Omg finally a post?! Im sorry for taking so long! Ive been having trouble thinking how to put the story in order! But dw im still here and more will come :)
After summer 2021
"Do you think I'm ugly?" Seb asked as he watched himself in the mirror, chest naked and no eyepatch. Wanda blinked twice and looked up from the book she was reading at the stupidity she just heard.
"Excuse me what?" Wanda nearly dropped her book.
"You think. I'm ugly?"
"I can't- Its a federal offense you dare think that! You're handsome! You're very handsome!" Wanda exclaimed, deeply offended by the suggestion. "Why?!"
"My manager doesn't think so." Seb declared. "I talked to him. And he called me ugly."
"Wait what?!" Wanda sounded so confused, and concentrating on reading was hard with Seb's half naked body begging to be rubbed all over. "Why did he call you ugly?"
Seb rolled his eye and put on his pajama shirt, getting a disappointed sigh from his wife. "Ok well, he didn't call me 'ugly' but he did say I was not 'what the fashion industry' looks for." He made quotation marks with his fingers. After getting a sense of normalcy after everyone got vaccinated, his manager called him to talk about the business and what next steps to take.
Seb wanted to go back to designing cool things for galas and show it off at those fancy runways, like the one he didn't get invited to pre-Corvid but surely he would now!
His manager, Roger, sighed over the phone. "Seb, I think we should stick to the stores. Your clothes sold amazing for years ok? That personalized, tailor vibe they send is a positive aspect of them, but..."
"But what?"
"...but the reason you're not really very called for the big gala events is because...well, you're not really what they look for, you know?"
"I...don't get it." Seb frowned.
"Don't get me wrong, dear. You are VERY good looking, but...the creator is part of the brand."
Seb gaped, slightly offended. "Wh-What?! I'm always presentable! I always dress well and up to date! I've only used sweatpants and old shirts for a year because of Corvid, but they don't know that!"
"The eye…"
Seb growled. "I don't have an eye! Do they want me parolling around with an empty scarred eye socket?"
"Sebastian…Inclusivity is still not on board in this industry…" Roger tried sounding even nicer. "Your talent is Unmatchable. The way the stores operate are perfect, Seb. Lets focus on getting them back on their feet before thinking of runways."
Seb clenched his phone and looked down. "...Ok..."
Wanda pet Seb's curls as he laid his head on her boobs to mope. "I think he's right. The stores are way more important, who cares about those pretentious skinny assholes? You're handsome as fuck! And more talented than any of them designing ugly and uncomfortable shit." Wanda praised him.
Seb hummed. Wanda thought he'd fallen asleep after a while but he spoke up again. "I want an eye."
"Do you really want an eye? Or do you want one because Roger said you're not the model of fashion designers because they're ableist?"
"Maybe a bit of both. I've been thinking about it for a while too." He looked up and Wanda could see up close. His eyelid was half dropped and lots of scars surrounded the red eye socket. It also seemed to be a little lopsided, due to the non presence of an eye to keep things in place.
"It looks nasty, Wands...it's all red and all fallen and-and… it's not nice to see." Seb grumbled. Being at home for so much time and just not wearing his eyepatch had forced him to see his eye more than he expected. He liked his eyepatch, it was part of him, but...
"At least with the yellow eye it was ...complete, you know? And I've tried ignoring the feeling, we had other stuff to think about and...it's all under the eyepatch after all, no one can really see it, but I am just tired of looking at myself and seeing just...a mess...You know?" Seb puffed his cheeks.
Wanda placed a kiss on his eyelids. "It does not look nasty. Those're the scars of a hero right there." She whispered. Seb giggled softly, feeling his cheeks heat up (' Stopp, I only killed myself with Bill in my head no biggiiee~~', he thought), and pursed his lips to get another kissie. After his soft kiss, Seb sighed.
"I'm still determined to get an eye." Seb stubbornly smiled and Wanda rolled her eyes. "Have you ever thought about what I'd look like? Normal ? I wanna do this for myself too." Seb said.
Wanda stroked his cheek. "I think you should think this through a little more. It's probably a long procedure, Seb, and you're not really the most patient person… but." Wanda sighed. "As long as you want to do this for YOU, and not because other people think you're not handsome…than you should know you have allll my support." Her hands roamed under his shirt and Seb yipped as she tickled him. "Noo~ Not now." He warned with a raised eyebrow. Every night conversation couldn't end up with them doing it! Geez! How did she have the energy for it everyday? Wanda was so horny sometimes.
"One fast?" Wanda whittled, trying to stroke his chest.
"Not now. maybe tomorrow." Seb laughed at Wanda's pouting face.
Seb rolled away before tempting her further and sighed snuggling on the pillow. "I am just not liking how my vessel looks, ok? I'm feeling weird and that shouldn't be a problem. Zach also doesn't like his vessel!"
"Are you comparing your eye to Zach's gender identity?" Wanda deadpanned. "And you're not Miz. That's your body, not vessel."
"Yeah!" Seb deadpanned back and then curled up. "And aren't bodies just… very long temporary vessels?" Seb philosophied with a frown. "A vessel for a soul~ To roam this disgusting world and learn about love~ and pain~ and redemption~" He flickered his fingers, making small sparks in his palm. "And a soul may not like its vessel! And I can change that! With moneh!" Seb explained.
Wanda rolled her eyes so much they almost disappeared. "Ok, it's too late to argue what constitutes a body versus a vessel, so I'll just say I agree to disagree."
Seb wasn't done though. "And I should probably go back to the gym too. If I gain more weight I'll never be able to get rid of it." He dramatically sighed. He really let himself go during quarantine. And wearing sweaters all the time meant he didn't notice when he started really letting go.
