried relieved. "Did I scare you?" Miz came out of the house as well, and the blond's anger turned into surprise. "Miz!" She smiled widely. She hugged her pseudo-second daughter. "I nearly had a heart attack. Please don't do that again." She scolded and Miz nodded. "Sorry, Flower Crown…"

Wanda huffed. Really. She was raising four children now. She stared at Seb. "You're in charge of making sure this doesn't happen again." she told him. Seb gasped. "I can't control Miz's power use!" Wanda rolled her eyes as she walked over to kiss Seb. "Well you're a father. It's your job."

Sebastian whined and moaned loudly. "But I can't!" He whined. Miz grinned deviously at him and Seb suddenly feared for his mortal life. Zoe whimpered and pulled his pants' leg. "Can we have dinner now?!"

"Yes, NOW we can have dinner." He laughed while the twins and Miz sprinted back inside chanting "Pasta! Pasta!" Seb and Wanda held hands as they entered the house at a more sedate stroll. "I'm glad Miz is home." Wanda said. Seb nodded as he lightly bumped his head against hers. He smiled excitedly "Do you think we should get the official papers now?"

"...for her adoption?" Wanda asked. Seb nodded. Wanda frowned a little. "I do want to take her in officially. But…" she sighed. "How would we explain her? Especially once people realize she doesn't age?" Seb pouted hard as he closed the door. "We can figure something out…" He mumbled. "We have magic by our side…do you really want to 'adopt' her?"

They stopped before reaching the kitchen. "Why do you say that?" Wanda asked. Seb looked down and scratched his head. "You didn't want another kid…" He said softly. Wanda sighed. "This is completely different." She said. "You know why I didn't want another one but I love Miz, she's so sweet, and loves you and the twins so much! I am just taking precautions, I don't make important decisions without checking it's feasibility…" She stroked his cheek. "It's the lawyer in me..." She pouted. Seb hugged his wife. "I understand. This isn't Gravity Falls where people just ignore anything weird…" Wanda smiled and stroked Seb's curls. "We can think of what to do, for the papers I can call an old pal of mine-" Seb started to say.

"I don't want you talking to drug dealers anymore." Wanda scolded in worry. Seb rolled his eye. He did what he wanted. And Rico stopped trafficking drugs ages ago!

They got to the kitchen where the twins were helping set the table as Miz served the plates for everybody. Seb grabbed two plates, Miz grabbed two more and Wanda grabbed the last one plus a jar of passion fruit juice. Zoe moaned loudly when she sniffed her food and started inhaling the meat and tomato sauce covered pasta. Zach, Wanda and Miz rolled their eyes when Seb did exactly the same. Wanda was glad he was eating so well. These past 5 years have been good for him.

"Um, Miz...we would like to ask you something…" Wanda handed a napkin to her daughter and to her husband. Miz looked up from her own plate, cheeks bulging with food. "Mm?" She asked. Wanda couldn't help but smile at the sight. She sobered quickly, "Miz, if…" she bit her lip. Sebastian took Wanda's hand, showing her his silent support. She took a deep breath, working up her courage. "If I said we wanted to adopt you, officially, would you...how would that make you feel?" Wanda asked.

Miz went still. Adopt...her…? She swallowed. "As in...you would be my mom?" Her constructed heart pounded. This was...this… "Like, actually being my...mom?" Her hands shook. How would...why would…

Wanda nodded. "In these past few months that I've known you...I've found you to be a bright, fun and wonderful person." She sat straight "I know you are actually much older than I am but you look and act like a child and do not seem adverse to being treated as one so long as you aren't being talked down to." Sebastian hugged Wanda, giving her the confidence to continue. "I care about you a lot. My husband cares for you and my children already treat you like their sister." Wanda had a soft expression on her face. "So, Seb and I have been thinking that we could make it official."

Miz stared at them wide eyed. "I…" she paused. Wanda assured her "You don't have to answer me now. Feel free to take your time with it." Miz looked away, brows creased as her hands fidgeted with her dress. She nodded faintly. "I will need some time." She said, sounding a little guilty. Wanda smiled. '''That's fine. Take as much time as you need."

"Yeah, we aren't pressuring you to do something you might not be comfortable with." Seb said just as the twins started shouting. "Sister! Sister! Sister!" The brunet groaned at the twins. "What did I just say? No pressure!" He scolded and Wanda rolled her green eyes. "My point is-" Seb took a sip of his juice, damn he loved this shit. "Even if you decide not to, you are still part of the family!" He smiled. "I just thought it would be nice to do this." Miz nodded with a small smile. She was confused and somewhat unsure. Why would they want to adopt her if they already had two beautiful babies? Did they actually want her this much? But why?

Dinner was finished, Queen Flutter was watered, she purred and meowed happily the entire time, and then it was time for the twins to take a bath. Wanda went with them to help while Seb stayed to clean everything. Mutual cooperation was more than needed when one had more than one little kid.

Miz was watching Seb work, calm but unblinking. Finally she spoke up "I already have a dad. That's Ax. So I won't be able to call you dad." Seb nodded. "That's fine. I understand."

"...I haven't had a mom in so long…" Miz played with a lock of her hair. "It...would be nice...but…"

"But?" Seb prompted. Miz took a shuddering breath. "What will I do when you all die and leave me too?" Seb frowned a bit. He put the plate he was drying aside and looked at Miz. "I...I didn't think of that…" It was scary to think of his own death now that staying alive only depended on him. "I'll be orphaned again…" Miz whispered. "It would suck either way when you die but adoption means family, means responsibility and a whole bunch of other things…" she looked at Seb, gripping the table until her knuckles turned white. "...why...would you even want all that responsibility?" Why...would you even want me?"

"Because I love you." Seb shrugged with a small smile. "And it would make us, it would make ME really happy to have you as part of my family...officially." He left the cloth and the plates and sat down next to Miz. "I know I can't really say I understand all of what you've gone through, being a dumb human makes that hard to do...but maybe we can...try to, I don't know, establish and understand that certain things will eventually be happy even if they're sad, it will help you for when you meet more mortals…." He drew the sniffling girl closer to him. "I suppose you can think of it as filling your life with happy memories. So even when we're gone you can look back and smile instead."

Miz gripped Seb's shirt. "I don't...I…" she sighed "I'm still getting used to having lost my kids. Pyronica still visits our grandkids but I just can't. I don't know how she has the strength for this." Miz closed her eyes and leaned against Seb's chest. "You know, I wasn't all that close to my triangle parents." She admitted. "Oh yeah?" Seb rubbed her back. "That's one more thing we have in common then." He smiled a little. "They were dicks...I can't complain now though, I love my human Ma...and you have us now, you have Ax, I still find it hilarious that he's your dad, you have your friends...Miz, you're not alone and I want you to really enjoy our time together, not thinking about when we'll be gone, where's the fun in that?"

Miz nodded. "I know that. I get it...just…" she moved Seb's hand onto her head and he began gently petting her. "...I...really want to have a mom again. Even if my triangle father-" she spat "-was a bit of a neglectful dick, mother had tried to show that she cared for me...I...miss that."

"Aaww~" Seb snuggled the girl closer to him. "I will be your mom." He declared and Miz exploded with laughter. "No! I don't want you as a mom! Back off!"

"Hey! I would be an excellent mom, mind you!" Seb crushed Miz in a tight hug, making her scream and kick. "Let me go!" She laughed. "No! I need to keep you warm, my offspring!" Seb declared dramatically. "Help!" Miz giggled.

"Why are you two screaming so much?!" They looked up and found Wanda there glaring half-heartedly. Seb snuggled Miz to himself "'I'm going to be Miz's new mother~" he sang. "No you're not!" Miz laughed. "Even if you are a good house husband." she pulled at Seb's arms. "You're not mature enough to be my mom anyway!" Though, to be fair...her original human mother DID enjoy setting stuff on fire… and had once called her 'refrigerator' instead of 'daughter'...

This was a woman who once pointed to a flock of sparrows and said "If I filled a shotgun with sand and shoot them, it would stun them long enough for us to grab a feast! They're so small we can eat them like popcorn!" and dear lord she missed her human mother.

"Gasp! I AM mature!" Seb complained. "I pay TAXES!" He sneered. "No you aren't." Miz shrugged. She was grinning though. "Yes I am!" Seb insisted loudly and Wanda rolled her eyes, tired. Dear God. "No you aren't! You're a big baby!" Miz teased. "NO I AM NOT!" Seb shrieked. "Wanda!" He whined in the woman's direction

"You are a big baby." Wanda agreed and Seb pouted angrily. "I'll sleep with the twins tonight!" He declared, upset and left the room. Miz and Wanda both laughed. There was a 'thunk' of the door closing and the two women were left alone. Wanda looked down at Miz who was looking up at her.

"So, we should talk." Wanda decided. Miz nodded. "Yeah. Us adults have to discuss grown up things." She grinned but it turned serious. "Are you ABSOLUTELY sure you want to adopt me?"

Wanda smiled gently and stroked her cheek. "We are definitely, absolutely sure we want to adopt you...we might need to make a few 'not so legal' things to get the papers and you might need to 'grow up' to make it look normal...but we totally want you to be part of our family." Wanda looked at her hands. "We might be asking too soon...but Seb is really excited about this…when the twins were still babies, Seb told me he wanted another kid. I didn't want to have another kid because I didn't want to get pregnant again...he was really sad, but I wasn't going to give in...we talked about adoption but we didn't discuss much. I think you're the perfect daughter in this context!"

Miz fiddled with her dress. "I don't know if I'll be able 'grow up'. I suppose I can try shapeshifting myself taller but I don't know what normal 'aging' is supposed to look like." not to mention this 'body' was technically an adult. She was 27 years old...she just...happened to look incredibly young. Well, there was that 'older' teenaged form that Blue made for her. She could set that as the final point of a shapeshift sequence and set herself now as the starting point and simply set this vessel to slowly shift into that 'older' form over the course of 10 years? It would simulate aging. But after that… She would need to create an even older form to set as the next final point. Well, she had ten years to figure that one out.

Wanda chuckled. "I think that's fine…Do you want to be 'adopted'?"

Miz looked down at her hands. "Do you want to hear a story?" She responded. Wanda blinked, confused. "What?"

"I had a human family once. A long...long time ago." Miz spoke. "There was a dad who was always working. He meant well and he loved us but he didn't know how to interact with us." She closed her eyes, immersed in her old memories. "We fought now and then. He was a huge man child who threw tantrums when he was angry. I think I learned most of my bad habits from him."

Wanda remained quiet. She didn't realize Miz had been taken in before. It must have been in some other dimension. She remembered Seb talking about alternative dimensions once.

"And my human mother was kind and hardworking. She wasn't the best at traditionally womanly things. For many years she could only cook the same meals for dinner. Rice, fish and boiled vegetables. And this was when she wasn't just buying food from McDonald's to bring home."

Wanda blinked. Ok. Definitely another dimension. McDonald? What kind of name was that? Alternative dimension WcDonalds?

"But she still tried her best. I think...she blamed her own lack of cooking skills for the fact that I never grew much. Malnutrition and all that." Miz sighed. Who knows. Maybe it WAS due to malnutrition that she never 'grew up' like a proper woman. "I was always thin and hungry. This was before my father started a restaurant. He used to work as a dishwasher. Mom had a cubicle job with a trade company. It wasn't a lot of income to raise me and my little brother...who I eventually learned was a sister but that's a whole different story. We were hungry a lot. And left alone a lot. We didn't have many toys. But it was fine. Because we had each other."

Wanda reached out to take Miz's hand. The girl squeezed back without looking at her.

"We got older, dad started up a restaurant with some business partners and it was small. But it grew and money started coming in. My parents started buying us toys and clothes and there was food that dad brought home from the restaurant so we could heat it up in the microwave to eat whenever we were hungry." Miz smiled a little at that. She loved ramen, still did, but cooking ramen for herself and her younger sibling was all she could do as a nine year old. She learned how to make rice as well but without proper cooking experience she couldn't prepare any meat or vegetables until she was 11. Having leftovers in the fridge was a godsend.

"Eventually we moved to a bigger apartment. Mainly because mom found out she was pregnant and we simply didn't have room for another child in the house." At that time, her cousin was living with them too. So it was her parents in one bedroom while she shared the other bedroom with Zyun-Zeon and her cousin Faye who was 16. They moved to a three bedroom apartment just so there would be space. "And things were going well. I was in school. I still wasn't growing much and I didn't have many friends but I was happy. Eventually we moved again to an actual house, not a shared apartment building, a real house. And life continued on." She remembered that house fondly. She had been so excited to have a yard and a porch and a personal washing machine.

Wanda watched her quietly. Her mind was racing at this information. It sounded like Miz had really stayed long term with a human family. She was almost afraid of hearing how this story ended.

"I made some real friends in high school." Miz smiled fondly. "We all remained friends even after we graduated. Of course…" she gestured to herself. "I still looked like this. But other than some startled looks, people just...chalked it up to me being Asian and left it alone." Wanda couldn't help but let out a snort of laughter. Maybe they could use that as an excuse too?

