Prompt #35:Hank and some paint.

March 2035

Hank didn't let himself be caught into things so much and so easily. For once it had taken him a long time to soften up,all the Danvers sisters fault,and then,once it had happened,Kara had even made kids,and well he had been whipped. For real. Which was the reason why he was sitting on the couch,on extended family night,watching the twins. Just like their older sister,they didn't mind some standing on his shoulders at all,and he had already had them floating for the whole room. Their powers were now developing,but if grandpa was there what was the use in using them?

Right about now,as they watched a movie,the twins were painting.

They and Lily had been given paper and even colours to paint. Which they were only half using,because apparently painting the floor was so much better and nobody had even noticed.

He crouched down in front of the three kids and tried to take the paint away from their hands,which somebody would've considered very childish,but what else could he do?

One look at their little sparkling eyes and pout and the colours were back where they belonged,with him giving them the thumbs up,smiling.

He didn't have the heart to do this,and take them away when they were having so much fun. Why should he do it?

"Nah,they're staying here"

J'onn grimaced and turned back to look at the rest of the family. Talking,some watching the tv,eating.

They hadn't noticed yet.

What could he have done to hide the massive stain which was expanding on the carpet of the living room like there was no tomorrow,without anybody really noticing?

Holy Mars,indeed.

He looked back at the paper. Well,they were creative. If you didn't actually notice that the whole family looked like one of Chinese chopsticks with odd faces and crazy hair. He had never had so many hair,so that was a plus. The rest was,as said,on the poor carpet on the floor.

What to do?What to do?"

"Hey kids,how would you like to show this to your mommies?"

There was a choir of yes,and the three stood up running as if they had quicksilver on,to show their art to their parents. Once they were out of the way,years and years of being a secret agent actually kicked in.

He lifted the couch table,and grabbed the carpet,then put the table back on the floor.

Hank looked around to see if anybody was lookin his way and once he was sure of them not noticing,he moved it out of the way right under the couch.

Then he thought better of that.

What if they had noticed?What if they had found it?They were gonna find it he was sure. He was so conflicted that he grabbed it and stood back up standing in the middle of the room with a massive question mark in his mind about where to put the incriminated proof.

How to solve it?He couldn't clean it up,they would've known,it was never gonna go away.

With so much attention towards the carpet he realized all of a sudden that he hadn't noticed that he was trying to hide the carpet in a room full of relatives who were standing mere meters away from him.

He was caught in it. He was done for.

Kara rolled towards him,and Cat followed her up at the same time.

"Hank,what happened to the carpet?"

He looked around,looking for help he knew wouldn't have come since all the others were too busy laughing the whole thing away.

"Ahh I…I…the carpet was on the floor…"

"Yeah,that's where it usually is"added Cat smiling.

"So the paint ended up on it"

"Aaaand?"

"It sort of got stained,ask the kids"

Well done,blame the kids,J'onn. Brave,very brave.

Cat put on a serious face,and walked up to him,then smiled. He could recognize that she was the only one who wasn't so easy to read,because she knew how to scare people.

Then she beamed.

"Well,I guess we'll have to buy another,of course it's a shame because we've had this one for a very long time,but it's ok"

"What?"

"It's ok."

Hank had his eyes wide open turning towards Kara who was laughing silently.

"I'm sure the kids wouldn't mind doing another drawing for your office at the DEO"

The three actually run towards him and hugged his legs in thanks.

He gathered them all up at once,Nate on his shoulders,and Lily and Yael in his arms and spun around like a carousel.

Yeah,everything for those three pieces of his heart.