Wanda let out a loud laugh and reached to turn off the lights before hugging Seb, big spooning him. "But I'll get to stroke and love a chubby belly if you let go. Wouldn't that be soooo niiiiice~?"
"Not if I can help it,'' Seb scoffed, making Wanda giggle. "And I mean, we definitely didn't get mom's skinny genes!" His mom was tall and skinny, even after 4 kids and at her age. "We gain muscle fast but lose it fast too. But the issue is we're thick! I mean, have you SEEN what's happened to Ford's thighs since Yun started feeding him?!" Wanda buried her face on his neck as Seb hmphed and hugged his belly so Wanda couldn't pinch him.
"It's ok that you want to change some things about yourself…But just to let you know, babey, for me you're just so perfect." Wanda sighed and snuggled him. Those thighs on Seb though...Um~~ She'll have good dreams tonight...
Seb blinked before relaxing in her embrace. one last thing though…"Do you think insurance will cover it?" He only heard Wanda groan against his back.
-.-
Seb took some days to think about it and decided that yes. He did want an eye. After taking Zach and Zoe to school, now that they could go back, Seb booked an appointment and the doctor was, without a better word, shocked.
Apparently when he lost his eye in Gravity Falls he was given a temporary thingy, not even a real implant, to keep things in place, he was supposed to get the official one and never did! "That was in 2012." No one told him he was supposed to get an implant! Maybe due to the literal apocalipsis...or his brothers were told but forgot to tell him because he had no idea who they were.
He'll choose to blame his brothers.
"Oh. Wow. Alright." The doctor adjusted his glasses."It's actually great you never had complications with it, but that'd explain your muscles weakening in this area. We'll run some tests to look at your eye better, start with an orbital implant and then I'll get you a glass eye to match your other one. The glass one goes on top of the implant, see?" The doctor showed him a 3D model.
Seb grinned. Yaaaass!
Well, things weren't as easy as he thought they'd be. He really thought the doctor would give him a fake eye like those he had in the shack and pop it up in his empty eye socket...but nope. It actually involved pain and he was starting to regret it.
First he had to use like a little plastic fuck to make up some space in there and it HURT! He couldn't rub his eye but it was really so annoying!
"Dad, are you ok?" Zach pouted.
"No, I'm not ok." Seb shouted. "Because you have no idea how ugly it looks under my eyepatch! ... Wanna see?" Seb grinned, despite how that action HURT and Zach ran away, screaming.
Seb laughed out loud, but that also hurt.
If Miz was home, she'd sometimes spray water on him, to keep him from poking his eye. She wasn't all that happy about it, "What's wrong with your eyepatch anyway? It looks cool!" To which Seb deadpanned, "You're just saying that because you can't recognize me without it." ("I mean, yes. But that's not the point!")
He hadn't told anyone he was doing this, so it'd be a surprise the next time they saw each other! Wasn't that so cool?! Just the look on his brothers' faces was enough to keep him going for it.
But then the next part came, the orbital implant surgery. It wasn't as expensive as he thought, because they didn't have an eye to extract, but insurance covered so little of it that his vanity was starting to cost him out of pocket.
Still. He wanted this. NEEDED this even. He had gone through too many examinations and tests to back up now! Don't be a chicken, Pines! You've already had surgeries before, this shouldn't be that scary!
Seb was still feeling very alone, because Wanda couldn't come with him for the check-ups and he feared being in the hospital by himself too. Who'd watch the kids? Who'd clean and cook and-
Miz deadpanned as she noticed him pacing anxiously, biting his finger. "Hey. You do know I exist right?" She laughed before going up to him to rub his arm. "Choose a date for your surgery. If Wanda can't go because of work, I'll be there for you and I'll make sure things go right. And I can still watch the twins at the same time. I can multitask."
Seb's lip wobbled and hugged Miz to himself, squeezing her tight. "Thank you, sis!"
"Aargghh! You're killing me!" Miz complained which only made Seb hug her tighter.
It was finally here. The day of the surgery. He had been babbling to his doctor about the prosthetic eye since this all started weeks ago, and how they would make it look real, but the doctor said he needed to be patient. "First the surgery, we get your eye socket to heal after the official implant is in and then we contact a specialist to get you started."
Patience and Sebastian Pines didn't match together, but he'll take what he can get.
Wanda accompanied him to his surgery (to Seb's relief). It was at night and not very long, but they needed to be there several hours before, for all the prep-work. Miz assured Seb she'd watch him from home, taking care of the twins while he and Wanda were gone.
The twins were not really sure what Dad was trying to do. Zoe even frowned at how useless it all was. "Why don't you just put in one of the eyes that uncle Soos keeps in a jar in town? He has lots." Zoe frowned. "Or get it from a corpse." She grinned.
Seb laughed "That's what I've said!" as Wanda frowned. "Good thing you don't wanna be a doctor, sweetie…" Zoe then squealed and ran away making plane noises. "'Cause I'm gonna fly airplanes and make loops!" ("...I'm worried." Wanda sighed. "I don't think she would actually become a stunt pilot, and even if she did, I'm sure she's gonna do great." Seb reassured her.)
He got installed in a room at the hospital and waited there with Wanda holding his hand. "It'll be ok~I'll wait for you here and I'll be here for you when you wake up."
"I'm kinda pissed this surgery won't even end up in me getting an eye yet." Seb pulled at the hospital gown nervously.
"Well, it's a process. After this you'll be closer to getting your prosthetic eye." Wanda kissed his forehead as they came to get him. "You'll be ok!" Seb waved at her nervously, and Wanda just hoped Seb didn't panic with the anesthesia.
He did but just a little bit before he got knocked out cold.
And Seb almost thought he was dead.
Because he remembered closing his eye on the operating table, and opening it to see a large pink face. "Fuck."