"I took care of my little sisters until one of them was old enough to move out and the other was in her mid teens… and then the accident happened." Miz shuddered. Wanda felt her heart sink. Here it was. The sad part. "A friend was driving me home at night. It was late. It was dark. He was distracted. I was distracting him…." She squeezed Wanda's hand. "I shouldn't have distracted him...I shouldn't have...I should have just stayed quiet and let him focus on the road…"

Wanda moved over to pick Miz up in a hug. She had a feeling she knew where this was going. Miz gripped onto Wanda's shirt. "I noticed we were in the wrong lane. He made a turn because the light turned green...but we were in the wrong lane…" she closed her eyes tightly. "The other car honked right before they hit us…" she sobbed. "And...and we flipped. And then I was upside down...and there was a gas leak...we couldn't get o-out and…" she broke down crying.

Wanda hugged the distressed girl as she sobbed into her shirt. She didn't know what to say. She wanted to ask why Miz didn't use her powers but if she had just gotten into such an accident, she might not have been able to think about that. She heard from Seb about the accident he had once. How he had simply panicked and ran away, unable to think about anything coherent. Wanda stroked Miz's hair until the sobs faded into sniffles and hiccups. She wanted to say something reassuring but wasn't sure what. Miz gasped and tried to get her breathing back to normal. "A-and then I died and… and then I woke up again but I was somewhere else, some one else and everyone was gone. My family, my friends, my sisters..." Miz hiccuped quietly. Wanda quickly caught on to what Miz was saying. Her human family and friends were long dead. She knew Seb had reincarnated, it sounded like...Miz had too.

Wanda hugged the girl close. Her heart ached for her. How must that have felt? To lose everything and have to continue on without them? "Oh sweetie...I can understand why you aren't...eager to get a new human family." Wanda said at last. Miz sniffled. "But I really like you. And the twins and Seb and...and I really want to have a mommy again but I feel like a bad daughter for wanting to replace my other mom...and…"

"You are NOT a bad daughter for wanting a new family." Wanda told her. "And...while I can't promise that you won't be taken from us or that we won't d-die in some accident...between me and Seb, we should be able to keep the lot of us alive."

Miz nodded slowly. "T-then...can we make a Deal? You and everyone else aren't allowed to die on me from accidents ...a-and if I get destroyed from something…" she hesitated. "Throw my remains through a portal. I can only time travel between dimensions so if I take a thousand years to reform somewhere ELSE...I can still return home to you."

Wanda shuddered. She didn't want Miz getting destroyed...and...this deal would protect them, not only her, she wouldn't have to worry about Seb or the twins being in danger because of accidents… "But...only if it's an accident or something stupid right? No interfering in...natural d-death?" Wanda clarified. She was a lawyer after all. Miz frowned but nodded. "I do retain the right to prevent deadly diseases though...is that alright?"

"Yes." Wanda nodded in agreement. They always had mini heart-attacks when the twins fell sick as babies. Their immune systems weren't that strong. Magical protection sounded incredibly beneficial. "Yes, that is quite alright." The two discussed the intricacies a bit more, fixing the wording and intent as they found one they both agreed with. "Alright. And that's the Deal." Wanda extended her hand.

"Then...it's a Deal." Miz held out her own hand. "The Pines bloodline and those married into them will not be felled by sickness or deadly harm that would take them before their Time. In exchange…" she took a deep breath, her eyes shining with tears and a hopeful expression "...you will take care of me and...be my new mother."

Wanda listened carefully to Miz's terms. As a lawyer she knew well how people could twist words. She clearly noticed Miz's wording to include Seb's brothers and their families as well. But, this was fine. If Miz wanted to sneakily protect the rest of the family as well, Wanda had no problem with that. "Deal." She said, taking Miz's hand. The fire flared out. Wanda had to close her eyes at how bright it was. There was a tingling in the air, like Reality was twisting . She shivered. Magic was always somewhat scary to her. But she had long since accepted it would be a part of her life when she married Sebastian Pines. The light faded and she "Oof"ed when Miz barreled into her with a tight hug. The demon was shaking. Wanda hugged her back, holding the girl as she sobbed again, this time in relieved joy. This girl, her daughter, Wanda felt somewhat faint at the thought. She had a magically adopted daughter now. All that was left to do was getting the boring human paperwork out of the way to make it ''official'.

"Oh, sweetie...It's alright…" The blond stroked her hair as the girl tried, and failed, to stop crying. "You can cry as long as you want, ok? I am here, you aren't alone."

Miz eventually calmed down, but she stayed laying against Wanda's chest, just listening to her heart pump the blood through her body. It was really soothing. Wanda slowly stood up, still carrying Miz who was clinging to her, and turned off the light in the kitchen to go upstairs. "Do you want to sleep now? Let's go find Sebastian." She whispered to Miz. Her daughter nodded. "I'm...tired." That was an understatement. She'd just used a lot of power placing protections on Wanda, Seb, the twins, Shermie, Abigail, the other twins, Stanley, Carla, Dillon, Diego, Stanford, Kari...even Filbrick and his family, just because.

'Besides…' Miz thought viciously. 'I won't let Filbrick die until I've made him suffer for what he put his family through…'

Wanda carried her effortlessly upstairs and they went to the twins' room. Wanda was actually expecting to see the twins and Seb, stubbornly sleeping with them, but the three, plus Dazzle and Queen Flutter, were laughing and playing by throwing stuffed toys at each other.

"Sebastian, I put the children to bed!" Wanda whined. "And I came to play! Bam!" He threw a stuffed pony at her and Wanda watched it fall to the floor, unimpressed. "Very funny, William." The three Pines booed at her at the name and the blond sighed. "So, can we go to sleep now? I am tired, Miz is tired and the twins need to sleep."

"Nope. I said I was staying here. I'm still angry."

"Daddy is not a big baby! Dad is a cool daddy!" Zach defended his smug looking father. Wanda couldn't believe Seb told the children about that! "Well, better for us then!" She smiled. "I can sleep more comfortably with my daughter." That caught Seb's attention. He stared, wide eyed. "Wait...she...she said yes?!" but Wanda was already smugly walking off as Miz giggled in her arms. "Wait! Wanda!" Sebastian whined.

"We can talk if you put the kids to bed~!" The woman called from their room. Seb sighed and turned to look at his kids. "Alright, gremlins, ya heard your mom!" Seb had a hard time getting them in bed. They even started putting on their normal clothes, claiming they couldn't go to sleep without Pj's! But eventually, after a story of little annoying gnomes getting kicked in the faces and tasting their delicious blood, the twins fell asleep, hugging a plantimal each.

Seb kissed their foreheads, wished them good night and slowly exited their room to go to his. Wanda was getting ready to go to bed, her clothes already changed, and Miz was laying down in the middle of the bed staring at the ceiling in her own sleeping clothes. "There! The kids are sleeping!" Seb huffed. The two women grinned. Seb pouted. "Now can you tell me what happened?" Miz giggled. "Nope. But Wanda's my mom now. And that's all you need to know."

Seb kicked off his shoes and threw them away. "Why don't you want to tell me? I deserve to know!"

"Nope." Wanda took off her earrings and put them on her nightstand. "Now change your clothes please! We want to sleep." Seb pouted and sat down heavily on the bed. Miz looked up at him curiously and the brunet sighed before laughing. "Alright. I guess it's a mom-daughter shit and I respect that...but remember she was mine first!" He stuck his tongue out playfully. Wanda laughed and kissed his nose. "Of course." Miz snuggled into the sheets.

Sebas grabbed his Pj's from under his pillow and went to the bathroom to change his clothes and brush his teeth. In a few minutes, he came back and laughed when he saw Wanda flopped around, trying to stand up to get her purse. "Phoneee~" She moaned. "Plug ittt!" She pointed at the purse she threw onto a table. Seb rolled his eye and did as asked. He took off his eyepatch and pushed Miz closer to Wanda so he could get in bed. Not even the twins slept with them this often and he had a tiny demon trying to steal his part of the bed from him.

"Should we get Miz her own bed?" He asked.

"I guess…" Wanda mumbled sleepily. "The twin's room is not that big though...You'll be...cramped…"

"I can fix that!" Miz turned to look at Seb. "So I can share?" Seb yawned and nodded, snuggling against his pillow. "Ok…"

Content with the response, the tired demon snuggled between the two humans, turned off the light and fell asleep.

Seb and Wanda spent a few weeks working through the adoption papers. Having to make up a backstory for Miz in order to give her identity papers wasn't as difficult as they thought. Despite the very controlling government, some rural farming villages in China had people who didn't get properly registered. They simply claimed Xin was an immigrant friend who brought over his younger sister to try and find a better life for themselves.

Due to some weird immigration laws, Miz would need to be adopted to be allowed to stay and thus, Seb and Wanda took her in.

All in all, they were geniuses! And after a few changes between Miz and Xin, sometimes both, they officially adopted their daughter a month and a half later. The twins didn't understand much, but they were super excited to have Miz as an 'official older sister' like their parents said.

The twins were another pending problem. As they will be away all summer, they needed to find them a good elementary school to enroll them for kindergarten. Seb was annoyed they didn't want to give them the possible future teachers' information. Did they really expect him to just leave his kids there with strangers?! Miz stared at him deadpan. "Just tell me their names or which school you're looking at." She said. "Duh."

Seb facepalmed. Right. Bill Cipher. All seeing, all knowing. As Seb gave Miz the list of schools, Wanda thought Seb was exaggerating a tiny bit, but she saw why he did it. He had told her his teachers had been mean to him for being different, of course they didn't want that happening to the twins. And Zach. She had no idea what to do with her baby's...situation. What could they do? She wanted them to treat Zach how he felt, but they definitely had to talk to the principal and a psychologist to get their support and so many things that made the twins' enrollment much more difficult.

"What should we do about Zach?" She asked. It was just the three of them in the dining room at the table plus the papers and requirements. Seb groaned. "I don't know. We just...have to make sure Zach is happy. Why is this so hard?"

"They will ask for his identification, and they will know he isn't biologically a boy…" Wanda mused to herself. "Do you think...we can convince them to treat him like a boy? If we ask nicely."

"Or with violence." Seb added but Wanda shut him up. Miz shrugged. "You could change his papers to say he's a boy?" Wanda sighed. "But what if that causes problems as well? They have a changing room when they go to PE class."

"Zach won't like changing with the girls either." Seb ran a hand through his hair. "But he will feel bad when he sees he's not like the other boys…" He pouted hard. "And the fucking bathroom…" He mumbled. Miz groaned and put her head down on the table. "How about you tell them Zach is sensitive about his body and they give him a private changing room?"

"That...could work." The parents nodded slowly. "Yeah I like that." Seb grinned.

Miz finished scanning the schools and gave them a surprisingly much reduced list, with only teachers who didn't have a dubious or dangerous history. Wanda took some of the reject schools "I'm going to see about getting some of these teachers fired." she growled. There were two pedophiles on this list. TWO!

"Don't show it to me or I'll kill them!" Seb called as she stood up and left. Miz nodded in approval. Seb looked at his adopted daughter reading about the filtered out schools. "I hope Zach feels happy…"

"He'll be fine. Zoe's with him. She'll beat the shit outta anyone who tries something." Miz grinned. That little spitfire reminded her so much of Pyronica. Takes no shit from anyone. She wondered if she should introduce her two families to each other. She had to. She definitely would. Maybe when all of them were in New Jersey!

"I don't want Zoe to feel it's her obligation to protect Zach, I mean, I know she will...but I felt bad Stan didn't get to make many friends growing up because he stayed with Sixer and I."

"Fish would have done it anyway! He's a softie for you guys!" Miz assured. "And Zoe loves her twin."

"I'll convince Wanda to get them to boxing or karate or some shit...she doesn't want them getting hurt, but that shit is really important."

"I taught my kids how to break someone's wrist and handle firearms ever since some assholes attacked their childgarden and tried to kidnap them." Miz told him. "Oohh!" Seb grinned. "I like that, and that's terrible, kidnapped? I guess it's because they were your kids." Miz nodded. "I tore them to pieces. And traumatized a bunch of children. Not my best moment." She kicked her feet a little. "So when I adopted my daughter, Quackers, I went out of my way to pretend she WASN'T my kid. Made it clear that I didn't care about her at all while dumping her on some 'random person'." She smiled, nostalgic and bittersweet.

"That... sounds pretty clever." Seb grinned. "Of course. Who do you think you're talking to, human?" She teased. Seb pushed her and she fell from the chair with an 'oof!' "Curse you gravity!"

Seb laughed at her as she continued pouting. He entered the website of another school and hummed as he read what they had. This was so difficult. They sounded nice, but were they really nice? What if the kids were shittier than normal? He didn't want to get into fights with the parents every day...