"Don't worry, you're not dead."
"Oh thank fuck." Seb groaned. It'd have been so pathetic to die from an eye implant. "Wait, then why am I here? Do you wanna know what I'm doing? Aaww you do care! Even though you threatened to kill me to blackmail my little sister and all that~"
Ax almost looked ready to beat him up.
"I'm fixing my eye! You know the one you ruined by turning it yellow for no fuckin reason other than...what's this word Miz uses... aesthetics~ " Seb laughed.
"There is weirdness magic all inside you, what did you expect?"
"I don't know...I know you could have changed it though. It didn't need to be like that" Seb's form glitched as floated lazily in there with his Godly pal. "It didn't serve for shit! I can do the same things I did with it with my normal eye…"
"Change is good. You've always been a restless being."
"I'm getting a brown eye after this, and I'll look like my brothers without a nasty hole in my face." Seb said, almost like he was boasting.
"Would that make you happy in your body?"
"Yup! I'll look more normal and that's...a good thing, right? After all, all you wanted from me was to...live as humanly as possible." Seb casually leaned against the Axolotl's side.
"There's not many times you actually listen to me."
"Yeah well, if you weren't such a killjoy…" Seb scoffed.
"Treat your body with care. I'm not giving you another."
"Why not, are you selfish?" Seb smiled, but of course the salamander didn't laugh.
"Treating it with care also means loving it as it is. You are imperfect, but you are what you are." The Axolotl seemed confused about something. And a little annoyed. "You don't have to be perfect."
"What if I know that, and I looooveee being all deformed and stuff, but just want some changes?"
"I'd believe that if you actually liked what you're trying to do." Seb could feel the reprimanding tone in that. He groaned.
"I dooooo. I want an eye! I just want to look different! I want that hole gone, oK?! You try having one in your face! Come here! Come here to get that eye off your face!" Seb climbed the floating salamander to reach his face and his hands clawed at empty space as he tried reaching for it but a force kept him in place. The Axolotl stared. "William, you really want to be 'normal'?"
Seb floated there, hanging like a ragdoll. "No...But there's something I want and I need that eye."
Ax nodded. "You want to be complete again?"
"uM...Yeah, I think that's it. I just want an eye there, and it's a great ass chance to look like my triplets, and annoy Miz because she'll never be able to figure out who's who again!" He laughed evilly. Then he gasped. "Oh gosh, and think of the cute pictures we can get together! You see? I knew there was a reason."
Ax nodded again. "That's good to hear, William. I'm glad that you aren't doing this for reasons you don't want." Seb then closed his eye, his form always glowing and glitching, and he relaxed next to the "lizard". Ax pulled him closer with his tail and they just fell in silence.
Seb woke up in the hospital room, and felt bandages over half of his face. Ughhhh This reminded him of when he woke up after fighting Bill, kinda triggering if they asked him. Wanda noticed he was stirring and rubbed his arm. "Hey~ You're back, everything went super!" Seb smiled but winced at the pain in his face.
"Cool…I...wanna sleep some more." He whispered. "I feel nausea…" He grimaced. Wanda laughed. "You can go to sleep at home, you know? You don't need to stay in the hospital."
"Up." Seb raised his arms, making grabby hands to be picked up. "No, I'm not picking you up, I'll call the nurses to check you up and then we can go home. I'll drive." Wanda ruffled his hair and walked away.
Seb closed his eye and tried Looking for Wanda, but it immediately caused a stinging sensation in his covered eye socket, and it hurt! oK. No powers. Got it. This was a step closer to getting an eye, to look soooo cool…
His conversation with the Axolotl was really foggy, maybe due to the anesthesia but he hummed. Yeah, an eye. To feel like himself again, a scary empty eye socket was not what he wanted. Sure, he'll look normal, like everyone else, but it made him warm thinking just how similar he'd be to his brothers now. (And yeah, he could have just asked Miz to regrow an eye for him, but that was too easy. Seb didn't want to rely on the literal Deux Ex Machina in his life for everything. This was his own choice, his own struggle.)
Hm…Oh! He was being touched. Seems like nurses were here. He was not opening his eye though, it hurt. He'll let Wanda handle the talk and maybe some sexyy male nurses will lift him up and take him homeee~
Seb didn't realize when they got home (Nooo he didn't see sexy male nursesss!) and Zach and Zoe wanted to see and touch. Wanda helped Seb walk as he was still a little sleepy ("not so fast, seriously I'm gonna throw up!") and Zach managed to poke his bandages.
"OwOW OW!" Seb whimpered. Miz pulled him back. "No, Zach, Seb's hurting right now, he had a surgery, like when you had a surgery." She patiently explained as she shifted to Xin to carry Seb upstairs. Xin raised an eyebrow as Seb giggled. "Sexy nurse," he whispered softly. Xin snorted. "I can get some sexy nurse outfits later. You and Wanda can have 'em." ("Wait, what?" Wanda blinked.)
"Did you wear that hospital gown where you can see your butt?" Zoe giggled. Wanda chuckled. "You can ask dad stuff tomorrow, he needs to sleep. It's late, and you should go to sleep too! Now." Wanda ushered the blonds to their room. Xin was already helping Seb get his bed fluffed just right.
"You always make it so much fluffier than I can. What's your secret? And it better not be 'magic'." Seb pouted, even as he was lowered onto the heavenly fluffiness. Xin rolled his eyes. "I just have years of experience with nest building."
"Ford is one lucky guy." Seb snuggled into his pillow. He screamed as he leaned against his bandaged side.
"You dumbass, you gotta sleep on your back." Xin rolled Seb over. "But I don't like ittt~" Seb tried rolling back again.
"Sebastian! Don't make me use magic restraints on you." Xin warned. "Putting weight on a healing section will make it take longer. And it might even cause scarring~" He sang, to try and appeal to Seb's vanity.
"UMMMMMM Fine. Put the restraints on because I'm gonna end up rolling and screaming anyway." He wrinkled his nose and made the dragon chuckle. "Fine. I'll tell Wanda not to take advantage of this."
"Thanks…" NOW he could sink into the fluffy pillow and immediately went back to sleep. Xin made some barriers to hold his head and body in place. Xin sighed, running a hand through Seb's hair. "Get better soon, big brother."
Seb was prohibited from taking out the bandages for a week. Which sucked, because just imagining all the bloody and dirty grossness that must have been festering inside, made him cringe. Miz wasn't taking that very well either, both were just trying to ignore the fact that it was gonna get so dirty and it made washing his face difficult and even more so to shave. So he couldn't shave and had to watch his chin grow from a cute goatee to a mess of a beard very fast. Zoe didn't like it and wanted him to shave because he looked like a castaway.
"Kid, I would if I fucking could." Seb snarled angrily, and Zoe just made a face at him and left. Wanda pleaded with him not to use curse words directly at the children, they knew enough curse words. Miz deadpanned, "Just let me help you shave." To which Seb continued to shake his head. "Hey kid," He patted Miz's head. "I don't need you helping me with every single thing. The important stuff? Sure. But just relax. You don't need to always be doing something FOR me, to be appreciated. Ok?"
It was something that Linda had told him and Wanda, since they were Miz's 'parents' now. Miz wanted to help and be helpful, which was good, but the reason she did so was because Miz felt she didn't deserve to be loved unless she'd 'earned' it. So Linda had told them to try and cut back on having Miz do stuff for them all the time. Not outright denying her a way to help them, since doing that would make Miz feel useless and stress her out, but to only do so within reason. To try and teach Miz that she was loved and cared for, regardless of whether or not she was being 'useful' to them. And… well, shit. That hit Seb pretty hard. (When he replied to Linda with "What a mood." he got scolded. But he understood that feeling. It was an awful feeling. So he agreed to Linda's suggestion.)
Miz frowned, looking a little confused at Seb's refusal to let her help him. But Seb pet her hair until that frown went away and she was curled against his chest, rumbling softly.
As soon as the 7 day mark reached, the first 3 days full of nausea and pain, Seb flew back to the doctor's office to get it OFF. Miz was with him, because the twins were at school, Wanda at work and the octuplets were being very annoying right now, pulling stuff and screaming. It was good to not be mentally there for a while. (Miz could still puppet her Yun vessel from afar, and being somewhat distant from it helped with Miz's stress levels.)
Seb didn't really know what to expect. But clearly he didn't expect all the swelling and bruising, as well as his eyelid tightly shut. As in SEWN. It looked as if a bully (or Filbrick) had slammed his face against a wall multiple times. He shook his head as he stared at it in the mirror. "What...no, no, what have you done?! NO!" He screamed at the doctor.
"Calm down. The swelling will go down. You just had surgery, Sebastian. You need to calm down and continue resting so it can heal fully. This is just temporary bruising from the stress your body was put under. It's perfectly normal, the bruises will heal and the swelling will fade." The doctor patiently explained to the panicking man. Seb quickly scrambled to get his eyepatch from his pocket, hands shaking terribly, but before he could put it on, the doctor stopped him.
"You'll need to keep a gauze on it or you could get an infection." He applied the gauze carefully on top of his eye, as Seb breathed hard, and then finally got to put his eyepatch back on. Miz was grimacing. She refrained from asking Seb if he wanted her to just fix it with magic. He seemed incredibly high strung right now. Maybe when he calmed down a little more?
"It looks worse than before!" Seb spat with a shaky voice as he slammed the door of the house open. "I fucked up! I was wrong!" Seb screamed, kicking his shoes and making them fly away. "Everything I do is wrong! Nothing I choose is ever right! It's never gonna go down and it's so deformed and even uglier!" Seb rubbed his good eye as it welled up with tears.
Miz winced a little as she walked behind him. "Hey, but then it'll heal, you know? And you'll get the eye that you wanted. I've Seen into the doc's life, he is a hella good eye doctor." She sat down with him and rubbed his arm. "I could… speed up the healing… if that would… be ok…" She said carefully.
Seb sniffled and nodded slowly. His eye was now puffy and Miz stroked his hair. "Don't get frustrated, yeah? It'll look really good in a few weeks. It's like newborns. They look all weird when born and then they turn incredibly adorable." She put two fingers on Seb's temple, next to his eyepatch and it glowed a little. "Of course, MY babies came out looking perfect! And so did yours, since they were C-sectioned, so they didn't get all bruised up from being squeezed through a tube that really should be bigger." She grumbled that last part. "Intelligent design, my perfect ass! Who the fuck thought live birth of a lumpy thing was a good idea?"
Seb let out a wet laugh. "The twins were very red though...and didn't have much hair." He rubbed his eye. ("They were red from being on FIRE. But otherwise, they were still perfect.")
Miz gently patted the edges of the gauze. "There. Now the healing will be faster. So just relax, you big baby. And don't say everything you choose is wrong. Humans make mistakes. And trying to do something for yourself is NOT wrong, even though your decision annoys me a lot." She pouted. "It's gonna be hard to get used to you not having an eyepatch, you know?"
"Mwahaha! You'll have to learn to actually tell faces apart!" Seb laughed maniacally.
"I can tell faces apart! It's just hard because you're identical triplets!" Miz whined. Seb laughed again, and Miz pouted.
"So...I guess I need to go back to the gym again." Seb sighed.
"Not yet, you just had fucking surgery, man! You're just as stubborn as your brother!" Miz threw her hands in the air. Seb pouted. FUCK.