"How did you keep your kids from being bullied and stuff?" Seb asked Miz. She grinned. "Threats and money. Mostly money. The threats made it hard for them to make friends."

"Um...I guess threats aren't an option then...I want them to have friends…" Seb muttered. "And I can't just...throw money at the school to give them special treatment!" Miz flipped through the papers. "Hm...I could invisibly follow them to school and…'dissuade' anyone from messing with them?"

Seb hummed. "I...I don't know, they need to learn to defend themselves too...just look what happens when you don't." He pointed at himself. He suddenly shouted, "AAHH! I just want them to stay at home forever! At least then we wouldn't worry about this!"

Miz understood. She had felt the same. "But homeschooling means they won't learn how to interact with other kids. And they wouldn't be able to make friends." she pointed out. Seb moaned and tugged at his hair. "I have a headache~" he complained. Miz patted his back. "Go take a break. Play with the twins. Their episode of Those Little Ponys is ending soon anyway." she shifted into her William form, complete with maid outfit. "I'm gonna make lunch."

"I hate that show…" Seb mumbled before he stood up anyway. The twins and Miz loved that show. Even Zach liked it despite the show being aimed at girls. Seb remembered Zach claiming he wanted to be a unicorn and Miz had turned his children into horses for a day. That...nearly gave him a heart attack. It was one thing, turning Mabel and Dipper into magical creatures and a completely different thing was seeing said magic on his kids. It was...unnerving. He wanted to check on his kids just to make sure they hadn't been turned into horses again. "What are you going to cook?"

"It will be a surprise, now leave!" William shooed the man away. The twins were used to the idea that their sister was sometimes a brother. And sometimes a triangle. Miz had gone back into her Bill form once, just to show them what she 'really' looked like. Wanda was a little startled but had pulled the triangle in for a hug and told her she was still her daughter no matter what she looked like. Bill cried for a long time after that.

Seb went to find the twins who were all spread over the couch watching TV. Um, was this healthy? He doubted it. There was this article saying they shouldn't watch too much TV. "Hey, little demons." Seb sat down next to them. "Hi, dad!" They cheered. Dazzle barked at him and jumped into his lap to rub against him. Queen Flutter meowed in recognition and closed her eyes again. She was napping, her owner wasn't that important.

"So...we are really close to starting kindergarten, are you excited?"

"Yes!" The toddlers nodded. "I want to learn more stuff!" Zach grinned. "And I want to play with lots and lots of friends!" Zoe added and Seb smiled. He felt the same when he first started school.

"What would you think of getting in karate lessons after gymnastics?" (They hadn't been back to the gym in a while and hadn't had a need to since Miz got them tired out from playing together. Even Seb felt fine despite not going to the gym, having worked off a lot of energy keeping up with the lot of them.) At their confused faces, Seb continued. "Uncle Shermie knows a lot of karate, which is a japanese martial art, and Uncle Stan knows how to box really well...we can ask them to teach you a bit of each so you can choose which one you want to practice...I think it is important for you to learn how to fight and defend yourself."

Zoe grinned so wide Seb could see all her fangs. "So I get to beat people up?" Seb rolled his eye. "No. It's only for self defense."

"That's boring." The girl pouted. "But I still want to learn from Uncle Shermie and Uncle Stan!" Seb ruffled her disheveled hair. "But if I don't want to do it?" Zach questioned. "You will thank me later." Seb told him. "That's not fair...You said that we get to choose what we do, but you're making me do this." Zach pouted.

Seb paused and looked at the kid. "That's nice...but I am your dad and I still get to choose some things." He stuck his tongue out. "It will be good for you, Zachy, I promise." Zach blew a raspberry. Seb poked his nose. "None of that, young man. You don't have to practice forever. Just a couple of lessons until you can protect yourself if someone tries to hurt you."

Zoe grinned evilly. There were many interpretations for that… "I want to learn! OH! I want to buy all my colors, and backpacks and notebooks! Can we go now?!" Seb gasped. "I forgot about school shopping!"

Summer was starting soon and he wanted to get all the school supplies shopping done before they left for New Jersey. He got up, picking up the kids as he went and rushed back into the kitchen. "Mi-William!" He cried (and it was weird how Bill had named this form William, like Seb's middle name) "We need to go school shopping!"

William's large eye widened before his pupil dilated into a large black, sparkling galaxy in excitement. "School supplies?! Like...like color coded folders and binders and notebooks and pencils labeled by number?!" He squealed.

Sebastian blinked. "Um…"

"And heart shaped hole punchers? And little transparent plastic rulers? And...and erasers shaped like ostriches?!" William continued to gush. Seb's eye twitched. "...kind of?" What the fuck sort of school supplies was William thinking of?!

"Right…" Seb coughed awkwardly, staring at the literal sparkles twinkling around William's head. "So, I was thinking we all head to the supply store after lunch and get their stuff? At least the basic stuff before we know what school they are actually going to."

William nodded. "Ok. Go get mom and tell her lunch will be ready soon."

Seb grinned like a huge idiot at what William called Wanda and he looked at the kids he was carrying under his arms. "Let's go find Mom to eat and go buy school stuff!" ""YAY!"" They cheered. They stamped into Wanda's home office room, startling her by chanting "Lunch! Lunch! Lunch!"

"Holy god!" She put a hand on her chest as a yellow, blue and green glow lifted her off the ground. "Hey!" The Pines carried her back into the kitchen as Wanda pouted. This was her life now… Wanda spotted Miz's William form plating the food and laughed. "Do you always have to wear that maid uniform?"

William gasped dramatically "It's not JUST a maid uniform! It is my battle armor for the trials of protecting the household from dirt and grime!" He placed a hand into the air and swished his arms around flamboyantly. "For I am not a simple maid! I am…" sparkles twinkled around him as he posed heroically.

"The dashing duster that cleans between the cracks!" He twirled, his skirt bouncing as he went.

"The pretty suited warrior of love and JUSTICE!" William's maid outfit morphed into a fancier version, complete with a top hat.

He stood with his arms twisted into a pose that Wanda was SURE came from some sort of anime.

"I am Magical Chaos Illuminaughty!" A bunch of flashing rainbow lights appeared behind him as he floated in the air, pose going back into something more casual as he floated back down.

"..." Wanda turned to stare at Seb who was muffling hysterical laughter. She didn't know how but she was sure this was something from his side of the family. "I don't get it." Zoe complained and Zach was just frowning. The blonde finally smiled, confused but not that confused. "You really ARE part of this family…" she chuckled.

They all sat down to eat lunch. Chicken fried rice with chopped up string beans and mushrooms. "The vegetables are good for you Zoe, I can see you picking them out." As well as some cheese and broccoli soup. "Oh my gosh. Zach's actually eating the broccoli!" and had a great time. As soon as everyone finished eating, William flick cleaned the kitchen, shifted back into Miz and followed everyone out to the car. (She WAS going to conquer her fear! She was!) The twins were buzzing with emotion.

Some neighbors waved at the family. "Oh. Are you all going shopping for school?" Kent from a few houses down asked as he came by with his wife. The couple had been improving their relationship in the past few months, wanting to reconnect with each other after seeing how close the Pines family were. The two had begun taking walks together whenever Kent didn't have work and just spending quality time together. "Oh. And little Miz is here too. Hello dear." Kent's wife, Jasmine, smiled at the girl. They'd all heard about it. Xin, that handsome young man from the birthday party months ago, had lost his parents and children in an awful car accident. The only survivors were him and his dear younger sister. With Xin off working as a butler in some unknown wealthy household, he worried about his younger sister and had left her in the care of his good friends.

Everyone thought it was very kind of the Pines family to take the girl in. Poor thing must have been traumatized at losing her family. They saw Xin around the house often so they knew he wasn't simply dumping his sister on them. Besides, the poor man had lost his children and was in no shape to raise his sister. Giving her to a stable, loving household must have been a hard but well thought out decision. The housewives gossiped and easily bought the cover story. It was suitably melodramatic. It must have been true!

"Hello mister and missus Cornwell." Miz chirped at the couple (playing up the little girl aesthetic, she was going out of her way to look younger than she already seemed, thinking it would make it easier to explain away the adoption if she was a little younger). They cooed. What a sweet girl. So polite.

"Hi!" The twins waved at their neighbors, seeing Miz do it, they guessed they had to do it too. "We are! We are buying backpacks and colors and cute notebooks!" Zoe informed them as she tried to climb into the car. Seb helped the twins get in and got them buckled in their special seats. Safety! Safety first. Especially for little, fragile kids. ESPECIALLY if they were his babies.

"Isn't it a little early to buy school supplies?" Jasmine asked curiously. She and Kent were still waiting for the school list of supplies for their son Xavier.

"Well, we are slightly running out of time, we have to do all this before summer." Seb told them simply. He didn't know if oversharing was good. Zoe said loudly "We're gonna live with our uncle Stan for the summer!" Seb stared in deadpan at the girl. "Yeah, because it's daddy and uncles' birthday!" Zach added with an innocent smile. Dumb, adorable kids… "Yeah...that. Miz, get in the car please…" He said lamely. Miz hesitated before doing so. No, she could do this. She could!

Miz climbed in, settling herself in the middle between the twins. They both reached out to take her hands after she buckled in. Being in cars was still stressful for her. The twins pet her hands, to try and help. Miz felt her Deal of Protection spread a barrier around the car. Even if they were hit by a freight train, they should be fine. That DID make her feel much better. She still trembled, pressing herself down and into the seat as much as she could.

The neighbors waved their farewells as Wanda sat behind the wheel first, smugly grinning at Seb. "I won."

"Cheater, I was putting the twins in their seats…" He grumbled as he sat in the passenger seat. As always, the twins got to choose the music (their children's own cds) and Wanda drove them to the store. The twins took Miz's mind off the road by making her sing along and the family trip went by smoothly.

The supply store (Paperclips) was filled with some other families who were doing early shopping. They weren't the only family going on a vacation for the summer after all. Miz winced at all the emotions in the air and clamped down on her senses, limiting herself to just the 'human' ones for her own mental stability. A Seal-headband would work better but this was only going to be for a little while, she could hold her Empathy and Telepathy shut for a few hours. The twins wanted to run away but Wanda managed to catch them. "We're sticking together ok?"

They pouted, that wasn't fun, but agreed. They didn't want to get lost anyway. They pulled hard on their mom's hands though and Wanda eventually gave Zoe to Seb. "What do you want first?"

"Colors!" They exclaimed. They skipped towards the colorful section and Zoe immediately grabbed a box of 48 color pencils. "Mine!" Zach also wanted the biggest box and hugged it to his chest. "I want this one!"

"I think 12 color pencils are enough." Wanda grimaced. "Why do you need so many colors?"

"To color everything much more prettier!" Zoe insisted. "Pleeasseee!"

Miz looked at Seb about to give in, but luckily for everyone, their mom was immune to puppy eyes. "Nope. We are getting the box of 12." Wanda said firmly. Zach and Zoe whined. Miz whispered "Don't worry, I can duplicate and change the colors when we get home."

The twins stared at Miz before squealing in glee. Best. Big. Sister. Ever!

"You're going to spoil them." Wanda rolled her eyes. Miz huffed. "Fine. You'll get another color for each chore you finish when we get home." She said instead. Zoe whined because that meant she had to do wooooork~ But Zach nodded. He could do chores for more colors.

Wanda put the pencils into the cart as she checked the prices of the other supplies. Seb secretly thought Miz's ability to create more color pencils would be super useful. He knew the kids would lose their colors at school and buying the more expensive big box was a bad idea. Seb wrapped a hand around his wife's waist as he looked around at the stuff. Miz caught up with them at the cart where the twins put more colors that they found, their big markers and their chosen pencil cases, both of them featuring images of that dog rescue show they were into. "We want these ones!" They declared and ran away to find more stuff.

Seb ran after them. "Don't go off by yourself!" He wailed. Wanda rolled her eyes. Children. The lot of them. She got some packets of wider spaced lined paper for young children. If the kids needed binders they would need these. She trusted Seb to get the kids back while she handled this. Hm...small rulers were probably a good idea.

She grabbed some pencils, erasers and sharpeners. They were the same to avoid the twins fighting over the colors. Seb came back, panting and carrying each twin under his arms. "If you guys run off again you won't be allowed to choose which folders and notebooks you want." He threatened. They whined. Wanda laughed before looking around. "Where's Miz?"

Seb's eye widened and he looked around. "Shit."

(Warning for attempted child kidnapping)

Miz was wandering down an aisle with different paints. Washable finger paints, acrylics, watercolors… she knelt down to pick up a set that looked pretty good despite the cheap price. So lost was she in her examination that she didn't notice the man coming up behind her. This man had been loitering around the store for a while, watching, observing… he grinned as he found a suitable target, a cute little girl alone in an aisle in a store full of frantic parents and children running around, with no one who seemed to be her parents in sight. She was older and larger than his usual targets but he'd been growing bold recently. He smoothed out his expression, pulled his cap down over his eyes (not that it mattered since he was wearing a fake beard that hid the rest of his face), checking his clothing over to confirm he was dressed in similar colors to the staff, with an apron and everything. "Hello miss. Do you need help finding anything?"

The little girl blinked up at him before smiling. "Um… do you have a sealant here? Like an acrylic spray or a varnish?" The man nodded, "Of course. This way." He walked off confidently and heard the little girl following behind him. This was almost too easy. People really did blindly obey those whom they believed to be in power, and in this case, it would be the authority of being a staff member. He engaged her in casual conversation about what craft project she needed the sealant for, just to keep up the act of being a staff member. The girl was chattering on and on about her work, completely at ease with following him. The man grinned even as he reached into the pocket of his apron to flick open a small bottle and douse some cloth with the contents, all inside his pocket. This motion was hidden as the girl was still behind him. "We keep the sealant in a back room, it's too dangerous to have lying around you know. Especially the aerosol type." they were near the back of the store now, there was a door here for supplies and shipments. It led outside the store. The man knew that there were no shipments at this time of day, and that no real workers would be back here.

The girl was frowning a little. Seems she was catching on. Unavoidable, since she was probably old enough to have learned to be suspicious. But they were almost to the door. The man knew there wasn't a camera back here. He moved a hand behind her, to her shoulders, and pushed her out the door he opened before stepping through it himself, grabbing onto the now struggling girl and covering her mouth with the cloth he'd just soaked with chloroform.

She screamed and thrashed, a lot stronger than he expected. But her attempts to scream only made her breath in more and while he nearly lost his hold on her as she gave him a violent back kick, he could feel her movements growing sluggish. The man cried out as the girl felt burning hot for a moment (was that fire?), but before he could do more than react in pain, the girl slumped over. The man winced and looked down at his hands. He had some light burns. Wasn't sure how that happened. But the girl was unconscious and there were no cameras here.

He heaved her up over his shoulder and made his way to his car. It wasn't like he hurt his targets. All he wanted with them were a few photos and then he'd deposit them back in the store to be found by their families. No harm, no foul. And there were people who paid good money for those photos. The man got his keys out to unlock his car.

At least, he tried to.

The man felt a strong grip on his neck. He coughed and had to crouch down and drop the kid to claw at his closing throat. He-he couldn't breathe! But despite the pressure, his hands didn't feel anyone there. He clawed at the air and his eyes rolled up as the pounding sound of his own pulse began to throb through his skull.

Sebastian clenched his hand into a fist and crushed the monster's neck even more. "Die, stupid, die…" He whispered. The man fell to the ground in the parking lot and Seb frantically ran towards the man's car to get his sister. "Miz! Miz!" He worriedly examined her and sighed out in relief when he saw she was alright, just unconscious. "Oh, fuck, Miz…" He cradled the girl towards him and kicked the unconscious man in the balls. Too bad he was unconscious and couldn't feel it. As much as Seb wanted to make a scene, he couldn't tell Wanda, she would freak out. Seb turned back towards the store and approached a store worker who was gathering shopping carts, still holding Miz and shivering. "S-sir!" Sebastian called out. "That man-" He pointed at where he left the unconscious man. Huh. The asshole parked his car so it was half hidden from view, "-just tried to kidnap my daughter. I knocked him out, but…" Seb shuddered, wishing so hard to do more than JUST knocking him out, "I expect that asshole to rot in jail." The worker was horrified and quickly called for the police. Seb sighed in relief. If he hadn't spotted Miz with his Sight and saw what happened…

He shuddered. Even if she was an all powerful demon, she was vulnerable in this form. Dragon strength wouldn't mean shit if she didn't have leverage. "I'm sorry, I… I need to get back to my other kids." Sebastian told the worker, who winced. "I think the police need your statement." Sebastian held Miz closer. "Sorry, I NEED to get back to my other kids." The worker looked sympathetic, finally nodding and letting Seb leave. He carried her back into the store and found Wanda who had put the twins into the shopping cart so they couldn't run off. Thank Ax! "Oh. Did Miz fall asleep?" Wanda asked. Seb gave a shaking smile. "Y-yeah…" Wanda frowned, easily picking up on his mood. "What happened?"

"Don't let the twins leave the cart ok? I-I'll tell you later." Seb whispered, still holding Miz and not planning to let her go. Not until they were safely home. He was a little worried that she wasn't waking up though. Wanda frowned but didn't push it. They finished their shopping much faster now that the twins were in the cart. They grabbed basic color folders because they didn't know which color they needed to use for each subject, paint, some paintbrushes, adorable wheeled school bags and matching lunch boxes.

Miz was still unconscious.

The couple paid for their supplies and loaded their stuff into the car. Wanda frowned at the police cars but Seb hurried on. The twins were worried now as they watched their mom buckle Miz into the car. Easily picking up on their dad's distress, Zoe gently poked Miz's cheek. "Why isn't Miz waking up?" She asked. Seb sighed. "I'll tell you when we get home."

"But why?" Zach pressed and Seb sighed. "Because it's safer to talk there." It was him who drove this time and everyone noticed Seb's worry, he was really easy to read. The twins patted their sister's hand softly. Wanda was worried now as she looked out the window. The police were carrying a man into their car. Another officer was holding up a bottle and a rag. Wanda's worry got worse. What had happened?

The Pines returned home and Seb left Miz laying down on the couch as they unloaded their purchases. He didn't want the twins knowing about this, but he would die if they ever found themselves in danger and he wasn't there to save them. It was better to let them know.

Sir Bedazzle barked happily when he saw them arrive while Queen Flutter floated towards them to see who it was and went back to the couch to sleep. Seb sat the twins next to Wanda and he sat down next to Miz to explain what happened. "Ok, first of all...you know how there are bad people right? People who hurt others." The twins nodded. They thought of Carol, she was bad because she hurt Zach.

"Ok…" Seb took a deep breath. "There are also bad people who hurt children, and take them away from their parents when they aren't looking…"

The kids gasped and hugged their mom, scared. The blonde sighed heavily. She immediately understood what had happened and she was doing everything in her power to keep calm. "Sometimes, because the kids don't know, they tell them they-they are friends of their parents, or offer them things just for them to come with them…" She added. If they were going to have this talk with the kids, she was going to make sure they understood.

"But why?" Zoe asked with a pout. "Because they are sick people." Sebastian growled. "A bad man tried taking Miz away. He was going to hurt her…" The twins whimpered. "But you saved her…" Zoe said. Daddy MUST have saved her! Because Miz was here. Seb shuddered, "Because we noticed on time that she was not with us, kid. If you wander away from us, anyone could get close to you and try to hurt you and we don't want that."

"But I won't let them! I will kick them and burn them and bite them really really hard! And I would never listen to them if I don't know them!" Zoe growled. Despite their fear, the parents managed a small smile. "Good."

"I can also bite them." Zach nodded, determined. "And I won't listen either." Wanda hugged her little demons closer to her. She was so worried about what happened. It was supposed to be a safe place! She was so glad Seb managed to stop- Wanda froze. "What happened to the kidnapper?" She growled, making her husband growl as well. "The police took him. Don't worry, I told a real staff member and he called the cops. If the police search that man's car, they'd find all the evidence they needed to put him away." Seb would have easily killed him but he was actually hoping that man would get punished. Besides, if, by some bullshit, that man got free, Seb was sure Miz would punish him for trying to kidnap her. He looked over at her and worried. Wanda was wide eyed when she realized, "How did someone knock Miz out?!"

Sebastian hissed. "He drugged her." Wanda gasped. She didn't realize demons could get drugged. She shivered and hugged her children close to her. Even with magic. There could be loopholes. A drug that merely knocked people unconscious wouldn't count as harming them lethally. And also, Miz wasn't included in the Deal for protection. She wasn't of Pines blood, nor was she married into the family. Wanda sighed. This wasn't good for her stress levels.

"I-I'll take Miz to our room…" Seb said softly and gently picked her up. He carried her upstairs and laid down next to her. "Miz, you scared the fuck out of me…" He whispered as he closed his eye. "I-I know you would have been fine...But I was so scared…" Miz breathed softly. Out cold with a peaceful expression. Seb brushed her hair from her face. "I...didn't know you could get drugged. Shit. I wonder if you knew?" he sighed. "Well, this will be something new for me to get nightmares about…" he complained. "When will you wake up? Do drugs affect you like any other human when you're in this form?" He laid down and stroked her hair.

Wanda and the twins, followed by Sir Bedazzle, entered the room. Wanda sighed as Zach and Zoe climbed into the bed to look at Miz. "She will be ok, right?" Zoe asked with a pout. Seb sighed. "She will be fine. I don't know how long this will last though."

"We will stay here until she wakes up!" Zach declared and grabbed his dad's pillow to curl up next to the unconscious demon. Zoe grabbed the second pillow and curled up. Five seconds passed before she looked up at her parents pleadingly. "Can you bring me my toys?" She loved Miz, but she was going to get bored waiting for her to wake up. "And Bringles!" She smiled adorably.

Sebastian rolled his eye. "I'll bring ya toys, but we had lunch only a few hours ago." He almost threw it up today after watching the asshole trying to take HIS friend away, but that was not the point. Wanda and him went to the twin's room to get them toys, their room was already stolen anyway, and Wanda grabbed his hand. Now that they were alone, the woman could stop pretending to be strong for their kids' sake. "I-I'm sorry…" She felt horrible for this. Miz could have gotten hurt, it could have happened to the twins and she wouldn't have known…

Seb grimaced when she let out a sob. "Wands...Don't, really. If you cry I'm gonna start crying too."

"I-I didn't even re-realize she wasn't there! Someone could have hu-hurt her!" Wanda cried out. Seb pulled her into a hug and sat both of them on Zoe's bed. "No, it wasn't your fault, ok? Miz would have killed that guy when she woke up...she would have been scared, but-"

"But she trusted us...she trusted me to be her-her mom and I couldn't protect her." Wanda sobbed, utterly failing to hold back her tears. "It wasn't your fault...It's ok, if anything, this was my fault, she was with me when I went to get the twins...please. Fuck, don't cry…" Seb sniffled, really close to crying himself. No! No! Control your emotions! Control them I said!

They stayed in each other's arms, breathing heavily and just calming down from the horrible sensation they were feeling. They were so scared. Miz had almost been kidnapped. It happened. But Miz was fine, they were fine. Everyone was fine…They had to go back to their room when they heard Zoe shouting, "My toooys!" They grabbed most of the stuffed toys Zoe had on her bed, which were a lot, and took them back to their bedroom where the twins were waiting.

Zach was playing with Miz's fingers while Zoe rolled around the bed. She perked up at the sight of her toys. Seb and Wanda watched in bemusement as Zoe arranged her dolls on top of Miz Mountain. Seb couldn't help but snort. Would Miz be annoyed if she woke up like that?

Wanda wanted to stay with Miz until she woke but she also wanted to get back to starting a case against those pedophile elementary school teachers. After this scare, she worried about the safety of both her children and others. She closed her eyes and breathed. "I have some work I need to do." She said. She was determined now. She needed to get awful monsters like them behind bars where they wouldn't be able to hurt any children. She didn't know what the man who tried to kidnap Miz intended to do to her but she didn't care. She was going to go after people like him, men and women who would dare to harm children. She knew the law. She knew how to use it. She was going to find these monsters, find proof of their wrong doing and have them locked away for life.

She kissed her husband's lips before leaving the room with determination shining in her green eyes. The twins watched their mommy go before continuing to build a toy pile over Miz. Seb stared dumbly at Wanda and sat down on the bed. "Wow…" he said, totally in love.

-.-

Bill felt his consciousness drift and flow before abruptly snapping back into place. His first thought was 'I was drugged!' followed by 'Need to escape! ' which generally meant he retreated back into the Mindscape where he was safe. No one could hurt him there. It was HIS space. He was god there. A master of the mind.

Once he was in the Mindscape, some of his panic ebbed and he was able to see where he had been kidnapped to...wait. This was Seb's room? Bill looked around in confusion. Zach and Zoe gasped when they saw Miz's body disperse and turn into a faintly transparent triangle. They could see into the Mindscape, much like their father. "Miz!" Zoe cheered. Zach was staring wide eyed. A bright yellow triangle...

"What…?" Bill blinked before flicking through some images. "Oh…" Seb had saved him before anything bad happened. "Oh…" Bill's bricks dulled to a sickly pale color. He...he had...Bill shivered, his Sight having caught what that man's intention toward him, HER had been. His large eye watered and the triangle flung himself onto Zoe with a sob. The toddler gasped and hugged the crying triangle, feeling a little odd because she couldn't really feel him but also sorta COULD. Why was Miz-ah-Bill(?), crying?! Did he have a nightmare? Those made her cry. She looked at her equally worried brother and nodded. Zach understood the silent instruction and ran off to get Daddy or Mommy.