"Ok, I'll tell you something that'll cheer you up, but you gotta take care of your eye for it."
"Ooo~ Secret~"
"Question Mark and Cadenza's second baby will be born next month, and you can't visit them if you get complications from being a dumbass." Miz teased.
"BABY?" Seb squealed. "Ok. OK. I'll behave! I promise!" Seb couldn't see Maria as a little baby, so he had to be there for their second baby! It was another daughter! "Have they chosen a name yet?"
"Hm~ spoilers~" Miz purred.
"Dammit!"
-.-
The good thing about already wearing an eyepatch, was that no one knew what was happening underneath. It could hide gauzes from a surgery...or a crazy yellow eye that used to glow and scared folks away...Yeah...
"Soooooos! What's the new baaaaaby?!" Seb wailed over his webcam
Soos blinked. "Um… they're a girl. Well, female at least. What do you mean, dude?"
"I meant the name, you silly potato!" Seb laughed.
"Well, we were thinking of Sabrina…" Soos chuckled. "Melody wasn't sure if she wanted Sabrina or Brianna…"
"NO! SABRINA! CHOOSE SABRINA!" Seb screamed, shaking the computer and making Soos chuckle some more. "That's my other name!"
"Wasn't it William, dude?"
"My girl-self name~"
Soos blinked. "You were a girl? That's cool dude."
"Yeah, like in the drag queen sense." Seb joked. "I perform at nights now, in huge heels and fake boobs and all the cute stuff."
Soos' eyes widened and Seb burst out laughing.
"Ok, seriously though, Miz turned me into a woman for a week and I used the name Sabrina back then."
"You almost got me dude." Soos had to cover his face as he laughed.
"wHY? Do you think I'd actually do drag?" That was giving him some ideas actually.
"Um, well...yes." Soos nodded. "You already did for one of your shows."
"Claro que sí." The two heard the faint voice of Abuelita somewhere, being completely sure of it.
"That was not DRAG~ That was just wearing a dress~" Seb corrected. "But anyway~ Would it be ok to visit when the baby's born? I miss y'all. I'll bring food? And help you clean if you need it."
"Oh it'd be awesome! Thanks dude, I miss you too." Soos admitted and Seb pouted. "AAAAAA." Really, he missed being in Gravity Falls sometimes.
It was October now. Chilly. Spooky. And his niece was born the evening of October 13th. EEEEEEE. It's been a month since his surgery and to be honest, the swelling had almost completely gone away. He...may have overreacted back there. Heh .
He had contacted his doctor to get another appointment to check on the healing and if everything went well, he could have his new eye before Chrismukkah.
To Seb's delight, and the doctor's mild confusion, Seb was healing ahead of schedule. "You have a very good healing factor. The swelling has gone down entirely. I thought you'd need another month."
Seb cackled. Thank you, Miz!
Seb went to town using one of Ford's portals to meet the new baby. EXCITED EXCITED EXCITED! He was bouncing in joy and Wanda held his arm. "Shh, remember to keep the excitement in."
"The baby is gonna live with 9 toddlers. I'm sure my excitement will not wake them up." Zach and Zoe also wanted to see the newborn baby and play with their little cousins. "Remember not to say anything about my eye. It's a surprise. I'm looking at you, Zoelina."
"Ugghhh! I knooowww!"
Miz dispersed as they made it to Gravity Falls, going back to Yun's vessel. "Come in~"
The baby was an absolute joy to meet. Against everyone's prediction, Maria was not jealous at all of her new sister, she was smiling in utter happiness and planting kisses on her wittle forehead. (Then again, Maria was already used to having other babies around because of the octuplets.) Melody and Soos were so relieved at this. The octuplets didn't even bother with the new person. One more, one less. This house had enough people to keep up with them! And Ford was relieved at THIS. Because it'd mean they wouldn't bother the infant.
Yun stared deeply at little baby Sabrina. "...Hm…"
"What's up?" Melody asked.
"Just checking to make sure she's got all her parts. Mind, Soul and all."
Melody raised an eyebrow. "Are there cases where that DOESN'T happen?" The mother was worried now.
"I dunno how lazy uncle Ax is, especially now that the 'God' he made to help run this dimension retired." Yun shrugged.
"...what?" Melody blinked.
"Oh right." Yun sat back and bounced Gula in her lap. "So… the christian God retired, and now Lucifer, the literal Devil, is the new 'God'. Um… well, he hasn't fucked things up yet. I'm gonna just keep an eye out on that."
"...I'm going to not ask you for any clarification, for the sake of my sanity." Melody deadpanned.
"NO WAYYYYYY!" Seb screamed and immediately winced. "Sorry sweetie." He apologized to the sleeping baby in his arms. Huh. Neat. She didn't wake up. "No waay!" He whispered.
"Yes way. Bunch of wild shit went down in San Fran." Yun groaned. "I almost got involved, but I was… afraid I would just make everything worse." She looked a little down. "But it 's fine. Lucifer somehow managed to solve it."
""Ah, he was so handsome."" Seb and Wanda sighed at the same time, apparently not hearing what she was saying. Yun rolled her eyes. "Sure, yes. But he's such a brat. It kinda takes away from how hot he is." (Ford frowned, having never met or seen this man, what sort of thing did Yun find handsome anyway?)
Sabrina opened her mouth and let out a big yawn. Seb melted at the sight of her wittle, wittle toothless mouth. She narrowed her eyes at him and he rubbed her chubby chin. "Hey~You have very pwetty eyes~"
"The doctor told us she's got a bit of a lazy eye, it's nothing too bad, and with glasses to fix her vision she'll be fine."
"Oh...who's a weird baby…? You are~" Seb stroked her little head.
"Maybe she'd wear an eyepatch too, you know? You'd match." Ford laughed.