"Dad! Dad!" Zach cried frantically. Seb was chilling in the twin's room (having gone to try and clean the house a bit before collapsing onto Zoe's bed) reading a book. Zach threw himself over him. "Dad! Miz-Bill, woke up but he's crying a lot!" Seb's brown eye widened and he made his way to his room. He saw Zoe patting Bill's back as his bricks flickered into a grayish yellow. The triangle had shrunk down to the size of one of Zoe's dolls, clinging to her and sobbing. Zach pulled on Seb's pants. "What do we do?"

Seb walked towards Zoe and sat down. "Bill? Bill, can I hold you?"

Bill, still crying, shook his frame. No, he was still scared, but he wanted Seb, which made it so frustrating! "Do you want Wanda?" He tried. The two had gotten really close in these few months they lived together. Bill sniffled and nodded. Seb got up to go get his wife. He found her snarling at her computer and typing out an email. "Wands, Mi-Bill woke up and he's crying."

Wanda immediately looked up. "Oh. Is she, eh, he in triangle form?" she got up from her seat and headed to her bedroom. She saw Zoe...hugging empty air and trying to reassure the space between her arms. "Di-did Bill turn invisible?" She asked.

"Eh, no, but he is super tiny…" Seb said. "Mommy! Bill is right here!" Zoe complained.

Seb looked between Wanda and the kids and he realized the problem. "Oh…" He walked towards Wanda. "You want to see Bill?"

"Yes, of course!"

"Do you trust me?" Seb asked asked and Wanda nodded. He gently sat her down. "Ok, don't get mad." He grabbed Wanda's hand and with a little bit of concentration, damn he was rusty at this, pulled her out into the Mindscape. Wanda made a startled noise while her body slumped over on the bed. "What?" She looked down at her body and was going to panic but she heard quiet sobbing.

She looked over to see Bill crying in Zoe's arms. "M-Bill?" it had taken her a while to get used to the fact that when her daughter(son) was in a different form, they wished to be called by the name of that form. As for gender...that changed pretty often and it was lucky that Bill didn't mind if they got it wrong. The demon looked up from where he was pressed against Zoe and saw Wanda.

The woman let out an "Oof!" when Bill flew over to her and clung to her chest in a tight hug. "H-he was going to-he wa-was planning to…" he sobbed. Wanda ignored how she seemed to be floating and gently stroked Bill's back frame. "I know, sweetie...I know. You're safe now. You're safe now." Wanda closed her eyes and held back her own sobs.

Zoe stared at Bill clinging to the air and made a confused sound. Seb sighed. "He's talking to mommy, that's what I did when she fell back."

"Why can't we see?" Zach asked. "Because it's a place called the Mindscape. I'll teach you when you're older." Seb couldn't see or hear Wanda either. He couldn't see the Mindscape if he didn't go there himself, the only reason he (and the twins) could see Bill was due to Bill being so powerful that anyone with enough magic could. Plus, Seb used to be Bill and his children inherited Bill's power, therefore they could see Bill. To put it another way, they were attuned to his energy signature.

"M-Mom…" Bill didn't seem to get any better, but at least the sickly pale yellow was getting a little brighter now that Bill felt safe. "I know, I know, it's ok, they can't hurt you, I promise, we will make him pay." Wanda said firmly. The Pines awaited anxiously, both Seb's and Zoe's leg were bouncing to release their stress. Eventually, Bill managed to calm down and he was reduced to occasional sniffles. He wiped his tearful eye with a little black limb and looked at Wanda. "I'm sorry I wandered off...I didn't think...anyone would…"

"No, baby, this was not your fault, I swear." Wanda took one of his tiny hands and rubbed it with her thumb. "This wasn't your fault at all." Wanda assured him. Bill whimpered. "I shouldn't have let my guard down…" he knew there were bad humans out there. He knew this. He should have... He pressed himself close to Wanda, his new mom, it was still amazing to think that someone really wanted him as their kid, and tried his best to draw on the love and comfort she was giving him.

Wanda held Bill until his trembling stopped. But she also noticed his yellow color was beginning to turn red. "Sweetie? Are you alright?" She asked. Bill looked up at her "Can I kill him?" Wanda paused, she held one of Bill's tiny hands. "No, you cannot." This wasn't the sort of mindset she wanted her children to grow up with. The fact that Bill asked for permission first was comforting, it meant he wouldn't go off and just DO it.

"Then can I plague him with nightmares?" Bill asked instead. Wanda hesitated. The would-be kidnapper deserved to be punished. She heard from Sebastian that Bill was a dream demon who could grant dreams and nightmares. They were probably something Bill defaulted to. She still hesitated, not wanting to promote malicious retaliation, no matter how deserved. And even when Sebas seemed to promote it in certain situations...

"That man's thoughts as he manhandled me were 'Her chest is soft' ." Bill hissed.

Wanda made a horrified sound. How could there be so many disgusting, sick people in the world?! "Ok…" Wanda agreed because frankly, the angry part of herself wanted some retribution. "-But-!" ...the rest of her wanted justice, that was Wanda's entire life, and as much as she wanted that man to suffer… a mother was supposed to set a good example. "You cannot harm him or drive him insane. He still needs to be put behind bars." Wanda grinned wickedly. "The other prisoners would deal with him then."

"Parameters?" Bill asked. Wanda considered it. "He can't suffer if he's insane and if he's insane they might give him a lesser sentence. So you can't break him." Bill nodded. "Ok. I'll be right back." He gave her a quick hug. "Thank you, mommy." And then he flew off. Most likely in search of the man who had tried to take her. Him. Pronouns were hard.

"You're...welcome?" Wanda wasn't sure if she'd made the right call. She might have let her own anger affect her judgement...

The three Pines watched Bill disappear. Seb frowned a second before his eye widened. He pulled himself out of his body, the twins winced when his body fell to the floor and Seb grinned at Wanda, who was staring ahead and didn't even seem to realize she was out of her body yet, or rather, forgot about that in the time since. "Hey, love." he grinned. "Enjoying the out of body experience?" Wanda looked at Seb, floating just in front of her and then she looked at their bodies. "What the fuck did you do?" She finally reacted to her current situation now that Bill was gone.

"This is the Mindscape." Seb pointed at his head. "Bill's usually in this plane of existence but he can create vessels to wear to walk around among us, the puny mortals."

Wanda nodded. "So he's normally invisible?" She worried about what Bill might have felt, if he were invisible and unnoticed for a long time, with his only method of communication being dreams and nightmares. The evil Bill she'd met all those years ago had only appeared in her dreams too.

Seb floated on his back and put his hands behind his head. It was weird being in the Mindscape and not seeing Bill2 insulting him. "Well...yes...and no…" He mused. "Bill...Miz, at least, he doesn't have a physical body in his world...but he creates them, so people can totally see him. The problem is that in his Earth, he can't create a body for some weird reason, something about his powers being limited or something? So he can only communicate through dreams with the humans in his dimension. The Bill we fought years ago couldn't create a body at all, he needed to come to the 3rd dimension through a portal and create it here."

Wanda hummed in thought. "So you all have different powers despite being the same type of creature?"

Seb pouted. "I am not Bill."

"Right. I'm sorry, baby. Your past self." She corrected herself. Seb nodded. "The powers are...similar, but not exactly the same, and how we can use them is also different. Um, my past self couldn't use his powers freely like Miz does because he, and our Bill, were trapped in the Nightmare Realm, which was the remains of the 2nd Dimension, and could only use them by making deals with people until he got to the 3rd dimension...hence now, as human, I literally can't use my cool ass powers if it isn't through a deal." Aside from basic levitation and fire.

Wanda frowned but nodded. She kind of understood, but this was still a lot to get used to. Even if it had been years. "And I suppose pulling people's souls from their bodies is another one. Is...is this safe?"

"Of course! I did it all summer back when I was taking care of Mabel and Dipper and nothing bad happened!" Seb grinned. "Dipper was even pulled out of his body by BadBill."

"What?!" She cried. "It's ok. Mabel saved him later."

The blonde pouted. "I feel you three went through some things much more dangerous than you want to admit."

Seb blew a raspberry. "It's fine! I can even pull the kids here too!"

"Oh my god, leave my babies out of this!" Wanda was about to ask to go back to her body when Zoe and Zach stood up on the bed and started waving their arms. Seb cried startled when Zoe's hand punched through him. "WE WANT TO SEE! COME BACK!" She ordered.

"Oh, this is another thing. You are basically a ghost while you are here. Can't be seen, heard or touched." Seb explained. Wanda nodded, already figuring that out. "Well I want to go back now. Do I just...fly in there or…" she tried to float down, not quite having the hang of it yet, and startled when Zoe's hands caught fire. "I WANNA SEE!" she whined.

Wanda flipped through the air, dodging the fire and squeaked in surprise when she landed in Seb's body by mistake.

"Oh boy…" Seb bit his finger. Should he? Or should he not?

'Seb' blinked his eye open and sat up "Zoe! What did we say about fire in the house?" He scolded before going still and slapping a hand to 'his' mouth. 'Seb' looked down at themselves and gasped. "Oh no." Wanda groaned as she saw that she was now in her husband's body. She saw her own body stir and sit up. Her eyes faintly glowing yellow. "Fuck." She said. Her body started laughing madly.

Seb, in Wanda's body, cackled. "This is HILARIOUS! I wonder if this is how Pinetree and Shooting Star felt when they switched bodies?" He was...a little weirded out but was mainly curious about being in a female body. He grinned like a maniac "Hey Wands! You don't have work today right? Wanna see how the other half lives?"

The twins shared a confused look and looked between their parents. What in the name of everything fun was going on here?!

"No." Wanda growled. "I luckily don't have work today, and we aren't doing that. Give me back my body!"

Seb grinned. "Nope." At his wife's angry expression he quickly waved his, her(?), arms. "It's just for a while! I give you full permission to play with my body however you want. And you can tell me what I am and am not allowed to do."

"I don't get it!" Zoe whined. "Why are you talking so weird?! Stop it!" Her 'mom' grinned and crawled towards her. "You see, my precious baby, Mommy and Daddy are making an experiment!"

"No we aren't! Don't listen to your father! I'm not part of this…" Wanda said lamely (trying to hide her interest in the idea) and Zach looked up at 'Seb'. "Are you...acting like each other? Why?"

'Wanda' grinned. "Well, mommy and daddy switched bodies. And so, we're going to need you two to go back to your room for….say...a couple hours…"

"Hours?!" 'Seb' sputtered. Wanda blushed as all sorts of ideas were going through her head. She shook her head. Nope. She had to be the responsible one here!

Zoe pouted angrily but her twin and her agreed to leave the room. She was confused and didn't like to see Mommy acting like Daddy...or Dad in mom's body! She hoped they stopped being so weird by dinner. She wanted her meal to be a decent one! The twins left and closed the door behind them. Then Sebastian turned to look at Wanda with a huge grin. This was too good to be true! "They're gone~ what do you want to do?"

Wanda threw a pillow at him (at her body) and it smacked her in the face. Seb giggled. "You can't lie to my face, your face haha!, and tell me you aren't curious about this thing! Like...you can pee standing up!"

"Ew. I wouldn't change bodies just to look at myself pee." She grimaced and absentmindedly looked down at Seb's lower body. She shuddered. That would be weird. She noticed Seb getting up and stripping his, HER, clothes off. "Wait! What are you doing?!" Wanda cried as she blushed. Was he really going to do it right here and now? In HER body?!

"I'm going to try on your dresses!" Seb squealed. "I've always wanted to! They look so pretty!"

Wanda stared at him before face palming. Right. Her husband was a pure cinnamon roll. He ran towards her wardrobe and grabbed around 6 dresses and went to the bathroom. Wanda sat down on the bed, spreading her legs a little because it was really uncomfortable to try not to think about the change when she could clearly feel it, and grumbled in annoyance. She tugged at the shirt's collar neck and groaned louder. "Sebastian! I don't really want to stay like this for hours!" She warned. "Can we please change back now?"

Seb didn't reply and took a few more minutes to try on the first dress. "Look!" He finally announced. "You should keep your hair like this with this dress, it looks awesome!" He came out of the bathroom and smiled at his wife. She rolled her eyes but had to admit she looked pretty good. Why was her husband so much better at this than she was?

"That's great, Seb. Can we switch back now?" She sighed. Seb pouted at her. Wow, is that really what she looked like when her lips did that? "But you've got so many nice dresses~" he whined as he gave her some puppy dog eyes. This looked super weird. She rolled her eye. Right. Only one eye now. That was a strange feeling.

"Seb~" She pleaded and Seb pouted harder. "Wanda~" The 'man' groaned. "Alright, alright, just stop." Wanda sighed. He was so adorably eager to try on her clothes. And...it sounded ridiculous when she put it like that.

"Yay!" Seb cheered and went back to the bathroom. Wanda waited until he was inside again and she carefully lifted his eyepatch. Using a mirror, she sighed sadly at the hurt socket. Her poor baby. It had been years and yet it still looked painful. She glanced at the bathroom's door and slowly started unbuttoning her shirt. She was blushing, which was weird because they had done this lots of times before and it was usually Seb blushing...maybe his body was affecting her. She glanced at his naked chest and grinned, making a serious, masculine face. "Look, I am a guy and I walk around shirtless…" She whispered.

She started posing and making faces in the mirror. Damn, she almost swooned when she gave herself a charming, flirty wink. Too bad Seb was too shy to give her these sexy expressions. (Unless he's drunk). She continued making sultry faces at herself with her husband's face and blushed harder. He really was the most handsome.

"What are you doing?" Wanda jumped at the sudden voice and out of instinct covered her chest. Seb was wearing another dress, a dark purple one this time and had her hair in a few curls.

"Uh...admiring you?" She grinned sheepishly and Seb cackled. "Yeah, I can see that…" Wanda blushed and coughed. "Yes, well, you did say I could do what I want with your body...within reason." She had her hands over her, his, chest and couldn't help but feel up his pectorals while she was at it. Ooh.

Seb noticed what she was doing and blushed a bit, but decided he could have fun with this. He crossed his arms over his chest, just under Wanda's breasts and lifted them up a little bit. "I love when I see you doing this…" He teased.

"Sebastian!" Wanda cried and her hands fell to her sides. He laughed and bounced her breasts "This feels so weird." He giggled. Wanda rolled her eyes. "Well, nice to see you're having fun."

Seb laughed and pulled Wanda down for a kiss. Fuck weird kisses. He felt his body go tense but it soon relaxed and his wife put her hands on his now wide hips. Seb put his arms on her shoulders and pulled on his curly hair. Revenge! Wanda laughed, huffing warm breaths against him. "This is so weird."

Seb gasped and felt Wanda's lips against his. It was weird. "You like weird, you wouldn't like me if you didn't." He argued and Wanda grinned. She picked him up like he sometimes did (marvelling at how easily she was able to lift him, herself?) and kissed him again. He stumbled back and she fell to the bed with Sebastian over her.

The two kissed in earnest. Holding each other close and enjoying each other's company. Wanda's hands began to wander over Seb's, her own, body. Which was weird but she was 'enjoying' herself. The body she was in certainly enjoyed what they were doing…

"-o I plagued him with images of black eyed children tearing his skin off in strips and eating them, so hopefully this means he will never be able to look at children again…" Bill swept back into the room and paused. He turned bright orange and flew out of the room, screaming. He really had to come in at this precise moment! Ugh! Humans always in heat! He went to hide with the twins. If it weren't his mom and Seb, he might have stayed to watch- but nope, nope, nope!

Seb moaned slightly as the body he was 'possessing' was also enjoying this but he wasn't sure he wanted to do that. "Wa-Wanda…" He breathed out. Wanda made a sound and her hands travelled down to his thighs. Were they really doing this?

"I-I ...stop…" Wanda opened her eyes. "I-I am not sure we should take this THIS far…" Seb made a pout. The blonde seemed to realize getting horny while looking like this wasn't probably the best. She sat up and Seb looked up at his own face. "Are you upset?"

"No...just, got carried away? I'm sorry."

Seb leaned against Wanda's chest. "It doesn't mean we can't do more fun stuff! How about going out? Somewhere where we can dress up with nice clothes and not carry a unicorn bag full of t-shirts, water and snacks for the twins."

Wanda thought about it. "And after that, we can change back?" Seb smiled. "Yeah! Deal?"

Wanda made a 'whoosh' sound and extended her right hand (wow it had 6 fingers!) and grinned like Seb did when making a deal. "Imagine there's magic fire there." She said.

Seb laughed loudly and shook her offered hand. "Alright! Let's get ready! I'm wearing this dress, so move. I'm going to take a shower." He declared as he stood up.

"What? In my body?!" Wanda whined. Seb rolled his two eyes. Awesome. "I don't give a fuck. And no one is stopping you from doing the same...you don't have to if you don't want to but it's sad you want people to see 'you' going out with me looking like a hobo." He huffed in mock anger.

"Alright, fine!" Wanda huffed, and blushed a little bit...

They took a while getting ready. Wanda couldn't believe how exciting this was for her husband. Wanda usually got ready fast. It was Seb who took a lot of time. Now, he was taking even more. "I want you to look prettier than you already are!" He claimed.

Wanda, much to Seb's annoyance, refused to put any makeup on him this time, shaved his growing beard and chose a tie to wear with a beautiful dark blue suit, a yellow tie, but a TIE! Not a bowtie! She wanted to see him wearing a tie for a change. She examined her man's body in the mirror. Damn so hot, and the little gray hairs made him look so mature and sexy…

"Seb? Should I call the nanny? I am not sure when Miz will be back!" She tried coming into the bathroom and Seb slammed the door shut. "DON'T SEE!" Wanda rolled her eyes. "Yes, tell the twins." Her voice ordered her from the bathroom.

She walked towards the kid's room and wondered if she should act like Seb. Zoe seemed particularly distressed at their change… "Um, kids?" She called and knocked on the door.

Miz opened the door. "Oh, Miz! Thank God you're back!" Wanda smiled, glad to see her daughter, once again in her girl form. Miz blushed hard. "Ah...y-yeah…" she saw how 'Seb' was dressed up. "Oh. A-are you and mommy going out?"

"Yes. I'm glad you're home. Are you alright?" Wanda knelt down to check on her daughter. Miz was still blushing but she nodded. "I feel better after I traumatized him for life." She couldn't really look at Seb right now. Why had they started doing..that? Was it from relief that she was saved before anything happened? She did hear once that people who've been through stressful situations tended to...celebrate afterward…

That must have been it.

'Seb' pet her head. "We're going to be more careful from now on. Alright? I...I won't let anyone hurt you again."

Miz smiled sadly. She knew there was no way she could be kept from harm but she appreciated how Seb and Wanda still tried. "Ok Seb." She hugged him. "Have fun on your date with mommy."

Wanda smiled wryly. Right. She was Seb right now. Oh. Did Miz feel like this when she changed forms? But since her changes were her own other forms and not someone else's body, she might have an easier time with it. Something to consider…

"Well, can you watch the twins while we're out?" Wanda asked. She knew Miz WOULD, but it was only polite to ask instead of just assuming. Miz nodded. "Go have fun. You two haven't had a proper date in months."

"How did you know-oh, right. Magic." Wanda sighed. Having a child with All Seeing powers was odd. Especially since they didn't seem to work unless she was paying attention...which...Wanda sadly thought Miz was going to do from now on out of paranoia. This incident ruined her feelings of safety. Just because she was around humans and not aliens didn't make her safe.

The twins walked to the door and looked at their Dad, hoping it was their Dad again. "Why are you dressed up like that? Where are you going?" Zach asked.

"Um, mommy and I-" Talking like this was weird as hell. "-are going out to eat dinner."

Zoe sighed in relief. They were back to normal. "Can we go?! Are you going to WcDonalds?!" Zoe asked, her eyes widening.

Miz hugged the children. "Nope. They're going on a date . Which means we get the house ALL to ourselves…" she whispered. "...which means we can eat whatever we want and watch all the movies they say we can't."

The twins grinned evilly. "And we can order pizza?!" Zach whispered loudly. "No, of course not…" Miz shook her head. "Yes we are." She whispered to them.

Wanda rolled her eye. Miz spoiled them too much. "I'm ready!" Wanda turned around at the sound of her own voice and gaped big. It wasn't fair Seb got her to look like this and she couldn't wear it! The cleavage was a bit too much for her liking but she couldn't help but admit she looked beautiful.

Zoe squealed. "You look pretty, mommy!" 'Wanda' grinned and made a little twirl. "I'm always pretty~Right, honey?" 'She' looked at 'Seb'. "O-Of course…" Wanda whispered.

"Daddy is so shocked he can't speak!" Zach giggled. Sebastian laughed. He had been shocked to see Wanda dressed up like this indeed. She didn't do this much. She was beautiful, but sometimes she didn't believe it.

"Your shoes are huge." Zoe crouched and pointed at her 'mommy''s heels. Wanda hated these high heels. She said they were too tall. Seb was going to prove to her that she was overreacting. "I haven't worn this in forever!" Seb smiled. "What do you think, Miz?"

Miz rubbed her cheek, embarrassed. Wanda looked beautiful, but she didn't want to see her doing...that with Seb. "You look pretty, mom." she admitted with a blush. "Hey, how late are you guys staying out?"

"I don't know." Wanda said after coming out of her shock. "Maybe...1am?"

"Wow, that's late." Zach grimaced. "You will be tired."

"Right. We should order a taxi." Seb nodded with a smile. Driving didn't seem like a good idea. Maybe they could have wine! "Thanks for reminding us, kid-baby!" He corrected himself. Miz nodded. "Don't worry. I'll have the twins in bed before then." They whined. "None of that. Sleep is important." Miz huffed.

Seb cooed when Wanda kissed the kids and Miz on their foreheads. "Good night!"

"Be good kids for Miz." Seb crouched and kissed the kid's round cheeks before giving Miz a hug. Miz hugged him tightly with her head on his chest. Seb blushed a bit. Having breasts was weird. "Bye, mommy." Miz nuzzled 'her'.

"Alright, alright." Seb gently pushed her away. It has been a few hours since he had gotten boobs but he didn't like the feeling of getting them touched.

Only Wanda was allowed to do that…

"Are we heading out now, Sebas?" Seb grinned widely and Wanda took her arm like a gentleman. "Of course, Wands." Wanda looked at the twins. "Bye, babies!" she said as Seb called. "Bye, little monsters!"

Seb called a taxi while the twins and Miz waved at them as they left. "Mom was acting a bit weird…" Miz hummed and looked at the blond toddlers to see what they thought.

Zoe shrugged. "Mom and dad were acting weird. They said they were acting like the other."

"And that they sw-sw-swoched their bodies? What does that mean?" Zach asked innocently.

Miz paled. Seb and Wanda had switched bodies?! And they were about to have sex as the other before she ran away?! AAAAHH! She immediately rushed them all back into the house and said "HEY WHAT DO YOU GUYS WANT FOR DINNER?!"

"Pizza!" "Ice cream!" The twins said at the same time. They looked at each other. "Pizza ice cream? Ice cream pizza?"

Miz grinned too wide to be normal "I can DO YOU one better! You're not allergic to nuts right?" The twins shook their heads. "Great! Have you heard of nutella pizza? With strawberries and ice cream on top?"

The twins never realized something so magical existed. Miz set to work materializing everything she needed for this. Chocolate~

She was gonna get SO high off chocolate tonight!

-.-

Wanda had underestimated how much of a light head Seb was. Their dinner had gone splendid, she had played her part of gentleman and Seb made her laugh and be utterly surprised at how elegant 'she' held 'herself'. It wasn't until they started drinking that problems arose. Wanda felt tipsy with half her cup, and when she was finished, she started feeling dizzy and everything felt funny. Seb, not used to not fainting after a cup, didn't drink responsibly and had a few more drinks before they took effect on him.

"I love you!" Seb clung to Wanda who was giggling. "I love eaattinngg!" Seb added as he tried to finish 'her' desert.

"You're go'nna get me fffffat, ashhshole!" Wanda accused and Seb stuck his tongue. "Eaatt!"

They were conscious enough to call their taxi though and Seb nuzzled Wanda on their way back. "You wuuun' give me yer jacket? I g-give you my jacket every time." Seb complained.

The driver frowned, a bit confused.

Wanda took off her jacket and wrapped it around Seb's shoulders. "There!" She exclaimed proudly at her good deed.

"My ssshtupid feet hurt." Seb scowled drunkily.

"I toolldd youuu!" Wanda laughed loudly.

They got home giggling madly, and the first thing Seb did was kick the shoes to the grass. "Die in hell!" He screamed. "Ssshhh! Shut up!" Wanda laughed. Seb looked into the jacket he was wearing, temporarily Wanda's, and searched for the keys. He whined as he tried and failed to put the key on the keyhole. "Aaahh! I wanna get in! I wanna see my babiiess! DOOR! OPEN!" He demanded.

Wanda tried the door but since there were three door knobs for some reason, she couldn't figure it out either. Seb was sobbing as he thumped the door. "We...we can't go HOME!?" He wailed. Wanda shushed him and hugged her now shorter husband...wife? She was so confused right now. Hugged him to her chest. "Ish ok...I'm...ssshure Mish will let usssh in…"

"MIZ!" Sebastian yelled. Wanda covered his mouth clumsily. "It's late! Dun...dun yell!"

To both their relief, a small light turned on from inside and the door opened to show Miz yawning and rubbing at her eyes. "I can't be-believe you two got too drunk to open a door." She yawned. "How did you even make it home?"

"Miz!" Sebastian cheered and toppled over to hug her. "You're...the besssshh!" Miz smiled wryly. "Yes I am. Now get in here." She got the two inside and levitated them upstairs. "Are you coherent enough to switch back or change clothes?" She asked.