"Ugh." Yun frowned. "I had a lazy eye back when I was human. Had to wear an eyepatch. It sucked. I-" Ford deadpanned at her and nodded at Soos and Melody. "Oh, I mean… you guys caught it really quick! That's good! So I'm sure Sabrina's gonna get proper treatment early to fix it." Yun quickly assured them.
Seb grimaced...
Wanda sighed and massaged her temples. Miz still needed to learn what stuff could be said around people, and what couldn't. They were still working with her on that. Melody took the newborn from Seb to cuddle. "It's fine. Like you said, we caught it early so we can treat it. And a little baby eyepatch sounds cute. You'll match your uncle Sebas, you like that?" She cooed at her daughter.
Sabrina cried and whined. Seb pulled down some of his hair when he realized-Oh… No one noticed his embarrassed face, and continued cooing and chatting about the baby.
Zoe appeared a while later, wearing a plastic crown and carrying the toys she brought to play. 1 and a half year olds Ira and Gula crawled after her, whining and lifting their little hands to get them too. Gula even pushed herself to her feet to toddle after her.
"Play!" Gula demanded, reaching for Zoe's toys.
"No, these are MY toys." Zoe glared. "I'm not sharing."
Gula frowned. "Play!" She said, raising her hands.
"I said no." Zoe stared. "No means no, so you have to stop." She looked at the adults, but no one was paying her attention, too busy lathering their love on the new baby.
Ira was beside Gula now. The two little babies whined together. "Mamaa!"
Yun glanced over. "What's up?"
Ira pointed. Zoe scowled, "I'm not sharing my toys with them. They'll break them."
"You break your own toys." Yun pointed out. She walked over and picked up Gula and Ira. "Come on, let's go play with Zach and Maria instead. Wouldn't you like that?"
"Nnnhh wan tong keuh!" Gula pulled on Yun's shirt. "Zoe is stubborn as an ox. You'll have better luck with her brother."
"Deen gai?" Ira pouted.
"Because Zoe likes to break her toys herself. Doesn't want other people doing it."
"Hey!" Zoe followed Yun as she went to the playroom that she built for all the kids. Maria and Zach were there, playing with the rest of the octuplets.
"What? It's true. Unless you wanna prove me wrong~" Yun teased lightly.
"I don't always break them." Zoe huffed as she sat down to play.
"Well, if you wanna play with the others, you can." Yun told her gently. "There are some toys that are special, and can't be shared. But most toys can." She put Ira and Gula down.
Zoe groaned loudly and shoved some toys into Ira's arms. "Fine. I'll share…" Yun stroked her curly hair before going back to the livingroom to continue fawning over the new baby with the other adults.
They played well for a while, making an elaborate debate meeting...about...managing the resources of a Fairy world(?) and having diplomatic relationships with each representative? Zach was making voices for the octuplets who were just banging the table with cubes and teddy bears and Maria who was almost 3 already, could speak better and they could pretend they understood her.
That was until Zoe reached for a foam microphone Nicholas was about to grab to drool on and he whined. "No, I got it first." The older girl told the baby before trying to keep on with the meeting. Nicholas screamed and pulled her arm for the toy.
"Hey! Let go! I'm using it right now!" Zoe moved and tried to shake the boy off her.
"Get off!" Zoe pushed his forehead. "Zoe, he's a baby, be careful!" Zach warned, but Zoe would have none of it. She finally managed to push Nicholas away from her and the baby fell on his diapered butt. His brown eyes widened before he began wailing.
And his wails upset the other babies and made Vanagloria and Superbia begin to cry too.
Others, like Ira, just got annoyed at the noise and crawled over to shove Nicholas, trying to get him to stop making that sound. The shove surprised him enough that he stopped crying for a moment, before shoving Ira back. And soon, the siblings were slapping and pushing at each other.
Invidia had toddled over to the baby-twins and was comforting them with a hug until they stopped crying. Zach cooed, putting his hands on his chest at this show of brotherly love. Zoe just groaned. "Guys! Ladies! Gentleman! This is a serious meeting! Go back to your seatsss!" She pointed to the chairs, but of course none of the babies were listening.
The baby fight was still going on. And the commotion drew the adults back into the room. Seb walked in, saw the babies slapping each other, and cackled. "Fight! Fight! Fight!"
""No! Not fight!"" Yun and Ford rushed forward and separated the two. "Ira! Avaritia! What the heck are you two doing?!"
Maria was hugging Zach and deadpanning, the two rational kids in this room. Yun held Ira and asked clearly, "What happened?"
Ira and Avaritia rubbed their eyes and pointed at Zoe. "Ah babah!"
Zoe gasped in offense. "I didn't do anything! Daddy!" Seb's smirk was wiped off his face.
"This one got angry because I grabbed a toy first, then started hitting my arm and I pushed him away and then he cried and Elizabeth then slapped him to shut up." Zoe explained.
"This one is Ira Amelia." Ford pointed at the baby in Yun's arm. Zoe blinked. "Oh. well, then her!" Seb snorted and covered his mouth. Zoe puffed out her cheeks. "How am I 'apossed to know all their names?" Zoe ran towards Seb, like the daddy's girl she was, and hid behind him, because she still felt a little embarrassed for messing up the babies' names.
"Please, can you play like good cousins? You're older, be the bigger person?" Seb asked her, stroking her head. Zoe agreed with a pout.
And 15 minutes later, the adults were brought back by Zoe's screams as Ira pulled her hair and Nicholas was trapped under her leg, wailing and wiggling. Zach was trying to get Ira to let go and the rest of the little ones gasped.
"Zoe!" Wanda groaned. Zach freed his sister and Zoe threw Ira to the floor (which was a soft foam, luckily). "Hey! Hey!" Wanda grabbed her as she sobbed and Yun rushed to get the babies. The two triplets shared a sheepish look.