"Ppphhhfftt!" Seb moved his hand. "We-We are perfectly capable of changing!" He growled at Miz. The demon laughed, because seeing Wanda's face do that expression was hilarious. "Alright, whatever you want...just shut up." She yawned again and went back to the twins room. It took her half an hours worth of bribing to get them to sleep. She wasn't risking that with their loud-ass parents. Maybe she'll block sound from the twins' room to sleep in peace. Her bed was on a shelf formed out of the wall with a ladder, like a bunk bed.

"Bye, baby!" Wanda waved happily and they watched Miz go back. Seb looked down at his, Wanda's feet. "Carry me!"

Wanda rolled her eyes. "I'll probably drop you." She did hug Seb and the two stumbled their way to the bedroom. They took off their clothes somewhat clumsily, Wanda fumbling with the tie and just managing to loosen it enough to skip over her head. Seb was naked aside from Wanda's panties. He ripped her bra off and heaved in relief.

Wanda, already flushed from the alcohol, squealed. "Seb! Put on some clothes!" She pulled off the shirt, barely managing to get the buttons enough to just slip it off. After kicking off the pants, she was also just in Seb's underwear. Seb grinned, not wanting to sleep yet.

"Hey~ I've got a super weird idea~" Seb purred at Wanda. "Weeee should try it out like-like this! It'd be sooooo weiirdddd!" He laughed, pressing his currently curvy body against his own borrowed one. The situation was so unique and weird it called to him, it drove him mad and he needed it!

Wanda recognized that this was a unique chance...and for once it was Seb asking for it. Maybe they didn't have to do it fully (because she wasn't sure how to use this body), but there were other ways to have fun without going full way~

She grinned and pressed her lips against his as she easily picked up his borrowed body and sat it on her lap. "Well~ If you insist…" She whispered.

(Rest of this scene was taken out and will be posted elsewhere because it turned NSFW)

-.-

Wanda laughed at his pouting, red face and Seb curled up against her with a content, sleepy sigh. The day had been scary at first, but Miz was safe and this body swap and night fun totally helped to ease his nerves. It was actually lots of fun. He could see how he would like to try this again some other time. Just to spice things up in the bedroom. That was his half alcoholized mind talking though. He would die of embarrassment before even suggesting it while sober, even if he knew Wanda enjoyed herself as well.

He felt Wanda cleaning the both of them off with the cover sheet. She carefully wiped the 'results of their fun' off them and he twitched when the cloth rubbed against the sensitive areas. Wanda sighed and declared the cleaning done. She threw it to the floor, wrinkling her nose. They would need to do the laundry tomorrow. Her still drunk mind thought that there was something she was forgetting but couldn't really concentrate on that right now. She was so sleepy. Wanda yawned and pulled the covers over herself and cuddled up to her husband, who was already half asleep.

This had been a nice evening. She and Seb hadn't really done it as much since the kids came. Kinda hard to have their romp in the sheets when the children could run in at any time. At least now, if the twins woke up in the middle of the night, Miz would be there to help out. Ah...they also hadn't been able to do it because Miz liked to crawl into bed with them...Wanda shook her head. Well, it was a good thing she had her own bed in the twin's room now.

"I luv you, Wanda…" Seb muttered before falling asleep, pressing his large naked chest against her. The woman smiled and closed her eye. Urgh. The eyepatch was itchy. She didn't want to sleep with …it…

Eyepatch.

She looked down at herself. She didn't have her breasts. She had a dick. Body swapping! It suddenly hit her that this was what she had been forgetting. "Seb...Seb...we gotta turn back…" She shook the sleepy 'woman' gently. "Let me sleep…!" He whined.

"N-No! Fuck you! Changee uss baaaack!" Wanda whined. Seb sleepily extended a hand. Ok. He would try to do this sleeping. He was so comfortable! He grabbed Wanda's hand and 'pulled', but nothing happened.

He opened his eyes and tried again. Oh no. Wanda grimaced at his panicked expression.

"No! Seb? Seb?!" Wanda whimpered.

"Ah...I can't use my powers...since…" he began sweating "...YOU have my powers?" Of course that didn't work like that, but Seb was too drunk to remember. He was too drunk to realize that he was simply too drunk to concentrate on USING his powers.

"No, no, are you kidding me?!" Wanda panicked. Seb hugged his wife. "Shhh….shuu...it's ok...M-Miz can switch us back tomorrow…" He assured her.

Wanda groaned and buried her face into the pillow. She didn't want Miz knowing what happened (not remembering right now that her adopted daughter already knew.) Seb once again snuggled against her and stroked her arms. "Shh...Sleep… Lullabee, lullabee...Honey bees in the tree… " He sang sleepily before falling asleep. Wanda frowned but her exhaustion and drunkenness didn't let her stay awake much longer.

It was unnecessary to say the two woke up screaming after seeing each other's faces. It took them a little to remember what happened, the evidence was clear on the floor, and they blushed in embarrassment. Damn alcohol…

Luckily, they no longer had to take the kids to preschool, Miz easily teaching the kids how to read and do basic math. In fact, Wanda was sure her kids were going to be way ahead of the other students once Kindergarten started. Still, even if they didn't have to worry about the twins for now, Wanda still had a job to go to. She and Seb scrambled out of bed and quickly took a shower together, not even having time to enjoy each other's company among the hot spray of water. Wanda and Seb quickly got dressed, couldn't show up in front of Miz naked after all. The shower also helped to get the smell of what they had done last night off themselves.

It was only when they were fully dressed did Seb slap a hand to his forehead. "Wait!" Wanda paused. "What is it? I'm going to be late to the office!" Seb grinned sheepishly and looked away. "I just remembered how to change us back…"

Wanda sure hoped the children couldn't hear the words she responded to that statement with. Responded loudly with. For two solid minutes. "Do you even know how fucking worried I was?!" Wanda pulled at her (Seb's) hair.

"You can't totally blame me completely! I was drunk! I couldn't think! I actually thought you had my powers!" He responded. "Just change me back already." Wanda grumbled, annoyed. Seb gave her a tentative kiss on her lips before offering a hand. Now sober, he could concentrate on pulling Wanda out of his body and he pulled himself out of hers.

They floated back to their respective bodies and Wanda took a deep breath before touching her chest. Yes! She was her again! Seb looked at his hands and grinned. "You see? Harmless." Wanda flicked his nose before kissing it. "You're lucky you're so handsome." she grumbled. Seb laughed sheepishly. There was a knock on their bedroom door.

"Are you two done? I made breakfast?" Miz's voice was slightly muffled by the wood but Seb grinned. "I fucking LOVE YOU Miz!" Wanda grinned as well. Thank god for Miz. She and Seb opened the door and the one eyed man knelt to pick up Miz in a hug. She squeaked before laughing as Seb swung her around. "I take it you two had a nice night?" She asked when Seb put her back on the ground. "Yeah. It was great to have some alone time together." Seb laughed. The three of them headed downstairs.

It was still pretty early so the twins were asleep. They'd stayed up waaay too late the night before and were too exhausted to get up. Wanda entered the kitchen to see that Miz had made scrambled eggs with ground beef, cheese and broccoli, toast and apple juice. Wanda sighed and gratefully sat down. "What would we do without you, Miz? Thank you." She began eating. Miz blushed and had a sweet smile. "Y-you're welcome mommy!" It felt so great to know she was helpful. That she could take care of them, give them whatever they wanted. That she was allowed to. Gray had always been dismissive of her attempts to 'help' with the family finances, and Orange had seemed confused whenever s/he tried to do chores around the house (since that was Orange's job).

Seb was going to eat as well but suddenly realized his bladder was full. "Ah!" He rushed to the ground floor bathroom. Wanda blinked at him. Oh right. They hadn't gone to the bathroom yet today...wait. Why wasn't HER bladder full? Unless…

"SEBASTIAN WILLIAM PINES! DID YOU PEE IN THE SHOWER WHILE IN MY BODY?!"

Miz spat the apple juice she was just about to drink and Seb returned with a scowl, drying his hands on the towel. He tossed the towel lightly at Wanda. "Excuse me?! What do you think I am?! Some animal?! I went to the bathroom like any human would, on the toilet, and I can't believe you almost made me pee my pants right now just because you didn't want to pee standing up!"

Wanda frowned. Seb DID take a lot of time in the bathroom after she had already dressed. She noticed he did her make up for her and thought it was merely that. She blushed. She had been too embarrassed to pee like a man.

"I'm sorry…" She looked down. "I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions. That was very unprofessional of my part." The blonde pouted.

Seb huffed and grabbed a toast from the table. "Miz. Tell Wanda I ain't talking to her for not trusting me."

Miz blinked, wiping her face of apple juice. "Ok." She glanced at Wanda. "Mommy, Seb says he's not talking to you because you didn't trust him."

"Come on, Sebastian! I was just making sure…" She apologized. The man took a bite of his toast and sipped his juice. "Miz, tell Seb I am sorry!" She didn't want to leave for work with Seb angry at her for such a silly thing.

Miz mumbled through a bite of her eggs, "Seb, mommy says she's sorry."

"Then tell her I don't give a fuck." Seb pouted.

"You are literally right there! Talk to each other !" Miz whined. She just wanted to eat her breakfast.

"Well then, tell Sebastian that if he's too petty to accept an apology then he doesn't get one." Wanda grumbled as she stabbed her eggs. Seb scoffed. "Well, tell Wanda that if she gives up on apologising so easily then she's obviously not sorry at all!"

Wanda was going to retort but she and Seb both froze when they heard Miz let out a soft whine of distress. They turned to the girl whose lip was trembling, a sad look on her face. Seb immediately went to her "No, no, don't cry. It's ok. We're not mad!" Wanda got out of her chair to hug Miz. "Shh, shh, we're not fighting. We're just dumb." She and Seb didn't mean to upset her. Miz sniffled. "You're not fighting?" She looked up at them with watery eyes. Seb shook his head. "We're not fighting." Wanda brushed her hair. "Yeah. We're just being dumb."

The girl sniffled but it didn't seem like she was going to cry so Seb and Wanda heaved a sigh of relief. Wanda looked at Seb "I'm sorry I assumed that of you." She said. Seb sighed. "Yeah, don't worry. I accept your apology." Miz hugged them both. "...my human parents fought all the time." she mumbled. "Please don't…"

Seb winced, thinking back to Filbrick. Wanda bit her lip. "We won't. We're sorry. Don't worry, we weren't actually mad at each other." The two adults hugged the demon and after one more reassurance that they weren't angry (Wanda even held Seb's face gently and kissed his lips to show Miz proof) they continued having breakfast. Wanda was a few hours late for work, in her panic of waking up and not remembering why she was in Seb's body though, she plugged in her dead phone and was spammed with hundreds of messages from work. There was one that only said 'What was with those files you sent?! You're opening a case on these elementary school teachers?'

Wanda groaned. Miz looked over. "I can teleport you and the car to work?"

Wanda shuddered but looked at the hour. She gulped down her apple juice, swallowed the rest of her scrambled eggs and looked at Miz. "Am redeh!" She said as she had the food in her mouth. Miz nodded and flick cleaned their dishes. Wanda kissed Seb goodbye, and Miz followed her outside, sticking close with her fist gripping the woman's shirt. Wanda noticed and saw the way Miz was looking around herself, checking that no one else was nearby.

She felt sad at that. Miz didn't feel safe anymore. Wanda's heart panged with the pain of knowing she had let the girl down. She was her mother now. She should have kept Miz safe.

They got to the car and Miz buckled herself into the passenger seat. Wanda wondered if she should start the car or…

Miz's eyes were flickering through multiple images. She tilted her head. "Sit back and hold on." She said before Blinking them and the car to their destination. Of course, she had a perception filter over Seb's house. Small things like fires will still be noticed but Wanda's car suddenly vanishing? Nope.

Wanda squeaked. The feeling of teleportation never failed to make her feel dizzy. She gasped when the car thumped lightly onto the ground. Magic was...amazing sometimes. She could see her office outside. "Thank you, Miz." She smiled (even if she was a little uncomfortable at the idea of magic being used so publically, she didn't want to discourage Miz from wanting to help). Miz seemed to glow at the gratitude. She always looked so happy when they thanked her for something she did. (And that made Wanda wonder about her home life back in the other dimension. It left her feeling rather unsettled at how much Miz craved positive attention.) Wanda got out of the car and noted that Miz even dropped them into a proper parking spot.

She heard the passenger door open and shut as Miz pattered over to cling to her side again. "Miz?" Wanda looked down at the girl before smiling. "Do you want to come to work with me today?" she had brought the twins in before, when they were younger. Her coworkers had all squealed over how cute the twins were. Unfortunately, they weren't well behaved enough to come over often. Too much like Seb she was afraid...

Miz nodded, hugging her side. Wanda brushed her hair fondly. "Alright. I think I have some paper and pencils so you can draw while I work."

"Ok…" Miz always wanted to see Wanda work. She saw Seb drawing and designing his stuff, cursing at his manager too, their relationship reminded her of Jan-Jan and his own manager, but she had never seen her mom in action and kicking ass. It sounded fun.

The two of them entered the building and Wanda waved at the kind receptionist before walking with Miz towards her office. "What is your specialty?" The girl asked, hand firmly holding onto Wanda's. People turned to look at them and it made her really nervous. "Criminal law, I have a PhD in that actually." She smiled proudly. "But I took a few years in Spain to study international law. It was a nice experience." Miz nodded in awe. That was so cool. "And everyone here is a criminal lawyer too?"

"Nope. We are specialized in different things. Here you will find the best lawyers...starting with me, of course." She joked and Miz laughed. "I see why you are married to Seb…"

A man with a cup of coffee in one hand and a binder under his other arm smiled at Wanda. "Hey Wands~!" He smiled. "Let me say you look wonderful...new...makeup style?" He tried awkwardly. Miz frowned and hugged the blond's arm. Was he trying to flirt with her mom?! She was married and had kids!

"Yes, actually, Oliver, my husband did it for me today." From inside her body, but no one needed to know about their crazy weekend. Oliver chuckled awkwardly. "Oh, yes...your husband...Haha, Steven?"

"Sebastian." Miz growled. The man finally looked down and saw the asian girl clinging to his work partner. "Hey, and who are you?" He asked gently.

"Oliver, this is Miz, our daughter, we adopted her a few weeks ago." Wanda presented Miz, who wouldn't let go of her. Still, Miz gave the man a polite nod. Oliver blinked. Adopted…"Oh. That's...nice." He said lamely, unsure what to say to that. Miz pouted at him. "Can I see your office, mommy?" she tugged at Wanda's hand.

"Of course, sweetie." Wanda made a note to text Seb and tell him Miz was staying with her today. They got to her office and Wanda sighed. Miz frowned at the door. "Was he...?"

"Yes." Wanda groaned.

"Isn't he married?" Miz had seen the ring on his finger. Wanda rubbed her face. "They're separated." Miz continued to frown. "But you're happily married…"

"And I am happily married." Wanda agreed. "At first I thought he was just being polite, but then he started...I don't know, talking more to me? He hasn't actually tried anything, if he did, I would have told him to fuck off."

Miz mumbled about biting off fingers. Wanda sighed. Miz really was a demon. "You can't bite off his fingers. Humans don't do that sort of thing." Miz pouted. "Sure they can. Humans have a bite force strong enough to crush bone. They just don't have teeth that can handle it." She informed her. "That's why Seb and probably the twins can actually do it." Seb had sharp teeth, the kids had little sharp teeth, just like she had in her Bill form. Miz had little fangs as well but they weren't as pronounced.

Wanda sighed and pulled her laptop out. "Anyway, just don't bite him, please. I don't need him suing me."

"I make no promises." Miz said sweetly.

"It is not a promise, it's a mom order, you can't disobey." Wanda's words were firm. Miz whined. Mom orders were unfair. Wanda snickered. Miz pouted. If the multiverse could see her now, the great demon brought down by a mom order. "Well if he tries to touch you, I get to kick him in the shins."

"Alright." Wanda agreed distractedly. Miz sat down on a swivel chair and spun around lazily. "Have you told Seb?"

"Do you want him to kill Oliver?" Wanda snorted, remembering how Sebastian beat up one of her old co-workers at the old firm she used to work at for harassing her while she was pregnant. "I can handle myself. I'm a grown woman." Speaking of Seb, she texted him and told him Miz was staying with her. "In that drawer over there I have papers I don't need and pens. You can grab them if you want to draw."

Miz squealed childishly and grabbed the offered stuff to use. She immediately set off doodling characters. Been a while since she just...doodled. Having to work on a real manuscript for a book was different and more stressful.

Wanda looked at Miz and smiled. How could such a cute girl actually be an All Knowing demon? It was difficult to believe. She opened her files, deciding to work on her client's case (she was glad it was just here in Oregon and she wouldn't have to travel to another state), before continuing with the teachers. Ugh. Disgusting monsters…

Miz kicked her legs and hummed to herself as she drew. She glanced up after a bit. "For Rachel Smith, check on a case filed in 1983 for an incident of harassment." She commented before going back to her drawing of a fairy. Wanda blinked and did a quick Doogle search. She found the relevant article and grinned viciously. This could be used as evidence against the teacher. She wouldn't allow a disgusting woman like that to run free, perving on children.

"Thank you, sweetheart!" Wanda ruffled her dark hair and Miz blushed a bit. "You-you're welcome...I can help more…" She put her drawing aside and went to sit on the woman's lap so both could look at the computer. Miz searched deeply into the horrible teacher's past, told Wanda what to look for and where. She dutifully located the right information, filed it and started writing the cases.

They worked as a team for hours, laughing in glee at the information that will definitely put the perverts and pedos behind bars! Wanda kissed her forehead.

Eventually, some co-workers heard Wanda brought one of her daughters. They didn't know Zach was a boy and thought the skillful lawyer still had twin girls. They knocked on the door. "Wanda?"

"Come in!"

The women entered excitedly but instead of the blond babies they saw last time, Wanda was holding a black-haired girl. "Good afternoon. What is it?"

"We wanted to see your daughter!" One of them said. Wanda grinned. "This is Miz. Sebastian and I adopted her a few weeks ago." she said proudly. Miz gave the women a shy smile. "H-hello." she nuzzled back into Wanda's chest, somewhat timid. Wanda hid a frown at that. Oh. She was getting worried now, about how scared Miz seemed to be. She was being very clingy. The other women didn't notice, having no experience with Miz and how outgoing she normally was.

They all squealed. So cute~

"Hello dear. Miz was it?" One of the women knelt down to smile at the girl. "How old are you, sweetie?"

Miz hesitated. Well, technically this body was supposed to be 27 since it was based on her real body back when she was human, but it didn't look 27 (and she'd been sort of making herself appear even younger just so she could be properly pampered)...plus it would be weird for her to behave the way she did if she really was...

"She's turning 13 in October." Wanda responded. She and Seb had debated on what age to put on her papers and settled on 12. When they asked Miz when she wanted her birthday to be she had said "HALLOWEEN!" which made Seb snort with laughter. And of course he wrote down 31st.

"Aaww. Well, I am Mary." The woman introduced herself. "How are you feeling living with Wanda and her family? They are excellent people!"

Miz brightened up. "I love them. I love my little brother and sister and Seb and mommy." The women all noted that she didn't refer to Sebastian as her father. They gave Wanda a look and the woman shrugged. They accepted that. Some children weren't ready to accept certain terms yet. Especially if the child was adopted and might still have lingering feelings for her original parents. And then they noticed the other part of the sentence.

"Brother?" Mary asked. The other woman looked confused as well. Wanda sighed. She liked to keep the office professional, she didn't like to overshare like her partners. She guessed it was her fault for not updating things about her kids. "Zully is Zachary now. He is a boy."

"O-Oh…" Of course they had heard about cases like that...but wasn't the kid too young to know? They just hoped Wanda and Sebastian weren't imposing these new modes on their kids.

"Ok…" They nodded.

"You have a cute kid, Wanda!" Gina, another lawyer, smiled. Wanda hugged Miz towards her and kissed her cheek, making everyone coo.

"You should bring the twins another day too." They smiled. Wanda laughed. "Maybe I will…" She wouldn't. The twins were destructive chaos-lovers like her husband. She loved them but they needed to grow up a little bit more before she could take them to important places for more than a few minutes. Miz was chaotic only when she got bored and she was easily distracted.

The women said their farewells and went back to their own work. Wanda and Miz were alone again. Miz looked up. "So~does this mean I get a birthday party on Halloween?" Wanda laughed. "Of course!"

Miz cheered. "I haven't had a birthday in eons!" She celebrated her friends birthdays but since she didn't know when her own birthday was and October didn't exist, she didn't know when to celebrate her own birthday. Plus, there wasn't much she needed in terms of presents. But...it would be cool to have a human-type birthday party.

Wanda hummed. "What are we going to do with you and school?"

Miz pouted. "There's no reason for me to go to human school. I can tell any teacher more about their subject than they know." She didn't want to have homework again. Homework sucked.

"Alright. If anyone asks, you will go to the future school the twins are going to." Wanda nodded to herself.

Miz groaned. "But social services will notice I'm not actually at school." She thought about how the Dursleys bullshit where Harry went in the books and figured they got away with it because Harry didn't have many real papers...or the wizards fucked with the social workers who should have noticed the abuse...

"You are right…" Wanda (not knowing what her daughter was thinking about) hummed and played with her laptop's pen. "You can make it look like you are in school?"

Miz shrugged. "I guess, I can fake some memories of me being in class? Or I could just sit through some high school exams and 'graduate' early as a genius. Social services will come from time to time and we can bullshit our way out until they stop coming." Wanda laughed. "Yay for illegal things!" It actually wasn't. If Miz really completed the exams, she'd be allowed to not go to school.

Miz crawled back to her mom's lap and hugged her, leaning on her chest. "I'm glad you adopted me though…" She was still a little scared of the inevitable future, but she felt just so happy with the Pines as well as her friends. She knew she made a good choice. Ax even said that she should do this. Something about how -Human interaction with morally sound people will help teach you what you can or can't do-

"And we are glad you accepted…" Wanda moved a lock of hair from her face and kissed her forehead. Miz snuggled on her chest and stayed there as Wanda worked. It wasn't that uncomfortable. Miz was tiny. Not even 5 feet tall.

"Would you guys like to meet my friends?" Miz suddenly asked after hours of silence, startling Wanda who thought she was asleep. "I mean, maybe not today...But someday…I was thinking I could pull everyone into a dream and have you meet each other?"

"O-Oh…" Wanda hummed. "I guess it'll be fun...As your adopted mother I think I deserve to know who you are friends with." Miz giggled. "And the twins too?" Wanda asked.

"Everyone!" Miz cheered. "Stan and Ford already met them once so they can say hi again!"

Wanda chuckled. She will guess it had to do with the portal. "Alright, that would be really nice. Maybe when the triplets see each other for their birthday? We will be in New York for the party before we go to New Jersey."

Miz snuggled against her chest again in content. "Ok~" She relaxed. Wanda went back to work. Then Miz asked. "Why did you switch bodies with Seb?"

Wanda almost closed the Word document she was saving. "Wh-What?" She laughed sheepishly. "Why...how do you know that?"

"All-knowing?" Miz shrugged. "Besides, you two were acting extremely weird. First, Seb was standing straight. He has this weird habit of leaning to the right. You were laughing like crazy and called the kids little monsters. That's Seb's nickname for them."

Wanda covered her face embarrassed. "It was an accident." She said lamely. Miz grinned. "So...what was it like? I've only possessed people for Deals or quick romps, never really spent much time enjoying it."

Wanda blushed a bit more. "We-well...I felt...taller, but a little...Seb isn't much taller than me...and...being a man is...weird." Miz giggled. "Oh really~? But you two seemed to be having a lot of fun!" it was embarrassing and traumatizing to think about but her desire to tease Wanda was stronger.

"Stop!" Wanda whined. "Seb forced me to stay in his body because he didn't want to leave mine!" Miz frowned. "Forced?"

"Well, not really but he wanted to dress up and wear my clothes." Wanda sighed. If she didn't know Sebastian so well, she would be worried about how much he enjoyed wearing traditionally women's clothes. Then again…

Wanda glanced down at Miz, who blinked innocently. Miz was a Bill Cipher and she was gender fluid, was Seb a mild version of that? She decided to talk to him about that later tonight. "Well, it was an interesting experience at least."

Miz grinned. "Having a dick is weird right?"

Wanda scowled at her. "I don't want to talk about my husband's dick." Miz burst out laughing. "But what did you think?" Her bodies changed genitalia every time, she was used to it, but Wanda wasn't.

"Well…" Wanda blushed. "It was...weird. it was like...having something between my legs...and it was kind of annoying...and…" She lowered her voice. "Erections…"

Miz burst out laughing. "They're fun ! And funny looking!" She liked the feeling. It was quite pleasant. Wanda blushed. "Well, you change sex all the time so I suppose you're more used to it than I am."

"Yeah, that's true…" Miz agreed giggling. "Whatcha think of the sex?" she blushed even as she asked this. Her mouth running off as her lack of brain to mouth filter had her saying every random thought she had.

"Oh my god, stop." Wanda groaned. "You're my daughter, I won't tell you about this." Well. She knew she would eventually have to give the twins a more indepth talk about the birds and the bees once they were older ...but this was different! Miz already knew! "You're a very twisted child." Wanda sighed.

"Of course!" Miz agreed. "I'm a demon after all."

Wanda adjusted Miz on her lap to rest her chin on her head. "I guess you are…" She chuckled and looked back at the screen. She wondered how Seb was doing with the twins, Wanda knew Seb was a great dad despite his distracted nature, and he had taken care of the twins since she went back to work. She bet everything was more than fine!