"This wasn't Zoe's fault this time." Zach quickly said, defending his twin. "Nicholas bit her and then Ira pulled her hair for screaming. I'd have too, Zoe's loud, but not the point." The little boy frowned.
"Ok, we're done here then. Say bye to your uncles." Seb took Zoe's from Wanda's grip and carried her on his shoulder as she bit her finger. "Don't worry, those babies seem like meanies." Seb cooed at her.
Ford frowned, not really liking that comment (Seb's kid was 8 times older than the octuplets!) and kindly guided his brother out of the house.
"Zoe's not the only one with sharp teeth, erase that blaming look off your nerd 2 eyed owl face." Seb hmphed. "I wanted to go home anyway, my eye hurt and we needed to let Question Mark and Melody rest."
"Your...eye hurts?"
"None of your business~" Seb blew him a kiss, to which Ford deadpanned, and the four left through the portal Seb opened.
Now Ford worried a little, about the octuplets. He hadn't… thought about it, fully, about how the kids were partially demonic. Did they… have any violent behaviors that they were going to develop? Were they going to be dangerous?
Would he and Yun be able to raise them right?
Ahhhh parenting was so scary to think about. It's why Ford still didn't feel ready for this. (He unconsciously already saw himself as a father, though. Not that Ford would admit it to anyone, least of all himself.)
-.-
Seb was getting 'measured' today for his prosthetic with the ocularist. It was an scowling older lady that sat him up and started staring him up, touching and turning his face around. He flinched and laughed awkwardly. The strength this woman emamated! If he wanted a dominant woman turning him around he'd stay in bed with Wanda.
"Alright. Let's get you fitted then." She turned around and started mixing up some ingredients to create a paste. Seb was looking at all the prosthetics she had on her table and the Paints! That was soooo cool!
"So you paint the eyes?! They all look so real!" Seb bounced his leg. "I didn't know there was a job for this."
"Hm. 44 years working, kid, loved every second." She approached with a syringe. "I'll take an impression of your eye socket, come here."
Seb's smile dropped. "No! You're putting that in my eye?" He leaned away further as the woman reached for him. "Come on, I don't have all day."
"Will it burn?" Seb's question went unanswered as the doctor grabbed his face gently but firmly and gently squirted the liquid into his eye socket. Seb shrieked and closed his brown eye. Not seeing! Not seeing that! Oh god, now he wanted to throw up.
The doctor shook her head. She'd had kids less dramatic than this man. "Do you have a family?" She asked to distract him.
"Um...yeah, twins and a wife...3 brothers, 2 of them are my triplets...hold...on…" Seb eased his phone out of his pocket and searched for his latest photo with the Stans. "See? This is what I'm supposed to look like."
"A big family." The doctor patted the mold, it was cold now, and peeled it away as her new patient kept babbling to her now. Sigh. She began working and let him talk. Apparently he liked to share.
"So when will the mold be ready?" Seb asked.
"I pulled it out 15 minutes ago." She chuckled softly. She had a huge photo of her patient's brown eye to get the detail and that was what she was painting right now. She wanted to get the color to match. She brought it up to Seb's face and hummed. "Ok a little more red and it'd be good to go."
Seb stood behind her watching her work, "Please go back to your seat.", and she finished. She compared it with the actual eye and aah~ Perfection.
"Ok. Let's see." She grabbed the wax she sculpted in the eye impression and carefully placed it on the eye socket. "Is that my eye?"
"Part of it." She grabbed a marker and made a dot where the pupil is supposed to be.
"We're done here."
"What?"
"Come in 3 days and it'll be ready."
"Just like that?"
"Yup."
"...woah...Um...Thanks!" Seb grabbed his phone, put on his eyepatch and waved.
-.-
Seb was INSUFFERABLE the next few days. No one could stand him. But he was getting the eye he wanted so much, so they tried tolerating him.
Zoe did bite his hand.
He picked up his eye on a Saturday and the doctor froze when Seb squealed and hugged her tight. "THANK YOU THANK YOUUU!"
"...Alright...Let's get you this fitted on, shall we? This is how you're gonna wear it." She explained how to put it on, Seb thought it was easy, it was like putting on contact lenses, and he already wore one, so it was fairly easy to handle it. She explained what to do to keep it clean, what to expect, what to do if something was wrong and to keep it polished.
Seb held the prosthetic in his 6 fingered hand, not knowing what to think except, holy shit this actually looked like his eye. "Thanks…"
"I'm glad." The serious woman chuckled softly. "Never had an adult patient as excited and bubbly as you. Kinda weird. But refreshing. Glad we met before I retired."
"You're retiring? But you're amazing at this!" Seb complained, showing her the eye. "I know, but I wanna retire, be with my husband, grandchildren, the whole thing. Go on, kid. Put on the eye so we can leave early! It's saturday!"
Seb nodded, feeling honored to be one of her last patients, before carefully putting on the prosthetic in front of the mirror. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath before quickly opening his eyes.
He gasped LOUD and his hands flew to his mouth.
It...it was...it was there...Two brown eyes...For real…He turned his head a little to see from different angles. There was no trace from the operation in his eyelids anymore, just the faint scar from the battle, going from his eyebrow to the lower eyelid. His real eye welled up with tears and the doctor hummed as she could see by herself how his left eye didn't cry as well. That was what the surgeon mentioned about his aqueous tear-deficiency. She'll add the tear drops to his recipe.
"Oh god...Fuck...Fuckin dammit." Seb laughed nervously, still watching his face. "It's…it actually looks like...I don't look like myself at all…"
"Might take a while to get used to it. But you look really good." She praised and more tears welled up in her patient's eye. A cry baby it seemed. "Ok, one last check. Come 'ere." Seb sat in front of her, rubbing his tears, and she held his head as she instructed him to look left and right. The prosthetic moved smoothly each time. Perfect.
"You're free to go, don't forget your stuff!" And before shaking the poor woman's hand super hard, Seb was gone.
-.-
Wanda was sitting with Miz in the living room watching Zoe and Zach play a video game and making sure they didn't begin fighting. "God, I hope his eye turns out good, I'll not be able to tolerate his insufferable impatience again."
Miz giggled. "Well, that's what you get for marrying that cute, insane bastard."
"Got too caught up in the cute half." Wanda mumbled jokingly.
The door was kicked open and the four jumped. "Seb?"
"YEAH~~~"
Seb skipped towards them, kicking his shoes away and he strode towards them with a smug and regal stance. He circled them before sitting down next to Wanda. He was wearing his eyepatch. "Good evening~" Sir Bedazzle was rubbing himself against his legs.
"We wanna see the eye!" Zoe shouted and Seb smiled. "Are you sure you can handle such beauty? I don't think you're prepaaareddd!" Wanda laughed as Seb leaned on her, his head on her chest and looking up at the roof.
"Ah, what?!" "Are you serious?" "Daddyyy! I wanted to see it noooowww!" Everyone complained.
"Alright~" Seb sang and took off his eyepatch. He blinked at them and grinned. "Tah Dah!"
Wanda gasped. Zach and Zoe gasped. Miz just stared. "This is so weird."
"Isn't it so cool?" Seb exclaimed and his daughter got closer to his face to see. "Woah…" She covered his chin. "Now you're uncle Ford!" Zoe giggled. "You just need glasses."
Seb was prepared for this. He pulled out his glasses (replacement for his contact lense) and put them on, grinning.
"Oh my god, NOW you're uncle Ford!" The little girl shouted.
Zach tilted his head. "It's cool...but you don't look like you." He said sincerely. Their acorn dog looked confused, approaching and then running away from Seb. His human? But different! But still his master!
"It's still me." Seb scratched his head. "I think I look amazing! Don't I, Wands."
Wanda's brain was not working.
There was just a running music of 'bow chika wow wow~'
Miz looked very disturbed. "Ugh! You look like my boyfriend nooooooo!" She wailed and ran away.
"It's your fault for dating my triplet!" Seb called after her, which only got another agonized wail. Seb cackled, before choking when Wanda all but tackled him into a wall, kissing him thoroughly.
"W-Wands?!" Seb sputtered through the kisses.
"You!" Smooch. "Are SO!" Smooch. "SEXY!"
""Ewwwwwww!"" Zach and Zoe ran out of the room after their big sister. "Groooosss!"
The couple didn't care, going back to making out against the wall. Seb pulled back to gasp for air. "So~I take it you like~?"
"You look so hot, fuck!" Wanda snaked her hands under his shirt as she gasped and was pecking his nose and cheeks. Seb melted under the touches, purring. "See...I told you it was a good idea…Now I look better..." Seb whispered as he leaned against the wall with Wanda touching him all over. Her hands were cold as hell, but he'd allow it.
"Hey…" Wanda momentarily stopped the loving touches, leaving her hands on top of his pecs. "You-you were hot before ok? With or without an eye." She said firmly. "This is JUST a new look, and you're sooo fucking sexy~" The blonde attacked his neck and Seb gasped. "Seriously, you're sexy with glasses, you know?"
"THE LIVING ROOM IS NOT FOR NASTY GROWN UP KISSES!" They heard Zoe scream. "NOT IN FRONT OF MY GAME STATION 5!"
"AT LEAST GO TO YOUR ROOM TO MAKE A MESS IN THERE!" Miz added. "AND YOU BETTER CLEAN AFTER YOURSELF!"
The two laughed and shared a look before agreeing with them and ran to get locked inside their bedroom. There was a lot of love that needed to be shared right now.
-.-
Miz, Zoe and Zach sat around in the living room in a circle. "So." Miz said seriously, "We're gathered here today for an important family meeting." The twins nodded solemnly. "Daddy looks weird." Zoe stated.
"Is daddy still daddy?" Zach asked. "What if they just replaced daddy with a guy who looks like him?"
"You mean uncle Stan?" Zoe grimaced. "Nah, I don't think they replaced daddy. They're not weird enough."
"The fake eye I could accept." Miz grumbled. "The glasses, I do not. Glasses are Fordsie's things!" She folded her arms. "How dare he!"
"Uncle Stan ALSO wears glasses." Zach pointed out, petting Queen Flutter's head.
"Yeah but he's got different glasses. Also, he's wider than Fordsie." Miz pointed out. "And Stan's also the least handsome, so I can still tell when it's him."
""..."" the twins stared at her. "Poor uncle Stan." Zach shook his head sadly. Zoe shrugged. "I don't know, they all just look the same to me, except Dad, but now Dad wants to look like them...Should we stop him? Can we take the eye off? I volunteer." She grinned, pulling out an ice cream scoop out of NOWHERE.
Miz slowly took the weapon off the girl's hands. "I don't know, guys...Your dad's kind of a baby and he'd cry. This really made him happy and I don't want him to stop being happy, even though he is half doing this to annoy me." That wasn't true, she knew, but IT FELT LIKE IT. "Besides, he went through the surgery for it already. He likes his new eye. And even if we don't like it, we have to accept that Seb is happy about it."
"So only if he feels sad will he change his mind and go back to how he was before?" Zoe hummed, stroking her chin in a contemplative state. "Interesting"
"I do not like how that was phrased." Zach winced.
Seb looks a lot like Ford with an eye xD
Also Zoes evil. Seb just wants everyone to love and praise him u evil girl!